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Archives for 19 Aug 2024

1. On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
   (168 points | Comments)

2. HID Remapper
   (116 points | Comments)

3. Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
   (226 points | Comments)

4. AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
   (133 points | Comments)

5. Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes
   (229 points | Comments)

6. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional
   (139 points | Comments)

7. 'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera
   (183 points | Comments)

8. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
   (618 points | Comments)

9. Lenticular Clock
   (192 points | Comments)

10. Transformers in music recommendation
    (211 points | Comments)

11. Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
    (288 points | Comments)

12. Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea
    (141 points | Comments)

13. The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
    (272 points | Comments)

14. Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
    (144 points | Comments)

15. On finishing projects
    (228 points | Comments)

16. Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
    (160 points | Comments)

17. Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS
    (147 points | Comments)

18. DRAKON
    (213 points | Comments)

19. Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
    (118 points | Comments)

20. LLMs know more than what they say
    (148 points | Comments)

21. How Deep Can Humans Go?
    (139 points | Comments)

22. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
    (456 points | Comments)

23. Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping
    (267 points | Comments)

24. Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
    (102 points | Comments)

25. Caltrain's new electric trains
    (101 points | Comments)

26. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
    (365 points | Comments)

27. The Katsuification of Britain
    (111 points | Comments)

28. Tales from the Far Side
    (168 points | Comments)

29. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
    (296 points | Comments)

30. Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday
    (116 points | Comments)

31. What If Data Is a Bad Idea?
    (239 points | Comments)

32. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)
    (366 points | Comments)

33. The Dying Computer Museum
    (121 points | Comments)

34. Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
    (164 points | Comments)

35. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
    (466 points | Comments)

36. FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator
    (282 points | Comments)

37. Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
    (171 points | Comments)

38. When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95
    (101 points | Comments)