Hacker News on Sunday, 21 July 2024

Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate(twitter.com)

766 points by jsheard 2 years ago | 1137 comments

Joe Biden's X post saying he will not accept the Democratic nomination and endorsing Kamala Harris as the party's 2024 nominee.

So you think you know box shadows?(dgerrells.com)

717 points by yohannesk 2 years ago | 101 comments

A blog post about pushing CSS box shadows to extremes, including rendering large numbers of them and using them for ray-traced-style 3D graphics.

What is the significance of the character "j" at the end of a Roman Numeral? (2013)(genealogy.stackexchange.com)

456 points by kamaraju 2 years ago | 178 comments

A Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange question asking why a trailing "j" appears in Roman numerals in 16th–17th century parish register dates.

Pin(without.boats)

436 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 96 comments

Blog post by withoutboats explaining Rust's Pin type, what pinning achieves, how it came to be, and the current problems with it.

rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++(rr-project.org)

375 points by levzettelin 2 years ago | 123 comments

Homepage of rr, a Linux record-and-replay debugger for C/C++ that enhances gdb with deterministic replay and efficient reverse execution.

X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled(x.com)

231 points by anticensor 2 years ago | 175 comments

Glisp: Graphical Lisp(glisp.app)

226 points by lioeters 2 years ago | 15 comments

Txtai: Open-source vector search and RAG for minimalists(neuml.github.io)

220 points by dmezzetti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing(tomshardware.com)

211 points by markus_zhang 2 years ago | 122 comments

User returns after 100k-hours ban to continue conversation that got them banned(pcgamer.com)

209 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 94 comments

When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind(ea.rna.nl)

176 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 97 comments

James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died(nitter.poast.org)

168 points by FreakLegion 2 years ago | 29 comments

"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack"(twitter.com)

144 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 69 comments

Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

142 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 86 comments

Show HN: Moocable – find people studying the same online course/book(moocable.com)

141 points by junaid_97 2 years ago | 36 comments

PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client(github.com)

139 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 53 comments

An interactive guide to x86-64 assembly – moving data(halb.it)

133 points by halb 2 years ago | 6 comments

A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)(notes.technologists.com)

126 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 17 comments

Why Discover is no American Express(popularfintech.com)

126 points by kazanins 2 years ago | 219 comments

Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4(blog.stremio.com)

125 points by commoner 2 years ago | 64 comments

Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis(codisec.com)

121 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 17 comments

Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD(endeavorrx.com)

120 points by wdh505 2 years ago | 201 comments

Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade(text.npr.org)

114 points by rntn 2 years ago | 116 comments

Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench(zettlr.com)

107 points by hgyjnbdet 2 years ago | 19 comments

The data that powers AI is disappearing fast(nytimes.com)

96 points by sgammon 2 years ago | 146 comments

Show HN: A fake SMTP server for software integration testing(fakemail.stream)

94 points by aeaa3 2 years ago | 41 comments

Prometheus metrics saves us from painful kernel debugging (2022)(utcc.utoronto.ca)

89 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 15 comments

Mojeek – The alternative search engine that puts the people who use it first(mojeek.com)

86 points by red369 2 years ago | 48 comments

When eyesight fades and climbing provides comfort(lacrux.com)

86 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 17 comments

AI method rapidly speeds predictions of materials' thermal properties(news.mit.edu)

73 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 49 comments

French Acrobatic Artist’s Low-Gravity Invention(core77.com)

73 points by halfdaft 2 years ago | 15 comments

G1 AR Glasses(evenrealities.com)

69 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 68 comments

New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

65 points by thejournalizer 2 years ago | 42 comments

"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)(righto.com)

62 points by behnamoh 2 years ago | 13 comments

Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell?

62 points by hackerthemonkey 2 years ago | 47 comments

Friendship and Social Fitness(robkhenderson.com)

60 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 13 comments

How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race(space.com)

58 points by belter 2 years ago | 21 comments

Man of the Hole(en.wikipedia.org)

56 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 9 comments

Syscall.sh(syscall.sh)

52 points by notepad0x90 2 years ago | 9 comments

Tell HN: Educative.io auto-renews without warning, refuses to provide refunds

50 points by blowski 2 years ago | 7 comments

Carving ELF Files(blog.nietaanraken.nl)

49 points by joren485 2 years ago | 8 comments

American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Open Textbooks(textbooks.aimath.org)

49 points by __rito__ 2 years ago | 8 comments

Satellite Drag Analysis During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm(arxiv.org)

48 points by croes 2 years ago | 7 comments

Why I left Google(fogknife.com)

46 points by doodpants 2 years ago | 29 comments

FastDoom – Performance Gains on Slow 386 and 486 CPUs(youtube.com)

45 points by bane 2 years ago | 9 comments

Constantine: Nim lang high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack(github.com)

41 points by fork-bomber 2 years ago | 10 comments

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"(yieldcode.blog)

38 points by skwee357 2 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Ristretto, an OSS sandboxed code playground/notebook written in itself(ristretto.codeberg.page)

36 points by benatkin 2 years ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I made helpers for Web Components(github.com)

36 points by mfcc64 2 years ago | 8 comments

Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon [2022](modzero.com)

35 points by firebaze 2 years ago | 0 comments

Why You Should Not Use Tcl (1994)(groups.google.com)

33 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 36 comments

Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows(neowin.net)

31 points by mywacaday 2 years ago | 32 comments

Artificial consciousness: a perspective from the free energy principle(link.springer.com)

30 points by sabrina_ramonov 2 years ago | 16 comments

Atlassian research highlights major disconnect between developers and leaders(atlassian.com)

29 points by layer8 2 years ago | 6 comments

DeepL's LLM Outperforms Google Translate, ChatGPT-4, and Microsoft(deepl.com)

28 points by geox 2 years ago | 13 comments

Linux Hardening Checklist(github.com)

28 points by petecooper 2 years ago | 13 comments

Club Mate: The Lost History of Germany's Trendiest Soda [video](youtube.com)

27 points by motge 2 years ago | 17 comments

China is on track to reach its 2030 clean energy targets already(electrek.co)

26 points by Arnt 2 years ago | 4 comments

The MTA's Oldest Controls Kept Going During the Tech Outage(curbed.com)

23 points by howard941 2 years ago | 5 comments

Windows 3.1 saves Southwest Airlines during CrowdStrike outage(tomshardware.com)

23 points by smsm42 2 years ago | 12 comments