Saturday, September 30, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Beautiful LaTeX Book with Examples

Beautiful LaTeX Book with Examples
6 by anmnv | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: A Bit About Byte Magazine: The Premier Technical Journal of Its Time

A Bit About Byte Magazine: The Premier Technical Journal of Its Time
10 by zdw | 7 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said

Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said
6 by JumpCrisscross | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: They Quit Their Jobs. Their Ex-Employers Sued Them for Training Costs

They Quit Their Jobs. Their Ex-Employers Sued Them for Training Costs
6 by gnicholas | 2 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)

Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)
57 by exz | 14 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Publisher: $2.5k for Academics to Post Their Own Manuscript to Their Own Repos

Publisher: $2.5k for Academics to Post Their Own Manuscript to Their Own Repos
37 by rntn | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals
8 by wglb | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Tuesday, September 19, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres

Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres
38 by coatue | 3 comments on Hacker News.
hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. With Hydra, you can analyze billions of rows instantly without changing code. demo video (5 min): https://youtu.be/1yzxgb0Oyrw github repo: https://ift.tt/ZK2YMvT For 1.0 GA release, aggregate queries are over *60% faster* than Hydra beta due to aggregate vectorization. Spatial indexes (gin, gist, spgist, and rum indexes) and pg_hint_plan are now enabled for performance optimization. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without changing code. for testing, try the hydra free tier to create a column postgres instance on the cloud. https://ift.tt/TJmv0oQ

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader

Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader
51 by toomanyrichies | 26 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, September 18, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail

Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail
37 by howmayiannoyyou | 11 comments on Hacker News.
To be (dis)continued: "We’re writing to let you know that the Gmail Basic HTML view for desktop web and mobile web will be disabled starting early January 2024. The Gmail Basic HTML views are previous versions of Gmail that were replaced by their modern successors 10+ years ago and do not include full Gmail feature functionality."

New top story on Hacker News: Americans Can Barely Afford Homes

Americans Can Barely Afford Homes
27 by jseliger | 9 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 winners

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 winners
21 by DemiGuru | 5 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains for the Steam Deck

SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains for the Steam Deck
28 by WithinReason | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021)

Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021)
18 by reqo | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Mysteries of the Court of Miracles

Mysteries of the Court of Miracles
7 by samclemens | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, September 10, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity

Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity
10 by lxm | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development

Show HN: Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development
9 by dlachausse | 0 comments on Hacker News.
erlmacs automatically configures and updates your .emacs file with support for the emacs mode that is included with Erlang/OTP. It frees you from having to locate the installation directory of Erlang/OTP and its bundled emacs mode. It is an escript that only depends upon Erlang/OTP and Emacs. Note: There is not much in the way of error checking at this moment, but it does make a backup of your .emacs files before any destructive operations.

New top story on Hacker News: A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)

A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)
67 by gautamsomani | 16 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, September 1, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)
36 by whoishiring | 95 comments on Hacker News.
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.