Hacker News on Saturday, 27 July 2024

An experiment in UI density created with Svelte(cybernetic.dev)

780 points by 11001100 2 years ago | 227 comments

An interactive Svelte-built grid view showing live USD prices for 270 crypto markets via WebSocket, demonstrating high UI data density with adjustable settings.

How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?(doubleagent.net)

408 points by haxrob 2 years ago | 161 comments

A technical investigation into class action lawsuit claims that Facebook used the Onavo Protect app to intercept encrypted traffic from competitors' mobile apps.

In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)(web.stanford.edu)

375 points by conanxin 2 years ago | 229 comments

Plain-text copy of Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay on operating systems, graphical interfaces, and the command line, hosted on a Stanford course site.

SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem(sqlite.org)

374 points by yla92 2 years ago | 127 comments

SQLite documentation page explaining that reading and writing small blobs in SQLite is about 35% faster and uses less disk space than individual files.

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide(sysprog21.github.io)

350 points by wrycoder 2 years ago | 35 comments

Online edition of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide, a free book on writing Linux kernel modules, with GitHub and PDF links.

Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool(github.com)

322 points by arunsupe 2 years ago | 49 comments

GitHub repository for semantic-grep, a command-line tool that uses Word2Vec embeddings to grep for words with meanings similar to the query.

Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less(github.com)

292 points by aray07 2 years ago | 156 comments

Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts(bret.dk)

257 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 230 comments

Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)(theconversation.com)

252 points by marvinborner 2 years ago | 170 comments

Learning about PCI-e: Driver and DMA(blog.davidv.dev)

207 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 23 comments

Tritone Substitutions(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

199 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 123 comments

Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry(boogiemath.org)

178 points by boogiemath 2 years ago | 71 comments

Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb(github.com)

171 points by windozedev 2 years ago | 37 comments

Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide(ntk148v.github.io)

165 points by bratao 2 years ago | 13 comments

Roguecraft Devs on Developing for Amiga in 2024(timeextension.com)

150 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 24 comments

Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland(apnews.com)

142 points by heavyset_go 2 years ago | 106 comments

Managarm: Pragmatic microkernel-based OS with asynchronous I/O(github.com)

136 points by ksp-atlas 2 years ago | 53 comments

Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system(posixcafe.org)

133 points by moody__ 2 years ago | 54 comments

Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)(cdm.link)

131 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 41 comments

Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers(cs.cornell.edu)

124 points by signa11 2 years ago | 19 comments

Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedback Device [video](youtube.com)

108 points by thelightherder 2 years ago | 20 comments

Sqlitefs: SQLite as a Filesystem(github.com)

106 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 27 comments

Taking a Radio Camping(ewpratten.com)

93 points by ewpratten 2 years ago | 24 comments

An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut (1999)(robertcaro.org)

88 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Scale of Life(thescaleoflife.com)

82 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 29 comments

Tell HN: I am going to host "Real Analysis" book club meetings

82 points by susam 2 years ago | 39 comments

Lessons from Ancient File Systems(madcompiler.blogspot.com)

80 points by zdw 2 years ago | 24 comments

People Behind “The Print Shop” (1985)(theprintshop.club)

79 points by empressplay 2 years ago | 43 comments

The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations(cepr.org)

72 points by cen4 2 years ago | 90 comments

IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers(apnews.com)

72 points by gmays 2 years ago | 52 comments

Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to 'heroin'(theverge.com)

68 points by indus 2 years ago | 36 comments

Bashsimplecurses: Simple curses library made in bash to draw terminal interfaces(github.com)

64 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 21 comments

How large language models will disrupt data management [pdf](vldb.org)

63 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Burrow is a globally distributed, serverless HTTP proxy(github.com)

62 points by myzie 2 years ago | 10 comments

Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang (2020)(interrupt.memfault.com)

54 points by signa11 2 years ago | 4 comments

Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018)(folger.edu)

51 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 73 comments

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer(wired.com)

50 points by jdnier 2 years ago | 17 comments

Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble(washingtonpost.com)

48 points by jameslk 2 years ago | 41 comments

Oh man! Our entire team has been replaced by Vietnam developers.(old.reddit.com)

47 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 14 comments

Texas woman gets 15 years for stealing $109M from Army to buy mansions, cars(usatoday.com)

45 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 37 comments

Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens(medium.com)

44 points by ramimac 2 years ago | 7 comments

Workbrew(workbrew.com)

43 points by cglong 2 years ago | 15 comments

Google reported a 13% increase in its emissions footprint in 2023(indianexpress.com)

39 points by methuselah_in 2 years ago | 17 comments

Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

39 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 15 comments

Why people on Hacker News comment without reading(markepear.com)

38 points by kuba_dmp 2 years ago | 3 comments

Covering All Birthdays(liorsinai.github.io)

36 points by the_origami_fox 2 years ago | 20 comments

UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift(greshm.org)

34 points by Suncho 2 years ago | 33 comments

Weight-loss drugs are causing people to spend less at the grocery store: study(nypost.com)

33 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 37 comments

Objective-C is like Jimi Hendrix (2014)(frabjousdei.net)

30 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 25 comments

Orcas sink $128K yacht in Mediterranean attack: 'Like watching wolves hunt'(nypost.com)

29 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 38 comments

Smartphone-maker Xiaomi unveils SU7 Ultra, a 1548hp, 4-door electric hypercar(electrek.co)

29 points by _____k 2 years ago | 12 comments

U.S. shelves $300M 'real-world' data platform for Alzheimer's(science.org)

20 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 6 comments

America's 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril(msn.com)

19 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 5 comments

Introduction to Linear Algebra(freetext.org)

19 points by tempodox 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: What's an appropriate compensation counter offer in London 2024?

18 points by ManchesterDev 2 years ago | 37 comments

Hosting the Olympics has become financially untenable, economists say(cnn.com)

16 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 24 comments

Sig Sauer guns hanging on soldiers' hips may be firing without trigger pull(text.npr.org)

16 points by rntn 2 years ago | 13 comments

Guish: Write shell pipelines at the command line with a GUI editor(github.com)

16 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 2 comments

Contra Zuckerberg on 'Open Source AI'(far.in.net)

14 points by matomatical 2 years ago | 2 comments

Canadian women's soccer team loses six points, coach banned over drone scandal(reuters.com)

13 points by tagyro 2 years ago | 16 comments