Hacker News on Tuesday, 13 August 2024

All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)(usgs.gov)

710 points by tigerlily 2 years ago | 263 comments

USGS Water Science School illustration page showing all of Earth's water gathered into a single sphere compared to the size of the planet.

Google Pixel 9 Pro(store.google.com)

448 points by ksec 2 years ago | 1018 comments

Google Store product page for the Pixel 9 Pro smartphone, priced from $999 and available for pre-order.

I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)(jdstillwater.blogspot.com)

439 points by ctoth 2 years ago | 274 comments

A 2012 blog post by physics teacher JD Stillwater recounting washing a toaster in a dishwasher and reflecting on conventional wisdom versus conventional ignorance.

Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged(theguardian.com)

384 points by howard941 2 years ago | 63 comments

Guardian news article reporting that former Marion, Kansas police chief Gideon Cody was criminally charged over his raid on the Marion County Record newspaper.

The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology(quantamagazine.org)

327 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 321 comments

Quanta Magazine article on a long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope study of the cosmic expansion rate that deepens the Hubble tension in cosmology.

Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?

316 points by gorkemcetin 2 years ago | 163 comments

Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away(cnn.com)

302 points by breadwinner 2 years ago | 244 comments

"Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees(nautil.us)

271 points by jnord 2 years ago | 75 comments

Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)(samcurry.net)

259 points by DavidChouinard 2 years ago | 90 comments

Using a list to manage executive function(drmaciver.substack.com)

229 points by swah 2 years ago | 45 comments

Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

224 points by macklinkachorn 2 years ago | 110 comments

AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis(github.com)

217 points by CMLab 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker(github.com)

216 points by dougdonohoe 2 years ago | 28 comments

An open-source flow battery kit(dualpower.supply)

213 points by idamantium 2 years ago | 97 comments

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab(newscenter.lbl.gov)

210 points by croes 2 years ago | 120 comments

Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone(osintteam.blog)

199 points by droidrat 2 years ago | 44 comments

The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist(peter.eisentraut.org)

185 points by ingve 2 years ago | 59 comments

Rust Atomics and Locks (2023)(marabos.nl)

184 points by 0xedb 2 years ago | 44 comments

The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery(sakana.ai)

173 points by hardmaru 2 years ago | 96 comments

What you learn by making a new programming language(ntietz.com)

173 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 104 comments

From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer(github.blog)

167 points by mikece 2 years ago | 26 comments

Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI(github.com)

165 points by oldcai 2 years ago | 97 comments

You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

165 points by geox 2 years ago | 171 comments

Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code

165 points by rumno0 2 years ago | 75 comments

The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass(honest-broker.com)

152 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 89 comments

Show HN: Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster(github.com)

143 points by flinkerflitzer 2 years ago | 25 comments

Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers(github.com)

135 points by doener 2 years ago | 45 comments

What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation(osar.fr)

132 points by pierrec 2 years ago | 75 comments

Total War: Rome II and Creative Assembly – My Statement Ten Years On(medium.com)

128 points by mrtbld 2 years ago | 59 comments

ARPA-H announces awards to develop novel technologies for precise tumor removal(arpa-h.gov)

128 points by melling 2 years ago | 23 comments

Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations and Search

120 points by tullie 2 years ago | 28 comments

Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

115 points by SeenNotHeard 2 years ago | 145 comments

Tell HN: Google OAuth consent screen issue could be costing you signups

106 points by Aalk4308 2 years ago | 31 comments

0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)(radio-weblogs.com)

105 points by diggan 2 years ago | 84 comments

LLM-based sentiment analysis of Hacker News posts between Jan 2020 and June 2023(outerbounds.com)

105 points by mochomocha 2 years ago | 59 comments

How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)(arstechnica.com)

101 points by lifeisstillgood 2 years ago | 60 comments

Reversing the AMD Secure Processor (PSP) – Part 2: Cryptographic Co-Processor(dayzerosec.com)

101 points by vngzs 2 years ago | 26 comments

Go 1.23 Released(go.dev)

98 points by ankraft 2 years ago | 38 comments

US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling(theguardian.com)

97 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 86 comments

Gitlab is reportedly up for sale(developer-tech.com)

94 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 89 comments

Open Source FPGA Expansion Card for the Apple II(wiki.reactivemicro.com)

91 points by tjake 2 years ago | 14 comments

Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc(yummymelon.com)

87 points by signa11 2 years ago | 16 comments

Printf Oriented Message Protocol(github.com)

81 points by Davidbrcz 2 years ago | 37 comments

Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings(reuters.com)

77 points by tithe 2 years ago | 60 comments

VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks(businessinsider.com)

76 points by robg 2 years ago | 69 comments

Pixel Watch 3(blog.google)

76 points by eamag 2 years ago | 134 comments

A practitioner's guide to testing and running GPU clusters(together.ai)

75 points by nutlope 2 years ago | 8 comments

WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually?(moreisdifferent.blog)

75 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Myth of the Product-Market Fit (2013)(blog.nishantsoni.com)

74 points by bhoops 2 years ago | 49 comments

NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards(spectrum.ieee.org)

72 points by DamnInteresting 2 years ago | 28 comments

Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance(worldsensorium.com)

53 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 20 comments

Encyclopedia of Optimization(link.springer.com)

52 points by egorpv 2 years ago | 13 comments

Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons(allure.com)

52 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 53 comments

The Goths(the-hinternet.com)

48 points by drdee 2 years ago | 25 comments

SWE-Bench Verified(openai.com)

46 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 8 comments

Go Algorithms and Data Structures: Best Practices for Beginners(github.com)

46 points by pgAlum 2 years ago | 5 comments

DOJ may want to break up Google(zdnet.com)

45 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 37 comments

Are we living in the age of info-determinism?(newyorker.com)

44 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 64 comments

Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for students(steveblank.com)

39 points by sblank 2 years ago | 37 comments

John Rawls, liberalism and what it means to live a good life(aeon.co)

39 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 50 comments