Hacker News on Thursday, 19 December 2024

Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file(github.com)

563 points by smusamashah 1 year ago | 177 comments

GitHub repository for Nullboard, a minimalist kanban board app contained in a single HTML file, focused on compactness and readability.

Ghost artists on Spotify(harpers.org)

548 points by greenie_beans 1 year ago | 362 comments

Harper's Magazine report by Liz Pelly on Spotify's use of ghost artists and how the platform works against musicians.

Clay – UI Layout Library(nicbarker.com)

420 points by ivmoreau 1 year ago | 79 comments

Project homepage for Clay, a single-header C library providing flexbox-style declarative UI auto layout with microsecond performance.

Kelly Can't Fail(win-vector.com)

386 points by jmount 1 year ago | 118 comments

A Win Vector blog post by John Mount explaining the Kelly bet allocation strategy and a setting in which Kelly betting cannot fail.

Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season(reuters.com)

321 points by petethomas 1 year ago | 356 comments

Reuters news article about Amazon workers striking at multiple US warehouses during the holiday season; the capture shows a captcha page.

Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond(ft.com)

311 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 136 comments

Alignment faking in large language models(anthropic.com)

281 points by adultorata 1 year ago | 316 comments

A Replacement for BERT(huggingface.co)

278 points by cubie 1 year ago | 60 comments

Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential(research.google)

248 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 177 comments

Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering(mizu.sh)

200 points by lowlighter 1 year ago | 77 comments

Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics(genesis-world.readthedocs.io)

198 points by tomp 1 year ago | 49 comments

Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360(github.com)

189 points by nazgulsenpai 1 year ago | 79 comments

Piccolo OS, a Small Multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico(github.com)

181 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 42 comments

Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales(roelsworld.eu)

178 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 52 comments

Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019)(github.com)

154 points by dr_kiszonka 1 year ago | 90 comments

Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client(github.com)

150 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Postgres as a VectorDB GUI(github.com)

146 points by z-gort 1 year ago | 19 comments

In praise of the hundred page idea(tracydurnell.com)

140 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 46 comments

Exposing the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht Im Internet (CUII)(damcraft.de)

130 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 25 comments

Half My Life with Perl(perladvent.org)

128 points by oalders 1 year ago | 79 comments

How types make hard problems easy(mayhul.com)

120 points by tlf 1 year ago | 114 comments

Show HN: WebGPU Tech Demo(gnikoloff.github.io)

116 points by georginikolov 1 year ago | 63 comments

Error Stacking in Rust(greptime.com)

115 points by samanthasu 1 year ago | 66 comments

Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature(universetoday.com)

109 points by joe_the_user 1 year ago | 72 comments

There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012)(benrady.com)

109 points by pbrowne011 1 year ago | 102 comments

Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video](youtube.com)

101 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 38 comments

A Knife Forged in Fire(chicagomag.com)

96 points by hentrep 1 year ago | 98 comments

How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect(rakhim.exotext.com)

87 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 40 comments

Tracing packets in the Linux kernel networking stack and friends(github.com)

84 points by cacheline 1 year ago | 5 comments

Revisiting Stereotype Threat(speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com)

81 points by systemstops 1 year ago | 60 comments

How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain(theguardian.com)

74 points by rwmj 1 year ago | 38 comments

Botan: Crypto and TLS for Modern C++(github.com)

74 points by klaussilveira 1 year ago | 41 comments

Silk – Interactive Generative Art (2011)(weavesilk.com)

72 points by bluemars 1 year ago | 26 comments

Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States(nature.com)

71 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 67 comments

DVST Graphic Terminals(vintagetek.org)

69 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction(github.com)

63 points by losincos 1 year ago | 35 comments

Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children (2023)(taylor.town)

58 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 18 comments

Reimagining mathematics in a world of reasoning machines [video](youtube.com)

48 points by kentricon 1 year ago | 31 comments

Critics, not fans, perpetuate the failed second album myth, study shows(phys.org)

48 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 51 comments

The case for clinical trial abundance(ifp.org)

47 points by apsec112 1 year ago | 4 comments

Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty(github.com)

46 points by SaltNHash 1 year ago | 30 comments

I Built a Figma Plugin That Generates Custom SVG Illustrations with AI(figma.com)

40 points by gigantz 1 year ago | 12 comments

My vote on voting systems(blog.danielh.cc)

40 points by max__dev 1 year ago | 17 comments

We saved battery in our ESP32 WiFi circuits (TCP vs UDP)(khalsalabs.com)

40 points by harry247 1 year ago | 19 comments

Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse other costs(sellercentral.amazon.com)

38 points by ilamont 1 year ago | 26 comments

Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?(wsj.com)

32 points by nradov 1 year ago | 43 comments

Aegisub 3.4 – Open-Source Subtitle Editor(aegisub.org)

32 points by P_qRs 1 year ago | 5 comments

Mozilla: Proposals in US vs. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers(blog.mozilla.org)

32 points by botanical 1 year ago | 17 comments

Fish shell announces 4.0 release(lwn.net)

29 points by askl 1 year ago | 1 comments

America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why.(theatlantic.com)

28 points by ____H____ 1 year ago | 35 comments

Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan(noyb.eu)

26 points by latexr 1 year ago | 21 comments

Show HN: OwlEars – Raw feedback, straight from your customers' minds(owlears.com)

26 points by zainalabdin878 1 year ago | 34 comments

Implementing Raft: Part 0 – Introduction (2020)(eli.thegreenplace.net)

26 points by sebg 1 year ago | 2 comments

Apple Says Meta Is Making Unreasonable Interoperability Requests Under EU's DMA(macrumors.com)

25 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 22 comments

ScyllaDB – Why We're Moving to a Source Available License(scylladb.com)

21 points by campers 1 year ago | 0 comments

Scientists learning to 'write' skills to human brain noninvasively, like Matrix(interestingengineering.com)

19 points by gregw2 1 year ago | 8 comments

NetBox Discovery Now in Public Preview(netboxlabs.com)

19 points by mrmrcoleman 1 year ago | 0 comments

AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans(lesswrong.com)

19 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 12 comments

Mass psychogenic illness and the social network (2012)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

19 points by JeremyNT 1 year ago | 9 comments

Towards a new kind of science and technology(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

17 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 3 comments