Hacker News on Thursday, 7 November 2024

QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image(blackberry.qnx.com)

632 points by JohnAtQNX 1 year ago | 302 comments

BlackBerry QNX Everywhere program page offering free non-commercial licenses for QNX software, tools, and training, including a Raspberry Pi quick start image.

Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos(jamcorder.com)

531 points by chipweinberger 1 year ago | 167 comments

Product page for JamCorder, a small device that plugs into a digital piano to automatically record everything played, with companion mobile apps.

Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin(32bits.substack.com)

433 points by bbayles 1 year ago | 118 comments

A Rings of Saturn newsletter post reverse-engineering Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future with Ghidra and Python to uncover hidden save-name cheat codes.

Mushroom Color Atlas(mushroomcoloratlas.com)

308 points by gaws 1 year ago | 30 comments

Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

270 points by jahooma 1 year ago | 225 comments

AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation(control.princeton.edu)

266 points by agomez314 1 year ago | 136 comments

Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill(oregonlive.com)

263 points by type0 1 year ago | 218 comments

Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks(techdirt.com)

256 points by speckx 1 year ago | 132 comments

A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)(disruptingjapan.com)

251 points by ayoisaiah 1 year ago | 272 comments

I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated(blog.dnmfarrell.com)

212 points by tlack 1 year ago | 67 comments

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now(theverge.com)

211 points by redbell 1 year ago | 329 comments

Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API(draw.audio)

204 points by StreamGobbler 1 year ago | 71 comments

Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure(sydney.edu.au)

200 points by geox 1 year ago | 129 comments

Kagi Translate(blog.kagi.com)

198 points by lkellar 1 year ago | 81 comments

Since the '60s, Ford has stored cars underground in a Kansas City cave(hagerty.com)

192 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 78 comments

Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics(github.com)

192 points by exAspArk 1 year ago | 101 comments

Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed(w3.org)

192 points by agumonkey 1 year ago | 96 comments

Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management(sachachua.com)

174 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 75 comments

Richard A. Cash, who saved millions from dehydration, has died(nytimes.com)

163 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 44 comments

How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows(hitsubscribe.com)

161 points by galfarragem 1 year ago | 42 comments

Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots(macrumors.com)

156 points by tosh 1 year ago | 231 comments

Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released(cbc.ca)

155 points by pr337h4m 1 year ago | 113 comments

The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan(tokyodev.com)

145 points by pwim 1 year ago | 146 comments

Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale(opensource.microsoft.com)

142 points by yoshuaw 1 year ago | 21 comments

Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model(arxiv.org)

135 points by dsubburam 1 year ago | 29 comments

Burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian priestess is discovered after 4k years(dailymail.co.uk)

119 points by uptownfunk 1 year ago | 43 comments

URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars(junxuan-li.github.io)

119 points by mentalgear 1 year ago | 17 comments

Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon(developer.apple.com)

108 points by transpute 1 year ago | 32 comments

Google Banned Me from Google Voice(dannyguo.com)

104 points by petemilly 1 year ago | 38 comments

Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge(bunny.net)

102 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 51 comments

A counter-intuitive guide to better leadership(sudarkoff.com)

96 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 29 comments

XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging(adele.pages.casa)

92 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 66 comments

Implementing Signal's Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)(nfil.dev)

91 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 5 comments

Show HN: TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials(github.com)

90 points by Soumame 1 year ago | 12 comments

Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust(purplesyringa.moe)

84 points by stpn 1 year ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)

83 points by systemkwiat 1 year ago | 205 comments

Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company(bloomberg.com)

81 points by LopRabbit 1 year ago | 74 comments

Bluesky's at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers(thenewstack.io)

80 points by steveklabnik 1 year ago | 31 comments

Trump's likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he'd run the agency(arstechnica.com)

77 points by Jtsummers 1 year ago | 40 comments

Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members(news.slashdot.org)

74 points by sourcepluck 1 year ago | 41 comments

Memory64(github.com)

73 points by tosh 1 year ago | 37 comments

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography(theamericanscholar.org)

66 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 16 comments

Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now's the time to grab them(arstechnica.com)

64 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 41 comments

Astronomers may have spotted the smallest possible stars(science.org)

63 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 13 comments

DNA from Pompeii Victims Reveals Surprising Relationships Amidst the Chaos(gizmodo.com)

62 points by rntn 1 year ago | 10 comments

Steam releases new built-in recording feature(store.steampowered.com)

61 points by S0y 1 year ago | 8 comments

The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg(unige.ch)

58 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 74 comments

Five Learnings from 15 Years in Perception(tangramvision.com)

55 points by reteltech 1 year ago | 20 comments

Wild Ball(r3f-drei-rapier.surge.sh)

54 points by mohabnasser 1 year ago | 37 comments

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers(techcrunch.com)

53 points by handfuloflight 1 year ago | 43 comments

Windows Memory Mapped File IO(jeremyong.com)

53 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 10 comments

Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions(nature.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 4 comments

A mod that turns TI-84 calculators into GPT-based cheating device(github.com)

43 points by sschueller 1 year ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?

42 points by superconduct123 1 year ago | 101 comments

Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram

41 points by stereoradonc 1 year ago | 12 comments

Shfla: Shoegaze Hierarchical Fractal Language Architecture(github.com)

41 points by Tetraslam 1 year ago | 15 comments

Lynis – Security auditing and hardening tool, for Unix-based systems(github.com)

41 points by Qision 1 year ago | 7 comments

Tickets Are for Remembering(publicbooks.org)

40 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 30 comments

The Charms of Catastrophe (1978)(nybooks.com)

40 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 9 comments

FLUX1.1 [Pro] Ultra and Raw Modes(blackforestlabs.ai)

39 points by bukacdan 1 year ago | 11 comments