top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-18

What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/

2 years ago

736 upvotes – 450 comments

ChatGPT app for iOS

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios

2 years ago

675 upvotes – 403 comments

Why is my dryer radioactive?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/764460/why-is-my-dryer-radioactive

2 years ago

674 upvotes – 159 comments

A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB

https://liliputing.com/past-meets-present-in-this-200-mini-laptop-with-a-intel-8088-chip-and-640kb-of-memory/

2 years ago

374 upvotes – 207 comments

User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

https://userinyerface.com/

2 years ago

362 upvotes – 113 comments

Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/legend-zelda-game-sells-10-172603983.html

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 524 comments

Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1919392/spacetop-is-the-first-laptop-without-a-screen.html

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 161 comments

Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement

https://petapixel.com/2023/05/18/supreme-court-rules-andy-warhols-prince-art-is-copyright-infringement/

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 394 comments

European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects

https://blog.opensource.org/another-issue-with-the-cyber-resilience-act-european-standards-bodies-are-inaccessible-to-open-source-projects/

2 years ago

297 upvotes – 184 comments

Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet

2 years ago

288 upvotes – 38 comments

One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65622403

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 512 comments

Where have all the hackers gone?

https://morepablo.com/2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gone.html

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 335 comments

Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/7cf2cbb33ef34c1d211135f56d30fe23b6cacd42/test/standalone/http.zig

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 174 comments

How to quit cars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/carmageddon-daniel-knowles-book-review-paved-paradise-henry-grabar

2 years ago

264 upvotes – 801 comments

Language models cost much more in some languages than others

https://blog.yenniejun.com/p/all-languages-are-not-created-tokenized

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 171 comments

Windows XP Activation: Game Over

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 148 comments

The Great CPU Stagnation

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-great-cpu-stagnation.html

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 219 comments

Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Apple-dives-into-display-making-to-cut-reliance-on-Samsung

2 years ago

244 upvotes – 323 comments

Apple’s new headset meets reality

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-18/apple-s-mixed-reality-headset-may-define-tim-cook-s-legacy

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 505 comments

High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)

https://www.zxch3n.com/tidy/tidy/

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 21 comments

CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue

https://loro-dev.notion.site/crdt-richtext-Rust-implementation-of-Peritext-and-Fugue-c49ef2a411c0404196170ac8daf066c0

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 51 comments

CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/18/cli-tools-for-llms/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 51 comments

Tell HN: Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990320

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 61 comments

Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?

https://greatwavetoday.com

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 113 comments

Who wants to be tracked?

https://www.quantable.com/analytics/who-wants-to-be-tracked/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 267 comments

DuckDB 0.8

https://duckdb.org/2023/05/17/announcing-duckdb-080.html

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 98 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)

https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e88a8

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 65 comments

NYC skyscrapers sit vacant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-18/nyc-skyscrapers-sit-vacant-exposing-risk-city-never-predicted

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 413 comments

User Driven UI

https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/user-driven-ui

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 122 comments

Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos”

https://twitter.com/benguild/status/1658899250590228500

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 143 comments

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (2019)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 109 comments

Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/montana-governor-signs-bill-banning-tiktok-state-2023-05-17/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 1 comments

The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK

https://rssdsaisection.substack.com/p/the-alan-turing-institute-has-failed

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 149 comments

20 Years of Gentoo

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/May/20-years-of-gentoo/

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 133 comments

ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/main/notebooks/chatgpt_vs_open_source_on_harder_tasks.ipynb

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 68 comments

The simple joys of scaling up

https://motherduck.com/blog/the-simple-joys-of-scaling-up/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919)

https://archive.org/details/MyInventionsNikolaTesla

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 62 comments

85% of jobs are filled via networking

https://www.zippia.com/advice/networking-statistics/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 80 comments

Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website

https://blog.1password.com/passage-by-1password/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 134 comments

Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 55 comments

Cargo Cult AI

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=3595860

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Swap.js – a JavaScript micro-framework (HTML fragments over the wire)

https://github.com/josephernest/Swap

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/scipy-there-is-interest-in-adopting-this-prima-implementation-but-little-appetite-for-taking-on-more-fortran-code/5821

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 68 comments

The Case for Bash (2021)

https://www.neversaw.us/2021/04/02/the-case-for-bash/

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 184 comments

Unit Testing eBPF Programs

https://who.ldelossa.is/posts/unit-testing-ebpf/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 11 comments

Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 73 comments

The American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-05-16/how-the-american-dream-convinces-people-loneliness-is-normal.html

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 105 comments

The oldest known blueprints depict Stone Age ‘megastructures’

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkagbb/the-oldest-known-blueprints-depict-stone-age-megastructures

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Ireland’s DPC set to hit Meta with record privacy fine over US data transfers

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/05/17/irelands-dpc-said-to-hit-meta-with-record-privacy-fine-over-us-data-transfers/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 93 comments

The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg

https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Seven.zip

https://7-zip.org/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 95 comments

Linux Software Map

https://xteddy.org/lsm/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Bevy and WebGPU

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-webgpu/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

BT will shed as many as 55,000 workers by 2030

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/tech/bt-job-cuts/index.html

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500M bill

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/17/elizabeth_holmes_prison/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 105 comments

Replication of room-temperature superconductor fails to show superconductivity

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-replication-room-temperature-superconductor-superconductivity.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

YouTube on TVs getting unskippable 30-second and pause screen ads

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/17/youtube-tv-ads/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 190 comments

Nuances of overloading and overriding in Java

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/14/nuances-of-overloading-and-overriding-in-java/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 74 comments

Read Every Single Error

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/reducing-our-error-rate/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together

https://blog.cloudflare.com/langchain-and-cloudflare/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

New York City may be sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/new-york-city-may-be-sinking-under-weight-skyscrapers

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 63 comments

James Webb's 'too massive' galaxies may be even more massive

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-james-webb-massive-galaxies.html

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

The Rimac Nevera Just Shattered Pretty Much Every Acceleration Record

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-rimac-nevera-just-shattered-pretty-much-every-acceleration-record

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 83 comments

Creator of Uncensored LLM threatened to be fired from Microsoft and taken down

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13c6ukt/the_creator_of_an_uncensored_local_llm_posted/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Having metrics for something attracts your attention to it

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MetricsAttractAttention

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments
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