top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-09

Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions

https://benchmarks.llmonitor.com

a year ago

740 upvotes – 339 comments

Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article

a year ago

706 upvotes – 323 comments

Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

a year ago

632 upvotes – 309 comments

Memories from old LAN parties

https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/09/09/memories-from-old-lan-parties.html

a year ago

470 upvotes – 263 comments

Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)

https://bricknerd.com/home/every-type-of-plastic-used-by-lego-5-20-22

a year ago

388 upvotes – 119 comments

FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/ftc-judge-rules-intuit-broke-law-must-stop-advertising-turbotax-as-free/

a year ago

360 upvotes – 88 comments

SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents

https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob

a year ago

311 upvotes – 47 comments

A guy preserving the new history of PC games, one Linux port at a time

https://www.404media.co/meet-the-guy-preserving-the-new-history-of-pc-games-one-linux-port-at-a-time/

a year ago

244 upvotes – 133 comments

The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/09/the-u-s-housing-market-vs-the-canadian-housing-market/

a year ago

241 upvotes – 539 comments

Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs

https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/layoffs-google-microsoft-meta-amazon-hiring-low-paid-h1b-workers-after-us-layoffs-report-10605301.html

a year ago

239 upvotes – 466 comments

Morocco earthquake kills more than 1,000

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/morocco-earthquake-kills-600-devastates-historic-sites-live-updates-rcna104208

a year ago

235 upvotes – 141 comments

Public restrooms are hard to find in America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/08/public-restrooms-hard-find-comic/

a year ago

231 upvotes – 482 comments

FFmpeg Patches for a 20% speedup of Apple ProRes decoding

https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-September/314167.html

a year ago

222 upvotes – 39 comments

Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Part I: Talos on Hetzner

https://datavirke.dk/posts/bare-metal-kubernetes-part-1-talos-on-hetzner/

a year ago

214 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario

https://github.com/nevesnunes/ghidra-plays-mario

a year ago

207 upvotes – 29 comments

CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab

https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/crispr-used-to-reprogram-cancer-cells-into-healthy-muscle-in-the-lab

a year ago

198 upvotes – 29 comments

It's My Monitor

https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/its-my-monitor/

a year ago

196 upvotes – 184 comments

Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-75002200111-X/fulltext

a year ago

196 upvotes – 102 comments

Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-mojo-mandelbrot-benchmark/103638

a year ago

193 upvotes – 164 comments

The Development of the C Language (2003)

http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html

a year ago

191 upvotes – 24 comments

Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-investors-account-for-30-per-cent-of-home-buying-in-canada-data-show/

a year ago

174 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: I built a Python web framework

https://github.com/ZeroIntensity/view.py

a year ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-strange-mystery-golden-egg-ocean.html

a year ago

170 upvotes – 105 comments

Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/08/dennis-austin-software-developer-powerpoint-dies/

a year ago

164 upvotes – 2 comments

Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198373683/sucking-carbon-dioxide-out-of-the-sky-is-moving-from-science-fiction-to-reality

a year ago

164 upvotes – 522 comments

PAROL6 Desktop Robot Arm

https://github.com/PCrnjak/PAROL6-Desktop-robot-arm

a year ago

163 upvotes – 56 comments

DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months

https://forum.dji.com/thread-293546-1-1.html

a year ago

157 upvotes – 120 comments

Why you might want async in your project

https://notgull.net/why-you-want-async/

a year ago

153 upvotes – 176 comments

No Google Topics in Vivaldi

https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/

a year ago

145 upvotes – 127 comments

Advanced NLP with SpaCy

https://course.spacy.io/en/

a year ago

145 upvotes – 58 comments

Learning Zig

https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/

a year ago

144 upvotes – 46 comments

Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/business/appeals-court-first-amendment-social-media.html

a year ago

138 upvotes – 268 comments

My mental model of Clojure transducers

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2023/09/09/transducers/

a year ago

135 upvotes – 89 comments

The end of the subscription era is coming

https://nickfthilton.medium.com/the-end-of-the-subscription-era-is-coming-ed197f252c6a

a year ago

133 upvotes – 124 comments

The Berkeley Hotel Hostage of Douglas Adams

https://www.thebookseller.com/features/berkeley-hotel-hostage

a year ago

127 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations

https://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-Llama

a year ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Eio 1.0 – Effects-based IO for OCaml 5

https://icfp23.sigplan.org/details/ocaml-2023-papers/5/Eio-1-0-Effects-based-IO-for-OCaml-5

a year ago

124 upvotes – 8 comments

Profound Beliefs

https://steveblank.com/2023/09/05/profound-beliefs/

a year ago

112 upvotes – 63 comments

Redesigned Google Fonts website

https://material.io/blog/2023-google-fonts-redesign

a year ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

Dara Khosrowshahi had a stint driving for Uber and delivering for Uber Eats

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-company-should-have-paid-attention-drivers-2023-9

a year ago

95 upvotes – 193 comments

Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9

https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/posts/ECL-2399-release.html

a year ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

On Desktop GUI Minimalism

https://mycophobia.org/desktop_gui_minimalism.html

a year ago

94 upvotes – 91 comments

Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal

https://www.heirloomcarbon.com/news/heirloom-and-microsoft-sign-permanent-co2-removal-deal

a year ago

93 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Looking for a resource on Linux kernel module development

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444184

a year ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

Ham Imports

https://hamimports.com/

a year ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

The English cottage where John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

https://lithub.com/look-inside-the-gorgeous-english-cottage-where-john-le-carre-wrote-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/

a year ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (1999)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-top-ten-web-design-mistakes-of-1999/

a year ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Block the Blue – Twitter Verified Blocker

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-the-blue-twitter-ve/ppoilcngmmnmdhgnejcnpohiabajclgn

a year ago

81 upvotes – 74 comments

Ex-Apple employee files RICO lawsuit over whistleblower retaliation

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/09/ex-apple-employee-files-rico-lawsuit-over-whistleblower-retaliation

a year ago

78 upvotes – 1 comments

Google's Statement on the UK Online Safety Bill [pdf]

https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/46675/documents/1885

a year ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of Warming

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/esnt/2023/nasa-funded-study-half-of-glaciers-vanish-with-1-point-5-degrees-of-warming/

a year ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Will Google delete inactive gmail accounts that forward email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37445668

a year ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments
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