Hacker News on Friday, 8 November 2024

Mitochondria Are Alive(asimov.press)

599 points by mailyk 1 year ago | 371 comments

An Asimov Press opinion essay by Liyam Chitayat arguing that mitochondria should be considered alive, drawing on Lynn Margulis's endosymbiosis theory.

Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output(github.com)

566 points by nateb2022 1 year ago | 79 comments

GitHub repository for delta, a Rust-based syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output.

Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities(jhftss.github.io)

546 points by transpute 1 year ago | 176 comments

Blog post accompanying a POC2024 talk describing an overlooked macOS attack surface and more than ten new sandbox escape vulnerabilities.

Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)(forums.tigsource.com)

495 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 101 comments

A TIGSource forum devlog post by Lucas Pope on stabilizing the 1-bit dithering effect in Return of the Obra Dinn so it doesn't swim with camera motion.

We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix(pushtoprod.substack.com)

311 points by zdw 1 year ago | 149 comments

Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web(asterogue.com)

304 points by chr15m 1 year ago | 92 comments

I quit Google to work for myself (2018)(mtlynch.io)

292 points by alexzeitler 1 year ago | 177 comments

After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves(arstechnica.com)

283 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 197 comments

FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant(fda.gov)

258 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 466 comments

Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing(xnacly.me)

254 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 179 comments

It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end(text.npr.org)

238 points by everybodyknows 1 year ago | 193 comments

Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language(media.mit.edu)

224 points by threeme3 1 year ago | 53 comments

LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence(arxiv.org)

223 points by timbilt 1 year ago | 50 comments

Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s(mlumiste.com)

210 points by skandium 1 year ago | 132 comments

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal(arstechnica.com)

199 points by lawls 1 year ago | 126 comments

Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity(ssoready.com)

193 points by noleary 1 year ago | 107 comments

Notes on Guyana(mattlakeman.org)

177 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 123 comments

Making Electronic Calipers(kevinlynagh.com)

162 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 61 comments

How to find exploits in video games(shalzuth.com)

159 points by shalzuth 1 year ago | 30 comments

Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?(onallbands.com)

154 points by peter_d_sherman 1 year ago | 56 comments

My Notes on Apple Math Notes(mlajtos.mu)

132 points by mlajtos 1 year ago | 41 comments

Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died(nytimes.com)

129 points by tysone 1 year ago | 27 comments

Desktop icons are surprisingly hard(akselmo.dev)

127 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 62 comments

Guild Builds(nytimesguild.org)

116 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 13 comments

What Is a Staff Engineer?(nishtahir.com)

109 points by CarefreeCrayon 1 year ago | 91 comments

How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)(alice.bsky.sh)

97 points by icy 1 year ago | 68 comments

An unusual Google Keyboard bug(weiyen.net)

95 points by yen223 1 year ago | 22 comments

Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan's konbini(theguardian.com)

93 points by tosh 1 year ago | 48 comments

Apple Macintosh before System 7(earlymacintosh.org)

93 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 66 comments

The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction(devblogs.microsoft.com)

87 points by zdimension 1 year ago | 11 comments

D-Wave achieves calibration of Advantage2 processor(dwavesys.com)

84 points by donutloop 1 year ago | 60 comments

Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects(phys.org)

84 points by amichail 1 year ago | 47 comments

Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult(torrentfreak.com)

83 points by HieronymusBosch 1 year ago | 61 comments

The Weeds Are Winning(technologyreview.com)

79 points by Jimmc414 1 year ago | 104 comments

How is the SSD installed – M4 Mac Mini (2024)(ifixit.com)

78 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 62 comments

Colors of the Court – NBA Uniforms(pudding.cool)

73 points by abe94 1 year ago | 37 comments

Why 4D geometry makes me sad [video](youtube.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 28 comments

Algol-68 seemed like a good idea(craftofcoding.wordpress.com)

63 points by Bostonian 1 year ago | 48 comments

Safe and efficient C++ interoperability via non-escapable types and lifetimes(forums.swift.org)

60 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 40 comments

The 'Invisibility Cloak' – Slash-Proc Magic(dfir.ch)

60 points by lapnect 1 year ago | 11 comments

Choose Boring Technology and LLMs(maragu.dev)

60 points by markusw 1 year ago | 65 comments

Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals(techdirt.com)

57 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 7 comments

iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out(404media.co)

56 points by intunderflow 1 year ago | 38 comments

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation(phoronix.com)

53 points by binkHN 1 year ago | 31 comments

TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers(arstechnica.com)

52 points by alsetmusic 1 year ago | 24 comments

Intentrace: Strace for Everyone(github.com)

49 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 year ago | 9 comments

Ease of maintenance is a feature(ronakgothi.com)

44 points by ronakjain90 1 year ago | 12 comments

Python, C++ inspired language that transpiles to C and can be embedded within C(github.com)

42 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 23 comments

The Cybergypsies (Indra Sinha, 1999)(blog.eamonnmr.com)

39 points by speckx 1 year ago | 3 comments

Gravity's Eastern Voyage(royalsociety.org)

36 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 3 comments

Toy Models of Superposition (2022)(transformer-circuits.pub)

34 points by tessierashpool9 1 year ago | 0 comments

Man sick of crashes sues Intel for allegedly hiding CPU defects(arstechnica.com)

34 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 2 comments

SNES and Playstation Cubic Adpcm Interpolation(jsgroth.dev)

31 points by zdw 1 year ago | 8 comments

Functional Programming in Go(bitfieldconsulting.com)

29 points by gus_leonel 1 year ago | 14 comments

What does a scientist look like? Children drawing women more than ever before(science.org)

27 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 6 comments

A brief history of the word "fuck"(lithub.com)

27 points by tintinnabula 1 year ago | 9 comments

There's Almost No Gitlab(julien.danjou.info)

27 points by physicsguy 1 year ago | 37 comments

Judge: Zuckerberg not liable for social media harm to children(nypost.com)

27 points by mikece 1 year ago | 31 comments

Differential Dataflow for the Masses(github.com)

24 points by rebanevapustus 1 year ago | 4 comments

Kagi Translate(translate.kagi.com)

24 points by dotcoma 1 year ago | 2 comments