top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-15

My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do

https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html

3 years ago

981 upvotes – 1152 comments

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/

3 years ago

775 upvotes – 586 comments

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/

3 years ago

715 upvotes – 758 comments

Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

https://www.mermaidchart.com/blog/posts/sequence-diagrams-the-good-thing-uml-brought-to-software-development

3 years ago

623 upvotes – 356 comments

Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-15/alphabet-selling-google-domains-assets-to-squarespace

3 years ago

548 upvotes – 606 comments

Our Plan for Python 3.13

https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.13/README.md

3 years ago

531 upvotes – 399 comments

Effective Rust (2021)

https://www.lurklurk.org/effective-rust/

3 years ago

395 upvotes – 204 comments

Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

https://www.unihiker.com/

3 years ago

393 upvotes – 225 comments

Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved

https://newsingermany.com/archaeologists-find-3000-year-old-sword/

3 years ago

372 upvotes – 174 comments

Everything must be paid for twice (2022)

https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/

3 years ago

352 upvotes – 278 comments

11 years of hosting a SaaS

https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-hosting-a-saas

3 years ago

334 upvotes – 219 comments

Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]

http://www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf

3 years ago

330 upvotes – 179 comments

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)

https://shape-of-code.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 209 comments

UnsuckJS: Progressively enhance HTML with lightweight JavaScript libraries

https://unsuckjs.com/

3 years ago

308 upvotes – 189 comments

Localrf – Nerf from casual shaky videos

https://localrf.github.io/

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 30 comments

Zluda: Run CUDA code on Intel GPUs, unmodified

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 90 comments

ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]

https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/ESP32-C3%20Wireless%20Adventure.pdf

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 110 comments

The Guardian bans all gambling advertising

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/15/guardian-bans-all-gambling-advertising

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 142 comments

Rock engravings made by Homo Naledi ~300k years ago

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.01.543133v1

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 97 comments

Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 63 comments

The Stupid Programmer Manifesto

https://hasen.substack.com/p/the-stupid-programmer-manifesto

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 226 comments

Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/arzneimittel-reform-karl-lauterbach-will-drugchecking-bundesweit-einfuehren-a-b642b609-9149-47bc-a013-11476d54e96f

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 229 comments

/r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

https://old.reddit.com/r/startrek/

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 196 comments

Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36345345

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 117 comments

W3C announces new Web standard for online payments

https://www.applemust.com/w3c-announces-new-web-standard-for-online-payments/

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 102 comments

The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 53 comments

Tell HN: Locked Google account reopened after two years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36335975

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 74 comments

Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/2-men-helped-run-popular-pirating-website-megaupload-100099005

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 144 comments

Stack Overflow Is Down

https://www.stackstatus.net/?

3 years ago

176 upvotes – 115 comments

A LiveView Is a Process

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/a-liveview-is-a-process/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36345288

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 154 comments

FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust

https://fennel.ai/blog/vector-search-in-200-lines-of-rust/

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 71 comments

Tilt Five – Bring holograms home – Play your favorite games in 3D

https://www.tiltfive.com/

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 76 comments

Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-65889955

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 155 comments

Tell HN: Messages from Another Azure Customer Are Appearing in My Queue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347915

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 47 comments

Google warns staff about chatbots

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-one-ais-biggest-backers-warns-own-staff-about-chatbots-2023-06-15/

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 108 comments

Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/648b36899c7c1405303ea8c4

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 75 comments

How the brain processes German and Arabic

https://en.qantara.de/content/language-and-language-acquisition-how-the-brain-processes-german-and-arabic

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 108 comments

Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342085

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 88 comments

The long story of how neural nets got to where they are [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKC-4Tosdd8

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 18 comments

Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood

https://www.wired.com/story/the-psychedelic-scientist-who-sends-brains-back-to-childhood/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification

https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/cements-future-could-be-a-combination-of-carbon-capture-and-electrification.html

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 90 comments

Reddit CEO slams protesters, calls them “landed gentry”

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

What motorcycles teach about maintenance

https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/vehicles/what-motorcycles-teach-about-maintenance/4

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 151 comments

WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web

https://webstudio.is/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 72 comments

r/startrek has just launched its own Lemmy instance

https://old.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/14a5t8w/looking_for_an_alternative_to_reddit_to_talk_trek/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

Vision Pro

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/6/15/vision-pro

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 162 comments

Blocked from Amazon Alexa for a week after racism accusation by delivery driver

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/smart-home-lock-out-amazon-b2358107.html

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 80 comments

Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36338187

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 174 comments

Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories

https://trickest.com/blog/parsing-github-logs-with-trickest/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Rick Rubin’s creative genius

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-02-06/can-rick-rubins-creative-genius-rub-off-on-you

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 92 comments

This Week in Rust 499

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2023/06/14/this-week-in-rust-499/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

North Koreans speak secretly to BBC from inside closed country

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/bskbb4rmae/inside-north-korea

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 92 comments

Have you been to the library lately?

https://thewalrus.ca/future-of-libraries/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 201 comments

Gov. DeSantis signs bill banning most direct-to-consumer auto sales

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/618230-gov-desantis-signs-car-dealership-protection-bill-banning-most-direct-to-consumer-auto-sales/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 138 comments

Protest song vanishes from Spotify, Apple Music ahead of government ban

https://hongkongfp.com/2023/06/14/protest-song-glory-to-hong-kong-vanishes-from-spotify-apple-streaming-sites-ahead-of-govt-legal-bid-to-ban-it/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 27 comments

Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-network-channels-saturate-youtube-pro-bolsonaro.html

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Building a platform that open sources itself

https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Gently Down the Stream – A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka (2021)

https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Wasmer Edge: WebAssembly on the Edge

https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-wasmer-edge

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

Estimation isn’t for everyone

https://open.nytimes.com/estimation-isnt-for-everyone-a72484f88b27?gi=b14783206ae3

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 85 comments

Man found UC Berkeley skeleton in 2021

https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/06/12/uc-berkeley-crime/uc-berkeley-skeleton-found-2021-clark-kerr-human-remains/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/26/generative-ai-revolution-computer-interfaces-chatgpt

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

Board Changes at Signal

https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/110549355267860258

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments

Playing Atari games in OCaml

https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/playing-atari-games-in-ocaml/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

On the value of not reaching your goals

https://every.to/p/on-the-value-of-not-reaching-your-goals

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

US Government agencies hit in global cyberattack

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/us-government-hit-cybeattack/index.html

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

Petition of the Candlemakers (1845)

https://sites.middlebury.edu/econ0450f10/files/2010/08/bastiat.pdf

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 5 comments

Scientific colour maps

https://www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps/

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

uTox – Lightweight Tox Client

https://github.com/uTox/uTox

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments
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