Hacker News on Saturday, 22 June 2024

After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)(anandsanwal.me)

747 points by ziptron 2 years ago | 104 comments

Personal blog post by Anand Sanwal recounting how he ran and sold his late father's chemical manufacturing company in Nasik, India, as a guide for others.

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore(howtogeek.com)

526 points by doctorshady 2 years ago | 478 comments

How-To Geek opinion article arguing that Windows, with its ads and imposed features, no longer feels like the user's own computer.

Ruby: A great language for shell scripts(lucasoshiro.github.io)

367 points by lucasoshiro 2 years ago | 231 comments

A blog post arguing that Ruby is an excellent language for writing shell scripts, showing features that make it better than Bash or Python for complex scripts.

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf](gwern.net)

365 points by hardmaru 2 years ago | 279 comments

PDF of a 2024 paper by Fedorenko et al. arguing that language is primarily a tool for communication rather than for thought.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award(vu.nl)

325 points by JacobAldridge 2 years ago | 73 comments

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam news article announcing that Andrew S. Tanenbaum received the ACM Software System Award.

Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website(v1.web-check.xyz)

316 points by lissy93 2 years ago | 46 comments

Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust(farmfe.org)

212 points by rk06 2 years ago | 114 comments

HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma(energysingularity.cn)

209 points by zer0tonin 2 years ago | 213 comments

SSH as a Sudo Replacement(whynothugo.nl)

207 points by legobeet 2 years ago | 104 comments

Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind(theguardian.com)

182 points by franze 2 years ago | 309 comments

Arm64EC – Build and port apps for native performance on Arm(learn.microsoft.com)

180 points by heinrich5991 2 years ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook(gist.github.com)

171 points by GeoHubToday 2 years ago | 99 comments

Own Constant Folder in C/C++(neilhenning.dev)

151 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 99 comments

HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering(haithemturki.com)

149 points by tzmlab 2 years ago | 46 comments

Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c(chipsandcheese.com)

145 points by latchkey 2 years ago | 84 comments

Tachyonfx: A library for creating shader-like effects in terminal UIs(github.com)

139 points by orhunp_ 2 years ago | 17 comments

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary(arxiv.org)

129 points by zdw 2 years ago | 68 comments

Benjamin Thorpe translated almost all Old English texts (2016)(thijsporck.com)

120 points by stareatgoats 2 years ago | 59 comments

AWS Lambda Web Adapter(github.com)

114 points by cebert 2 years ago | 99 comments

Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak(ember-climate.org)

112 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 103 comments

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability(washington.edu)

111 points by geox 2 years ago | 83 comments

Shape Rotation 101: An Intro to Einsum and Jax Transformers(sankalp.bearblog.dev)

109 points by dejavucoder 2 years ago | 12 comments

Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi(pigazing.dcford.org.uk)

96 points by b_emery 2 years ago | 25 comments

Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off(pluralistic.net)

86 points by dougb5 2 years ago | 63 comments

OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application(blog.javascripttoday.com)

85 points by whatamidoingyo 2 years ago | 11 comments

OpenEMR: Open-source medical record software(open-emr.org)

84 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 63 comments

Hacking eInk Price Tags (2021)(dmitry.gr)

84 points by mnem 2 years ago | 14 comments

A Forth Story (1995)(groups.google.com)

82 points by veqq 2 years ago | 15 comments

ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968) [pdf](ecma-international.org)

73 points by susam 2 years ago | 15 comments

Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees(fastcompany.com)

72 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 59 comments

Bringing Roman Light to Life(journals.uchicago.edu)

68 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 9 comments

A website where you write a message to the next visitor(dearnextvisitor.com)

67 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 40 comments

Waymo the Leapfrog(loeber.substack.com)

65 points by loeber 2 years ago | 74 comments

DOS game "F15 SE II" reversing: more stories and now on GitHub(github.com)

65 points by LowLevelMahn 2 years ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool(github.com)

64 points by mattrighetti 2 years ago | 36 comments

Why Swift's type checker is so slow(danielchasehooper.com)

64 points by misonic 2 years ago | 36 comments

Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy(b.tuxes.uk)

63 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 26 comments

Polytype: A Rosetta Stone for typesetting engines(polytype.dev)

63 points by ubavic 2 years ago | 12 comments

Honoring the Legacy of Chip Design Innovator Lynn Conway(spectrum.ieee.org)

62 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 2 comments

Costco Broke into a Surprising New Market: Modular Housing(strongtowns.org)

61 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 25 comments

CHART: The Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope(astrochart.github.io)

60 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 8 comments

Virtually Hawaii(satftp.soest.hawaii.edu)

59 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 17 comments

Bedroom light at night increases inflammation and disrupts circadian rhythm(sciencedirect.com)

55 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 11 comments

Feral pigeons and the London Pigeon String Foot and Rescue group(bbc.com)

49 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 25 comments

NASA indefinitely delays return of Starliner to review propulsion data(arstechnica.com)

49 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 35 comments

Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'(businessinsider.com)

49 points by nancyp 2 years ago | 15 comments

CSS Tip: An em isn't an "m", but an ex is an "x" (2012)(blog.frankmtaylor.com)

49 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 30 comments

Training AI(lmnt.me)

46 points by zdw 2 years ago | 36 comments

Greece introduces the six day work week(dw.com)

45 points by matsemann 2 years ago | 50 comments

Google is force canceling gsuite because I used unlimited storage as unlimited(twitter.com)

44 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 35 comments

Ask HN: Advice for leading a software migration?

43 points by drekipus 2 years ago | 51 comments

Composite modding another Atari, because colors are hard(nicole.express)

43 points by zdw 2 years ago | 2 comments

The End-of-Line Story (2004)(rfc-editor.org)

39 points by susam 2 years ago | 9 comments

The First Spatial Computing Hack(ryanpickren.com)

36 points by croes 2 years ago | 6 comments

Fixing a memory leak of xmlEntityPtr in librsvg(viruta.org)

35 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 15 comments

Why Steve Jobs Went 'Thermonuclear' over Android (2014)(pcmag.com)

33 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 17 comments

Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating(arstechnica.com)

31 points by glymor 2 years ago | 15 comments

'Meridian': Why Netflix Is Helping Competitors with Content and Code (2016)(variety.com)

30 points by joelanman 2 years ago | 4 comments

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution(msn.com)

29 points by guerby 2 years ago | 31 comments

Identifying Leap Years (2020)(davecturner.github.io)

27 points by g0xA52A2A 2 years ago | 4 comments