Hacker News on Saturday, 2 November 2024

Weird Lexical Syntax(justine.lol)

407 points by jart 2 years ago | 214 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post surveying surprising lexical syntax quirks across 42 programming languages learned while building a syntax highlighter for llamafile.

My Time Working at Stripe(jondlm.github.io)

330 points by jondlm 2 years ago | 302 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer reflecting on quitting his job at Stripe without another job lined up and sharing his experience honestly.

Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script(github.com)

292 points by rbbydotdev 2 years ago | 49 comments

Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links(lynx.boo)

284 points by TravisPeacock 2 years ago | 153 comments

Obtainium: Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source(obtainium.imranr.dev)

214 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 84 comments

Britain's postwar sugar craze confirms harms of sweet diets in early life(science.org)

205 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 105 comments

Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022)(link.springer.com)

186 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 94 comments

SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties(blog.spawek.com)

171 points by Spawek 2 years ago | 45 comments

Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers(github.com)

170 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 145 comments

131M American Buildings(tech.marksblogg.com)

161 points by marklit 2 years ago | 32 comments

Rewrite It in Rails(dirkjonker.bearblog.dev)

158 points by WuxiFingerHold 2 years ago | 127 comments

Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection(railsatscale.com)

157 points by ksec 2 years ago | 76 comments

Practical Radio Circuits (2003) [pdf](fracassi.net)

139 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 43 comments

Superstreamer – OSS streaming toolkit from video source to player(github.com)

138 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 8 comments

Spann: Highly-Efficient Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2021)(arxiv.org)

115 points by ksec 2 years ago | 28 comments

Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card(mattgreer.dev)

115 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 26 comments

Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python(lmstudio.ai)

114 points by ingve 2 years ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Midnight Reminders via Morse Code(github.com)

113 points by dmd 2 years ago | 46 comments

Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)(charliegerard.dev)

104 points by rmason 2 years ago | 4 comments

Sortledton: A Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure [pdf](vldb.org)

87 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 11 comments

SmolLM2(simonwillison.net)

86 points by edward 2 years ago | 20 comments

Ghosts in the Machine(daily.jstor.org)

66 points by gmays 2 years ago | 33 comments

Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Using Deep Learning Word Prediction(arxiv.org)

52 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 31 comments

Don't return named tuples in new APIs(snarky.ca)

50 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

Nikolai Fyodorov wanted to resurrect the dead to live among the stars(lz.kubicki.org)

46 points by szkosma 2 years ago | 20 comments

October 30 – Reflections on the Day the Earth Moved for H5N1(hogvet51.substack.com)

45 points by ctoth 2 years ago | 30 comments

It's time for a modern synthesis kernel (2019)(blog.regehr.org)

44 points by pbrowne011 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Language of Faces(domofutu.substack.com)

35 points by domofutu 2 years ago | 13 comments

Static Basic Block Versioning(drops.dagstuhl.de)

33 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 10 comments

Colossus AI Supercluster with over 100k Nvidia H100 GPUs(twitter.com)

33 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 18 comments

Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more(orlp.net)

32 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 12 comments

Breaking the image: a 12th-century Ai Weiwei?(keithamcgowan.blogspot.com)

31 points by CrouchEndTiger 2 years ago | 17 comments

Why Pg_dump Is Amazing(rhaas.blogspot.com)

27 points by zdw 2 years ago | 2 comments

Cat Is Listening to You(nautil.us)

27 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 27 comments

Mercedes-Benz opens its own recycling facility for EV batteries(arstechnica.com)

25 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 6 comments

Ratting on wildlife crime: training rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife(frontiersin.org)

22 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 0 comments

IRC Today hosted IRC bouncer(irctoday.com)

20 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 10 comments

US Government memo shows Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy but executed her anyway(bloomberg.com)

20 points by ck2 2 years ago | 8 comments

Storybits: Error Resistant Mnemonics(rya.nc)

18 points by luu 2 years ago | 0 comments

Brute-Forcing the LLM Guardrails(medium.com)

18 points by shcheklein 2 years ago | 2 comments

Solid-state batteries enter pilot production, costs expected to drastically drop(pv-magazine.com)

17 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 1 comments

Highly cited engineer offers guaranteed publication in return for coauthorship(retractionwatch.com)

17 points by domofutu 2 years ago | 2 comments

Apple's M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max compared to past generations, and to each other(arstechnica.com)

17 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 1 comments

Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery(nautil.us)

16 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 4 comments

Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'(techcrunch.com)

14 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 30 comments

Cppfront v0.8.0(github.com)

13 points by ahamez 2 years ago | 2 comments

The International Space Station Has Been Leaking for Five Years(scientificamerican.com)

13 points by timbilt 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Google Sign-In That Respects Your Privacy(github.com)

11 points by ddaniel100 2 years ago | 3 comments

Fact [pdf](ranjitjhala.github.io)

9 points by nature556 2 years ago | 3 comments

Saving Satoshi: An open-source game for learning Bitcoin programming(savingsatoshi.com)

9 points by jtwoodhouse 2 years ago | 1 comments

Berkshire's cash soars to $325B, Buffett sells Apple, Bank of America(reuters.com)

9 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Little Brass Box Company(littlebrassbox.com)

8 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 0 comments

What Is a Workstation?(etbe.coker.com.au)

7 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 0 comments

Neurotechnology boosts memory without surgery(actu.epfl.ch)

6 points by geox 2 years ago | 0 comments

Killing the Command message: should we use Events or Documents? (2007)(learn.microsoft.com)

4 points by chipdart 2 years ago | 1 comments

Question Sets and All Paths(andrewpwheeler.com)

4 points by apwheele 2 years ago | 2 comments

Quantum Machines and Nvidia use ML toward error-corrected quantum computer(techcrunch.com)

3 points by bobismyuncle 2 years ago | 0 comments