Hacker News on Thursday, 11 July 2024

We need visual programming. No, not like that(blog.sbensu.com)

1123 points by stopachka 2 years ago | 470 comments

Blog post by sbensu (July 2024) arguing visual programming tools should visualize what developers already draw, like state transitions, memory layouts and network requests, rather than code syntax.

The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)(typesetinthefuture.com)

647 points by drones 2 years ago | 83 comments

A Typeset in the Future blog post analyzing the typography and graphic design used in Pixar's film WALL·E.

WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side(webvm.io)

579 points by sebg 2 years ago | 119 comments

WebVM is a browser-based virtual Linux environment that runs x86 binaries client-side via WebAssembly using the CheerpX virtualization engine.

Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)(mydiplomaticlife.com)

404 points by Hansig_jw 2 years ago | 221 comments

A blog post by a former diplomat recounting how he lived and coped during three years as a foreigner in North Korea.

Engineering principles for building financial systems(substack.wasteman.codes)

340 points by KothuRoti 2 years ago | 83 comments

A Substack blog post sharing engineering principles and best practices for building accurate and reliable software-based financial systems.

Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation(ccc.de)

288 points by F30 2 years ago | 261 comments

Physics-Based Deep Learning Book(physicsbaseddeeplearning.org)

285 points by sebg 2 years ago | 22 comments

FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision(together.ai)

269 points by jhshah 2 years ago | 53 comments

Shelley Duvall has died(bbc.com)

229 points by yladiz 2 years ago | 65 comments

Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)(mazzo.li)

223 points by nickdevx 2 years ago | 74 comments

Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres(github.com)

210 points by levkk 2 years ago | 38 comments

Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit(quickwit.io)

203 points by samber 2 years ago | 159 comments

Gene-silencing tool shows promise as a future therapy against prion diseases(news.mit.edu)

203 points by gmays 2 years ago | 61 comments

Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple(matttproud.com)

200 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 129 comments

General Theory of Neural Networks(robleclerc.substack.com)

198 points by rdlecler1 2 years ago | 78 comments

Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions(icpen.org)

191 points by ReadCarlBarks 2 years ago | 169 comments

Capturing Linux SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF(github.com)

170 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 65 comments

The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)(ktema.org)

168 points by ahamez 2 years ago | 103 comments

Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making(chipsandcheese.com)

158 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 135 comments

Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza(bbc.com)

150 points by mih 2 years ago | 62 comments

Karpathy: Let's reproduce GPT-2 (1.6B): one 8XH100 node 24h $672 in llm.c(github.com)

134 points by alecco 2 years ago | 40 comments

A relativistic framework to establish coordinate time on the Moon and beyond(arxiv.org)

118 points by croes 2 years ago | 69 comments

If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it(jeffgeerling.com)

118 points by mikece 2 years ago | 112 comments

AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3(blog.fal.ai)

107 points by treesciencebot 2 years ago | 21 comments

Rulers of the Ancient World: period correct measuring tools(burn-heart.com)

101 points by maxwell 2 years ago | 59 comments

Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)(afterbabel.com)

97 points by julkali 2 years ago | 47 comments

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say(gizmodo.com)

95 points by ripjaygn 2 years ago | 105 comments

AWS Secrets Manager Agent(github.com)

95 points by plurby 2 years ago | 57 comments

Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés(nber.org)

94 points by bikenaga 2 years ago | 91 comments

Show HN: Mandala – Automatically save, query and version Python computations(github.com)

92 points by amakelov 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)(spectrum.ieee.org)

83 points by haunter 2 years ago | 76 comments

First Contact with SQLite(brandur.org)

82 points by ingve 2 years ago | 51 comments

I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon – now I'm alone in the mountains [video](youtube.com)

79 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 25 comments

Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology(nature.com)

77 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 9 comments

Putting DuckDB in Postgres to Query Iceberg(blog.paradedb.com)

72 points by philippemnoel 2 years ago | 17 comments

The Old Bailey with Britain's last court reporters(theguardian.com)

65 points by pepys 2 years ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Is there a way to get notified when my cat has seizures?

65 points by phi161 2 years ago | 38 comments

Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023)(statsmapsnpix.com)

63 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 39 comments

GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright(felixreda.eu)

60 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 80 comments

The economics of a Postgres free tier(xata.io)

55 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 58 comments

Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess(gld.mcphail.uk)

51 points by popey 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

49 points by snow_mac 2 years ago | 48 comments

Leaked admin access token to Python, PyPI, and PSF GitHub repos(jfrog.com)

48 points by elchief 2 years ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: Trouble learning things I view as solutions looking for a problem

46 points by jumbojax 2 years ago | 38 comments

Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests(theguardian.com)

45 points by rntn 2 years ago | 28 comments

It All Started with a nop(christian-gmeiner.info)

43 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 7 comments

Oncologists on simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer(theguardian.com)

42 points by robaato 2 years ago | 26 comments

Microsoft is banning Palestinians in the US for life for calling Gaza relatives(windowscentral.com)

42 points by heavyset_go 2 years ago | 6 comments

Windows 95, 20 July 1992 build(betawiki.net)

42 points by Use 2 years ago | 2 comments

AxRuntime (AxRT): Creating Applications Using Amiga APIs(axrt.org)

41 points by snvzz 2 years ago | 4 comments

Gemini can't be disabled on Google Docs(twitter.com)

41 points by h1fra 2 years ago | 29 comments

Starlink Mini is now available(starlink.com)

38 points by virgildotcodes 2 years ago | 2 comments

How Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Is Treated(verywellhealth.com)

38 points by squircle 2 years ago | 6 comments

Why I'm Writing a Book on Cryptography (2020)(cryptologie.net)

33 points by baby 2 years ago | 7 comments

Xiaomi's self-optimizing autonomous factory will make 10M+ phones a year(newatlas.com)

31 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2 years ago | 35 comments

Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch(payloadspace.com)

30 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 37 comments

Google Play rejecting app update without substantive reason(github.com)

29 points by proactivesvcs 2 years ago | 8 comments

CodeMirror: Extensible code editor component for the web(codemirror.net)

28 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 8 comments

Video Ethnography of "ICARUS" on the Xerox Alto [video] (2017)(youtube.com)

28 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 0 comments

Run Functions in Another Stack with Zig(teiolass.gitlab.io)

26 points by Teiolass 2 years ago | 4 comments