Hacker News on Thursday, 6 February 2025

Paper Apps(gladdendesign.com)

587 points by bluebirdfirewin 1 year ago | 86 comments

Gladden Design shop collection page selling Paper Apps, paper-based solo games like DUNGEON and GOLF and gamified tools like TO•DO, playable with pencil dice.

Hotline for modern Apple systems(github.com)

490 points by tonymet 1 year ago | 114 comments

GitHub repository for a modern open-source Hotline client for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS, MIT licensed.

Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty(danielchasehooper.com)

443 points by LordNibbler 1 year ago | 37 comments

Daniel Hooper's blog post explaining how he programmed an SDF animation of Rick from Rick and Morty in 240 lines of code, with an embedded live coding editor.

Understanding Reasoning LLMs(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

442 points by sebg 1 year ago | 163 comments

Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI newsletter article explaining the four main approaches to building and refining reasoning LLMs.

Simulating water over terrain(lisyarus.github.io)

368 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 55 comments

A blog post by lisyarus explaining how to simulate water flowing over terrain using the virtual pipes method, motivated by grid-based games and terrain generation.

Linux Running in a PDF(linux.doompdf.dev)

297 points by theden 1 year ago | 94 comments

OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release(openwrt.org)

276 points by pm2222 1 year ago | 119 comments

Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer(github.com)

265 points by QuadrupleA 1 year ago | 36 comments

Some terminal frustrations(jvns.ca)

235 points by aragilar 1 year ago | 267 comments

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

223 points by whobre 1 year ago | 257 comments

Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt(spectrum.ieee.org)

217 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 122 comments

Microplastics in the human brain(smithsonianmag.com)

201 points by headclone 1 year ago | 169 comments

U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report(zetter-zeroday.com)

195 points by jc_811 1 year ago | 122 comments

Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots(github.com)

177 points by gkamer8 1 year ago | 90 comments

Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)(onverticality.com)

161 points by nohide 1 year ago | 161 comments

Why LLMs still have problems with OCR(runpulse.com)

156 points by ritvikpandey21 1 year ago | 120 comments

Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details(twitter.com)

149 points by abhi9u 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"(thestrikeagency.com)

148 points by noduerme 1 year ago | 67 comments

GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens(github.blog)

147 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 105 comments

Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field(blog.pierre-ricadat.com)

143 points by AzzieElbab 1 year ago | 75 comments

What does it mean that MP3 is free?(idiallo.com)

143 points by foxfired 1 year ago | 74 comments

The superconductivity of layered graphene(newscientist.com)

126 points by westurner 1 year ago | 30 comments

Cloudflare R2 Global Outage(cloudflarestatus.com)

126 points by leiferik 1 year ago | 29 comments

Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)(arxiv.org)

125 points by Kye 1 year ago | 38 comments

The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker(yorickpeterse.com)

124 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 59 comments

Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation(ctvnews.ca)

119 points by luu 1 year ago | 69 comments

Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era(amny.com)

112 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 95 comments

Origami by Meenakshi(origamee.net)

111 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 7 comments

A colorful Game of Life(colorlife.quick.jaredforsyth.com)

110 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 20 comments

Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research(nature.com)

110 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 80 comments

US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal(noyb.eu)

109 points by belter 1 year ago | 102 comments

Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby(sacckey.dev)

106 points by Kerrick 1 year ago | 9 comments

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)(karpathy.github.io)

105 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 5 comments

R1 Computer Use(github.com)

97 points by mountainriver 1 year ago | 45 comments

From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution(blog.danielh.cc)

85 points by max__dev 1 year ago | 18 comments

AI by Hand Exercises in Excel(github.com)

82 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 6 comments

Sand trafficking in Latin America(insightcrime.org)

80 points by josh-sematic 1 year ago | 47 comments

Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc(git-tower.com)

78 points by pointnova 1 year ago | 47 comments

TKey – Security for the New World(tillitis.se)

68 points by diggan 1 year ago | 32 comments

Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes(devblogs.microsoft.com)

67 points by ingve 1 year ago | 48 comments

It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety(cacm.acm.org)

65 points by mepian 1 year ago | 54 comments

Show HN: Heap Explorer(github.com)

60 points by bkallus 1 year ago | 3 comments

Five coding hats(dubroy.com)

60 points by pdubroy 1 year ago | 35 comments

America's Dangerous Movement Toward Oligarchy, Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy(counterpunch.org)

59 points by hkhn 1 year ago | 3 comments

Versioning versus Coordination(brooker.co.za)

58 points by burntcaramel 1 year ago | 2 comments

AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites(meta.stackexchange.com)

57 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 51 comments

I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction(jan.miksovsky.com)

57 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 8 comments

Transfinite NIM (the game, not the programming language)(jdh.hamkins.org)

57 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 17 comments

Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam?

56 points by bitlad 1 year ago | 37 comments

Science of Microwave Ovens (2016)(genuineideas.com)

56 points by comebhack 1 year ago | 51 comments

In the trenches: on being an Engineering Manager(blog.digital-horror.com)

53 points by juxhindb 1 year ago | 19 comments

Cameras of 1930s Era(licm.org.uk)

52 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 62 comments

Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa(grafana.com)

49 points by StratusBen 1 year ago | 37 comments

An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes(theguardian.com)

46 points by embit 1 year ago | 8 comments

How to GIF (2025 Edition)(fullystacked.net)

44 points by speckx 1 year ago | 22 comments

Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase(macrumors.com)

44 points by mgh2 1 year ago | 28 comments

HTML Kaleidoscope(codepen.io)

42 points by tetris11 1 year ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki(ricotta.affineur.io)

40 points by williamsss 1 year ago | 22 comments

OpenAI Sales Agent Demo(twitter.com)

40 points by pr337h4m 1 year ago | 19 comments

Google scraps diversity 'aspirations,' citing role as federal contractor(cnbc.com)

39 points by donsupreme 1 year ago | 33 comments