Hacker News on Sunday, 22 September 2024

Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions(github.com)

550 points by linkdd 2 years ago | 138 comments

GitHub organization page for Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions, a parody group building software such as an operating system in the Brainfuck esoteric language.

Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python(github.com)

428 points by Kodiologist 2 years ago | 108 comments

GitHub discussion post announcing the release of Hy 1.0.0, a Lisp dialect embedded in Python, after nearly 12 years of development.

They stole my voice with AI(jeffgeerling.com)

422 points by sounds 2 years ago | 275 comments

Jeff Geerling's blog post about a company using an AI-cloned version of his voice without permission.

Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB(github.com)

359 points by lostmsu 2 years ago | 148 comments

GitHub repository for a Flappy Bird clone for Android 5.1+ written only in C, with an APK under 100 kilobytes.

Uber charges more if you have credits in your account(viewfromthewing.com)

346 points by cwwc 2 years ago | 174 comments

View from the Wing article reporting that Uber may quote higher fares to riders who have credits in their accounts.

Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make(github.com)

337 points by doodlesdev 2 years ago | 127 comments

GitHub repository for rawdrawandroid, a project for building Android apps entirely in C and Make without any Java.

London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids(grist.org)

294 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 238 comments

Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps(nextcloud.com)

268 points by tomrod 2 years ago | 215 comments

Does “building in public” work?(laike9m.com)

265 points by laike9m 2 years ago | 200 comments

Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature(nature.com)

255 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 57 comments

Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR(airgradient.com)

202 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 63 comments

Sublime text started adding a “.s” to new files(forum.sublimetext.com)

198 points by breck 2 years ago | 79 comments

Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets(android-developers.googleblog.com)

182 points by tosh 2 years ago | 165 comments

Show HN: PDF to MD by LLMs – Extract Text/Tables/Image Descriptives by GPT4o(github.com)

178 points by yigitkonur35 2 years ago | 88 comments

Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games(notebookcheck.net)

164 points by haunter 2 years ago | 111 comments

'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network(npr.org)

159 points by jameslk 2 years ago | 105 comments

Intel's Redwood Cove: Baby Steps Are Still Steps(chipsandcheese.com)

155 points by pella 2 years ago | 51 comments

It is hard to recommend Google Cloud(ashishb.net)

152 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 85 comments

Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night(github.com)

148 points by Blaze854 2 years ago | 117 comments

Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?(lloydatkinson.net)

113 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: A tool to analyze Hacker News sentiment on any term in seconds(classysoftware.io)

112 points by lorddustingale 2 years ago | 73 comments

Compiling to Assembly from Scratch(keleshev.com)

111 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 37 comments

Incredibly Ambitious SMB 3 Hack Released After 12 Years(marioadventure3.com)

93 points by CM30 2 years ago | 29 comments

If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?

93 points by thisismytest 2 years ago | 104 comments

Show HN: Put ful.co/ in front of any URL to easily copy its SVGs and images(ful.co)

91 points by fulco__ 2 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: I built a chatbot to converse with 3M SaaS product reviews(reviewradar.ai)

85 points by andreict 2 years ago | 39 comments

One-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools(payoncealternatives.com)

82 points by ksec 2 years ago | 65 comments

LinkedIn does not use European users' data for training its AI(techradar.com)

78 points by robertclaus 2 years ago | 58 comments

Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root(shizuku.rikka.app)

72 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data(beautifulpublicdata.com)

72 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 14 comments

A Retrospective on the Oils Project(oilshell.org)

62 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 0 comments

The unknowns surrounding the mysterious rise of cancer in young adults(english.elpais.com)

52 points by belter 2 years ago | 58 comments

Love of cargo bikes is changing how we deliver goods in our cities(euronews.com)

50 points by rglullis 2 years ago | 67 comments

Linear Mobile – Available for iOS and Android(linear.app)

49 points by thatxliner 2 years ago | 7 comments

Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction(cell.com)

48 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 38 comments

Why do BIC pens have a hole in the lid? (2016)(independent.co.uk)

47 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 21 comments

The sorry state of Java deserialization(marginalia.nu)

47 points by kevincox 2 years ago | 21 comments

Super Useful Chrome Plugins for Front-End Developers(jsdevspace.substack.com)

44 points by javatuts 2 years ago | 19 comments

Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more(github.com)

42 points by jgarzik 2 years ago | 6 comments

pgroll: PostgreSQL zero-downtime migrations made easy(github.com)

39 points by tosh 2 years ago | 0 comments

Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World(nytimes.com)

39 points by kawera 2 years ago | 22 comments

Is this the civilization we want? (2017)(dynamicland.org)

39 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 35 comments

LsCs is a cross platform C++ GUI library focused on Medical Devices(lscs-software.com)

32 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 39 comments

Plagiarism Claims Are Brought Against University of Maryland's President(nytimes.com)

31 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 16 comments

How We Sort the World(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

28 points by r721 2 years ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups?

28 points by walterfreedom 2 years ago | 39 comments

Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn to the World's Most Harrowing Film?(thequietus.com)

27 points by mellosouls 2 years ago | 9 comments

Writing Portable Rendering Code with Nvrhi(developer.nvidia.com)

27 points by Flex247A 2 years ago | 6 comments

Google Zanzibar: Implementing the Check API and Expand API Using .NET (2023)(bytefish.de)

27 points by bytefish 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing (2011)(paperplanes.de)

25 points by tosh 2 years ago | 1 comments

Project Servo (2010) [pdf](venge.net)

24 points by luu 2 years ago | 7 comments

Sci-Fi: Every Idea in One CSV(gist.github.com)

22 points by FL33TW00D 2 years ago | 2 comments

Mozilla's privacy preserving ad attribution: The future or an oxymoron?(ethicalads.io)

22 points by ericholscher 2 years ago | 8 comments

Avoidance Mapping: What It Is and Where It Fits in the Cartography Cube(geoawesome.com)

22 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 9 comments

How streaming LLM APIs work(til.simonwillison.net)

21 points by tosh 2 years ago | 8 comments

Communicating with Interactive Articles (2020)(distill.pub)

21 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 0 comments

FOSDEM 2025(fosdem.org)

18 points by edward 2 years ago | 10 comments

Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it(theregister.com)

17 points by rntn 2 years ago | 3 comments

A Bay Area boy was kidnapped from a park in 1951. He's just been found alive(sfgate.com)

14 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 1 comments

Blast wakes ghosts of nuclear past (1995)(newscientist.com)

12 points by r721 2 years ago | 1 comments