Reverse Engineering a Soviet CMOS Chip(twitter.com)

48 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 7 comments

SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone(twitter.com)

138 points by grecy 2 years ago | 51 comments

A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe(twitter.com)

109 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 92 comments

Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3(twitter.com)

75 points by tosh 2 years ago | 48 comments

Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con, or How to Seize the Means of Computation(twitter.com)

43 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 3 comments

Peregrine Mission One: Critical Loss of Propellant(twitter.com)

21 points by hunglee2 2 years ago | 5 comments

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)(needleful.net)

331 points by gudzpoz 11 months ago | 149 comments

A blog post in which the author attempts to read and understand Arthur Whitney's terse C code, such as his small K interpreter.

Happy 20th Birthday, Django(djangoproject.com)

543 points by davepeck 1 year ago | 159 comments

Django project blog post celebrating the framework's 20th anniversary since Jacob Kaplan-Moss's first commit on July 13, 2005, and announcing celebration events.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

338 points by whoishiring 9 months ago | 210 comments

The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2026, where company employees post job openings with location and remote details.

Can gzip be a language model?(nathan.rs)

384 points by networked 1 month ago | 149 comments

A blog post by Nathan Barry exploring whether gzip compression can be used as a language model to generate text, with an interactive beam search demo.

20 years working on the same software product(successfulsoftware.net)

431 points by hermitcrab 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Successful Software blog post reflecting on 20 years of developing and selling the same software product as an independent developer.

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

1888 points by basilikum 10 months ago | 406 comments

A Tell HN post wishing the Hacker News community a Merry Christmas, with a link to the Wikipedia article on Christmas markets.