top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-12

The Carrot Problem

https://www.atvbt.com/the-carrot-problem/

3 years ago

How a startup loses its spark

https://blog.johnqian.com/startup-spark

3 years ago

Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01

https://seiya.me/blog/reading-linux-v0.01

3 years ago

Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/

3 years ago

A Blog Post with Every HTML Element

https://www.patrickweaver.net/blog/a-blog-post-with-every-html-element/

3 years ago

A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops

https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper

3 years ago

tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation

https://trpc.io/

3 years ago

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

3 years ago

Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk

https://www.ugu.rs/blog/auditory-illusions-with-samples-from-daft-punk/

3 years ago

My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story

https://old.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/15p8qrx/my_0100m0_in_5_years_story/

3 years ago

Deep Learning Systems

https://dlsyscourse.org/lectures/

3 years ago

West Virginia University to drop 32 majors including all world language programs

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/education/wvu-to-drop-32-majors-including-all-world-language-programs/article_2b3d0aae-3962-544b-b1a3-7c28cb6df3ef.html

3 years ago

20 Years of Vim

https://www.contextualize.ai/mpereira/20-years-of-vim-ef9acae9

3 years ago

I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

https://reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/15njq61/i_feel_like_i_mad_a_mistake_investing/

3 years ago

Our fight is far from over

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/our-fight-is-far-from-over/

3 years ago

Beginner's Guide to Llama Models

https://agi-sphere.com/llama-guide/

3 years ago

Fooocus: OSS for image generation by ControlNet author

https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

3 years ago

Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/11/microsoft-continues-about-face-on-right-to-repair-makes-its-hardware-easier-to-fix/

3 years ago

The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/116

3 years ago

The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/nasa-seeks-to-launch-a-nuclear-powered-rocket-engine-in-four-years/

3 years ago

Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell

https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/podman-v4-6-introduces-podmansh-a-revolutionary-login-shell/

3 years ago

I drew these corals with mathematical equations

https://twitter.com/naderi_yeganeh/status/1690296100496838656

3 years ago

Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/

3 years ago

Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/11/some-notes-on-mastodon/

3 years ago

The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V

https://github.com/Cube9999/vi

3 years ago

Do we really need a specialized vector database?

https://modelz.ai/blog/pgvector

3 years ago

Show HN: liteLLM Proxy Server: 50+ LLM Models, Error Handling, Caching

https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/cookbook/proxy-server/readme.md

3 years ago

Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer

https://www.righto.com/2023/08/datapoint-to-8086.html

3 years ago

Tijuana's illegal sewer hookups linked to cross-border pollution

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2023/08/10/tijuanas-illegal-sewer-hookups-linked-to-cross-border-pollution

3 years ago

Harvard University encourages grad students to go on food stamps

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/harvard-university-encourages-students-food-171022208.html

3 years ago

CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf]

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/clos-cacm.pdf

3 years ago

Securing Your PostgreSQL DB with Roles and Privileges

https://rlopzc.com/posts/securing-your-postgresql-db-with-roles--privileges/

3 years ago

NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs for free

https://software.nasa.gov/

3 years ago

If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/09/if-it-can-be-designed-on-a-computer-it-can-be-built-by-robots

3 years ago

Multiple Incidents: B789 deviated from localizer, descended below safe altitude

https://avherald.com/h?article=4d42d0b5

3 years ago

Jobs and Gates banned their kids from iPads and other devices they created

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hidden-side-steve-jobs-bill-165424007.html

3 years ago

What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)

https://blog.janestreet.com/what-is-gained-and-lost-with-63-bit-integers/

3 years ago

Far Manager: files and archives in Windows

https://www.farmanager.com/

3 years ago

Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production (2021)

https://www.heap.io/blog/how-postgres-audit-tables-saved-us-from-taking-down-production

3 years ago

Numbers every LLM Developer should know

https://www.anyscale.com/blog/num-every-llm-developer-should-know

3 years ago

Can you use a class in C?

https://d4ckard.github.io/2023/08/11/can-you-use-a-class-in-c/

3 years ago

Leave It to the Beavers

https://isthmus.com/news/news/leave-it-to-the-beavers/

3 years ago

Under $100 Pre-Owned Mini Computers to Use as Desktop PC's and Servers in 2023

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/best-mini-servers.html

3 years ago

Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster

https://www.quantamagazine.org/risky-giant-steps-can-solve-optimization-problems-faster-20230811/

3 years ago

Chinese Trust Companies on the Brink

https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-trust-companies-on-the-brink-looming-bankruptcies-bigger-than-evergrande/

3 years ago

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 6: PWM backlight

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/08/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-6-pwm-backlight/

3 years ago

Sapphire Rapids Core-to-Core Latency

https://jprahman.substack.com/p/sapphire-rapids-core-to-core-latency

3 years ago

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

3 years ago

San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cruise-debauchery/

3 years ago

Learning Algorithms

https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2023-07-29-learning-algorithms.html

3 years ago

Simple browser boat game using Three.js

https://stopnoanime.github.io/three-airboat-sim/

3 years ago

mDNS Primer

https://fabiensanglard.net/mdns/index.html

3 years ago

Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66450500

3 years ago