top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-11

NanoGPT

https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

3 years ago

NYC Slice

https://elkue.com/nyc-slice/

3 years ago

Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261430/Kandria/

3 years ago

What happens when a CPU starts

https://lateblt.tripod.com/bit68.txt

3 years ago

Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022)

https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/apple-swift-foundation-rewrite/

3 years ago

FAA NOTAM System Outage

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=13&adv_date=01112023&facId=DCC&title=NOTAM+SYSTEM+EQUIPMENT+OUTAGE_FYI&titleDate=01/11/23

3 years ago

Genders.wtf

https://genders.wtf/

3 years ago

Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

3 years ago

Bullshit graph database performance benchmarks

https://maxdemarzi.com/2023/01/11/bullshit-graph-database-performance-benchmarks/

3 years ago

Show HN: Val Town – A Cloud Scripting Site

https://www.val.town/

3 years ago

Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go

https://github.com/sourcegraph/conc

3 years ago

We need a lot more electricians

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/we-need-a-lot-more-electricians-if-were-going-to-electrify-everything

3 years ago

Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

3 years ago

Mercedes is the first automaker to offer Level 3 self-driving in the US

https://insideevs.com/news/630075/mercedes-first-to-offer-level-3-self-driving-in-the-us/

3 years ago

The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)

https://www.vqronline.org/essay/john-hughes-goes-deep-unexpected-heaviosity-ferris-bueller%E2%80%99s-day

3 years ago

On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230109-00/?p=107685

3 years ago

T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis

https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware

3 years ago

The Style Guide for America’s Highways

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-style-guide-for-americas-highways-mutcd/

3 years ago

Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)

https://blog.packagecloud.io/set-environment-variable-save-thousands-of-system-calls/

3 years ago

Flexport slashes 20% of global workforce over weak 2023 volume forecast

https://theloadstar.com/flexport-slashes-20-of-global-workforce-over-weak-2023-volume-forecast/

3 years ago

HoloKit relaunched, $129 AR Headset accessory for iPhone

https://holokit.io/

3 years ago

The Computer Science Book (2020)

https://thecomputersciencebook.com/book/

3 years ago

CTEs as lookup tables

https://misfra.me/2023/ctes-as-lookup-tables/

3 years ago

Django Styleguide

https://github.com/HackSoftware/Django-Styleguide

3 years ago

An online IDE for visual programming in Prolog

https://github.com/toblotron/praxis-ide

3 years ago

'Oumuamua: An analysis of the debate regarding the first interstellar visitor

http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1721987&dswid=-4818

3 years ago

What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’

https://www.warp.dev/blog/what-happens-when-you-open-a-terminal-and-enter-ls

3 years ago

HTML with Superpowers: An Introduction to Web Components

https://htmlwithsuperpowers.netlify.app/

3 years ago

Don't use Tailwind for a design system (2021)

https://sancho.dev/blog/tailwind-and-design-systems

3 years ago

How many AMD RX 7900 XTX's are defective?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-many-amd-rx-7900-xtxs-are-defective

3 years ago

Manage like an engineer

https://ben.balter.com/2023/01/10/manage-like-an-engineer/

3 years ago

Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabet-unit-verily-to-trim-more-than-200-jobs-11673466950

3 years ago

RISC-V SBC VisionFive 2 Officially Shipped

https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/new_details/976

3 years ago

“A Handbook of Integer Sequences” Fifty Years Later

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03149

3 years ago

“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session

https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/

3 years ago

Tocharian Languages

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

3 years ago

An engineer has built and programmed an all-robot band

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/one-hacker-band

3 years ago

Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34338995

3 years ago

Corporate legibility for software engineers

https://matt.blwt.io/post/corporate-legibility-for-engineers/

3 years ago

Haiku beta 4: a thing of beauty

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/haiku_beta_4/

3 years ago

When the CIA spied on American citizens using pigeons

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cia-cold-war-pigeon-spies

3 years ago

Lightweight Arch-based distro that runs, without root, upon any Linux distro

https://github.com/fsquillace/junest

3 years ago

Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison

https://www.onehouse.ai/blog/apache-hudi-vs-delta-lake-vs-apache-iceberg-lakehouse-feature-comparison

3 years ago

Show HN: Grila – Calendar for keyboard addicts, always one keypress away

https://lowtechguys.com/grila/

3 years ago

Why Use Make (2013)

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/

3 years ago

Windows OS Security

https://github.com/jmau111-org/windows_security

3 years ago

Show HN: Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download

https://pinggy.io/

3 years ago

Market Annealing: Getting to $10M ARR in Early Markets

https://a16z.com/2023/01/11/market-annealing/

3 years ago

US Halts Flights Nationwide After Key FAA System Goes Down

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/us-flights-disrupted-after-outage-of-faa-pilot-advisory-system

3 years ago

The CPSC is on a mission that has nothing to do with safety

https://cremieux.substack.com/p/lying-for-climate-crusading

3 years ago

Secondments at Zapier

https://zapier.com/blog/secondments-at-zapier/

3 years ago

Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/01/10/antidepressants-are-over-prescribed-but-genuinely-help-some-patients

3 years ago

The Alien Grave of Aurora, Texas

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2023/01/11/the-alien-grave-of-aurora-texas/

3 years ago

Franz Kafka, Party Animal

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-party-animal

3 years ago

Formalizing Python F-Strings

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/919426/38b2b5aaacc9bba0/

3 years ago

The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income

https://www.scottsantens.com/the-spaceballs-argument-for-unconditional-universal-basic-income-ubi/

3 years ago

Heat exchanger header with fractal geometry

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200284532A1/en

3 years ago

Parler owner laid off 75% of staff and has only 20 employees left

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/parler-reportedly-axed-most-of-its-staff-after-ending-deal-to-sell-to-kanye-west/

3 years ago

State of JavaScript 2022

https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-us/

3 years ago

Mastering diverse domains through world models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04104

3 years ago

Tell HN: Farewell letter of M. Hosseini – executed 01.02.2023 by I.R. of Iran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34346192

3 years ago

Naming Elixir Phoenix context functions

https://www.stephenlewis.me/blog/naming-phoenix-context-functions

3 years ago

Microsoft Transitions U.S. FTEs to “Discretionary Time Off”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341956

3 years ago

Zig Package Manager MVP

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/14265

3 years ago

Paint.net 5.0 is now available

https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/121643-paintnet-50-is-now-available/

3 years ago

Swift Quit – Automatic App Quitting on Mac

https://swiftquit.com/

3 years ago

Sonic: A super-light alternative to Elasticsearch

https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/announcing-sonic-a-super-light-alternative-to-elasticsearch/

3 years ago

Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2023/01/11/AI_at_Stanford.html

3 years ago

ChatGPT January 9th Release Notes

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes

3 years ago

Walgreens Executive Says Shoplifting Threat in San Francisco Was Overstated

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html

3 years ago

Carta lays off 10% of the workforce

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341186

3 years ago

Show HN: Loti – Remove revenge porn using facial recognition on adult sites

https://goloti.com/

3 years ago

Digital Signals

https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Category:Digital

3 years ago

Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.20.496834v1

3 years ago

Cantable Diffuguesion: Bach chorale generation and harmonization

https://replicate.com/andreasjansson/cantable-diffuguesion

3 years ago

Haiti left with no elected government officials as it spirals towards anarchy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/10/haiti-no-elected-officials-anarchy-failed-state

3 years ago

Working fewer hours is associated with higher life satisfaction

https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/working-fewer-hours-is-associated-with-higher-life-satisfaction-according-to-new-research-64689

3 years ago

Open Source in Environmental Sustainability

https://report.opensustain.tech/chapters/index.html

3 years ago

Another NaN-based tagging strategy for dynamic programming languages

https://outerproduct.net/trivial/2023-01-11_nan.html

3 years ago

Indians are taking over corporate America–and tech layoffs won’t stop them

https://fortune.com/2022/12/16/indians-taking-over-corporate-america-tech-layoffs-visas-ceos-companies-success-nitin-bajaj/

3 years ago

Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on Covid vaccine “consistent with the value”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/

3 years ago

Elastic: Several customer facing deployments deleted across multiple regions

https://status.elastic.co

3 years ago

Directly access your physical memory (dev/mem)

https://bakhi.github.io/devmem/

3 years ago