Hacker News on Saturday, 8 June 2024

The Backrooms of the Internet Archive(blog.archive.org)

664 points by passing 2 years ago | 102 comments

Internet Archive blog post by Jason Scott titled "The Backrooms of the Internet Archive," published June 1, 2024.

Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness(cosmosmagazine.com)

473 points by keploy 2 years ago | 194 comments

Cosmos Magazine article reporting that a gene therapy restored hearing in children born with inherited deafness.

Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia(ox.ac.uk)

333 points by geox 2 years ago | 228 comments

University of Oxford news release reporting that sildenafil (Viagra) improves brain blood flow and could help prevent vascular dementia.

Draw an iceberg and see how it will float(joshdata.me)

332 points by mabynogy 2 years ago | 50 comments

Iceberger, an interactive browser toy where you draw an iceberg shape and watch how it settles and floats in water.

Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X(fobes.dev)

297 points by fobes 2 years ago | 76 comments

An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs(github.com)

275 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 70 comments

Claude's Character(anthropic.com)

238 points by simonw 2 years ago | 118 comments

LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance(github.com)

233 points by homarp 2 years ago | 50 comments

South Pole Water Infrastructure(brr.fyi)

209 points by loeber 2 years ago | 49 comments

My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes(omarshehata.substack.com)

201 points by fallingsquirrel 2 years ago | 65 comments

Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture(codeopinion.com)

201 points by indentit 2 years ago | 122 comments

Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth(phys.org)

190 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 110 comments

Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling(arxiv.org)

177 points by lykahb 2 years ago | 27 comments

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)(intuitiveexplanations.com)

158 points by jaynpatel 2 years ago | 78 comments

Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found(theconversation.com)

157 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 42 comments

Content Injection Attack on GitHub(github.com)

138 points by Lapz 2 years ago | 42 comments

What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)(bbc.com)

135 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 219 comments

Garbage collect your technical debt (2021)(ieeexplore.ieee.org)

126 points by gfairbanks 2 years ago | 74 comments

Finding out where syscalls are called from: Stack traces with strace(abstractexpr.com)

125 points by aheck 2 years ago | 13 comments

Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Because of Known Software Bug(independent.co.uk)

119 points by xrayarx 2 years ago | 47 comments

Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications(stackoverflow.blog)

111 points by meysamazad 2 years ago | 39 comments

Compilers are too smart(msinilo.pl)

99 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 50 comments

Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game(mas-bandwidth.com)

95 points by gafferongames 2 years ago | 38 comments

Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of most MLB stadiums (2017)(post-gazette.com)

79 points by goles 2 years ago | 28 comments

What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout (2023)(mathewsachin.github.io)

76 points by olvy0 2 years ago | 59 comments

Next-generation web framework Teo, supports Node.js, Python and Rust(teodev.io)

75 points by victorteo 2 years ago | 19 comments

Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity?(chatterpulseai.com)

69 points by tanner49 2 years ago | 46 comments

Show HN: I wrote a partial re-implementation of DirectMusic(github.com)

68 points by lmichaelis 2 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?

53 points by throw94680732 2 years ago | 119 comments

By harnessing wind power, high-tech sails can help cut marine pollution(economist.com)

52 points by lxm 2 years ago | 12 comments

Interactive Theorem Proving, Guest Lecture – Introduction to HOL [video](youtube.com)

50 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 8 comments

Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

47 points by to-too-two 2 years ago | 38 comments

Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85M of customer savings is missing(cnbc.com)

46 points by svggrfgovgf 2 years ago | 17 comments

How the transatlantic telegraph cable changed finance (2019)(tontinecoffeehouse.com)

46 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 16 comments

BES – OSS Windows software to control per-process CPU usage(mion.yosei.fi)

46 points by olvy0 2 years ago | 7 comments

What does it feel like to read RSS feeds?(hamatti.org)

45 points by 8organicbits 2 years ago | 43 comments

I Open-Sourced KeyEcho: Fast-Responsive Keyboard Sounds with Every Keystroke(webdeveloper.beehiiv.com)

45 points by zacharylee 2 years ago | 14 comments

EU Plans Major Expansion of Mass Surveillance(reclaimthenet.org)

45 points by NewbornGlow 2 years ago | 13 comments

The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defects(academic.oup.com)

41 points by belter 2 years ago | 21 comments

Forested wetlands are missing from maps(hcn.org)

41 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 27 comments

Ventoy – Bootable USB Solution(github.com)

39 points by 8organicbits 2 years ago | 13 comments

A Scheme Primer(spritely.institute)

38 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 0 comments

Leafy vegetables found to contain tire additives(e360.yale.edu)

38 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 38 comments

Auditing TikTok(tiktok-audit.com)

38 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 5 comments

Disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits(text.npr.org)

34 points by rntn 2 years ago | 24 comments

Scientists wonder if shape of the universe is like a doughnut(theguardian.com)

34 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 23 comments

AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter(futurism.com)

32 points by joe_the_user 2 years ago | 36 comments

Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications(mashable.com)

30 points by lordwiz 2 years ago | 9 comments

Tools for Better Thinking(untools.co)

29 points by jaynpatel 2 years ago | 1 comments

Evaluation of Machine Learning Primitives on a Digital Signal Processor(diva-portal.org)

29 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 0 comments

Cars Are Way Less Colorful Today Than They Were 20 Years Ago: Study(thedrive.com)

29 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 19 comments

Finite-Time Topology Identification of Delayed Complex Dynamical Networks(spj.science.org)

29 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 0 comments

Welcome to the safest time to give birth in human history(theupwing.com)

28 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 37 comments

BYD aims to replace Routemaster with 400-mile EV London bus(autocar.co.uk)

28 points by MrsPeaches 2 years ago | 10 comments

The South Pole Power Plant (2012)(jeffreydonenfeld.com)

26 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 19 comments

Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix "BC" calculator(github.com)

26 points by jgarzik 2 years ago | 36 comments

`Bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence(thepythoncodingstack.com)

25 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 22 comments

Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates(time.com)

24 points by aheck 2 years ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Pg_analytica – Speed up queries by exporting tables to columnar format(github.com)

22 points by wanderinglight 2 years ago | 10 comments

Google cut Uncle Sam a $2M check so it could avoid a jury trial(cnn.com)

21 points by belter 2 years ago | 10 comments