Hacker News on Saturday, 3 August 2024

"We ran out of columns"(jimmyhmiller.github.io)

1417 points by poidos 2 years ago | 504 comments

Jimmy Miller's blog post recounting stories from his first job's legacy codebase, including a merchants table that ran out of columns and spawned merchants2.

Open Source Farming Robot(farm.bot)

622 points by pedrodelfino 2 years ago | 315 comments

Homepage of FarmBot, an open-source CNC farming robot sold as kits (Genesis and Genesis XL) for automated home food growing.

How to build quickly(learnhowtolearn.org)

517 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 113 comments

Blog post on Learn How To Learn describing a method for building projects extremely quickly, such as outlining first and filling in details later.

p5.js(p5js.org)

423 points by alabhyajindal 2 years ago | 63 comments

Homepage of p5.js, a free and open-source JavaScript library for learning to code and making art, with reference, tutorials, and examples.

How I Use "AI"(nicholas.carlini.com)

331 points by npalli 2 years ago | 148 comments

Nicholas Carlini's personal essay describing how he uses large language models in his research and programming work, arguing they are not over-hyped.

Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle(righto.com)

307 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 90 comments

Make your electronics tamper-evident(anarsec.guide)

237 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 134 comments

Clang vs. Clang(blog.cr.yp.to)

224 points by dchest 2 years ago | 320 comments

Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age(furnacecreek.org)

223 points by albertru90 2 years ago | 88 comments

Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review(9to5mac.com)

215 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 188 comments

I Made an Extended Version of Vimtutor – Introducing Vimtutor Sequel(github.com)

193 points by micahkepe 2 years ago | 30 comments

Primitive Recursive Functions for a Working Programmer(matklad.github.io)

168 points by ingve 2 years ago | 54 comments

Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood(news.ubc.ca)

165 points by throwaway2562 2 years ago | 62 comments

Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form(johndcook.com)

151 points by beefman 2 years ago | 32 comments

Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit(theregister.com)

136 points by seanhunter 2 years ago | 100 comments

To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands(niemanlab.org)

136 points by bcta1 2 years ago | 71 comments

An FPGA built with 7400 series logic [video](media.ccc.de)

133 points by chrsw 2 years ago | 16 comments

Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw(theverge.com)

130 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 81 comments

Researchers develop treatment that can kill glioblastoma cells in brain pathway(medicalxpress.com)

127 points by wglb 2 years ago | 17 comments

Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”(github.com)

123 points by Zirias 2 years ago | 82 comments

Can reading make you happier? (2015)(newyorker.com)

122 points by kawera 2 years ago | 92 comments

TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips(cloud.google.com)

116 points by mariuz 2 years ago | 44 comments

Sega Jet Rocket: The '70s arcade game with no computer or screen(newatlas.com)

115 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Monetagium – monetary extortion in feudal Europe(jpkoning.blogspot.com)

112 points by jpkoning 2 years ago | 58 comments

Game Informer shutting down after 33 years(theverge.com)

112 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 47 comments

Go Donut: Convert Live Streaming to WebRTC(github.com)

108 points by dreampeppers99 2 years ago | 17 comments

LLM as Database Administrator (2023)(arxiv.org)

99 points by geuds 2 years ago | 15 comments

R5N - Obfuscated mesh routing on hostile networks.(lsd.gnunet.org)

97 points by tinydev 2 years ago | 9 comments

IBM Audible Random Timer(oldbytes.space)

93 points by luu 2 years ago | 34 comments

Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter(relistan.com)

86 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 32 comments

A* search: optimized implementation in Lisp(gitlab.com)

82 points by nemoniac 2 years ago | 17 comments

Non-computability of solutions of certain equations on digital computers (2022)(arxiv.org)

76 points by lisper 2 years ago | 85 comments

Probability Estimates of a 21st Century AMOC Collapse(arxiv.org)

75 points by rntn 2 years ago | 36 comments

Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020)(righto.com)

70 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 11 comments

Revisiting Linux CPU Scheduling(uninformativ.de)

68 points by zdw 2 years ago | 0 comments

Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives(anandtech.com)

68 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 43 comments

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 13: the end(downtowndougbrown.com)

64 points by zdw 2 years ago | 3 comments

Back dating Git commits based on file modification dates(til.simonwillison.net)

60 points by nailer 2 years ago | 26 comments

Linear Algebra Done Wrong (2004)(math.brown.edu)

60 points by sebg 2 years ago | 37 comments

The U.S. Wanted to Knock Down Huawei. It's Only Getting Stronger(wsj.com)

59 points by leto_ii 2 years ago | 40 comments

Git: The Stupid Password Store(tylercipriani.com)

57 points by thcipriani 2 years ago | 36 comments

AiOla open-sources ultra-fast ‘multi-head’ speech recognition model(aiola.com)

56 points by cheptsov 2 years ago | 11 comments

How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)(pcgamer.com)

55 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 59 comments

Show HN: Plain Vanilla – a tutorial website for vanilla web development(plainvanillaweb.com)

51 points by Joeri 2 years ago | 6 comments

China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia?(jpkoning.blogspot.com)

50 points by mrcgnc 2 years ago | 27 comments

How to Escape from the Simulation [pdf](files.theseedsofscience.org)

50 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 43 comments

Taiwan is behind schedule in preparations to fend off Chinese invasion(washingtonpost.com)

47 points by howard941 2 years ago | 35 comments

Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of LLM outputs(arxiv.org)

42 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 3 comments

Tzero: Social Timeboxing for IRC Channels(github.com)

42 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 4 comments

The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think(noemamag.com)

36 points by max_ 2 years ago | 31 comments

Delivery worker minimum wage is bringing order to a wild industry(nyc.streetsblog.org)

36 points by geox 2 years ago | 35 comments

Wheel of Lunch: Killed by Yelp after 15 years(wheelof.com)

36 points by fragmede 2 years ago | 14 comments

Hacked Tesla FSD computers disclose alarming raw data on deadly accidents(notebookcheck.net)

35 points by bulla 2 years ago | 32 comments

Harmonic Function Theory(axler.net)

34 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 12 comments

Setting expectations for open source participation (2018)(snarky.ca)

34 points by zbentley 2 years ago | 10 comments

Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024(simonwillison.net)

32 points by rednafi 2 years ago | 1 comments

Show HN: webhooked.email (2023)

32 points by hardwaresofton 2 years ago | 14 comments

The First Law of Complexodynamics (2011)(scottaaronson.blog)

31 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 6 comments

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course(theregister.com)

30 points by jdblair 2 years ago | 39 comments

What is going wrong for Intel?(economist.com)

28 points by tosh 2 years ago | 28 comments