Hacker News 50

Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work
Link: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/google-maps-doesnt-know-how-street-addresses-work/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788832
#google

2025-04-25 00:40:06

Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS
Link: https://github.com/philocalyst/infat
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785350

2025-04-23 23:25:06

Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online
Link: https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774938

2025-04-23 23:15:07

Sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change
Link: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/multi-disciplinary-artist-jack-rusher-on-the-need-to-sustain-your-creative-drive-in-the-face-of-technological-change/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759204

2025-04-23 23:10:06

C++26: more constexpr in the core language
Link: https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/23/cpp26-constexpr-language-changes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775670

2025-04-21 08:25:07

Pope Francis dies aged 88
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749449

2025-04-14 23:15:06

SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering
Link: https://subalpinecircuits.com/ssd1306-and-font-rendering/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683497

2025-04-13 20:05:07

Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)
Link: https://grumpy.systems/2023/please-dont-sell-space-in-your-homelab/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674267

2025-04-13 18:35:06

Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing
Link: https://www.computesgazette.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43671861

2025-04-13 18:25:07

Why Fennel?
Link: https://fennel-lang.org/rationale
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673551

2025-04-12 05:05:06

Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
Link: https://tiendil.org/en/posts/eu-key-principles-on-in-game-virtual-currencies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43658420

2025-04-10 08:15:06

Hunt for Red October 1990
Link: http://www.modelshipsinthecinema.com/2016/12/hunt-for-red-october-1990.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43641469

2025-04-10 07:40:06

France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?
Link: https://grist.org/looking-forward/frances-new-high-speed-train-design-has-americans-asking-why-cant-we-have-that/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43641300
#france

2025-04-08 05:25:08

Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club
Link: https://rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-club-join-sit-club
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617190

2025-04-06 10:35:06

Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain
Link: https://pypi.org/project/model-signing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596543

2025-03-31 20:10:06

Kagi for Kids
Link: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/family-plan.html#kidslogin
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538338

2025-03-31 19:55:06

Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers
Link: https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534533

2025-03-31 19:35:06

Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax
Link: https://blog.jgc.org/2025/03/debugging-lotus-1-2-3-by-fax.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536105

2025-03-29 22:05:07

Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518576
#apple

2025-03-28 17:05:06

The Biology of a Large Language Model
Link: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505748

2025-03-27 01:00:06

Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch
Link: https://edera.dev/stories/styrolite
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486997
#linux

2025-01-05 19:40:06

Triangulation of a polyline with thickness (a.k.a. line strip)
Link: https://jvernay.fr/en/blog/polyline-triangulation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589054

2024-11-18 11:55:06

Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine
Link: https://github.com/trynova/nova
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168166
#javascript

2024-11-13 00:25:07

Five Unusual Raku Features
Link: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-unusual-raku-features/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42120090

2024-11-11 19:55:08

All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
Link: https://jero.zone/posts/reverse-engineering-apis
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057903

2024-11-10 08:00:06

Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing
Link: https://thejenkinscomic.net/shaderblocks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039296

2024-11-07 18:55:06

Mushroom Color Atlas
Link: https://www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078581

2024-11-05 14:40:07

Seeing Like a Programmer: Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards
Link: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/elsewhere/seeing-like-a-programmer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015703

2024-11-02 11:05:06

The trailing dot in domain names matter
Link: https://lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29/the-trailing-dot-in-domain-names-a-detail-that-is-often-poorly-managed.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982974

2024-11-02 10:55:06

How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
Link: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-hygiene/how-to-go-to-sleep-earlier
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016904

2024-11-01 04:50:06

Antibody Drug Conjugates: A frontier in cancer treatment
Link: https://www.sagelyhealth.com/blog-posts/cancers-magic-bullet-antibody-drug-conjugates
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42009196

2024-10-31 04:25:06

A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C#
Link: https://em-tg.github.io/csborrow/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963259
#rust

2024-10-31 04:25:06

Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996156

2024-10-31 00:10:06

Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
Link: https://build.shepherd.com/p/hi-google-please-stop-the-bed-a-desperate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42000651
#google

2024-10-29 23:50:06

Wasmer 5.0
Link: https://wasmer.io/posts/introducing-wasmer-v5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990326

2024-10-28 22:25:06

Why so few Matt Levines?
Link: https://gwern.net/matt-levine
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975993

2024-10-27 21:20:07

Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket
Link: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963491

2024-10-26 19:05:07

Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
Link: https://devclass.com/2024/10/22/should-javascript-be-split-into-two-languages-new-google-driven-proposal-divides-opinion/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955353
#javascript

2024-10-25 17:45:05

A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall
Link: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/25/a-deep-dive-into-linuxs-new-mseal-syscall/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945894
#linux

2024-10-24 16:00:06

Irreproducible Results (2011)
Link: https://kk.org/thetechnium/irreproducible/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895278

2024-10-24 05:35:07

OOP is not that bad
Link: https://osa1.net/posts/2024-10-09-oop-good.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901577

2024-10-22 10:15:06

Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?
Link: https://github.com/nh2/internal-contstrained-pki
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41876741

2024-10-22 10:10:08

Don't Publish with IEEE
Link: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912625

2024-10-20 08:00:05

Booting Sun Sparc Servers
Link: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-sparc-servers.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891658

2024-10-20 07:45:05

Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller
Link: https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/machine-learning-mnist-inference-on-the-3-cent-microcontroller/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889467

2024-10-20 07:35:05

Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Change (2016)
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151588
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41892432

2024-10-14 21:10:07

Gosub – An open-source browser engine
Link: https://github.com/gosub-io/gosub-engine
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41835040

2024-10-14 16:45:06

NASA's Europa Clipper Launch
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQToTWKwtuw
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838420

2024-10-12 11:35:06

Rosen 9000X3D performance according to MSI
Link: https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-leaks-ryzen-9000x3d-2-to-13-higher-gaming-performance-than-7000x3d
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41817067

2024-10-12 11:05:06

Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI
Link: https://github.com/openai/swarm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815173

2024-10-12 10:15:06

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41776849
#linux

2024-10-12 10:05:06

How London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly
Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/how-londons-crystal-palace-was-built-so-quickly/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41776765

2024-10-10 08:30:06

Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks
Link: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-fixes-firefox-zero-day-actively-exploited-in-attacks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41796030
#firefox #mozilla

2024-10-08 02:40:06

Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line
Link: https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/137/rust-is-rolling-off-the-volvo-assembly-line
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771272
#rust

2024-10-08 02:30:06

The survival skills of Helena Valero
Link: https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/the-survival-skills-of-helena-valero
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758857

2024-10-07 13:55:06

Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter?
Link: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765716

2024-10-06 23:30:06

New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-universe-dark.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760006

2024-10-06 23:30:06

Sailfish Mobile OS
Link: https://sailfishos.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749296

2024-10-06 22:45:06

The X-Files Game
Link: https://www.filfre.net/2024/10/the-truth-is-out-there-part-3-the-game-of-belief/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759149

2024-10-06 22:40:06

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
Link: https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748738

2024-10-06 22:35:06

How to Stop Advertisers from Tracking Your Teen Across the Internet
Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/how-stop-advertisers-tracking-your-teen-across-internet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759113

2024-10-06 22:25:08

Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers
Link: https://ntietz.com/blog/rust-needs-a-web-framework-for-lazy-developers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760421
#rust

2024-10-04 00:40:06

Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/cox-slows-internet-speeds-in-entire-neighborhoods-to-punish-any-heavy-users/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736215

2024-10-04 00:35:07

I Solve Problems
Link: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732415

2024-10-04 00:30:07

HTTrack Website Copier
Link: https://github.com/xroche/httrack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41733714

2024-10-01 18:25:06

OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/1/openai-devday-2024-live-blog/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711694

2024-10-01 18:05:06

Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
Link: https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711709
#github

2024-09-30 09:00:08

David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
Link: https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41694025

2024-09-26 05:55:06

Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638987

2024-09-25 12:35:06

Who Is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri Despite Evidence of Innocence
Link: https://innocenceproject.org/who-is-marcellus-williams-man-facing-execution-in-missouri-despite-dna-evidence-supporting-innocence/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646420

2024-09-25 11:40:10

FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records
Link: https://fred.org.nz/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643810

2024-09-22 21:30:05

Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03099-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685

2024-09-20 06:20:06

AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
Link: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-the-great-logging-off/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41553930

2024-09-19 11:05:05

Show HN: ts-remove-unused – Remove unused code from your TypeScript project
Link: https://github.com/line/ts-remove-unused
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41554014
#typescript

2024-09-15 20:10:06

Throwable tactical camera transmits 360° panoramic thermal images
Link: https://newatlas.com/technology/throwable-tactical-camera-panoramic-thermal-images/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41530571

2024-09-14 17:55:09

Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
Link: https://www.ft.com/content/f3bb0b62-2d8a-44e8-a5aa-13a8f154ec0e
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539911

2024-09-14 16:40:06

Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker
Link: https://10maurycy10.github.io/projects/speaker/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540221

2024-09-14 16:35:06

Writing an OS in Rust
Link: https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540362
#rust

2024-09-14 16:25:07

Haskell Postgres Stored Procedures
Link: https://github.com/ed-o-saurus/PLHaskell
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500984
#haskell #postgres

2024-09-14 16:10:06

Do Animals Know That They Will Die?
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/09/grieving-death-chimpanzees-thanatology/679750/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502798

2024-09-13 11:10:05

The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000)
Link: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~reid/bfield.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41527390

2024-09-08 20:15:07

Graphics Tricks from Boomers
Link: https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2024-09-08-4ktribute/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481323

2024-09-08 20:15:06

Core: New way to develop video games
Link: https://github.com/damn/core
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482060

2024-09-08 19:30:06

The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want to l
Link: https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/muscular-imagination/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481821

2024-09-07 19:35:06

A new rare high-rank elliptic curve, and an orchard of Diophantine equations
Link: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/two-items-a-new-rare-high-rank-elliptic-curve-and-a-beautifully-organised-orchard-of-diophantine-equations/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41475177

2024-09-07 19:20:06

Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/dogs-remember-names-toys-years-study-pets-memory
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440997

2024-09-06 11:25:06

Oxford commercializes its 20% more powerful solar panels in the US
Link: https://electrek.co/2024/09/05/oxford-commercializes-its-20-more-powerful-solar-panels-in-the-us/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41463768

2024-09-06 11:05:07

Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process
Link: https://github.com/RaisinTen/electron-snapshot-experiment
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456838

2024-09-05 16:25:07

Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee
Link: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/here-a-bee-there-a-bee-everywhere-a-wild-bee/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423095

2024-09-05 15:20:06

Giving C++ std:regex a C makeover
Link: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/09/04/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41454870

2024-09-04 14:25:06

Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today
Link: https://earthsky.org/space/small-asteroid-hit-earth-philippines-sept-4-5-2024/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41445209

2024-09-04 09:15:06

Interactive NixOS Tests
Link: https://paperless.blog/interactive-nixos-tests
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442423

2024-08-30 11:50:06

Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process
Link: https://digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no/blog/2024-08-28-rearchiving-2-million-hours-of-digital-radio/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41398925

2024-08-29 22:55:06

Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28
Link: https://hidot.hawaii.gov/blog/2024/08/28/hawai%ca%bbi-issued-real-ids-can-be-added-to-apple-wallet-beginning-august-28/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395050
#apple

2024-08-28 15:35:08

US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/us-appeals-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-unconstitutional/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380217

2024-07-09 20:50:06

Pulitzer winning reporter faces jail for protecting funding scandal sources
Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/anna-wolfe-pulitzer-mississippi-welfare-scandal-phil-bryant-rcna159936
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40920256

2024-07-08 23:35:06

DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)
Link: https://sqlitebrowser.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909076
#linux