Hacker News on Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Leaving and Waving(deannadikeman.com)

565 points by Duke_Pixie 1 year ago | 85 comments

Photographer Deanna Dikeman's series of photos taken over 27 years of her parents waving goodbye as she drove away from their Sioux City, Iowa home.

Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages(lagrangepoint.substack.com)

545 points by rithvikvibhu 1 year ago | 168 comments

Blog post describing how the authors bypassed Apple's region lock to enable the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature outside the US using a homemade Faraday cage.

M4 Mac mini's efficiency(jeffgeerling.com)

518 points by marinesebastian 1 year ago | 515 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post from November 2024 on the power efficiency of Apple's M4 Mac mini, written amid his Pi 5 GPU and AmpereOne server testing.

What I wish someone told me about Postgres(challahscript.com)

389 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 161 comments

A blog post cataloging practical lessons and tips about working with PostgreSQL, including normalization, NULL handling, and making psql more useful.

Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days(stretchmytimeoff.com)

315 points by zachd 1 year ago | 154 comments

Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams(letsjelly.com)

303 points by mlettini 1 year ago | 122 comments

Watermark Anything(github.com)

298 points by zerojames 1 year ago | 98 comments

The EdTech Revolution Has Failed(afterbabel.com)

280 points by obscurette 1 year ago | 378 comments

$8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating(jalopnik.com)

278 points by rntn 1 year ago | 246 comments

Unusual Raku Features(buttondown.com)

246 points by leontrolski 1 year ago | 136 comments

Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts(community-scripts.github.io)

217 points by BramSuurdje 1 year ago | 82 comments

Visualizing 13M Bluesky users(joelgustafson.com)

205 points by joelg 1 year ago | 173 comments

Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1(jepsen.io)

203 points by aphyr 1 year ago | 78 comments

3600 MHz Raspberry Pi 5 with Liquid Nitrogen(skatterbencher.com)

185 points by jonatron 1 year ago | 65 comments

Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google(wired.com)

182 points by marban 1 year ago | 248 comments

The OpenFlexure 3D printable microscope(openflexure.org)

167 points by enceladus06 1 year ago | 18 comments

Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf](aidantr.github.io)

167 points by therabbithole 1 year ago | 46 comments

Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles(waymo.com)

165 points by ra7 1 year ago | 203 comments

Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps(fermyon.com)

163 points by triplechill 1 year ago | 36 comments

This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats(hachyderm.io)

161 points by panic 1 year ago | 17 comments

When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows(news.mit.edu)

159 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 60 comments

Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)

150 points by baxtr 1 year ago | 98 comments

The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture(ankush.dev)

149 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 80 comments

The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank(theguardian.com)

129 points by robaato 1 year ago | 40 comments

Avremu: An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX(gitlab.brokenpipe.de)

126 points by nurple 1 year ago | 18 comments

Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR(twitter.com)

124 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 74 comments

Defensive Communication (1961)(reagle.org)

121 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 49 comments

Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town(reason.com)

115 points by bryan0 1 year ago | 65 comments

A Mathematician in a School of Art(mathvalues.org)

113 points by nkoren 1 year ago | 27 comments

Voice acting in Space Quest V(github.com)

105 points by elvis70 1 year ago | 34 comments

Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse(github.com)

104 points by mikeshi42 1 year ago | 27 comments

A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom(arstechnica.com)

98 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 23 comments

Emit-C: A time travelling programming language(github.com)

97 points by doppp 1 year ago | 47 comments

Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life(arstechnica.com)

93 points by nickthegreek 1 year ago | 24 comments

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house(theguardian.com)

86 points by c420 1 year ago | 65 comments

Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week(theverge.com)

84 points by doughnutstracks 1 year ago | 60 comments

A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals(codastory.com)

81 points by redrove 1 year ago | 104 comments

Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature(lottia.net)

76 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 42 comments

Large language models in national security applications(arxiv.org)

74 points by bindidwodtj 1 year ago | 38 comments

AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey(slack.com)

73 points by zer0tonin 1 year ago | 55 comments

Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network(hunsley.io)

71 points by occular 1 year ago | 22 comments

Developing a D-20 Watch for Tabletop Roleplaying Games(timestoptech.com)

69 points by Timothee 1 year ago | 22 comments

Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)(computerhistory.org)

67 points by wmlive 1 year ago | 31 comments

Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)(richarddingwall.name)

66 points by azefiel 1 year ago | 144 comments

US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday(slashdot.org)

62 points by zoobab 1 year ago | 18 comments

Bribery is largely subject to circumstance: study(english.elpais.com)

61 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 77 comments

Unit Testing Numerical Routines(buchanan.one)

60 points by boscillator 1 year ago | 30 comments

Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects(blog.sentry.io)

59 points by kmelve 1 year ago | 11 comments

FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale [pdf](tangchq74.github.io)

51 points by pjmlp 1 year ago | 23 comments

The Wired Guide to Protecting Yourself from Government Surveillance(wired.com)

49 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 23 comments

Gmail AI Agent: Automate Your Inbox with AI-Powered Telegram Commands(github.com)

49 points by olivierl13 1 year ago | 17 comments

Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client(tomshardware.com)

47 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Store and render ASCII diagrams in Obsidian(github.com)

45 points by akopkesheshyan 1 year ago | 7 comments

Secret Service Says Users Agreed to Location Tracking in Terms and Conditions(404media.co)

44 points by beejiu 1 year ago | 29 comments

Beating the bookies with their own numbers(arxiv.org)

41 points by hemant1041 1 year ago | 37 comments

The anomalous state of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby(nature.com)

41 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 8 comments

How we made a Ruby method 200x faster(campsite.com)

41 points by nholden 1 year ago | 34 comments

Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London(bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com)

40 points by sebg 1 year ago | 52 comments

The Broadband Phone (2021)(quentinsf.com)

40 points by watusername 1 year ago | 1 comments

Don't Do This with PostgreSQL(wiki.postgresql.org)

38 points by sh_tomer 1 year ago | 3 comments