top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-10-08

Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-finder/

2 years ago

639 upvotes – 58 comments

Organization probably doesn't want to improve things

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/your-organization-probably-doesnt-want-to-improve-things/

2 years ago

524 upvotes – 468 comments

Decomposing language models into understandable components

https://www.anthropic.com/index/decomposing-language-models-into-understandable-components

2 years ago

445 upvotes – 62 comments

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users

https://www.applevis.com/blog/we-deserve-better-apple-why-i-can-no-longer-recommend-mac-fellow-blind-computer-users

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 90 comments

OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

https://github.com/OpenIPC

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 59 comments

Why is Debian the way it is?

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2023/debian-reasons/

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 188 comments

Forty years of programming

https://fabiensanglard.net/40/index.html

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 172 comments

How to compete with Patreon

https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 223 comments

Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 102 comments

A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S

https://hackaday.com/2023/09/28/a-raspberry-pi-5-is-better-than-two-pi-4s/

2 years ago

253 upvotes – 202 comments

The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod

https://tailscale.dev/blog/docker-mod-tailscale

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 60 comments

Extreme parkour with legged robots

https://extreme-parkour.github.io/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 190 comments

Zen 5's Leaked Slides

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/10/08/zen-5s-leaked-slides/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 161 comments

Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres

https://docs.paradedb.com/blog/introducing_bm25

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 71 comments

Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/know-yourself-better-by-writing-what-pops-into-your-head/

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 79 comments

Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023004014

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 204 comments

Metals Fuse Together in Space

https://www.spacecentre.nz/resources/facts/physics/metals-fuse.html

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 74 comments

Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 191 comments

Fastest sailboat: Two wild designs

https://newatlas.com/marine/syroco-sp80-testing/

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 91 comments

Before Skynet and The Matrix, there was Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://www.ign.com/articles/colossus-the-forbin-project-ai-sci-fi-movie

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 100 comments
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