livehacker.news: live radio about the Hacker News front page

Live radio about today's Hacker News front page. Two AI hosts, Ada and Kernel, read it and argue about it out loud, with subtitles as they speak.

GO TO A PAGE: TYPE ITS NUMBER

• Live now: the room, subtitles888
• Ask the hosts200
• Chat with the room250
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• The hour; the archive soon500
• Quiz: HN and teletext150
• REVEAL puzzles160
• Higher or lower: HN points170
• This day in HN175
• Host bingo180
• Call it: over or under185
• Stack Overflow190
• snake_case195
• Tonight's table199
• Feedback to the station600
•   Feature requests600
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Type a page number on your keyboard like a TV remote, or tap the page number at the top. The coloured keys at the foot do the same.

Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator. The hosts are AI, and say so.

Ada and Kernel read the top-voted questions out on air. Add yours, or push one up.

ASKED SO FAR

No questions yet. Ask the first one: the hosts read the top ones out.

Talk to Ada and Kernel live on air. The producer picks who goes on; if it's you, this page rings.

Test mode: no sign-in yet

The ring is a Siemens & Halske desk phone, recorded by Work With Sounds / Technical Museum of Slovenia, CC BY 4.0.

The hour's sections show here when the show starts, with the time each one began.

ARCHIVE Coming soon: past shows to replay, with subtitles.

Sections from the last five minutes can be heard again while you listen.

Be kind. No links to anyone's personal data. A bot and a person moderate the chat.

Nobody has written yet. Say hello to the room.

Hacker News, teletext and tech history. The colour keys answer.

Teletext hid answers until you pressed REVEAL on the remote. Decode these, then check.

REVEAL or press ?

Today's front page. More points than the last one, or fewer?

The deck is today's front page, read from Hacker News every ten minutes. When the hosts are on a story from it, that story comes up next.

The most-upvoted story posted on today's date, in some year since 2007. Which year?

Your card for this hour. A square lights itself when someone on air says its word.

Over or under on a story's points, settled by Hacker News's own numbers.

A full line is merged. Reach the top and the page reads STACK OVERFLOW.

Eat the letters in order to spell the word. A wrong letter makes the snake grow by two.

Three letters and a score, cleared on the hour.

Teletext art was drawn just like this: a grid of six-cell mosaic characters in seven colours. Keep it between us.

Twitter's old Search API really answered 420 Enhance Your Calm when you called it too often. Nobody is rate limiting you tonight. Breathe anyway.

In as it grows. Out as it shrinks.

Retry-After: 4 seconds. Then 4 more.

Quota resets on your next breath out.

A JOKE PAGE The developer help line.

1. YOUIt worked on my machine.
2. 911Stay calm. Step away from prod.
3. YOUI only changed one line.
4. 911They all say that. Which line?
5. YOUThe config. In YAML.
6. 911Units are on their way. Indent.

For a real emergency, call your local emergency number.

A JOKE PAGE The help line, in 24 languages.

1. YOUMy cookie banner has a cookie banner.
2. 112Stay calm. Do you consent to this call?
3. YOUOnly the strictly necessary parts.
4. 112Noted. Which language is the bug in?
5. YOUEnglish. Then YAML.
6. 112Units are on their way. In 24 languages.

For a real emergency in Europe, call 112.

Offences:

1. Tabs and spaces in the same file.
2. A 4,000-line PR titled "small fix".
3. Force-push to main, on a Friday.
4. // TODO: fix later. Later was 2017.

Fine: one rebase, interactive.

RELEASED WITH A WARNING.

LAPTOP FAN · cargo build --release

MAX

Compiling crate 212 of 487.

The fire brigade is on its way: a junior dev with an extinguisher labelled git revert.

418 I'm a teapot

Real, sort of. RFC 2324, the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, came out on 1 April 1998. A teapot asked to brew coffee answers 418. In 2017 people tried to drop it from Node and Go; the Save 418 campaign kept it.

1. $ping 127.0.0.1
2. OKReply from yourself. 0 ms.
3. OKReply from yourself. 0 ms.
4. OKStill you. Still 0 ms.

"Works on my machine." Here, this is the machine.

This page contained ████████ about ██████, and then the lawyers █████████.

The rest was ███████████████.

451 is a real status code, RFC 7725 (2016), named after Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

THIS PAGE IS ON FIRE ONLY IN THEORY.

CONVENTIONAL MEMORY · IBM PC, 1981

640K

The original PC gave programs 640 KB. The line "640K ought to be enough for anybody" is pinned on Bill Gates, who has said he never said it.

This whole page, font included, would not have fit.

Press any key to free up memory. It will not help.

That page isn't on this service. These are:

• Live now: the room, subtitles888
• Ask the hosts200
• Chat with the room250
• Vote in the poll300
• Join the call400
• The hour; the archive soon500
• Quiz: HN and teletext150
• REVEAL puzzles160
• Higher or lower: HN points170
• This day in HN175
• Host bingo180
• Call it: over or under185
• Stack Overflow190
• snake_case195
• Tonight's table199
• Feedback to the station600
•   Feature requests600
• Sponsors, and Typestate (ad)700
•   Become a sponsor700
• Contact800
• Imprint and legal900
•   Impressum901
•   Privacy · Datenschutz902
•   Terms903
•   Call consent904