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Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types? (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dhpF
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DRAKON (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Hardware Virtualization (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dhq3
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Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dhpe
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Writing a Playstation 1 Game in 2024 (❄️ Score: 157+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6d5XP
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We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dfcR
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Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files (Score: 153+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dhrP
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This Ghidra extension unrelocates machine code through analysis and then synthesizes a working object file from a listing selection. It effectively turns computer programs into Lego bricks, to be torn down into pieces and reused into something new.
It supports the COFF and ELF object file formats, for the x86 and MIPS architectures. It has been successfully used on Linux, Windows and PlayStation executables. One user report is on a commercial video game from 2009 with a ~7 MiB Windows executable written in C++: it was delinked without its C runtime library and then relinked into a new executable at a different base address, with no visible change in functionality, as a prelude to a decompilation project.
Use-cases I've demonstrated on my blog include modding, making software ports, converting executable file formats, creating libraries... I've originally built this as part of a video game decompilation project ; I've been working on this over the past 2.5 years and recently it has started gaining some users besides me.
SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dgyh
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Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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A 20-part deep dive into how linkers work (2008) (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dgRQ
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Designing my own watch (2020) (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dgWq
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Make Firefox Private Again (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dfiZ
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Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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Better Living Through Algorithms (2023) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
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Government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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What If Data Is a Bad Idea? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Python's Preprocessor (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
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Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase (🔥 Score: 158+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6diKT
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Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma.
Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can make it difficult to build delightful software. Could it be better?
We were senior and staff engineers at Facebook and Airbnb and had been thinking about this problem for years. In 2021, Stopa wrote an essay talking about how these schleps are actually database problems in disguise [1]. In 2022, Stopa wrote another essay sketching out a solution with a Firebase-like database with support for relations [2]. In the last two years we got the backing of James Tamplin (CEO of Firebase), became a team of 5 engineers, pushed almost ~2k commits, and today became open source.
Making a chat app in Instant is as simple as
function Chat() {
// 1. Read
const { isLoading, error, data } = useQuery({
messages: {},
});
// 2. Write
const addMessage = (message) => {
transact(tx.messages[id()].update(message));
}
// 3. Render!
return <UI data={data} onAdd={addMessage} />
}
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6din9
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Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020) (Score: 152+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dg8H
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Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014) (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dhaA
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What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care (Score: 160+ in 5 hours)
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No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux (Score: 155+ in 4 hours)
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I'm Tired of Fixing Customers' AI Generated Code (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dguk
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Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6de9z
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During the hype of llama.ttf months ago, I was speculating the potential of WASM shaper for even crazier purpose, one that fitter to a font shaper's duty -- to synthesize font at runtime. This project as proof-of-concept implements a synthesizer that generates and rasterizes handwriting-style font, backed by a super-lightweight RNN model (~14MiB).
Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore (Score: 151+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ddVY
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US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6dg3n
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