Hacker News on Monday, 21 October 2024

First images from Euclid are in(dlmultimedia.esa.int)

1345 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 363 comments

A 2.5-minute ESA video file showing images from the Euclid space telescope.

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan(quantamagazine.org)

782 points by philiplu 2 years ago | 399 comments

Quanta Magazine profile of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self-taught Indian mathematician whose ideas continue to shape mathematics today.

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort(bbc.com)

577 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 59 comments

BBC News article reporting that the World Health Organization has certified Egypt as malaria-free after a century-long effort to eliminate the disease.

Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?(old.reddit.com)

325 points by kannthu 2 years ago | 178 comments

Reddit thread in r/ChatGPTCoding about Microsoft adding hidden VS Code APIs usable only by GitHub Copilot; the page shown is a Reddit network-policy block.

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker(bbc.com)

309 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 115 comments

Please do not write below the line(bbctvlicence.com)

300 points by dcminter 2 years ago | 240 comments

Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging(github.com)

279 points by Yenrabbit 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading(github.com)

263 points by maoserr 2 years ago | 41 comments

Learning to Learn(kevin.the.li)

254 points by jklm 2 years ago | 120 comments

LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper(github.com)

244 points by transpute 2 years ago | 45 comments

A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote(openculture.com)

224 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 259 comments

Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features(theverge.com)

219 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 145 comments

Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research(github.com)

196 points by chenglong-hn 2 years ago | 34 comments

ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project(bbc.com)

183 points by beedeebeedee 2 years ago | 186 comments

A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics(news.mit.edu)

180 points by gmays 2 years ago | 71 comments

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users(arstechnica.com)

174 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 149 comments

Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab(amoses.dev)

172 points by nicosalm 2 years ago | 80 comments

How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan(tokyodev.com)

164 points by pwim 2 years ago | 140 comments

Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python(github.com)

161 points by kristianp 2 years ago | 20 comments

IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)(blog.aerojockey.com)

152 points by smig0 2 years ago | 22 comments

Scientists working to decode birdsong(newyorker.com)

141 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 125 comments

Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf](ieeecs-media.computer.org)

139 points by beryilma 2 years ago | 83 comments

Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time(quantamagazine.org)

137 points by thcipriani 2 years ago | 135 comments

Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit(spacenews.com)

124 points by milgrim 2 years ago | 97 comments

U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken(eff.org)

116 points by gslin 2 years ago | 97 comments

OOP is not that bad(osa1.net)

112 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 214 comments

Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder(torrentfreak.com)

108 points by gslin 2 years ago | 48 comments

Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results(arxiv.org)

104 points by Luc 2 years ago | 69 comments

New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively(unibas.ch)

103 points by lux 2 years ago | 30 comments

Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?(theshamblog.com)

102 points by scottshambaugh 2 years ago | 95 comments

Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos(github.com)

99 points by willmoss 2 years ago | 42 comments

Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning(trevorlasn.com)

98 points by doppp 2 years ago | 93 comments

AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner(learn.umh.app)

95 points by JeremyTheo 2 years ago | 57 comments

Is it better to fail spectacularly?(danielmangum.com)

88 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 87 comments

Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy(bloomberg.com)

87 points by jihadjihad 2 years ago | 69 comments

Memory safety without lifetime parameters(open-std.org)

83 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 27 comments

Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?(vox.com)

79 points by rntn 2 years ago | 46 comments

Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way(castro.fm)

79 points by msmithstubbs 2 years ago | 27 comments

Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths(csrc.nist.gov)

78 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 29 comments

Wired's Attack on Privacy(simplex.chat)

77 points by snvzz 2 years ago | 33 comments

Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued(github.com)

75 points by felixc 2 years ago | 39 comments

Brain endurance training improves older adults' cognitive, physical performance(sciencedirect.com)

71 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 20 comments

Vimium – The Hacker's Browser(github.com)

67 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 60 comments

ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models(arstechnica.com)

66 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 48 comments

Waking up science's sleeping beauties (2023)(worksinprogress.co)

59 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 25 comments

Bulk optimization of queries in Postgres(substack.com)

58 points by Explain_PS 2 years ago | 3 comments

My free book "Rust Projects – Write a Redis Clone" is out(leanpub.com)

58 points by thedigicat 2 years ago | 27 comments

Concerns Raised over Bitwarden Moving Further Away from Open-Source(phoronix.com)

58 points by nedp 2 years ago | 35 comments

“The Secret History of the Mongols”: A digital history approach(journalofdigitalhistory.org)

51 points by georgecmu 2 years ago | 12 comments

AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office(techradar.com)

49 points by flojo 2 years ago | 51 comments

Perplexity AI's new tool for researching the stock market(zdnet.com)

49 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 28 comments

India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week(theguardian.com)

47 points by cyberlimerence 2 years ago | 37 comments

Extinction of the Influenza B Yamagata line during the Covid pandemic (2022)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

46 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 14 comments

Study offers clues into when and why mosquitoes bite(news.yale.edu)

44 points by gmays 2 years ago | 29 comments

Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia on the Tibetan Plateau(sciencealert.com)

42 points by amichail 2 years ago | 72 comments

Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud(threadreaderapp.com)

42 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG(chrisdalke.com)

41 points by chrisdalke 2 years ago | 5 comments

Making Of: Line Drawing Tutorial (2017)(redblobgames.com)

40 points by akkartik 2 years ago | 1 comments

Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back(bloomberg.com)

38 points by sarego 2 years ago | 37 comments

Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore(blog.godfreyai.com)

38 points by rbrown 2 years ago | 22 comments