The best of Hacker News - June 02, 2024

1.
Engineering for Slow Internet

974 points

2.
Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

671 points

3.
Repairing my mug with Kintsugi

588 points

4.
How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop

584 points

5.
Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

543 points

6.
Parable of the Sofa

483 points

7.
What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs

383 points

8.
What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code

303 points

9.
Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

266 points

10.
In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them

257 points

11.
How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

257 points

12.
Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel

246 points

13.
Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet

230 points

14.
Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective

226 points

15.
Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing

224 points

16.
Lisp: Icing or Cake?

223 points

17.
New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

216 points

18.
Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos

213 points

19.
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020)

211 points

20.
Trial results for new lung cancer drug are 'off the charts'

202 points

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