top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-16

Load Balancing

https://samwho.dev/load-balancing/

3 years ago

De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)

https://www.alexcharlton.co/projects/booking-com-de-stresser

3 years ago

I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog

https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusion-and-dreambooth-to-create-a-painted-portrait-of-my-dog

3 years ago

AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable

https://adriano.fyi/post/2023/2023-04-16-att-traffic-shaping-makes-websites-unusable/

3 years ago

Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

https://futureblues.com/

3 years ago

Dishwasher Salmon

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

3 years ago

'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco

https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/algebra-for-none-fails-in-san-francisco

3 years ago

Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literature

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-large-language-models

3 years ago

Why flying insects gather at artificial light

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536486v1

3 years ago

Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem (RP2040 Microcontroller)

https://github.com/bernhardstrobl/Pico3D

3 years ago

The fastest math typesetting library for the web

https://katex.org/

3 years ago

Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive

https://github.com/wabarc/wayback

3 years ago

FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-Slams-Google-JPEG-XL

3 years ago

SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks

https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to

3 years ago

Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KT8PS6Zs4

3 years ago

Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/13/the-lessons-from-americas-astonishing-economic-record

3 years ago

OpenSSH versus SSH

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSSHVersusSSH

3 years ago

The basics of decoupling capacitors

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-basics-of-decoupling-capacitors

3 years ago

‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/16/stop-or-ill-fire-you-the-driver-who-defied-ubers-automated-hr

3 years ago

Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video]

https://aeon.co/videos/who-owns-history-how-remarkable-historical-footage-is-hidden-and-monetised

3 years ago

Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)

https://m.post.naver.com/viewer/postView.nhn?volumeNo=8912179&memberNo=33582594

3 years ago

Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again

https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/untitled-2/

3 years ago

Experiments with plane-filling curves and Fourier transform

https://github.com/dmishin/fft-image-experiments

3 years ago

A Mulching Proposal (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06166

3 years ago

SpaceX's First Starship Launch Tomorrow

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-rocket-super-heavy-launch-what-time

3 years ago

Conway’s Law (2022)

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ConwaysLaw.html

3 years ago

The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2021)

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-16/flamin-hot-cheetos-richard-montanez

3 years ago

‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23683633/angry-birds-rovio-sega-sell-deal

3 years ago

Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/02/plain-c-api-design-real-world-kobayashi.html

3 years ago

Misalignment Museum

https://www.niche-museums.com/110

3 years ago

Laid off by Big Tech, then recruited for contract work – at the same place

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/laid-off-by-big-tech-then-recruited-for-contract-work-at-the-same-place/

3 years ago

Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way

https://lesenechal.fr/en/linux/unwinding-the-stack-the-hard-way

3 years ago

PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language

https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans

3 years ago

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH

https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_Getting_Started_part_2.html

3 years ago

Space Invaders creator reveals game’s origin story

https://www.wired.com/story/space-invaders-45-years-tomohiro-nishikado/

3 years ago

Alien Artefacts

https://www.brautaset.org/posts/alien-artefacts.html

3 years ago

The Battle over Techno’s Origins

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-battle-over-technos-origins

3 years ago

Efficiency trades off against resiliency

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/efficiency-vs-resiliency/

3 years ago

Nibbles of Rust – Restructuring Patterns

https://www.catmonad.xyz/blog/nibbles_02.html

3 years ago

Batch computing and the coming age of AI systems

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-04-12-batch

3 years ago

The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-military-industrial-stock-buyback

3 years ago

CrabLang

https://crablang.org/

3 years ago

WikiIndex

https://wikiindex.org/Welcome

3 years ago

Tooll 3: open-source software to create realtime motion graphics

https://github.com/still-scene/t3

3 years ago

Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier

https://www.historynet.com/mark-twains-two-week-stint-as-a-confederate-soldier/

3 years ago

Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit

https://nikoheikkila.fi/blog/clean-frontend-architecture-with-sveltekit/

3 years ago

Constraint Programming (2020)

https://mareknarozniak.com/2020/06/22/constraint-programming/

3 years ago

Better Together: Unifying Datalog and Equality Saturation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04332

3 years ago

Proxmox Docker Containers Monster – 13000 containers on a single host

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/04/proxmox-docker-containers-monster-13000-containers-on-a-single-host/

3 years ago

Lithium battery ripe for disruption, inventor says

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion-battery-disruption-ready

3 years ago

Google devising radical search changes to beat back A.I. rivals

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/technology/google-search-engine-ai.html

3 years ago

Functional Programming with TypeScript's Type System

https://desislav.dev/blog/tsfp/

3 years ago

Coq typeclass resolution is Turing-complete

https://thaliaarchi.github.io/coq-turing-typeclass/

3 years ago

Clojure Rationale (2008)

https://clojure.org/about/rationale

3 years ago

Peak LLM?

https://ihavemanythoughts.substack.com/p/peak-llm

3 years ago

Bavaria mulls reopening nuclear plant under state control

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-bavaria-mulls-reopening-nuclear-plant-under-state-control/a-65336730

3 years ago

A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019)

https://harrison.totty.dev/p/a-lang-design-analysis-of-holyc

3 years ago

Usability heuristics for user interface design

https://www.1984.design/c/discussions/usability-heuristics-for-user-interface-design

3 years ago