Hacker News on Sunday, 7 July 2024

Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS(satyrn.app)

558 points by jackhodkinson 2 years ago | 149 comments

Landing page for Satyrn, a lightweight native-feeling Jupyter notebook client for macOS built with Electron, with OpenAI integration.

A reawakening of systems programming meetups(notes.eatonphil.com)

362 points by paulgb 2 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by Phil Eaton on the 2024 resurgence of high-quality systems programming meetups, with history and guidance for running your own events.

YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable(frontendmasters.com)

333 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 207 comments

Frontend Masters blog post explaining that YouTube iframe embeds weigh about 1.3MB and how the lite-youtube web component cuts that to roughly 100KB.

Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits(github.com)

272 points by oskar_dudycz 2 years ago | 178 comments

Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python(github.com)

255 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services(beacondb.net)

226 points by joelkoen 2 years ago | 48 comments

Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)(sin-ack.github.io)

213 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 161 comments

The internet is already over (2022)(samkriss.substack.com)

199 points by thinkingemote 2 years ago | 146 comments

Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective(arxiv.org)

197 points by belter 2 years ago | 136 comments

Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor(righto.com)

195 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 90 comments

Show HN: Execute JavaScript in a WebAssembly QuickJS sandbox(github.com)

194 points by sebastianwessel 2 years ago | 59 comments

Guide to attending a space launch in person(countdowntoignition.com)

194 points by gianjohansen 2 years ago | 42 comments

A Mini Monitor for a Pi(noamzeise.com)

178 points by nomza 2 years ago | 53 comments

Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro(atlasobscura.com)

159 points by pepys 2 years ago | 194 comments

Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure(economist.com)

147 points by hilux 2 years ago | 110 comments

I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox(jackkelly.name)

135 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 76 comments

TUI for Managing WiFi on Linux(github.com)

123 points by pythops 2 years ago | 36 comments

Managing Oneself (2005)(hbr.org)

112 points by bx376 2 years ago | 22 comments

ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs(icann.org)

110 points by speckx 2 years ago | 92 comments

"Out of Band" network management is not trivial(utcc.utoronto.ca)

99 points by DanAtC 2 years ago | 66 comments

Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte(otherbranch.com)

98 points by luu 2 years ago | 70 comments

Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf](community.ams.org)

96 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 42 comments

From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course(github.com)

95 points by signa11 2 years ago | 42 comments

Unit is a general purpose visual programming system(unit.software)

92 points by puuush 2 years ago | 49 comments

Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative(github.com)

92 points by elliotkillick 2 years ago | 32 comments

VDEv2: Virtual Distributed Ethernet(github.com)

88 points by ingve 2 years ago | 21 comments

The Planets Today(theplanetstoday.com)

87 points by hyperific 2 years ago | 32 comments

Scientists re-emerge after a year in Mars simulation project(dw.com)

86 points by _____k 2 years ago | 51 comments

Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop(github.com)

85 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 43 comments

Tim Doucette, a blind astronomer who built the Deep Sky Eye Observatory(amiplus.ca)

78 points by noyesno 2 years ago | 14 comments

Crystal Fragment turns everything you see into 8-bit Pixel Art(yankodesign.com)

78 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021)(acriticalhit.com)

75 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 18 comments

The complete Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BC)(ehammurabi.org)

72 points by ubutler 2 years ago | 39 comments

"AI", students, and epistemic crisis(miniver.blogspot.com)

71 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 63 comments

The Basics of How Engines Work (2021) [video](youtube.com)

68 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 4 comments

Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030(techemails.com)

67 points by jbredeche 2 years ago | 73 comments

OpenRailRouting(github.com)

62 points by Stevvo 2 years ago | 20 comments

Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads(fortune.com)

62 points by WWWMMMWWW 2 years ago | 74 comments

Why Use Onion Layering?(garrettdbates.com)

61 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 43 comments

Synchronization Is Bad for Scale(wippler.dev)

57 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 38 comments

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks(theculture.adactio.com)

55 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 33 comments

Solving Concurrency Bugs Using Schedules and Imagination(ankush.dev)

51 points by signa11 2 years ago | 4 comments

International Reply Coupon(en.wikipedia.org)

50 points by chaoskanzlerin 2 years ago | 12 comments

Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar(newatlas.com)

48 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 24 comments

Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane(phys.org)

47 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 39 comments

Final Fantasy 7: An Oral History (2017)(polygon.com)

46 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 6 comments

ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021(ieeexplore.ieee.org)

43 points by ummonk 2 years ago | 15 comments

US intelligence community is embracing generative AI(nextgov.com)

40 points by belter 2 years ago | 32 comments

Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose an espionage network? (2020)(mattblaze.org)

38 points by mofosyne 2 years ago | 2 comments

Neuromorphic dendritic network with silent synapses for visual motion perception(nature.com)

38 points by belter 2 years ago | 8 comments

Apple M5 Chip's Dual-Use Design Will Power Future Macs and AI Servers(macrumors.com)

37 points by doener 2 years ago | 41 comments

Starfighter Scandal: Did Germany's Lockheed F-104(key.aero)

37 points by rawgabbit 2 years ago | 34 comments

Is the 10k-Year-Old Yonaguni Monument a Man-Made Marvel or Nature's Art?(ancientoriginsunleashed.com)

34 points by NoRagrets 2 years ago | 12 comments

End of the librarian? Council cuts and new tech push profession to the brink(theguardian.com)

34 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 28 comments

A brief history of liquid computers (2019)(royalsocietypublishing.org)

33 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 17 comments

Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy(reuters.com)

33 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 26 comments

Ask HN: Should I remove work experience from resume?

32 points by throwaway19917 2 years ago | 37 comments

Where Did RFID Come From? [video](youtube.com)

29 points by ksec 2 years ago | 8 comments

Servant Leadership Theory(pon.harvard.edu)

28 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 27 comments

ChatGPT robots.txt disallows Anthropic(chatgpt.com)

28 points by juancroldan 2 years ago | 3 comments