top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-03

Modules, not microservices

http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html

3 years ago

Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/eating-viruses-can-power-growth-reproduction-of-microorganism/

3 years ago

Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-steve-jobs

3 years ago

French startup unveils new residential thermo-acoustic heat pump

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/02/residential-thermo-acoustic-heat-pump-produces-water-up-to-80-c/

3 years ago

Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation [resolved]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233011

3 years ago

Python 2 removed from Debian

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027108

3 years ago

Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-programmer-cracks-a-pure-math-problem-20230103/

3 years ago

Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/

3 years ago

Start a fucking blog

https://startafuckingblog.com/

3 years ago

Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings

3 years ago

Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022

https://mattbruenig.com/2023/01/01/solar-panels-reduced-my-electric-bill-by-2677-in-2022/

3 years ago

Show HN: A device that only lets you type lol if you've truly laughed out loud

https://twitter.com/lanewinfield/status/1610294277434933249

3 years ago

LearnCPP: Website devoted to teaching you how to program in C++

https://www.learncpp.com/

3 years ago

Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34231553

3 years ago

Meta Quest Pro – Bad AR Passthrough

https://kguttag.com/2023/01/03/meta-quest-pro-part-1-unbelievably-bad-ar-passthrough/

3 years ago

South Korea’s online security dead end

https://palant.info/2023/01/02/south-koreas-online-security-dead-end/

3 years ago

Web hackers vs. the auto industry

https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/

3 years ago

A16Z is the “worst and largest” scammer of all, says CEO of Swan Bitcoin (2022)

https://bitnation.co/a16z-is-the-worst-and-largest-scammer-of-all/

3 years ago

Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/breaking-rsa-with-a-quantum-computer.html

3 years ago

In 2022, Web3 went just great

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/in-2022-web3-went-just-great

3 years ago

Migrating from AWS to Fly.io

https://terrateam.io/blog/flying-away-from-aws

3 years ago

Small Teams

https://stevepulec.com/posts/small/

3 years ago

Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1

3 years ago

10x C++ Editor

https://10xeditor.com/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to Scratch for a blind child?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229502

3 years ago

Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/health/psychedelic-drugs-mushrooms-oregon.html

3 years ago

Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree

https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/please-write-a-breaking-news-article-about-a-leaf

3 years ago

26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design

https://matt.might.net/articles/26-languages-part2/

3 years ago

“Unexplainable” core dump (2011)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4703844/unexplainable-core-dump

3 years ago

Some Remarks on Large Language Models

https://gist.github.com/yoavg/59d174608e92e845c8994ac2e234c8a9

3 years ago

Hnefatafl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games

3 years ago

Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving

https://www.lexx.gr/blog/post/ok-cloudflare-i-am-leaving

3 years ago

Can self-replicating species flourish in the interior of a star? (2020) [pdf]

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3cb2/0df9e075056030103d73f173fa29f8f92f07.pdf?_ga=2.37017120.1076752451.1672779819-279137700.1672779819

3 years ago

Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/business/japan-businesses-succession.html

3 years ago

Bflat – a single ahead-of-time crosscompiler and runtime for C#

https://flattened.net/

3 years ago

An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-unorthodox-scholar-uses-technology-expose-biblical-forgeries-180981290/

3 years ago

Men Without Work (2016)

https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/

3 years ago

Next-generation Qi2 wireless charging standard embraces Apple's MagSafe

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/03/qi2-wireless-charging-standard-gains-magsafe/

3 years ago

The cost of cheap TVs

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/smart-tvs-sony-lg-cheap/672614/

3 years ago

Underappreciated challenges with Python packaging

https://pypackaging-native.github.io/

3 years ago

Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations?

https://torrentfreak.com/major-private-torrent-sites-have-a-security-disaster-to-fix-right-now-230103/

3 years ago

Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion

https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/01/02/three-eyed-forehead.html

3 years ago

Writing a Python SQL engine from scratch

https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/main/posts/python_sql_engine.md

3 years ago

Detangle: AI-generated summaries of legal docs

https://detangle.ai

3 years ago

Microsoft.Recognizers.Text: numbers, units, and date/time in multiple languages

https://github.com/microsoft/Recognizers-Text

3 years ago

Treating documentation like a product

https://medusajs.com/blog/how-we-improved-our-documentation

3 years ago

First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal

https://www.dw.com/en/first-lng-tanker-arrives-at-germanys-new-floating-terminal/a-64272015

3 years ago

Arizona inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/01/02/arizona-inducing-labor-of-pregnant-prisoners-against-their-will/69768038007/

3 years ago

HTTP/3 prioritization demystified

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/http-3-prioritization-demystified/

3 years ago

AT&T's predictions of the future (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9jr0cSqZo

3 years ago

GPT-4 could pass bar exam, AI researchers say

https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-could-pass-bar-exam-ai-researchers-say/

3 years ago

x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (2014)

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2014/02/x86-is-turing-complete-with-no-registers.html

3 years ago

Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D and Text-to-Image Diffusion

https://bluestyle97.github.io/dream3d/

3 years ago

PDP-11/Hack (2014)

http://madrona.ca/e/pdp11hack/index.html

3 years ago

The concept of class invariant in object-oriented programming

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06557

3 years ago

Tesla plunges 250 feet off a California cliff, all 4 occupants survive

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/us/tesla-crash-cliff-california-cec/index.html

3 years ago

Dell’s new UltraSharp monitor is a 6K powerhouse for pros

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/dells-new-ultrasharp-monitor-is-a-6k-powerhouse-for-pros/

3 years ago

Japanese government offers families 1M yen a child to leave Tokyo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/million-yen-per-child-to-leave-tokyo-japans-offer-to-families

3 years ago

Ask HN: A Better Docker Compose?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34225669

3 years ago

Idaho murders: Suspect was identified through DNA using genealogy databases

https://abcnews.go.com/US/idaho-murders-suspect-identified-dna-genealogy-databases-police/story?id=96088596

3 years ago

Apartment rent growth set to keep slowing this year

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apartment-rent-increases-slow-a-relief-to-tenants-after-two-years-of-steep-rises-11672701414

3 years ago

Equium: Acoustic Heat Pumps

https://www.equium.fr/en/home

3 years ago