Hacker News on Sunday, 1 September 2024

Founder Mode(paulgraham.com)

1162 points by bifftastic 2 years ago | 662 comments

Paul Graham essay from September 2024 arguing founders should run growing companies differently from conventional manager-style advice, inspired by Brian Chesky's talk.

Extreme Pi Boot Optimization(kittenlabs.de)

481 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 131 comments

Blog post describing how the author optimized a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to reach Linux userspace in 3.5 seconds for a solar-powered WiFi camera project.

We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines(github.com)

468 points by icaruswept 2 years ago | 154 comments

GitHub repository for a near 1:1 digital twin of Colombo, Sri Lanka, built in Cities: Skylines from real geographic and population data.

OAuth from First Principles(stack-auth.com)

443 points by n2d4 2 years ago | 90 comments

Stack Auth blog post explaining OAuth 2.0 by starting from a flawed authorization implementation and iteratively attacking and fixing it.

The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving(righto.com)

437 points by GavinAnderegg 2 years ago | 80 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post about a 1994 Navajo weaving by Marilou Schultz depicting Intel's Pentium chip, shown at the National Gallery of Art.

Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps(linkpreview.xyz)

329 points by fayazara 2 years ago | 81 comments

LinkPreview is a web tool that shows how a URL's link preview will appear on social media and chat apps based on its meta tags.

A Real Life Off-by-One Error(leejo.github.io)

311 points by leejo 2 years ago | 116 comments

Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?

250 points by hu3 2 years ago | 239 comments

The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types(alexharri.com)

237 points by alexharri 2 years ago | 62 comments

Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime(vitaut.net)

219 points by karagenit 2 years ago | 89 comments

Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years(economist.com)

208 points by WildestDreams_ 2 years ago | 269 comments

Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation(themaister.net)

194 points by cton 2 years ago | 55 comments

Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them(economist.com)

174 points by avyfain 2 years ago | 200 comments

Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger(blog.la-terminal.net)

168 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 77 comments

Einstein's Other Theory of Everything(nautil.us)

158 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 101 comments

Using the moiré effect to show different arrows to each observer (2018)(popularmechanics.com)

157 points by raldi 2 years ago | 47 comments

How a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals traps patients(nytimes.com)

154 points by howard941 2 years ago | 75 comments

Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream(xata.io)

145 points by mebcitto 2 years ago | 20 comments

E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space(liliputing.com)

127 points by pmontra 2 years ago | 63 comments

Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction(davidhang.com)

125 points by AbundantSalmon 2 years ago | 84 comments

Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills(notes.andymatuschak.org)

119 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 122 comments

Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game(shehzadi.vercel.app)

104 points by sh4jid 2 years ago | 49 comments

Strange Attractors (2018)(dynamicmath.xyz)

99 points by tzury 2 years ago | 9 comments

Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority(tris.fyi)

98 points by karagenit 2 years ago | 13 comments

Vizdom: Diagrams as Code(vizdom.dev)

92 points by s0l0ist 2 years ago | 53 comments

Dublin Core, what is it good for?(thisdaysportion.com)

83 points by MrVandemar 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: I made CMS less than 15 kilobytes, flat file

79 points by Turboblack 2 years ago | 16 comments

'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated – buyers beware(tomshardware.com)

76 points by doener 2 years ago | 33 comments

Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reasoning Abilities of LLMs(arxiv.org)

74 points by belter 2 years ago | 79 comments

Timeseries Indexing at Scale(artem.krylysov.com)

74 points by gsky 2 years ago | 10 comments

Apple Succession Strategy: Keep the Old Guard Around as Long as Possible(bloomberg.com)

73 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 38 comments

Take a closer look at Starbucks CEO's contract, which covers his commute by jet(abc.net.au)

73 points by puffl 2 years ago | 33 comments

In This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books(atlasobscura.com)

71 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 10 comments

Interactive Linear Algebra Dan Margalit, Joseph Rabinoff(textbooks.math.gatech.edu)

68 points by yamal4321 2 years ago | 8 comments

There's a place for everyone(experimental-history.com)

66 points by yboulkaid 2 years ago | 45 comments

Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality(livescience.com)

65 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 91 comments

Starliner crew reports hearing "sonar like noises"(twitter.com)

62 points by areoform 2 years ago | 31 comments

5 Years of InfoSec Focused Homelabbing(archcloudlabs.com)

60 points by DLLCoolJ 2 years ago | 2 comments

Brain Scientists Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime(scientificamerican.com)

58 points by kungfudoi 2 years ago | 28 comments

C Course Online(lucidar.me)

58 points by imabot 2 years ago | 8 comments

Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby(github.com)

57 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Texan used Apple AirTags to discover plastics in Houston aren't being recycled(tomshardware.com)

57 points by dataflow 2 years ago | 31 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right [pdf](linear.axler.net)

56 points by nbaksalyar 2 years ago | 16 comments

Dickens: The Map(londonist.com)

52 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 3 comments

Meta data center electricity consumption hits 14,975GWh(datacenterdynamics.com)

51 points by belter 2 years ago | 34 comments

The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies(nature.com)

49 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Design and Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine(blog.codingconfessions.com)

47 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 6 comments

Unix history and the `dc` calculator(howdytx.technology)

44 points by dcminter 2 years ago | 27 comments

Rediscovering Turbo Pascal(journal.paoloamoroso.com)

44 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 7 comments

Lego to replace oil in its bricks with pricier renewable plastic(reuters.com)

40 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 39 comments

Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax(shipixen.com)

39 points by tosh 2 years ago | 36 comments

Clojure Interactive Development 101(myke.blog)

38 points by refset 2 years ago | 4 comments

AI Has Created a Battle over Web Crawling(spectrum.ieee.org)

38 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 13 comments

IEEE President's Note: Why Students Should Stay with IEEE(spectrum.ieee.org)

38 points by elashri 2 years ago | 43 comments

Heavy Construction of a Sewage Pump Station – Ep 3 [video](youtube.com)

38 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 6 comments

The EV evolution is going to take longer than we thought(theverge.com)

36 points by rntn 2 years ago | 36 comments

Creating an up-to-date Distroless Python Image (2022)(alexos.dev)

35 points by tosh 2 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Bin-graph: Visualize binary files(github.com)

34 points by 8dcc 2 years ago | 12 comments

Oprah will screw up the AI story(anildash.com)

34 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 19 comments

A Lot of 'Unskilled' Workers Aren't(bloomberg.com)

33 points by petethomas 2 years ago | 39 comments