top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-03

Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream/tree/846da873570a737b49154e8f835704264864b0fe

2 years ago

510 upvotes – 154 comments

Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html

2 years ago

468 upvotes – 201 comments

Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors

https://www.redfin.com/news/redfin-is-leaving-nar/

2 years ago

448 upvotes – 366 comments

Hey, computer, make me a font

https://serce.me/posts/02-10-2023-hey-computer-make-me-a-font

2 years ago

331 upvotes – 148 comments

Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres

https://xata.io/blog/pgroll-schema-migrations-postgres

2 years ago

328 upvotes – 149 comments

Graph Mining Library

https://github.com/google/graph-mining

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 101 comments

Amazon used algorithm to test how much it could raise prices: FTC

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-used-secret-project-nessie-algorithm-to-raise-prices-6c593706

2 years ago

301 upvotes – 261 comments

Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit-man-steals-800-gallons-using-bluetooth-to-hack-gas-pumps-at-station

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 392 comments

UltraRAM

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-demos-prototype-chip-secures-funding-to-validate-commercial-potential

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 140 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/summary/

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 115 comments

Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US Supreme Court appeal

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/02/texas-robert-roberson-death-penalty-supreme-court-appeal-denied

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 203 comments

I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took

https://www.careerfair.io/online-maze

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 213 comments

PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=41739

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 47 comments

Every database will become a vector database sooner or later

https://nextword.substack.com/p/vector-database-is-not-a-separate

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 138 comments

What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020)

https://viralinstruction.com/posts/hardware/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 74 comments

Five Kinds of Friends (2022)

http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2022/02/five-kinds-of-friends.html

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 87 comments

Lumber prices down 11% YoY

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2023/10/update-lumber-prices-down-11-yoy.html

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 152 comments

Passive Solar Water Desalination

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/passive-solar-water-desalination/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 146 comments

Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik

https://georgek.github.io/blog/posts/multiple-web-projects-traefik/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs

https://trigger.dev

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 39 comments

Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config–and it’s pretty good

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/review-framework-laptop-finally-gets-an-amd-ryzen-config-and-its-pretty-good/

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 156 comments

Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/10/02/windows-nt-3-1-on-dec-alpha-axp/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 91 comments

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/translating-latin-demonology-manuals

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 113 comments

Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable phone yet

https://www.androidpolice.com/fairphone-5-review/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 256 comments

Daktilo: Turn Your Keyboard into a Typewriter

https://github.com/orhun/daktilo

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 60 comments

Honey, I shrunk the NPM package

https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 67 comments

$8B Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/sam-bankman-fried-criminal-trial-starts-today-heres-whats-at-stake.html

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 246 comments

Glibc dynamic loader hit by a nasty local privilege escalation vulnerability

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 66 comments

Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/10/02/agi-szabados-does-not-need-to-apologize-to-me/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 58 comments

Extism makes WebAssembly easy

https://dylibso.com/blog/why-extism/

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Best books to understand semiconductor business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754287

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 44 comments

Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift

https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-09-amino-refactoring/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 111 comments

Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13

https://frame.work/blog/reviews-of-framework-laptop-13-amd-ryzen-7040-series-are-live

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 67 comments

Crafting Self-Evident Code with D

https://dlang.org/blog/2023/10/02/crafting-self-evident-code-with-d/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 85 comments

John Carmack on AI

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1708905454544282083

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 160 comments

root with a single command: sudo logrotate

https://joshua.hu/gaining-root-with-logrotate-sudo-ubuntu

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 47 comments

Predictive policing software is pretty terrible at predicting crimes

https://gizmodo.com/predictive-policing-cops-law-enforcement-predpol-1850893951

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 3 comments

StreamingLLM: Efficient streaming technique enable infinite sequence lengths

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17453

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 12 comments

Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess'

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-rto-mess-return-to-office-remote-work-2023-9

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 170 comments

Illustrated A64 SIMD Instruction List: SVE Instructions

https://dougallj.github.io/asil/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

The 300% Production Problem

https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2023/09/28/300_percent_problem

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 44 comments

Anti-Piracy Group Takes AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline

https://gizmodo.com/anti-piracy-group-takes-ai-training-dataset-books3-off-1850743763

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 91 comments

Dick Smith’s Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2023/10/03/creativision-clone-v1.html

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Leporello.js – interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript

https://leporello.tech

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 33 comments

Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/among-the-cabin-fanatics-of-mississippis-giant-houseparty

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 65 comments

Building personal and organizational prestige

https://lethain.com/building-prestige/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Generate JSON mock data for testing/initial app development

https://www.jsongenerator.io/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Michael F. Flynn has died

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2023/10/wonder-and-anticipation-likes-of-which.html

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

MatX: Efficient C++17 GPU numerical computing library with Python-like syntax

https://github.com/NVIDIA/MatX

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 79 comments

Study Finds Hybrid Work Improves Mental Health Compared to Remote or In-Office

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9517068/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: Has meetup.org been replaced by anything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757952

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 52 comments

Puzzle Languages (2009)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/38.html

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

LTS kernels are no longer supported for 6 years because no one used them

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4666420/the-linux-foundation-has-practically-abandoned-linux

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-preapproved-narratives-corrupt-science-false-studies-covid-climate-change-5bee0844

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: How are so many fake ads allowed on YouTube?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750170

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 86 comments

Learnable Programming (2012)

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Project Management Software Can't Save You

https://www.wired.com/story/project-management-software-productivity/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 89 comments

A Linux OS that boots to LLAMA2 and has a startrek like UI

https://github.com/trholding/llama2.c/releases/tag/L2E_OS_v0.1_Temple_DOS

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: An app to create asynchronous micro podcasts

https://roadsaudio.com/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 56 comments

What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749619

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 71 comments

Arc browser built-in AI features [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7koAGLf0EE

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic

https://www.superblocks.com/blog/introducing-control-blocks-build-any-backend-business-logic-visually

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 47 comments

I'm Loud Quitting My Job Due to RTO Policy, Bad Company Culture

https://www.businessinsider.com/loud-quitting-job-rto-policy-bad-company-culture-2023-10

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 75 comments

X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back to 1988 with X11R2

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Vulnerabilities-Since-1988

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 37 comments

Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car runs her over

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-run-autonomous-vehicle-san-francisco-18403044.php

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 1 comments

Google removes Reviews widget when you add the word 'sucks' to a company search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756634

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Is GenAI heading for a crypto-esque bubble pop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37747040

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Satya Nadella Says Copilot Will Be as Significant as the PC

https://jdmeier.com/satya-nadella-on-copilot/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 124 comments

PFAS Forever Chemicals Present in Some Plastic Recyclable Bottles

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-28/pfas-forever-chemicals-present-in-some-plastic-recyclable-bottles

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 49 comments

How police use location/search data to find suspects - not always the right ones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/03/techscape-geofence-warrants

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments
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