top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-16

A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)

https://kentnerburn.com/the-cab-ride-ill-never-forget/

3 years ago

Wobbly clock

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/wobble-clock/

3 years ago

Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition

https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network/

3 years ago

Quitting the rat race

https://seanbarry.dev/posts/quitting-the-rat-race/

3 years ago

Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future

3 years ago

1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-28-8-network-programming-in-age-of-empires-and-beyond

3 years ago

The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/

3 years ago

Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device

https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1614794516309118977

3 years ago

Servo to Advance in 2023

https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/

3 years ago

Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?

https://godotengine.org/article/whats-missing-in-godot-for-aaa/

3 years ago

Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (2016)

http://beelineblogger.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-supermarket-visit-brought-down.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content

https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch

3 years ago

Major standard library changes in Go 1.20

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2023/golang-120-arenas-errors-responsecontroller/

3 years ago

The art and science of spending money

https://collabfund.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-spending-money/

3 years ago

Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482770/Terra_Firma/

3 years ago

Show HN: Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes

https://vento.so

3 years ago

Byte Magazine 1975-1995

https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm

3 years ago

TensorFlow for Python is dying?

https://thenextweb.com/news/why-tensorflow-for-python-is-dying-a-slow-death

3 years ago

GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve used

https://every.to/superorganizers/gpt-3-is-the-best-journal-you-ve-ever-used

3 years ago

Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/01/16/netflix-has-created-a-self-fulfilling-cancelation-loop-with-its-new-shows/

3 years ago

Tweetbot is back down again

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter-online-third-party-apps-outage

3 years ago

The FTC plans to curtail the use of non-compete clauses

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/01/12/americas-trustbusters-plan-to-curtail-the-use-of-non-compete-clauses-good

3 years ago

Selfie – A tiny RISC-V C compiler, emulator and hypervisor

http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at/

3 years ago

Granian – a Rust HTTP server for Python applications

https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian

3 years ago

Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-01-16/Special_report

3 years ago

Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003)

https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1614682414634373120

3 years ago

How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly in Machine Learning Is Breaking

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/nvidiaopenaitritonpytorch

3 years ago

There’s no planet B

https://aeon.co/essays/we-will-never-be-able-to-live-on-another-planet-heres-why

3 years ago

Conditional CSS

https://ishadeed.com/article/conditional-css/

3 years ago

I Am the Ghost Here

https://www.guernicamag.com/i-am-the-ghost-here/

3 years ago

Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs

https://milkyeggs.com/?p=303

3 years ago

Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0h8q6D0s74

3 years ago

Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker

3 years ago

Intel Core i9-13900T CPU benchmarks show faster than 12900K 125W performance

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-13900t-cpu-benchmarks-show-faster-than-12900k-125w-performance-at-35w/

3 years ago

Ask HN: When to make the jump to freelance/consultant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400435

3 years ago

How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/explaining-how-fighting-games-use-delay-based-and-rollback-netcode/

3 years ago

The hardest part of being a junior developer

https://rachsmith.com/the-hardest-part-of-being-a-jnr/

3 years ago

IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/

3 years ago

How my brother's iCloud account was stolen

https://7c0h.com/blog/new/stolen_iphone.html

3 years ago

Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune

https://github.com/alexcrist/autotone

3 years ago

Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (2019)

https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-alexa-wont-wake-up-when-she-hears-her-name-in-amazons-super-bowl-ad

3 years ago

GPU Caching Compared Among AMD, Intel UHD, Apple M1

https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/05/21/igpu-cache-setups-compared-including-m1/

3 years ago

UK Police to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/police-to-get-new-powers-to-shut-down-protests-before-disruption-begins

3 years ago

Adventures in Mastoland

https://searchtodon.social/Adventures-in-Mastoland.html

3 years ago

Blaze: A high-performance C++ math library

https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/src/master/

3 years ago

Lawyers barred by Madison Square Garden found a way back in

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/madison-square-garden-ban-lawyers.html

3 years ago

ASCII table and history – Or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?

https://bestasciitable.com

3 years ago

Supporting half-precision floats is really annoying (2021)

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2021-08-05-half-precision-floats.html

3 years ago

Nick Cave on ChatGPT

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/

3 years ago

YouTube Doesn't “Get It”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402292

3 years ago

Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform

https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey

3 years ago

Crows of Karachi

https://orionmagazine.org/article/crows-of-karachi-pakistan/

3 years ago

Show HN: Cross-Platform GitHub Action

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/cross-platform-action

3 years ago

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem part 2 – Module Resolution

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-2/

3 years ago

Authentication with Django and Single Page Apps (2020)

https://www.mikesukmanowsky.com/blog/authentication-with-django-and-spas

3 years ago

Richest 1% amassed almost two-thirds of new wealth created since 2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/richest-1percent-amassed-almost-two-thirds-of-new-wealth-created-since-2020-oxfam.html

3 years ago

Show HN: DevClad – A social-workspace platform for developers

https://github.com/DevClad-Inc/devclad

3 years ago