Hacker News on Sunday, 17 November 2024

CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`(michaelcharl.es)

773 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 163 comments

Blog post about the new official CSS logo, which uses the CSS named color rebeccapurple.

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot(naehrdine.blogspot.com)

476 points by moonsword 1 year ago | 146 comments

Blog post reverse engineering iOS 18's inactivity reboot security feature, covering BFU/AFU states, a kernel extension, and the Secure Enclave Processor.

Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP(ezzeriesa.notion.site)

370 points by kurinikku 1 year ago | 211 comments

A Notion-hosted blog post recounting a week-long SICP course taught by David Beazley, covering functions, interpreters, and tail call optimization.

Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates(lancaster.ac.uk)

342 points by gmays 1 year ago | 369 comments

Lancaster University news release reporting new estimates that humans have already caused about 1.5 °C of long-term global warming.

Good Software Development Habits(zarar.dev)

291 points by mmphosis 1 year ago | 145 comments

Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

255 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 136 comments

Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)(magiclasso.co)

253 points by bentocorp 1 year ago | 269 comments

All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots(blog.voyageai.com)

246 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 26 comments

Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems(github.com)

245 points by BSDobelix 1 year ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine(github.com)

240 points by aapoalas 1 year ago | 94 comments

AlphaProof's Greatest Hits(rishimehta.xyz)

238 points by rishicomplex 1 year ago | 123 comments

Creating a QR Code step by step(nayuki.io)

232 points by D4Ha 1 year ago | 39 comments

Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner(github.com)

198 points by lapnect 1 year ago | 60 comments

Constraints in Go(bitfieldconsulting.com)

196 points by gus_leonel 1 year ago | 75 comments

You could have designed state of the art positional encoding(fleetwood.dev)

187 points by Philpax 1 year ago | 29 comments

Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side(github.com)

177 points by caspg 1 year ago | 174 comments

The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app(htmx.org)

169 points by gherkinnn 1 year ago | 84 comments

Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms(theguardian.com)

153 points by Michelangelo11 1 year ago | 87 comments

Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe(technologyreview.com)

145 points by thisismytest 1 year ago | 108 comments

The ‘contain’ CSS property(developer.mozilla.org)

134 points by aabhay 1 year ago | 16 comments

Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life(chemistryworld.com)

126 points by kristianp 1 year ago | 48 comments

Tiling with Three Polygons Is Undecidable(arxiv.org)

122 points by denvaar 1 year ago | 25 comments

Nash equilibria in Ballmer's binary-search interview game(quuxplusone.github.io)

118 points by xlinux 1 year ago | 33 comments

Xogot – Godot for iPad(xogot.com)

118 points by codetrotter 1 year ago | 27 comments

Show HN: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework(github.com)

114 points by warothia 1 year ago | 43 comments

Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall(github.com)

113 points by arkohut 1 year ago | 31 comments

How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup(themythicalengineer.com)

103 points by sks147 1 year ago | 52 comments

Cloudflare.com's Robots.txt(cloudflare.com)

101 points by sans_souse 1 year ago | 39 comments

Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds(psypost.org)

99 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 60 comments

Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries(news.mit.edu)

98 points by bentocorp 1 year ago | 32 comments

The withering dream of a cheap American electric car(wsj.com)

90 points by voisin 1 year ago | 468 comments

Transactional Object Storage?(blog.mbrt.dev)

89 points by mbrt 1 year ago | 29 comments

Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made(thehill.com)

84 points by ironyman 1 year ago | 57 comments

How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?(danluu.com)

69 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 97 comments

The decline and fall of the British economy (2022)(worksinprogress.co)

68 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 year ago | 65 comments

Drinking water systems for 26M Americans face high cybersecurity risks(scworld.com)

67 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 34 comments

Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills(japantimes.co.jp)

67 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 56 comments

Nokolexbor: Drop-in replacement for Nokogiri. 5.2x faster at parsing HTML(github.com)

61 points by ksec 1 year ago | 8 comments

Phased Array(en.wikipedia.org)

61 points by downboots 1 year ago | 26 comments

Towards Nyquist Learners(gwern.net)

59 points by sleepingreset 1 year ago | 35 comments

Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)(mkgandhi.org)

59 points by wslh 1 year ago | 24 comments

A Taxonomy of AgentOps(arxiv.org)

58 points by omarsar 1 year ago | 1 comments

Can Injection: keyless car theft (2023)(kentindell.github.io)

57 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 31 comments

Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions(blocksandfiles.com)

54 points by akyuu 1 year ago | 60 comments

Safety in an unsafe world(lwn.net)

53 points by signa11 1 year ago | 16 comments

A 15-minute intro to involute gears(lcamtuf.substack.com)

50 points by lapnect 1 year ago | 7 comments

Gemini AI tells the user to die(tomshardware.com)

48 points by thebeardisred 1 year ago | 39 comments

Shadow Boxing (2016)(espn.com)

42 points by cenazoic 1 year ago | 6 comments

Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button(manuelmoreale.com)

40 points by phony-account 1 year ago | 27 comments

King Arthur's ancient trail across Britain(cnn.com)

39 points by peutetre 1 year ago | 29 comments

DIMM vs. Udimm vs. Rdimm vs. Sodimm vs. Cudimm: What's the Difference?(corsair.com)

38 points by trelane 1 year ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?

37 points by ostaquet 1 year ago | 39 comments

IPv6 networks do apparently get probed(utcc.utoronto.ca)

34 points by goranmoomin 1 year ago | 11 comments

Playful, intricate Japanese leaf art – in pictures – Art and design(theguardian.com)

33 points by sandebert 1 year ago | 1 comments

The World Grid and New Geographies of Cooperation(centerforneweconomics.org)

33 points by hackandthink 1 year ago | 6 comments

One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

33 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 7 comments

Battery-Free Bioelectronic Implants(chemistryworld.com)

33 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 8 comments

Apple's mouse is so bad that Tim Cook prefers using a different brand for work(glassalmanac.com)

32 points by miles 1 year ago | 36 comments

Discord API Errors(discordstatus.com)

32 points by mot2ba 1 year ago | 19 comments

Buddhist Retreat: Why I gave up on finding my religion (2003)(slate.com)

28 points by whereistimbo 1 year ago | 38 comments