Hacker News on Saturday, 6 July 2024

How to think in writing(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

357 points by Luc 2 years ago | 110 comments

Essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland about using writing as a tool for thinking, Part 1: The thought behind the thought.

First anode-free sodium solid-state battery(pme.uchicago.edu)

324 points by givinguflac 2 years ago | 118 comments

UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering news article on Shirley Meng's lab creating the first anode-free sodium solid-state battery.

Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)(ams.org)

209 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 180 comments

Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework(kivy.org)

181 points by peanball 2 years ago | 87 comments

Properly testing concurrent data structures(matklad.github.io)

174 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 26 comments

Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release(arstechnica.com)

147 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 143 comments

Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads(pcmag.com)

142 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell(github.com)

139 points by wolandark 2 years ago | 23 comments

How to implement a hash table in C (2021)(benhoyt.com)

128 points by benhoyt 2 years ago | 30 comments

The Invention of Zero(themarginalian.org)

126 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 77 comments

Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)(robindoherty.com)

126 points by imadj 2 years ago | 63 comments

Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI(github.com)

125 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 58 comments

Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?

122 points by SamCoding 2 years ago | 39 comments

Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe(reuters.com)

122 points by gostsamo 2 years ago | 146 comments

Build and train GPT-2 from scratch using PyTorch(differ.blog)

122 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker(rdht.vercel.app)

118 points by pixd 2 years ago | 56 comments

Inline previous result in Emacs Lisp(xenodium.com)

117 points by clircle 2 years ago | 12 comments

Crystal Fragment Turns Everything You See into 8-Bit Pixel Art(yankodesign.com)

107 points by msephton 2 years ago | 30 comments

Against the burden of knowledge(theseedsofscience.pub)

105 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 55 comments

Using the 5S Principle in Coding(santhoshsundar.medium.com)

102 points by Gigacore 2 years ago | 49 comments

Compile-time JSON deserialization in C++(medium.com)

93 points by dctwin 2 years ago | 54 comments

RadioSide turns your spare device into a radio(radioside.com)

90 points by AlexDragusin 2 years ago | 63 comments

Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids(matija.eu)

90 points by munyak 2 years ago | 68 comments

Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star(honest-broker.com)

83 points by Khaine 2 years ago | 8 comments

London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail(bloomberg.com)

78 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 52 comments

Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete(bps.org.uk)

77 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 59 comments

Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts(github.com)

74 points by sawaali 2 years ago | 6 comments

When the CIA turned writers into operatives(newyorker.com)

74 points by johnshades 2 years ago | 67 comments

What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues(nature.com)

72 points by kungfudoi 2 years ago | 40 comments

Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq(github.com)

69 points by ingve 2 years ago | 7 comments

New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google(decrypt.co)

65 points by moondistance 2 years ago | 27 comments

Why haven't biologists cured cancer?(writingruxandrabio.com)

64 points by zdw 2 years ago | 67 comments

Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt(techcrunch.com)

64 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 53 comments

Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate(thefp.com)

64 points by wslh 2 years ago | 40 comments

Microsoft Is Dead[2007](paulgraham.com)

62 points by rolph 2 years ago | 98 comments

The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour(theguardian.com)

61 points by rntn 2 years ago | 49 comments

OpenAI was hacked year-old breach wasn't reported to the public(tomshardware.com)

58 points by lightlyused 2 years ago | 12 comments

Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells in the 1980s: Vaults(science.org)

54 points by JPLeRouzic 2 years ago | 6 comments

Numeronymize(leancrew.com)

53 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 37 comments

HTML5 Differences from HTML4 (2014)(w3.org)

53 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 38 comments

Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions(nicholashairs.com)

53 points by nickcw 2 years ago | 7 comments

Modifying the OG Xbox to have 256M of RAM [video](youtube.com)

50 points by indrora 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ointment containing DNA molecules can combat allergic contact dermatitis(medicalxpress.com)

50 points by wglb 2 years ago | 23 comments

RISC-V Emulator for Sophgo SG2000 SoC (Pine64 Oz64 / Milk-V Duo S)(lupyuen.codeberg.page)

50 points by lupyuen 2 years ago | 6 comments

1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)(blog.1password.com)

49 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 33 comments

Read Hacker News on Kindle (2022)(ktool.io)

49 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 16 comments

DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either(thenewstack.io)

48 points by milkglass 2 years ago | 38 comments

Google is (not) bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices(androidauthority.com)

46 points by childintime 2 years ago | 35 comments

How I've Learned to Live with a Nonexistent Working Memory(medium.com)

46 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 39 comments

Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures(cacm.acm.org)

45 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 13 comments

U.S. SEC Wins 'Shadow Insider Trading' Trial(akingump.com)

42 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 42 comments

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations(marvinh.dev)

40 points by realshadow 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: A JavaScript UI library for imperative JSX(npmjs.com)

39 points by danielvaughn 2 years ago | 33 comments

Private firms and open sources are giving spies a run for their money(economist.com)

39 points by ioblomov 2 years ago | 20 comments

With Nothing to Do(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

38 points by tosh 2 years ago | 13 comments

An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages(joshcannon.me)

37 points by thejcannon 2 years ago | 33 comments

A Dramatic Reading: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again(mccue.dev)

37 points by emccue 2 years ago | 17 comments

Mineral winds down: 'We will no longer be an Alphabet company'(agfundernews.com)

37 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 69 comments

Italian prosecutors found Dior paid $57 to produce bags retailing for $2,780(businessinsider.com)

35 points by diggan 2 years ago | 22 comments

Unverified NPM Account Takeover Vulnerability for Sale on Dark Web Forum(socket.dev)

35 points by feross 2 years ago | 3 comments