top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-07

macOS Internals

https://gist.github.com/kconner/cff08fe3e0bb857ea33b47d965b3e19f

3 years ago

773 upvotes – 141 comments

Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled

https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=545

3 years ago

565 upvotes – 347 comments

Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

3 years ago

529 upvotes – 241 comments

The Prime Video microservices to monolith story

https://adrianco.medium.com/so-many-bad-takes-what-is-there-to-learn-from-the-prime-video-microservices-to-monolith-story-4bd0970423d4

3 years ago

512 upvotes – 397 comments

I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-smart-home-3319869/

3 years ago

498 upvotes – 345 comments

Belgium legalises ethical hacking

https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/belgium-legalises-ethical-hacking-a-threat-or-an-opportunity-for-cybersecurity/

3 years ago

451 upvotes – 67 comments

EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones

https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-may-not-restrict-usb-c-charging-on-new-iphones-after-all

3 years ago

385 upvotes – 843 comments

Burnout

https://drewdevault.com/2023/05/01/2023-05-01-Burnout.html

3 years ago

304 upvotes – 124 comments

Contrast Rebellion

https://contrastrebellion.com/

3 years ago

280 upvotes – 144 comments

SpaceTraders: A multiplayer game built on a free web API

https://spacetraders.io/

3 years ago

273 upvotes – 56 comments

Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects

https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-reportedly-issues-dmca-takedown-for-switch-homebrew-projects-skyline-switch-emulator-development-ceased.632406/

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 167 comments

Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_952084_en.html

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 173 comments

Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/05/07/cyberpunk-2077s-path-tracing-update/

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 185 comments

Why Lisp?

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/why-lisp.org

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 327 comments

Five Books: The best books on everything

https://fivebooks.com/

3 years ago

243 upvotes – 85 comments

Passkeys: A Loss of User Control?

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/5/1.html

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 176 comments

AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts

https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-promises-its-new-laptop-chips-will-crush-the-apple-m2-and-its-got-reciepts

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 245 comments

Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990)

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.tcp-ip/c/mVnR2OSXHBY/m/tjdkK1OBtCEJ

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 90 comments

TV series about startup failures

https://www.1984.design/c/discussions/tv-series-about-startup-failures-portraying-their-greedy-founders-and-the-damages-of-the-current-startup-ecosystem

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 156 comments

Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

https://matomo.org/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 109 comments

Turbo Rascal Syntax Error

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 42 comments

The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2023/05/07/the-rocky-horror-coffin-clock/

3 years ago

197 upvotes – 51 comments

Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system

https://www.devever.net/~hl/pics

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 59 comments

Prolog for data science

https://emiruz.com/post/2023-04-30-prolog-for-data-science/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 55 comments

A Beginner's Guide to eBPF

https://github.com/lizrice/ebpf-beginners

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 72 comments

210k works in the Public Domain, searchable

https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 10 comments

DIY-Thermocam: A low-cost thermal imager based on the FLIR Lepton sensor

https://www.diy-thermocam.net/

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 92 comments

Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch

https://gizmodo.com/casio-g-shock-digital-watch-fitness-tracking-heart-rate-1850357822

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 170 comments

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (2005)

https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownworstenemy.pdf

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 54 comments

AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01487-y

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 58 comments

How to make smaller C and C++ binaries

http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-make-smaller-c-and-c-binaries.html

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 130 comments

RedisRaft

https://github.com/RedisLabs/redisraft/blob/master/docs/Introduction.md

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 50 comments

Prime Video service dumps microservices, cuts AWS bill 90%

https://thestack.technology/amazon-prime-video-microservices-monolith/

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

Vulkan Video Decoding

https://wickedengine.net/2023/05/07/vulkan-video-decoding/

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

React Aria Components

https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/react-aria-components.html

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 58 comments

Effect of LSD on reinforcement learning in humans (2022)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/effect-of-lysergic-acid-diethylamide-lsd-on-reinforcement-learning-in-humans/28E41FEE97D3A8614C77DC54DF501489

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 97 comments

Lamest Edit Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 88 comments

Show HN: Git Hooting

https://git.ht

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to Google Tasks Soon

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/calendar-and-assistant-reminders-to-tasks-migration.html

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 115 comments

Scientists find link between photosynthesis and 'fifth state of matter'

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-scientists-link-photosynthesis-state.html

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying

https://blog.varunramesh.net/posts/chatgpt-role-playing/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 90 comments

DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/06/ai_hacking_defcon/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 12 comments

Free Public Domain Audiobooks

https://librivox.org/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 22 comments

What I want from the internet

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-i-want-from-the-internet

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 109 comments

The ‘devil bird’ lands in New York, with more likely to come

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/science/anhinga-brooklyn-devil-bird.html

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

The businessman and the fisherman (1963)

https://thestorytellers.com/the-businessman-and-the-fisherman/

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 124 comments

Waking up to Hacker News

https://johnathannader.com/waking-hacker-news/

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Books or courses to understand college level mathematics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854717

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorships End

https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/russians-seem-very-interested-in-my-book-about-how-dictatorships-end/

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 94 comments

OpenAI CEO says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake–and ‘it’s over’

https://fortune.com/2023/05/05/openai-ceo-sam-altman-remote-work-mistake-return-to-office/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 69 comments

Qsort.h – Quicksort as a C macro (2019)

https://github.com/svpv/qsort

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

The tale of "-mrtd" in GCC and Clang

https://m680x0.github.io/blog/2023/05/the-tale-of-mrtd.html

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 19 comments

A Go compiler, written in Rust (2016)

https://github.com/yberreby/rgo

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 19 comments

The Messy Page Or: why I don't like greenfield projects

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/the-messy-page

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 85 comments

Passkeys will be importable, exportable, cross-device, and across managers

https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/110329118270492669

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 67 comments

ChatGPT is powered by contractors making $15 an hour

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/openai-chatgpt-ai-jobs-contractors-talk-shadow-workforce-powers-rcna81892

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 106 comments

Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism (2003)

https://www.salon.com/2003/10/10/postman/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Makeitfrom.com – Material Properties Database

https://www.makeitfrom.com/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 14 comments

Why the Ferrari F355 sounds so good

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a43805754/ferrari-f355-exhaust-sound/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 97 comments

When Connie Converse, the ‘female Bob Dylan,’ lived in NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/nyregion/connie-converse-nyc.html

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

5G Rollout Disappointments

https://spectrum.ieee.org/5g-rollout-disappointments

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 97 comments

OpenAI Sued for Fraud Allegations

https://webapps.sftc.org/captcha/captcha.dll?referrer=https://webapps.sftc.org/ci/CaseInfo.dll?CaseNum=CGC23606176

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 70 comments

VW to fire top executives at software unit Cariad, source says

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/vw-fire-top-executives-software-unit-cariad-source-says-2023-05-06/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 76 comments
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