top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-29

The window trick of Las Vegas hotels

https://www.schedium.net/2023/01/the-window-trick-of-las-vegas-hotels.html

2 years ago

994 upvotes – 344 comments

The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed

https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230127_byor/

2 years ago

599 upvotes – 129 comments

FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls

https://commsrisk.com/fcc-threatens-to-disconnect-twilio-for-illegal-robocalls/

2 years ago

574 upvotes – 215 comments

AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements

https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/diy-pro-v37/

2 years ago

557 upvotes – 159 comments

Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

https://web.archive.org/web/20111122202554/http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

2 years ago

401 upvotes – 517 comments

Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (1996)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-simulation-games-bd7a9d81e62d

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 75 comments

80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea

https://8020.net/

2 years ago

333 upvotes – 141 comments

Ask HN: What's with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34567704

2 years ago

319 upvotes – 66 comments

Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/a-calculated-move-calculators-now-emulated-at-internet-archive/

2 years ago

311 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34564590

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 328 comments

Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 264 comments

Surgeon General says 13 is ‘too early’ to join social media

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/29/health/surgeon-general-social-media/index.html

2 years ago

263 upvotes – 233 comments

Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group

https://www.khon2.com/local-news/heart-attacks-on-dramatic-rise-for-25-44-age-group/

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 281 comments

The Transformer Family

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-27-the-transformer-family-v2/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34570047

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 340 comments

Clowns Without Borders

https://clownswithoutborders.org/

2 years ago

225 upvotes – 78 comments

Toroidal propeller allows a drone to operate more quietly [pdf]

https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/other/doc/2022-09/TVO_Technology_Highlight_41_Toroidal_Propeller.pdf

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 100 comments

Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) re-implemented in C

https://github.com/snesrev/zelda3

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 42 comments

Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (2019)

https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 268 comments

Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally says ex-employee

https://www.phonearena.com/news/facebook-drains-phone-batteries-intentionally_id145227

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 125 comments

Living alone in the wild Siberian forest

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

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 152 comments

Training NanoGPT on My Journal

https://hut.pm/nanogpt.html

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 24 comments

Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language

https://github.com/Vexu/bog

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 50 comments

Grid Beam

https://gridbeam.xyz/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Which book would you recommend for learning Python in detail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34569425

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 61 comments

Spaghetti-Tree Hoax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file

https://github.com/jmforsythe/Git-Heat-Map

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: What is the best source to learn Docker in 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34563353

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help

https://www.ifixit.com/News/71442/tearing-down-the-14-macbook-pro-with-apples-help

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 167 comments

The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dijon-mustard

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 110 comments

Indoor air quality and learning: Evidence from large field study in schools [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4296077

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 62 comments

Nationwide Ban on TikTok Inches Closer to Reality

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-china-byte-dance-ban-viral-videos-privacy-1850034366

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 180 comments

Intercepting t.co links using DNS rewrites

https://djharper.dev/post/2023/01/29/intercepting-t.co-links-using-dns-rewrites/

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 55 comments

The end of founder worship, and a reset of toxic startup values

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-startup-culture-tech-founders/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 144 comments

'We Are Being Levelled Down’: Why the UK’s Wealth Gap Is Widening

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/uk-levelling-up/inflation-government-delays-why-wealth-gap-widens.html

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 254 comments

Testing Noctua’s NH-P1 with Ryzen 7700x and Intel’s i9-13900K

https://boringtextreviews.com/a-cooler-without-fans-testing-noctuas-nh-p1-with-ryzen-7700x-and-intels-i9-13900k/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 94 comments

Build ChatGPT like chatbots on your website

https://pub.towardsai.net/build-chatgpt-like-chatbots-with-customized-knowledge-for-your-websites-using-simple-programming-f393206c6626

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 45 comments

Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/italian-futurist-pasta

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 128 comments

Steve Wozniak's Letters

http://mhpo.woz.com/letters/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 24 comments

Toroidal propellers turn your drones and boats into noiseless machines

https://www.designboom.com/technology/toroidal-propellers-quiet-efficient-alternatives-aerial-marine-sectors-01-27-2023/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How can I get into cyber security research?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34572912

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

ASRock Industrial NUCS Box-1360P/D4 Review: Raptor Lake-P Plus Surprise ECC

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18732/asrock-industrial-nucs-box1360pd4-review-raptor-lakep-ecc

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 87 comments

Can an electric circuit do recursion?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/158915/331615

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 74 comments

My Journey from R to Julia

https://drtomasaragon.github.io/posts/2023-01-14-my-journey-from-r-to-julia/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 112 comments

Solar panels on cars make no sense at this point

https://www.arenaev.com/why_solar_panels_on_cars_are_beyond_stupid_at_this_point-news-1295.php

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 241 comments

Wikipedia's new skin is a sad opportunity to reminisce what we could've had

https://blog.legoktm.com/2023/01/18/wikipedias-new-skin-is-a-sad-opportunity-to-reminisce-what-we-couldve-had-instead.html

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34566383

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 189 comments

LispMe – the Scheme system for PalmOS (2008)

http://www.lispme.de/lispme/index_en.html

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Low-level is easy (2008)

http://yosefk.com/blog/low-level-is-easy.html

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Japan skiers’ smartphones making unnecessary emergency calls

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20230129-87465/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 91 comments

My “favorite” magtape story

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-January/027546.html

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 40 comments

Why should you use Tokio vs. threads in Rust?

https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1619312946420789248

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Permission Slip: App to take back control of your data

https://digital-lab.consumerreports.org/2022/11/16/introducing-permission-slip/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in 300 hours

https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2022/09/astronomers-just-discovered-1-million.html

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: QuadSort, Esoteric Fast Sort

https://github.com/scandum/quadsort

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

GIMP's 2022 Annual Report

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/01/29/2022-annual-report/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 85 comments

Marie Kondo Gives Up

https://gizmodo.com/marie-kondo-minimalist-house-cleaning-sparks-joy-1850041011

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 67 comments
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