Hacker News on Wednesday, 5 June 2024

Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month(rosenzweig.io)

790 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 315 comments

Alyssa Rosenzweig's blog post announcing Honeykrisp, the first conformant Vulkan 1.3 driver for Apple M1 hardware, developed in about a month.

You'll regret using natural keys(blog.ploeh.dk)

660 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 490 comments

Mark Seemann blog post arguing against using natural keys as database primary keys, illustrated with an anecdote about a car's incorrect chassis number.

Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission(bbc.co.uk)

636 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 670 comments

BBC News live coverage of the launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed mission.

Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers(haaretz.com)

503 points by frob 2 years ago | 401 comments

Haaretz article reporting that Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry ran a covert fake-account influence campaign targeting US lawmakers over the Gaza war.

Own a weather station? We want your data(weather.gov)

413 points by dylan604 2 years ago | 177 comments

National Weather Service Wilmington, OH page inviting owners of personal home weather stations to share their data via the Citizen Weather Observer Program.

Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot(github.com)

300 points by misprit7 2 years ago | 73 comments

Show HN: 2d web paddle game(raould.github.io)

283 points by cypherpunk666 2 years ago | 67 comments

Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs(arxiv.org)

282 points by tosh 2 years ago | 310 comments

Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)(forbes.com)

267 points by AlgoRitmo 2 years ago | 213 comments

Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images(science.org)

257 points by instagraham 2 years ago | 124 comments

Managing my motivation as a solo dev(mbuffett.com)

231 points by marcusbuffett 2 years ago | 64 comments

Minimalistic Beat Maker(martinwecke.de)

221 points by ambigious7777 2 years ago | 54 comments

FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing(entrepreneur.com)

216 points by byproxy 2 years ago | 239 comments

We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go(coder.com)

214 points by infomaniac 2 years ago | 106 comments

Arm64 on GitHub Actions(github.blog)

213 points by sonichigo 2 years ago | 77 comments

LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer(github.com)

210 points by anewhnaccount2 2 years ago | 36 comments

Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?(antipope.org)

196 points by blueridge 2 years ago | 142 comments

Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer(9to5mac.com)

183 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 92 comments

Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem(idealista.com)

181 points by diggan 2 years ago | 755 comments

Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases(theguardian.com)

172 points by racional 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation(github.com)

171 points by abe94 2 years ago | 30 comments

FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing(ajc.com)

162 points by heavyset_go 2 years ago | 92 comments

Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web(androidauthority.com)

147 points by donatj 2 years ago | 109 comments

Stable Audio Open(stability.ai)

141 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 90 comments

Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq(businessinsider.com)

134 points by belter 2 years ago | 176 comments

What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse(arxiv.org)

133 points by raattgift 2 years ago | 83 comments

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects(theregister.com)

126 points by johnsutor 2 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue(webdraft.hu)

119 points by deejayy 2 years ago | 34 comments

85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics(worldwildlife.org)

107 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 77 comments

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (2019)(book.systemsapproach.org)

103 points by skilled 2 years ago | 9 comments

Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos(gamesradar.com)

96 points by realsarm 2 years ago | 60 comments

What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?(arstechnica.com)

94 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 62 comments

Kiosk mode bypass for an Ariane Allegro Scenario Player based hotel check-in te(pentagrid.ch)

93 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 49 comments

SpaceX's fourth Starship launch approved for Thursday(arstechnica.com)

91 points by mmwelt 2 years ago | 17 comments

Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum(seattletimes.com)

85 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 21 comments

Toyota raided as safety testing scandal grows(bbc.com)

83 points by croes 2 years ago | 51 comments

DHCPv6-PD – First Steps(sha256.net)

79 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 60 comments

Jury Finds Boeing Stole Tech from Electric Airplane Startup(govtech.com)

78 points by rmason 2 years ago | 5 comments

How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (2017)(lukemuehlhauser.com)

78 points by babelfish 2 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: zfind – CLI like find but using SQL syntax and also does tar/zip(github.com)

75 points by laktak 2 years ago | 9 comments

In defence of swap: common misconceptions(chrisdown.name)

73 points by ingve 2 years ago | 74 comments

History of the Paper Clip (2016)(officemuseum.com)

68 points by wizardforhire 2 years ago | 23 comments

Compromised Visions Are Superior(ericnormand.substack.com)

68 points by r4um 2 years ago | 44 comments

Cloud Performance on a "Toy" Computer: From Python to Rust(progscrape.com)

68 points by mmastrac 2 years ago | 27 comments

Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'(nichegamer.com)

65 points by typeofhuman 2 years ago | 16 comments

Study shows banning false info traffickers online can improve public discourse(phys.org)

64 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 55 comments

Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still "Beating the Averages"?

58 points by dualogy 2 years ago | 53 comments

E.U. Censorship Laws Mostly Suppress Legal Speech(reason.com)

58 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 22 comments

Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world(nature.com)

57 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 29 comments

Reading awc(akamayu-ouo.srht.site)

55 points by secwang 2 years ago | 16 comments

McDonald's Loses 'Big Mac' Trademark in European Union(apnews.com)

53 points by geox 2 years ago | 59 comments

Japan's Most Actively Traded Stock Is a Fraud and Ticking Time Bomb [pdf](scorpionreports.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com)

47 points by greenavocado 2 years ago | 22 comments

Rabbit R1 It's a Scam(paulogpd.bearblog.dev)

45 points by mtgr18977 2 years ago | 15 comments

Online Privacy and Overfishing(schneier.com)

45 points by Sindisil 2 years ago | 11 comments

Largest Autonomous Ride-Hail Territory in US Now Even Larger(waymo.com)

44 points by xnx 2 years ago | 35 comments

For sale replica of the mustang aircraft(scalewings.com)

44 points by Harmohit 2 years ago | 43 comments

Denmark's Genius Housing Fix(businessinsider.com)

40 points by jpurnell 2 years ago | 38 comments

Israel Targets U.S. Lawmakers with Fake Social Media Accounts(nytimes.com)

37 points by bbqfog 2 years ago | 11 comments

Tetris Is Forty Years Old(bbc.com)

37 points by mudil 2 years ago | 6 comments

Remote Amazon tribe connects to internet – wind up hooked on porn, social media(nypost.com)

36 points by GranularRecipe 2 years ago | 26 comments