top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-21

Writing Python like it's Rust

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/python/2023/05/20/writing-python-like-its-rust.html

3 years ago

538 upvotes – 350 comments

PrivateGPT

https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

3 years ago

520 upvotes – 142 comments

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

3 years ago

518 upvotes – 88 comments

Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser

https://www.engine.study/blog/modding-age-of-empires-ii-with-a-sprite-diffuser/

3 years ago

422 upvotes – 124 comments

The end of the accounting search

https://lwn.net/Articles/925782/

3 years ago

384 upvotes – 204 comments

GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819

3 years ago

338 upvotes – 274 comments

Suspicious iOS KeePass Client

https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/13nqarb/suspicious_ios_keepass_client/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 164 comments

Rodney Brooks on GPT-4

https://spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-4-calm-down

3 years ago

277 upvotes – 399 comments

Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/potentially-millions-of-android-tvs-and-phones-come-with-malware-preinstalled/

3 years ago

274 upvotes – 203 comments

Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)

https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 37 comments

How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?

https://pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consumption-of-async/

3 years ago

253 upvotes – 214 comments

Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps

https://github.com/Textualize/trogon

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 70 comments

The DRAKON Language

https://drakonhub.com/en/drakon

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 38 comments

Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 67 comments

Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/21/dolphin-progress-report-february-march-april-2023/

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 53 comments

Noise is all around us

https://thewalrus.ca/noise-ethics/

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 163 comments

The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked

https://twitter.com/cixliv/status/1660038281034350592

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 296 comments

KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

https://docs.keydb.dev/

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 126 comments

Building a Handheld PC

https://bytewelder.com/posts/2023/05/20/building-a-handheld-pc.html

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges

https://badgers.space

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 49 comments

Toaster: Pure CSS 3D Editor

https://petertyliu.github.io/toaster/

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 36 comments

High-Performance Graph Databases

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11162

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 60 comments

AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ai-boom-could-expose-investors-natural-stupidity-2023-05-19/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 187 comments

Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020008

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 293 comments

Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing

https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/cloud-gpus/

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 59 comments

An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and Its Effects

https://lauren.vortex.com/2023/05/17/google-account-recovery-failure-sad

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 128 comments

TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language

https://toml.io/en/

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 221 comments

Study finds 90% of Australian teachers can't afford to live where they teach

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-australian-teachers.html

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 223 comments

Tell HN: Be aware of people trying to scam contractors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36023656

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 104 comments

DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08596

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 59 comments

Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language

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

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 95 comments

'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma

https://www.engadget.com/blackberry-movie-review-comedy-tragedy-innovators-dilemma-140115574.html

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 110 comments

Arch Linux: Git migration completed

https://archlinux.org/news/git-migration-completed/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 20 comments

Testing a Formally Verified Compiler

https://hal.science/hal-04096390/document

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 32 comments

Typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types

https://github.com/stepchowfun/typical

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 50 comments

Plain Text Accounting

https://plaintextaccounting.org/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (1955)

http://xav.io/posts/besm/

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/tech-companies-keep-falling-for-forever-fallacy-why-smart-leaders-should-know-better.html

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 235 comments

r9: Plan 9 in Rust

https://github.com/r9os/r9

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 45 comments

For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01612-x

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 94 comments

How Do Semiconductors Work? Introduction to SiliWiz

https://tinytapeout.com/siliwiz/introduction/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 4 comments

Hoarding

https://www.michaelsamsel.com/Content/Difficult_Styles/hoarding.html

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/centre-pompidou-closing-five-years-2025-1234667508/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 95 comments

Deep neural networks as computational graphs (2018)

https://medium.com/tebs-lab/deep-neural-networks-as-computational-graphs-867fcaa56c9

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Reasons not to become famous (2020)

https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 127 comments

US is expanding CO2 pipelines. One poisoned town wants you to know its story

https://text.npr.org/1172679786

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 65 comments

San Francisco office values fall

https://www.hoover.org/research/san-francisco-falls-further-abyss-office-values-plunge-75-percent

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 190 comments

HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/hp-rushes-to-fix-bricked-printers-after-faulty-firmware-update/

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 85 comments

Success to the successful

https://riskmusings.substack.com/p/success-to-the-successful

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 83 comments

Tarteel – AI-powered Quran companion

https://www.tarteel.ai/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

KLOR – A 36-42 keys column-staggered split keyboard

https://github.com/GEIGEIGEIST/KLOR

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 103 comments

Recreating RP2040 PIO Interface in an FPGA

https://github.com/lawrie/fpga_pio

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya

https://fortune.com/2023/05/18/china-belt-road-loans-pakistan-sri-lanka-africa-collapse-economic-instability/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 81 comments

PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless

https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/05/21/PGP-signatures-on-PyPI-worse-than-useless

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 163 comments

In Defense of Pure 16-Bit Floating-Point Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10947

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

Clinical validation of a blood-pressure sensor for continuous health monitoring

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202301627

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis (2002) [pdf]

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/publications/OUCS-2002-12.pdf

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020597

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 163 comments

The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016)

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/demon-core-the-strange-death-of-louis-slotin

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

The Industrial Hammer Complex

https://eisenbergeffect.medium.com/the-industrial-hammer-complex-d9785886ee59

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

America’s skepticism toward the first automobiles (1930)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americas-skepticism-toward-first-automobiles/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 118 comments

Dragonfly – Performant in-memory data store

https://www.dragonflydb.io/?gclid=CjwKCAjw36GjBhAkEiwAKwIWyR8z6AbdHnG7gNsdqQpndmNTkck5av2CU0WDVVMJQjwEAjd9NK7hnhoCqGkQAvD_BwE

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 80 comments

KDE is ready to deprecate IRC, XMPP, and Telegram in favor of Matrix

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2023-May/001837.html

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Best Linux Books for Different Target Groups and Use Cases

https://linuxstans.com/linux-books/

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

A Microscopic Look at Snail Jaws

https://nhm.org/stories/microscopic-look-snail-jaws

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

No Screens Cafe

https://cmart.blog/no-screens-cafe/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 119 comments

Perfectly secure steganography using minimum entropy coupling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14889

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

Neural Network Architecture Beyond Width and Depth

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09459

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

The Fight to Protect the Joshua Tree

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fight-to-protect-the-joshua-tree-609bc7e9

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments