Hacker News on Thursday, 10 October 2024

Helping wikis move away from Fandom(weirdgloop.org)

1064 points by creatonez 2 years ago | 473 comments

Weird Gloop blog post explaining why it now hosts the official League of Legends Wiki and plans to help more game wikis leave Fandom.

DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing(github.com)

1034 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 150 comments

GitHub repository for DeskPad, an MIT-licensed macOS app that creates a virtual monitor for screen sharing.

AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux(rosenzweig.io)

861 points by 6a74 2 years ago | 318 comments

Blog post announcing the Asahi Linux game playing toolkit, combining Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility to run AAA games on M1 Macs.

The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications(thecopenhagenbook.com)

681 points by sebnun 2 years ago | 172 comments

The Copenhagen Book is a free, open-source, community-maintained guide to implementing authentication in web applications, by Pilcrow.

Show HN: HTML for People(htmlforpeople.com)

568 points by blakewatson 2 years ago | 200 comments

HTML for People is a free online guide teaching beginners how to build websites with plain HTML and CSS.

Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel(tenno.app)

371 points by deepmacro 2 years ago | 131 comments

Tenno is a web app for live-editable Markdown documents with computational cells and charts, combining word processing and spreadsheet features.

“Bad Apple” in Minecraft(purplesyringa.moe)

368 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 59 comments

Blog post by purplesyringa describing how the authors built a high-quality "Bad Apple!!" animation playback inside Minecraft, with a video link.

Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86(en.wikipedia.org)

331 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 117 comments

Wikipedia article on Ratan Tata, former chairman of Tata Sons, flagged as being heavily edited following his recent death.

Game Programming in Prolog(thingspool.net)

251 points by febin 2 years ago | 56 comments

Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output(gist.github.com)

239 points by danso 2 years ago | 83 comments

WASM Is the New CGI(roborooter.com)

225 points by burglins 2 years ago | 263 comments

Let's talk about animation quality(theorangeduck.com)

210 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 62 comments

Designing a Fast Concurrent Hash Table(ibraheem.ca)

165 points by burntsushi 2 years ago | 25 comments

Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See(fxrant.blogspot.com)

161 points by speckx 2 years ago | 145 comments

Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency(github.com)

145 points by aquova 2 years ago | 117 comments

The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking(empirical.health)

139 points by brandonb 2 years ago | 94 comments

How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal(gieseanw.wordpress.com)

139 points by andyg_blog 2 years ago | 114 comments

Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app(github.com)

137 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 32 comments

Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks(bleepingcomputer.com)

134 points by timokoesters 2 years ago | 72 comments

Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)(quoteinvestigator.com)

125 points by squircle 2 years ago | 124 comments

TypedDicts are better than you think(blog.changs.co.uk)

117 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 89 comments

End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem(brokencloudstorage.info)

113 points by dogtype 2 years ago | 65 comments

All asteroids in Solar System, visualized(github.com)

102 points by d_silin 2 years ago | 26 comments

Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine(nixiesearch.substack.com)

102 points by shutty 2 years ago | 65 comments

Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing(wvutoday.wvu.edu)

96 points by zdw 2 years ago | 57 comments

The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes(theverge.com)

89 points by croes 2 years ago | 73 comments

ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model(arxiv.org)

87 points by jinqueeny 2 years ago | 20 comments

Lessons from Plain Text(rugu.dev)

81 points by kugurerdem 2 years ago | 46 comments

Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server(arstechnica.com)

79 points by asteroidburger 2 years ago | 72 comments

Scrum's “Product Owner” Problem(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)

78 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 94 comments

'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school(theguardian.com)

77 points by cpach 2 years ago | 21 comments

Ironies of Automation (1983)(complexcognition.co.uk)

72 points by harperlee 2 years ago | 10 comments

Hurricane Milton's Impact: 70 Florida Cities See 50%+ Drop in Internet Traffic(twitter.com)

71 points by emot 2 years ago | 28 comments

The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

68 points by kdamica 2 years ago | 11 comments

Leaving WordPress (.org or WPF, still unsure which one)(megabyterose.com)

67 points by LordAtlas 2 years ago | 25 comments

OS/2 TCPBEUI Name Resolution(os2museum.com)

65 points by kencausey 2 years ago | 19 comments

AMD EPYC Turin delivers better performance/power efficiency than AmpereOne(phoronix.com)

61 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 16 comments

Being generous, thoughtful, and kind is a sign of high intelligence(inc.com)

59 points by happy-go-lucky 2 years ago | 40 comments

Thunderbird Android client is K-9 Mail reborn, and it's in solid beta(arstechnica.com)

56 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 14 comments

Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people(ft.com)

56 points by alephnerd 2 years ago | 126 comments

FreeWP Is Here to Shake Up the WordPress Ecosystem(freewp.com)

54 points by rpgbr 2 years ago | 34 comments

All We Have in This World Is Ourselves(rxjourney.com.ng)

54 points by chistev 2 years ago | 25 comments

Chunkr – Vision model based PDF chunking(github.com)

51 points by redbell 2 years ago | 7 comments

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Conspiracy Theories Thrive(rollingstone.com)

50 points by geox 2 years ago | 47 comments

South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize(aljazeera.com)

50 points by ricardoplouis 2 years ago | 39 comments

Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics?(georgesaines.com)

49 points by gsaines 2 years ago | 91 comments

Ask HN: Do you track how your email address is used?

38 points by themingus 2 years ago | 32 comments

G4 (Severe) Geomagnetic Storming Observed(swpc.noaa.gov)

38 points by uticus 2 years ago | 1 comments

7/67 Children Receiving Skysona Gene Therapy Develop Blood Cancer(nejm.org)

38 points by LarsDu88 2 years ago | 33 comments

First Report on the Pre-Scheme Restoration(prescheme.org)

38 points by paroneayea 2 years ago | 2 comments

Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation(unity.com)

35 points by vyrotek 2 years ago | 25 comments

Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control(theverge.com)

34 points by healsdata 2 years ago | 12 comments

Geothermal Power in the North Bay(blog.jonudell.net)

32 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 11 comments

Five days a week in the office? Forget it(computerworld.com)

30 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Arch – an intelligent prompt gateway built on Envoy(github.com)

30 points by adilhafeez 2 years ago | 12 comments

Electric vehicle safety via crash test(kbtx.com)

28 points by Gabriel54 2 years ago | 36 comments

Ratan Tata Passed Away(thehindu.com)

26 points by anubhav200 2 years ago | 1 comments

Running WolfSSL and Curl on Windows 2000(datagirl.xyz)

25 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 7 comments

Phase transitions in random circuit sampling [pdf](nature.com)

23 points by lawrenceyan 2 years ago | 0 comments

BigSearch Browser Extension(github.com)

22 points by Duckyroad 2 years ago | 0 comments