top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-02

The day Windows died

https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died

2 years ago

1146 upvotes – 893 comments

Ryuichi Sakamoto has died

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/ryuichi-sakamoto-has-died-cause-of-death/

2 years ago

583 upvotes – 121 comments

Thinking hard makes the brain tired

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired

2 years ago

566 upvotes – 385 comments

XUL Layout is gone

https://crisal.io/words/2023/03/30/xul-layout-is-gone.html

2 years ago

486 upvotes – 217 comments

How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps

https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why

2 years ago

419 upvotes – 206 comments

‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

https://www.ft.com/content/6218aa73-ae25-46fc-9503-f2f45b8db47f

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 344 comments

For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US

https://www.popsci.com/environment/renewable-energy-generation-coal-2022/

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 304 comments

Own your work

https://josem.co/own-your-work/

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 109 comments

Windows Sandbox

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-overview

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 112 comments

Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury

https://www.xda-developers.com/starlink-internet-rural-savior-unreliable-luxury/

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 338 comments

Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230402-paris-votes-on-ban-for-rental-e-scooters

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 562 comments

UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k

https://infosec.exchange/@tazwake/110108960041803779

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 235 comments

Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe/italian-government-penalize-english-words-intl/index.html

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 571 comments

Optimizing Open Addressing

https://thenumb.at/Hashtables/

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 65 comments

ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/isro-successfully-conducts-landing-experiment-of-the-reusable-launch-vehicle/article66690655.ece

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 128 comments

How Software Companies Die (1995)

https://gist.github.com/eliot-akira/6eaecda619d0fafd1d74

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 49 comments

ChatGPT as a Calculator for Words

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/2/calculator-for-words/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Shhhbb, an SSH BBS

https://donuts-are-good.github.io/shhhbb/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 52 comments

Reducing Iron Oxide with Ammonia: A Sustainable Path to Green Steel

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202300111

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 79 comments

‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-01/henry-marsh-preparing-to-die-has-a-lot-to-do-with-having-had-a-good-life.html

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 130 comments

Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS

https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Fast-food-packaging-emit-volatile/101/i11

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 155 comments

A Reply to Josef Průša

https://blog.thea.codes/a-reply-to-josef-prusa/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 150 comments

Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment

https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 174 comments

In 2017, developers competed for who could create worst volume control interface

https://twitter.com/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 38 comments

Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now-openly-courting-capital-from-saudi-arabia-despite-u-s-strains/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 94 comments

Work-from-home is the new normal in Canada

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/work-from-home-new-normal-in-canada

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 151 comments

Show HN: PizzaGPT – ChatGPT clone accessible from Italy

https://www.pizzagpt.it/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 67 comments

International Orange

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

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 55 comments

iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/iapx432-gordon-moore-risk-and-intels

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 102 comments

Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine

https://english.nv.ua/nation/analysis-of-code-for-twitter-algorithm-reveals-social-medium-down-ranks-tweets-about-ukraine-50314963.html

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 140 comments

Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/77-of-young-americans-too-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-to-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 135 comments

Ask HN: How do I keep my elderly father safe on the internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35410162

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 91 comments

The Problem with Music (1993)

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Algora – Paid open-source contributions

https://console.algora.io

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (2016)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2016.1243143

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (2021)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=105897

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 49 comments

Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AvoidingHTTP3ForNow

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 119 comments
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