Hacker News on Monday, 30 December 2024

Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died

988 points by AaronFriel 1 year ago | 87 comments

A Hacker News post by Aaron Friel announcing the death of his father John Friel, creator of QModem, inviting people to share memories.

I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps(arstechnica.com)

647 points by cpeterso 1 year ago | 210 comments

Ars Technica article by Kevin Purdy on building phone-friendly no-code webapps from Google Sheets with Glide for takeout, spices, and meal ideas.

AI companies cause most of traffic on forums(pod.geraspora.de)

566 points by ta988 1 year ago | 335 comments

A diaspora* post by Dennis Schubert reporting that LLM training crawlers like GPTBot, Amazonbot and ClaudeBot account for about 70% of the project's web infrastructure traffic.

Curl-Impersonate(github.com)

395 points by jakeogh 1 year ago | 101 comments

GitHub repository for an actively maintained fork of curl-impersonate, a curl build that mimics browser TLS/HTTP fingerprints, adding more browser versions and build targets.

'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system(sciencealert.com)

393 points by unkeen 1 year ago | 120 comments

ScienceAlert article reporting the discovery of 'obelisks', a new class of viroid-like RNA elements found in bacteria of the human digestive system.

From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video](media.ccc.de)

361 points by cookiengineer 1 year ago | 132 comments

Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.

I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig(jonot.me)

310 points by tehnub 1 year ago | 124 comments

Fun facts about SQLite(avi.im)

310 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 127 comments

Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security(arstechnica.com)

290 points by Flimm 1 year ago | 300 comments

“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf](gutenberg.org)

287 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 81 comments

Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11(noinitrd.github.io)

284 points by supermatou 1 year ago | 164 comments

YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email(arstechnica.com)

211 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 85 comments

Most people don't care about quality(shkspr.mobi)

209 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 267 comments

KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework(github.com)

207 points by taikon 1 year ago | 72 comments

Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit(people.kernel.org)

202 points by 2bluesc 1 year ago | 54 comments

MiceWine – run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones(github.com)

198 points by bj-rn 1 year ago | 63 comments

Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 4(byroot.github.io)

198 points by jeremy_k 1 year ago | 44 comments

Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth(peterzimon.com)

191 points by b6dybuyv 1 year ago | 15 comments

How AI is unlocking ancient texts(nature.com)

187 points by Marceltan 1 year ago | 59 comments

Linux Context Switching Internals: Process State and Memory(blog.codingconfessions.com)

169 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 3 comments

Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS(obdev.at)

162 points by stefankuehnel 1 year ago | 86 comments

US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010(ft.com)

161 points by marban 1 year ago | 128 comments

Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models(bellard.org)

158 points by signa11 1 year ago | 58 comments

Insurers Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts(propublica.org)

151 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 154 comments

Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth(ft.com)

148 points by pella 1 year ago | 118 comments

RWKV Language Model(rwkv.com)

147 points by simonpure 1 year ago | 47 comments

Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy(techcrunch.com)

132 points by aquir 1 year ago | 132 comments

Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?(bbc.com)

130 points by vinni2 1 year ago | 302 comments

Database mocks are not worth it(shayon.dev)

129 points by shayonj 1 year ago | 175 comments

Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler(blog.llvm.org)

124 points by eutropia 1 year ago | 17 comments

FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness(techdirt.com)

124 points by shakna 1 year ago | 111 comments

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2006) [pdf](inf.ed.ac.uk)

116 points by raviisoccupied 1 year ago | 66 comments

VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data(twitter.com)

116 points by Luc 1 year ago | 85 comments

Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'(pov.imv.au.dk)

112 points by chimpanzee 1 year ago | 24 comments

China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025(spectrum.ieee.org)

107 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 57 comments

Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024(jerpint.io)

106 points by jerpint 1 year ago | 63 comments

The Homa Network Protocol(lwn.net)

105 points by harporoeder 1 year ago | 15 comments

Lucy: A concise language for describing Finite State Machines(pkg.spooky.click)

102 points by whatever3 1 year ago | 21 comments

Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video](media.ccc.de)

98 points by hcadam 1 year ago | 14 comments

JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service(ssd.jpl.nasa.gov)

98 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 21 comments

A simple way to explore data through a Tableau-like UI directly in your data app(github.com)

94 points by loa_observer 1 year ago | 10 comments

Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down(techcrunch.com)

93 points by Nelkins 1 year ago | 62 comments

Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization(arxiv.org)

89 points by shinryudbz 1 year ago | 34 comments

Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction

87 points by mbitsnbites 1 year ago | 36 comments

Limits to Growth (1972)(bit-player.org)

86 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 60 comments

Floridians have no right to bodies of water 'free of pollution,' court rules(floridaphoenix.com)

82 points by latexr 1 year ago | 66 comments

86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines(github.com)

79 points by tosh 1 year ago | 26 comments

India's food shortage filled American libraries(bbc.com)

78 points by yannis 1 year ago | 41 comments

I made a tiny library for switches and sum types in Lua(github.com)

76 points by alurm 1 year ago | 5 comments

Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs(notebookcheck.net)

76 points by akyuu 1 year ago | 51 comments

I got promoted to staff engineer twice(seangoedecke.com)

73 points by brunocvcunha 1 year ago | 57 comments

If I Could Wave a Magic Wand(wilsoniumite.com)

68 points by Wilsoniumite 1 year ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Onramp Can Compile Doom(ludocode.com)

67 points by ludocode 1 year ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

64 points by seltzerboys 1 year ago | 100 comments

Category Theory Illustrated(abuseofnotation.github.io)

64 points by zdw 1 year ago | 1 comments

Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition(itvision.altervista.org)

57 points by itvision 1 year ago | 115 comments

How Well Do LLMs Generate Code for Different Application Domains?(arxiv.org)

56 points by belter 1 year ago | 19 comments

The smallest Hello World program(blog.lohr.dev)

56 points by michidk 1 year ago | 27 comments

40+ JackOfManyTrades needs advice for job search

55 points by Reflekt 1 year ago | 38 comments

Curl with Partial Files(daniel.haxx.se)

55 points by ingve 1 year ago | 17 comments