top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-27

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

https://fathy.fr/carbonyl

2 years ago

1182 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547265

2 years ago

934 upvotes – 1049 comments

Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders

https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/

2 years ago

582 upvotes – 54 comments

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing

https://github.com/stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems/blob/main/docs/erlang-is-not-about.md

2 years ago

543 upvotes – 274 comments

Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/apple-job-cuts-tide/

2 years ago

405 upvotes – 382 comments

Take more screenshots (2022)

https://alexwlchan.net/2022/screenshots/

2 years ago

369 upvotes – 176 comments

Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better

https://github.com/ea/lytro_unlock

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 73 comments

OsmAnd 4.3 for Android devices

https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-android-4-3-released/

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 138 comments

The Mystery of the Dune Font

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43515/the-mystery-of-the-dune-font

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 95 comments

Natural language is the lazy user interface

https://austinhenley.com/blog/naturallanguageui.html

2 years ago

311 upvotes – 271 comments

Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 241 comments

Contracts you should never sign

https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/contracts-you-should-never-sign/

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 270 comments

PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

https://gizmodo.com/pagerduty-ceo-quotes-martin-luther-king-jr-layoff-email-1850039237

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 242 comments

Best and worst decisions I’ve made

https://stonemaiergames.com/the-10-best-and-worst-decisions-ive-ever-made/

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 221 comments

MusicLM: Generating music from text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 107 comments

“They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it.”

https://mastodon.social/@alexjsp/109760277713815857

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 106 comments

Nature photographer John Fielder donates life’s work to public domain

https://petapixel.com/2023/01/26/celebrated-nature-photographer-donates-lifes-work-to-public-domain/

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 55 comments

ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge

https://castlebridge.ie/insights/chatgpt-and-the-enshittening-of-knowledge/

2 years ago

277 upvotes – 285 comments

Elite for Emacs (2015)

https://www.salkosuo.net/2015/10/22/elite-for-emacs.html

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 44 comments

Pandas Illustrated: Visual Guide to Pandas

https://betterprogramming.pub/pandas-illustrated-the-definitive-visual-guide-to-pandas-c31fa921a43?sk=50184a8a8b46ffca16664f6529741abc

2 years ago

263 upvotes – 41 comments

Sci-Hub: knowledge as a human right

https://sci-hub.ru/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 105 comments

Bell Telephone launched a mobile phone during the 1940s

https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/bell-telephone-launched-a-mobile-phone-during-the-1940s.html

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 100 comments

Nobody Has My Condition but Me

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/nobody-has-my-condition-but-me

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 153 comments

Just know stuff (or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)

https://kidger.site/thoughts/just-know-stuff/

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 103 comments

Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 257 comments

Apple’s Mac security is so good, it’s sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap

https://www.macworld.com/article/1485237/mac-security-t2-chip-macbook-activation-lock.html

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 400 comments

MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

https://www.searchthedeck.com/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 36 comments

The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-galaga-no-fire-cheat-mystery/

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 95 comments

Code Lifespan

https://xkcd.com/2730/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 82 comments

Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript

https://www.pausly.app/blog/accessible-hamburger-buttons-without-javascript

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 152 comments

Passenger Uses AirTags, Discovers Airline Donated Their Bags to Charity

https://www.blogto.com/travel/2023/01/ontario-couple-tracking-lost-baggage-shocked-air-canada-gave-it-charity/

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 246 comments

High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours

https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-earning-men-are-cutting-back-on-their-working-hours-11674697563

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 292 comments

Rust's Ugly Syntax

https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/rusts-ugly-syntax.html

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 229 comments

Cyber is a new language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting

https://cyberscript.dev/

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

Religious and spiritual folklore surrounding programming

https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/geek-mythology-the-religious-and

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 120 comments

Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

The Python Paradox (2004)

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 269 comments

Six doctors swallowed Lego heads (2022)

https://defector.com/an-oral-history-of-the-time-six-doctors-swallowed-lego-heads-to-see-how-long-theyd-take-to-poo

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT

https://www.eightify.app/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 120 comments

SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative

https://eighty-twenty.org/2023/01/27/sirtunnel-personal-ngrok

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 24 comments

Why Go and Not Rust? (2019)

https://kristoff.it/blog/why-go-and-not-rust/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 172 comments

Reverse engineering programs with unknown instruction sets (2012) [pdf]

https://www.recon.cx/2012/schedule/attachments/40_Chernov-Troshina.pdf

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 25 comments

ThinkPad as a Server: The Follow-Up

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/01/27/thinkpad-as-server-followup/

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 95 comments

Text-to-4D Dynamic Scene Generation

https://make-a-video3d.github.io/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments

AWS Purity Test

https://www.awspuritytest.com/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 111 comments

Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/kevin-mitnick-hacked-california-law-in-1983.html

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 86 comments

The continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/computers-enable-fantasies-on-the-continued-relevance-of-weizenbaums-warnings/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Evidence of Multicellularity in Single Cell Organism

https://research.gatech.edu/more-e-coli-meets-eye-bme-lab-discovers-evidence-multicellularity-single-cell-organism

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 18 comments

Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11399

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?

https://abouttolearn.substack.com/p/omega-3s-are-brain-boosting-effects

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 158 comments

Remote work is the best thing to happen to families in decades

https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/remote-work-is-the-best-thing-to

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Last Sane Man on Wall Street

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/nathan-anderson-hindenburg-research-short-selling.html

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 54 comments

The Hostile Forces of Beijing

https://scholars-stage.org/candlelight-vigils-and-hostile-forces/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Syncing data to your customer’s Google Sheets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548663

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

First signs of spring have arrived in parts of south 3 weeks sooner than average

https://www.usanpn.org/news/spring

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 118 comments

The Science of Sword-Swallowing (2007)

https://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2007/10/by-the-sword.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program

https://pathfinder.intel.com

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 102 comments

$6.96B was raised by private longevity companies in 2022

https://spannr.com/reports/2022-longevity-funding

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 128 comments

Deepfaked Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton by Metaphysic

https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepFakesSFW/comments/10meypl/deepfaked_tom_cruise_and_paris_hilton_what_do_you/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Interact with the terminal in plain English using GPT-3

https://github.com/dylanjcastillo/shell-genie

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/media/buzzfeed-ai-content-creation/index.html

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 99 comments

Manatee county teachers close class libraries, fearing prosecution under FL law

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/01/23/fearing-prosecution-manatee-county-teachers-cover-up-classroom-books/69832276007/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 110 comments

Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus

https://www.matthewball.vc/all/why-vrar-gets-farther-away-as-it-comes-into-focus

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 121 comments

Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle

https://weathermachine.io/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments
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