Hacker News on Friday, 1 November 2024

Apple acquires Pixelmator(pixelmator.com)

1142 points by dm 2 years ago | 536 comments

Pixelmator blog post announcing that the Pixelmator Team, makers of Pixelmator Pro and Photomator, plans to join Apple.

Make It Yourself(makeityourself.org)

562 points by deivid 2 years ago | 76 comments

Download page for "Make it Yourself", a free book cataloging 1000 useful DIY things to make, version 1 from November 2024.

Notepad++ is 21 years old(learnhub.top)

495 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 215 comments

A LearnHub blog post celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Notepad++ text editor and recounting its history.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

351 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 321 comments

Monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for November 2024 where companies post job openings, with posting rules and links to search tools.

Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel(cnbc.com)

347 points by koolba 2 years ago | 191 comments

CNBC news article reporting that Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, reflecting shifts in the semiconductor industry.

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)(academic.oup.com)

345 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 200 comments

Open-access SLEEP journal article reporting a prospective cohort study finding sleep regularity predicts mortality risk better than sleep duration.

Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing(twitter.com)

341 points by retskrad 2 years ago | 451 comments

An X (Twitter) post claiming Apple's M4 Max chip has the fastest single-core performance among consumer computers; the post content did not load.

Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?(tandfonline.com)

310 points by fork-bomber 2 years ago | 157 comments

Embeddings are underrated(technicalwriting.dev)

271 points by misonic 2 years ago | 138 comments

A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones(arstechnica.com)

266 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 256 comments

Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio](softwareengineeringdaily.com)

262 points by tosh 2 years ago | 203 comments

Functional ultrasound through the skull(brainhack.vercel.app)

238 points by lawrenceyan 2 years ago | 81 comments

The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours(pcgamer.com)

236 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 105 comments

Automat(automat.org)

235 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 88 comments

Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer(oasis-model.github.io)

221 points by ChadNauseam 2 years ago | 75 comments

Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN

200 points by refrigerator 2 years ago | 64 comments

Linux Syscall Support(chromium.googlesource.com)

190 points by btdmaster 2 years ago | 104 comments

TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters(arxiv.org)

170 points by og_kalu 2 years ago | 28 comments

Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131(chromestatus.com)

160 points by michaelkrem 2 years ago | 128 comments

Ultraprecise method of aligning 3D semiconductor chips invented(techxplore.com)

152 points by thebeardisred 2 years ago | 20 comments

Every boring problem found in eBPF (2022)(tmpout.sh)

145 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 11 comments

Ink: React for interactive CLI apps(github.com)

140 points by brianzelip 2 years ago | 90 comments

How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier(sleepfoundation.org)

140 points by alecco 2 years ago | 102 comments

The decline of the working musician(newyorker.com)

138 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 169 comments

Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

132 points by sigmar 2 years ago | 21 comments

Interview gone wrong(ashu1461.com)

130 points by ashu1461 2 years ago | 168 comments

Rewrite it in Rails(dirkjonker.bearblog.dev)

128 points by dajonker 2 years ago | 59 comments

What is the point of an online conference?(scattered-thoughts.net)

125 points by jamii 2 years ago | 82 comments

Org Mode Syntax Cheat Sheet (2017)(nhigham.com)

110 points by nyc111 2 years ago | 49 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

108 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 229 comments

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010)(shellhaters.org)

106 points by samlambert 2 years ago | 35 comments

Implementing a Tiny CPU Rasterizer(lisyarus.github.io)

97 points by atan2 2 years ago | 31 comments

Low-cost, portable device can detect colorectal and prostate cancer in an hour(medicalxpress.com)

92 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 22 comments

Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory(trust.okta.com)

86 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 35 comments

The rise of the U.S., the rise of China(construction-physics.com)

84 points by hunglee2 2 years ago | 98 comments

The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800(link.springer.com)

78 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 90 comments

Scalable self-improvement for compiler optimization(research.google)

75 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 5 comments

Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives(propublica.org)

74 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 59 comments

Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds(theguardian.com)

70 points by hackernj 2 years ago | 128 comments

How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max within 1.2 ml/kg/min without a treadmill test(empirical.health)

66 points by brandonb 2 years ago | 33 comments

Broadwell's EDRAM: VCache Before VCache Was Cool(chipsandcheese.com)

65 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 12 comments

Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS(phoronix.com)

65 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 65 comments

Seeing Like a Programmer: Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards(v5.chriskrycho.com)

61 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 27 comments

Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) apps(github.com)

61 points by donutloop 2 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Ratarmount 1.0.0 – Rapid access to large archives via a FUSE filesystem(github.com)

54 points by mxmlnkn 2 years ago | 5 comments

The performance of hashing for similar function detection(edmcman.github.io)

54 points by pbrowne011 2 years ago | 1 comments

AMD Open-Source 1B OLMo Language Models(amd.com)

53 points by ebalit 2 years ago | 10 comments

Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them(lapcatsoftware.com)

52 points by ingve 2 years ago | 34 comments

UTF-8 characters that behave oddly when the case is changed(gist.github.com)

52 points by Rendello 2 years ago | 39 comments

Programming NetBIOS on OS/2(os2museum.com)

51 points by userbinator 2 years ago | 0 comments

Former Bayesian captain on sinking, vessel ballast and stability(sailingscuttlebutt.com)

51 points by walrus01 2 years ago | 23 comments

PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face(eieio.games)

49 points by bblcla 2 years ago | 12 comments

Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked(macrumors.com)

49 points by bontoJR 2 years ago | 17 comments

Consistently faster and smaller compressed bitmaps with Roaring (2016)(arxiv.org)

48 points by hambandit 2 years ago | 6 comments

Nvidia (NVDA) to Replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average(tipranks.com)

47 points by LopRabbit 2 years ago | 13 comments

Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps(martinfowler.com)

46 points by timbilt 2 years ago | 13 comments

Now lie in it: an uxntal retrospective(wiki.xxiivv.com)

44 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 11 comments

Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner (2019)(willem.com)

42 points by willemlaurentz 2 years ago | 20 comments

Google employees pressure execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts(cnbc.com)

41 points by jarsin 2 years ago | 27 comments

DuckDB over Pandas/Polars(pgrs.net)

40 points by pgr0ss 2 years ago | 11 comments