top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-17

A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

https://www.stefanjudis.com/a-firefox-only-minimap/

3 years ago

699 upvotes – 113 comments

LazyVim

https://www.lazyvim.org/

3 years ago

633 upvotes – 525 comments

Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/

3 years ago

508 upvotes – 317 comments

You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email

https://twitter.com/JakeMooreUK/status/1680962682726363136

3 years ago

472 upvotes – 212 comments

Never waste a midlife crisis

https://austinkleon.com/2023/07/10/never-waste-a-midlife-crisis/

3 years ago

445 upvotes – 437 comments

Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?

https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/

3 years ago

381 upvotes – 130 comments

The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

https://twitter.com/scienceisstrat1/status/1680959906969444352

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 730 comments

How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 165 comments

Coroutines for Go

https://research.swtch.com/coro

3 years ago

330 upvotes – 182 comments

The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse

https://wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation/110708950540815886

3 years ago

324 upvotes – 93 comments

The force that shapes everything around us: Parking

https://www.vox.com/23712664/parking-lots-urban-planning-cities-housing

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 451 comments

The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 133 comments

A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

https://news.umich.edu/a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-foil-car-thieves/

3 years ago

247 upvotes – 562 comments

Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/Recent_research

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 177 comments

Notes on Puzzles

https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/notes-on-puzzles

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 49 comments

My broken ThinkPad plays music upon booting

https://nerology.substack.com/p/my-broken-thinkpad-plays-music-upon

3 years ago

214 upvotes – 61 comments

Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram

https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 178 comments

What's wrong with enterprise Linux

https://unix.foo/posts/enterprise-linux/

3 years ago

204 upvotes – 226 comments

What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables for decades

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/what-att-and-verizon-knew-about-toxic-lead-cables/a288b7d4-28f3-470e-b6c4-72341c97b3a0

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 141 comments

Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases

https://nautil.us/loss-of-smell-may-be-an-early-sign-of-brain-diseases-354483/

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 151 comments

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era

https://www.theverge.com/23797349/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 91 comments

Strlcpy and strlcat added to glibc 2.38

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=454a20c8756c9c1d55419153255fc7692b3d2199

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 243 comments

Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj

3 years ago

176 upvotes – 106 comments

The Nano ESP32

https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/07/17/introducing-the-nano-esp32-thats-iot/

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 139 comments

Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36764829

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 219 comments

“Typo leak” exposes millions of US military emails to Mali web operator

https://www.ft.com/content/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

https://katacontainers.io/

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36754366

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 91 comments

The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-power-technique-a-strategic-approach-to-self-discipline-11bc6724d6

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app

https://www.deepakg.com/bringing-19th-century-ornamental-tile-illustrations-into-a-21st-century-web-app

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 31 comments

Copy is all you need

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06962

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 83 comments

Are large language models a threat to digital public goods?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07367

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 157 comments

Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/wixs-new-tool-can-create-entire-websites-from-prompts/

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 98 comments

WHO aspartame brouhaha

https://dynomight.net/aspartame-brouhaha/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 234 comments

Harry Frankfurt has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/books/harry-g-frankfurt-dead.html

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Crystal 1.9.1

https://crystal-lang.org/2023/07/17/1.9.1-released/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 71 comments

Couples with joint checking accounts are happier

https://academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jcr/ucad020/7077142

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 194 comments

Moodle: Open-Source LMS

https://moodle.org/

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

Launch HN: Grai (YC S22) – Open-Source Data Observability Platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758122

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759162

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 238 comments

Crosswords and chess may help more than socializing in avoiding dementia

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-07-crosswords-chess-socializing-dementia.html

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 42 comments

Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/finland-phone-mobile-free-island-b2361499.html

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 82 comments

Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage

https://newatlas.com/electronics/computer-memory-resistive-switching-denser-data-storage/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 105 comments

Booking.com halts payments to hosts over IT technical maintenance

https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/17/bookingcom-halts-payments-hosts-technical-maintenance

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 105 comments

Backyard Metalcasting (2018)

https://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 79 comments

Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (2016)

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/arrivals-designers-crafted-mesmerizing-alien-alphabet/

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1727/1727-h/1727-h.htm

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 95 comments

A.I. (1981)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/12/14/a-i

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

https://www.peeng.sh

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 72 comments

AI watches millions of cars and tells cops if you’re driving like a criminal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/07/17/license-plate-reader-ai-criminal/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 95 comments

FlashAttention-2, 2x faster than FlashAttention

https://twitter.com/tri_dao/status/1680987580228308992

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

You can't stop the business, or why rewrites fail

https://swizec.com/blog/you-can-t-stop-the-business-or-why-rewrites-fail/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 74 comments

A technical look at ZeroNet

https://znano.eu.org/blog/posts/a-very-technical-look-at-zeronet

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Tokyo Is the New Paris

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/tokyo-is-the-new-paris

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 121 comments

US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circumvent tinted windows

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tFS1wmG8LtYdpvz_w-qnwYwa9Rac8DsZ/view

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 133 comments

Europeans Are Becoming Poorer

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europeans-poorer-inflation-economy-255eb629

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 155 comments

The Future of LLMs with Arthur, MosaicML, LangChain, and Weaviate [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMUXeml9JY

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: DiskerNet – Browse the Internet from Your Disk, Now Open Source

https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/16/23796659/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-ai-warning-silicon-valley

3 years ago

58 upvotes – 58 comments

Space Stations Without Compromise

https://www.gravitics.com/

3 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

2500 Job apps, 46 interviews, 1 offer

https://www.teamblind.com/post/2500-Job-apps-46-interviews-1-offer-hm028GVg

3 years ago

57 upvotes – 123 comments
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