top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-09-02

The worst programmer I know

https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/

3 years ago

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

3 years ago

PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364605

3 years ago

Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/09/tax-prep-companies-lobbying-against-free-file-face-scrutiny-from-lawmakers/

3 years ago

How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VOnKMJqIL0

3 years ago

Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15022

3 years ago

Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/01/tesla-rivian-put-on-fake-show-of-support-for-right-to-repair/

3 years ago

Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (1996)

https://archive.org/details/build-your-own-flight-sim-in-c-dos-game-dev-michael-radtke-chris-lampton

3 years ago

On Craft

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

3 years ago

I mirrored all the code from PyPI to GitHub and analysed it

https://py-code.org/stats

3 years ago

Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-killing-wordpad-in-windows-after-28-years/

3 years ago

A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/llm-forecast/question/Capital-of-Paris

3 years ago

Semantic Zoom

https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/038/

3 years ago

No way in or out of Burning Man after storm

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/no-access-after-burning-man-rain-storm-18344393.php

3 years ago

Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/08/426056/can-artificial-kidney-finally-free-patients-dialysis

3 years ago

How to edit your own lousy writing (2017)

https://stingingfly.org/2017/10/24/edit-lousy-writing/

3 years ago

Index of Aesthetics

https://cari.institute/aesthetics

3 years ago

Calibre replacement considerations (2019)

https://anarc.at/software/desktop/calibre/

3 years ago

A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16025

3 years ago

A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit

https://splice.com/blog/amen-break/

3 years ago