Hacker News on Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Is My Blue Your Blue?(ismy.blue)

1308 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 506 comments

An interactive web quiz that shows colored screens and asks whether each is blue or green to map where your personal blue–green boundary lies.

Greppability is an underrated code metric(morizbuesing.com)

1145 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 565 comments

Blog post arguing that greppability, how easily code can be found with text search, is an underrated code quality metric.

EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series(ninjalab.io)

678 points by GTP 2 years ago | 258 comments

NinjaLab's page on EUCLEAK, a side-channel attack recovering ECDSA keys from YubiKey 5 Series devices using Infineon security microcontrollers.

The Engineering of Landfills(practical.engineering)

471 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 292 comments

Practical Engineering blog post and embedded video explaining the hidden engineering behind modern landfills.

Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II(storymaps.arcgis.com)

432 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 181 comments

An Esri StoryMaps feature about one man's mission to map the more than 20,000 ships that sank during World War II and the stories behind them.

Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization(victortao.substack.com)

298 points by platers 2 years ago | 34 comments

IPMI(computer.rip)

241 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 103 comments

Why bother with argv[0]?(wietzebeukema.nl)

236 points by wietze 2 years ago | 232 comments

Chromatone – Visual Music Language(chromatone.center)

235 points by samdung 2 years ago | 74 comments

LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly(michaelpj.com)

231 points by bryjnar 2 years ago | 68 comments

Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder(repaint.com)

223 points by benshumaker0 2 years ago | 159 comments

Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question(blog.jgc.org)

221 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 201 comments

Diffusion Is Spectral Autoregression(sander.ai)

209 points by ackbar03 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD(hestus.co)

204 points by kevinsane 2 years ago | 78 comments

Mondragon as the new city-state(elysian.press)

196 points by jinjin2 2 years ago | 246 comments

Your Name in Landsat(landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov)

180 points by warrenm 2 years ago | 32 comments

Llms.txt(llmstxt.org)

176 points by polyrand 2 years ago | 144 comments

Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground(muffinman.io)

170 points by stankot 2 years ago | 29 comments

Wizardry Co-Creator Andrew Greenberg Has Passed Away(timeextension.com)

167 points by homarp 2 years ago | 60 comments

Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs(github.com)

146 points by setopt 2 years ago | 39 comments

Faster Integer Programming(cacm.acm.org)

146 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 39 comments

Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores, Part I: The Silicon(computerenhance.com)

146 points by throwaway71271 2 years ago | 32 comments

How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles(quantamagazine.org)

142 points by bigeatie 2 years ago | 96 comments

The Elements of APIs (2021)(johnholdun.com)

133 points by luu 2 years ago | 22 comments

Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)(arxiv.org)

131 points by harperlee 2 years ago | 15 comments

Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all(mashable.com)

131 points by x3n0ph3n3 2 years ago | 132 comments

Apache Zeppelin(zeppelin.apache.org)

131 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 30 comments

A photographer captures life in America's last remaining old-growth forests(npr.org)

113 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 36 comments

Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality(ft.com)

112 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 88 comments

Feds Kill Plan to Curb Medicare Advantage Overbilling After Industry Opposition(kffhealthnews.org)

111 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 66 comments

Graph Language Models(aclanthology.org)

111 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 9 comments

Writing a book in the age of open source(blog.incrementalforgetting.tech)

107 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 68 comments

The Fourier Uncertainty Principles [pdf] (2021)(math.uchicago.edu)

101 points by mindcrime 2 years ago | 29 comments

gRPC: The Ugly Parts(kmcd.dev)

99 points by ingve 2 years ago | 49 comments

IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics(pncnmnp.github.io)

92 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 15 comments

Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance(intel.com)

92 points by htk 2 years ago | 88 comments

Oya, I've heard of mega-ROMs(leadedsolder.com)

90 points by zdw 2 years ago | 6 comments

The origins of the steam engine (2023)(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

88 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: PlasCAD: Open-source plasmid editor(github.com)

86 points by the__alchemist 2 years ago | 20 comments

For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful(aeon.co)

84 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 143 comments

In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat(washingtonpost.com)

80 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 64 comments

Will open science change chemistry?(chemistryworld.com)

77 points by daphnemichala 2 years ago | 24 comments

Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort (2023)(netincome.co)

77 points by jjar 2 years ago | 89 comments

Unveiling Mac Security: Comprehensive Exploration of Sandboxing and AppData TCC(imlzq.com)

75 points by akyuu 2 years ago | 2 comments

Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits(arstechnica.com)

74 points by FairDune 2 years ago | 26 comments

The Memory Wall: Past, Present, and Future of DRAM(semianalysis.com)

73 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 21 comments

OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free(futurism.com)

72 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 55 comments

Vue 3.5 – The Vue Point(blog.vuejs.org)

70 points by timetraveller26 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Epistolary – Respond to your emails in handwriting(github.com)

69 points by j6m8 2 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox(fetchfoxai.com)

65 points by marcell 2 years ago | 36 comments

Software Rasterizing Hair(sctheblog.com)

65 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 16 comments

Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?

64 points by DamnInteresting 2 years ago | 45 comments

Canva Hikes Pices by 300pc as It Readies for IPO(ia.acs.org.au)

61 points by hdk 2 years ago | 47 comments

Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD(it-notes.dragas.net)

54 points by jaypatelani 2 years ago | 23 comments

Hot Temperature and High Stakes Performance [pdf](www3.nd.edu)

51 points by robg 2 years ago | 8 comments

Anthropic Quickstarts(github.com)

51 points by rahimnathwani 2 years ago | 8 comments

Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services(theguardian.com)

51 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 years ago | 37 comments

I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me(businessinsider.com)

48 points by avs733 2 years ago | 30 comments

Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds(theguardian.com)

47 points by mindracer 2 years ago | 39 comments

Clearview AI faces $45.6M fine in the Netherlands for 'illegal database of faces(cbc.ca)

47 points by sys42590 2 years ago | 16 comments