top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-06

Sq.io: jq for databases and more

https://sq.io

2 months ago

606 upvotes – 129 comments

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)

http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carmack-on-inlined-code.html

2 months ago

556 upvotes – 388 comments

The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online

https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/the-medieval-masterpiece-the-book-of-kells-is-now-digitized-and-available-online.html

2 months ago

415 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432

2 months ago

376 upvotes – 940 comments

Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon

https://nickb.website/blog/virtualizing-ios-on-apple-silicon

2 months ago

357 upvotes – 155 comments

AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2024-10-06-vpternlogd/

2 months ago

320 upvotes – 68 comments

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)

https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm

2 months ago

282 upvotes – 195 comments

So thieves broke into your storage unit again

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/10/so-thieves-broke-into-your-storage-unit.html

2 months ago

275 upvotes – 299 comments

XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support

https://ostechnix.com/xfce-4-20-aims-to-bring-preliminary-wayland-support/

2 months ago

264 upvotes – 200 comments

HPy – A better C API for Python

https://hpyproject.org/

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 87 comments

Rust needs a web framework

https://ntietz.com/blog/rust-needs-a-web-framework-for-lazy-developers/

2 months ago

252 upvotes – 382 comments

Gleam Is Pragmatic

https://blog.drewolson.org/gleam-is-pragmatic/

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 174 comments

Good Retry, Bad Retry

https://medium.com/yandex/good-retry-bad-retry-an-incident-story-648072d3cee6

2 months ago

240 upvotes – 66 comments

AI is an impediment to learning web development

https://ben.page/jumbocode-ai

2 months ago

229 upvotes – 216 comments

How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJIJPTUXXE

2 months ago

210 upvotes – 76 comments

Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency

https://r.ena.to/blog/optimizing-postgres-table-layout-for-maximum-efficiency/

2 months ago

204 upvotes – 68 comments

Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-lora-hybrid

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 101 comments

We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1fx5fq0/we_need_a_real_gnulinux_not_android_smartphone/

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 223 comments

We're excited about our new roundabout

https://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/in-case-you-cant-tell-were-really.html

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 303 comments

The magic (image resampling) kernel

https://johncostella.com/magic/

2 months ago

167 upvotes – 37 comments
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