Hacker News on Sunday, 9 June 2024

I built an ROV to solve missing person cases(suanto.com)

1059 points by craydandy 2 years ago | 149 comments

Personal blog post, part 1 of a series, introducing how the author built an underwater ROV to help solve missing person cases.

Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers(github.com)

649 points by tosh 2 years ago | 153 comments

GitHub repository for Piku, a tiny MIT-licensed PaaS that enables Heroku-style git push deployments to your own servers.

Designing a Lego orrery(marian42.de)

576 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 60 comments

A blog post by Marian describing the design of a Lego Technic orrery modeling the Sun, Earth, and Moon with gear mechanisms.

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs(writingruxandrabio.com)

392 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 416 comments

A Substack essay by Ruxandra Teslo arguing that academia should tolerate unconventional 'weird nerd' researchers and take human capital more seriously in science.

Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us(thebignewsletter.com)

338 points by passwordoops 2 years ago | 319 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter essay arguing that hidden monopolistic practices, or 'economic termites,' raise costs in ways macro statistics miss.

Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres(windytan.com)

332 points by GolDDranks 2 years ago | 131 comments

Blog post by Oona Räisänen investigating near-ultrasonic beacon tones emitted by PA systems in shopping centres, with spectrum analysis.

Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not(github.com)

298 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 48 comments

A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k(asim.bearblog.dev)

279 points by asim-shrestha 2 years ago | 400 comments

A Revolution in Biology?(bitsofwonder.co)

273 points by pr337h4m 2 years ago | 135 comments

Scratchapixel 4.0, Learn Computer Graphics Programming(scratchapixel.com)

229 points by magnio 2 years ago | 41 comments

Keylogger discovered in image generator extension(old.reddit.com)

216 points by belladoreai 2 years ago | 71 comments

Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale(twitter.com)

214 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 84 comments

So you want to build a browser engine(robert.ocallahan.org)

199 points by zmodem 2 years ago | 113 comments

Show HN: We've open-sourced our LLM attention visualization library(github.com)

172 points by lakshith-403 2 years ago | 15 comments

Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked(downtowndougbrown.com)

143 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 26 comments

Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web(betula.mycorrhiza.wiki)

143 points by guilherme-puida 2 years ago | 56 comments

Högertrafikomläggningen(en.wikipedia.org)

141 points by destructuredObj 2 years ago | 144 comments

"Confidential" 988 Conversation Records Shared with Corporations(madinamerica.com)

132 points by throwaway81523 2 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: I made a web game that makes practicing basic arithmetic fun(worchle.com)

131 points by dylanhouli 2 years ago | 67 comments

Dmv.org(computer.rip)

129 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 55 comments

Google Mesop: Build web apps in Python(github.com)

99 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 50 comments

With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock(cnbc.com)

96 points by rntn 2 years ago | 118 comments

PiDP-10 – a modern replica of the PDP-10(obsolescence.dev)

94 points by skilled 2 years ago | 27 comments

How many High Streets are there in London?(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

94 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 107 comments

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges(techradar.com)

94 points by wyldfire 2 years ago | 42 comments

On being brought up by libertarian economists(daviddfriedman.substack.com)

87 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 180 comments

A new world of DIY medical testing(washingtonpost.com)

86 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 66 comments

Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia(discourse.mozilla.org)

86 points by ilyaigpetrov 2 years ago | 31 comments

The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)(journals.uchicago.edu)

81 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 32 comments

No one should use the AT&T syntax (2021)(outerproduct.net)

76 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 63 comments

Teams of LLM Agents Can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities(arxiv.org)

75 points by belter 2 years ago | 32 comments

Everything about Mars is the worst (2017)(fivethirtyeight.com)

74 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 159 comments

British Nuclear Warning System(ringbell.co.uk)

74 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 52 comments

A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet(github.com)

69 points by beefman 2 years ago | 1 comments

Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico [video](twitter.com)

68 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 11 comments

A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)(seirdy.one)

67 points by mnem 2 years ago | 19 comments

Cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English(theguardian.com)

66 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 59 comments

The Functional Programming Hiring Problem(blog.janissary.xyz)

64 points by _peeley 2 years ago | 70 comments

Interview with Ton Roosendaal, the man behind Blender (2018) [video](youtube.com)

60 points by nalinidash 2 years ago | 6 comments

A DSL for Implementing Math Functions(blog.sigplan.org)

60 points by vitaut 2 years ago | 10 comments

Fingerprinting VPNs with Custom Router Firmware [pdf](censorbib.nymity.ch)

58 points by skilled 2 years ago | 20 comments

Your Phone, Minus the Distractions(getbrick.app)

56 points by yellow_postit 2 years ago | 57 comments

Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint(theregister.com)

51 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 29 comments

Deep Dive into Ownership in Mojo(modular.com)

46 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 19 comments

Venezuela's Last Glacier, Humboldt, Has Melted Away(scitechdaily.com)

46 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 37 comments

Orwell on the Isle of Jura(bbc.com)

44 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 16 comments

Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass(phys.org)

44 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 26 comments

From Steampunk to Solarpunk (2008)(republicofthebees.blogspot.com)

42 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 14 comments

We went solar and here are the real numbers (2021)(joshuatauberer.medium.com)

36 points by amenghra 2 years ago | 37 comments

Electric headset for treating depression recommended after NHS trial(news.sky.com)

36 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 11 comments

KickC is a C-compiler for 6502-based platforms creating readable assembler code(gitlab.com)

34 points by muterad_murilax 2 years ago | 9 comments

Heretical thoughts about science and society (2005)(edge.org)

34 points by hypertexthero 2 years ago | 26 comments

Discussions: Flat or Threaded? (2006)(blog.codinghorror.com)

34 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 27 comments

It's all unraveling at OpenAI (again)(businessinsider.com)

34 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: Is KDB a sane choice for a datalake in 2024?

32 points by sonthonax 2 years ago | 28 comments

Researchers demonstrate the first chip-based 3D printer(news.mit.edu)

30 points by hindsightbias 2 years ago | 7 comments

Strategic Computing Initiative(en.wikipedia.org)

27 points by mepian 2 years ago | 6 comments

Tesla Threatens Customer with $50K Fine If He Tries to Sell His Cybertruck(jalopnik.com)

26 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Era of the Autodidact Is Here(medium.com)

26 points by squircle 2 years ago | 31 comments

Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either(williamhalaw.com)

25 points by burritofanatic 2 years ago | 31 comments