Hacker News on Friday, 20 September 2024

Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery(github.com)

553 points by lds133 2 years ago | 53 comments

GitHub repository for a project that renders weather forecasts as landscape imagery on e-ink displays using ESP32, MicroPython and OpenWeatherMap.

Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit(dmitry.gr)

517 points by dmitrygr 2 years ago | 136 comments

Dmitry Grinberg's project page describing booting Debian Linux on a custom board powered by a 1971 Intel 4004 4-bit microprocessor via MIPS emulation.

Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion(container-desktop.com)

423 points by istoica 2 years ago | 170 comments

Landing page for Container Desktop, an open-source cross-platform desktop graphical interface for the Podman container manager.

Show HN: Put this touch sensor on a robot and learn super precise tasks(any-skin.github.io)

365 points by raunaqmb 2 years ago | 62 comments

Project page for AnySkin, a plug-and-play magnetic skin touch sensor for robots from NYU, CMU, Columbia and Meta, with paper, CAD files and design tool links.

CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU(github.com)

347 points by tanelpoder 2 years ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for CuPy, a NumPy- and SciPy-compatible array library for GPU-accelerated computing in Python with CUDA and ROCm support.

NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean(science.org)

345 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 325 comments

Science magazine news article about a NASA spacecraft mission to investigate whether Europa's salty subsurface ocean could support life; page blocked by Cloudflare check.

Contextual Retrieval(anthropic.com)

287 points by loganfrederick 2 years ago | 70 comments

Critical Exploit in MediaTek Wi-Fi Chipsets: Zero-Click Vulnerability(blog.sonicwall.com)

232 points by pjf 2 years ago | 90 comments

Openpilot – Operating system for robotics(github.com)

219 points by punnerud 2 years ago | 127 comments

Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)

216 points by weirdcat 2 years ago | 86 comments

Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?

193 points by IgorPartola 2 years ago | 201 comments

Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals(macrumors.com)

184 points by stalfosknight 2 years ago | 113 comments

Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means for Your Photos(petapixel.com)

174 points by alwillis 2 years ago | 89 comments

MemoRAG – Enhance RAG with memory-based knowledge discovery for long contexts(github.com)

171 points by taikon 2 years ago | 29 comments

Reactive Relational Algebra(taylor.town)

165 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 31 comments

Tō Reo – A Māori Spellchecker(xn--treo-l3a.nz)

164 points by firstbabylonian 2 years ago | 32 comments

Optimizing Guile Scheme(dthompson.us)

159 points by avvvv 2 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform(inngest.com)

153 points by tonyhb 2 years ago | 39 comments

How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes(peelarchivesblog.com)

148 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 23 comments

Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps(hoodmaps.com)

144 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 72 comments

Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition(therecord.media)

139 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 96 comments

Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors(lwn.net)

130 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 98 comments

Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated(ukfoundations.co)

121 points by tollandlebas 2 years ago | 195 comments

CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains(theregister.com)

116 points by tsujamin 2 years ago | 83 comments

The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor (2009)(vintagecalculators.com)

116 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 37 comments

Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel(theverge.com)

115 points by oco101 2 years ago | 60 comments

Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%(discord.com)

113 points by hampus 2 years ago | 74 comments

Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations(pierre-couy.dev)

94 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications(aosabook.org)

88 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 6 comments

Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal(reuters.com)

85 points by rcdemski 2 years ago | 97 comments

Show HN: AIQ – A no-frills CLI for embeddings and text classification(github.com)

82 points by andersonbcdefg 2 years ago | 6 comments

Wasm2Mpy: Compiling WASM to MicroPython so it can run on Raspberrys(github.com)

80 points by syrusakbary 2 years ago | 29 comments

A flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines? (2014)(travel.stackexchange.com)

79 points by beatthatflight 2 years ago | 139 comments

Microsoft TypeSpec(typespec.io)

78 points by bundie 2 years ago | 47 comments

We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready(element.io)

74 points by raybb 2 years ago | 47 comments

Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files(khromov.se)

74 points by khromov 2 years ago | 39 comments

Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Dont Have 100(darrenhorrocks.co.uk)

72 points by riz_ 2 years ago | 42 comments

Disable Sequoia's monthly screen recording permission prompt(tinyapps.org)

67 points by mrtksn 2 years ago | 20 comments

Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices(ethanepperly.com)

63 points by KqAmJQ7 2 years ago | 4 comments

No same site = None cookies for iOS18(github.com)

62 points by Zobat 2 years ago | 19 comments

A rigid but foldable indoor airship aerial system for cave exploration(arxiv.org)

60 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 39 comments

A Little History of the Anchovy(engelsbergideas.com)

59 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 25 comments

Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming

58 points by dbetteridge 2 years ago | 37 comments

Thoughts on the New iOS Control Centre(manuelmoreale.com)

55 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 28 comments

How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence(directory.libsyn.com)

51 points by gmays 2 years ago | 38 comments

Cache Me Not, Cache Me, Cache Me Not(hazelweakly.me)

49 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 15 comments

Moerenuma Park: A Giant, Gorgeous 'Living Sculpture' in Hokkaido(tokyoweekender.com)

47 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 7 comments

Understudied protein blobs have global effects on cell biochemistry(phys.org)

46 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 10 comments

Radar Detector Legend Michael Valentine Has Died(roadandtrack.com)

45 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 36 comments

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before(theregister.com)

43 points by defrost 2 years ago | 39 comments

New AI diffusion model approach solves the aspect ratio problem(news.rice.edu)

41 points by gmays 2 years ago | 17 comments

Elite 40th Anniversary – Source code release(elitehomepage.org)

40 points by ndiddy 2 years ago | 4 comments

Yes, you can have exactly-once delivery(blog.rongarret.info)

39 points by lisper 2 years ago | 33 comments

Hachette vs. Internet Archive: We're Still Fighting for Fair Use(libraryfutures.net)

38 points by MrVandemar 2 years ago | 41 comments

ts-blank-space is a fast type-stripping compiler(bloomberg.github.io)

38 points by joatmon-snoo 2 years ago | 35 comments

Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts(codingfont.com)

37 points by rootforce 2 years ago | 24 comments

Can't change security policy or disable SIP with macOS 15 Sequoia(lapcatsoftware.com)

37 points by transpute 2 years ago | 27 comments

Parallel PNG Proposal (2021)(github.com)

31 points by networked 2 years ago | 3 comments

Linux Horror Stories and Protection Spells (Volume I) (2021)(blopig.com)

28 points by marcodiego 2 years ago | 12 comments

Even solar energy's biggest fans are underestimating it(vox.com)

28 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 33 comments