Hacker News on Sunday, 4 August 2024

Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason(phoboslab.org)

488 points by zichy 2 years ago | 123 comments

Dominic Szablewski's blog post about porting his JavaScript game engine Impact to C as high_impact, a small engine for 2D action games.

Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming(shi-yan.github.io)

425 points by billconan 2 years ago | 67 comments

WebGPU Unleashed, a free online e-book by Shi Yan teaching graphics programming with WebGPU, with an interactive code playground.

Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor(gist.github.com)

377 points by adtac 2 years ago | 126 comments

A post by Adhityaa describing jailbreaking a Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor after breaking a laptop screen, with a photo of a terminal on the Kindle.

WhenFS: Calender Is Now a File System(github.com)

327 points by 3ul3r 2 years ago | 71 comments

GitHub repository for WhenFS, a Rust FUSE filesystem that stores files in your Google Calendar.

Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'(colorado.edu)

272 points by caf 2 years ago | 86 comments

Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library(github.com)

251 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 100 comments

Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers(viewfromthewing.com)

248 points by jshprentz 2 years ago | 384 comments

Self-Compressing Neural Networks(arxiv.org)

219 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 50 comments

Making your own hot sauce(successfulsoftware.net)

208 points by hermitcrab 2 years ago | 176 comments

Praise My GitHub Profile(praise-me.fly.dev)

190 points by xena 2 years ago | 64 comments

Jerk(ivanish.ca)

177 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 26 comments

Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood(croatiaweek.com)

173 points by gascoigne 2 years ago | 195 comments

Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity(chipsandcheese.com)

172 points by ingve 2 years ago | 44 comments

Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues(pugetsystems.com)

170 points by layer8 2 years ago | 79 comments

Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping(github.com)

168 points by anewhnaccount3 2 years ago | 27 comments

Belenios: Verifiable online voting system(belenios.org)

164 points by leonry 2 years ago | 254 comments

The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology(politico.com)

139 points by robg 2 years ago | 63 comments

Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work(github.com)

137 points by ILyesMk2 2 years ago | 50 comments

USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040(github.com)

135 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 41 comments

A primer on the current state of longevity research(owlposting.com)

134 points by abhishaike 2 years ago | 93 comments

Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans(github.com)

128 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 66 comments

Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor(gist.github.com)

127 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 30 comments

Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket(docs.racket-lang.org)

118 points by networked 2 years ago | 79 comments

Dispatches from the farm upstate(lcamtuf.substack.com)

114 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 40 comments

Qub – a framework for building websites with QBasic(github.com)

101 points by bcjordan 2 years ago | 33 comments

Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)(blog.philosophicalsociety.org)

100 points by squircle 2 years ago | 46 comments

Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23(cppstories.com)

97 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 82 comments

Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years(techspot.com)

96 points by zdw 2 years ago | 89 comments

Writing a system call tracer using eBPF(sh4dy.com)

93 points by tim_sw 2 years ago | 2 comments

You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code(rabbitictranslator.com)

86 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 15 comments

ICPP – Run C++ anywhere like a script(github.com)

73 points by davikr 2 years ago | 46 comments

The Introverts Are Winning(newhumanist.org.uk)

69 points by johntfella 2 years ago | 42 comments

DIY Raspberry Pi 1000 turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PC-in-a-keyboard(liliputing.com)

62 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 11 comments

Romram: Using QSPI RAM with RP2040's SSI in read-write mode(dmitry.gr)

60 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 17 comments

Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time(fortune.com)

54 points by t-writescode 2 years ago | 38 comments

HamClock – a real time space weather dashboard(clearskyinstitute.com)

53 points by ricktdotorg 2 years ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Candix, a confidential, reverse recruiting platform(candix.com)

53 points by tavoyne 2 years ago | 39 comments

1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens(historytoday.com)

52 points by pepys 2 years ago | 49 comments

World of Goo 2: now available(worldofgoo2.com)

51 points by theolivenbaum 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Path to StyleGan2 – Implementing the Progressive Growing GAN(ym2132.github.io)

50 points by Two_hands 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Internet Is Broken: Idealistic Ideas for Building a GNU Network [pdf] (2014)(w3.org)

48 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 6 comments

Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'(reuters.com)

47 points by alentred 2 years ago | 49 comments

Nvidia's Blackwell Reworked – Shipment Delays and GB200A Reworked Platforms(semianalysis.com)

46 points by charleshn 2 years ago | 2 comments

Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides – and farm workers – obsolete?(latimes.com)

42 points by jshprentz 2 years ago | 47 comments

Chinese archaeologists are striking out along the Silk Road(wsj.com)

41 points by oboes 2 years ago | 69 comments

What Is Analog Computing?(quantamagazine.org)

41 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 33 comments

Improving _Generic in C2y(thephd.dev)

41 points by luu 2 years ago | 17 comments

Big Tech groups say their $100B AI spending spree is just beginning(ft.com)

40 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Spartan Protocol Homepage(portal.mozz.us)

40 points by networked 2 years ago | 17 comments

SNES Coprocessors: DSP-1 and Friends(jsgroth.dev)

39 points by RicoElectrico 2 years ago | 7 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Stock Market Analyst with Global Coverage(decodeinvesting.com)

37 points by clark-kent 2 years ago | 20 comments

"Grip Car"(teenage.engineering)

36 points by lvkv 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples(kittycal.net)

35 points by martin_dd 2 years ago | 18 comments

Australia must treat housing as a human right: Former State Supreme Court judge(abc.net.au)

34 points by defrost 2 years ago | 37 comments

You Can't Spell WebRTC Without RCE – Part 1(margin.re)

31 points by ementally 2 years ago | 7 comments

Baron who revived Olympics believed they were a religion of perfection and peace(theconversation.com)

31 points by rntn 2 years ago | 40 comments

Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage(schengen.news)

30 points by vasco 2 years ago | 74 comments

Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?(handmade.network)

29 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 33 comments

Photino: A lighter Electron(tryphotino.io)

28 points by AbuAssar 2 years ago | 39 comments

Myspace celebrates its 21st birthday. Do we still need it?(triblive.com)

28 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 38 comments