Hacker News on Saturday, 1 June 2024

Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago(torrentfreak.com)

335 points by luuurker 2 years ago | 285 comments

TorrentFreak article marking 25 years since Napster's 1999 launch and its influence on piracy and later streaming services like Spotify and Netflix.

ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically(root.cern)

328 points by z3phyr 2 years ago | 87 comments

Homepage of ROOT, CERN's open-source data analysis framework used in high energy physics, with links to install, docs, forum and gallery.

Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm(github.com)

291 points by atan2 2 years ago | 67 comments

L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer(loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong)

277 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 122 comments

Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license(shakti.com)

265 points by chrispsn 2 years ago | 199 comments

Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news(science.org)

259 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 233 comments

Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel(futilitycloset.com)

229 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 113 comments

Lisp: Icing or Cake?(dthompson.us)

210 points by psj 2 years ago | 42 comments

Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet(chinamediaproject.org)

173 points by cubefox 2 years ago | 62 comments

Space secrets leak disclosure(huggingface.co)

167 points by markyg 2 years ago | 61 comments

Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime(unit.nginx.org)

161 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 89 comments

Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022)(davidepstein.substack.com)

142 points by skadamat 2 years ago | 16 comments

Seeing Like a Data Structure(belfercenter.org)

140 points by barathr 2 years ago | 24 comments

LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore(allenpike.com)

127 points by ingve 2 years ago | 81 comments

The Canon Cat, the forgotten 1987 alternate-reality Mac (2019)(fastcompany.com)

124 points by jdblair 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ticketmaster confirms data hack which could affect 560M globally(bbc.co.uk)

122 points by simonjgreen 2 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Open-source load balancer for llama.cpp(github.com)

120 points by mcharytoniuk 2 years ago | 15 comments

Why is Snapshot Isolation not enough?(concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)

119 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 28 comments

Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible(simonwillison.net)

115 points by serhack_ 2 years ago | 57 comments

Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?(urmc.rochester.edu)

107 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 129 comments

Ticketmaster confirms data breach with a SEC filing(stackdiary.com)

104 points by skilled 2 years ago | 17 comments

Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive(hiandrewquinn.github.io)

104 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2 years ago | 31 comments

CSS written in pure Go(github.com)

93 points by andrewfromx 2 years ago | 52 comments

How to Distribute Postgres Geographically(xata.io)

93 points by mebcitto 2 years ago | 11 comments

Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance(link.springer.com)

91 points by rogerkeays 2 years ago | 78 comments

X is justifiably slow (2022)(zeux.io)

88 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 141 comments

Hermann Grassmann and the nature of abstractions(github.com)

84 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 32 comments

Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021)(chemistry.berkeley.edu)

84 points by dredmorbius 2 years ago | 12 comments

California sides with big utilities, trimming incentives for community solar(calmatters.org)

78 points by photochemsyn 2 years ago | 51 comments

The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force"(twz.com)

71 points by mauvehaus 2 years ago | 12 comments

Spring Forth, My Creation(wondermark.com)

65 points by gravescale 2 years ago | 2 comments

Call Your Local Wizard(slate.com)

65 points by drdee 2 years ago | 31 comments

Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in Their Residual Stream(lesswrong.com)

64 points by supriyo-biswas 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions(github.com)

56 points by MarkinK 2 years ago | 48 comments

David Hilbert's 1930 Radio Address [video](youtube.com)

55 points by gone35 2 years ago | 13 comments

Helldivers 2 has caused over 20k Steam accounts to be banned(videogamer.com)

49 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 71 comments

Boeing's largest plant in 'panic mode' amid safety crisis, say workers and union(theguardian.com)

47 points by swores 2 years ago | 39 comments

Horseshoe crab counting with New York’s citizen scientists(thecity.nyc)

47 points by pausing 2 years ago | 16 comments

Routers cyber security best practices(cyber.gc.ca)

45 points by jslakro 2 years ago | 25 comments

The big lie about sleep(businessinsider.com)

43 points by xriddle 2 years ago | 46 comments

Little Lisp Interpreter (2014)(maryrosecook.com)

43 points by HerrMonnezza 2 years ago | 3 comments

“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech(publicdomainreview.org)

42 points by animalcule 2 years ago | 5 comments

When Companies Ask for Your Social Security Number, Try Saying No(wsj.com)

41 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 39 comments

What autoconf got right(leahneukirchen.org)

36 points by WhyNotHugo 2 years ago | 16 comments

EV startup Fisker's collapse: how the company crumbled(techcrunch.com)

36 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 61 comments

RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard vs. open source(theregister.com)

34 points by iamflimflam1 2 years ago | 3 comments

Show HN: I built a Backend so Simple that it Fits in 1 YAML File(manifest.build)

33 points by brunaxLorax 2 years ago | 39 comments

Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me

33 points by nogridbag 2 years ago | 12 comments

Why Did She Stop Writing?(texasmonthly.com)

33 points by newest 2 years ago | 39 comments

Loyalty at work no longer pays – and it's employers who are to blame(businessinsider.com)

32 points by rntn 2 years ago | 14 comments

History Of Window Systems (2021)(blog.dshr.org)

32 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 0 comments

Giant Tonga Volcanic Eruption Could Disrupt Weather for Years to Come(sciencealert.com)

31 points by laktak 2 years ago | 7 comments

Is Red Meat Healthy? Multiverse Analysis Has Lessons Beyond Meat(medscape.com)

31 points by andromaton 2 years ago | 38 comments

Predictably Bad Investments: Evidence from Venture Capitalists(papers.ssrn.com)

30 points by NominalNews 2 years ago | 3 comments

Apple downgrades new M2 iPad Air, 9-core GPU instead of 10-core(9to5mac.com)

30 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 21 comments

Boeing and NASA call off Starliner crew launch minutes before liftoff(cnbc.com)

29 points by shinryudbz 2 years ago | 27 comments

Survival of the richest: Inside the short-lived fallout shelter bubble(thehustle.co)

29 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 52 comments

The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye through the ages(popsci.com)

28 points by chat 2 years ago | 1 comments

Sony Pictures to Use AI to Produce Movies and Shows in "More Efficient Ways"(hollywoodreporter.com)

27 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 38 comments

At the Webster Apartments(theparisreview.org)

27 points by solvent 2 years ago | 3 comments