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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,802 posts.
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Show HN: Metaballs
Generating gooey metaballs as a single SVG path — locating the tangent points between two circles, spreading and curving the connector with polar coordinates, and handling overlap, after Hiroyuki Sato's Illustrator script.
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How video games use lookup tables
How to implement 1D LUTs to color grayscale thermal vision videos, 3D LUTs for color correct and smart hacks from video games
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A new PNG spec
After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
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How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
In this post, I describe the phenomenon of the so-called expert beginner -- someone with mediocre skill who thinks he's an expert.
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UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security…
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Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder is Meta's frontier AI model that keeps track of what matters to you with Active Memory & Active Focus to work towards your goals at work & life.
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Everyone should know SIMD
SIMD has a reputation for being complex. I've met many very good software engineers who dismiss it as something too complex to learn or a niche optimization meant for only the highest-performance software, not useful in everyday programming.
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Why fastDOOM is fast
During the winter of 2024, I restored an IBM PS/1 486-DX2 66Mhz, "Mini-Tower", model 2168. It was the computer I always wanted as a teenager but could never afford. Words cannot do justice to the joy I felt while working on this machine.
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3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous
the history of 3dfx Interactive
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Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
The most plausible explanation for teenage unhappiness.
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Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
In their latest attempt to disrupt the iOS anti-ad tracking feature, Facebook has stooped to a new low
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How I regained concentration and focus
For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes, even the pandemic didn’t affect me, thanks to a nice home…
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Understanding Jane Street
Plus! Pensions; Customer-Facing; Use Cases; Making a Market; Reflexive Energy Politics; Diff Jobs
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Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
Daniel P. Gross is a computer software and hardware professional based in Toronto.
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There’s no speed limit (2009)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
I trained a small transformer from scratch in 1.5hrs on a 5090 Beats many LLMs, and scores the same as TRM/HRM
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Goodbye, Malcolm
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 19, 2013
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Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
I have never had a Facebook account, or an Instagram account. There is a Facebook account called "Richard Stallman", but it is an impostor.
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The future of version control
A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control
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Don't guess my language
If you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature.
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Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mysteryThe rate at which the Universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent difference, called the Hubble Tension, is seen between the…
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API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Instead of redirecting API calls from HTTP to HTTPS, make the failure visible. Unfortunately, many well-known API providers don't currently do so.
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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.
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I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
I wrote to Flock’s privacy contact to opt out of their …
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How to post when no one is reading
The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway.
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Deno 1.9
Deno 1.9 adds a new native HTTP/2 web server, a vastly improved op infrastructure, import completions in the LSP, an interactive permission prompt, blob url support.