top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-04-07

Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/ask-wirecutter-dumb-tvs/

2 years ago

957 upvotes – 992 comments

Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

https://github.blog/2023-04-06-building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/

2 years ago

660 upvotes – 318 comments

We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/7/chatgpt-lies/

2 years ago

546 upvotes – 457 comments

Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165680024/perennial-rice-plant-once-harvest-again-and-again

2 years ago

510 upvotes – 288 comments

Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

https://codeberg.org/

2 years ago

503 upvotes – 211 comments

Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/the-dumb-reason-twitter-wont-allow-retweeting-tweets-linking-to-substack/

2 years ago

407 upvotes – 273 comments

60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically

https://www.vox.com/23055489/irs-automatic-filing-prepopulated-returns

2 years ago

390 upvotes – 277 comments

U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-cables/

2 years ago

389 upvotes – 315 comments

Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days

https://status.mycloud.com/os4

2 years ago

368 upvotes – 198 comments

How does database sharding work?

https://planetscale.com/blog/how-does-database-sharding-work

2 years ago

343 upvotes – 107 comments

Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010

2 years ago

324 upvotes – 182 comments

NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security

https://www.privacy.org.nz/publications/statements-media-releases/new-zealands-biggest-data-breach-shows-retention-is-the-sleeping-giant-of-data-security/

2 years ago

314 upvotes – 148 comments

The machines of Tatjana van Vark

https://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/artisan/tatjana-van-vark/

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 33 comments

How to be consistent

https://csprimer.com/articles/consistency/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 59 comments

Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?

https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 89 comments

How to Stop Ruminating

https://www.sudarkoff.blog/p/how-to-stop-ruminating

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 129 comments

How to Design Programs 2nd Edition

https://htdp.org/2023-3-6/Book/index.html

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 32 comments

James Niehues Ski Map Artist

https://jamesniehues.com/

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 44 comments

Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out?

https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/07/medical-data-privacy-phreesia/

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant

https://github.com/pgosar/ChatGDB

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 54 comments
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