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

Modules, not microservices

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

2 years ago

1073 upvotes – 660 comments

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/

2 years ago

640 upvotes – 111 comments

Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs

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

2 years ago

564 upvotes – 373 comments

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/

2 years ago

540 upvotes – 219 comments

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

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

2 years ago

501 upvotes – 219 comments

Python 2 removed from Debian

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

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 490 comments

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/

2 years ago

420 upvotes – 107 comments

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/

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 212 comments

Start a fucking blog

https://startafuckingblog.com/

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 305 comments

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

2 years ago

360 upvotes – 277 comments

Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022

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

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 493 comments

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

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

2 years ago

321 upvotes – 85 comments

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

https://www.learncpp.com/

2 years ago

298 upvotes – 132 comments

Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 164 comments

Meta Quest Pro – Bad AR Passthrough

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

2 years ago

283 upvotes – 201 comments

South Korea’s online security dead end

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

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 135 comments

Web hackers vs. the auto industry

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

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 92 comments

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/

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 95 comments

Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?

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

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 152 comments

In 2022, Web3 went just great

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

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 198 comments

Migrating from AWS to Fly.io

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

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 179 comments

Small Teams

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

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 129 comments

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

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 140 comments

10x C++ Editor

https://10xeditor.com/

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 208 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to Scratch for a blind child?

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

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 67 comments

Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon

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

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 285 comments

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

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 102 comments

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

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

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 183 comments

“Unexplainable” core dump (2011)

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

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 64 comments

Some Remarks on Large Language Models

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

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 79 comments

Hnefatafl

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

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 45 comments

Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving

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

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 110 comments

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

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 112 comments

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

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 321 comments

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

https://flattened.net/

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 92 comments

An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries

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

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 193 comments

Men Without Work (2016)

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

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 447 comments

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

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

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 140 comments

The cost of cheap TVs

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

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 216 comments

Underappreciated challenges with Python packaging

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

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

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/

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 71 comments

Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion

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

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 51 comments

Detangle: AI-generated summaries of legal docs

https://detangle.ai

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 100 comments

Writing a Python SQL engine from scratch

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

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

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

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

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 31 comments

Treating documentation like a product

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

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

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

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 321 comments

HTTP/3 prioritization demystified

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

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

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/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 123 comments

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

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

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

GPT-4 could pass bar exam, AI researchers say

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

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 160 comments

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

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

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (2014)

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

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

PDP-11/Hack (2014)

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

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 9 comments

The concept of class invariant in object-oriented programming

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06557

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 45 comments

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

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 76 comments
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