top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-09

Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

https://www.eidel.io/2023/07/09/vc-funding/

3 years ago

659 upvotes – 385 comments

InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion

https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-from-gcp-europe-west1/30615

3 years ago

443 upvotes – 266 comments

How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

https://blog.washi.dev/posts/tinysharp/

3 years ago

413 upvotes – 210 comments

PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news

https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/poisongpt-how-we-hid-a-lobotomized-llm-on-hugging-face-to-spread-fake-news/

3 years ago

392 upvotes – 217 comments

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

3 years ago

382 upvotes – 564 comments

Using Lidar to map tree shadows

https://tedpiotrowski.svbtle.com/using-lidar-for-tree-shadows-in-shademap

3 years ago

324 upvotes – 41 comments

Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery

https://adamsinger.substack.com/p/amateurs-obsess-over-tools-pros-over

3 years ago

311 upvotes – 213 comments

California needs real math education, not gimmicks

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/california-needs-real-math-education

3 years ago

297 upvotes – 363 comments

Defecting from North Korea is now harder

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/world/asia/north-korea-china-defectors.html

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 178 comments

The Development of the C Language (1993)

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 325 comments

Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 255 comments

Engineers should focus on writing

https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/why-engineers-should-write/

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 207 comments

US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it

https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 95 comments

The 90s Developer Starter Pack

https://retrocoding.net/the-90s-developer-starter-pack

3 years ago

226 upvotes – 191 comments

Wayland on OpenBSD

https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 211 comments

Fairphone 4 is coming to the US

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-is-coming-to-america/

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 132 comments

An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma

https://furbo.org/2023/07/09/an-alerting-vista-of-sonoma/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 135 comments

Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar

https://eieio.games/nonsense/implementing-wordle-in-the-firefox-address-bar/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 19 comments

Deputy US Marshal pleads guilty to obtaining cell phone location unlawfully [pdf]

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/06-30-2023b.pdf

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 95 comments

Clojure Plays Mario

https://blog.phronemophobic.com/mairio.html

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 40 comments

PinePhone Modem SDK

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 57 comments

KDE for Travelers

https://kde.org/for/travelers/

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 35 comments

Introduction to ActivityPub (2021)

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/introduction-to-activitypub/508

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: An index of all monthly dividend stocks

https://thedividendlist.com/

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 107 comments

Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example

https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2022/07/06/building-cross-platform-rust-for-web-android-and-ios-a-minimal-example/

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 18 comments

Google's Privacy Policy Now Admits to Collecting All Your Data for AI Training

https://www.pcgamer.com/in-case-there-was-any-doubt-googles-privacy-policy-now-explicitly-states-that-its-going-to-suck-up-all-your-data-to-train-its-ai/

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 24 comments

Petalisp: Elegant High Performance Computing

https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom

https://davidgomes.com/it-took-me-a-decade-to-find-the-perfect-personal-website-stack/

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 181 comments

Let the internet be grimy

https://tedium.co/2023/07/08/threads-social-media-brand-safety/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 151 comments

Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-11/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (2006)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061027-00/?p=29213

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36651506

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 293 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-7840u

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 92 comments

Fractal Vise

https://airgraver.com/fractal-vise.htm

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 99 comments

Story Behind Hackathon Photo

https://frantic.im/story-behind-hackathon-photo/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657663

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 85 comments

New York City’s AI hiring law takes effect

https://qz.com/americas-first-law-regulating-ai-bias-in-hiring-takes-e-1850602243

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 134 comments

A mathematically correct way to tie your shoes

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/math-tie-shoes-correct/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

The lost saga of Fossil Cycad National Monument (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fossil-cycad-national-monument-stolen-george-wieland

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 69 comments

Color appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors theory

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00147-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS136466132300147X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Digger – Open Source Terraform automation and collaboration tool

https://github.com/diggerhq/digger

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Engineering Intensity

https://ruiper.es/posts/engineering_intensity/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Pick a Mate (1946)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67472/67472-h/67472-h.htm

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 152 comments

Test Against Reality

https://borretti.me/article/test-against-reality

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 90 comments

PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator

https://github.com/PDP-10/its

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

The HTTP status code for a web server's default “hello” front page

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebServerDefaultNotThere

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 89 comments

Dublin Airport airbrige collapsed, damaging American Airlines Boeing 787

https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2023/07/09/dublin-airport-airbrige-collapsed-damaging-american-airlines-boeing-787/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

A new method for packing objects inside a rigid container

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-method-dense-placement-rigid.html

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Twitter Traffic Tanking

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1678065025750294532

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

The Lucretius Problem: How History Blinds Us

https://fs.blog/lucretius-problem/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 51 comments

A quick look back at when Microsoft made an interactive Barney toy

https://www.neowin.net/news/a-quick-look-back-at-when-microsoft-made-an-interactive-barney-toy/

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Difference Between Implicit and Explicit Animations in SwiftUI

https://holyswift.app/difference-between-implicit-and-explicit-animations-in-swiftui/

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

Htmx in 100 Seconds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-GSGH2RxJs

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What happened to Web3 startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36655816

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 99 comments

The internet's “town square” is dead

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-internets-town-square-is-dead

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 192 comments

The Undecidability of BB(748): Understanding Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems [pdf]

https://www.ingo-blechschmidt.eu/assets/bachelor-thesis-undecidability-bb748.pdf

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 39 comments
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