top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-29

Tales of the M1 GPU

https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

2 years ago

1014 upvotes – 367 comments

Goodbye, data science

https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/

2 years ago

821 upvotes – 402 comments

Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/

2 years ago

732 upvotes – 178 comments

JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization

https://jsonhero.io/

2 years ago

499 upvotes – 195 comments

A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s

https://anlucas.neocities.org/88x31Buttons.html

2 years ago

487 upvotes – 151 comments

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/

2 years ago

481 upvotes – 188 comments

WebTorrent

https://webtorrent.io/faq

2 years ago

445 upvotes – 141 comments

Emacs 29 is nigh

https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/

2 years ago

397 upvotes – 262 comments

Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-shortcuts-every-command-line-hacker-should-know-about-gnu-readline

2 years ago

386 upvotes – 167 comments

An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole

https://www.crosstalksolutions.com/the-worlds-greatest-pi-hole-and-unbound-tutorial-2023/

2 years ago

386 upvotes – 219 comments

Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33794293

2 years ago

375 upvotes – 410 comments

JupyterLite: a JupyterLab distribution that runs in the browser

https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 55 comments

Obsolete Sounds: collection of disappearing sounds and extinct sounds

https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 160 comments

Tailwind is a leaky abstraction

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/tailwind-is-a-leaky-abstraction/

2 years ago

297 upvotes – 379 comments

Ruby adds a core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects

https://blog.saeloun.com/2022/11/22/data-immutable-object.html

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 181 comments

UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ditches-ban-legal-harmful-online-content-favour-free-speech-2022-11-28/

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 438 comments

After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses personal details of users

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/after-court-order-telegram-discloses-phone-numbers-ip-addresses-of-users-accused-of-sharing-infringing-material-215311

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 223 comments

A Poor Man's API

https://blog.frankel.ch/poor-man-api/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 120 comments

WasmEdge

https://wasmedge.org/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 84 comments

A tiny C header-only RISC-V emulator

https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 22 comments

The best Go framework: no framework?

https://threedots.tech/post/best-go-framework/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 177 comments

Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype

https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/68030-prototype-at-1-mhz-18-boards-of-ttl/1387

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 70 comments

European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling

https://www.ft.com/content/e4b31a4e-a79d-40f7-8a19-c1e451a95c4b

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

https://singlepage.cc/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 132 comments

How do transistors work, anyway?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-do-transistors-work-anyway

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 72 comments

Pele's Hair

https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/nature/peles-hair.htm

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

A Compiler Writing Journey

https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 12 comments

Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years

https://www.themosaad.com/blog/two-years-of-tailwind-css

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 205 comments

The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World

https://alpinemag.com/fake-snow-leopard-photomontage-spread-around-world-kittiya-pawlowski/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 193 comments

Godot Engine Release Management: 4.0 and beyond

https://godotengine.org/article/release-management-4-0-and-beyond

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 43 comments

PCjs Machines

https://www.pcjs.org/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 14 comments

Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed, potentially revealing acquaintances

https://www.foxnews.com/world/jeffrey-epstein-documents-unsealed-jugde-orders

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 175 comments

DWARF-Based Stack Walking Using eBPF

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/profiling-without-frame-pointers/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 64 comments

Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2017)

https://auxiliarymemory.com/2017/01/06/rereading-the-soul-of-a-new-machine-by-tracy-kidder/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 97 comments

Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 112 comments

Dynamic types have the potential to be more than "no static types"

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-am-disappointed-by-dynamic-typing/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 293 comments

Ten Years of Image Synthesis

https://zentralwerkstatt.org/blog/ten-years-of-image-synthesis

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 22 comments

For many widows, the hardest part is mealtime (2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/dining/widows-cooking-grief.html

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 124 comments

Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Pages (Part 1)

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/low-latency-optimization-part-1/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 57 comments

Gaslighting is Word of the Year 2022

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 153 comments

Notes on ExFAT and Reliability (2021)

https://pawitp.medium.com/notes-on-exfat-and-reliability-d2f194d394c2

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 75 comments

Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to bring zero-knowledge encryption to storage

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcryptor-assets-to-bring-zero-knowledge-encryption-to-file-storage/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 73 comments

Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vision-transformers/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/11/eus-top-telecom-regulator-big-telecoms-proposal-force-websites-pay-them-puts-internet

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy

https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 110 comments

Mastodon isn’t just a replacement for Twitter

https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 101 comments

Creating a handwritten TrueType font in Linux (2018)

https://gordonlesti.com/creating-a-handwritten-truetype-font-in-linux/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Who Controls the Internet? Authoritative NS Records in gTLDs

https://netmeister.org/blog/nsauth-diversity.html

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting-us-back

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Can you tell if an image is AI-generated?

https://aiquiz.ronsor.com/index.jsp?__qs=KBGIOLC

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 105 comments

Shenzhou-15 manned mission ready for launch after final rehearsal

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-27/Shenzhou-15-mission-finishes-pre-launch-tests-1fiFExJ8AiA/index.html

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 65 comments

Tesla fan sites propagate fake news of chip joint venture, but why?

https://electrek.co/2022/11/28/tesla-blogs-propagate-fake-news-chip-joint-venture/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 39 comments

Nitter.it: Unavailable for Legal Reasons

https://nitter.it

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Python library for embedding large graphs (Written in Rust)

https://github.com/H4kor/graph-force

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

New York City Will Hospitalize More Mentally Ill People Involuntarily

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/nyregion/nyc-mentally-ill-involuntary-custody.html

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 126 comments

The mall only has 3 stores

https://unfairnation.substack.com/p/the-mall-only-has-3-stores

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 87 comments

ffmpeg.wasm – a pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Advent of Code 2022

https://adventofcode.com/2022

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

DWARF-based stack walking using eBPF

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/profiling-without-frame-pointers/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 2 comments

Scaling up a Mastodon server to 128K active users

https://gist.github.com/Gargron/aa9341a49dc91d5a721019d9e0c9fd11

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptos-final-price-could-be-zero-technology-debt-lbo-twitter-musk-bankman-fried-ftx-market-cap-coin-11669567022

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 180 comments

Phone interview with Sam Bankman-Fried [audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP54LZB3WRw

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 96 comments

Twitter misses payroll in Germany and the UK

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-missed-payroll-for-some-european-staff-this-month/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

The Balenciaga Controversy

https://www.glossy.co/fashion/the-balenciaga-controversy-explained/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 149 comments

Let's Encrypt has a neat annual report [pdf]

https://www.abetterinternet.org/documents/2022-ISRG-Annual-Report.pdf

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Scaling Mastodon with systemd template units

https://www.eigenmagic.com/2022/11/29/scaling-mastodon-with-systemd-template-units/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments
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