Hacker News on Sunday, 2 June 2024

An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)(photonlines.substack.com)

476 points by gballan 2 years ago | 111 comments

A Substack post giving an intuitive, visual explanation of Maxwell's equations and the history of electromagnetic field theory.

Parable of the Sofa(tbray.org)

471 points by zdw 2 years ago | 299 comments

Tim Bray blog post about having a 25-year-old leather sofa's cushions replaced by a small local business, and how modern capitalism makes such repair hard.

Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

449 points by spcebar 2 years ago | 583 comments

Ask HN thread where a veteran programmer shares learning how to properly operate window blinds and asks others for their own humbling learning moments.

Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees(twitter.com)

409 points by doener 2 years ago | 351 comments

A post on X by Signal president Meredith Whittaker saying Signal would leave the EU market rather than comply with a proposal undermining its privacy guarantees.

How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?(cam.ac.uk)

258 points by lostin01010101 2 years ago | 127 comments

Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing(audiolabs-erlangen.de)

226 points by yeknoda 2 years ago | 11 comments

Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text(interconnected.org)

225 points by RA2lover 2 years ago | 64 comments

New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel(english.elpais.com)

200 points by belter 2 years ago | 100 comments

HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client(github.com)

197 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 55 comments

ht: Headless Terminal(github.com)

196 points by tosh 2 years ago | 72 comments

Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire(hotwired.dev)

186 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 125 comments

SPI Flash(trmm.net)

185 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 50 comments

Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020)(arxiv.org)

171 points by tosh 2 years ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Tunnelling TCP through a file(github.com)

160 points by fiddyschmitt 2 years ago | 32 comments

Formlabs Form 4 Teardown(bunniestudios.com)

160 points by zdw 2 years ago | 60 comments

PyCon US 2024 Recap(katherinemichel.github.io)

151 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 84 comments

Circle C++ with memory safety(circle-lang.org)

149 points by davikr 2 years ago | 153 comments

The Sword of Kumdor(lynn.github.io)

148 points by meatjuice 2 years ago | 21 comments

Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring(standards.nasa.gov)

135 points by throw0101c 2 years ago | 29 comments

84–24(84-24.org)

127 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 35 comments

Lord Kelvin and his analog computer(spectrum.ieee.org)

127 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 14 comments

Unlocking the Duron and Athlon using the pencil (2007)(computer-communication.blogspot.com)

113 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 67 comments

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC(downtowndougbrown.com)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 17 comments

Eight years of organizing tech meetups (2023)(notes.eatonphil.com)

107 points by luu 2 years ago | 38 comments

FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale(huggingface.co)

104 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 9 comments

Nuclear material left in "Swap Shop" at UK Hacker camp emfcamp(meow.social)

101 points by cardinal_black 2 years ago | 43 comments

A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers(tockos.org)

101 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 73 comments

Ganjifa(en.wikipedia.org)

91 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 25 comments

China lands Chang'e 6 sample-return probe on far side of the moon(space.com)

91 points by divbzero 2 years ago | 54 comments

cuDF – GPU DataFrame Library(github.com)

87 points by tosh 2 years ago | 24 comments

Will we have a negative leap second? [pdf] (2022)(gps.gov)

86 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 53 comments

Monads are like burritos (2009)(blog.plover.com)

84 points by ipnon 2 years ago | 98 comments

How to make a great government website(asteriskmag.com)

83 points by wormold 2 years ago | 56 comments

Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon(cnsa.gov.cn)

81 points by xnhbx 2 years ago | 47 comments

How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know (2023) [pdf](kk.org)

76 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 3 comments

If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO(msn.com)

74 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 84 comments

The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning(wired.com)

71 points by belter 2 years ago | 37 comments

Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)(seriot.ch)

70 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 38 comments

A Brief Look at the 3DS Cartridge Protocol(blog.winter-software.com)

68 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 20 comments

Udio – AI Music Generator(udio.com)

63 points by zingerlio 2 years ago | 35 comments

Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts(github.com)

63 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 17 comments

Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd(rgoswami.me)

62 points by HaoZeke 2 years ago | 26 comments

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (2020)(danluu.com)

61 points by Vadim_samokhin 2 years ago | 41 comments

The impossibility of translating Franz Kafka (1999)(newyorker.com)

60 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 37 comments

Psychological tricks rich people use to look generous without spending more(billmei.net)

59 points by Kortaggio 2 years ago | 41 comments

PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform(peps.python.org)

55 points by tosh 2 years ago | 39 comments

Optimizing 128-bit Division (2020)(danlark.org)

50 points by hippich 2 years ago | 11 comments

Seoul authorities find Shein products contain high levels of toxic chemicals(lemonde.fr)

49 points by wslh 2 years ago | 13 comments

How it feels to get an AI email from a friend(mrgan.com)

47 points by cubefox 2 years ago | 19 comments

Protecting sensitive data in Elixir GenServers (2023)(gabrielpereira.dev)

45 points by gabrielpedepera 2 years ago | 12 comments

Simple equation predicts the shapes of carbon-capturing wetlands(quantamagazine.org)

45 points by mgl 2 years ago | 11 comments

Homeschooling(teamten.com)

45 points by ivanech 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Bliss – A constructed writing system for fast and beautiful writing(space.tcsenpai.com)

42 points by tcsenpai 2 years ago | 38 comments

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week(zdnet.com)

42 points by wslh 2 years ago | 34 comments

Cat as a Service(cataas.com)

42 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 45 comments

New material looks like frosted glass but lets in more light than a window(popsci.com)

41 points by raybb 2 years ago | 22 comments

Just Live(drb.ie)

40 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 39 comments

A deep dive into implicit thread-local storage (2018)(chao-tic.github.io)

39 points by signa11 2 years ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Fusio 5.0 released – open-source API management platform(fusio-project.org)

34 points by k42b3 2 years ago | 4 comments

Scents and memories at the hospital (2019)(scopeblog.stanford.edu)

33 points by davikr 2 years ago | 17 comments