Hacker News on Thursday, 26 December 2024

Ghostty 1.0(ghostty.org)

2110 points by matrixhelix 1 year ago | 615 comments

Homepage of Ghostty, a fast, native terminal emulator, featuring an ASCII-art ghost animation and download and documentation links.

Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server(github.com)

637 points by nateb2022 1 year ago | 280 comments

GitHub repository for Blackcandy, an MIT-licensed self-hosted music streaming server built with Ruby on Rails and Hotwire.

Should more of us be moving to live near friends?(architecturaldigest.com)

553 points by Geekette 1 year ago | 411 comments

Architectural Digest article exploring whether more people should relocate to live near their friends.

Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law(fedscoop.com)

403 points by speckx 1 year ago | 142 comments

FedScoop article reporting that President Biden signed the bipartisan SHARE IT Act requiring US federal agencies to share custom source code with each other.

A Minecraft server written in COBOL(github.com)

316 points by notamy 1 year ago | 112 comments

Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022)(jmeiners.com)

301 points by sebg 1 year ago | 74 comments

Differential Growth Addon for Blender(boris.okunskiy.name)

289 points by kelseyfrog 1 year ago | 45 comments

Seconds Since the Epoch(aphyr.com)

279 points by zdw 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Tour of WebAuthn(imperialviolet.org)

276 points by caust1c 1 year ago | 125 comments

Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software(github.com)

276 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 145 comments

Lua is so underrated(nflatrea.bearblog.dev)

266 points by nflatrea 1 year ago | 280 comments

A Simple ELF(4zm.org)

264 points by signa11 1 year ago | 57 comments

Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust(egui.rs)

261 points by josephcsible 1 year ago | 106 comments

Numbers Are Leaves(christo.sh)

240 points by nodar-d 1 year ago | 65 comments

Short Message Compression Using LLMs(bellard.org)

239 points by chunkles 1 year ago | 106 comments

The trap of "I am not an extrovert"(orkohunter.net)

234 points by orkohunter 1 year ago | 398 comments

OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly(sherwood.news)

210 points by gpi 1 year ago | 125 comments

The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something(blog.codingconfessions.com)

195 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 21 comments

Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony(pbat.ch)

193 points by zebproj 1 year ago | 34 comments

Write a Shell in C (2015)(brennan.io)

180 points by sebg 1 year ago | 12 comments

Sub-pixel distance transform (2023)(acko.net)

174 points by ChadNauseam 1 year ago | 22 comments

Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously(digitalcameraworld.com)

170 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 93 comments

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)(bloomberg.com)

158 points by sebg 1 year ago | 78 comments

Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+(den.dev)

151 points by dend 1 year ago | 28 comments

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

124 points by franze 1 year ago | 125 comments

Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary(cnn.com)

123 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 31 comments

Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU(github.com)

122 points by lisyarus 1 year ago | 35 comments

Melbourne Train Control System is running on a hardware emulated PDP11(mastodon.sdf.org)

116 points by SerCe 1 year ago | 30 comments

Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders(techcrunch.com)

109 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 51 comments

Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps(badkeming.com)

108 points by gaws 1 year ago | 22 comments

The history of twisted-pair Ethernet [video](youtube.com)

105 points by thecybernerd 1 year ago | 17 comments

The semver trick (2019)(github.com)

95 points by jcbhmr 1 year ago | 36 comments

Building a 3D safety sensor with Rust(sonair.com)

88 points by torotime 1 year ago | 20 comments

NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station(nasa.gov)

87 points by mzs 1 year ago | 30 comments

Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable microrobot assemblies(cell.com)

82 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 23 comments

When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust(zackoverflow.dev)

73 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 23 comments

Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage(euronews.com)

68 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 51 comments

Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics(engineering.prezi.com)

65 points by shscs911 1 year ago | 43 comments

My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime(christo.sh)

64 points by openquery 1 year ago | 17 comments

Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tool like Ollama(pieces.app)

61 points by Nik0912 1 year ago | 28 comments

Thermodynamic model identifies how gold reaches Earth's surface(phys.org)

60 points by wglb 1 year ago | 4 comments

Gondwanaland: The search for a land before (human) time(australiangeographic.com.au)

59 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 42 comments

Simulating C. elegans brain, body and environment interactions(nature.com)

58 points by lamename 1 year ago | 15 comments

Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato(arcan-fe.com)

56 points by ingenieroariel 1 year ago | 5 comments

Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins(phys.org)

55 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 7 comments

A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund's 'The Print Shop'(theprintshop.club)

54 points by mikerg87 1 year ago | 32 comments

Ocean Carbon Removal: Captura's marine carbon capture explained(spectrum.ieee.org)

50 points by geox 1 year ago | 45 comments

Analyzing North Korean Malware(medium.com)

50 points by supitto 1 year ago | 11 comments

Design Space for Code Search Query(ast-grep.github.io)

47 points by ncts 1 year ago | 9 comments

New 'OtterCookie' malware used to backdoor devs in fake job offers(bleepingcomputer.com)

45 points by sandwichsphinx 1 year ago | 6 comments

Cull Front: A new front end generator for Htmx and AlpineJS(cullfront.com)

43 points by limenleap 1 year ago | 7 comments

An infinite DNA glitch saved millions [video](youtube.com)

43 points by f1shy 1 year ago | 18 comments

ChatGPT Saved Chats: Save and organize your important conversations in ChatGPT(chromewebstore.google.com)

42 points by s-sameer 1 year ago | 38 comments

A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs(smithsonianmag.com)

42 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 36 comments

Faster CI with Selective Testing(mill-build.org)

40 points by lihaoyi 1 year ago | 39 comments

Early Improvements with Atogepant for the Preventive Treatment of Migraine(neurology.org)

34 points by taubek 1 year ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: How do you maintain personal annotations for code you don't control?

34 points by weinzierl 1 year ago | 28 comments

Racket School 2019: The "How to Design Languages" Track(school.racket-lang.org)

33 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 9 comments

J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment"(aeon.co)

32 points by pepys 1 year ago | 79 comments

Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020)(scirp.org)

31 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 1 comments