top 20 hacker news stories for 2022-12-11

Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7

2 years ago

1065 upvotes – 801 comments

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63859184

2 years ago

722 upvotes – 211 comments

I found a bug in SQLite

https://www.philipotoole.com/how-i-found-a-bug-in-sqlite/

2 years ago

584 upvotes – 157 comments

Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status

2 years ago

552 upvotes – 624 comments

Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

https://www.neowin.net/news/here-are-5-not-so-great-features-coming-soon-to-windows-11/

2 years ago

543 upvotes – 654 comments

Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628

2 years ago

538 upvotes – 646 comments

Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]

https://simon.peytonjones.org/assets/pdfs/haskell-exchange-22.pdf

2 years ago

491 upvotes – 376 comments

The GPT Architecture, on a Napkin

https://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/GPT_architecture.html

2 years ago

470 upvotes – 56 comments

Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

https://kevquirk.com/is-dark-mode-such-a-good-idea/

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 366 comments

A neat XOR trick

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2022-12-10-xor/

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 171 comments

Getting Started with Tmux

https://ittavern.com/getting-started-with-tmux/

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 154 comments

The maddening mess of airport codes [video]

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

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 153 comments

What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?

https://novum.substack.com/p/what-if-worldview-zero-interest-rates

2 years ago

283 upvotes – 383 comments

IPv6 Internet is broken

https://adminhacks.com/broken-IPv6.html

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33939805

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 178 comments

The longest ever flight was 64 days in a Cessna 172 (2021)

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/

2 years ago

264 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942558

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 211 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943707

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 204 comments

Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap

https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/creating-aerial-imagery-with-a-bike-helmet-camera-and-opendronemap/

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 24 comments

What happens to a smartphone when it gets stolen?

https://hachyderm.io/@em0/109494729273725207

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 232 comments
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