top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-05

Stable Attribution

https://www.stableattribution.com

3 years ago

747 upvotes – 349 comments

Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/marine/ghost-boat-with-garmin-gps-leads-father-son-duo-to-man-overboard/

3 years ago

593 upvotes – 285 comments

As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3843075-as-a-us-navy-fighter-pilot-i-witnessed-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-uap-congress-must-reveal-the-truth-to-the-american-people/

3 years ago

486 upvotes – 939 comments

Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01242-5

3 years ago

428 upvotes – 375 comments

If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough

http://muezza.ca/thoughts/openbsd_imac_g4/

3 years ago

417 upvotes – 336 comments

Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34667411

3 years ago

356 upvotes – 900 comments

Poline – esoteric color palette generator

https://meodai.github.io/poline/

3 years ago

343 upvotes – 63 comments

I use C when I believe in memory safety

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-in-memory-safety/

3 years ago

331 upvotes – 440 comments

PhpBB 3.3.10

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2635986

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 200 comments

Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/finlands-most-wanted-hacker-nabbed-in-france/

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 171 comments

The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/05/08/the-rise-of-universities-diversity-bureaucrats

3 years ago

257 upvotes – 341 comments

Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint

https://copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/getty-images-v-stability-ai-complaint/

3 years ago

251 upvotes – 236 comments

A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10

https://github.com/cinit/WSAPatch

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 116 comments

NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/3/nsa-wooing-thousands-laid-big-tech-workers-spy-age/

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 299 comments

The Market for Lemons

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

3 years ago

228 upvotes – 154 comments

Ask HN: Share your favorite YouTube channels focused on mastering a skill/craft

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34666777

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 127 comments

Don’t teach during code reviews

https://www.michaelagreiler.com/teach-during-code-reviews/

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 276 comments

South Pole Topography

https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-topography

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 24 comments

What can I do for Arch Linux?

https://whatcanidofor.archlinux.org/

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 34 comments

Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low

https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/2022-guinea-worm-worldwide-cases-announcement.html

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 66 comments

The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+

https://jaycarlson.net/2023/02/04/the-cheapest-flash-microcontroller-you-can-buy-is-actually-an-arm-cortex-m0/

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 65 comments

Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/google-invests-almost-400-million-in-ai-startup-anthropic

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 191 comments

Ask HN: Longer Discussions in HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34665272

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 140 comments

The cult of conformity in Silicon Valley [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia7IKW0yuG0

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 167 comments

Gen Z Netiquettes

https://manyonepercents.substack.com/p/productive-online-communication-gen-z

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 258 comments

HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (2022)

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-news-for-jan-29-hsbcs-money-laundering-scandal-hbc-scbff-ing-cs-rbs0129.aspx

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 114 comments

Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering

https://scandinavianmind.com/feature/human-touch-interview-jesper-kouthoofd-teenage-engineering

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 187 comments

I'm going to scale my foot up your ass (2008)

http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2008/04/im-going-to-scale-my-foot-up-y.html

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 93 comments

Archiving in the time of streaming

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5443

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 16 comments

Artificial intelligence just lost a leader

https://rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/2023/02/05/artificial-intelligence-just-lost-a-leader/

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 34 comments

Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin

https://twitter.com/winglets747/status/1622038080680038400

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 93 comments

FreeCAD Day 2023: Report and continued discussion

https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=75768

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 84 comments

Introduction to FPGAs

https://smist08.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/introduction-to-fpgas/

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 67 comments

C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel

https://github.com/mohd-akram/st

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 34 comments

How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (1998)

http://www.rage.net/wireless/wireless_howto.html

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 100 comments

Stride – Open-source C# Game Engine

https://www.stride3d.net/

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 62 comments

All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995)

https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 42 comments

A third place? I'm not sure I even have a second anymore

http://muezza.ca/thoughts/second_place/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 70 comments

Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview

https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

The Packing Chromatic Number of the Infinite Grid is 15: the story behind it

https://bsubercaseaux.github.io/blog/2023/packingchromatic/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

Music Programming for Java and JVM Languages

http://www.jfugue.org/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

How New Ideas Arise

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-new-ideas-arise/

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

US Physician Blasts 'Lucrative System of For-Profit Medicine'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/physician-for-profit-healthcare

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

The creative sweet spot of dreaming

https://nautil.us/narcoleptic-naps-are-a-creative-sweet-spot-259482/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

The Circumnavigators (2017)

https://qrp-labs.com/circumnavigators.html

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

I've been told (many times) that “the good employees never get laid off”

https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1621767964533063681

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 98 comments

SF’s Market Street subway runs on Reagan-era floppy disks

https://sfstandard.com/transportation/sfs-market-street-subway-runs-on-reagan-era-floppy-disks/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

Minimum viable process

https://themarketplace.guide/minimum-viable-process

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Mount Washington Records Coldest Wind Chill Ever

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/nyregion/mount-washington-cold-new-hampshire.html

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?

https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-mounjaro/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem part 3 – eslint

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-3/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

The Coming AI Hackers (2021)

https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2021/04/the-coming-ai-hackers.html

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

Debian Reference (2021)

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/index.en.html

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What made your startup fail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668624

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 57 comments

Curta

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

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

How to live near your friends

https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-live-near-your-friends

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34664998

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 183 comments

Balloon Wars (2010)

https://steveblank.com/2010/01/28/balloon-wars/

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

How Micro Drill Bits Are Made [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55kLhv2d_4

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments
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