Hacker News on Monday, 23 September 2024

I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock(arslan.io)

1431 points by farslan 2 years ago | 335 comments

Fatih Arslan's blog post describing how he designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock, shown as an orange printed stand.

Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java

555 points by goostavos 2 years ago | 152 comments

Show HN discussion thread where the author announces his Manning early-access book "Data-Oriented Programming in Java" and describes its approach.

In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules(atomsonly.news)

532 points by mailyk 2 years ago | 185 comments

Substack essay on how Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used oil spread on water to estimate the size of a single molecule.

We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs(publish.obsidian.md)

452 points by felarof 2 years ago | 87 comments

Felafax blog post describing how they fine-tuned Llama 3.1 405B on 8 AMD MI300X GPUs using JAX, covering parameter sharding and LoRA.

What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?(peabee.substack.com)

418 points by captn3m0 2 years ago | 256 comments

A Substack post investigating a cafe's QR code ordering website that collected names and WhatsApp numbers, exploring what data and security issues it exposed.

Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping(techcrunch.com)

381 points by boristsr 2 years ago | 246 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Cloudflare is launching a marketplace letting website owners charge AI companies' bots for scraping their content.

iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video](youtube.com)

354 points by haunter 2 years ago | 219 comments

YouTube video from KingSener showing an iPhone 16 Pro's internal storage being upgraded from 128GB to 1TB.

How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works(ifixit.com)

352 points by jamesy0ung 2 years ago | 147 comments

iFixit article by Kyle Wiens examining the iPhone 16's electrically-released battery adhesive and other repairability innovations.

Octopuses seen hunting together with fish(nbcnews.com)

308 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 240 comments

The Intelligence Age(ia.samaltman.com)

257 points by firloop 2 years ago | 313 comments

Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram(github.com)

241 points by alex_hirner 2 years ago | 59 comments

WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic(twitter.com)

240 points by kevmarsden 2 years ago | 172 comments

What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine(nrm.org)

232 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 110 comments

Alan Turing's 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)

212 points by lisper 2 years ago | 53 comments

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff(rachelbythebay.com)

212 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 comments

Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts(theverge.com)

210 points by Kye 2 years ago | 383 comments

Show HN: King Thirteen: 2048 with chess pieces, in under 13 KB(js13kgames.com)

203 points by animuchan 2 years ago | 61 comments

The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity(the-sentinel-intelligence.com)

202 points by kruuuder 2 years ago | 133 comments

Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE)(github.com)

153 points by super_linear 2 years ago | 71 comments

Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps(github.com)

136 points by MK2k 2 years ago | 64 comments

Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip(righto.com)

135 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 67 comments

Ocean waves grow way beyond known limits(phys.org)

134 points by wglb 2 years ago | 68 comments

Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET(fractalfir.github.io)

123 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 57 comments

What I've Learned in the Past Year Spent Building an AI Video Editor(makeartwithpython.com)

121 points by burningion 2 years ago | 58 comments

Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects(theverge.com)

115 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 67 comments

Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp(todayhasbeen.com)

107 points by rahulg 2 years ago | 86 comments

Data Science Agent and Code Transformation(labs.google.com)

98 points by _endif_ 2 years ago | 12 comments

Anime is eating the world(a16z.com)

94 points by vishnurnair 2 years ago | 256 comments

Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience(thetransmitter.org)

91 points by domofutu 2 years ago | 79 comments

Overview of cross-architecture portability problems(blogs.gentoo.org)

89 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 19 comments

Major Toronto Utility Company Stores Customers' Passwords in Plain Text(old.reddit.com)

88 points by oneturkmen 2 years ago | 56 comments

Launch HN: Panora (YC S24) – Data Integration API for LLMs(github.com)

86 points by nael_ob 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Interactive map of the convenience store "turf war" in Japan(conbini.kikkia.dev)

79 points by kikkia 2 years ago | 32 comments

Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor(nova.app)

78 points by luismedel 2 years ago | 66 comments

Teenager jailed for 18 months still in prison 18 years(independent.co.uk)

76 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 68 comments

Qocker is a user-friendly Qt GUI application for managing Docker containers(github.com)

74 points by xlmnxp 2 years ago | 46 comments

Autocracy and Stagnation: How Imperial Exams Shaped China's Destiny(chinatalk.media)

74 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 51 comments

What I tell people new to on-call(ntietz.com)

70 points by zdw 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Python Package Index Should Get Rid of Its Training Wheels(kristoff.it)

69 points by AndyKelley 2 years ago | 45 comments

One Year of Rust in Production(yieldcode.blog)

61 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 1 comments

What Is Io_uring?(matklad.github.io)

59 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 21 comments

Perfect prevention vs. perfect detection(oliverhill.xyz)

58 points by anteloper 2 years ago | 7 comments

Developing a Go bot embedding Ichiban Prolog(rogersm.net)

58 points by triska 2 years ago | 5 comments

Why is F# code so robust and reliable?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

56 points by b-man 2 years ago | 35 comments

Telegram Removes Z-Library Posts 'Due to Copyright Infringement'(torrentfreak.com)

55 points by pera 2 years ago | 25 comments

Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?(phys.org)

54 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 39 comments

Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X(techcrunch.com)

51 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 29 comments

Two kinds of LLM responses: Informational vs. Instructional(shabie.github.io)

50 points by shabie 2 years ago | 6 comments

California fails to track its homelessness spending or results, a new audit says(calmatters.org)

49 points by wslh 2 years ago | 17 comments

Nintendo Kawaii Progress (Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii)(bitbuilt.net)

47 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 12 comments

iPhone 16 is much easier to repair(engadget.com)

44 points by vincentchau 2 years ago | 33 comments

NeRF-Supervised Feature Point Detection and Description(arxiv.org)

43 points by QuantumWeb 2 years ago | 1 comments

Amazon says workers must be in the office. The UK government disagrees(bbc.co.uk)

43 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 54 comments

Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years(building.co.uk)

41 points by chickenbig 2 years ago | 59 comments

Combining sound with tongue stimulation for the treatment of tinnitus(nature.com)

41 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 7 comments

Crypto Wars: Hungarian Presidency continues fight against encryption(heise.de)

40 points by layer8 2 years ago | 7 comments

Flesh and Blood (2021)(theanarchistlibrary.org)

38 points by wahnfrieden 2 years ago | 23 comments

Implementing and Detecting Anti-Debugging with Fork()(tonygo.netlify.app)

38 points by tonygo 2 years ago | 10 comments

Where has all the productivity gone? (2021)(johndcook.com)

37 points by tie-in 2 years ago | 16 comments

Honey, YouTubers Are Poisoning the Kids(trend-mill.com)

37 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 27 comments