Hacker News on Monday, 2 September 2024

1M Users(blog.spacehey.com)

692 points by theneedful 2 years ago | 166 comments

Blog post by SpaceHey's creator announcing the MySpace-inspired social network reached 1 million registered users and describing recent improvements.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

409 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 382 comments

The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for September 2024, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.

Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'(news.yale.edu)

396 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 129 comments

Yale News article on a study showing how the brain replays and bundles waking experiences during sleep.

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods(somethingsimilar.com)

331 points by doesntmeananyth 2 years ago | 53 comments

A 2013 blog post by Jeff Hodges listing practical lessons for new distributed systems engineers, beyond the CAP theorem and the fallacies of distributed computing.

Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive(blancas.io)

327 points by edublancas 2 years ago | 155 comments

Blog post by Eduardo Blancas describing how to use GPT-4o to scrape tables from websites, with a demo app and source code, and noting its cost.

Show HN: Defrag the Game(defrag-game.com)

297 points by v_b 2 years ago | 104 comments

OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux(orbstack.dev)

257 points by rpgbr 2 years ago | 133 comments

Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency(github.com)

248 points by Sean-Der 2 years ago | 113 comments

Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years(openculture.com)

207 points by dangtony98 2 years ago | 169 comments

Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System(govukvue.org)

198 points by matteason 2 years ago | 48 comments

Tbsp – treesitter-based source processing language(git.peppe.rs)

192 points by hiyer 2 years ago | 38 comments

People can read their manager's mind (2015)(yosefk.com)

189 points by luu 2 years ago | 57 comments

My Blog Engine Is the Erlang Build Tool(ferd.ca)

184 points by billiob 2 years ago | 12 comments

Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages(github.com)

181 points by pythonbrad 2 years ago | 77 comments

DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound(github.com)

181 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 25 comments

Telephone Line Rural Outside Plant(cityinfrastructure.com)

179 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 65 comments

Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty(krebsonsecurity.com)

163 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 90 comments

Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux(syscall.eu)

151 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 48 comments

Playdate Game Zero Zero: Perfect Stop(play.date)

138 points by adrianhon 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)

133 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 297 comments

Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog(dogesec.com)

132 points by panoramas4good 2 years ago | 39 comments

Dawarich: Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History(github.com)

130 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments

What Does It Mean to Learn?(newyorker.com)

127 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 67 comments

Achieving high Python performance with code generation (2022)(medium.com)

125 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 85 comments

Open Mathematics Depository(openmathdep.tuxfamily.org)

125 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 12 comments

HIDman Adapting USB devices to work on old computers(github.com)

119 points by CTOSian 2 years ago | 29 comments

Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaS

113 points by dchu17 2 years ago | 71 comments

Understanding the Y Combinator(8dcc.github.io)

109 points by liamswayne 2 years ago | 50 comments

How the Hourglass Won(systemsapproach.org)

105 points by zdw 2 years ago | 68 comments

Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader(npr.org)

104 points by geox 2 years ago | 60 comments

The work you do, the person you are (2017)(newyorker.com)

102 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 41 comments

NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion(cnn.com)

100 points by jc_811 2 years ago | 90 comments

Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image (2014)(theguardian.com)

98 points by Schiphol 2 years ago | 78 comments

Long-term unemployment leads to disengagement and apathy(psypost.org)

95 points by FeistySkink 2 years ago | 67 comments

Light-based technique shows 90% accuracy in early prostate cancer detection(medicalxpress.com)

95 points by amichail 2 years ago | 17 comments

China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows(asia.nikkei.com)

94 points by rjzzleep 2 years ago | 85 comments

AI-Implanted False Memories(media.mit.edu)

90 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 24 comments

Parsing Awk Is Tricky(raygard.net)

88 points by oliverkwebb 2 years ago | 69 comments

'Dancing' raisins − a simple kitchen experiment(theconversation.com)

84 points by amichail 2 years ago | 20 comments

QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know(nick-gravgaard.com)

79 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 77 comments

Mother's gut microbiome during pregnancy shapes baby's brain development(medicalxpress.com)

75 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 16 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket(kevinboone.me)

74 points by ingve 2 years ago | 107 comments

Understanding Pgvector's HNSW Index Storage in Postgres(lantern.dev)

72 points by varik77 2 years ago | 10 comments

'Amazing' Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland(theguardian.com)

72 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 14 comments

Big Tech Sees Like a State (2020)(thediff.co)

72 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 17 comments

I hate Stripe, so I'm going to build my own payment processor(old.reddit.com)

71 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 49 comments

Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee(hakaimagazine.com)

66 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Replicate App-Embedded DuckDBs into PostgreSQL with SyncLite OSS(github.com)

64 points by syncliteio 2 years ago | 16 comments

We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube(arstechnica.com)

63 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Resources for GPU Compilers?

61 points by zvikinoza 2 years ago | 17 comments

Cosy Computing(datagubbe.se)

60 points by zdw 2 years ago | 16 comments

Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc.(news.itsfoss.com)

55 points by IronWolve 2 years ago | 21 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Software for Designing 3D-Printable Luneburg Lenses for RF(github.com)

55 points by jboirazian 2 years ago | 30 comments

Procreate defies AI trend, pledges "no generative AI" in its illustration app(arstechnica.com)

51 points by tannhaeuser 2 years ago | 23 comments

He emptied an entire crypto exchange onto a thumb drive(wired.com)

47 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 42 comments

Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux (2021)(0pointer.net)

46 points by iscream26 2 years ago | 33 comments

Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers(cam.ac.uk)

43 points by timthorn 2 years ago | 9 comments

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone's Microphone to S(futurism.com)

41 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 27 comments

In the beginning, there was computation(nautil.us)

39 points by yarapavan 2 years ago | 71 comments