Random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings(lemire.me)

39 points by adunk 3 years ago | 51 comments

Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables(omattos.com)

125 points by londons_explore 1 year ago | 120 comments

My Throw Decides My Aim(thegustafson.com)

17 points by usernotfoundrn 3 months ago | 6 comments

Dynamic Languages Strike Back (2008)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

39 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 22 comments

The Language That Never Was(blog.celes42.com)

26 points by darthdeus 1 year ago | 1 comments

Tech takes the Pareto principle too far(bobbylox.com)

226 points by bobbylox 1 year ago | 86 comments

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?(jsdate.wtf)

363 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 213 comments

An interactive quiz by samwho testing knowledge of JavaScript's Date class parsing quirks, verified on Node.js 24.4.0.

Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?(jonclegg.github.io)

62 points by thefourthchime 27 days ago | 38 comments

PacBench, a benchmark site comparing how well AI model and harness combinations recreate a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page from one prompt.

Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize(yourhackernews.com)

510 points by nimbusega 1 year ago | 120 comments

A site that renders the Hacker News front page in a print-newspaper layout and lets users like or dislike stories to get personalized recommendations.

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand(indigene.app)

94 points by olivierlacan 13 days ago | 16 comments

Indigene is a web app that recommends native plants supporting local wildlife based on your location, sun exposure, and soil, working offline without accounts.

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?(rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)

544 points by dmitrybrant 1 month ago | 236 comments

Interactive 3D browser simulation of a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, showing length contraction, time dilation, Terrell rotation and Doppler effects.

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator(news.ysimulator.run)

460 points by johnsillings 11 months ago | 202 comments

HN Simulator, a Hacker News clone where users submit posts and links and all comments are instantly generated by LLMs using commenter archetypes.