top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-16

Discord is not documentation

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/discord-is-not-documentation/

3 years ago

Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.html

3 years ago

Underwater ears everywhere

https://computer.rip/2023-07-15-underwater-ears-everywhere.html

3 years ago

How I run my servers (2022)

https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/how-i-run-my-servers

3 years ago

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

3 years ago

6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)

https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code

3 years ago

How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania

https://danwilkerson.com/posts/2023-05-30-how-to-register-a-kei-truck-in-pa

3 years ago

SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/soundstorm/examples/

3 years ago

Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page

http://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html

3 years ago

Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)

https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/nuclear-fission-fuel-is-inexhaustible/1257

3 years ago

How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/how-to-use-ai-to-do-stuff-an-opinionated

3 years ago

Self hosted YouTube media server

https://www.tubearchivist.com/

3 years ago

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

https://www.righto.com/2023/07/undocumented-8086-instructions.html

3 years ago

Penrose 3.0

https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/blog/v3

3 years ago

Electric bike, stupid love of my life

https://craigmod.com/essays/electric_bikes/

3 years ago

Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope

https://tortel.li/post/insecure-scope/

3 years ago

TODO apps are meant for robots

https://frantic.im/todo-for-robots/

3 years ago

No CSS Club

https://nocss.club/

3 years ago

A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp

https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/quantum-interpreter/

3 years ago

The Red Programming Language

https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

3 years ago

CSS findings from the Threads app

https://ishadeed.com/article/threads-app-css/

3 years ago

Teddit Is Shutting Down

https://tedd.it/shutdown

3 years ago

How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (2016)

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/1514/how-exactly-does-sonic-knuckles-lock-on-technology-work

3 years ago

A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database

https://github.com/justinclift/docker-pgautoupgrade

3 years ago

Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft

https://paul.reviews/tiffin-tom-fish-chips-and-a-side-of-identity-theft/

3 years ago

Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/science/magpies-birds-nests.html

3 years ago

What makes developers productive?

https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/developer_productivity.html

3 years ago

It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (2010)

https://mathoverflow.net/a/44213

3 years ago

Miyazaki has used the art of animation to study the major problem of adult life

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/07/13/loves-work-hayao-miyazaki/

3 years ago

Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting

https://automorphic.ai/playground

3 years ago

Dusk OS: 32-bit Forth OS. Useful during first stage of civilizational collapse

https://duskos.org/

3 years ago

WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using

https://slashnext.com/blog/wormgpt-the-generative-ai-tool-cybercriminals-are-using-to-launch-business-email-compromise-attacks/

3 years ago

Using XPath in 2023

https://denizaksimsek.com/2023/xpath/

3 years ago

Exploring Linear A

https://lineara.xyz/

3 years ago

New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230615183114.htm

3 years ago

Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light

https://www.theverge.com/23795599/li-fi-wi-fi-802-11-bb-internet-of-light

3 years ago

Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS

https://getgrav.org/

3 years ago

The Haskell job market has been growing steaily since 2008

https://github.com/nh2/haskell-jobs-statistics

3 years ago

Zoom fatigue unpacked

https://leadership.garden/zoom-fatigue/

3 years ago

WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas

https://surma.dev/things/webgpu/

3 years ago

Citizen scientists observe gamma ray glow associated with lightning flash

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103612

3 years ago

The Perfect Laptop

https://blog.brossia.com/posts/the_perfect_laptop/

3 years ago

ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-use-declines-as-users-complain-about-dumber-answers-and-the-reason-might-be-ais-biggest-threat-for-the-future

3 years ago

SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos

https://svgmix.com/

3 years ago

Speeding up the Super Game Boy

https://nicole.express/2023/super-game-boy-can-go-fast-too.html

3 years ago

The Homepage of the Oldternet

https://www.geocities.ws/oldternet/

3 years ago

Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

http://www.piratesurgeon.com/pages/surgeon_pages/medicine_containers1.html

3 years ago

I don't know how I feel about email

https://xeiaso.net/blog/idk-about-email

3 years ago

Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile

https://cloudnativeengineer.substack.com/p/ep-5-taskfile-a-modern-alternative

3 years ago

LOGO Manual (1974) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6226/AIM-313.pdf

3 years ago

Shell Script RSS Publishing

https://shinobi.bt.ht/

3 years ago

Lisp Programming on an Atari 2600

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/353031-lisp-programming-homebrew-wip/

3 years ago

Mk: A Successor to Make (1987) [pdf]

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/mk/mk.pdf

3 years ago

OpenBenches – A map of memorial benches

https://openbenches.org/

3 years ago

Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs from anyone's cells

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/15/1184298351/conception-human-eggs-ivg-ivf-infertility

3 years ago

“That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer Culture

https://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html

3 years ago

Hundreds of drones plunge into Melbourne’s Yarra River

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-16/hundreds-of-drones-plunge-into-yarra-river/102607576

3 years ago

TikTok Extends the Wasteland

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/theological-variations/articles/tiktok-extends-the-wasteland

3 years ago