Hacker News on Sunday, 15 September 2024

How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)(simonwillison.net)

1996 points by babelfish 2 years ago | 1291 comments

Simon Willison blog post quoting and commenting on a leaked MrBeast production company onboarding PDF about making YouTube videos and team culture.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font(brailleinstitute.org)

719 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 197 comments

Braille Institute page offering the free Atkinson Hyperlegible font, designed to improve readability for people with low vision.

Tell HN: DanBC has died

444 points by in_memoriam 2 years ago | 69 comments

A Tell HN post announcing the death of long-time Hacker News contributor DanBC (Dan Beale Cocks), a mental health advocate in Gloucestershire.

Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn(blockchain.com)

406 points by mrb 2 years ago | 344 comments

Blockchain.com explorer page for the Bitcoin puzzle #66 address, showing 6.6 BTC received and fully withdrawn, leaving a zero balance.

Nothing: Simply Do Nothing(usenothing.com)

396 points by psvisualdesign 2 years ago | 164 comments

Nothing is a minimalist web page with a timer that counts how long you stay idle, encouraging you to settle into silence and do nothing.

How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire(peterszasz.com)

361 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 185 comments

Blog post by Péter Szász on how engineering managers can lead their teams during crisis or 'wartime' periods at a company.

The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video](youtube.com)

322 points by triyambakam 2 years ago | 192 comments

YouTube video by ChromaLock showing a TI-84 graphing calculator modified to access ChatGPT, billed as the ultimate cheating device.

Show HN: Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM(github.com)

316 points by deepsquirrelnet 2 years ago | 25 comments

g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains(github.com)

306 points by gfortaine 2 years ago | 137 comments

Plain Text Accounting (PTA)(plaintextaccounting.org)

293 points by iscream26 2 years ago | 106 comments

D&D is Anti-Medieval(blogofholding.com)

267 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 355 comments

Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi(github.com)

264 points by Sean-Der 2 years ago | 47 comments

Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat(zachxbt.mirror.xyz)

256 points by noch 2 years ago | 172 comments

Linux 6.11 Released(lwn.net)

246 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 91 comments

LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat(github.com)

243 points by exfil 2 years ago | 181 comments

Learn Git Branching(learngitbranching.js.org)

237 points by dsego 2 years ago | 79 comments

Show HN: Bullshit Remover(bullshitremover.com)

226 points by adrian-dzieg 2 years ago | 114 comments

Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links(gizmodo.com)

180 points by f_allwein 2 years ago | 77 comments

Paraguay Loves Mickey, the Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn't(nytimes.com)

170 points by howard941 2 years ago | 116 comments

Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts(bsky.app)

157 points by Kye 2 years ago | 75 comments

Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream(tomshardware.com)

148 points by croes 2 years ago | 87 comments

The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beginning (2015)(jjinux.com)

145 points by ern 2 years ago | 148 comments

Powerful, Open-Source, Programmatic CAD(implicitcad.org)

127 points by omeid2 2 years ago | 20 comments

OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy(grafana.com)

123 points by meysamazad 2 years ago | 31 comments

Data Engineering Vault: A 1000 Node Second Brain for DE Knowledge(ssp.sh)

118 points by articsputnik 2 years ago | 16 comments

Geometric Search Trees(g-trees.github.io)

106 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 16 comments

CSCI 181G PO: Game Engine Programming(cs.pomona.edu)

104 points by memkit 2 years ago | 16 comments

Declarative Programming with AI/LLMs(blog.codesolvent.com)

103 points by Edmond 2 years ago | 57 comments

How to Make Millions as a Professional Whistleblower(gq.com)

99 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 18 comments

Fractran: Computer architecture based on the multiplication of fractions(wiki.xxiivv.com)

99 points by signa11 2 years ago | 19 comments

AT&T's Hobbit Microprocessor (2023)(thechipletter.substack.com)

97 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 34 comments

Randomness extractors: making fair coins out of biased coins(bytepawn.com)

95 points by Maro 2 years ago | 45 comments

CSSnano(cssnano.github.io)

92 points by tosh 2 years ago | 33 comments

What Firefox trains are we in?(whattrainisitnow.com)

92 points by joebig 2 years ago | 23 comments

A bullet hell game written in bash(twitter.com)

91 points by taviso 2 years ago | 12 comments

Dissecting the gzip format (2011)(infinitepartitions.com)

84 points by solannou 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Death of the Magazine(honest-broker.com)

76 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 68 comments

Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?

74 points by dmazin 2 years ago | 39 comments

Terence Tao: creative strategies, this aspect of LLM tools is still weak(mathstodon.xyz)

71 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 32 comments

Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"(old.reddit.com)

70 points by neerajdotname2 2 years ago | 15 comments

Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon(spectrum.ieee.org)

68 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 47 comments

i3wm inspired wm for Windows(github.com)

65 points by piyushsthr 2 years ago | 14 comments

Compression Dictionary Transport(datatracker.ietf.org)

65 points by tosh 2 years ago | 43 comments

Logbookd – SQLite Backed Syslogd(git.sr.ht)

61 points by tosh 2 years ago | 20 comments

European Consumer Organization goes after publishers for their in-game currency(gamingonlinux.com)

60 points by Rinzler89 2 years ago | 32 comments

Optimizing your career for happiness(praachi.work)

58 points by abhas9 2 years ago | 29 comments

Sweden will offer migrants $34,000 to go home(nytimes.com)

53 points by geox 2 years ago | 28 comments

A More Modern CSS Reset (2019)(piccalil.li)

51 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 11 comments

Implement algorithms that minimize slippage(quantitativo.com)

50 points by carlossouza 2 years ago | 5 comments

A Time Consuming Pitfall for 32-Bit Applications on AArch64(sigma-star.at)

48 points by st_goliath 2 years ago | 20 comments

The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed(theregister.com)

46 points by CppPro 2 years ago | 32 comments

Michigan Micro Mote (M3) makes history as the smallest computer (2015)(ece.engin.umich.edu)

44 points by throwoutway 2 years ago | 7 comments

Retiring from the Idea of Retirement(candost.blog)

40 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 28 comments

Mastering Null Semantics: Translating SQL Expressions to OpenSearch DSL(coralogix.com)

39 points by hackerzr 2 years ago | 8 comments

New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet(economist.com)

38 points by lxm 2 years ago | 55 comments

Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos(arstechnica.com)

35 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 32 comments

Napkin-math: Techniques for estimating system performance from first-principles(github.com)

31 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 0 comments

US House votes to bar new DJI drones(reuters.com)

28 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 30 comments

Stepwise selection of variables in regression is Evil(freerangestats.info)

28 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 9 comments

Dropped Cheetos Could Have Triggered Ecosystem Chaos in Largest US Cave Chamber(iflscience.com)

28 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 4 comments