top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-21

We’re all just temporarily abled

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/

3 years ago

919 upvotes – 513 comments

uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin-lite/

3 years ago

675 upvotes – 328 comments

Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40666-3

3 years ago

491 upvotes – 213 comments

GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2023/08/20/gnu-parallel/

3 years ago

448 upvotes – 262 comments

Don't fire your illustrator

https://sambleckley.com/writing/dont-fire-your-illustrator.html

3 years ago

379 upvotes – 321 comments

Saving Lives (2004)

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt

3 years ago

340 upvotes – 313 comments

FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs

https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772

3 years ago

339 upvotes – 297 comments

I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images

https://minimaxir.com/2023/08/stable-diffusion-xl-wrong/

3 years ago

331 upvotes – 64 comments

5 years ago Valve released Proton

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/5-years-ago-valve-released-proton-forever-changing-linux-gaming/

3 years ago

308 upvotes – 256 comments

The ideal viewport doesn't exist

https://viewports.fyi/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 192 comments

A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/08/17/a-retiring-consultants-advice-on-consultants

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 113 comments

Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/18/growing-share-of-americans-favor-more-nuclear-power/

3 years ago

251 upvotes – 309 comments

The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies

https://davidgomes.com/the-broad-set-of-computer-science-problems-faced-at-cloud-database-companies/

3 years ago

240 upvotes – 60 comments

Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads

https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/celebrating-500k-downloads-the-podman-desktop-journey-%f0%9f%8e%89/

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 108 comments

Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/upcoming-com-and-xyz-domain-price-increase/

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 337 comments

All of the vehicle license plates available in America

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/

3 years ago

227 upvotes – 269 comments

Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries

https://arunraghavan.net/2023/08/to-conference-organisers-everywhere/

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 224 comments

GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver

https://github.com/tapparelj/gr-lora_sdr

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 68 comments

P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications

https://p2panda.org/

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 37 comments

Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/time-ran-slowly-in-the-early-universe-just-as-einstein-predicted/

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 242 comments

Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing

https://rese1f.github.io/StableVideo/

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 43 comments

Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/pixel-binary-transparency-verifiable.html

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 114 comments

Be careful of the examples you use. They stick

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/08/default-behaviour-sticks-and-so-do-examples.html

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 128 comments

Study: Inflammation drives social media use

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2023/08/lee-inflammation-drives-social-media-use.html

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 164 comments

Ego Death

https://krisnova.net/posts/ego-death/

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 109 comments

Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37210581

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 262 comments

Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

https://kjhealey.medium.com/cached-takes-80-of-companies-do-not-need-snowflake-or-databricks-5ebda64c0853

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 133 comments

Kullback–Leibler divergence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_divergence

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 74 comments

The History of Windows 2.0

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-20

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 135 comments

Why Open Source?

https://getconvoy.io/blog/why-open-source/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 105 comments

Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278253028.html

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 106 comments

Inside the JVM: Arrays and how they differ from other objects

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-array-objects

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 124 comments

Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)

https://longreads.com/2021/03/23/nation-of-plants-excerpt-stefano-mancuso/

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 117 comments

Early Days of AI

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/early-days-of-ai

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 50 comments

Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)

https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/invert-always-invert-avoid-failure

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 67 comments

9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023

https://i.imgur.com/5cGazrG.png

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 4 comments

When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/effort-pieces

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 35 comments

Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites

https://rameshvarun.github.io/blog-cells/

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 30 comments

Unix is both a technology and an idea

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixTechnologyAndIdea

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 91 comments

SolarPi experiment 2: Finally something that works

http://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/SolarPi_experiment_2_Finally_something_that_works.html

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 74 comments

FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Port-Linux-DRM-KO

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 44 comments

I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)

https://accu.org/journals/overload/27/153/martin_2703/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 111 comments

Precompiled binaries removed from serde v1.0.184

https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.184

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 37 comments

My talk with Kris Nova about being homeless. See you on the other side, friend

https://kubecuddle.transistor.fm/episodes/dave-fogle-and-kris-nova

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 2 comments

Last rites for the UK Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/21/opinion_column_monday/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Flatpak is not the future (2021)

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 161 comments

Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/windows-11-has-made-the-clean-windows-install-an-oxymoron/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 166 comments

Bluegrass Archive

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 37 comments

Meta threatens to fire workers for return-to-office infractions in leaked memo

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/meta-threatens-return-to-office-layoffs-18303435.php

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 56 comments

How to use a Breadboard. How do breadboards work? (2021) [video]

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

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

Screen Time at Age 1 Year and Communication, Problem-Solving Developmental Delay

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2808593

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 105 comments

Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen

https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/baghdad-closes-led-advert-screens-after-hacker-shows-porn-film-on-a-screen/

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

Latest Android Runtime (ART) update led to apps starting 30% faster

https://9to5google.com/2023/08/21/android-runtime-13-14-updates/

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: VisionScript, abstract programming language for computer vision

https://github.com/capjamesg/visionscript

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

Building a digital music collection in 2023

https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2023-08-20-building-a-digital-music-collection-in-2023.html

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/08/maclynx-beta-5-utf-8-pull-down-menus.html

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Congress is considering a ‘right to repair' law for car owners

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/consumer-reports/why-congress-is-considering-a-right-to-repair-law-for-car-owners/3317168/

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games

https://if50.substack.com/p/the-antagonists

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: How to monetize a website that is making views?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37207165

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 88 comments

A man who can talk backwards (2017)

https://linguischtick.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/the-man-who-can-talk-backwards/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 81 comments

Taos Operating System (1995)

http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

How Hinge's algorithm decides who you date

https://gizmodo.com/hinge-dating-app-algorithm-1850744140

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 121 comments

Lyrebird the Linux voice changer now supports PipeWire

https://github.com/lyrebird-voice-changer/lyrebird/releases/tag/v1.2.0

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/941614/f873a0ec485e01c5/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/not-a-replacement-of-journalists-in-any-way-ap-clarifies-standards-around-generative-ai/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: The Uncolouring Book

https://lines.potato.horse

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

New study measures grammatical complexity of languages

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evolution-complex-grammars-grammatical-complexity.html

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 117 comments

Educational Codebases

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/educational-codebases/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Duo Outage

https://status.duo.com

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments

English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 106 comments

The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance

https://lithub.com/the-pleasure-and-communion-of-austens-country-dance/

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Texas electricity prices soar 6k% as heat wave is expected to shatter records

https://desdemonadespair.net/2023/08/texas-electricity-prices-soar-6000-percent-as-a-fresh-heat-wave-is-expected-to-shatter-records-spot-electricity-prices-jumped-to-4750-per-megawatt-hour-from-the-average-of-75.html

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 115 comments

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

American workers are demanding almost $80k a year to take a new job

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/american-workers-are-demanding-almost-80000-a-year-to-take-a-new-job.html

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 179 comments

What does it mean for a monad to be strong?

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2023/08/what-does-it-mean-for-monad-to-be-strong.html

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

[Ask HN] How many submissions have you accidentally flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208812

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 51 comments

South Pole Electrical Infrastructure

https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-electrical-infrastructure

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

My thoughts on the 2023 FTC robotics season

https://ritvikg.dev/posts/20230418-thoughts-on-ftc-season

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

Probability Can Bite (2010)

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_04_10.html

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 82 comments

South Korea's biggest telco says 5G has failed to deliver

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/21/sk_telecom_5g_disappointed/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Garbage Collection in a Large Lisp System (1984) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800055.802040

3 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

US Housing Affordability Hits Worst Point in Nearly Four Decades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/rising-mortgage-rates-squeeze-affordability-in-us-housing-market

3 years ago

60 upvotes – 159 comments

CLAs create different issues than making (small) open source contributions

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/CLAsImpedeContributionsII

3 years ago

60 upvotes – 66 comments

Anyone incarcerated 2+ years is going to return to their Google account deleted

https://twitter.com/GrahamStarr/status/1693119093526671859

3 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

The Simplest Walking Robot: A bipedal robot with 1 actuator and 2 rigid bodies

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08401

3 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments
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