Hacker News on Friday, 15 November 2024

Biological Miracle – Wood Frog(nps.gov)

468 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 125 comments

National Park Service page for Gates of the Arctic describing the wood frog's ability to survive being frozen during winter.

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update(half-life.com)

424 points by Philpax 1 year ago | 174 comments

Valve's official page announcing the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update, showing the game's City 17 plaza with the Half-Life 2 logo.

Maybe Bluesky has "won"(anderegg.ca)

395 points by GavinAnderegg 1 year ago | 668 comments

Blog post arguing about Bluesky's rise as users flee X, and contending that Bluesky is currently neither federated nor decentralized.

Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux(github.com)

349 points by turrini 1 year ago | 180 comments

GitHub repository for Seer, an open-source Qt-based graphical frontend to the GDB debugger for Linux.

Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200(relativty.com)

295 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 108 comments

New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm(techcrunch.com)

256 points by joegibbs 1 year ago | 188 comments

Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs(closingwtf.com)

256 points by aaln 1 year ago | 137 comments

Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls(onair.io)

245 points by bigmicro 1 year ago | 102 comments

99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python(sandimetz.com)

228 points by mattcollins 1 year ago | 73 comments

I tried every top email marketing tool(sitebuilderreport.com)

213 points by steve-benjamins 1 year ago | 130 comments

First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU(lists.freebsd.org)

205 points by cnst 1 year ago | 131 comments

Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds(roadandtrack.com)

203 points by MBCook 1 year ago | 225 comments

Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

184 points by aml183 1 year ago | 225 comments

Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo(bsky.bad-example.com)

182 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 42 comments

Please stop the coding challenges(blackentropy.bearblog.dev)

180 points by CrazyEmi 1 year ago | 370 comments

The Practical Guide to Scaling Django(slimsaas.com)

139 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language(zyme.dev)

137 points by almusdives 1 year ago | 17 comments

The Battle Line at Louvain(privatdozent.co)

137 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 87 comments

1-Bit AI Infrastructure(arxiv.org)

136 points by galeos 1 year ago | 28 comments

FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business(arstechnica.com)

124 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 70 comments

Matrix Client Tutorial(uhoreg.gitlab.io)

123 points by whereistimbo 1 year ago | 35 comments

Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas(labs.quansight.org)

123 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 67 comments

Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs(github.com)

123 points by eamag 1 year ago | 82 comments

Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal(github.com)

119 points by tomschafer 1 year ago | 59 comments

Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub(vice.com)

108 points by marban 1 year ago | 71 comments

Are We PEP740 Yet?(trailofbits.github.io)

107 points by djoldman 1 year ago | 56 comments

Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it(arstechnica.com)

101 points by ChumpGPT 1 year ago | 41 comments

Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)(outdoors.stackexchange.com)

94 points by naberhausj 1 year ago | 84 comments

C++ Template Macroprogramming versus Lisp Macros(simondobson.org)

90 points by oumua_don17 1 year ago | 64 comments

It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start(kidswholovemath.substack.com)

82 points by sebg 1 year ago | 81 comments

The price of shutting down coal power, and what would be gained(economist.com)

78 points by therabbithole 1 year ago | 102 comments

Libobscura(dorotac.eu)

76 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 5 comments

A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor(crowdsupply.com)

75 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 27 comments

Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++(security.googleblog.com)

75 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 78 comments

Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD(begriffs.com)

73 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 3 comments

Query Your Python Lists(github.com)

71 points by mkalioby 1 year ago | 42 comments

1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day(bsky.app)

71 points by davidbarker 1 year ago | 52 comments

Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland(nytimes.com)

69 points by mykowebhn 1 year ago | 28 comments

Go-taskflow: A taskflow-like General-purpose Task-parallel Programming Framework(github.com)

68 points by noneback 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)(github.com)

66 points by networked 1 year ago | 32 comments

Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube(engadget.com)

65 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 48 comments

Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) – Larry Tesler(nomodes.com)

64 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 13 comments

The bucket brigade device: An analog shift register(10maurycy10.github.io)

64 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 26 comments

Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch Bluesky accounts amid growth(nydailynews.com)

63 points by Karrot_Kream 1 year ago | 42 comments

The cochlear implant question(aeon.co)

58 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 103 comments

Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices(nexa.ai)

55 points by BUFU 1 year ago | 8 comments

NeuralDEM – Real-Time Simulation of Industrial Particulate Flows(nx-ai.github.io)

55 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 10 comments

Gliimly is a programming language for web services(gliimly.github.io)

54 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 61 comments

Getting Started with FPGAs(nandland.com)

54 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 18 comments

Building Observability with ClickHouse(cmtops.dev)

51 points by valyala 1 year ago | 14 comments

Scientists discover laser light can cast a shadow(phys.org)

50 points by passwordoops 1 year ago | 20 comments

Building LawStar – a year long indie hacking journey(mackey.substack.com)

49 points by jamesmackey 1 year ago | 21 comments

Uno Platform Studio Featuring Hot Design(platform.uno)

49 points by noworriesnate 1 year ago | 16 comments

Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

48 points by lapetitejort 1 year ago | 12 comments

Costco’s butter recall, explained(forbes.com)

45 points by michaelbarton 1 year ago | 170 comments

M4 MacBook Pro Uses Quantum Dot Display Technology(macrumors.com)

44 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 22 comments

Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components(spectrum.ieee.org)

40 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 38 comments

SQL style guide by Simon Holywell(sqlstyle.guide)

37 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 37 comments

Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer(daringfireball.net)

35 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 7 comments

The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany(vincentschmalbach.com)

31 points by vincent_s 1 year ago | 13 comments