top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-13

McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

https://retrododo.com/mcdonalds-grimaces-birthday/

3 years ago

878 upvotes – 317 comments

Cormac McCarthy has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/books/cormac-mccarthy-dead.html

3 years ago

856 upvotes – 363 comments

Comic Mono

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

3 years ago

747 upvotes – 136 comments

AWS us-east-1 down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315300

3 years ago

658 upvotes – 313 comments

Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-private-apollo-christian-selig-subreddit

3 years ago

561 upvotes – 573 comments

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates

https://www.theverge.com/23758492/private-equity-brendan-ballou-plunder-finance-doj

3 years ago

537 upvotes – 349 comments

Rewriting the Ruby parser

https://railsatscale.com//2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/

3 years ago

520 upvotes – 175 comments

Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759674/reddit-mods-blackout-protest-extended-indefinitely

3 years ago

515 upvotes – 465 comments

Finish your projects

https://github.com/readme/guides/finish-your-projects

3 years ago

513 upvotes – 230 comments

Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

http://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters

3 years ago

513 upvotes – 183 comments

Open source hospital price database

https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/transparency-in-pricing/data/main/rate

3 years ago

493 upvotes – 248 comments

JupyterLab 4.0

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-4-0-is-here-388d05e03442?gi=692635ec8178

3 years ago

437 upvotes – 193 comments

Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React

https://resend.com

3 years ago

432 upvotes – 270 comments

Moving fast with the core Vim motions

https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-and-vim/moving-blazingly-fast-with-the-core-vim-motions/

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 265 comments

Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNYTqn3qRc

3 years ago

417 upvotes – 202 comments

Johnny Decimal

https://johnnydecimal.com/10-19-concepts/11-core/11.01-introduction/

3 years ago

387 upvotes – 193 comments

Function calling and other API updates

https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates

3 years ago

377 upvotes – 163 comments

Text Editor Data Structures

https://cdacamar.github.io/data%20structures/algorithms/benchmarking/text%20editors/c++/editor-data-structures/

3 years ago

367 upvotes – 78 comments

Teach yourself Computer Science functionally

https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/

3 years ago

315 upvotes – 99 comments

U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Personal Data

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-agencies-buy-vast-quantities-of-americans-personal-data-report-says-f47ec3ad

3 years ago

291 upvotes – 4 comments

Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, files for bankruptcy

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/instant-brands-bankruptcy-1.6874487

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 346 comments

Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-EAGLE-Announcement-Next-steps-and-FAQ.html

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 202 comments

Do high interest rates fix high inflation?

https://www.lynalden.com/inflation-vs-interest-rates/

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 348 comments

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman

3 years ago

242 upvotes – 259 comments

Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/obsidian-copilot/

3 years ago

232 upvotes – 69 comments

Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories

https://nami.land/2023/06/11/track-hn-analyze-survival-rate-of-120-396-show-hn-posts-june-2023.html

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 73 comments

SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices Within Two Seconds

https://snap-research.github.io/SnapFusion/

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 52 comments

The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved (1970) [pdf]

http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

3 years ago

219 upvotes – 91 comments

Dating, education, and sex ratios

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/all-the-single-ladies

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 420 comments

ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard

https://github.com/swetland/zx81-keyboard

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 49 comments

Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759942/google-reddit-subreddit-blackout-protests

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 133 comments

Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to US Government agencies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/microsoft-offers-powerful-openai-technology-to-us-government-cloud-customers

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 216 comments

Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 60 comments

Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.html

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 191 comments

Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP

https://www.eetimes.com/jim-keller-on-ai-risc-v-tenstorrents-move-to-edge-ip/

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 107 comments

The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 117 comments

Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

https://andromedacluster.com/

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 40 comments

Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=de&user=zykJTC4AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=zykJTC4AAAAJ:gnsKu8c89wgC

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 235 comments

Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones

https://hackcompute.com/hacking-epp-servers/

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 67 comments

Oyster: Towards Unsupervised Object Detection from Lidar Point Clouds

https://waabi.ai/oyster/

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 71 comments

NVD Damage Continued

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/06/12/nvd-damage-continued/

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

Stochastic Parrot

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

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 161 comments

Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/hackers-can-steal-cryptographic-keys-by-video-recording-connected-power-leds-60-feet-away/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

TypeCell, open source TypeScript notebooks live programming environment

https://www.typecell.org/

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: LLaMA tokenizer that runs in browser

https://github.com/belladoreai/llama-tokenizer-js

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

YouTube legal team asked Invidious to take down the service within 7 days

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/youtube-legal-team-asked-invidious-developers-to-take-down-the-service-within-7-days/

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 51 comments

AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi300X with 192GB Memory

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18915/amd-expands-mi300-family-with-mi300x-gpu-only-192gb-memory

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 104 comments

Thinking Like Transformers (2021) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06981

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Writing a Linux Debugger (2017)

https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/writing-a-linux-debugger-setup/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

Infantilism as a norm (2018)

https://iq.hse.ru/en/news/219491658.html

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 244 comments

The Design Principles of the Elixir Type System [pdf]

https://www.irif.fr/_media/users/gduboc/elixir-types.pdf

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 14 comments

Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-photographer-who-forced-the-us-to-confront-its-child-labor-problem-180982355/

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

Where did the long tail go? (2022)

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/where-did-the-long-tail-go

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Is there a good camping chair that is comfortable for programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36307810

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times

https://blog.boomerangapp.com/2023/06/4-myths-and-1-truth-about-scheduling-meetings/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

Aspect-Oriented Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 96 comments

Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 177 comments

Repairing Electronics: A circular economy solution

https://nextbillion.net/repairing-electronics-circular-economy-solution-ewaste-rural-africa/

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 65 comments

CIA and Mossad-Linked Surveillance Being Installed Throughout the US

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/03/investigative-reports/cia-and-mossad-linked-surveillance-system-quietly-being-installed-throughout-the-us/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/blog/night-of-the-runbooks

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 58 comments

CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor written in Object Pascal

https://cudatext.github.io/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for first time ever

https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite-beams-energy-1st-time

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 78 comments

Reddit stripping moderators of rights and forcing subreddits to go public

https://famichiki.jp/@Tsutsuku/110537730270070245

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

U.S. TSA expands controversial facial recognition program

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-facial-recognition-program-airports-expands/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/magazine/old-magazines.html

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: YouTube's website search isn't useful anymore, is there an alternative?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317035

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

2023 Developer Survey

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

OnBoard – A New Grants Program to Fund $100 in PCB Costs for Teenagers

https://hackclub.com/onboard/

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments
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