Hacker News on Wednesday, 17 July 2024

Panic at the Job Market(matt.sh)

1573 points by speckx 2 years ago | 1374 comments

A long personal essay by Matt Stancliff on the state of the tech job market, covering job openings vs. interest rates, company structures, and getting hired.

Jailbreaking RabbitOS(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

1058 points by Retr0id 2 years ago | 256 comments

Blog post by David Buchanan on jailbreaking the Rabbit R1 AI gadget and its RabbitOS; the screenshot instead shows a WIRED review of the Rabbit R1.

TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel(thetinypod.com)

868 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 307 comments

Product landing page for tinyPod, a case that turns an Apple Watch into an iPod-like device with a scroll wheel.

NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules(developer.nvidia.com)

826 points by shaicoleman 2 years ago | 234 comments

NVIDIA Technical Blog post announcing the company's full transition to open-source GPU kernel modules for its Linux drivers.

Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

601 points by pentagrama 2 years ago | 121 comments

Google Workspace Updates blog post announcing the ability to import and export Markdown files in Google Docs, published July 16, 2024.

Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)(brycemecum.com)

359 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 81 comments

A TIL blog post showing how Mermaid Gantt diagrams can display distributed trace data, like Jaeger UI views, directly in Markdown documentation.

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements(science.anu.edu.au)

339 points by zsrobinson 2 years ago | 78 comments

An ANU College of Science news article exploring the unexpectedly poetic and personal nature of acknowledgements sections in PhD theses.

SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat(wiz.io)

234 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)(pldb.io)

233 points by breck 2 years ago | 119 comments

The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time(justinmath.com)

233 points by harperlee 2 years ago | 159 comments

Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain(nature.com)

215 points by kieckerjan 2 years ago | 187 comments

Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)(dalpix.com)

192 points by jnord 2 years ago | 100 comments

A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows(github.com)

185 points by dmitrygr 2 years ago | 51 comments

SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

174 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 69 comments

Little Languages (1986) [pdf](staff.um.edu.mt)

166 points by ashish01 2 years ago | 23 comments

Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines(hh409.user.srcf.net)

150 points by hugohadfield 2 years ago | 54 comments

Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)(github.com)

147 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: Product Hunt for Music(tracklist.it)

140 points by ewhicher 2 years ago | 53 comments

Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies(theverge.com)

133 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 79 comments

The Kimchi Masters of South Korea(nytimes.com)

127 points by petethomas 2 years ago | 58 comments

Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs(openai.com)

122 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool(github.com)

119 points by seddonm1 2 years ago | 18 comments

What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?(langdev.stackexchange.com)

111 points by azeemba 2 years ago | 26 comments

Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked(nature.com)

110 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 99 comments

Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager(developers.google.com)

108 points by iamacyborg 2 years ago | 46 comments

Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic Bézier curves(ninjakoa.la)

104 points by NinjaKoala 2 years ago | 40 comments

Overcoming the limits of current LLMs(seanpedersen.github.io)

103 points by sean_pedersen 2 years ago | 96 comments

Gitlab Explores Sale(reuters.com)

99 points by gostsamo 2 years ago | 61 comments

Show HN: VisCircuit – A Note-Taking Website for Electronics and Circuits(viscircuit.com)

95 points by darrenyaoyaoyao 2 years ago | 20 comments

Launch HN: Traceloop (YC W23) – Detecting LLM Hallucinations with OpenTelemetry

94 points by GalKlm 2 years ago | 69 comments

Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers(bloomberg.com)

85 points by danso 2 years ago | 60 comments

Introduction to Bash Scripting(github.com)

82 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 66 comments

CSS Classes Considered Harmful(keithcirkel.co.uk)

75 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost(lokal.so)

75 points by rubi1945 2 years ago | 40 comments

Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users(netsplit.de)

74 points by susam 2 years ago | 59 comments

Eight Years of GraphQL(magiroux.com)

74 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 58 comments

Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image(paulbourke.net)

68 points by gbarletta 2 years ago | 15 comments

Lessons from a Private Equity Earn Out: How I Lost £550K Due to a Lowercase 'C'(entrepreneur.com)

68 points by seasicksteve 2 years ago | 33 comments

Researchers build a solar-powered hovering drone that weighs only 9 mg(arstechnica.com)

65 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 32 comments

Bhutan's first AI startup is seven college kids in a dorm(restofworld.org)

64 points by NDAjam 2 years ago | 11 comments

New technology could reduce the amount of energy for air conditioning(wired.com)

64 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 56 comments

Why is Sweden paying grandparents to babysit?(bloomberg.com)

63 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 83 comments

What can TypeScript learn from Zig? What can Zig learn from TypeScript?(effectivetypescript.com)

61 points by danvk 2 years ago | 12 comments

Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks(gartner.com)

60 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 56 comments

All Golioth Hardware Is Now Open Source(blog.golioth.io)

59 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 6 comments

A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste(spectrum.ieee.org)

57 points by DamnInteresting 2 years ago | 85 comments

Axiomatic by Greg Egan(en.wikipedia.org)

55 points by warkanlock 2 years ago | 19 comments

"Security is our top priority" is meaningless(blog.waleson.com)

55 points by jtwaleson 2 years ago | 41 comments

Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know(computerweekly.com)

53 points by chrisjj 2 years ago | 25 comments

Mini PCs Database(minipcs.org)

45 points by crosschainer 2 years ago | 31 comments

Syd the perhaps most sophisticated sandbox for Linux(rentry.co)

44 points by hayali 2 years ago | 14 comments

Pinned Tweet Ordered by UK Court – Craig Wright Not Satoshi Nakamoto(twitter.com)

44 points by esquivalience 2 years ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes

43 points by ryanisnan 2 years ago | 28 comments

Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists(lookout.co)

37 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 18 comments

China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week(abc.net.au)

37 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 10 comments

Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business(bloomberg.com)

37 points by rurp 2 years ago | 13 comments

Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide(ente.io)

34 points by setalp 2 years ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions(pippy.dev)

32 points by awenix 2 years ago | 16 comments

We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to Do It for Free(news.alvaroduran.com)

32 points by ohduran 2 years ago | 34 comments

I lost my love for the web (2022)(ambitiousfounder.com)

31 points by begueradj 2 years ago | 35 comments