Hacker News on Saturday, 26 October 2024

How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me(ft.com)

364 points by 005vc16607 2 years ago | 382 comments

Financial Times article about the factory-building game Factorio and its popularity among Silicon Valley tech workers, shown behind a subscription paywall.

Understanding Round Robin DNS(blog.hyperknot.com)

360 points by hyperknot 2 years ago | 110 comments

Blog post by Zsolt Ero exploring how browsers and Cloudflare choose which server to use with Round Robin DNS, in the context of OpenFreeMap.

New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs(bleepingcomputer.com)

281 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 214 comments

I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel (2013) [video](media.ccc.de)

242 points by joebig 2 years ago | 61 comments

Do hard things carefully(blog.depthsofrepair.com)

196 points by spuds 2 years ago | 49 comments

Bluesky Is Not Decentralized(beige.party)

172 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 101 comments

Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange(tristanrhodes.com)

165 points by partypete 2 years ago | 33 comments

ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use(embracethered.com)

149 points by macOSCryptoAI 2 years ago | 75 comments

Fruits (2020)(graphallthethings.com)

140 points by yeknoda 2 years ago | 26 comments

James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation(scitechdaily.com)

136 points by wglb 2 years ago | 51 comments

Olivetti’s Ivrea(medium.com)

129 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 25 comments

Debugging my wife's alarm clock(ntietz.com)

124 points by zdw 2 years ago | 71 comments

Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)(commoncog.com)

116 points by yagizdegirmenci 2 years ago | 58 comments

Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf](vision.unipv.it)

112 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go(github.com)

110 points by dim0x69 2 years ago | 50 comments

SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea(github.com)

109 points by kristianp 2 years ago | 36 comments

Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)(journals.lww.com)

109 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 179 comments

Deep dive: the instability of op-amps(lcamtuf.substack.com)

108 points by lapnect 2 years ago | 43 comments

ADHD and managing your professional reputation(optimaloutliers.com)

106 points by vaishnav92 2 years ago | 76 comments

Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades(m4xc.dev)

106 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 27 comments

Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source(theregister.com)

97 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 55 comments

Should JavaScript be split into two languages?(devclass.com)

97 points by em-bee 2 years ago | 179 comments

Canvas Fingerprinting(browserleaks.com)

95 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 92 comments

RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector(rebrickable.com)

92 points by wonger_ 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store(github.com)

85 points by jonutah 2 years ago | 39 comments

Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart(abc7chicago.com)

84 points by wumeow 2 years ago | 29 comments

The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops(techcrunch.com)

78 points by ZacnyLos 2 years ago | 77 comments

The weak science behind psychedelics(theatlantic.com)

78 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 55 comments

Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years(phys.org)

77 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 64 comments

State-space models can learn in-context by gradient descent(arxiv.org)

75 points by dsalaj 2 years ago | 17 comments

Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action(bullenweg.com)

75 points by odo1242 2 years ago | 19 comments

Long wave radio fans mourn fading frequencies (2023)(bbc.com)

74 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 35 comments

Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books(gizmodo.com)

71 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 41 comments

How to configure an Ethernet connection between iPad and RaspberryPi with USB-C(andreagrandi.it)

71 points by andreagrandi 2 years ago | 26 comments

Why those particular integer multiplies?(fgiesen.wordpress.com)

68 points by luu 2 years ago | 32 comments

PineNote Community Edition: Preorder coming soon(pine64.com)

64 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 20 comments

Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number

63 points by mpreda 2 years ago | 33 comments

Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches(reuters.com)

61 points by mistersquid 2 years ago | 39 comments

On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"(old.reddit.com)

59 points by redbell 2 years ago | 13 comments

Serious fun(scattered-thoughts.net)

58 points by luu 2 years ago | 7 comments

Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers(arxiv.org)

56 points by andrewdutton 2 years ago | 39 comments

Cerebras Trains Llama Models to Leap over GPUs(nextplatform.com)

55 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 31 comments

First scientific study of the Paris catacombs(theguardian.com)

53 points by Teever 2 years ago | 9 comments

MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy(unherd.com)

51 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 42 comments

How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero(quantamagazine.org)

49 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 74 comments

Evaluate Markdown code blocks within Vim(github.com)

49 points by pentestercrab 2 years ago | 16 comments

All the electricity you'll need for 40 years(innerpathing.com)

48 points by mwfogleman 2 years ago | 47 comments

I've never used cohost but I miss it(plume.pink)

48 points by ZacnyLos 2 years ago | 23 comments

California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?(unherd.com)

46 points by youcould 2 years ago | 50 comments

NixOS Is Not Reproducible(linderud.dev)

46 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 47 comments

Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy(pen.org)

46 points by the_why_of_y 2 years ago | 33 comments

35% Faster Than the Filesystem (2017)(sqlite.org)

42 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 11 comments

Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome(9to5google.com)

41 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 24 comments

It is fine not to like a piece of Free software(neilzone.co.uk)

40 points by edent 2 years ago | 21 comments

There are only two asset classes: ownership and debt(ft.com)

40 points by hhs 2 years ago | 11 comments

Dispelling Myths about Randomisation(bps.org.uk)

39 points by domofutu 2 years ago | 39 comments

"We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B"(bbc.com)

39 points by lispisok 2 years ago | 26 comments

Sudha Car Museum(twitter.com)

38 points by udit99 2 years ago | 12 comments

Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Roberson Still on Death Row?(scientificamerican.com)

38 points by rossant 2 years ago | 14 comments

Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity over Quality [video](youtube.com)

36 points by stefanpie 2 years ago | 3 comments