Hacker News on Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team(mono-project.com)

1387 points by itherseed 2 years ago | 459 comments

Mono Project homepage, the cross-platform open source .NET framework, with a notice about its history and Microsoft's stewardship ending.

Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content(politico.com)

567 points by southernplaces7 2 years ago | 1021 comments

Politico news article on Mark Zuckerberg saying he regrets Meta yielding to White House pressure over content moderation; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

The Monospace Web(owickstrom.github.io)

545 points by mrunseen 2 years ago | 135 comments

The Monospace Web is a minimalist web design exploration by Oskar Wickström that uses monospace fonts and a character grid layout, released under the MIT license.

A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily(freepublicapis.com)

521 points by abhas9 2 years ago | 101 comments

Free Public APIs is a directory of 212 free public APIs for students and developers, tested daily and ranked by health scores based on latency, error rate and reliability.

Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick(techcrunch.com)

373 points by gemanor 2 years ago | 233 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Anthropic has published the system prompts used to guide its Claude AI models.

Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor(theartnewspaper.com)

342 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 110 comments

The Art Newspaper news article about contractors renovating the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing finding a 1990 letter from a donor anticipating demolition of false columns.

Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V(box86.org)

332 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 122 comments

A Box64 project blog post describing the work needed to run x86_64 games like The Witcher 3 on RISC-V hardware via the Box64 emulator.

Faster CRDTs (2021)(josephg.com)

310 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 103 comments

Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world(blitzortung.org)

303 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 123 comments

ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor(chartdb.io)

232 points by nikolay 2 years ago | 35 comments

Marketing to Engineers (2001)(bly.com)

226 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 175 comments

Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?(twitter.com)

198 points by jshchnz 2 years ago | 172 comments

U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news(thehub.ca)

196 points by amadeuspagel 2 years ago | 238 comments

New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China's 'Volt Typhoon'(krebsonsecurity.com)

182 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 44 comments

"Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"(twitter.com)

166 points by hedgehog0 2 years ago | 110 comments

Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications(chipsandcheese.com)

157 points by ksec 2 years ago | 85 comments

Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management(taskwarrior.org)

152 points by httbs 2 years ago | 61 comments

Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository(bleepingcomputer.com)

150 points by mikece 2 years ago | 20 comments

Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization(freebsdfoundation.org)

147 points by nesarkvechnep 2 years ago | 56 comments

Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle(rachel.fast.ai)

146 points by awendland 2 years ago | 96 comments

Building Bubbletea Programs(leg100.github.io)

139 points by paranoidxprod 2 years ago | 37 comments

Splatt3R: Zero-Shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs(splatt3r.active.vision)

129 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 27 comments

Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power(newatlas.com)

123 points by geox 2 years ago | 240 comments

Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops?(mainichi.jp)

117 points by rntn 2 years ago | 149 comments

Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup(en.wikipedia.org)

117 points by azinman2 2 years ago | 55 comments

Notes on Buttondown.com(jmduke.com)

116 points by luu 2 years ago | 76 comments

80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report(salesforcedevops.net)

113 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 97 comments

The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk(sciencenews.org)

112 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 59 comments

Launch HN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts

102 points by lasermatts 2 years ago | 23 comments

Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed(cerebras.ai)

99 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 45 comments

Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021)(blog.apnic.net)

96 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 58 comments

Qualcomm Oryon CPU Core Design(chipsandcheese.com)

94 points by luyu_wu 2 years ago | 4 comments

FreeBSD-rustdate, a reimplementation of FreeBSD-update(rustdate.over-yonder.net)

92 points by ggm 2 years ago | 29 comments

Compilation of JavaScript to WASM, Part 2: Ahead-of-Time vs. JIT(cfallin.org)

91 points by cfallin 2 years ago | 7 comments

MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust(lucumr.pocoo.org)

88 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 44 comments

Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?(theguardian.com)

86 points by howard941 2 years ago | 101 comments

Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses) (2023)(research.nccgroup.com)

84 points by wglb 2 years ago | 15 comments

GeoWorks: The Other Windows (2019)(tedium.co)

84 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 37 comments

DisTrO – a family of low latency distributed optimizers(github.com)

83 points by SchwKatze 2 years ago | 24 comments

Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria(arstechnica.com)

82 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 89 comments

KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine(github.com)

80 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 14 comments

BaseX – a highly W3C compliant XQuery processor(docs.basex.org)

75 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 3 comments

RISC-V CPU arrives on a tablet starting at $149(tomshardware.com)

75 points by doener 2 years ago | 21 comments

Just use fucking paper, man(andy-bell.co.uk)

66 points by tobr 2 years ago | 74 comments

Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project(futurism.com)

66 points by jawns 2 years ago | 69 comments

Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8B(twitter.com)

63 points by _micah_h 2 years ago | 24 comments

A New Wave of Underwater Comms Is Coming(spectrum.ieee.org)

62 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 21 comments

Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats(theregister.com)

62 points by Dotnaught 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Thin Purple Line(harpers.org)

60 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 37 comments

Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development(github.com)

59 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

NASA's SLS rocket's Mobile Launcher-2 increase from $383M to $2.7B(twitter.com)

59 points by guardiangod 2 years ago | 45 comments

Cerebras Launches the Fastest AI Inference(cerebras.ai)

57 points by srameshc 2 years ago | 2 comments

Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps(liliputing.com)

56 points by edward 2 years ago | 39 comments

AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy(scitechdaily.com)

56 points by xrd 2 years ago | 35 comments

UltimateAntiCheat(github.com)

55 points by skibz 2 years ago | 65 comments

Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers' credentials(arstechnica.com)

53 points by trelane 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Supertree – interactive visualization of decision trees in Python

53 points by pplonski86 2 years ago | 15 comments

My first experience with Gleam Language(pliutau.com)

52 points by crowdhailer 2 years ago | 17 comments

How Chrome Accessibility Works(chromium.googlesource.com)

49 points by lelandfe 2 years ago | 14 comments

2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory(academic.oup.com)

46 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 22 comments