Hacker News on Sunday, 6 October 2024

Sq.io: jq for databases and more(sq.io)

535 points by stavepan 2 years ago | 110 comments

Homepage of sq, a command-line tool for querying and wrangling data from databases and files with jq-like syntax.

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online(openculture.com)

386 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 97 comments

Open Culture article announcing that the medieval illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells has been digitized and made freely viewable online.

Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon(nickb.website)

333 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 128 comments

A blog post by Nick Botticelli, dated April 30, 2024, about virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon Macs.

Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon(edwardbenson.com)

325 points by gwintrob 2 years ago | 167 comments

Ted Benson's blog post describing how he tricked Google's NotebookLM AI podcast generator by modifying his website to feed it false claims.

AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted(arnaud-carre.github.io)

294 points by msephton 2 years ago | 61 comments

So thieves broke into your storage unit again(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

249 points by goldenskye 2 years ago | 269 comments

HPy – A better C API for Python(hpyproject.org)

236 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 78 comments

Rust needs a web framework(ntietz.com)

230 points by dcminter 2 years ago | 287 comments

XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support(ostechnix.com)

228 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 140 comments

Gleam Is Pragmatic(blog.drewolson.org)

219 points by crowdhailer 2 years ago | 122 comments

Good Retry, Bad Retry(medium.com)

211 points by misonic 2 years ago | 53 comments

Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

207 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 537 comments

Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency(r.ena.to)

184 points by napsterbr 2 years ago | 63 comments

How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video](youtube.com)

180 points by zdw 2 years ago | 71 comments

Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard(spectrum.ieee.org)

179 points by thebeardisred 2 years ago | 86 comments

We're excited about our new roundabout(wsdotblog.blogspot.com)

178 points by aendruk 2 years ago | 262 comments

AI is an impediment to learning web development(ben.page)

175 points by bdlowery 2 years ago | 166 comments

The magic (image resampling) kernel(johncostella.com)

152 points by BoingBoomTschak 2 years ago | 30 comments

We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem(old.reddit.com)

148 points by neelc 2 years ago | 133 comments

A DIY photographer built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project(dpreview.com)

142 points by jbellis 2 years ago | 23 comments

Popular Science Magazine Archives, May 1872-March 2009(books.google.com)

136 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 42 comments

ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping(twitter.com)

114 points by jsheard 2 years ago | 41 comments

When Earth had rings(nautil.us)

113 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 45 comments

Ceres: An ocean world in the asteroid belt(astronomy.com)

112 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 55 comments

We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam(pncnmnp.github.io)

110 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 46 comments

LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)(web.stanford.edu)

98 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 28 comments

Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging(twitter.com)

97 points by nynx 2 years ago | 93 comments

Gustav Klimt's Obsession with Gold(news.artnet.com)

97 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 36 comments

Idiomatic Awk (2010)(backreference.org)

96 points by StefanBatory 2 years ago | 25 comments

Gokapi: Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative with AWS S3 support(github.com)

95 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 29 comments

The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)(bbc.com)

95 points by blubbb 2 years ago | 243 comments

Ziggy: Data serialization language for expressing API messages, config files(ziggy-lang.io)

91 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 12 comments

WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe(hadea.ec.europa.eu)

91 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 80 comments

Hyprland 0.44(hyprland.org)

89 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 30 comments

How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet(eff.org)

86 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 40 comments

The survival skills of Helena Valero(woodfromeden.substack.com)

85 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 27 comments

Kernighan's Lever (2012)(linusakesson.net)

83 points by tosh 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Naming of America (2023)(jonathancohenweb.com)

77 points by dadt 2 years ago | 98 comments

To Be Born in a Bag(press.asimov.com)

76 points by mailyk 2 years ago | 98 comments

One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense (2016)(wired.com)

75 points by hakdov 2 years ago | 39 comments

New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter(phys.org)

74 points by squircle 2 years ago | 25 comments

Canvases versus Documents(kaiwenwang.com)

74 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Importance of Local Development(fastpaced.com)

74 points by davnn 2 years ago | 54 comments

Unoffice Hours (2020)(interconnected.org)

73 points by andai 2 years ago | 27 comments

Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?(wired.com)

72 points by vunderba 2 years ago | 76 comments

'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'(english.elpais.com)

71 points by belter 2 years ago | 76 comments

Things I learned interviewing for Staff positions(amyunger.com)

70 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 61 comments

The SQLite Amalgamation(sqlite.org)

69 points by burglins 2 years ago | 10 comments

Meta Is Probably Training AI on Images Taken by Meta Ray-Bans(macrumors.com)

66 points by reaperducer 2 years ago | 36 comments

AI won't replace human devs anytime soon(twitter.com)

64 points by skeptrune 2 years ago | 93 comments

Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI(abc.net.au)

63 points by testrun 2 years ago | 22 comments

The X-Files Game(filfre.net)

61 points by thurnderbong 2 years ago | 22 comments

"Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says(arstechnica.com)

60 points by cebert 2 years ago | 33 comments

Shrinking augmented reality displays into eyeglasses to expand their use(phys.org)

60 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad (2016)(blog.regehr.org)

60 points by pkkm 2 years ago | 39 comments

Seeing Faces in Things: A model and dataset for pareidolia(science.org)

58 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 38 comments

Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

53 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 26 comments

Sorbet: A neuromorphic hardware-compatible transformer-based spiking model(arxiv.org)

47 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 24 comments

Partitioning in the Chiplet Era(semiengineering.com)

45 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 6 comments