Hacker News on Monday, 22 July 2024

Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii(bitbuilt.net)

703 points by realslimjd 2 years ago | 212 comments

A BitBuilt forum worklog thread documenting "Kawaii," a tiny keychain-sized Nintendo Wii console build.

Copying is the way design works(matthewstrom.com)

658 points by innerzeal 2 years ago | 218 comments

Matthew Ström's short CC-BY-SA licensed online book arguing that copying is fundamental to how design works.

Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously(forum.jellyfin.org)

477 points by bo0tzz 2 years ago | 222 comments

Jellyfin project leader's forum announcement asking the community to stop donating, citing $24,000 in the bank and over three years of runway.

No More Blue Fridays(brendangregg.com)

457 points by moreati 2 years ago | 254 comments

Brendan Gregg blog post arguing that eBPF-based security agents would prevent kernel crashes like the July 2024 CrowdStrike Windows outage.

Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice(ucsf.edu)

419 points by gmays 2 years ago | 175 comments

UCSF news article on scientists discovering a new hormone that builds strong bones in mice.

Jiff: Datetime library for Rust(github.com)

408 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 186 comments

GitHub repository for Jiff, a date-time library for Rust by BurntSushi designed to make correct datetime handling easy.

Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux(github.com)

325 points by gballan 2 years ago | 154 comments

GitHub repository for Timeshift, a Linux system restore tool that creates filesystem snapshots using rsync with hardlinks or BTRFS snapshots.

July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs(community.intel.com)

300 points by acrispino 2 years ago | 180 comments

What Is Entropy?(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

298 points by ainoobler 2 years ago | 169 comments

Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator(netflixtechblog.com)

281 points by vquemener 2 years ago | 140 comments

Parse, Don't Validate (2019)(lexi-lambda.github.io)

271 points by revskill 2 years ago | 85 comments

Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform(github.com)

269 points by mavsman 2 years ago | 69 comments

United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency(fas.org)

266 points by philipkglass 2 years ago | 271 comments

The Elegance of the ASCII Table(danq.me)

248 points by thewub 2 years ago | 139 comments

Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG(d-star.ai)

247 points by zmccormick7 2 years ago | 86 comments

Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls(github.com)

246 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 195 comments

Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling(rte.ie)

231 points by rodhan 2 years ago | 222 comments

Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building(billabear.com)

227 points by that_guy_iain 2 years ago | 116 comments

NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)(standardsmanual.com)

224 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 62 comments

Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available(openresearchlab.org)

213 points by dbroockman 2 years ago | 534 comments

A Gentle Introduction to SAML(ssoready.com)

209 points by ned_at_codomain 2 years ago | 79 comments

Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others(ubicloud.com)

167 points by pwmtr 2 years ago | 49 comments

No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)(robkhenderson.com)

163 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 269 comments

How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?(smbc-comics.com)

160 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 71 comments

Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 [pdf](jim.rees.org)

160 points by stare_spb 2 years ago | 127 comments

The workers have spoken: They're staying home(computerworld.com)

156 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 131 comments

Rrweb – record and replay debugger for the web(rrweb.io)

151 points by notpushkin 2 years ago | 25 comments

Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction(nature.com)

151 points by danielskogly 2 years ago | 136 comments

Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery(theguardian.com)

148 points by defrost 2 years ago | 69 comments

Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean(bbc.co.uk)

148 points by cmsefton 2 years ago | 44 comments

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes(theregister.com)

142 points by kenjackson 2 years ago | 118 comments

How to Become a Registrar(icann.org)

141 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 53 comments

Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator(github.com)

131 points by kaypee901 2 years ago | 27 comments

When British Railways deliberately crashed a train(therailwayhub.co.uk)

125 points by timthorn 2 years ago | 61 comments

The Linux audio stack demystified(blog.rtrace.io)

122 points by ruffyx64 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems(wired.com)

119 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 17 comments

Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)(grumpygamer.com)

119 points by lifeisstillgood 2 years ago | 142 comments

How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?(bigthink.com)

117 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 185 comments

Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?

116 points by elevation 2 years ago | 85 comments

Real-Time Procedural Generation with GPU Work Graphs [pdf](gpuopen.com)

106 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 17 comments

Clojure macros continue to surprise me(tonsky.me)

97 points by jgrodziski 2 years ago | 20 comments

Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today(thenewstack.io)

97 points by jaboutboul 2 years ago | 72 comments

Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL (1993)(bell-labs.com)

94 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 23 comments

Bash-Oneliners: A collection of terminal tricks for Linux(github.com)

93 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 34 comments

Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind(thehobbyist.substack.com)

89 points by jjxw 2 years ago | 71 comments

Cosmopolitan v3.5.8(github.com)

87 points by sgammon 2 years ago | 13 comments

PostmarketOS updates: new homepage, pmbootstrap v3, sensors, libcamera(postmarketos.org)

87 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 12 comments

A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)(newyorker.com)

86 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database(github.com)

84 points by wizenheimer 2 years ago | 28 comments

Glasgow 2024 Hugo Awards Statement – 22 July, 2024(glasgow2024.org)

83 points by choult 2 years ago | 68 comments

Data Fetching for Single-Page Apps(martinfowler.com)

81 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 36 comments

Another intermediate-mass black hole discovered at the centre of our galaxy(portal.uni-koeln.de)

80 points by croes 2 years ago | 12 comments

A Formulation of the Trilemma in Proof of Work Blockchain(ieeexplore.ieee.org)

76 points by bikenaga 2 years ago | 42 comments

Brr Wants a Job(brr.fyi)

74 points by jader201 2 years ago | 10 comments

How to Preserve Physical Photos(ente.io)

73 points by goodburb 2 years ago | 31 comments

Demystifying Cookies and Tokens(tommihovi.com)

65 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 13 comments

Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue(arstechnica.com)

64 points by nobody9999 2 years ago | 39 comments

The love letter generator created by Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey(bigthink.com)

62 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 6 comments

Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage(macrumors.com)

62 points by layer8 2 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: Is there a list of grey-hair-friendly IT companies?

61 points by rndaom 2 years ago | 34 comments