top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-09

Gail.com FAQ

https://gail.com/

3 years ago

926 upvotes – 209 comments

Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.html

3 years ago

785 upvotes – 151 comments

How to store your app's entire state in the url

https://www.scottantipa.com/store-app-state-in-urls

3 years ago

640 upvotes – 395 comments

Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment

https://www.wsj.com/articles/deere-to-allow-farmers-to-repair-their-own-equipment-11673228580

3 years ago

593 upvotes – 216 comments

Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/?

3 years ago

550 upvotes – 337 comments

VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model

https://mpost.io/vall-e-microsofts-new-zero-shot-text-to-speech-model-can-duplicate-everyones-voice-in-three-seconds/

3 years ago

524 upvotes – 445 comments

Just: A Command Runner

https://github.com/casey/just

3 years ago

482 upvotes – 199 comments

Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/

3 years ago

475 upvotes – 187 comments

England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/9/23546401/gigabit-internet-broadband-england-new-homes-policy

3 years ago

444 upvotes – 327 comments

‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022)

https://longreads.com/2022/11/15/death-in-national-parks/

3 years ago

392 upvotes – 456 comments

Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas

https://longform.asmartbear.com/posts/extreme-questions/

3 years ago

385 upvotes – 95 comments

3D in CSS

https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/css/3d

3 years ago

370 upvotes – 94 comments

An Open Letter on the Open Gaming License, to Wizards of the Coast

https://www.opendnd.games

3 years ago

369 upvotes – 358 comments

I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309671

3 years ago

358 upvotes – 291 comments

Tomu – A family of devices which fit inside your USB port

https://tomu.im/

3 years ago

353 upvotes – 74 comments

Furby source code (1998)

https://archive.org/details/furby-source

3 years ago

304 upvotes – 79 comments

My mom left behind some number code

https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/119277/my-dead-mom-left-behind-some-number-code

3 years ago

298 upvotes – 97 comments

A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language

https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/unison-revolution.html

3 years ago

296 upvotes – 84 comments

Fake it until you automate it

https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/fake-it-until-you-automate-it/

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34312248

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 113 comments

Reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity: research

https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/kansas-research-shows-reintroducing-bison-on-tallgrass-prairie-doubles-plant-diversity

3 years ago

262 upvotes – 160 comments

I went through a period where I loaned money to anyone that asked me

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1612484342567010306

3 years ago

257 upvotes – 334 comments

Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 2)

https://ibiyemiabiodun.com/projects/reversing-tiktok-pt2/

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 103 comments

The first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1612565777407938560

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 174 comments

Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?

https://www.programmerhat.com/vim-zz/

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 132 comments

Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-generation nuclear reactors

https://asianews.network/japan-us-to-step-up-cooperation-in-developing-next-generation-nuclear-reactors/

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 141 comments

Tetris is capable of universal computation

https://meatfighter.com/tetromino-computer/

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Lead developer but I just don't enjoy management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309275

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 94 comments

Demystifying Apache Arrow (2020)

https://www.robinlinacre.com/demystifying_arrow/

3 years ago

197 upvotes – 47 comments

TouchEn nxKey: A keylogging anti-keylogger solution

https://palant.info/2023/01/09/touchen-nxkey-the-keylogging-anti-keylogger-solution/

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 52 comments

I measured the pollution from my gas stove

https://www.distilled.earth/p/i-measured-the-pollution-from-my

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 211 comments

'Terminator' 1 and 2 Save Their Reveals for the Right Time

https://textualvariations.substack.com/p/terminator-thoughts

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 151 comments

Show HN: HyperLogLog in Zig

https://github.com/axiomhq/zig-hyperloglog

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 34 comments

We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files

http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/post/use-zstd-for-raw-fastq/

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 165 comments

A single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared

https://medium.com/@maximetopolov/how-a-single-developer-dropped-aws-costs-by-90-then-disappeared-2b46a115103a

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 61 comments

Three lessons from Threema: Analysis of a secure messenger

https://breakingthe3ma.app/

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-autofocus-camera-modules/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 131 comments

Fyrox Game Engine 0.29

https://fyrox.rs/blog/post/feature-highlights-0-29/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

Sequence8 – a music sequencing toy in PICO-8

https://billiam.itch.io/sequence8

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

My coffee maker just makes coffee

https://bt.ht/one-thing/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 305 comments

Mind Your Own Business Act of 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1444

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Mapping Python to LLVM

https://blog.exaloop.io/python-llvm/

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Raspberry Pi's Camera Module 3 adds autofocus and new Sony sensor

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/raspberry-pis-camera-module-3-adds-autofocus-and-new-sony-sensor

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 2 comments

“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1612142423425138688

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 169 comments

Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01380-5

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 271 comments

Binance has lost $12B in assets in under 60 days

https://ripue.com/binance-has-lost-12-billion-in-assets-in-under-60-days/

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: I wrote a WebAssembly Interpreter and Toolkit in C

https://github.com/FastVM/Web49

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34312937

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 105 comments

A college student made an app to detect AI-written text

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1147549845/gptzero-ai-chatgpt-edward-tian-plagiarism

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 156 comments

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 / Ryzen 7 7700 / Ryzen 9 7900 Linux Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-7600-7700-7900-linux

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

McMaster-Carr: A refreshingly fast, thoughtful, and well-organized website

https://www.mcmaster.com/

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

Social Quitting

https://locusmag.com/2023/01/commentary-cory-doctorow-social-quitting/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 116 comments

High level mods/patches for console video games

https://krystalgamer.github.io/high-level-game-patches/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Jump Servers

https://hoop.dev/blog/jump-servers/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

Walker’s Manly Exercises

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023/01/walkers-manly-exercises.html

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

Logging practices I follow

https://www.16elt.com/2023/01/06/logging-practices-I-follow/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 79 comments

Surprising Consequences of macOS’s Environment Variable Sanitization

https://hynek.me/articles/macos-dyld-env/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Learning Verilog and FPGA

https://johanneshoff.com/learning-fpga/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

GPT Takes the Bar Exam

https://github.com/mjbommar/gpt-takes-the-bar-exam

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 141 comments

Vulkan Video Decoding

https://lynne.ee/vulkan-video-decoding.html

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: What software was used to make 90s cutscenes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34305515

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

In honor of Weizenbaum's Centenary, I asked ChatGPT to program ELIZA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34305518

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 53 comments

The Osage orange, Texas’s ugliest fruit (2021)

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/osage-orange-history/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 68 comments

Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, low-mass star

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02477

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 129 comments

Daily habits of happiness experts

https://time.com/6241099/daily-habits-happiness-experts/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 92 comments

PromptArray: A Prompting Language for Neural Text Generators

https://github.com/jeffbinder/promptarray

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

U.S. safety agency to consider ban on gas stoves amid health fears

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/us-safety-agency-to-consider-ban-on-gas-stoves-amid-health-fears

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 214 comments

A Zig Diary

https://kihlander.net/post/a-zig-diary/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-program

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Values and objects in programming languages (1982) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/988164.988172

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02641

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 100 comments

Mobian: A look back in the mirror and a glimpse of the future

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/01/08/2022-review/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

James Webb Telescope reveals Milky Way–like galaxies in young universe

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-james-webb-telescope-reveals-milky.html

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Amber Monitors (2020)

https://blog.solidsignal.com/tutorials/obsolete-technology-amber-monitors/

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 109 comments

A Wicked Problem – The Second Egress: Building a Code Change

https://secondegress.ca/A-Wicked-Problem

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 96 comments
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