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

Get started making music

https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card

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

3 years ago

What Wikipedia Did

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

3 years ago

Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

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

3 years ago

The networkQuality tool on macOS

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

3 years ago

Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles

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

3 years ago

My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it

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

3 years ago

The World is Built on Probability (1984)

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

3 years ago

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)

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

3 years ago

Artists must be allowed to make bad work

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

3 years ago

The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video]

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time

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

3 years ago

ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021)

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

High Performance Browser Networking

https://hpbn.co/

3 years ago

Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed

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

3 years ago

Pfeilstorch

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

3 years ago

Are We Sixel Yet

https://www.arewesixelyet.com/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Putting mirrors around my desk improved my posture

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

3 years ago

Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989)

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

3 years ago

Instead of your Life's Purpose (2021)

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics

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

3 years ago

macOS Apps in Rust

https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao

3 years ago

JavaScript state machines and statecharts

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples

https://makefiletutorial.com/#top

3 years ago

Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)

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

3 years ago

Vore: A new RSS feed reader

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Devil Mode for Emacs

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)

https://archive.org/details/htewypc

3 years ago

The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Combinatory Logic (2020)

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

3 years ago

FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)

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

3 years ago

Show HN: I built my first Cyberdeck

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

3 years ago

Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

A former pilot on why autonomous vehicles are so risky

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

3 years ago

Attempto Controlled English

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

3 years ago

Moving from Blame to Accountability (2017)

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

3 years ago

How ‘open’ should your open source be?

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

3 years ago

Metal-filtering sponge removes lead from water

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

New Study Finds a High Minimum Wage Creates Jobs

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/new-study-finds-a-high-minimum-wage-creates-jobs.html

3 years ago

Show HN: WhyBot, making GPT-4 question itself

https://whybot-khaki.vercel.app/

3 years ago

The long-term persistence of old trees in human-dominated landscapes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-023-01412-1

3 years ago

Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes worry crew

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hazardous-materials-airplanes/

3 years ago

The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Familiar (Rich) Winners

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/business/economy/wealth-generations.html

3 years ago

Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society

https://theconversation.com/tiredness-of-life-the-growing-phenomenon-in-western-society-203934

3 years ago