Hacker News on Wednesday, 2 October 2024

The Fastest Mutexes(justine.lol)

852 points by jart 2 years ago | 311 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post benchmarking Cosmopolitan Libc's mutex implementation against other platforms' mutexes under heavy thread contention.

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped(economist.com)

548 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 178 comments

The Economist article reporting that a complete connectome of an adult fruit fly brain has been mapped, and discussing prospects for mapping human brains.

Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf](wpengine.com)

510 points by dangrossman 2 years ago | 519 comments

PDF of the legal complaint filed by WP Engine against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, with exhibits, hosted on wpengine.com.

I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)(apps.apple.com)

328 points by appsDev 2 years ago | 169 comments

App Store listing for Tik!, a paid iOS rhythm game with no visuals or sound where players feel haptic vibration patterns and tap them back.

American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway(cnn.com)

320 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 262 comments

CNN/AP news story about an unexploded American WWII bomb detonating at Miyazaki Airport in Japan, leaving a large crater in a taxiway.

AMD GPU Inference(github.com)

262 points by fazkan 2 years ago | 93 comments

OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B(nytimes.com)

191 points by gmaster1440 2 years ago | 302 comments

The bunkbed conjecture is false(igorpak.wordpress.com)

181 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 62 comments

In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains(smithsonianmag.com)

176 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 45 comments

What P vs. NP is about(vasekrozhon.wordpress.com)

155 points by signa11 2 years ago | 59 comments

NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't(sidhion.com)

135 points by IrisBMeredith 2 years ago | 104 comments

Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model(huggingface.co)

135 points by mirekrusin 2 years ago | 48 comments

Anatomy of an Internet Argument(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)

134 points by nkurz 2 years ago | 82 comments

VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak(nytimes.com)

132 points by nytesky 2 years ago | 201 comments

A Trail Gone Cold(damninteresting.com)

132 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 14 comments

You Too Could Have Made Curl(daniel.haxx.se)

121 points by sebg 2 years ago | 77 comments

WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects(github.com)

101 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: A Demo for a Strategy Game(store.steampowered.com)

92 points by joegibbs 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio(github.com)

87 points by tqwewe 2 years ago | 33 comments

Distributed transactions in Go: Read before you try(threedots.tech)

86 points by roblaszczak 2 years ago | 40 comments

A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions(nytimes.com)

74 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2 years ago | 113 comments

Tiered support is an anti-pattern (2013)(peter.gillardmoss.me.uk)

69 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 59 comments

Personal Names Around the World (2011)(w3.org)

69 points by paulmooreparks 2 years ago | 39 comments

Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (2018)(royalsocietypublishing.org)

68 points by cs702 2 years ago | 29 comments

I'm a Professional(daniel.haxx.se)

65 points by sprawl_ 2 years ago | 17 comments

52 Factorial(czep.net)

63 points by Amorymeltzer 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Weird Books to Read(bizarrebookshelf.com)

61 points by Sontho 2 years ago | 8 comments

TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$(github.com)

59 points by synergy20 2 years ago | 77 comments

Modifications to GPU Hardware to Benefit Signed Distance Fields(github.com)

59 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 11 comments

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers(theregister.com)

57 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 19 comments

We need more zero config tools(arne.me)

56 points by abahlo 2 years ago | 28 comments

Why does Lisp use cons cells? (1998)(xach.com)

56 points by sph 2 years ago | 39 comments

Sustaphones Tablets – Database of repairable Android devices with community ROMs(sustaphones.com)

56 points by nfriedly 2 years ago | 5 comments

Let the network tell you where you are(rachelbythebay.com)

55 points by zdw 2 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Quilt – Powerful RAG UI for Document QA(quilt.fly.dev)

51 points by andes314 2 years ago | 19 comments

Evidence of 'Negative Time' Found in Quantum Physics Experiment(scientificamerican.com)

50 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 12 comments

Putting the "Person" in "Personal Website"(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

46 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 11 comments

What Your Job Ad Says About You(talentstuff.com)

46 points by Peroni 2 years ago | 43 comments

Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet(automattic.com)

34 points by mobilio 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ask HN: Do 10DLC Requirements make it impossible for hobby projects to send SMS?

34 points by techsin101 2 years ago | 15 comments

Holocron is an object storage based leader election library(github.com)

32 points by tosh 2 years ago | 3 comments

Tapia, Tabbi, Tabique, Tabby(placesjournal.org)

32 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 6 comments

Alert Evaluations: Incremental Merges in ClickHouse(highlight.io)

29 points by vadman97 2 years ago | 6 comments

Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Instability Root Cause Update(community.intel.com)

28 points by transpute 2 years ago | 5 comments

Airborne plastic levels shock researchers (chronic DEHP/DiNP/DEHT exposure)(news.ucr.edu)

28 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 3 comments

Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work(gizmodo.com)

28 points by mikro2nd 2 years ago | 28 comments

The Republic of Palau Becomes ITU's 194th Member State(itu.int)

27 points by zinekeller 2 years ago | 16 comments

Dashi – A Streamlit Like Framework for Rubyists(thedayisntgray.github.io)

26 points by thedayisntgray 2 years ago | 5 comments

William Cowper and the Age of the Earth [pdf] (2019)(charlespetzold.com)

25 points by hwayne 2 years ago | 16 comments

Height hunt – low bridges in the UK, and their signs(adamtownsend.com)

24 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 12 comments

GitHub's Copilot lies about its documentation. Why would I trust it with my code(shkspr.mobi)

20 points by edent 2 years ago | 28 comments

Identification of officer from Sir John franklin's Northwest Passage expedition(sciencedirect.com)

20 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 7 comments

Tracking (C++) Shared Pointer Leaks(ibob.bg)

19 points by signa11 2 years ago | 4 comments

Interviewing for Evidence(dannorth.net)

19 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 9 comments

How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children(wired.com)

17 points by laurex 2 years ago | 30 comments

Getentropy() vs. RAND_bytes()(dotat.at)

17 points by signa11 2 years ago | 12 comments

Researchers develop first banana plant resistant to TR4 and black sigatoka(phys.org)

17 points by Someone 2 years ago | 5 comments

Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy(medium.com)

16 points by vouaobrasil 2 years ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite DIY kits?

16 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Gato Prompt Lang – keep prompt content and responses short in JSON(github.com)

14 points by cat-turner 2 years ago | 2 comments