Hacker News on Saturday, 15 June 2024

Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments(space.com)

965 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 198 comments

Space.com news article reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 has resumed returning science data from all four instruments after a technical issue that began in November 2023.

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent(rknight.me)

497 points by cdme 2 years ago | 423 comments

Blog post by Robb Knight showing that Perplexity AI fetches pages with a generic browser user agent, bypassing server-side blocks on AI crawlers.

ESASky(sky.esa.int)

331 points by xioxox 2 years ago | 53 comments

ESASky is an ESA web application for visualising and downloading public astronomical data across the sky, shown here with its welcome mode-selection dialog.

Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)(georgefairbanks.com)

295 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 153 comments

Sales happen when buyers fear missing out(tidyfirst.substack.com)

224 points by etrvic 2 years ago | 105 comments

Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo(tomverbeure.github.io)

209 points by nxten 2 years ago | 213 comments

A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research(thoughtforms.life)

207 points by myth_drannon 2 years ago | 69 comments

Google, Cloudflare and Cisco will poison DNS to stop piracy block circumvention(torrentfreak.com)

206 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 120 comments

Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011(laurent.le-brun.eu)

202 points by laurentlb 2 years ago | 133 comments

Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js(github.com)

186 points by Red_Tarsius 2 years ago | 24 comments

Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records(spectrum.ieee.org)

185 points by belter 2 years ago | 223 comments

Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub(github.com)

180 points by bane 2 years ago | 34 comments

London Underground hosts tests for 'quantum compass' that could replace GPS(theguardian.com)

178 points by beejiu 2 years ago | 127 comments

You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality(mcsweeneys.net)

175 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 84 comments

Reverse engineering a restaurant pager system(k3xec.com)

169 points by edward 2 years ago | 25 comments

Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)(sansbullshitsans.com)

153 points by ciclotrone 2 years ago | 35 comments

'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors(theguardian.com)

148 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 272 comments

AI for math resources, and erdosproblems.com(terrytao.wordpress.com)

135 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 28 comments

Address Sanitizer Internals(blog.gistre.epita.fr)

129 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 18 comments

Syzygy: An open standard for low cost, compact and high-performance peripherals(syzygyfpga.io)

118 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 27 comments

VVVV – A hybrid visual/textual development environment for .NET(visualprogramming.net)

109 points by password4321 2 years ago | 40 comments

Ollama v0.1.45(github.com)

96 points by lijunhao 2 years ago | 52 comments

Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship, Quest, Discovered Off the Coast of Canada(smithsonianmag.com)

88 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)(github.com)

87 points by jarusll 2 years ago | 39 comments

An Introduction to CSS-Doodle(yuanchuan.github.io)

86 points by spirit23 2 years ago | 24 comments

Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found(nhm.ac.uk)

82 points by gmays 2 years ago | 51 comments

Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale(autodidacts.io)

81 points by Curiositry 2 years ago | 32 comments

PaperTapeReader: A DIY reader for vintage 8-bit paper tapes(github.com)

80 points by jnord 2 years ago | 16 comments

Can language models serve as text-based world simulators?(arxiv.org)

77 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 54 comments

Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean(cnn.com)

77 points by BostonFern 2 years ago | 37 comments

Topological Problems in Voting(ryantolsma.com)

76 points by rtolsma 2 years ago | 26 comments

A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic(ooh.directory)

76 points by raytopia 2 years ago | 9 comments

DARPA Shows Concepts for the Future of VTOL Uncrewed Aerial Systems(darpa.mil)

71 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 35 comments

Introduction to the Odin Programming Language(zylinski.se)

70 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 37 comments

Django SQLite Production Config(blog.pecar.me)

70 points by levlaz 2 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: An open source extension to block large media brands from Google search(github.com)

69 points by petertsfn 2 years ago | 22 comments

Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)(cnn.com)

67 points by msephton 2 years ago | 29 comments

SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined(sqlite.org)

67 points by ysabri 2 years ago | 29 comments

Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To"(hezmatt.org)

65 points by bo0tzz 2 years ago | 44 comments

Good code is rarely read(alexmolas.com)

64 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 71 comments

The state of carbon dioxide removal(stateofcdr.org)

63 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 78 comments

Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf](arxiv.org)

60 points by davikr 2 years ago | 13 comments

Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)(mywiki.wooledge.org)

59 points by susam 2 years ago | 47 comments

Unveiling URI, URL, and URN(blog.logto.io)

59 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 22 comments

Fifty Years of Diff(exple.tive.org)

57 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 6 comments

Building an O2 concentrator for welding and vacuum tube work(nickpoole.me)

55 points by gtsnexp 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ventoy: Remove BLOBs from the Source Tree(github.com)

54 points by 6581 2 years ago | 15 comments

Acorn Computer Systems catalogue circa 1983(blog.jgc.org)

54 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 3 comments

How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II(acoup.blog)

52 points by Luc 2 years ago | 10 comments

Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision(knowablemagazine.org)

49 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 8 comments

Amazon has a secret way to scrape Microsoft's GitHub and feed its AI model(dataconomy.com)

48 points by doubtfuluser 2 years ago | 35 comments

Useful and Overlooked Skills(collabfund.com)

46 points by gmays 2 years ago | 16 comments

As Lovely as a Tree(tblm.substack.com)

43 points by adityaathalye 2 years ago | 54 comments

Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery(new.nsf.gov)

42 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Do You Have a Copy of IBM "Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics"?

39 points by susam 2 years ago | 4 comments

Go is more than a language; Go is a platform(eltonminetto.dev)

38 points by eminetto 2 years ago | 10 comments

Britain's 'Pompeii': UK's Largest Bronze Age Find(bbc.com)

37 points by wood_spirit 2 years ago | 9 comments

A judge ordered us to turn over privileged documents(mississippitoday.org)

37 points by woldemariam 2 years ago | 2 comments

The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective (2016)(madinamerica.com)

36 points by fremden 2 years ago | 2 comments

What About libjpeg v9? (2013)(libjpeg-turbo.org)

34 points by skilled 2 years ago | 1 comments