top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-09-04

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

https://vgel.me/posts/c500/

3 years ago

510 upvotes – 165 comments

VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode

https://vscodium.com

3 years ago

486 upvotes – 251 comments

Tidal energy is not renewable

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/tide.html

3 years ago

406 upvotes – 326 comments

Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old

https://torrentfreak.com/tv-museum-will-die-in-48-hours-unless-sony-retracts-youtube-copyright-strikes-230904/

3 years ago

405 upvotes – 214 comments

Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64

3 years ago

385 upvotes – 121 comments

Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/oscilloscope-watch-ships-after-10-years

3 years ago

314 upvotes – 223 comments

Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard

https://danieldk.eu/Posts/2023-09-03-Glove80.html

3 years ago

306 upvotes – 224 comments

Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot

https://twitter.com/georainbolt/status/1698553197684777069

3 years ago

296 upvotes – 83 comments

The curl-wget Venn diagram

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/04/the-curl-wget-venn-diagram/

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 150 comments

Plastic Money

https://computer.rip/2023-09-03-plastic-money.html

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 135 comments

Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit

https://sr.ht/~ashton314/emacs-bedrock/

3 years ago

263 upvotes – 129 comments

Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 96 comments

I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes

https://louison.substack.com/p/i-built-a-plane-spotter-for-my-son

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 199 comments

When tech says ‘no’

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/8/24/when-tech-says-no

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 328 comments

Bintracker: A chiptune audio workstation for the 21st century

https://bintracker.org/

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 65 comments

Everything I know about floppy disks

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2023-08-28/

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 79 comments

“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/09/x-twitter-severance-pay-arbitration-cases-fees/

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 123 comments

TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens

https://github.com/jzhang38/TinyLlama

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 60 comments

Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U

https://pretendo.network/

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 24 comments

Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn

https://kaviisuri.com/you-dont-need-to-learn-svelte

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 198 comments
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