Hacker News on Wednesday, 8 January 2025

I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled(linkedin.com)

1254 points by jdkaim 1 year ago | 621 comments

LinkedIn post by student JD Kaim explaining he had to take down HuskySwap, his course-swapping app, under threat of expulsion from his university.

Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro(operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app)

942 points by ingve 1 year ago | 108 comments

Intro chapter of an online book that walks through building a small RISC-V operating system from scratch in about 1,000 lines of C.

Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud(dmarcchecker.app)

769 points by awulf 1 year ago | 370 comments

An article describing how the authors factored a 512-bit RSA DKIM public key using cloud computing for under $8 and tested forged email signatures against major providers.

NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation(sagipolaczek.github.io)

726 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 69 comments

Project page for NeuralSVG, a research method from Tel Aviv University and MIT CSAIL that generates layered SVG vector graphics from text prompts using an implicit neural representation.

Show HN: Atlas of Space(atlasof.space)

701 points by pieix 1 year ago | 116 comments

Atlas of Space is an interactive browser-based visualization of the Solar System that simulates orbits of planets, moons, and asteroids using Newtonian physics.

Fidget(mattkeeter.com)

529 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 51 comments

Matt Keeter's project page for Fidget, a library for representing, compiling, and evaluating large math expressions, mainly as a backend for implicit surfaces.

LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed(theregister.com)

341 points by rntn 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Register news article on Los Angeles County wildfires forcing about 70,000 evacuations and the closure of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time(sdomi.pl)

294 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 142 comments

Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI(github.com)

293 points by hackgician 1 year ago | 78 comments

Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff(salesforceben.com)

277 points by lordswork 1 year ago | 312 comments

Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra(robotics.umich.edu)

275 points by jamesliudotcc 1 year ago | 67 comments

Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died(thenewstack.io)

258 points by CrankyBear 1 year ago | 19 comments

Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads(404media.co)

219 points by consumer451 1 year ago | 81 comments

Some programming language ideas(jerf.org)

219 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 192 comments

Gate-level simulation of ASIC in browser(znah.net)

208 points by picture 1 year ago | 27 comments

The Aging Programmer(youtube.com)

177 points by belter 1 year ago | 92 comments

Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck(arstechnica.com)

164 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 169 comments

28h Days: year 1 update(sidhion.com)

159 points by HAMSHAMA 1 year ago | 93 comments

A rare alignment of 7 planets is about to take place(sciencealert.com)

158 points by koolba 1 year ago | 79 comments

White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices(nextgov.com)

142 points by WaitWaitWha 1 year ago | 113 comments

Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)(xeiaso.net)

130 points by stefankuehnel 1 year ago | 88 comments

Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced(theguardian.com)

117 points by hkmaxpro 1 year ago | 62 comments

A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator(joyofrails.com)

114 points by rossta 1 year ago | 23 comments

Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark(twitter.com)

103 points by cfnewsperson1 1 year ago | 49 comments

The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility(mecha.so)

94 points by marcodiego 1 year ago | 36 comments

/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf](tuhs.org)

87 points by vitplister 1 year ago | 45 comments

C++26: A Placeholder with No Name(sandordargo.com)

83 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 133 comments

Schola Latina Europæa and Universalis(avitus.alcuinus.net)

78 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 39 comments

Embedding Scheme in Rust(raviqqe.com)

77 points by raviqqe42 1 year ago | 9 comments

Spinal cord injuries from mountain biking exceed hockey, other high-risk sports(med.ubc.ca)

74 points by gone35 1 year ago | 76 comments

If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?(codingstuff.substack.com)

73 points by teddywahle 1 year ago | 46 comments

The Fannie and Freddie trade is back(bloomberg.com)

71 points by ioblomov 1 year ago | 66 comments

Multiplicative Infinitesimals(github.com)

68 points by Ericson2314 1 year ago | 35 comments

Market Structure Primer (2019)(primer.prooftrading.com)

65 points by firloop 1 year ago | 6 comments

AI in the 80s? How a Simple Animal Guessing Game Pioneered Machine Learning(medium.com)

64 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 25 comments

All Garmin Connect services are down(connect.garmin.com)

64 points by 0x000042 1 year ago | 57 comments

Donut Lab's next-generation in-wheel motors(donutlab.com)

64 points by klemola 1 year ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon(cardstock.denta.co)

63 points by adenta 1 year ago | 41 comments

Wends of Texas(en.wikipedia.org)

63 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Belshazzar's Clock, luminous paint night clock(blog.karliner.net)

63 points by mkarliner 1 year ago | 14 comments

17th-century priory in France converted into a medieval-inspired topiary garden(houseandgarden.co.uk)

59 points by NoRagrets 1 year ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?

56 points by nomad-nigiri 1 year ago | 35 comments

Double-keyed caching: Browser cache partitioning(addyosmani.com)

52 points by feross 1 year ago | 20 comments

Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money(france24.com)

50 points by vinni2 1 year ago | 31 comments

The U.S. Government Tried Replacing Migrant Farmworkers with Teenagers (2018)(npr.org)

43 points by notamy 1 year ago | 31 comments

Apple's new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit(crikey.com.au)

43 points by jrflowers 1 year ago | 13 comments

The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm(hudsonreview.com)

42 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 5 comments

A Supermarket in California (1955)(poetryfoundation.org)

40 points by squircle 1 year ago | 19 comments

Bad Moon Rising(archaeology.org)

37 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 37 comments

New questions on Stack Overflow are down 77% compared to 2022(gist.github.com)

37 points by 8s2ngy 1 year ago | 16 comments

Linux Routing Fundamentals(blog.sdn.clinic)

36 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 1 comments

Bitwarden Was Down(status.bitwarden.com)

34 points by gwerbret 1 year ago | 20 comments

Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex'(theguardian.com)

31 points by vinni2 1 year ago | 26 comments

Dell L502X BIOS Update installer patching(r9c.net)

31 points by robingchan 1 year ago | 12 comments

What is the future of WiFi (from a network security standpoint)(cloudi-fi.com)

30 points by Eingrand1978 1 year ago | 13 comments

Six Sins of Platform Teams(serce.me)

29 points by kaycebasques 1 year ago | 16 comments

“PET-Globe” Demo(masswerk.at)

24 points by masswerk 1 year ago | 7 comments

On Priesthoods(astralcodexten.com)

24 points by feross 1 year ago | 8 comments

Scsh Acknowledgements (1994)(scsh.net)

24 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 5 comments

Four-day week at a south London school(theguardian.com)

24 points by robtherobber 1 year ago | 0 comments