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posted on Sun Nov 20 13:14:22 UTC 2022 by AkshatJ27 | view on HN
This page is a parody of Hacker News.
10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size
posted on Sun Nov 20 13:49:30 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN
The article discusses how a website can become a member of a club if the website's domain name or URL has changed and the website can prove that the new URL is the same website from which some content received at least 100 points on Reddit or Hacker News.
posted on Sun Nov 20 13:52:30 UTC 2022 by atan2 | view on HN
This book is intended to teach the reader how to create an operating system's kernel called 539kernel.
Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation
posted on Sun Nov 20 15:03:57 UTC 2022 by yamrzou | view on HN
Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew
posted on Sun Nov 20 14:39:56 UTC 2022 by thenipper | view on HN
The article is about the tea package manager, which allows users to access the open source ecosystem easily and efficiently.
Mildly Interesting Quirks of C
posted on Sun Nov 20 11:54:33 UTC 2022 by goranmoomin | view on HN
There are many interesting features of the C language, including the ability to declare types and variables inside a struct scope, compound literals, flexible array members, and universal initializers.
Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
posted on Sun Nov 20 13:44:23 UTC 2022 by sidcool | view on HN
posted on Sun Nov 20 06:15:51 UTC 2022 by atan2 | view on HN
TIC-80 is a free and open source fantasy computer that allows users to create, play, and share tiny games.
In Japan, Artisans Create ‘Cut Glass from Edo’
posted on Sat Nov 19 17:31:28 UTC 2022 by Thevet | view on HN
Since 1990, Mitsuwa's artisans have been using rotating grinding tools to etch intricate patterns, freehand, into clear or colored glass, for items such as sake cups and other types of glassware.
Help HN: Starlink Signup failed, no recourse
posted on Sun Nov 20 14:47:43 UTC 2022 by childintime | view on HN
UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging
posted on Sun Nov 20 15:03:06 UTC 2022 by open-source-ux | view on HN
Some of the elements driving inflation - aside from energy bills and food prices - are stabilising, said Dame Deanne Julius, former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee which sets interest rates.
“Just a bunch of idiots having fun”–a photo history of the LAN party
posted on Sun Nov 20 13:17:42 UTC 2022 by pseudolus | view on HN
The article is about Merritt K's plans to write, compile, and crowdfund a book called LAN Party, which is a collection of original amateur photos and short essays on a period when multiplayer gaming meant desktop towers, energy drinks, and being physically present in some awkward spaces.
posted on Sun Nov 20 09:48:14 UTC 2022 by sohkamyung | view on HN
Greg Bear, author of over 50 books including 5-time Nebula winner, died November 19 after heart surgery from which he never awoke.
Reader Macros in Common Lisp (2014)
posted on Sun Nov 20 10:22:08 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN
Reader macros are powerful because they allow you to modify the behavior of the Lisp reader.
posted on Sun Nov 20 08:36:08 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN
The book Thinking Forth is about the philosophy of problem solving and programming style applied to the Forth programming language.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring – subscriptions for Shopify, easy ReCharge migrations
posted on Sun Nov 20 12:04:13 UTC 2022 by kennandavison | view on HN
The article discusses a new company that helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions and how they have raised $7.4 million in seed funding.
Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero
posted on Sun Nov 20 15:44:44 UTC 2022 by Rant423 | view on HN
posted on Sun Nov 20 15:11:11 UTC 2022 by timlod | view on HN
AMD finally opens up its Radeon raytracing analyzer “RRA” source code
posted on Fri Nov 18 11:51:40 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
The article discusses how the Radeon Raytracing Analyzer, which was previously only available in binary form, is now open-source.
Cannon Lake: Intel’s Forgotten Generation
posted on Fri Nov 18 12:01:08 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
The article discusses how Palm Cove, Intel's 10 nm die shrink of the Skylake core, is late and not as good as expected.
Running Arm64.aarch64 FreeBSD on QEMU/UTM.app on Apple Silicon
posted on Sun Nov 20 10:22:23 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN
The article discusses the author's experiences running FreeBSD on a MacBook Air, and how they were able to reduce the CPU usage of the guest operating system.
A common fungus eliminates toxic mercury from soil and water: researcher
posted on Fri Nov 18 12:16:15 UTC 2022 by vitabenes | view on HN
The article discusses how the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots, and from fresh and saltwater, and how it could provide an inexpensive and efficient way to protect crops grown in polluted areas and remediate mercury-laden waterways.
Ask HN: Publish old projects even though the source code embarrasses you by now?
posted on Sun Nov 20 12:42:12 UTC 2022 by joemanaco | view on HN
Steps to improve your writing (2020)
posted on Sat Nov 19 15:16:17 UTC 2022 by simonebrunozzi | view on HN
The article discusses the importance of writing clearly, with examples of how to make writing more understandable.
IQ is a dismal measure of intelligence (2019)
posted on Sun Nov 20 15:38:21 UTC 2022 by Tomte | view on HN
The article discusses the various problems with using IQ as a measure of intelligence, including the fact that it is unreliable and often used to promote pseudoscientific social theories.
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
posted on Sat Nov 19 19:12:05 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
An individual changed their system clock to 2030 and then to 2040 in order to get an achievement in the game 'The Stanley Parable', but this caused Steam to malfunction because it accessed many files during that short lapse of time.
Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool
posted on Sun Nov 20 05:30:54 UTC 2022 by vicsomething | view on HN
The article is about the ILLA Builder, a tool for building internal tools quickly. It describes how to use the tool, how to connect it to data, and how to deploy it.
QuickJS Running in WebAssembly
posted on Sun Nov 20 05:40:08 UTC 2022 by angrygoat | view on HN
The article discusses how to use the QuickJS Javascript interpreter compiled to WebAssembly. The interpreter can be used to safely evaluate untrusted Javascript code, and also provides an API for interfacing with the interpreter.
Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs
posted on Sun Nov 20 04:31:02 UTC 2022 by sebg | view on HN
The article argues that planes are far from being able to perform most of the tasks birds can, based on three examples of bird abilities.
A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden
posted on Fri Nov 18 15:18:22 UTC 2022 by Brajeshwar | view on HN
The article discusses the history of the term "digital garden" and how it has evolved over the years.