Hacker News on Saturday, 13 July 2024

Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game(wheybags.com)

446 points by wheybags 2 years ago | 89 comments

Blog post introducing EmperorLauncher, a patch that makes Emperor: Battle for Dune run on modern systems with high-res support, online multiplayer, and co-op campaign.

Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)(wsj.com)

327 points by cpncrunch 2 years ago | 422 comments

A Wall Street Journal article about Nevada's $35 billion public employee pension fund, whose manager invests passively and outperforms peers; the page showed a captcha.

Give people something to link to(simonwillison.net)

294 points by simonw 2 years ago | 58 comments

Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone(unihertz.com)

287 points by f_allwein 2 years ago | 230 comments

The Illustrated AlphaFold(elanapearl.github.io)

276 points by dil8 2 years ago | 10 comments

Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)(timhulsizer.com)

272 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 114 comments

Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data(hackread.com)

269 points by artninja1988 2 years ago | 175 comments

Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning(cnn.com)

214 points by rntn 2 years ago | 320 comments

Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator(cssgridgenerator.io)

205 points by Kristjan_Retter 2 years ago | 40 comments

Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation(answer.ai)

204 points by bovem 2 years ago | 39 comments

Disruptor-rs: better latency and throughput than crossbeam(github.com)

189 points by nicholassm83 2 years ago | 34 comments

Talos: Secure, immutable, and minimal Linux OS for running Kubernetes(talos.dev)

162 points by sea-gold 2 years ago | 49 comments

Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures(justinmath.com)

157 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 60 comments

"Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"(mastodon.social)

155 points by notamy 2 years ago | 104 comments

STEMFIE, a 3D-printable construction set toy(stemfie.org)

143 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 29 comments

Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers(perfectcircuit.com)

142 points by bschne 2 years ago | 67 comments

Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again(lucvandonkersgoed.com)

136 points by gregdoesit 2 years ago | 82 comments

The Birth of Standard Error (2013)(www2.dmst.aueb.gr)

135 points by marbu 2 years ago | 45 comments

Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128(gladtech.social)

121 points by rapnie 2 years ago | 113 comments

For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)(kottke.org)

119 points by sublinear 2 years ago | 107 comments

WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app(webcontainers.io)

115 points by tosh 2 years ago | 55 comments

Wireless Amiga Tank Mouse(lyonsden.net)

109 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 38 comments

Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)(publicdomainreview.org)

106 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 15 comments

Firing Myself(backintyme.substack.com)

98 points by banzin 2 years ago | 60 comments

A Philosophy Professor's Final Class (2023)(newyorker.com)

97 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 27 comments

Increasing Google and Alphabet VRP rewards(bughunters.google.com)

97 points by erbbysam 2 years ago | 88 comments

Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit(obsproject.com)

86 points by skrrtww 2 years ago | 25 comments

YouTube lets you request removal of AI content that simulates your face or voice(techcrunch.com)

81 points by gmays 2 years ago | 35 comments

How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)(chelseatroy.com)

80 points by kuahyeow 2 years ago | 67 comments

Does generative AI facilitate investor trading? Evidence from ChatGPT outages(papers.ssrn.com)

79 points by anonu 2 years ago | 66 comments

A Motherfucking Website(motherfuckingwebsite.com)

79 points by tzury 2 years ago | 43 comments

Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf](cdn.shopify.com)

78 points by kickofline 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Threads Creator Paradox(augment.ink)

70 points by hn1986 2 years ago | 42 comments

Java's Megalithic Mountain(archaeology.org)

70 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 14 comments

Analog GPS: Scrolling Wrist and Car-Mounted Maps of the 20s and 30s (2016)(99percentinvisible.org)

66 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 18 comments

The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?(hackaday.com)

65 points by rolph 2 years ago | 16 comments

Authelia and Lldap: Authentication, SSO, User Management... for Home Networks(helgeklein.com)

64 points by 6502nerdface 2 years ago | 14 comments

What the decentralized nature of Anonymous tells us about its power(lithub.com)

64 points by laurex 2 years ago | 32 comments

Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig(github.com)

63 points by montyanderson 2 years ago | 18 comments

CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility(denver7.com)

62 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 48 comments

Mathematical Sculpture(zacharyabel.com)

58 points by lordvaider 2 years ago | 5 comments

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America's pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96(apnews.com)

56 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 6 comments

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do. (2019)(krebsonsecurity.com)

55 points by paulnpace 2 years ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Do dead YC companies sell their brands/IP?

53 points by throwawaycities 2 years ago | 39 comments

Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

49 points by thornjm 2 years ago | 39 comments

Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)(addxorrol.blogspot.com)

49 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 34 comments

Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp(cs.cmu.edu)

47 points by interpunct 2 years ago | 15 comments

Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly(benkuhn.net)

43 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Any way to borrow compute from Apple M1

42 points by 2Gkashmiri 2 years ago | 34 comments

Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)(urbanismspeakeasy.com)

39 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 37 comments

Houston Is on a Path to an All-Out Power Crisis(theatlantic.com)

37 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 38 comments

Temple and theater 3,500 years older than Machu Picchu discovered in Peru(cnn.com)

36 points by begueradj 2 years ago | 2 comments

A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor(popsci.com)

36 points by geox 2 years ago | 31 comments

The Phantoms Haunting History(noemamag.com)

33 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 33 comments

Nokia 6600 vs. Samsung S24 Ultra(cirrus.twiddles.com)

32 points by lioeters 2 years ago | 53 comments

Azure OpenAI down in multiple regions(azure.status.microsoft)

31 points by roshanjrajan 2 years ago | 8 comments

Change Healthcare starts sending data breach notifications after cyberattack(healthcaredive.com)

27 points by shinryudbz 2 years ago | 19 comments

There's not that much wealth in the world(noahpinion.blog)

26 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?

24 points by legendofbrando 2 years ago | 24 comments

Prepare for AI Hackers (2023)(harvardmagazine.com)

23 points by joshagilend 2 years ago | 4 comments