Hacker News on Monday, 19 August 2024

13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted(github.com)

567 points by darknavi 2 years ago | 235 comments

GitHub repository for 13ft, a self-hosted Python alternative to 12ft.io for bypassing website paywalls.

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud(berthub.eu)

423 points by ahubert 2 years ago | 220 comments

Bert Hubert blog post arguing that cloud-controlled solar inverters form huge unregulated virtual power plants, following a Dutch hacker gaining control of 4 million installations.

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable(matthewball.co)

399 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 471 comments

Matthew Ball essay analyzing Roblox's scale as the world's biggest game and why the company remains unprofitable.

Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

350 points by tndl 2 years ago | 164 comments

Launch HN post introducing Sorcerer, a YC S24 startup building long-duration weather balloons that collect atmospheric sounding data cheaply worldwide.

Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)(blog.reverberate.org)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 140 comments

Josh Haberman's blog post on using Clang's musttail attribute for guaranteed tail calls in C to build a protobuf parser exceeding 2GB/s.

Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet(snats.xyz)

270 points by Nydhal 2 years ago | 98 comments

FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator(github.com)

254 points by jstrieb 2 years ago | 60 comments

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile(righto.com)

239 points by magnat 2 years ago | 155 comments

Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place(netboot.xyz)

233 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping(github.com)

229 points by nichochar 2 years ago | 47 comments

Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes(github.com)

219 points by mjcurl 2 years ago | 83 comments

What If Data Is a Bad Idea?(schmud.de)

217 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 123 comments

DRAKON(en.wikipedia.org)

198 points by instagraham 2 years ago | 54 comments

On finishing projects(alexreichert.com)

195 points by reichertjalex 2 years ago | 76 comments

Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring(builder.io)

192 points by steve8708 2 years ago | 110 comments

Music recommendation system using transformer models(research.google)

189 points by panarky 2 years ago | 106 comments

Lenticular Clock(instructables.com)

176 points by animal_spirits 2 years ago | 39 comments

'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera(phys.org)

165 points by wglb 2 years ago | 46 comments

Tales from the Far Side(kleefeldoncomics.com)

161 points by nikbackm 2 years ago | 38 comments

Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"(blog.archive.org)

148 points by savetz 2 years ago | 20 comments

Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview(youtube.com)

147 points by zniturah 2 years ago | 89 comments

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)(cs.utexas.edu)

138 points by torstenvl 2 years ago | 102 comments

Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly(andadinosaur.com)

133 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 62 comments

How Deep Can Humans Go?(mcgill.ca)

132 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 89 comments

Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS(jvns.ca)

126 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 30 comments

LLMs know more than what they say(arjunbansal.substack.com)

118 points by nqnielsen 2 years ago | 13 comments

Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

116 points by ramimac 2 years ago | 39 comments

Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults(sociologicalscience.com)

116 points by o_nate 2 years ago | 138 comments

Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday(thingswemake.com)

111 points by debo_ 2 years ago | 15 comments

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products(aisnakeoil.com)

106 points by randomwalker 2 years ago | 125 comments

The Katsuification of Britain(vittlesmagazine.com)

93 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 79 comments

Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes(phys.org)

92 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 63 comments

Caltrain's new electric trains(fastcompany.com)

84 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 76 comments

RP2040 Hid Remapper(github.com)

83 points by peterburkimsher 2 years ago | 45 comments

Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin(cardinal.kx.studio)

83 points by iscream26 2 years ago | 21 comments

Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional(techdirt.com)

73 points by hn_acker 2 years ago | 46 comments

Distributed Locks with Redis (2014)(redis.io)

72 points by thenewwazoo 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Dying Computer Museum(ascii.textfiles.com)

71 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 14 comments

Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration(ably.com)

68 points by amnonbc 2 years ago | 13 comments

Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian(kaeruct.github.io)

64 points by kaeruct 2 years ago | 56 comments

6th-generation Waymo Driver(waymo.com)

62 points by panarky 2 years ago | 37 comments

Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing(objectivebayesian.com)

61 points by rnburn 2 years ago | 10 comments

JavaScript weakmaps should be iterable(wingolog.org)

61 points by davexunit 2 years ago | 16 comments

So you want to build an embedded Linux system?(jaycarlson.net)

61 points by olalonde 2 years ago | 17 comments

Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?

61 points by obvthroaway 2 years ago | 39 comments

Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM(ollama.com)

61 points by thor-rodrigues 2 years ago | 8 comments

Constraining writers in distributed systems(shachaf.net)

57 points by shachaf 2 years ago | 2 comments

How I Became the EEVBlog Guy [video](youtube.com)

52 points by brudgers 2 years ago | 8 comments

The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device(vfxblog.com)

51 points by gelstudios 2 years ago | 4 comments

The bizarre siege behind Stockholm Syndrome(bbc.com)

51 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill(robata.app)

50 points by emadda 2 years ago | 33 comments

Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?

48 points by ggeorgovassilis 2 years ago | 30 comments

Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let an AI bot run Cheyenne(washingtonpost.com)

47 points by howard941 2 years ago | 54 comments

Everyone's Life Is Weird(avabear.xyz)

46 points by danielmichaelyc 2 years ago | 8 comments

What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg(noahkagan.com)

45 points by duck 2 years ago | 62 comments

Ask HN: Google Ads Rejected My SaaS as Compromised Site

43 points by madjam002 2 years ago | 36 comments

Boeing Halts 777X Flight Tests over Damage Found in Engine Mount(bloomberg.com)

41 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 38 comments

Largest protein yet discovered builds algal toxins(phys.org)

39 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Epic Games Store Launches on iOS and Android(epicgames.com)

39 points by noch 2 years ago | 17 comments

The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell(5280.com)

38 points by gmays 2 years ago | 1 comments