top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-14

Get started making music

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

2 years ago

1175 upvotes – 243 comments

Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-secures-615000-companies-supplied-fake-comments-influence

2 years ago

812 upvotes – 290 comments

Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card

https://gist.github.com/rain-1/8cc12b4b334052a21af8029aa9c4fafc

2 years ago

618 upvotes – 264 comments

What Wikipedia Did

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1657494022741426180

2 years ago

531 upvotes – 298 comments

Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

2 years ago

424 upvotes – 100 comments

The networkQuality tool on macOS

https://cyberhost.uk/the-hidden-macos-speedtest-tool-networkquality/

2 years ago

397 upvotes – 85 comments

Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles

https://billydm.github.io/blog/daw-frontend-development-struggles/

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 265 comments

My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2023-04-23-aaba-obit.html

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 69 comments

The World is Built on Probability (1984)

https://archive.org/details/lev-tarasov-the-world-is-built-on-probability-mir-2023

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 91 comments

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 165 comments

Artists must be allowed to make bad work

https://austinkleon.com/2023/05/07/artists-must-be-allowed-to-make-bad-work/

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 160 comments

The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SQgjYmVYY

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 46 comments

47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022?

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99339-47-of-all-internet-traffic-came-from-bots-in-2022

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 145 comments

OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time

https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenSnitch_in_Debian_ready_for_prime_time.html

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 31 comments

ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021)

https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 199 comments

Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages

https://apnews.com/article/offgrid-solar-electrification-indonesia-0991d77d68f879c4daa12e7d3dfd97ee

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 106 comments

High Performance Browser Networking

https://hpbn.co/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 30 comments

Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_RIME_antenna_breaks_free

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 66 comments

Pfeilstorch

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

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 53 comments

Tell HN: Putting mirrors around my desk improved my posture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35939206

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 102 comments

Are We Sixel Yet

https://www.arewesixelyet.com/

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 149 comments

Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989)

https://groups.google.com/g/eunet.politics/c/LbrVEM7zp-Y/m/ae_hhAk9jd8J

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 103 comments

Instead of your Life's Purpose (2021)

https://philosophyinhell.substack.com/p/instead-of-your-lifes-purpose

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 102 comments

Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35936139

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 167 comments

Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics

https://blog.plover.com/notes/game-mechanics.html

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 107 comments

macOS Apps in Rust

https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 86 comments

JavaScript state machines and statecharts

https://xstate.js.org/docs/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 87 comments

Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)

https://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/Teaching/MTP/Common/David-Lamkins/cover.html

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 72 comments

Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies

https://18alan.space/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-build-a-frontend-framework.html

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 78 comments

Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples

https://makefiletutorial.com/#top

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 95 comments

Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)

https://byrnehobart.medium.com/writing-good-career-move-terrible-career-ad672663ea3b

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 108 comments

Vore: A new RSS feed reader

https://j3s.sh/thought/vore-a-new-rss-feed-reader.html

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 125 comments

Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

https://fortune.com/2023/05/11/airbnb-brian-chesky-remote-work-hamptons/

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 174 comments

Devil Mode for Emacs

https://susam.github.io/devil/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 78 comments

Open-Llama: Complete training pipeline for building large language models

https://github.com/s-JoL/Open-Llama

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 12 comments

Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 47 comments

Heart attack deaths drop over past two decades

https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2023/02/22/21/30/Heart-Attack-Deaths-Drop-Over-Past-Two-Decades

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 112 comments

Chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/05/chemotherapy-drug-reaches-brain-in-humans-for-first-time/

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 45 comments

The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dodecahedrons-roman-empire

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 100 comments

How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)

https://archive.org/details/htewypc

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What 60 folks can give career and general life advice for 40 folks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35935135

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 81 comments

Combinatory Logic (2020)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-combinatory/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 21 comments

FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/freebsd-13-2-on-thinkpad-t14-gen1/

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: I built my first Cyberdeck

https://github.com/g1sbi/qaz-cyberdeck

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Facebook claims people showing art, electronics, wheelchair mods is hate speech

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/05/13/facebook-claiming-people-showing-art-electronics-wheelchair-modifications-is-hate-speech-our-video-show-and-tell-removed-from-facebook/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 94 comments

Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-12-22-making-ghc-faster-at-emitting-code/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 14 comments

As COVID raged in New York hospitals, executives pocketed $73M in bonuses (2022)

https://www.lohud.com/in-depth/news/2022/09/14/ny-hospital-executives-paid-millions-in-bonuses-salary-as-covid-raged/65411150007/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

A former pilot on why autonomous vehicles are so risky

https://spectrum.ieee.org/self-driving-cars

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 123 comments

Attempto Controlled English

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

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 69 comments

Moving from Blame to Accountability (2017)

https://thesystemsthinker.com/moving-from-blame-to-accountability/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

How ‘open’ should your open source be?

https://github.com/readme/featured/how-open-is-open-source

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

Metal-filtering sponge removes lead from water

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/05/metal-filtering-sponge-removes-lead-from-water/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of AI?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/11/what-does-a-leaked-google-memo-reveal-about-the-future-of-ai

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)

https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/Goldberg.ipynb

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Surveillance of reporter a 'serious attack on freedom of the press in Canada' (2016)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/la-presse-patrick-lagace-cjfe-edward-snowden-1.3829383

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments
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