top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-04

Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no-outdoor.html

2 years ago

688 upvotes – 413 comments

Companies must stop using Google Analytics

https://www.imy.se/en/news/companies-must-stop-using-google-analytics/

2 years ago

646 upvotes – 456 comments

More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

https://mastodon.cloud/@boilingsteam/110655979942850128

2 years ago

635 upvotes – 411 comments

Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583419

2 years ago

509 upvotes – 700 comments

How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries

https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/how-to-build-a-website/

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 253 comments

Sourcegraph is no longer open source

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

2 years ago

444 upvotes – 253 comments

Learning needs to be effortful to be effective

https://giansegato.com/essays/edutainment-is-not-learning

2 years ago

375 upvotes – 149 comments

Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

https://shant.nu/turning-my-passion-hobby-into-a-business-made-me-hate-it/

2 years ago

364 upvotes – 190 comments

Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-programming

2 years ago

348 upvotes – 304 comments

Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom

https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/04/dutch-rules-will-soon-prevent-schoolchildren-phone-classroom

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 350 comments

Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

https://usebottles.com/

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 187 comments

A curated list of uBlock origin filters

https://letsblock.it/filters

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 71 comments

Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better

https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/open-source-with-profanity-in-comments-is-statistically-better-than-code-without-it/

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 214 comments

Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 76 comments

ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13392

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 165 comments

Type system updates: moving from research into development

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 75 comments

Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia

https://makie.org

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: How to do market research for product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36582117

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 112 comments

LXD is now under Canonical

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 218 comments

SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can

https://blog.turso.tech/sqlite-based-databases-on-the-postgres-protocol-yes-we-can-358e61171d65?gi=b00cf93b1837

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 42 comments

Stable Diffusion XL technical report [pdf]

https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models/blob/main/assets/sdxl_report.pdf

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 58 comments

How to pass a first-round interview

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-pass-any-first-round-interview

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 215 comments

An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf]

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.pdf

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 121 comments

Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI

https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 106 comments

Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02214-3

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 229 comments

Firefox 115 Now Available with Intel GPU Video Decoding on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-115

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 72 comments

Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/dark-waters-of-self-delusion-the-crash-of-transair-flight-810-a4eeb033bc00

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Degrees What?

https://degreeswhat.com

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 120 comments

What gets to the front page of Hacker News?

https://randomshit.dev/posts/what-gets-to-the-front-page-of-hacker-news

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 49 comments

Encyclopaedia Metallum

https://www.metal-archives.com/

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 70 comments

A header-only C implementation of C++ <algorithm>

https://github.com/clibraries/array-algorithms

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Iridescent crystal with raymarching and signed distance fields

https://varun.ca/ray-march-sdf/

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 7 comments

Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/monday-was-hottest-day-for-global-average-temperature-on-record-as-climate-crisis-bites

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite

https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 68 comments

The Lone Banana Problem in AI

https://www.digital-science.com/tldr/article/the-lone-banana-problem-or-the-new-programming-speaking-ai/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063125/http://www.redhatisnotlinux.org/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 184 comments

GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/jolly_roger_telephone_company/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 90 comments

The ancient Roman secret to concrete resilience in seawater (2017)

https://als.lbl.gov/ancient-roman-secret-concrete-resilience-seawater/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 76 comments

OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 115 comments

Passwords Are Fine

https://herman.bearblog.dev/passwords-are-fine/

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 162 comments

“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288103

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 139 comments

I Hate the News (2006)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 93 comments

How many people have ever lived on Earth?

https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 171 comments

Designing a Language Without a Parser

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/type-inference/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 127 comments

Growing a Language (1998) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

Why there may never be a libjpeg-turbo 3.1

https://groups.google.com/g/libjpeg-turbo-announce/c/YZ2wRgB0zIE

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 2 comments

CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal

https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-declares-metafacebooks-gdpr-approach-largely-illegal

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 88 comments

Token revocation

https://www.biscuitsec.org/docs/guides/revocation/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

How Lee Valley built a cult-like following

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-lee-valley-tools-business-success/

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 72 comments

Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Threads.net

https://www.threads.net/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 88 comments

Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115

https://www.askvg.com/fix-some-extensions-are-not-allowed-in-firefox-115-and-later/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 102 comments

Seriously, Don't Sign a CLA

https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Life after detonation (2012)

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=22554

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Repair adventure: A single white LED causing stuck keys on a RN988 keyboard

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/052_rn988_keyboard/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Google and HTTP (2018)

http://this.how/googleAndHttp/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 172 comments

The Text Editor Sam

http://sam.cat-v.org

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments
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