Hacker News on Friday, 28 June 2024

Software galaxies(anvaka.github.io)

682 points by matesz 2 years ago | 109 comments

Interactive 3D visualizations of package manager dependency graphs (npm, Bower, Composer, RubyGems, Go and others) rendered as galaxies.

Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine(axios.com)

644 points by wumeow 2 years ago | 1292 comments

Axios news article reporting that the US Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron deference doctrine, curtailing federal agency power.

Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

465 points by pcatach 2 years ago | 390 comments

Ask HN discussion thread where users describe the best codebases they have worked on and what made them good.

The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video](pmarca.substack.com)

359 points by kjhughes 2 years ago | 130 comments

A video post on Marc Andreessen's Substack in which he recounts, from memory, the origin story of the Mosaic and Netscape web browsers.

Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?(flightradar24.com)

243 points by redtriumph 2 years ago | 143 comments

Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler(twitter.com)

230 points by foobazgt 2 years ago | 92 comments

New ways to catch gravitational waves(nature.com)

219 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 90 comments

Butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic without stopping(smithsonianmag.com)

201 points by raybb 2 years ago | 75 comments

That Editor(github.com)

196 points by phplovesong 2 years ago | 26 comments

The XAES-256-GCM extended-nonce AEAD(words.filippo.io)

183 points by FiloSottile 2 years ago | 52 comments

Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code(visualstudiomagazine.com)

182 points by avivallssa 2 years ago | 126 comments

Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden(community.frame.work)

172 points by theshrike79 2 years ago | 132 comments

A Eulogy for DevOps(matduggan.com)

161 points by weaksauce 2 years ago | 114 comments

Klára Dán von Neumann(en.wikipedia.org)

160 points by pietroppeter 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing(apricitas.io)

154 points by gmays 2 years ago | 286 comments

Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know(nicole.express)

151 points by GavinAnderegg 2 years ago | 54 comments

Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers(lwn.net)

130 points by signa11 2 years ago | 124 comments

The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros(wits.ac.za)

127 points by geox 2 years ago | 117 comments

Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction(arxiv.org)

125 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 14 comments

Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf](supremecourt.gov)

109 points by rayiner 2 years ago | 1 comments

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment(sciencealert.com)

105 points by pelasaco 2 years ago | 32 comments

Quaternion Differentiation (2012)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)

96 points by niborgen 2 years ago | 11 comments

Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes(bbc.com)

96 points by tigerlily 2 years ago | 109 comments

Understanding React Compiler(tonyalicea.dev)

95 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 113 comments

Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters(px.neocities.org)

95 points by pxndxx 2 years ago | 26 comments

Llama-agents: an async-first framework for building production ready agents(github.com)

95 points by pierre 2 years ago | 26 comments

Discovered June 16th, large asteroid to pass between Earth and moon on Saturday(cbc.ca)

88 points by whycome 2 years ago | 44 comments

James Joyce was a complicated man(thefitzwilliam.com)

87 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 36 comments

Paper Trails(aeon.co)

84 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 15 comments

The Dream of an Alpine Waterway(blog.nationalmuseum.ch)

74 points by teew 2 years ago | 34 comments

What Happened to People Magazine?(annehelen.substack.com)

70 points by squeezer 2 years ago | 43 comments

Pompeii fixed potholes with molten iron (2019)(smithsonianmag.com)

69 points by strict9 2 years ago | 53 comments

WA man set up fake free WiFi at airports and on flights, police allege(theguardian.com)

68 points by cyberlimerence 2 years ago | 73 comments

The History of "The Rule of Thirds"(neomodern.com)

66 points by harrylove 2 years ago | 19 comments

The Dinner Party That Served Up 50k-Year-Old Bison Stew (2018)(atlasobscura.com)

66 points by cpach 2 years ago | 15 comments

Microsoft informs customers that Russian hackers spied on emails(reuters.com)

65 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2 years ago | 6 comments

Category theory using string diagrams (2014)(arxiv.org)

62 points by soloist11 2 years ago | 17 comments

CPS in Hoot(wingolog.org)

60 points by wglb 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Origins of Yiddish (2014)(tabletmag.com)

56 points by drjohnson 2 years ago | 67 comments

Paramount Wipes South Park, Daily Show Clips, and More from Websites(gamespot.com)

54 points by asne11 2 years ago | 20 comments

Investigating SSMEC's (State Micro) 486s with the UCA(x86.fr)

53 points by apple4ever 2 years ago | 6 comments

Windows: Insecure by Design(theregister.com)

53 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 13 comments

Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science(jpl.nasa.gov)

52 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 0 comments

Hack Your Way to Scientific Glory (2016)(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)

52 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 9 comments

Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands(theregister.com)

51 points by rolph 2 years ago | 23 comments

Elixir Anti-Patterns(hexdocs.pm)

50 points by lobo_tuerto 2 years ago | 25 comments

Canonical's 'distroless' Linux images are a game-changer for enterprises(zdnet.com)

49 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 57 comments

Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)(twomillioncheckboxes.com)

49 points by pjullrich 2 years ago | 21 comments

Hardware FPGA DPS-8M Mainframe and FNP Project(dps8m.gitlab.io)

48 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right(adu.autonomy.work)

46 points by seangrvs 2 years ago | 23 comments

Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason(huth.me)

46 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 5 comments

Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira(lwn.net)

45 points by seusscat 2 years ago | 0 comments

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners' biggest investigations(niemanlab.org)

41 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Thermion, an open source 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart(thermion.dev)

41 points by nmfisher 2 years ago | 7 comments

What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

40 points by azeemba 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: Focal, a Pomodoro App(aabiji.github.io)

39 points by aabiji 2 years ago | 22 comments

Our great database migration(shepherdinsurance.com)

38 points by TheAnkurTyagi 2 years ago | 46 comments

El Niño forecasts extended to 18 months with physics-based model(phys.org)

35 points by wglb 2 years ago | 10 comments

Orbital Mechanics and Astrodynamics(orbital-mechanics.space)

34 points by kavouras 2 years ago | 5 comments

Our Underground Future (2012)(bostonglobe.com)

34 points by horseradish 2 years ago | 7 comments