top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-27

An experiment in UI density created with Svelte

https://cybernetic.dev/grid

2 years ago

882 upvotes – 256 comments

SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

2 years ago

487 upvotes – 193 comments

In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

2 years ago

412 upvotes – 260 comments

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/

2 years ago

395 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool

https://github.com/arunsupe/semantic-grep

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less

https://github.com/opslane/opslane

2 years ago

319 upvotes – 169 comments

Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

https://bret.dk/intel-n100-radxa-x4-first-thoughts/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 283 comments

Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)

https://theconversation.com/how-one-german-city-developed-and-then-lost-generations-of-math-geniuses-106750

2 years ago

273 upvotes – 181 comments

Learning about PCI-e: Driver and DMA

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/pcie-driver-dma/

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 23 comments

Tritone Substitutions

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/07/27/tritone-substitutions/

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 134 comments

Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland

https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 221 comments

Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide

https://ntk148v.github.io/posts/linux-network-performance-ultimate-guide/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 19 comments

Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb

https://github.com/joshuacline/windick

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 44 comments

Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry

https://boogiemath.org/meta/meta-9.html

2 years ago

194 upvotes – 76 comments

Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)

https://cdm.link/2017/07/aphex-twin-gave-us-peek-inside-90s-classic-heres-learned/

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 73 comments

Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 28 comments

Roguecraft Devs on Developing for Amiga in 2024

https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-its-easy-to-get-a-bit-over-ambitious-roguecraft-devs-on-developing-for-amiga-in-2024

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 30 comments

Managarm: Pragmatic microkernel-based OS with asynchronous I/O

https://github.com/managarm/managarm

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 59 comments

Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system

https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/07/27/0/

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 85 comments

Introduction to Machine Learning Interviews Book

https://huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 9 comments

The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/us-fiscal-mess-some-unpleasant-fiscal-simulations

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 280 comments

Taking a Radio Camping

https://ewpratten.com/blog/camping-radio/

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 50 comments

Sqlitefs: SQLite as a Filesystem

https://github.com/narumatt/sqlitefs

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments

Lessons from Ancient File Systems

http://madcompiler.blogspot.com/2024/02/lessons-from-ancient-file-systems.html

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut (1999)

https://www.robertcaro.org/post/an-interview-with-robert-caro-and-kurt-vonnegut

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

The Scale of Life

https://www.thescaleoflife.com/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Oh man! Our entire team has been replaced by Vietnam developers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1eckee9/oh_man_our_entire_team_has_been_replaced_by/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 90 comments

IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers

https://apnews.com/article/irs-audits-wealthy-taxes-biden-treasury-b12a48b200834a7c9a04dc293e3273c2

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 105 comments

Tell HN: I am going to host "Real Analysis" book club meetings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41088355

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

People Behind “The Print Shop” (1985)

https://theprintshop.club/2024/07/26/the-people-behind-the-print-shop/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 66 comments

Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to 'heroin'

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205774/adobe-ftc-lawsuit-creative-cloud-cancellation-fees-heroin

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 72 comments

Bashsimplecurses: Simple curses library made in bash to draw terminal interfaces

https://github.com/metal3d/bashsimplecurses

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

How large language models will disrupt data management [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3302-fernandez.pdf

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website

https://github.com/Lissy93/web-check

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 6 comments

Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/24/ai-bubble-big-tech-stocks-goldman-sachs/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Burrow is a globally distributed, serverless HTTP proxy

https://github.com/myzie/burrow

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang (2020)

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/arm-cortexm-with-llvm-clang

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 6 comments

Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018)

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/writing-paper-expensive/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments

Workbrew

https://workbrew.com/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer

https://www.wired.com/story/amoc-collapse-atlantic-ocean/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 35 comments

New Programming Languages of 2024

https://pldb.io/lists/explorer.html#searchBuilder=%7B%22criteria%22%3A%5B%7B%22condition%22%3A%22%3E%3D%22%2C%22data%22%3A%22appeared%22%2C%22origData%22%3A%22appeared%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22num%22%2C%22value%22%3A%5B%222024%22%5D%7D%5D%2C%22logic%22%3A%22AND%22%7D

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 41 comments
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