Hacker News on Sunday, 14 July 2024

Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim(github.com)

320 points by michaelsbradley 2 years ago | 96 comments

GitHub repository for Fusion, a hobby operating system written in the Nim programming language.

Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters(arxiv.org)

294 points by belter 2 years ago | 129 comments

How to Know When It's Time to Go(thecodist.com)

270 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 146 comments

Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support(buzzinga.io)

264 points by Wolfmans55 2 years ago | 66 comments

Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch(thasso.xyz)

242 points by D4ckard 2 years ago | 71 comments

Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017)(telesens.co)

233 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 45 comments

The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)(ranum.com)

227 points by lsb 2 years ago | 235 comments

Building and scaling Notion's data lake(notion.so)

222 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 72 comments

No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data(fourthamendment.com)

210 points by DanAtC 2 years ago | 122 comments

After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS(theverge.com)

205 points by Shank 2 years ago | 112 comments

Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)(tabloid.vercel.app)

188 points by ko_pivot 2 years ago | 25 comments

Git-PR: patch requests over SSH(pr.pico.sh)

187 points by steventhedev 2 years ago | 97 comments

Just Be Rich (2021)(keenen.xyz)

168 points by scarmoo 2 years ago | 102 comments

Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study(infoq.com)

150 points by mighty_plant 2 years ago | 150 comments

Firmware update hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint(today.ucsd.edu)

143 points by transpute 2 years ago | 47 comments

The only tourist in Moldova(telegraph.co.uk)

143 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 332 comments

Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka(github.com)

143 points by sauljp 2 years ago | 30 comments

Nvidia Warp: Python framework for high-performance simulation and graphics code(nvidia.github.io)

139 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 21 comments

Building the Bell System(construction-physics.com)

129 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech(listenly.io)

119 points by evan_ry 2 years ago | 73 comments

Soviet Calculator History (1998)(xnumber.com)

118 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 48 comments

Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets(longform.asmartbear.com)

117 points by jger15 2 years ago | 61 comments

Disqualified (1954)(gutenberg.org)

111 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 39 comments

On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991)(larch-www.lcs.mit.edu)

102 points by rramadass 2 years ago | 20 comments

Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013)(dl.acm.org)

93 points by NavinF 2 years ago | 23 comments

Giving Life to Æthelstan(historytoday.com)

85 points by pepys 2 years ago | 6 comments

California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries(thinc.blog)

85 points by ChuckMcM 2 years ago | 59 comments

ULID: Like UUID but Sortable (2019)(github.com)

84 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 46 comments

Z80 CPU Microprocessor Instant Reference Card (1981) [pdf](ballyalley.com)

81 points by hggh 2 years ago | 17 comments

A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth(news.unsw.edu.au)

71 points by jayhoon 2 years ago | 14 comments

A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It in Zambia.(nytimes.com)

70 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 30 comments

Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and how few people it employs(theverge.com)

63 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 48 comments

OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs(reuters.com)

58 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Procedural Art –– 'Pulse'(soham-saha.github.io)

55 points by omegacombinator 2 years ago | 12 comments

Solving Path of Exile Item Crafting with Reinforcement Learning(dennybritz.com)

55 points by dennybritz 2 years ago | 8 comments

A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

54 points by scarmoo 2 years ago | 18 comments

HIV breakthrough: Trial shows drug provides 100% protection(universityworldnews.com)

51 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 10 comments

Go range iterators demystified(dolthub.com)

50 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 40 comments

CURLoRA: Stable LLM Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation(zenodo.org)

49 points by mnoorfawi 2 years ago | 8 comments

Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets

47 points by the4anoni 2 years ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?

47 points by bobbywilson0 2 years ago | 33 comments

New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen(type.cyhsu.xyz)

46 points by firexcy 2 years ago | 7 comments

Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

43 points by classichasclass 2 years ago | 2 comments

Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with –update-refs (2022)(andrewlock.net)

42 points by canpolat 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Experience of Deploying Next.js Apps on Cloudflare(davidgomes.com)

42 points by davidgomes 2 years ago | 15 comments

Grind – An epic first person shooter for Amiga 500 gets another playable tease(indieretronews.com)

41 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors (2006)(damninteresting.com)

41 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 4 comments

Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's Core i9 chips(tomshardware.com)

40 points by Narishma 2 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: Why are PWA user install stats so hard to find?

40 points by chr15m 2 years ago | 39 comments

AT&T Paid a Hacker $370k to Delete Stolen Phone Records(wired.com)

39 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 8 comments

About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022)(apmresearchlab.org)

36 points by newzisforsukas 2 years ago | 39 comments

Wikimedia Gitlab Migration Status(mediawiki.org)

35 points by altilunium 2 years ago | 21 comments

Book Review: The Family That Couldn't Sleep(astralcodexten.com)

31 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 0 comments

Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service

30 points by TemporaryMail 2 years ago | 37 comments

Wikipedia is rolling out dark mode support(mediawiki.org)

29 points by brylie 2 years ago | 33 comments

Compact Fenwick trees for dynamic ranking and selection (2019)(arxiv.org)

28 points by luu 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Most accurate scientific book on Human Sleep?

27 points by gautamsomani 2 years ago | 17 comments

Over 2,400 patients may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis at Oregon hospitals(cbsnews.com)

25 points by geox 2 years ago | 10 comments

QUIC File Transfer Service, a CLI and srv for transferring large files(github.com)

23 points by Hydrocarb0n 2 years ago | 7 comments

Scientists propose glacier geoengineering to avoid sea level rise(science.org)

22 points by Metacelsus 2 years ago | 23 comments