top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-27

Mistral 7B

https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/

3 years ago

884 upvotes – 618 comments

I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

https://ariel-miculas.github.io/How-I-got-robbed-of-my-first-kernel-contribution/

3 years ago

702 upvotes – 692 comments

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

https://www.meta.com/smart-glasses/

3 years ago

575 upvotes – 854 comments

Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity

https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence

3 years ago

538 upvotes – 198 comments

Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/google-judge-rules-trial-documents-can-be-posted-by-us-online

3 years ago

529 upvotes – 338 comments

Live near your friends

https://headlineshq.substack.com/p/issue-no-029-live-near-your-friends

3 years ago

467 upvotes – 392 comments

Open Source does not win by being cheaper

https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Open-Source-does-not-win-by-being-cheaper

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 273 comments

First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)

https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-4-vision/

3 years ago

380 upvotes – 333 comments

The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)

https://programming.guide/worlds-most-copied-so-snippet.html

3 years ago

368 upvotes – 233 comments

Deno Queues

https://deno.com/blog/queues

3 years ago

351 upvotes – 165 comments

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-0927

3 years ago

344 upvotes – 191 comments

Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language

https://www.uiua.org/

3 years ago

334 upvotes – 104 comments

Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints

https://www.timdbg.com/posts/writing-a-debugger-from-scratch-part-5/

3 years ago

320 upvotes – 51 comments

Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in your CLI tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37682859

3 years ago

299 upvotes – 147 comments

Arena allocator tips and tricks

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/27/

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 91 comments

Lisp Badge LE

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?3Z2Y

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 48 comments

Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out

https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/announcing-be-my-ai

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 151 comments

Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 114 comments

Meta Quest 3

https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-3/

3 years ago

253 upvotes – 329 comments

The Tao of Programming (1987)

https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 105 comments

Desalination system could produce fresh water that is cheaper than tap water

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1002811

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 140 comments

ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++

https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-keeper-a-zookeeper-alternative-written-in-cpp

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 126 comments

China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/09/26/china-is-flooding-taiwan-with-disinformation

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 174 comments

OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF

https://mwl.io/archives/23127

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Carton – Run any ML model from any programming language

https://carton.run

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 53 comments

Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/servo_returns/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 39 comments

DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

https://github.com/bitwig/dawproject

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 89 comments

The Ashley Book of Knots (1944)

https://archive.org/details/TheAshleyBookOfKnots

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 81 comments

Insomnia REST client now requires an account

https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 157 comments

Philips allegedly hid 3700 complaints about sleep apnea machines from U.S.

https://nltimes.nl/2023/09/27/philips-allegedly-hid-3700-complaints-sleep-apnea-machines-us-authority

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 76 comments

Applied Category Theory Course

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 93 comments

Unions work

https://werd.io/2023/unions-work

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 225 comments

There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”

https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/111136144708450117

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 106 comments

Deconstructing Go Type Parameters

https://go.dev/blog/deconstructing-type-parameters

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 58 comments

War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow

https://nichegamer.com/war-thunder-user-leaks-restricted-military-documents-for-ah-64d-apache-longbow/

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 69 comments

Valve releases Counter-Strike 2

https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_2/

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 134 comments

You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/webgpu-in-workers/

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 29 comments

Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global grain production

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-earthworms-contribute-global-grain-production.html

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

JWST discovers massive and compact quiescent galaxy

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-jwst-massive-compact-quiescent-galaxy.html

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator

https://github.com/laurentpayot/verticalize

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: XRain – Explore rainfall statistics around the world

https://xrain.info/data/

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 44 comments

The Llama Ecosystem: Past, Present, and Future

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-2-updates-connect-2023/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 38 comments

A gentle introduction to static analyzers for C

https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/c-static-analyzers

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892781/openai-chatgpt-live-web-results-browse-with-bing

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

Your nines are not my nines (2019)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Google's 25th Birthday

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/google-25th-birthday/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 93 comments

Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06527-1

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 69 comments

Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison

https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/09/27/rust-vs-go-comparison

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 94 comments

GNU – Celebrating 40 Years

https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend (2016)

http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 141 comments

GPT-4 generates simple app from Whiteboard photo

https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1707101465922453701?s=20

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 74 comments

The Truth about College Costs

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-truth-about-college-costs

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 153 comments

An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails

https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/09/27/an-introduction-to-litestack-for-ruby-on-rails.html

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electrical-engineer-salary-2023

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 234 comments

The Conscience of a Hacker (1986)

http://textfiles.com/100/hack7.txt

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords

https://checkmarx.com/blog/surprise-when-dependabot-contributes-malicious-code/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/mercedes-benzs-level-3-autonomous-driving-system-takes-over-in-heavy-traffic/

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37670756

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 89 comments

KIP-932: Queues for Kafka

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A+Queues+for+Kafka

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Nav – A terminal navigator for interactive `ls` workflows

https://github.com/dkaslovsky/nav

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

Why should I care about OpenTofu?

https://opentofu.org/blog/why-should-i-care-about-opentofu/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Is the Physics of Time Changing?

https://www.wired.com/story/physics-of-time-actually-changing/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments

Antarctic sea ice hits lowest winter maximum on record: US data

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-antarctic-sea-ice-lowest-winter.html

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/meta_coughs_181m_to_exit/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 83 comments

Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity

https://www.thecollector.com/persuasive-technques-antiquity/

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments
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