top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-10

“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers

https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/

3 years ago

708 upvotes – 352 comments

Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-10/apple-aapl-avoids-tech-layoffs-because-it-didn-t-overhire-like-google-amazon

3 years ago

529 upvotes – 426 comments

Wi Flag (2002)

https://asheron.fandom.com/wiki/Wi_Flag

3 years ago

505 upvotes – 205 comments

Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace

https://frame.work/blog/now-offering-2tb-ssds-for-steam-deck-in-the-framework

3 years ago

500 upvotes – 227 comments

My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-5/

3 years ago

499 upvotes – 161 comments

Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743772

3 years ago

461 upvotes – 552 comments

QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed

https://chollinger.com/blog/2023/01/qgis-is-the-mapping-software-you-didnt-know-you-needed/

3 years ago

432 upvotes – 182 comments

US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-shoots-down-unknown-flying-object-175f9078d1df36e392b2956ba771001e

3 years ago

400 upvotes – 799 comments

I changed my mind about nuclear waste

https://zionlights.substack.com/p/everything-i-believed-about-waste-was-wrong

3 years ago

384 upvotes – 415 comments

Jupyterlab Desktop

https://blog.jupyter.org/introducing-the-new-jupyterlab-desktop-bca1982bdb23?gi=8d071739f6eb

3 years ago

366 upvotes – 161 comments

Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/09/yahoo-will-lay-off-20-of-staff-or-1600-people/

3 years ago

332 upvotes – 193 comments

Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3575693.3575710

3 years ago

324 upvotes – 235 comments

Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI

https://www.spaghettify.dev/

3 years ago

323 upvotes – 67 comments

Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/02/10/reddit-confirms-it-was-hacked-recommends-users-set-up-2fa/

3 years ago

311 upvotes – 284 comments

David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

https://twitter.com/davidguetta/status/1621605376733872129

3 years ago

306 upvotes – 173 comments

Aurora

https://www.drawaurora.com/

3 years ago

286 upvotes – 21 comments

A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs

https://vlcn.io/blog/gentle-intro-to-crdts.html

3 years ago

278 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34746161

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 335 comments

The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-2023

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 218 comments

Money Laundering and AML Compliance

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/money-laundering-and-aml-compliance/

3 years ago

257 upvotes – 199 comments

Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk

https://nathenry.com/writing/2023-02-07-seattle-walkability.html

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 385 comments

How a heat pump works

https://hvac-learning.com/courses/heat-pumps-part-1/

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 324 comments

Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool

https://mrscraper.com

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 82 comments

How a Zig IDE Could Work

https://matklad.github.io/2023/02/10/how-a-zig-ide-could-work.html

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 98 comments

Why big tech companies need so many people

https://thebuilderjr.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-companies-need-so-many

3 years ago

209 upvotes – 227 comments

Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust (2022)

https://www.risingwave-labs.com/blog/building-a-cloud-database-from-scratch-why-we-moved-from-cpp-to-rust/

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 293 comments

Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Freelancing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34739033

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models

https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 92 comments

Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-search-6-0-0/

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 69 comments

Reverse engineering an e-ink display

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/22-23/reverse_engineering_epaper/

3 years ago

188 upvotes – 53 comments

Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/five-tips-for-a-healthier-postgres-database-in-the-new-year

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 50 comments

Roman church decorated with 4k skeletons

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/decorated-with-4000-skeletons-this-roman-church-will-have-you-pondering-your-own-mortality-180981573/

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 188 comments

A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers alternative to ID.me

https://cyberscoop.com/irs-facial-recognition-identity-privacy/

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 70 comments

DuckDB – An in-process SQL OLAP database management system

https://duckdb.org/

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 103 comments

Understanding and coding the self-attention mechanism of large language models

https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/self-attention-from-scratch.html

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 37 comments

Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 18 comments

Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream

https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour-hershs-pipe

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 249 comments

Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744348

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 179 comments

FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/30/opinion_eu_foss_security/

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

A new way to build with Large Language Models

https://blog.fixie.ai/introducing-fixie-ai-a-new-way-to-build-with-large-language-models-d4e1aeee6b81

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 45 comments

The XML spec is 25 years old today

https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 193 comments

Dual Coincidence is likely the most complex electromechanical game

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/dual-coincidence-five-way-pinball-electromechanical-game/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 56 comments

Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design

https://www.usegalileo.ai/

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

GitHub and EFF back YouTube ripper in legal battle with the RIAA

https://torrentfreak.com/github-and-eff-back-youtube-ripper-in-legal-battle-with-the-riaa-230210/

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 6 comments

Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/game-changers/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 124 comments

Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons? (2020)

https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 103 comments

The best way to launch your startup [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36A-YTxiOw

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-files-taxes-wash-sales-goldman-sachs

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 162 comments

Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

https://flurly.com/blog/flurly-stripe-shutdown

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: Are people considering moving off of Fly.io?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 45 comments

High-Energy Lasers

https://www.raytheonintelligenceandspace.com/what-we-do/advanced-tech/lasers

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 155 comments

Rust: A Unique Perspective (2019)

https://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2019/02/07/rust-a-unique-perspective.html

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Enc – A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG

https://github.com/life4/enc

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Why backlogs are useless, why they never shrink, and what to do instead

https://lucasfcosta.com/2023/02/07/backlogs-are-useless.html

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software

https://akawashiro.github.io/jendeley/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Why is there so much useless and unreliable software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34737084

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 144 comments

Why TLS is better without STARTTLS (2021)

https://nostarttls.secvuln.info/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Windows 11 is collecting more user data than you know

https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-user-data/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 69 comments

Real-Time Brain-to-Image Reconstructions

https://medarc.notion.site/Real-Time-Brain-to-Image-Reconstructions-e1116f115715456a96bb053a304b6292

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

The Inference Cost of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-inference-cost-of-search-disruption

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programming_language_telemetry_debate/

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 49 comments

Using low-cost wireless sensors in the unlicensed bands

https://lwn.net/Articles/921497/

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Remastered 'Myst Mobile' Game Now Available on iPhone and iPad

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/09/myst-mobile-ios-game/

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 59 comments

Zstandard v1.5.4

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.4

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

Problems facing Bing, Bard, and the future of AI search

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23592647/ai-search-bing-bard-chatgpt-microsoft-google-problems-challenges

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 79 comments

How I Use My Mouse

https://github.com/madprops/blog/blob/main/mouse.md

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 72 comments

TikTok lays off all employees in India

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs/tiktok-lays-off-all-40-employees-in-india-10049421.html

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments
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