top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-04-18

Clock

https://oimo.io/works/clock/

2 years ago

1232 upvotes – 164 comments

Astral

https://astral.sh/

2 years ago

1078 upvotes – 236 comments

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/software-firms-face-huge-tax-bills-that-threaten-tech-startup-survival.html

2 years ago

924 upvotes – 985 comments

Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/port-starboard.html

2 years ago

659 upvotes – 617 comments

Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/10/making-friends-adults

2 years ago

586 upvotes – 357 comments

Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content

https://search.marginalia.nu/

2 years ago

550 upvotes – 193 comments

An example of LLM prompting for programming

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-chatgpt-xu-hao.html

2 years ago

546 upvotes – 265 comments

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/17/firefox-may-interact-with-cookie-prompts-automatically-soon/

2 years ago

470 upvotes – 301 comments

Why don’t more people live close to friends?

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/youd-be-happier-living-closer-to

2 years ago

460 upvotes – 544 comments

Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/microsoft_windows_start_ads/

2 years ago

454 upvotes – 628 comments

Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/media/netflix-dvds-earnings.html

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 347 comments

Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

https://tailscale.com/blog/pricing-v3/

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 114 comments

French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publisher-arrested-london-counter-terrorism-police-ernest-moret

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 235 comments

A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting

https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25020

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 78 comments

Reddit will begin charging for access to its API

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 337 comments

Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance

https://openfolder.sh/heroku-anti-dx

2 years ago

297 upvotes – 128 comments

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/missing-pieces/lost-movies

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 246 comments

Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/23688627/meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-whatsapp

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 337 comments

My Emacs eye candy

https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy/

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 86 comments

PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 186 comments
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