Hacker News on Thursday, 12 December 2024

Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History(oldmapsonline.org)

1187 points by agilek 1 year ago | 171 comments

Interactive historical map showing region borders over time with a year slider, plus sections for rulers, people, and battles.

Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history(lichess.org)

1061 points by alexmolas 1 year ago | 433 comments

Lichess blog post covering round 14 of the 2024 World Chess Championship, where Gukesh beat Ding Liren to become the youngest world champion.

Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

422 points by verbify 1 year ago | 206 comments

Kevin Buzzard's Xena Project blog post giving a progress update on formalizing the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover.

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths(bbc.com)

411 points by vinni2 1 year ago | 701 comments

BBC News article reporting that medically assisted dying in Canada now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths.

BlenderGPT(blendergpt.org)

340 points by handfuloflight 1 year ago | 153 comments

Landing page for BlenderGPT, an AI tool that generates textured 3D models from text or image prompts in about 20 seconds for import into Blender.

Android XR(blog.google)

326 points by dagmx 1 year ago | 279 comments

Google blog post announcing Android XR, a platform for headsets and glasses built with Samsung and Qualcomm and integrating Gemini AI.

A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)(nicholas.carlini.com)

310 points by chubot 1 year ago | 106 comments

Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling(quantus.finance)

239 points by misstercool 1 year ago | 48 comments

"Rules" that terminal programs follow(jvns.ca)

229 points by charlieok 1 year ago | 116 comments

Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it(theengineeringmanager.substack.com)

223 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 156 comments

Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)(kennyballou.com)

205 points by justinludwig 1 year ago | 100 comments

Conversations are better with four people(thetimes.com)

204 points by nomilk 1 year ago | 136 comments

Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024(keacher.com)

187 points by teuobk 1 year ago | 23 comments

Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say(techcrunch.com)

173 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 56 comments

Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software(souzatharsis.com)

158 points by sebg 1 year ago | 26 comments

Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard(mouseless.click)

157 points by lvturner 1 year ago | 83 comments

Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer(kubespec.dev)

148 points by goenning 1 year ago | 22 comments

What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf](assets.bitbashing.io)

147 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 63 comments

Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers(tomshardware.com)

133 points by geekinchief 1 year ago | 74 comments

The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw(propublica.org)

118 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 57 comments

Programming Language Memory Models (2021)(research.swtch.com)

118 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 29 comments

Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use(anthropic.com)

113 points by simonw 1 year ago | 38 comments

A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte(science.org)

108 points by fs_tab 1 year ago | 54 comments

Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013)(blog.invisiblethings.org)

104 points by transpute 1 year ago | 41 comments

Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans(uaf.edu)

103 points by stevenwoo 1 year ago | 71 comments

Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata(richiejp.com)

93 points by richiejp 1 year ago | 22 comments

A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils(nationalpost.com)

90 points by IndrekR 1 year ago | 90 comments

Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger)(nfsa.gov.au)

89 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 49 comments

Idiomatic Errors in Clojure(daveliepmann.com)

85 points by harperlee 1 year ago | 35 comments

The secret life of DNS packets (2019)(stripe.com)

84 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 12 comments

CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer(fangpenlin.com)

83 points by bo0tzz 1 year ago | 79 comments

The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)(abortretry.fail)

81 points by jasim 1 year ago | 54 comments

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)(trinitydesktop.org)

76 points by doener 1 year ago | 31 comments

The humble for loop in Rust(blog.startifact.com)

73 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 41 comments

Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis(thewallanalysis.com)

71 points by latentcall 1 year ago | 50 comments

Majora's Mask decompilation project reaches 100% completion(gbatemp.net)

65 points by blastersyndrome 1 year ago | 6 comments

Consider Negotiating with Infringers(thelegalartist.com)

64 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 32 comments

Ultra-low-power localization tag uses cellular signals [pdf](cs.umd.edu)

64 points by nakulgarg22 1 year ago | 20 comments

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision(spectrum.ieee.org)

63 points by samizdis 1 year ago | 39 comments

Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging(owlposting.com)

62 points by abhishaike 1 year ago | 8 comments

Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)(lionsroar.com)

62 points by whereistimbo 1 year ago | 39 comments

A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans(news.berkeley.edu)

62 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 37 comments

Program Synthesis and Large Language Models(cacm.acm.org)

58 points by ChristofferSN 1 year ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Bring-your-own-key browser extension for summarizing HN posts with LLMs(github.com)

57 points by ivanyu 1 year ago | 24 comments

Run Database in GitHub Actions, Persisting Data to S3, and Access It Publicly(wesql.io)

53 points by earayu 1 year ago | 36 comments

Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date(theguardian.com)

52 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 21 comments

How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force(restofworld.org)

47 points by insane_dreamer 1 year ago | 120 comments

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds(arstechnica.com)

47 points by jemp 1 year ago | 34 comments

Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi(ev.medium.com)

45 points by trustinmenowpls 1 year ago | 38 comments

Drag and Drop Images into Bevy 0.15 on the web(rustunit.com)

42 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Errors of TeX [pdf] (1989)(yurichev.com)

41 points by gus_leonel 1 year ago | 7 comments

Exploring Commercial Products for the NES Expansion Port(tedium.co)

39 points by chiffre01 1 year ago | 17 comments

The Bitter Aftertaste of "Technical Sweetness"(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

33 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 9 comments

Geometry clipmaps: simple terrain rendering with level of detail (2017)(mikejsavage.co.uk)

29 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 1 comments

ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode adds Santa Mode, Live Video, Screensharing(openai.com)

26 points by t55 1 year ago | 1 comments

Novel link between cell nutrition and identity could improve immunotherapies(genengnews.com)

25 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 2 comments

Internal Ocean Tides (2021)(svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)

23 points by raattgift 1 year ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Credit reports about German companies(bonscore.org)

23 points by gab_ 1 year ago | 9 comments

Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress(automattic.com)

22 points by oppodeldoc 1 year ago | 10 comments

4100 / 4200 Series Graphic Terminals (a.k.a. Unicorn)(vintagetek.org)

21 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments