Hacker News on Sunday, 27 October 2024

Character amnesia in China(globalchinapulse.net)

429 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 400 comments

A Global China Pulse article about character amnesia, the phenomenon of Chinese speakers forgetting how to handwrite characters.

A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years(nytimes.com)

419 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 123 comments

New York Times article about a previously unknown Chopin waltz manuscript discovered after nearly 200 years; the page loaded a captcha check instead.

You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web(github.com)

364 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 136 comments

GitHub repository for you-get, an open-source Python command-line tool that downloads media such as videos from websites by scraping them.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)

361 points by david927 2 years ago | 981 comments

An Ask HN thread from October 2024 where users share the projects and new ideas they are currently working on.

Crossing the USA by Train(blinry.org)

317 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 385 comments

A personal blog travelogue by blinry about crossing the USA by train from New York to San Francisco, starting on the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago.

NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer(flathub.org)

300 points by FuturisticGoo 2 years ago | 85 comments

A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#(em-tg.github.io)

291 points by SkiFire13 2 years ago | 238 comments

NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM(github.com)

284 points by bibinmohan 2 years ago | 57 comments

We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size(jonathancreamer.com)

283 points by kwantaz 2 years ago | 176 comments

Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds(oxfam.org)

270 points by wallbrownf 2 years ago | 108 comments

Using SQLite as storage for web server static content(clace.io)

220 points by ajayvk 2 years ago | 114 comments

34x34x34 Rubik's Cube(ruwix.com)

184 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 80 comments

Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative(ibis.wiki)

167 points by mostcallmeyt 2 years ago | 109 comments

Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket(docs.racket-lang.org)

156 points by nesarkvechnep 2 years ago | 20 comments

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech(berthub.eu)

147 points by lhoff 2 years ago | 153 comments

School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)(map.simonsarris.com)

146 points by Gooblebrai 2 years ago | 90 comments

Writes and Write-Nots(paulgraham.com)

138 points by baxtr 2 years ago | 125 comments

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat(npr.org)

136 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 85 comments

Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web(freenet.org)

130 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 62 comments

Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS(jvns.ca)

126 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 35 comments

Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text(petewarden.com)

125 points by freediver 2 years ago | 29 comments

Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way

115 points by pyeri 2 years ago | 36 comments

RP FLIP escapes wrecker's claws(gcaptain.com)

109 points by tomohawk 2 years ago | 41 comments

Typeset: An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy(typeset.lllllllllllllllll.com)

108 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 49 comments

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents(infrequently.org)

95 points by wmanley 2 years ago | 45 comments

Inside the Transport for London cyberattack(londoncentric.media)

85 points by alexbilbie 2 years ago | 50 comments

In some scientific papers, words expressing uncertainty have decreased (2023)(science.org)

84 points by lapnect 2 years ago | 54 comments

Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism(old.maa.org)

77 points by hhs 2 years ago | 24 comments

The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of (2022)(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

75 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 20 comments

Scythe Works Without Borders(scytheworks.ca)

74 points by highway-trees 2 years ago | 34 comments

Amphion: An open-source audio, music, and speech generation toolkit(github.com)

71 points by lapnect 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Universal Relation(bernsteinbear.com)

62 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Prophet of Cyberspace (2016)(filfre.net)

54 points by cybersoyuz 2 years ago | 10 comments

The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK's fastest thrill-ride(theguardian.com)

50 points by pepys 2 years ago | 2 comments

What is the first American graphic novel?(haljohnsonbooks.substack.com)

50 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 21 comments

Codeberg Reconsidering OSI License Approval in Terms of Use(codeberg.org)

46 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 10 comments

10 Years of HexaPDF(gettalong.org)

42 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 19 comments

DragonRuby Game Toolkit hits v6.0(dragonruby.itch.io)

40 points by amirrajan 2 years ago | 1 comments

Nothing left to solve(lmnt.me)

40 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 36 comments

The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's identity(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

39 points by zdw 2 years ago | 5 comments

Bulma CSS Framework(bulma.io)

38 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 37 comments

'Fandom has toxified the world': Watchmen author Alan Moore(theguardian.com)

38 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 28 comments

Rapamycin: One Drug, Many Effects (2014)(cell.com)

36 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 16 comments

A brief history of Mac firmware(eclecticlight.co)

34 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 6 comments

Country Comparisons Real GDP (purchasing power parity)(cia.gov)

32 points by okasaki 2 years ago | 24 comments

Should elephants have the same rights as people? A Colorado court may decide(denver7.com)

32 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 40 comments

Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?(blog.hyperknot.com)

31 points by gelstudios 2 years ago | 26 comments

Lichens in cemetaries and a scientist who studies them(atlasobscura.com)

31 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 9 comments

The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011)(moma.org)

30 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 19 comments

Are Rotary Mixers Better?(djmag.com)

27 points by daledavies 2 years ago | 34 comments

Stunning fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species(cnn.com)

26 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 1 comments

An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program: Operational Applications (1995) [pdf](cia.gov)

26 points by mmastrac 2 years ago | 6 comments

Some people with ADHD thrive in periods of stress, new study shows(theguardian.com)

25 points by grugagag 2 years ago | 14 comments

Will the China cycle come for Airbus and Boeing?(construction-physics.com)

25 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 7 comments

“The Assayer” by Galileo Galilei (1623) [pdf](web.stanford.edu)

24 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 7 comments

Jellyfin 10.10.0(jellyfin.org)

22 points by xbmcuser 2 years ago | 2 comments

It all started with a perceptron(medium.com)

22 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 4 comments

The Great Exhibition unveils the only office roller coaster in Stockholm(creativeboom.com)

20 points by microflash 2 years ago | 7 comments

A day and night running round a track(bbc.co.uk)

18 points by HansardExpert 2 years ago | 6 comments

Bridging Search and Recommendation in Generative Retrieval(dl.acm.org)

18 points by saeedesmaili 2 years ago | 0 comments