Hacker News on Friday, 30 August 2024

AnandTech Farewell(anandtech.com)

2886 points by janice1999 2 years ago | 579 comments

AnandTech editor Ryan Smith's farewell post announcing the end of the long-running PC hardware news and review site after 27 years.

Crows are even smarter than we thought(nautil.us)

443 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 236 comments

Nautilus article by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on new evidence that crows and other corvids have surprising mental abilities.

CIEL Is an Extended Lisp(ciel-lang.org)

373 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 91 comments

Landing page for CIEL, a batteries-included extension of Common Lisp that remains 100% Common Lisp, with links to GitHub and docs.

The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection(quantamagazine.org)

348 points by jandrewrogers 2 years ago | 151 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how the vagus nerve connects the brain and organs to regulate bodily functions and aspects of mood, pleasure and fear.

Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero(zkintro.com)

258 points by oskarth 2 years ago | 92 comments

City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack(10tv.com)

232 points by hendler 2 years ago | 101 comments

Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing(firstmenonthemoon.com)

231 points by marvinborner 2 years ago | 49 comments

Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients(uknow.uky.edu)

195 points by amichail 2 years ago | 130 comments

500 Python Interpreters(izzys.casa)

164 points by SAHChandler 2 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)(github.com)

158 points by velorek 2 years ago | 49 comments

Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video](youtube.com)

150 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

Open Source Twitch for Developers(github.com)

149 points by selvan 2 years ago | 39 comments

Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs(linux.die.net)

146 points by actinium226 2 years ago | 78 comments

Drug Development Failure: how GLP-1 development was abandoned in 1990(muse.jhu.edu)

140 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 147 comments

To Nerves from Elixir(underjord.io)

139 points by lawik 2 years ago | 33 comments

Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process(digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no)

138 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 32 comments

Lady tasting tea(en.wikipedia.org)

134 points by momonga 2 years ago | 67 comments

Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews(bellmar.medium.com)

114 points by mbellotti 2 years ago | 79 comments

Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)(matklad.github.io)

109 points by nequo 2 years ago | 95 comments

Rust in Linux Revisited(drewdevault.com)

105 points by Munksgaard 2 years ago | 31 comments

Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm (2021)(funloop.org)

101 points by RojerGS 2 years ago | 36 comments

Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail(blog.zarfhome.com)

95 points by tobr 2 years ago | 19 comments

Build Your Own Z80 Computer: Design Guidelines and Application (1981)(archive.org)

88 points by mariuz 2 years ago | 23 comments

Time-Memory Trade-Offs Sound the Death Knell for GPRS and GSM(iacr.org)

86 points by belter 2 years ago | 44 comments

Brazilian court orders suspension of X(theguardian.com)

83 points by mmaia 2 years ago | 57 comments

Pocket-Godot: Starter Kit for mobile game development using Godot(github.com)

82 points by console-log 2 years ago | 15 comments

How to sort your library in exactly 51,271 steps(david.kolo.ski)

82 points by taintegral 2 years ago | 21 comments

The occult technology of the rollercoaster(simonindelicate.substack.com)

81 points by iwishiknewlisp 2 years ago | 35 comments

Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JavaScript(github.com)

79 points by olestr 2 years ago | 18 comments

Things my girlfriend and I have argued about(thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com)

77 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 34 comments

Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)(darpa.mil)

75 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 46 comments

Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying(arstechnica.com)

75 points by speckx 2 years ago | 66 comments

The Null Pointer(0x0.st)

75 points by duck 2 years ago | 9 comments

Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month(www3.nhk.or.jp)

73 points by rntn 2 years ago | 103 comments

A primer on why microbiome research is hard(owlposting.com)

67 points by abhishaike 2 years ago | 18 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C(yosefk.com)

66 points by jstanley 2 years ago | 29 comments

What we can learn from vintage computing(github.com)

65 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 28 comments

PyPy gets a new RISC-V JIT back end(pypy.org)

55 points by fork-bomber 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M(techtinkering.com)

51 points by harryvederci 2 years ago | 11 comments

The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent(notyourlanguage.com)

49 points by dnoberon 2 years ago | 31 comments

Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)(bbc.com)

47 points by amichail 2 years ago | 36 comments

Rubi: Symbolic integrator based on an extensive system of integration rules(rulebasedintegration.org)

46 points by ducktective 2 years ago | 22 comments

Calendar Queues: A Fast O(1) Priority Queue Implementation (1988)(dl.acm.org)

46 points by tithe 2 years ago | 22 comments

LLMs struggle to explain themselves(jonathanychan.com)

42 points by jonathanyc 2 years ago | 55 comments

Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospitals, schools use it: Musk(metropoles.com)

38 points by ivewonyoung 2 years ago | 12 comments

Scpptool – a tool to enforce a memory and data race safe subset of C++(github.com)

37 points by coffeeaddict1 2 years ago | 8 comments

Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct(retractionwatch.com)

37 points by vasco 2 years ago | 13 comments

Epilepsy Protection for VRChat(github.com)

36 points by Kye 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Far-Reaching Ripple Effects of a Discredited Cancer Study(wsj.com)

36 points by voisin 2 years ago | 12 comments

Non-Determinism and Overcount on Modern Hardware Performance Counters [pdf](web.eece.maine.edu)

34 points by luu 2 years ago | 2 comments

Our slowly growing Unix monoculture(utcc.utoronto.ca)

34 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 39 comments

UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored(twitter.com)

34 points by apengwin 2 years ago | 33 comments

Analysis of Greek prehistoric combat in full body armour(journals.plos.org)

33 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 16 comments

Poor man's signals – tiny vanilla JavaScript signals implementation(plainvanillaweb.com)

31 points by Joeri 2 years ago | 21 comments

Low-cost 16 EEG channels cap (hat) for PiEEG(pieeg.com)

29 points by Marat_1975 2 years ago | 8 comments

The fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s(grist.org)

27 points by robtherobber 2 years ago | 35 comments

Sail and Muddy: A Retrospective(feelmuddy.notion.site)

26 points by tie-in 2 years ago | 3 comments

Agnost is an open source GitOps platform running on Kubernetes clusters(agnost.dev)

25 points by RyeCombinator 2 years ago | 2 comments

Crash the GC with Random Values in Unsafe.Pointers(philpearl.github.io)

24 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Asyncpal: Preemptive concurrency and parallelism for sporadic workloads(github.com)

22 points by alexrustic 2 years ago | 4 comments