Hacker News on Sunday, 24 November 2024

Frosted glass from games to the web(tyleo.com)

712 points by tyleo 1 year ago | 177 comments

A blog post by a former Forza UI developer explaining how to recreate the frosted acrylic glass UI effect from AAA games in HTML and CSS.

This website is hosted on Bluesky(danielmangum.com)

664 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 153 comments

Daniel Mangum's blog post explaining how he hosted a website using Bluesky's AT Protocol infrastructure, a known but unintended use of the service.

Starlink Direct to Cell(starlink.com)

609 points by tosh 1 year ago | 671 comments

Starlink's product page for Direct to Cell, a satellite service providing text, voice, and data to unmodified LTE phones worldwide.

Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest(apnews.com)

546 points by geox 1 year ago | 401 comments

AP News article reporting Denmark's plan to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of its farmland into forest.

The two factions of C++(herecomesthemoon.net)

512 points by cyclopeanutopia 1 year ago | 581 comments

An essay arguing that the C++ community has split into two factions with diverging needs, ending hopes for a single dialect-free C++.

The size of BYD's factory(twitter.com)

345 points by elsewhen 1 year ago | 526 comments

An X (Twitter) post by Taylor Ogan about the size of BYD's factory; the post content did not load.

WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration(sloonz.github.io)

301 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 95 comments

A career-ending mistake(bitfieldconsulting.com)

281 points by gus_leonel 1 year ago | 170 comments

Marshall Brain has died(wral.com)

275 points by bsagdiyev 1 year ago | 101 comments

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes(macchaffee.com)

265 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 217 comments

Charset="WTF-8"(wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com)

262 points by edent 1 year ago | 355 comments

Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit(github.com)

239 points by testerui 1 year ago | 5 comments

Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter(mashable.com)

229 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 214 comments

Pushing AMD's Infinity Fabric to Its Limit(chipsandcheese.com)

219 points by klelatti 1 year ago | 26 comments

SQLite: Outlandish Recursive Query Examples(sqlite.org)

183 points by Rendello 1 year ago | 48 comments

Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal use(github.com)

176 points by triyanox 1 year ago | 138 comments

2007 Boston Mooninite Panic(en.wikipedia.org)

171 points by black6 1 year ago | 111 comments

Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out(inside.java)

152 points by vips7L 1 year ago | 38 comments

Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control(gizmodo.com)

133 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 124 comments

Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming(files.spritely.institute)

124 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 37 comments

Those correction notices, in full(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

110 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 28 comments

Hynix launches 321-layer NAND(electronicsweekly.com)

106 points by WaitWaitWha 1 year ago | 39 comments

Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta(apnews.com)

103 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 45 comments

Linux 6.13 will report the number of hung tasks since boot(phoronix.com)

100 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 15 comments

Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite(nature.com)

97 points by gmays 1 year ago | 162 comments

32k context length text embedding models(blog.voyageai.com)

86 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 29 comments

Owl Lisp – A functional Scheme for world domination(gitlab.com)

85 points by Lyngbakr 1 year ago | 23 comments

Deegen: A JIT-Capable VM Generator for Dynamic Languages(arxiv.org)

83 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 13 comments

History of Hangul(zkorean.com)

80 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Trilogy – A Reusable, Composable SQL Experiment(trilogydata.dev)

70 points by efromvt 1 year ago | 36 comments

This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video](youtube.com)

65 points by hggh 1 year ago | 9 comments

Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots into Dangerous Tasks(spectrum.ieee.org)

62 points by cratermoon 1 year ago | 26 comments

An English castle became a stork magnet(bbc.com)

61 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 14 comments

Exploring and having fun with rotary telephones(danieljones.au)

51 points by daniel_j 1 year ago | 40 comments

Build network societies, not network states(combinationsmag.com)

47 points by laurex 1 year ago | 15 comments

The 'giant' river crabs that live beneath Rome's ancient ruins(nationalgeographic.com)

47 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 7 comments

No More Storage Limits: M.2 Adapter for Apple's M1 MacBooks [video](youtube.com)

44 points by elisaado 1 year ago | 5 comments

C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete(lemon.rip)

41 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 1 comments

Php.net Is Down(php.net)

40 points by sschueller 1 year ago | 38 comments

Async Django in Production(jonathanadly.com)

38 points by jonathan-adly 1 year ago | 18 comments

New study shows: EV batteries last much longer than expected(electrive.com)

38 points by kungfudoi 1 year ago | 19 comments

Developing nations blast $300B COP29 climate deal as insufficient(reuters.com)

37 points by alephnerd 1 year ago | 38 comments

There Is No Business Case for Civilization(twitter.com)

36 points by NavinF 1 year ago | 2 comments

The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice(dedoimedo.com)

35 points by marcodiego 1 year ago | 36 comments

Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI(gizmodo.com)

32 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 36 comments

Project Sapphire 20th Anniversary (2014)(nsarchive2.gwu.edu)

32 points by sklargh 1 year ago | 44 comments

'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf](participations.org)

31 points by wslh 1 year ago | 39 comments

Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure(theregister.com)

31 points by rntn 1 year ago | 11 comments

Ahmed Mohamed Clock Incident(en.wikipedia.org)

31 points by carabiner 1 year ago | 27 comments

C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'(slashdot.org)

26 points by jamesy0ung 1 year ago | 25 comments

Tweaking non-neural brain cells can cause memories to fade(arstechnica.com)

23 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 2 comments

How to Make an STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) [video](youtube.com)

22 points by joebig 1 year ago | 1 comments

Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty(theguardian.com)

20 points by helsinkiandrew 1 year ago | 38 comments

Worldtimeapp.com Easy Timezone Converter(worldtimeapp.com)

19 points by neonitedata 1 year ago | 13 comments

Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert(nytimes.com)

19 points by morninj 1 year ago | 13 comments

The impact of the cosmological constant on past and future star formation(academic.oup.com)

18 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 2 comments

The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people(newsletter.goodtechthings.com)

17 points by forrestbrazeal 1 year ago | 17 comments

Ubitium is developing 'universal' processor combining CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA(tomshardware.com)

16 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 4 comments

WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill(recall.ai)

15 points by benocodes 1 year ago | 1 comments

Lunatic Fringe is a game originally distributed as an AfterDark screensaver(github.com)

15 points by threekindwords 1 year ago | 8 comments