top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-14

YouTube Addiction

https://www.jntrnr.com/youtube-addiction/

3 years ago

565 upvotes – 401 comments

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success

https://eos.org/articles/nasas-double-asteroid-redirection-test-is-a-smashing-success

3 years ago

417 upvotes – 273 comments

WInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late

https://q3k.org/wInd3x.html

3 years ago

341 upvotes – 39 comments

New Sony Walkman music player

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/new-sony-walkman-music-players-feature-stunning-good-looks-android-12/

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 398 comments

The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-circuits

3 years ago

315 upvotes – 70 comments

How to draw ideas

https://ralphammer.com/how-to-draw-ideas/

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 28 comments

Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 209 comments

Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 209 comments

Always look down in London: Pavement oddities

https://londonist.com/london/secret/look-down

3 years ago

254 upvotes – 106 comments

Things I Learned from My 2 Year Old Baby Girl

https://madeincosmos.substack.com/p/9-things-i-learned-from-my-2-year

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 124 comments

We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing Sta­ble Dif­fu­sion

https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 461 comments

The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (2017)

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/011552.html

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 110 comments

Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment in Common Lisp

https://project-mage.org

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 71 comments

Internal document explains why Google has become slow and bureaucratic

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-document-bureaucracy-slime-mold-staff-frustration-2023-1

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 215 comments

Use.GPU Goes Trad

https://acko.net/blog/use-gpu-goes-trad/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 39 comments

ZSWatch – Open-source Zephyr-based smartwatch

https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 44 comments

Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think

http://www.righto.com/2023/01/counting-transistors-in-8086-processor.html

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 39 comments

The MTA’s armored money train that ran from 1951 to 2006 in NYC

https://untappedcities.com/2023/01/05/mta-armored-money-train-nyc/

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 55 comments

Anarchist Cookbook (1971) [pdf]

https://ia600700.us.archive.org/17/items/anarchist-cookbook-william-powell_201810/anarchist-cookbook-william-powell.pdf

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 194 comments

The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)

https://commoncog.com/case/iphone-keyboard/

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 127 comments

Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide (2021)

https://rambo.codes/posts/2021-01-08-distributing-mac-apps-outside-the-app-store

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 157 comments

Show HN: Kody Tools – I developed 300 tools in 6 months

https://www.kodytools.com/

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 79 comments

You can run Rust code in a Jupyter notebook

https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/1a2d6c40c467267801c7382edfa28028f99bbd9a/evcxr_jupyter/samples/evcxr_jupyter_tour.ipynb

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Hacker News Without News

https://hn.build-your-own.org/

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 89 comments

On Trucking

https://snowingpine.com/2023/01/05/on-trucking

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 109 comments

Sorting algorithms that don’t hate you

https://medium.com/@erik_68861/sorting-algorithms-that-dont-hate-you-165ba313bbc2

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 82 comments

Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

https://hyprland.org/

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 82 comments

There was nothing “wasted” about my youth spent clubbing on ecstasy (2021)

https://filtermag.org/youth-clubbing-mdma-ecstasy/

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 304 comments

DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported to NetBSD

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-HAMMER2-Port

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

TinyEMU – x86 and RISC-V emulator, small and simple while being complete

https://bellard.org/tinyemu/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 29 comments

Conversations (XMPP Client) is now a UnifiedPush distributor

https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/conversations/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 30 comments

Homelab analog telephone exchange

https://skagmo.com/page.php?p=projects/42_pbx

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 21 comments

Mold – A really fast linker

https://github.com/rui314/mold

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 58 comments

FAA says computer failure was caused by contractors who introduced data errors

https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/faa-computer-failure-grounded-thousands-flights-caused-2-contractors-introduced-data-errors-notam-system/

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 125 comments

Recent improvements to Safari

https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/triumph-of-safari/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 141 comments

Mastodon client from the people behind Tweetbot

https://tapbots.com/ivory/

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Robyn – A fast, extensible async Python web server with a Rust runtime

https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon

https://www.polygon.com/zelda/23540526/legend-of-zelda-cartoon-oral-history-zeldathon

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

I don't understand terminals, shells and SSH

https://j11g.com/2023/01/14/i-dont-understand-terminals-shells-and-ssh/

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 59 comments

Stripe issues

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34383720

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

1991: A server-side web framework written in Forth

https://www.1-9-9-1.com/

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally (2021)

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/remembering-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-1986-paris-dakar-rally/

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 47 comments

Feathered robotic wing paves way for flapping drones

https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/229338?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/229338

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

Blender for Symbian OS

https://github.com/Dante-Leoncini/Blendersito

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Elon Musk deliberately turned off access of outside apps to Twitter

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intentionally-suspended-tweet-bot-third-party-apps-messages-show

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/12/routine-vaccinations-kindergartners/

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 220 comments

Ask HN: What are some of your “buy it for life” purchases?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34378254

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 196 comments

Amazon S3 now automatically encrypts all new objects

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/01/amazon-s3-automatically-encrypts-new-objects/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 92 comments

British Motorway Database

https://www.roads.org.uk/motorway

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Role-model companies with the best dev culture in 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34383010

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 70 comments

What three new USGS maps reveal about Mars

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/planetary-geologic-mapping/news/a-martian-mons-mystery-paleo-climate-change-and

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Finding Nice MD5s Using Rust

https://blog.youmu.moe/posts/finding-nice-md5s-using-rust/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28490511/

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Analog Chess Tournament?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377233

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

One man’s two-decade quest to let the ‘Irish Giant’ rest in peace

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/14/he-did-not-want-this-one-mans-two-decade-quest-to-let-the-irish-giant-rest-in-peace

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments

Grain farming goes indoors

https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/grain-farming-goes-indoors/

3 years ago

60 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Do you test in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34384656

3 years ago

60 upvotes – 73 comments

Sergey Brin’s $100B Private Fiefdom (2022)

https://puck.news/sergey-brins-100b-private-fiefdom/

3 years ago

58 upvotes – 112 comments

How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

https://spectrum.ieee.org/capitol-riot

3 years ago

55 upvotes – 53 comments

Amarna Letters

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

3 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly (2018)

https://el-tramo.be/blog/waforth/

3 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

NTSB: Cloud shot up vertically in front of plane before turbulence

https://apnews.com/article/phoenix-honolulu-business-820eb47d03bd6744419e75d50be43266

3 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments
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