top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-07

Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast

https://thume.ca/2023/01/02/one-machine-twitter/

2 years ago

776 upvotes – 477 comments

Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287407

2 years ago

537 upvotes – 270 comments

Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-finds-that-buttons-in-cars-are-safer-and-quicker-to-use-than-touchscreens

2 years ago

494 upvotes – 366 comments

The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3

https://github.com/Airblader/i3

2 years ago

454 upvotes – 173 comments

Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)

https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-3-trillion-per-year

2 years ago

414 upvotes – 376 comments

Epochalypse

https://www.epochalypse.today/

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 164 comments

Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners

https://futurecoder.io/

2 years ago

371 upvotes – 78 comments

The beauty of CGI and simple design

https://rubenerd.com/the-beauty-of-cgi-and-simple-design-by-hales/

2 years ago

321 upvotes – 214 comments

Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos

https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/06/mkbhd-post-processing-ruining-iphone-photos/

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 188 comments

Will You Help Me Repair My Door [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 124 comments

The Safari bug that never was (2022)

https://obyford.com/posts/the-safari-bug-that-never-was/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 84 comments

The science of having ideas in the shower

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 166 comments

ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

https://www.algolia.com/blog/ai/why-chatgpt-wont-replace-search-engines-any-time-soon/

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 409 comments

Rsync.net warrant canary

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 227 comments

Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)

https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.html

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 248 comments

Guitar Effects Guidebook, Vol. 20 [pdf]

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/guitar_effects_guidebook_vol_20.pdf

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 107 comments

Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps – I spent a week to find out why (2021)

https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 154 comments

Software horror show: SAP Concur

https://blog.plover.com/prog/crap-warning-signs-2.html

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 181 comments

Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection

https://www.nullpt.rs/devirtualizing-nike-vm-1

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: Main things to consider when building an app for business/enterprise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287685

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 129 comments

Cybiko

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

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 86 comments

Not-such-better-living through chemistry

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-such-better-living-through-chemistry

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 226 comments

The Cornell Note Taking System

https://lsc.cornell.edu/how-to-study/taking-notes/cornell-note-taking-system/

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 78 comments

Monkey stone tools shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596836221131707

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 119 comments

Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-public-schools-sues-tiktok-youtube-instagram-and-others-seeking-compensation-for-youth-mental-health-crisis/

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 160 comments

Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 267 comments

College that fired prof for showing image of Muhammad could lose accreditation

https://reason.com/2023/01/05/a-college-fired-a-professor-for-showing-a-painting-of-muhammad-now-it-could-lose-its-accreditation/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 97 comments

Small Visual Basic

https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 57 comments

Microplastics are finding their way into fruit and vegetables as they grow

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-getting-into-our-food

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 130 comments

Undo codes for Japanese elevator floor buttons

https://soranews24.com/2017/08/18/the-secret-undo-codes-for-japanese-elevator-floor-buttons/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 99 comments

There is no software maintenance

https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 88 comments

A Look into Medieval Homes

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/medieval-homes/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 74 comments

Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)

https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/death-by-vegetable-oil-what-the-studies-say

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 219 comments

When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98

https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2023/01/07/when-is-a-pc-not-a-pc-the-pc-98/

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 81 comments

PHP: Prolog Home Page

https://php.energy

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

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2 years ago

125 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: URL Snake

https://github.com/lukebatchelor/url-snake

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 76 comments

The Rise of Steel – Part I

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-steel-part-i

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 5 comments

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (2022)

https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 110 comments

Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-022-09602-0

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 57 comments

Valetudo – Free your vacuum cleaner from the cloud

https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34286253

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Jazz Is Freedom

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/jazz-is-freedom-grimstad

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

The time I yoga-balled an Apple store employee

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-time-i-yoga-balled-an-apple-store-employee/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

Classifying Python virtual environment workflows

https://snarky.ca/classifying-python-virtual-environment-workflows/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 90 comments

The Aral Sea has shrunk because of the re-routing of its source rivers (2022)

https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/aral-sea-disaster-why-one-of-the-biggest-inland-seas-dried-up/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Using Qt 6 under LGPLv3

https://embeddeduse.com/2023/01/06/using-qt-5-15-and-qt-6-under-lgplv3/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 39 comments

Why does private equity get to play make-believe with prices?

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1h9csrci656v4/Why-Does-Private-Equity-Get-to-Play-Make-Believe-With-Prices

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes

https://theconversation.com/only-the-richest-ancient-athenians-paid-taxes-and-they-bragged-about-it-147249

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 78 comments

Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there's a 30-year waitlist

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/japan-kobe-beef-croquettes-30-year-waitlist/index.html

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 51 comments

Will we know alien life when we see it?

https://nautil.us/will-we-know-alien-life-when-we-see-it-256501/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 115 comments

Dedicated biomass is not a good idea

https://climateer.substack.com/p/biomass

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 96 comments
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