Hacker News on Sunday, 3 November 2024

Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back(spectrum.ieee.org)

1196 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 827 comments

IEEE Spectrum interview with Rachel Plotnick about the shift away from touchscreens back toward physical, tactile buttons in devices and cars.

Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization(github.com)

379 points by talms 2 years ago | 137 comments

GitHub repository from Altera hosting the Project Sid technical report on many-agent AI simulations toward AI civilization.

Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?(saytheprime.com)

303 points by robinhouston 2 years ago | 133 comments

Matrix 2.0 Is Here(matrix.org)

284 points by ptman 2 years ago | 121 comments

Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution(cloud.google.com)

269 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 70 comments

Hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio(si.inc)

263 points by mnk47 2 years ago | 49 comments

pg_flo – Stream, transform, and re-route PostgreSQL data in real-time(pgflo.io)

224 points by shayonj 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Tinder, but to decide what to eat(whatdinner.com)

221 points by kiru_io 2 years ago | 191 comments

If you need the money, don't take the job(bitfieldconsulting.com)

219 points by gus_leonel 2 years ago | 134 comments

Security flaws found in Nvidia GeForce GPUs(pcworld.com)

191 points by wumeow 2 years ago | 125 comments

Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?

183 points by gooob 2 years ago | 216 comments

Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub(spin.atomicobject.com)

177 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux(kevinboone.me)

171 points by synergy20 2 years ago | 177 comments

Hacker News Data Map [180MB](lmcinnes.github.io)

170 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 20 comments

Claude Shannon: Mathematician, engineer, genius and juggler (2017)(juggle.org)

158 points by xiande04 2 years ago | 52 comments

gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs(github.com)

142 points by michaelsbradley 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework(slawlor.github.io)

135 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 65 comments

I2P Anonymous Network(geti2p.net)

115 points by whereistimbo 2 years ago | 32 comments

ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands(github.com)

103 points by ahmetsait 2 years ago | 48 comments

Making Pop Rocks from scratch (is complicated) [video](youtube.com)

98 points by CaliforniaKarl 2 years ago | 17 comments

HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD(hardenedbsd.org)

91 points by transpute 2 years ago | 44 comments

Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR(bettersoftware.uk)

84 points by FrankRay78 2 years ago | 61 comments

Top discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023(johnhawks.net)

81 points by softwaredoug 2 years ago | 5 comments

Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987(not.withoutdistractions.com)

79 points by harryvederci 2 years ago | 65 comments

Intel might be too big to fail(tomshardware.com)

78 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 139 comments

The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach(johnhawks.net)

78 points by softwaredoug 2 years ago | 17 comments

A Brief History of Cyrix(abortretry.fail)

77 points by zdw 2 years ago | 15 comments

Auth Wiki(auth.wiki)

72 points by splash123 2 years ago | 17 comments

The DeskThing: the perfect desk assistant(github.com)

72 points by ingve 2 years ago | 39 comments

I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one(lalacheck.fly.dev)

71 points by millhouse1112 2 years ago | 84 comments

Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy(michaelengen.com)

68 points by michaelengen 2 years ago | 57 comments

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds(newyorker.com)

65 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 49 comments

Moving Off Heroku, Slowly(jamie.ideasasylum.com)

63 points by craigkerstiens 2 years ago | 37 comments

Redox OS gets RISC-V support(phoronix.com)

59 points by fork-bomber 2 years ago | 5 comments

Chi-Fi Tuning – Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing to Western Ears (2020)(audioreviews.org)

59 points by userbinator 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Directional antenna alignment using phone motion sensors(star.conor.link)

58 points by cdebeling 2 years ago | 11 comments

Toyota to buy clean power from a $1.1B solar farm in Texas(electrek.co)

56 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 35 comments

Somebody Please Get Me This Desktop Wind Tunnel for Christmas(thedrive.com)

56 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 28 comments

The Confusing State of RCS(substack.com)

54 points by hocuspocus 2 years ago | 47 comments

Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years(musictech.com)

49 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 20 comments

GJS: Node.js Like Runtime for Gnome(gjs.guide)

42 points by AbuAssar 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Secret of Ramsey Numbers(cacm.acm.org)

41 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Jeopardy game using LLM and Python(github.com)

37 points by kmarker1101 2 years ago | 6 comments

Wasp Flamethrower Drone Attachment(throwflame.com)

34 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Replacicon – Create and customize app icons on macOS(replacicon.app)

32 points by simonp9 2 years ago | 16 comments

Rust's Most Subtle Syntax(zkrising.com)

32 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 4 comments

I Waited 10B Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen(blog.preyneyv.dev)

31 points by preyneyv 2 years ago | 17 comments

Coordinated Community Response Mitigates Fediverse Spam Attack(about.iftas.org)

30 points by jazmichaelking 2 years ago | 1 comments

$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for North Korea in joining war(koreaherald.com)

29 points by paulcarroty 2 years ago | 22 comments

The AP has called winners in elections for more than 170 years. How it's done(apnews.com)

28 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Kis.tools – A directory of tools that work(kis.tools)

27 points by onuradsay 2 years ago | 6 comments

D2: Declarative Diagramming – A modern language that turns text to diagrams(d2lang.com)

26 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 3 comments

Zed – The Editor for What's Next(zed.dev)

26 points by 9woc 2 years ago | 13 comments

Hermes 3 – Nous Research(nousresearch.com)

26 points by jasim 2 years ago | 2 comments

The History and Evolution of Playing Cards(playingcarddecks.com)

25 points by gaws 2 years ago | 7 comments

Advances in Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice [pdf](www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

20 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 0 comments

A Golang pipeline abomination(poxate.com)

19 points by kermerlerper 2 years ago | 2 comments

Uranus' moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface(phys.org)

18 points by geox 2 years ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS(textcapture.app)

18 points by auden_pierce 2 years ago | 16 comments

What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

13 points by epilys 2 years ago | 3 comments