Hacker News on Saturday, 28 September 2024

FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot(github.com)

767 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 95 comments

GitHub repository for GodotOceanWaves, an MIT-licensed FFT-based ocean-wave rendering implementation for the Godot engine.

Amusing Ourselves to Death (2014)(web.archive.org)

441 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 283 comments

A personal blog post titled "Amusing ourselves to death" by Talha Ghannam (January 2014), apparently reflecting on Neil Postman's media critique.

How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)(discord.com)

379 points by jakey_bakey 2 years ago | 209 comments

Discord engineering blog post describing how the company migrated its trillions of stored messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, including Rust data services.

Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill(drew.silcock.dev)

362 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post explaining the changes in Python 3.13, focusing on the experimental JIT compiler and the optional removal of the Global Interpreter Lock.

SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS(apnews.com)

339 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 314 comments

AP News article on SpaceX launching a rescue mission for two NASA astronauts stranded on the International Space Station until next year.

The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t(blogs.gentoo.org)

265 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 182 comments

Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane(righto.com)

196 points by zdw 2 years ago | 62 comments

Britain buys semiconductor factory for defence purposes(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)

185 points by incognitojam 2 years ago | 90 comments

The Little Typer (2018)(thelittletyper.com)

170 points by aarestad 2 years ago | 35 comments

SunVox: Powerful Modular Synthesizer and DAW(warmplace.ru)

170 points by timkq 2 years ago | 43 comments

Notion's mid-life crisis(jjinux.com)

167 points by krishna2 2 years ago | 115 comments

On the design of text editors (2020)(arxiv.org)

161 points by signa11 2 years ago | 62 comments

PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao(pytorch.org)

157 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 48 comments

If AI seems smarter, it's thanks to smarter human trainers(reuters.com)

155 points by getwiththeprog 2 years ago | 119 comments

Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014)(repositories.lib.utexas.edu)

153 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 62 comments

Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels(github.com)

148 points by denysonique 2 years ago | 74 comments

Notes on the Crystal Language(wiki.alopex.li)

144 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Show HN: htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx(htmgo.dev)

144 points by maddalax 2 years ago | 60 comments

MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program(marktyler.org)

137 points by Mr_Minderbinder 2 years ago | 45 comments

Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?(theatlantic.com)

120 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 92 comments

Meta fined $102M for storing passwords in plain text(engadget.com)

117 points by redbell 2 years ago | 74 comments

I Made a Rubbish Clock(blog.jgc.org)

110 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Iceoryx2 – Fast IPC Library for Rust, C++, and C(ekxide.io)

104 points by elfenpiff 2 years ago | 30 comments

REPL for Dart(github.com)

103 points by tosh 2 years ago | 51 comments

Cores That Don't Count [pdf](sigops.org)

98 points by signa11 2 years ago | 10 comments

Offline UX Patterns(github.com)

97 points by notpushkin 2 years ago | 11 comments

Is English a “creole Language”?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

87 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 120 comments

Four more health care workers ill after caring for bird flu case in Missouri(statnews.com)

87 points by divbzero 2 years ago | 2 comments

Recreating Dune II for the Amiga(spillhistorie.no)

86 points by binarycrusader 2 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Bringing multithreading to Python's async event loop(github.com)

81 points by nbsande 2 years ago | 36 comments

Building a compile-time SIMD optimized smoothing filter(scientificcomputing.rs)

77 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 17 comments

Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri(nytimes.com)

75 points by ctoth 2 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Mitata – Benchmarking tooling for JavaScript(github.com)

71 points by evnwashere 2 years ago | 22 comments

Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the App" (2011)(techemails.com)

70 points by rurp 2 years ago | 57 comments

America is becoming less "woke"(economist.com)

67 points by srid 2 years ago | 47 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code

63 points by ilrwbwrkhv 2 years ago | 38 comments

What was the point of [ "x$var" = "xval" ]? (2021)(vidarholen.net)

60 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript(github.com)

55 points by khanmitdoit 2 years ago | 35 comments

The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years(msn.com)

54 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 47 comments

Five ways to reduce variance in A/B testing(bytepawn.com)

54 points by Maro 2 years ago | 20 comments

Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says(9to5mac.com)

48 points by gniting 2 years ago | 35 comments

Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover(phys.org)

45 points by wglb 2 years ago | 7 comments

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges(hackaday.com)

45 points by kidbomb 2 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Open-source app builder for comfy workflows(github.com)

41 points by gbieler 2 years ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it(chromewebstore.google.com)

39 points by chernikovalexey 2 years ago | 19 comments

Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k(ente.io)

38 points by microsoftedging 2 years ago | 11 comments

Our ping pong startup hit a $50M valuation in 5 years by tapping into automation(fortune.com)

37 points by tomwiddles 2 years ago | 31 comments

It is never too later to write your own C/C++ command-line utilities(lemire.me)

37 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 24 comments

Illusions of Competence in Monitoring One's Knowledge During Study [pdf] (2005)(iipdm.haifa.ac.il)

36 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 3 comments

Cups Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available(ubuntu.com)

35 points by heisenbit 2 years ago | 5 comments

America's Greyhound bus stations are disappearing(cnn.com)

28 points by drewr 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: RelayBeam – A new way of messaging using Ports(relaybeam.com)

25 points by supritgandhi 2 years ago | 28 comments

Paper microfluidic sensors for rapid on-site wastewater surveillance(cell.com)

24 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 0 comments

Up to date Rust bindings for LMDB(crates.io)

23 points by seanwatters 2 years ago | 11 comments

Incremental Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.2 (2015)(blog.heroku.com)

22 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 2 comments

As Florida Storms Worsen, Some in Tampa Bay Wonder: Is Living There Worth It?(nytimes.com)

19 points by howard941 2 years ago | 33 comments

Researchers seeing little evidence of benefit from co pilots(cio.com)

19 points by chairmansteve 2 years ago | 5 comments

Jeremy Clarkson Says All Modern Cars 'Are Shit'(jalopnik.com)

17 points by rntn 2 years ago | 11 comments

Spaced repetition is more than memorization – it's also generalization(justinmath.com)

17 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?

16 points by amichail 2 years ago | 30 comments