Hacker News on Sunday, 8 September 2024

An NFC movie library for my kids(simplyexplained.com)

1237 points by kzrdude 2 years ago | 288 comments

A blog post describing how the author built an NFC tag–based physical movie library so his kids can pick and play digital movies themselves.

alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv(alphaxiv.org)

519 points by sahebjot 2 years ago | 172 comments

Homepage of alphaXiv, a Stanford project that adds open discussion and comments on top of arXiv research papers.

Reclaim the Stack(reclaim-the-stack.com)

452 points by dustedcodes 2 years ago | 276 comments

Landing page for Reclaim the Stack, an open-sourced Kubernetes-based platform Mynewsdesk built to replace Heroku, claiming 90% cost reduction.

Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences(consentomatic.au.dk)

288 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 141 comments

Core: an experimental new way to write videogames(github.com)

263 points by resatori 2 years ago | 176 comments

Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money(newatlas.com)

260 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 248 comments

Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf](bmjpublichealth.bmj.com)

251 points by susam 2 years ago | 165 comments

Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup(ahmadosman.com)

246 points by XMasterrrr 2 years ago | 191 comments

Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents first increases lifespan by 50%(eurekalert.org)

230 points by snazz 2 years ago | 94 comments

FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)(ic3.gov)

230 points by ysabri 2 years ago | 110 comments

Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)(joeshaw.org)

224 points by misonic 2 years ago | 246 comments

The Fennel Programming Language(fennel-lang.org)

219 points by tosh 2 years ago | 72 comments

Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code(sqlc.dev)

213 points by wsc981 2 years ago | 94 comments

Swimmable Cities(swimmablecities.org)

208 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 169 comments

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar(misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu)

189 points by celadevra_ 2 years ago | 93 comments

ATProto for distributed system engineers(atproto.com)

182 points by danabramov 2 years ago | 34 comments

Linux's Bedtime Routine(tookmund.com)

180 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 22 comments

Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS(rakujourney.wordpress.com)

175 points by librasteve 2 years ago | 115 comments

The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want(robinsloan.com)

175 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 187 comments

Jd – JSON Diff and Patch(github.com)

171 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Canary(washingtonpost.com)

166 points by ebcode 2 years ago | 36 comments

Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?(theguardian.com)

164 points by throwaway55479 2 years ago | 190 comments

Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display(blog.stuffedcow.net)

152 points by forgotthepasswd 2 years ago | 97 comments

"Unstripping" binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg(blog.trailofbits.com)

152 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 23 comments

LuaJIT PR: Add Support for RISC-V 64(github.com)

136 points by ignota 2 years ago | 50 comments

Litecli: CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting(github.com)

132 points by tosh 2 years ago | 14 comments

Floral formula(en.wikipedia.org)

128 points by theogravity 2 years ago | 13 comments

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are mostly made of hydrogen(aps.org)

116 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 44 comments

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)(new-east-archive.org)

115 points by omnibrain 2 years ago | 71 comments

Exploiting CI / CD Pipelines for fun and profit(blog.razzsecurity.com)

112 points by mukesh610 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor(ki-editor.github.io)

109 points by hou32hou 2 years ago | 39 comments

Baiting the bot(conspirator0.substack.com)

108 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 61 comments

White House asks agencies to step up internet routing security efforts(reuters.com)

101 points by arkadiyt 2 years ago | 38 comments

Breaking Bell's Inequality with Monte Carlo Simulations in Python(bytepawn.com)

99 points by Maro 2 years ago | 37 comments

Companies need junior devs(softwaredoug.com)

97 points by softwaredoug 2 years ago | 76 comments

FutureRack: Server racks are everywhere. Now you can find them in your home(futurerack.info)

95 points by zdw 2 years ago | 48 comments

Graphics Tricks from Boomers(arnaud-carre.github.io)

94 points by atan2 2 years ago | 15 comments

Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)(warnercompanion.com)

94 points by joebig 2 years ago | 33 comments

Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax(tzovar.as)

93 points by maelito 2 years ago | 26 comments

The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5(midwinter.com)

90 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 54 comments

The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation(hackaday.com)

81 points by irdc 2 years ago | 14 comments

Minimal Web(mnmlist.com)

76 points by zacharykai 2 years ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Goroutine Monitor Powered by eBPF(github.com)

72 points by keisku 2 years ago | 2 comments

How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network(propublica.org)

70 points by howard941 2 years ago | 19 comments

With more legal action on the horizon, how long before Archive.org closes?(lunduke.locals.com)

69 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 44 comments

Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy(chipsandcheese.com)

69 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 35 comments

The Story Behind Fenster(zserge.com)

65 points by hamdouni 2 years ago | 9 comments

Malaysia backtracks on DNS redirection decision(thesun.my)

63 points by yen223 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file(npmjs.com)

61 points by jwally 2 years ago | 41 comments

Going Buildless(mxb.dev)

60 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

Iron Gall Ink(en.wikipedia.org)

60 points by red369 2 years ago | 22 comments

Open Props – Supercharged CSS Variables(open-props.style)

54 points by homarp 2 years ago | 10 comments

Nikon sold more Z9 cameras in its first year than any flagship in past 15 years(petapixel.com)

53 points by geox 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Why no transflective LCD portables?

48 points by networked 2 years ago | 38 comments

Exploding Head Syndrome: What We Know About This Mysterious Disorder(sciencealert.com)

47 points by amichail 2 years ago | 40 comments

htmx Web Security Basics(htmx.org)

47 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 12 comments

Rɐbbit Dynamic Datascapes(github.com)

47 points by notarobot123 2 years ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: How does my school block DoH?

44 points by convexpolygon 2 years ago | 36 comments

Metal-benchmarks: Apple GPU microarchitecture(github.com)

41 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 1 comments

API Complexity Is a Lie(apichangelog.substack.com)

37 points by bpedro 2 years ago | 22 comments