The best of Hacker News - June 08, 2024

1.
The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

437 points

2.
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash

414 points

3.
What Is PID 0?

368 points

4.
Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?

299 points

5.
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

222 points

6.
South Pole Water Infrastructure

215 points

7.
Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X

201 points

8.
Alarms in medical equipment

175 points

9.
Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)

164 points

10.
3dfx Voodoo 4 video card in MXM format

163 points

11.
Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

160 points

12.
LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance

154 points

13.
Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness

153 points

14.
Writing memory safe JIT compilers

153 points

15.
Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case for RISC-V [pdf] (2014)

152 points

16.
My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes

139 points

17.
Dblab: Interactive Terminal Client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and Oracle

132 points

18.
Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth

124 points

19.
Chebyshev approximation and how it can help (2012)

122 points

20.
LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber

120 points

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