top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-23

Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang#hn-moderator

3 years ago

1452 upvotes – 152 comments

I am done. I give up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34103896

3 years ago

1237 upvotes – 972 comments

Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

3 years ago

683 upvotes – 122 comments

The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on

https://twitter.com/cryptopathic/status/1606416137771782151

3 years ago

614 upvotes – 414 comments

This is the year of the RSS reader?

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/this-is-the-year-of-the-rss-reader-really/

3 years ago

460 upvotes – 321 comments

Haiku R1/beta4

https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta4/release-notes/

3 years ago

440 upvotes – 139 comments

Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom

https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202212-doom-calculator/

3 years ago

348 upvotes – 55 comments

I found a secret US Government surveillance program (2019)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sowJrQQfgxnLCErb-CvUV8VGXdtca6SWYWWLRPZgaHI/edit?usp=sharing

3 years ago

331 upvotes – 93 comments

Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 100 comments

Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

https://musings.yasyf.com/never-write-a-bash-command-again-with-gpt-3/

3 years ago

308 upvotes – 111 comments

State of the Sanderson 2022

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2022/

3 years ago

302 upvotes – 246 comments

How we slowed the subway down

https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/how-we-slowed-the-subway-down/

3 years ago

277 upvotes – 96 comments

The Rise of User-Hostile Software (2021)

https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/

3 years ago

269 upvotes – 192 comments

A simple guide on words to avoid in government

https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2022/08/16/a-simple-guide-on-words-to-avoid-in-government/

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 235 comments

PicoCAD – A tiny modeller for tiny models

https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 33 comments

Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)

https://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 162 comments

Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing (2018)

https://tylerneylon.com/a/lsh1/

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 36 comments

WLED Project

https://kno.wled.ge/

3 years ago

232 upvotes – 82 comments

User Interface Design: Rules of Thumb

https://mannhowie.com/ui-design-web

3 years ago

232 upvotes – 146 comments

News for Ruby 3.2.0

https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/NEWS_md.html#label-NEWS+for+Ruby+3.2.0

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 60 comments

It's time for an RSS revival (2018)

https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Learn C in 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105770

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 211 comments

Pdfcpu: A Go PDF Processor

https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 30 comments

Caroline Ellison, CEO of Alameda Research, pleads guilty to seven offences

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/23/chief-executive-of-ftx-sister-company-pleads-guilty-to-seven-offences

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 239 comments

The simplest app that makes money

https://billprin.com/2022/12/07/simpest-app-that-makes-money.html

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 94 comments

The Mathematical Hacker (2012)

https://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 174 comments

PCalc, an Origin Story

https://pcalc.com/mac/thirty.html

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 22 comments

Hyperpaper Planner: fully interlinked dayplanner for e-ink tablets

https://hyperpaper.me

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 40 comments

Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 139 comments

Nix on the Steam Deck

https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-on-the-steam-deck

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 199 comments

RISC-V Pushes into the Mainstream

https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-pushes-into-the-mainstream/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 127 comments

TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation

https://www.ft.com/content/e873b98a-9623-45b3-b97c-444a2fde5874

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 2 comments

iPhone 14 Pro faced 'unprecedented' setback leading to removal of new GPU

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/23/iphone-14-pro-setback-removed-graphics-processor/

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 238 comments

A book teaching assembly language programming on the ARM 64 bit ISA

https://github.com/pkivolowitz/asm_book

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 43 comments

A new chat feature has been released by You Search

https://you.com/search?q=what+was+the+recent+breakthrough+in+fusion+research%3F&fromSearchBar=true&tbm=youchat

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 106 comments

The Dawn and Dusk of Sun Microsystems [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1TsVW4P5DI

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 107 comments

WebAssembly for the Java Geek

https://www.javaadvent.com/2022/12/webassembly-for-the-java-geek.html

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 87 comments

Free, P2P, disposable group video calling app for the web

https://github.com/vasanthv/talk

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 46 comments

The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark – The Lost Version (2001)

https://www.ringgame.net/riddles.html

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 94 comments

Meson Build System 1.0

https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-0-0.html

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 170 comments

Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106982

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 185 comments

Things CSS could still use heading into 2023

https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/21/things-css-could-still-use-heading-into-2023/

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Python malware starting to employ anti-debug techniques

https://jfrog.com/blog/pypi-malware-creators-are-starting-to-employ-anti-debug-techniques/

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 104 comments

BBC Subtitle Guidelines

https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 82 comments

What color is it?

http://whatcolorisit.sumbioun.com/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 52 comments

Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/reliability-and-constant-work/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work

https://nuxx.net/blog/2022/12/23/how-asus-and-a-microsoft-bug-almost-broke-remote-work/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 83 comments

DOS demo/game development template

https://github.com/badlogic/dos-dev-template

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

Particle Lenia: Self Organising Particles

https://twitter.com/zzznah/status/1606294595330940928

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

The Reliability Trap: The crash of Emirates flight 521 (2020)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-reliability-trap-the-crash-of-emirates-flight-521-98397de8c34e

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 81 comments

OpenAI's Woke Catechism

https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 78 comments

Picture This: The Periodic Table

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/picture-this-periodic-table

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

GitHub Statistics

https://ossinsight.io/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 17 comments

“I drove for Lyft for a week and learned its business model is broken”

https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/i-drove-for-lyft-for-a-week-and-learned

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 113 comments

Tesla shares tank after U.S. discounts doubled on key models

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-offers-discount-some-car-models-us-canada-2022-12-22/

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 179 comments

Hacker News Insight

https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Sierra Christmas Card 1986: A Computer Christmas

https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Bankman-Fried's Shrinking ‘$250M Bond’

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2022/12/23/bankman-frieds-incredible-shrinking-250-million-bond/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 153 comments

I want to suckless and you can too

https://bt.ht/suckless/

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 112 comments

On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties

https://oscargws.substack.com/p/why-i-gave-up-drinking-in-my-twenties

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 159 comments

The Print Shop Club – Create Apple II Print Shop printouts on-line

https://theprintshop.club/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108413

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 157 comments
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