Hacker News on Monday, 5 August 2024

Starting Hospice(jakeseliger.com)

1108 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 140 comments

Jake Seliger's blog post announcing he is entering hospice after his squamous cell carcinoma progressed and efforts to find another clinical trial failed.

Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones(bloomberg.com)

834 points by rvz 2 years ago | 610 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that a judge ruled Google's search default deals with Apple and others on phones violated antitrust law in the DOJ case.

Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane

678 points by n_ermosh 2 years ago | 541 comments

Launch HN post from Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) describing their fly-by-wire personal airplane with simplified controls aimed at non-pilots.

Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

526 points by 45HCPW 2 years ago | 530 comments

Ask HN post from a logistics company executive asking whether to replace an unresponsive third-party software vendor by building software in-house.

How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner(drew.silcock.dev)

488 points by drewsberry 2 years ago | 79 comments

A long blog post explaining how PostgreSQL physically stores table data on disk, exploring database folders, files, and page layout.

Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found(dfarq.homeip.net)

487 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 185 comments

Blog post on The Silicon Underground reporting that Andy Warhol's lost Amiga artwork has been rediscovered after 39 years and is being offered for sale.

Stop Killing Games(eci.ec.europa.eu)

382 points by r1chardnl 2 years ago | 115 comments

European Citizens' Initiative signature collection page for "Stop Destroying Videogames," asking EU citizens to support rules keeping purchased games playable.

Public Work: a search engine for public domain images(public.work)

339 points by throw0101d 2 years ago | 48 comments

Public Work is a search engine and browsable grid of public domain images drawn from museum and library collections.

A new type of neural network is more interpretable(spectrum.ieee.org)

316 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 70 comments

Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS(pie-menu.com)

288 points by hauken 2 years ago | 117 comments

How I Program in 2024(akkartik.name)

287 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 209 comments

Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code(iso20022js.com)

265 points by svapnil 2 years ago | 118 comments

Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?(wisfarmer.com)

264 points by speckx 2 years ago | 203 comments

I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)(web.archive.org)

259 points by kamphey 2 years ago | 157 comments

Eyechat(neal.fun)

247 points by seatac76 2 years ago | 93 comments

WebGL visual programming editor cables.gl is now open source(cables.gl)

244 points by pandur 2 years ago | 36 comments

Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers(kottke.org)

242 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 40 comments

Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos(sunshowers.io)

217 points by steveklabnik 2 years ago | 56 comments

A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust(codethink.co.uk)

180 points by fork-bomber 2 years ago | 65 comments

Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"(social.panic.com)

174 points by latexr 2 years ago | 97 comments

How the music industry learned to love piracy(nytimes.com)

154 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 163 comments

I turned an old phone into a NAS(xda-developers.com)

151 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 91 comments

Show HN: Visual A* pathfinding and maze generation in Python(github.com)

131 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 35 comments

Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

127 points by jger15 2 years ago | 27 comments

Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU(flemesre.github.io)

106 points by geomaturge 2 years ago | 75 comments

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II(projectgus.com)

105 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 27 comments

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf](tom7.org)

94 points by a022311 2 years ago | 24 comments

C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance(16bpp.net)

91 points by def-pri-pub 2 years ago | 125 comments

Japan's Nikkei Posts Biggest Single-Day Fall Since 1987 After Weak U.S. Data(wsj.com)

88 points by tosh 2 years ago | 71 comments

'Agua, Agua'(altaonline.com)

87 points by acdanger 2 years ago | 61 comments

The Saucer – A DIY trackpad attachment for the Voyager(blog.zsa.io)

83 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 54 comments

Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off(cnbc.com)

82 points by lossolo 2 years ago | 71 comments

Single-packet race condition breaking the 65535 byte lim(flatt.tech)

81 points by chillax 2 years ago | 23 comments

Largest Geothermal Development in America Taking Shape in Utah(mymodernmet.com)

80 points by geox 2 years ago | 60 comments

Below the Root: A story, a computer game and my lifelong obsession (2015)(blog.stahlmandesign.com)

79 points by olvy0 2 years ago | 28 comments

Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity(thelastwave.substack.com)

74 points by johanam 2 years ago | 2 comments

How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL(hakibenita.com)

74 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 14 comments

A RoCE network for distributed AI training at scale(engineering.fb.com)

71 points by mikece 2 years ago | 11 comments

Does space dust fall on the roof of my house?(astronomy.stackexchange.com)

69 points by firebaze 2 years ago | 39 comments

Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate(wired.com)

69 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 21 comments

Undark and the Radium Girls (2006)(damninteresting.com)

64 points by not_a_boat 2 years ago | 23 comments

Knuckledragger, a Semi-Automated Python Proof Assistant(philipzucker.com)

64 points by philzook 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Composer Has No Clothes(thebaffler.com)

63 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 27 comments

Schwab users are unable to log in(twitter.com)

63 points by ajoseps 2 years ago | 30 comments

Scheduling Model in LLVM(myhsu.xyz)

63 points by mshockwave 2 years ago | 2 comments

Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week(nytimes.com)

62 points by rawgabbit 2 years ago | 60 comments

Computer Security Is a Political Struggle(cybershow.uk)

61 points by nonrandomstring 2 years ago | 39 comments

Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%(reuters.com)

57 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 33 comments

Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON (2022)(jasoneckert.github.io)

56 points by sillywalk 2 years ago | 12 comments

California lawmakers got ticket freebies as they cracked down on Ticketmaster(politico.com)

55 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 40 comments

Casio VZ-1 Algorithms(blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)

55 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 12 comments

It's lights out at a cosmic restaurant(nytimes.com)

49 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 21 comments

KCL, a constraint-based functional language for configuration(kcl-lang.io)

46 points by atombender 2 years ago | 14 comments

Influential descriptions of depression are often misleading(bps.org.uk)

46 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 25 comments

Why Does Everyone Hate Haskell, Jazz, and Pure Math?(adueck.github.io)

45 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 35 comments

DCPerf: An open source benchmark suite for hyperscale compute applications(engineering.fb.com)

40 points by mikece 2 years ago | 1 comments

Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit?(fastcompany.com)

38 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 56 comments

How to get to know someone (2018)(noorsiddiqui.com)

37 points by eamag 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Anatomy of Brainwashing(science.org)

36 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 7 comments

The tragedy of low-level exploitation(gynvael.coldwind.pl)

35 points by abhaynayar 2 years ago | 5 comments