Hacker News on Sunday, 30 June 2024

Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite(github.com)

590 points by memset 2 years ago | 140 comments

GitHub repository for SmoothMQ, an open source Go single-binary, SQLite-backed, API-compatible drop-in replacement for Amazon SQS.

Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide(nytimes.com)

553 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 440 comments

New York Times investigation reporting that Navy SEALs who died by suicide showed a pervasive pattern of brain damage linked to blast exposure.

Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful(tulach.cc)

429 points by wild_pointer 2 years ago | 497 comments

Blog post by Samuel Tulach describing the difficulty of finding a suitable C++ GUI library for Windows-only commercial desktop applications.

How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed(dillan.org)

278 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 223 comments

Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and polynomials (2022)(alvarorevuelta.com)

219 points by clearprop 2 years ago | 53 comments

Weekend projects: getting silly with C(lcamtuf.substack.com)

215 points by nothacking_ 2 years ago | 74 comments

Postzegelcode(en.wikipedia.org)

204 points by tdeck 2 years ago | 80 comments

Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser(twitter.com)

199 points by modinfo 2 years ago | 145 comments

Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI(techcrunch.com)

182 points by doener 2 years ago | 170 comments

Reflection for C++26(isocpp.org)

182 points by svlasov 2 years ago | 144 comments

Unification in Elixir(ericpfahl.com)

167 points by weatherlight 2 years ago | 26 comments

The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)(mental-reverb.com)

164 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 69 comments

An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World(retooling.io)

158 points by serhack_ 2 years ago | 17 comments

Newswire: A large-scale structured database of a century of historical news(arxiv.org)

155 points by h2odragon 2 years ago | 36 comments

The physics of airplane flight(10maurycy10.github.io)

148 points by luu 2 years ago | 151 comments

Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed(artsandculture.google.com)

125 points by andrei-akopian 2 years ago | 34 comments

A Model of a Mind(tylerneylon.com)

125 points by adamesque 2 years ago | 67 comments

Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn(cbc.ca)

117 points by throw0101b 2 years ago | 206 comments

The cutest monopoly: Koala Kare(thehustle.co)

117 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 100 comments

A simplified Python simulation of diffusion(thepythoncodingstack.com)

116 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 16 comments

Weavers and Concluders: Two communication styles (2021)(neuroclastic.com)

114 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 52 comments

Goodwatch – A Ham Radio Wristwatch (2020)(kk4vcz.com)

114 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: ViperIDE – MicroPython IDE for web and mobile(github.com)

105 points by vshymanskyy 2 years ago | 15 comments

Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)(0fps.net)

100 points by babelfish 2 years ago | 16 comments

Below MI – IBM i for hackers(silentsignal.github.io)

93 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 32 comments

OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order(torrentfreak.com)

93 points by gslin 2 years ago | 32 comments

Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits (2018)(github.com)

91 points by raytopia 2 years ago | 24 comments

Advice to Young Mathematicians [video](youtube.com)

89 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner(twz.com)

87 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 90 comments

Figma defaults to train AI models on personal data(help.figma.com)

82 points by matesz 2 years ago | 26 comments

An Analog Network of Resistors Promises Machine Learning Without a Processor(hackster.io)

80 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 31 comments

The Byte Order Fiasco (2021)(justine.lol)

72 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 50 comments

DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges(cnn.com)

71 points by BostonFern 2 years ago | 25 comments

Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing(businessinsider.com)

71 points by haltingproblem 2 years ago | 110 comments

The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries(twitter.com)

68 points by retskrad 2 years ago | 34 comments

The depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer in Western Kansas(kansasreflector.com)

67 points by speckx 2 years ago | 52 comments

A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing(luggagelosers.com)

65 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 23 comments

Nyquest NY8A051H – 1.5 cent microcontroller: weekend die-shot(zeptobars.com)

64 points by BarsMonster 2 years ago | 24 comments

The 1904 Olympic Marathon (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)

63 points by mkl 2 years ago | 22 comments

California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA(sfchronicle.com)

58 points by edward 2 years ago | 74 comments

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only(bleepingcomputer.com)

56 points by rntn 2 years ago | 45 comments

Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

54 points by luu 2 years ago | 80 comments

Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024(ianbetteridge.com)

53 points by cdme 2 years ago | 39 comments

What's in my location history?(zdimension.fr)

52 points by zdimension 2 years ago | 38 comments

Greco-Buddhist art(en.wikipedia.org)

51 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 11 comments

Automating my gate door via a smart relay(arslan.io)

51 points by farslan 2 years ago | 21 comments

Chaos Engineering in Front End Development: Enhancing Application Resilience(omid.dev)

51 points by omidfarhang 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet(nytimes.com)

48 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 10 comments

Matters Computational [pdf](jjj.de)

47 points by dataflow 2 years ago | 2 comments

Combine multiple RSS feeds into a single feed, as a service(github.com)

47 points by 8organicbits 2 years ago | 26 comments

Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail(bbc.co.uk)

42 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 63 comments

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers(arstechnica.com)

41 points by lando2319 2 years ago | 9 comments

Userland rootkits are lame (2022)(grugq.substack.com)

39 points by qweqwe14 2 years ago | 37 comments

Self-healing 'living skin' can make robots more humanlike(livescience.com)

35 points by avivallssa 2 years ago | 38 comments

Books to Dive in into Fullstack Development

34 points by pkrzysiek 2 years ago | 28 comments

Art and Artifice(harpers.org)

33 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 3 comments

Capcom and GOG to release the original Resident Evil trilogy(gog.com)

31 points by dither8 2 years ago | 0 comments

Anti-aging molecule successfully restores multiple markers of youth(newatlas.com)

29 points by sebazzz 2 years ago | 16 comments

NASA rover discovers mysterious Mars boulder unlike any others(mashable.com)

29 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 5 comments

NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk(arstechnica.com)

29 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 1 comments