Archive
Dec 2023
- Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
- Happy New Year HN!
- Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors
- How to run a small social network (2019)
- Tracking and technology in cars is being weaponized by abusive partners
- A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Feedback
- Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts
- Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
- 7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen
- I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
- You're Supposed to Be Glad Your Tesla Is a Brittle Heap of Junk
- Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
- The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop
- Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)
- Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs
- Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea
- Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
- Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
- Amazon allegedly resells damaged books
- Amazon's Silent Sacking
- 'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland
- Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
- Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
- NY times is asking that all LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed
- I'm skeptical of low-code
- ScummVM on the App Store
- The Subscription Trap
- Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws
- Coastline paradox
- The art of high performance computing
- Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs
- Asking your customers what they want doesn't work
- Things are about to get worse for generative AI
- Economic downturn and the influence of AI are claiming numerous jobs
- Wikipedia daily most viewed pages
- How is AI impacting science?
- Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
- The Year of Ozempic
- Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
- Blot turns a folder into a website
- Open source liability is coming
- "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
- UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
- Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts
- Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
- In 2024, please switch to Firefox
- Strawberry case study: What if farmers had to pay for water?
- Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access
- How the append-only btree works (2010)
- Nuclear power gets new push in U.S., winning converts (2022)
- Don't Say Velcro (2017)
- Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
- 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still
- Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
- Gentoo goes Binary
- Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers
- Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy
- Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)
- Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
- Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
- The worst kind of programmer
- 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free
- Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
- America doesn't know tofu
- U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
- The merge vs. rebase debate
- Smallest Typeface
- Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext
- You can't do that because I hate you
- American cars are huge and unsafe, but automakers don't want the simple solution
- Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
- Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game
- Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
- Details on Xiaomi EV
- Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
- New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
- Firefox Sync actually works
- Cold-blooded software
- It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
- How random is xkcd? (2015)
- IDEs we had 30 years ago
- You've just been fucked by psyops [video]
- Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps
- Outlook/Hotmail is no longer blocking my mail server
- 4B If Statements
- NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
- Generation Junk
- Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
- No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability
- Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
- Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act
- Disney CEO Bob Iger says company's movies have been too focused on messaging
- 3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
- California Pizza Huts lay off all delivery drivers ahead of minimum wage increas
- Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents
- First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
- What's up Python? Epic CPython commit, Django 5 and 2FA for PyPI
- Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]
- Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court
- What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
- Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
- The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
- How we turned the tide in the roach wars
- High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
- The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
- Will scaling work?
- Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf]
- Ask HN: Should I medicate my ADHD?
- DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
- CSS Is Fun Again
- Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)
- Laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote
- Things software developers should learn about learning
- 2nd City Zoning
- BASIC was not just a programming language
- Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?
- Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
- Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
- Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought
- Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward
- Using Make – writing less Makefile
- A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
- The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display
- Positive news from 2023
- Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
- Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals
- US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect
- How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
- Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
- Website search hurts my feelings
- Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate
- Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America
- Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations
- UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions
- A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?
- Learn Modern C++
- All I want for Christmas is 1TW of solar deployed annually
- The life and death of open source companies
- Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
- High school student allegedly uses device to turn off nearby iPhones
- What are farm animals thinking?
- How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?
- Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end
- How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless?
- Has gratuity culture reached a tipping point?
- A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven
- Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
- Is Software Getting Worse?
- War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
- Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market
- Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers
- Non-interactive SSH password authentication
- I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"
- T-Mobile introduce fines from Jan 1 for "Code of Conduct" violations
- Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
- SQL as API
- Ruby 3.3
- Constellations are younger than continents
- The C++20 Naughty and Nice List for Game Devs
- Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
- Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong
- GTA 5 source code leaks online
- Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
- Tell HN: Merry Christmas
- Fake It 'Til You Fake It
- Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
- The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close
- Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
- Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?
- Costs of running a macOS app studio business
- Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
- I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions
- Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends
- Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]
- America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"
- Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII
- Germany hits 80 GW milestone
- Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?
- Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?
- Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
- Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?
- The Limits to Growth (1972)
- San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels
- Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)
- NY Governor vetoes ban on noncompete clauses, waters down LLC transparency bill
- The Art of Electronics (2015)
- 2TB microSD card is on the way early next year
- Cummins pickup truck engines tricked air quality controls, feds say
- Beeper Mini is now open-source
- Cummins Fined $1.6B for Diesel Defeat Devices in 630K RAM Trucks
- Rumble turns off access in Brazil because of government's censorship demands
- Quantum computing's reality check
- Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
- Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
- Bayesians moving from defense to offense
- "King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley
- Suno AI
- Was BASIC that horrible or better?
- How Pinterest scaled
- Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service
- They want you to forget what a film looks like
- How big is YouTube?
- OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100B or More
- Groqchat
- Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
- Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees
- Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack
- Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed
- WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
- Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana
- From Nand to Tetris (2017)
- The Hyperloop was always a scam
- Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
- In the long run, we're all Dad
- African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings
- Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
- Do I need to get out the soldering iron again? (2018)
- Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
- Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient
- SSH over HTTPS
- What We Need Instead of "Web Components"
- A structured note-taking app for personal use
- Labs.Google
- Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb
- Deep cloning objects in JavaScript
- How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
- Tech's DEI backlash is here
- The right to use adblockers
- Hyperloop One to shut down
- Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
- Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
- ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
- Google Makes over $92B per Year by Owning Android
- Intel plans spinoff of FPGA unit
- US utility firms offer builders cash/trips to fit new homes with gas appliances
- Do you really need foreign keys?
- Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds
- Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order
- New York’s attorney general says SiriusXM’s cancellation process is illegal
- Beeper – Moving Forward
- PHOLED Will Transform Displays
- Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
- Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
- Google OAuth is broken (sort of)
- Why Is the Press Attacking Home Schoolers?
- Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work
- Police get medical records without a warrant
- US homelessness up 12% from 2022, hits highest level since 2007
- Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support
- US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal
- The great cousin decline
- Many VCs have stopped investing this year
- New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT
- Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr
- New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids
- Code Is Not Technical Debt
- U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's
- Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
- Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout
- iMessage Key Verification
- Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online
- How to Escape a Container
- California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years
- Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized
- Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
- Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++
- Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
- Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug
- Record global temperatures and U.S. billion-dollar disasters
- Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch
- VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaScript
- Wayland vs. X – Overview
- There's a Concorde Engine Complete with Afterburner for Sale on eBay
- String pinsetters are upending bowling
- Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
- Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app
- Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
- Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays
- Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights
- An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs
- Math Team
- Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record
- The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
- The housing shortage is larger than you think
- Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode
- $750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people
- Tesla Drivers Have the Highest Crash Rate of Any Brand: Study
- My failed attempt at using a closet as an office
- Mercedes adds a new car light color: Blue for self-driving
- A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion
- C++ Should Be C++
- UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts
- Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time
- Perplexity Labs Playground
- Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states
- The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
- Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers
- Does quantum theory imply the universe is preordained?
- Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
- Google podcasts is shutting down
- JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs
- The day I started believing in unit tests
- Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34
- Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
- It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber
- James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
- Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars
- My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
- All code is technical debt
- RFC 9518 – What can internet standards do about centralisation?
- How to unit test code that depends on time
- Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
- Gokrazy – Go Appliances
- No star, No fix
- Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
- Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
- Google's True Moonshot
- Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author
- I Love Ruby
- PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx
- AI may be on a trajectory to surpass human intelligence; we should be prepared
- The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
- VW is putting buttons back in cars
- Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges
- Flipboard Begins to Federate
- Fly Kubernetes
- Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy
- Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013
- Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real
- Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler
- Why are things expensive?
- US Steel, once the largest corporation, agrees to sell to Nippon Steel
- Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation
- Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
- Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets
- Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
- Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase
- How artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators
- The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days
- "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"
- The "Cheap" Web
- Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.
- EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation
- Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
- Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses
- Bricks Can Absorb Traffic Noise – Thesis Preso on Helmholtz Resonators [video]
- Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
- Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review
- “Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
- 0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article remain
- The debt problem is enormous, and the system for fixing it is broken
- 'Tranq tourism': TikTokers travel to film drug users
- How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
- 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public
- So you want custom allocator support in your C library
- AMD's CDNA 3 Compute Architecture
- Misra C++:2023
- BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
- US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
- Goodreads asks users to help combat 'review bombing'
- The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
- A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
- BC Supreme Court bars man from calling himself an 'engineer'
- Evaluating new software forges
- Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies
- Ventoy
- How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
- The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale
- The Apollo Syndrome
- Microsoft forced people to install their browser (2010)
- An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
- Why it's taking so long for Americans to get payments instantly
- Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators
- Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling
- Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)
- Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors
- How the Feds bounced Binance
- Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000, no jail
- MongoDB security notice
- Chimera Linux
- Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution
- Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024
- What is the point of a public key fingerprint?
- Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
- The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
- What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]
- Bang&Olufsen says it will defy luxury slowdown as 'rich will only become richer'
- The falling nutritional value of crops
- SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC
- Moving from relational data to events
- Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023
- Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
- Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away from petrol vehicles?
- OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
- NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus
- Advancements in machine learning for machine learning
- Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
- City council passes bill enabling tenants to report vacant apartments
- Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
- New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
- Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to avoid Red Sea after surge in missile and drone attacks
- Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
- Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
- McDonald's ice cream machine hackers say they found 'smoking gun'
- Prompt engineering
- Fastmail Employees Form a Union
- "CSS is dramatically more difficult than learning assembly language" [audio]
- Database Fundamentals
- Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people
- What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
- Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)
- How Lego builds a new Lego set
- Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
- WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
- Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust
- More product, fewer product managers
- Swift was always going to be part of the OS (2022)
- AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip
- Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
- Google Groups ending support for Usenet