Hacker News on Thursday, 22 August 2024

Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase(github.com)

1041 points by nezaj 2 years ago | 255 comments

GitHub repository for InstantDB, an open-source realtime client-side database positioned as a modern Firebase alternative.

What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

398 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 223 comments

Blog post by Matthew Garrett explaining SBAT (Secure Boot Advanced Targeting) revocation; the captured page shows a Dreamwidth captcha check instead.

Python’s Preprocessor(pydong.org)

375 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 81 comments

Blog post explaining how Python source code encoding declarations (PEP 263) can be abused to implement a preprocessor that transforms code before execution.

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS(allthingsdistributed.com)

350 points by riv991 2 years ago | 79 comments

A guest post on Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog by Marc Olson recounting the evolution of AWS Elastic Block Store and lessons learned.

I sped up serde_json strings by 20%(purplesyringa.moe)

317 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 100 comments

Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files(github.com)

286 points by boricj 2 years ago | 35 comments

Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux(gamingonlinux.com)

272 points by freedomben 2 years ago | 106 comments

Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email(blog.sergeantbiggs.net)

272 points by edward 2 years ago | 142 comments

A deep dive into how linkers work (2008)(lwn.net)

235 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Designing my own watch (2020)(willem.com)

197 points by handfuloflight 2 years ago | 121 comments

LM Studio 0.3 – Discover, download, and run local LLMs(lmstudio.ai)

190 points by fdb 2 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker(github.com)

182 points by willmoss 2 years ago | 42 comments

No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda(switowski.com)

182 points by tybulewicz 2 years ago | 169 comments

Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)(franceshocutt.com)

173 points by luu 2 years ago | 109 comments

Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types?(lostintransit.se)

164 points by un_ess 2 years ago | 74 comments

Hardware Virtualization(haiku-os.org)

159 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 30 comments

What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

154 points by taywrobel 2 years ago | 42 comments

How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps(blog.val.town)

143 points by stevekrouse 2 years ago | 31 comments

SwiftUI for Mac 2024(troz.net)

109 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

Async2 – The .NET Runtime Async experiment concludes(steven-giesel.com)

105 points by Nelkins 2 years ago | 56 comments

Bum Farto(en.wikipedia.org)

90 points by jrflowers 2 years ago | 23 comments

Electric Clojure v3: Differential Dataflow for UI [video](hyperfiddle-docs.notion.site)

86 points by refset 2 years ago | 36 comments

Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes(cnbc.com)

81 points by speckx 2 years ago | 93 comments

Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video](youtube.com)

79 points by luu 2 years ago | 19 comments

Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque,it didn't contain their music(djmag.com)

70 points by iancmceachern 2 years ago | 19 comments

Bit Twiddling Hacks (2009)(graphics.stanford.edu)

64 points by elpocko 2 years ago | 20 comments

What does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow? (2021) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

63 points by crowdhailer 2 years ago | 6 comments

Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind(langcss.com)

61 points by langcss 2 years ago | 41 comments

Launch HN: Arva AI (YC S24) – AI agents for instant global KYB onboarding

59 points by rhimshah 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Kardinal – Building light-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments(kardinal.dev)

57 points by TCR19 2 years ago | 22 comments

84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption stalls progress(techdirt.com)

53 points by speckx 2 years ago | 41 comments

Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions(science.org)

53 points by barbazoo 2 years ago | 19 comments

Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation

53 points by tife 2 years ago | 25 comments

To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears(phys.org)

52 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 39 comments

Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership(arstechnica.com)

48 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 34 comments

Microwaves: A Haven for Bacterial Diversity(tecscience.tec.mx)

47 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 41 comments

About the IMGUI Paradigm(github.com)

46 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 39 comments

Faster Inverse BWT (2021)(cbloomrants.blogspot.com)

45 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 2 comments

Objective-C is just, like, a leaky abstraction over C(blog.metaobject.com)

44 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: FOSD – Framework of Operating System Development(github.com)

43 points by i70h4n 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ordinals aren't much worse than Quaternions(philipzucker.com)

43 points by philzook 2 years ago | 20 comments

Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he won presidential election(ctvnews.ca)

41 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 22 comments

Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs(theverge.com)

40 points by chaychoong 2 years ago | 16 comments

Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much software engineers report making(businessinsider.com)

38 points by rntn 2 years ago | 38 comments

Self-Hosting DNS(ghostdev.xyz)

37 points by onlyspaceghost 2 years ago | 37 comments

Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle(cnbc.com)

36 points by camkego 2 years ago | 28 comments

Data Modeling SaaS Entitlements and Pricing(garrettdimon.com)

35 points by jnunemaker 2 years ago | 0 comments

German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames(bbc.com)

35 points by croes 2 years ago | 28 comments

Make sports betting taboo again(jacobin.com)

35 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 16 comments

The surprising cause of fasting's regenerative powers(nature.com)

34 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 28 comments

In a leaked recording, AWS CEO tells most developers could stop coding soon(businessinsider.com)

34 points by rainhacker 2 years ago | 33 comments

WelsonJS: Build a Windows app on the Windows built-in JavaScript engine(github.com)

34 points by hcho3 2 years ago | 25 comments

A World Split Apart (1978)(solzhenitsyncenter.org)

31 points by bx376 2 years ago | 10 comments

ARRL IT Security Incident – $1M ransom(arrl.org)

28 points by 7402 2 years ago | 9 comments

Quarkdown: Markdown with Superpowers(iamgio.eu)

27 points by xiaodai 2 years ago | 37 comments

Second human being implanted with Neuralink brain chip(neuralink.com)

25 points by nilv 2 years ago | 4 comments

StructuredRAG: JSON Response Formatting with Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

23 points by bobvanluijt 2 years ago | 3 comments

Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism(foreignpolicy.com)

23 points by segasaturn 2 years ago | 34 comments

Is AI eating all the energy?(blog.giovanh.com)

22 points by lr0 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs(100kb.danhill.is)

21 points by danhilltech 2 years ago | 7 comments