Hacker News on Saturday, 19 October 2024

Accountability sinks(aworkinglibrary.com)

441 points by l0b0 2 years ago | 255 comments

A blog reading note by Mandy Brown on Dan Davies' concept of "accountability sinks" from The Unaccountability Machine, structures that obscure who is responsible for decisions.

Svelte 5 Released(npmjs.com)

343 points by begoon 2 years ago | 187 comments

The npm package page for Svelte showing version 5.0.0, published hours earlier, with install instructions and repository link.

AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%(tomshardware.com)

306 points by ferriswil 2 years ago | 135 comments

Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements(twitter.com)

283 points by h2odragon 2 years ago | 166 comments

QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet(arxiv.org)

278 points by carlos-menezes 2 years ago | 243 comments

Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send(send.vis.ee)

260 points by leonry 2 years ago | 119 comments

Civet: A Superset of TypeScript(civet.dev)

236 points by revskill 2 years ago | 209 comments

Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing(takeourword.com)

215 points by wizerno 2 years ago | 91 comments

Data Version Control(dvc.org)

201 points by shcheklein 2 years ago | 47 comments

The long road to lazy preemption in the Linux CPU scheduler(lwn.net)

199 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 49 comments

S3 as a Git remote and LFS server(github.com)

173 points by kbumsik 2 years ago | 43 comments

Ribbonfarm Is Retiring(ribbonfarm.com)

167 points by Arubis 2 years ago | 107 comments

A Distributed Systems Reading List (2014)(dancres.github.io)

155 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 9 comments

Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller(cpldcpu.wordpress.com)

141 points by cpldcpu 2 years ago | 19 comments

Regarding our Cease and Desist letter to Automattic(wpfusion.com)

138 points by kemayo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?(economist.com)

135 points by godelmachine 2 years ago | 134 comments

The Languages of English, Math, and Programming(github.com)

124 points by stereoabuse 2 years ago | 39 comments

Dwarf Fortress – Boatmurdered Part #1 – Intro (2006)(lparchive.org)

116 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 37 comments

Blocking code is a leaky abstraction(notgull.net)

112 points by zdw 2 years ago | 120 comments

Autism's Four Core Subtypes(thetransmitter.org)

110 points by domofutu 2 years ago | 70 comments

Morsle – A daily Morse code challenge(morsle.fun)

109 points by wkjagt 2 years ago | 35 comments

Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)(bbc.com)

105 points by DrZootron 2 years ago | 76 comments

Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it(frondly.app)

98 points by adamaskun 2 years ago | 73 comments

How to leverage Claude's capabilities with interactive visualization(github.com)

97 points by allan666 2 years ago | 25 comments

Eliza in SNOBOL4(dl.acm.org)

96 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 23 comments

Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN(mil04s43-in-f1.1e100.net)

96 points by aquatica 2 years ago | 50 comments

Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails(apnews.com)

78 points by kevinday 2 years ago | 75 comments

I Hate the Letter F(old.reddit.com)

65 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments

Implementing Brainfuck in APL(blog.wilsonb.com)

65 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 24 comments

Plastic – A Modern NES Emulator That Works with EGUI and TUI(github.com)

62 points by xlmnxp 2 years ago | 11 comments

'They refused to let me go': Japanese turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs(theguardian.com)

59 points by orf 2 years ago | 60 comments

Shanghai Before the Foreigners(jaapgrolleman.com)

59 points by jxub 2 years ago | 22 comments

Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13(telegraph.co.uk)

59 points by tcfhgj 2 years ago | 61 comments

Smurf: Beyond the Test Pyramid(testing.googleblog.com)

58 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 36 comments

WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)(oct8l.gitlab.io)

57 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 55 comments

Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected(savannah.gnu.org)

57 points by TangerineDream 2 years ago | 26 comments

How I Use Git(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

54 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?

54 points by raleighm 2 years ago | 37 comments

Booting Sun Sparc Servers(sidneys1.com)

50 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 20 comments

Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time~Implementations(arxiv.org)

43 points by belter 2 years ago | 32 comments

Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine?(wellcome.org)

42 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 34 comments

It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware(usenix.org)

42 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 11 comments

U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed(npr.org)

40 points by marban 2 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: I made tool for slicing up samples to Ableton Move presets(github.com)

40 points by alex_x 2 years ago | 17 comments

NASA Drops Boeing Starliner from Upcoming Missions(jalopnik.com)

39 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 22 comments

Two examples of hover styles on images(alexwlchan.net)

37 points by speckx 2 years ago | 44 comments

The Multics Maclisp Compiler: The Basic Hackery – A Tutorial (1977)(multicians.org)

35 points by susam 2 years ago | 2 comments

Zen: Firefox Based Browser(zen-browser.app)

34 points by Palmik 2 years ago | 15 comments

Triaging Clang C++ front end bugs(shafik.github.io)

33 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 0 comments

Boeing, Union reach wage deal to end strike(wsj.com)

32 points by hhs 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: TCP "slow-start" simulation in Go(github.com)

32 points by rtk0 2 years ago | 7 comments

Bluesky gains 1.2M in 2 days, 12M total after X disables blocking(entrepreneur.com)

31 points by ck2 2 years ago | 32 comments

How I use git(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

31 points by signa11 2 years ago | 13 comments

Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff(thebookseller.com)

30 points by marban 2 years ago | 29 comments

Town has no cell service, so the 'electrosensitive' have made it home(washingtonpost.com)

30 points by tapper 2 years ago | 38 comments

Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process(karmanivero.us)

29 points by karmaniverous 2 years ago | 5 comments

Raku Programming Language(raku.org)

27 points by tosh 2 years ago | 5 comments

Charles Darwin and Associates, Ghostbusters (1996)(scientificamerican.com)

25 points by birriel 2 years ago | 3 comments

Probabalistic Spin Glass (2022)(bytepawn.com)

24 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 3 comments

Did Automattic commit open source theft?(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

24 points by ValentineC 2 years ago | 4 comments