Hacker News on Friday, 26 July 2024

A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow(bloomberg.com)

565 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 532 comments

Bloomberg CityLab article on a Swiss town (Vernier) banning billboards after a Supreme Court ruling, with Zurich and Bern considering similar bans.

The New Internet(tailscale.com)

412 points by ingve 2 years ago | 257 comments

Tailscale blog essay by CEO Avery Pennarun titled "The New Internet," discussing his vision for how internet networking should evolve.

Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks(chipsandcheese.com)

306 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 167 comments

Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

293 points by luu 2 years ago | 103 comments

Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob(github.com)

289 points by aesopsfable 2 years ago | 166 comments

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?(jlongster.com)

251 points by samwillis 2 years ago | 72 comments

Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence(foreignpolicy.com)

239 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 452 comments

TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch(blog.singleton.io)

233 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 53 comments

Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border(reason.com)

226 points by mhb 2 years ago | 85 comments

Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy(lemonsqueezy.com)

200 points by drecoe 2 years ago | 123 comments

Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture(quantamagazine.org)

183 points by jandrewrogers 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems(github.com)

180 points by j0d1 2 years ago | 58 comments

STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)(waynehale.wordpress.com)

174 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 82 comments

Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Acces(krebsonsecurity.com)

171 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 45 comments

Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient(newatlas.com)

170 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 127 comments

A simple procedural animation technique [video](youtube.com)

156 points by Meleagris 2 years ago | 16 comments

Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks(eieio.games)

153 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 41 comments

France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony(lemonde.fr)

149 points by Kuinox 2 years ago | 430 comments

Repulsive Shells [video](youtube.com)

140 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 19 comments

Call the compiler, fax it your code [video](youtube.com)

139 points by ayoreis 2 years ago | 35 comments

Decline of Indian vultures(bbc.com)

139 points by mutexjp 2 years ago | 105 comments

Introduction to Machine Learning Interviews Book(huyenchip.com)

139 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 9 comments

Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration(blog.asleson.org)

133 points by marbu 2 years ago | 149 comments

Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?(blog.poisson.chat)

129 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 59 comments

Driving Compilers(fabiensanglard.net)

101 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 4 comments

Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams(blog.zulip.com)

98 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 36 comments

A hash table by any other name(lwn.net)

95 points by signa11 2 years ago | 23 comments

Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf](publish.uwo.ca)

90 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 39 comments

Vikings in al-Andalus and the Maghreb(alandalusylahistoria.com)

88 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 65 comments

Skip and Arc'teryx built a futuristic exoskeleton(fastcompany.com)

87 points by coderintherye 2 years ago | 32 comments

Funtoo Linux is shutting down(forums.funtoo.org)

87 points by DaSHacka 2 years ago | 41 comments

How to optimize a CUDA matmul kernel for cuBLAS-like performance (2022)(siboehm.com)

86 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 21 comments

French rail network hit by 'malicious acts' ahead of Paris Olympics(aljazeera.com)

80 points by nour_ 2 years ago | 96 comments

Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?(blog.val.town)

80 points by maxmcd 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork(github.com)

80 points by rohansood15 2 years ago | 17 comments

The evolution of Ruby's Range class(zverok.space)

78 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023)(mcognetta.github.io)

77 points by mcyc 2 years ago | 21 comments

Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source(apexsurplus.com)

76 points by jensgk 2 years ago | 25 comments

MIT 11.350: Sustainable Real Estate(ocw.mit.edu)

72 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 99 comments

How Clang compiles a function (2018)(blog.regehr.org)

71 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 3 comments

How Mihoyo's monetization works(moonbearmusings.com)

67 points by future10se 2 years ago | 36 comments

There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent(theverge.com)

67 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 20 comments

Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether(fika.bar)

66 points by masylum 2 years ago | 52 comments

Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing (1996)(blog.wfmu.org)

66 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Word Slicer(wordslicer.com)

64 points by NoArcher888 2 years ago | 55 comments

Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs,microcode won't fix affected units(videocardz.com)

58 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 38 comments

Beyond Clean Code(tobeva.com)

58 points by pbw 2 years ago | 37 comments

Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinished work(aeon.co)

57 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 21 comments

Where should visual programming go?(tonsky.me)

56 points by spiralganglion 2 years ago | 58 comments

Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?

50 points by bckr 2 years ago | 55 comments

Alfredo Moser: Bottle light inventor (2013)(bbc.co.uk)

45 points by UglyToad 2 years ago | 11 comments

C# almost has implicit interfaces(clipperhouse.com)

43 points by mwsherman 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Applesoft BASIC editor with example programs(paleotronic.com)

42 points by empressplay 2 years ago | 6 comments

How to beg/borrow/steal your way to a cross platform Bluetooth LE library (2023)(nonpolynomial.com)

42 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 3 comments

Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say(nytimes.com)

41 points by strict9 2 years ago | 10 comments

DARPA Brings Next-Gen US Microelectronics Manufacturing Closer to Reality(darpa.mil)

40 points by doener 2 years ago | 2 comments

'New El Nino' discovered south of equator(reading.ac.uk)

39 points by geox 2 years ago | 9 comments

Deep Learning Interviews (2021)(arxiv.org)

38 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 7 comments

Genetically synthesized supergain broadband wire-bundle antenna(nature.com)

36 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 8 comments

Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times(vortexa.com)

35 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 30 comments