top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-17

Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-advances-innovative-direct-file-project-for-2024-tax-season-free-irs-run-pilot-option-projected-to-be-available-for-eligible-taxpayers-in-13-states

2 years ago

906 upvotes – 329 comments

Write more "useless" software

https://ntietz.com/blog/write-more-useless-software/

2 years ago

846 upvotes – 254 comments

Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F0xVTY%2FjNgy951c8TA%2BzC0yCQQ9F0dte2gYosIedbdEjbdG2dmRRFakE7q8vKCebXvIBySTfB59%2FwFeNecZvQqYME3wxKfhUCt4WnuxwOKPyyNnShqHFZCAMVa7K9TiQcsBVasBMK%2BMabcG6YaqRc1CMlBIHfPmnX%2Fmg%2Ffs0yvrxhPPzilKlBe%2BptMEWMlz5%2BcIYmDNoSH2elWI2ihkENaawYa7SCmRCoJg20GjxwmjKVSEXrrCFUUgNP2GVbItCKlQQWEs0RhZDEIdNeUNlSqBw4WrRuTgdDn%2B2ZK2y4hpTAl84o8TxHWRYJbAatI0jq0JNamQ9HQ5%2FsxrXQBsks0%2B3bhglJRqkkklVzCKz8%2FG0E%2FEEyh39EhXaaqlR%2BcWHr4yrf5hk9UpTrGrHQjOjsrZkemercn62jvdBLoI4ZycXUBkajRVUGU9dJJrnyrNP9HQ767UWUcMmrYJKQcwaQ0dBGfHX6g%2Bq7Ddt4Q0j5S6HM4fqDDXGVGXda5QqoY12OhzeHN1KgeG981xjF8jLGnSRlgIWujCOXZaBR2rKd89EBWEkXTDKFUdcGUEccm0ZFBSSd%2FQuq9O5n670zi49uxdlRbQXRHtWfGtqmKRiahlHDO3RMRqu5O0KqUbJjuEbj7a7%2BmbpF6isbIt7p7S694zZOFuUTCl5Q%2B6%2BLYk2%2FHV%2B%2B%2F3z1zcf9YSzT0Azxazm7mBbRNF7Br5wksL1rr%2FrNVDO7mnvUaS0om7Ful39xgnnCee%2BksFFolJe%2FD%2BnyBf%2BH7kcvSIGl4fZN%2BFxNjBaOU5VsoEGaYbrTWFoG3SssTguf6i0Oi6kjFLjyC7Mh27fhXMXrhXllFz9jycPjdEbuBY0uJOU2TnrO%2BFekMwW%2F2UnD%2BYWudLW3cJYyXevo66sRbLGHgWddBMEwfVhm54VJqAQ3CrStYDy2Gq0DUVSHDe%2FsIfC7MSB1j7zrZOK%2B92zZYd%2FRuAxBg73bqSonMMtWZhq2vDj6%2Burdulr5k7o%2BI64%2Bo7esrT7hpCdrpVV%2FUhb4RrXIh6cPauiOQUl0djXzRv0BZzuKxDYeLxvvN%2F2ro%2B1dLINC%2BnOxCN75spkHlU0Lm6JlbM93PaLY0vxwsfAJckGwuq%2BvzDmffwdizNrSOxp%2BvMtWW6z0B4%2Ba8w%2BxB%2Fsvok%2BBgiJVX01xQ2Bo8PxH%2B7q1t83j1hxjqP2baF9j3ek6sU9TPRlT2Bf28RztLiSsRvSadSXXrl7IUs3QJV0fw%2BQfbfE0cnz2BoXyjM7LE9%2Fiyuf8DkzPLrvPpAJSeTdJ43ZObiPu3db47x4cny%2F1IvBU6By2hDiNHk2G95j7tWKVKN0OvwHAAD%2F%2FwMASc5Y2XAHAAA%3D

2 years ago

680 upvotes – 435 comments

Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owners-they-are-pressured-to-hire-off-duty-mpd-cops-for-security/

2 years ago

631 upvotes – 580 comments

Frasier Fantasy

https://edward-la-barbera.itch.io/frasier-fantasy

2 years ago

531 upvotes – 134 comments

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

https://music.ishkur.com/

2 years ago

495 upvotes – 150 comments

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty

https://blog.tripu.info/encrypt/

2 years ago

469 upvotes – 230 comments

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police

https://reason.com/2023/10/13/iowa-man-files-lawsuit-after-being-arrested-twice-for-criticizing-the-police-at-a-public-meeting/

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 245 comments

Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/tech-ceo-sentenced-to-5-years-in-ip-address-scheme/

2 years ago

395 upvotes – 297 comments

BB(3, 3) is Hard

https://www.sligocki.com//2023/10/16/bb-3-3-is-hard.html

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 132 comments

Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 127 comments

Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/10/16/env/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 261 comments

Making CRDTs More Efficient

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/making-crdts-98-percent-more-efficient/

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 57 comments

Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/introducing-falcon-a-reliable-low-latency-hardware-transport

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 149 comments

Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 46 comments

What happened to blogging for the hell of it?

https://blog.whiona.me/what-happened-to-blogging-for-the-hell-of-it/

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 194 comments

Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]

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

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 191 comments

Superlinear Returns

http://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 164 comments

Universal cancer vaccine trial shows significant improvement in overall survival

https://ultimovacs.com/investors/news/ultimovacs-announces-nipu-results-presented-at-esmo-2023-significant-and-clinically-meaningful-improvement-in-overall-survival-for-patients-receiving-uv1-cancer-vaccine-in-phase-ii-nipu-trial-in-mali

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 50 comments

Patlabor 2, the Movie: realistic portrayal of modern aerial combat

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/realistic-aerial-combat-movie-patlabor-2/

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: I made an all-in-one desktop app with a no-BS approach to get work done

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914672

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 154 comments

The importance of handwriting is now better understood

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/14/the-importance-of-handwriting-is-becoming-better-understood

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 166 comments

Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)

https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arline-letter/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 127 comments

Leaked Microsoft pay guidelines – salary, hiring bonus, stock awards by level

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-pay-guidelines-salary-hiring-bonus-stock-levels-2023-10

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 216 comments

Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/07/interviews-age-of-ai-ditch-leetcode-try-code-reviews-instead/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 272 comments

Ruff v0.1.0

https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.1.0

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

https://www.riffusion.com/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 49 comments

Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees

https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-information-on-if-metalls-conflict-at-tesla/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 199 comments

The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City

https://untappedcities.com/2023/10/17/pneumatic-tube-mail-new-york-city/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 104 comments

Antibiotic Identified by AI

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01448-6

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 50 comments

"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4

https://www.andrealyip.com/a-young-ladys-illustrated-primer

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 155 comments

Mypy 1.6

https://mypy-lang.blogspot.com/2023/10/mypy-16-released.html

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 110 comments

No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/shape-is-not-enough-to-distinguish-life-from-abiotic-systems/4017874.article

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 242 comments

AI Graphics at JetBrains

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2023/10/16/ai-graphics-at-jetbrains-story/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics (2019)

https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 74 comments

SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/sifive-rolls-out-risc-v-cores-aimed-at-generative-ai-and-ml/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 64 comments

Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B

https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-vs-orange-pi-5-plus-vs-rock-5-model-b/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 151 comments

Billing Engines Don't Solve Pricing Problems

https://www.tier.run/blog/pricing-engine-vs-billing-engine

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 59 comments

AWS takedown notice to third-party Re:Invent session trackers

https://twitter.com/donkersgood/status/1714161357510095292?s=46&t=LghIQ7soh6pCfjuNxdqDjQ

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/05/12/circulant-matrices/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 6 comments

Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-employees-dissatisfied-jobs-new-data-labor-market-glassdoor-2023-10

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 197 comments

*(char*)0 = 0; – What does the C++ programmer intend with this code? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFIqNZ8VbRY

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 189 comments

Finland's ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well

https://news.err.ee/1609120697/finland-s-chatgpt-equivalent-begins-to-think-in-estonian-as-well

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 162 comments

Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning

https://www.wsj.com/articles/burnett-v-national-association-of-realtors-home-buyers-sellers-brokers-commission-7e58fda0

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 136 comments

Winsorized mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsorized_mean

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 53 comments

Google Proposes New Mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall for Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-mseal-Memory-Sealing

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 169 comments

X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features

https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 176 comments

Stable Diffusion Gets a Major Boost with RTX Acceleration

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/game-ready-driver-dlss-3-naraka-vermintide-rtx-vsr/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps

https://engineercodex.substack.com/p/how-to-burnout-a-software-engineer

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

GaussianDreamer: Fast Generation from Text to 3D Gaussian Splatting

https://taoranyi.com/gaussiandreamer/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/business/ford-f150-lightning-layoffs/index.html

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 129 comments

ExecuTorch: Run PyTorch programs on mobile and edge devices

https://pytorch.org/executorch/stable/index.html

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rite-aid-bankruptcy-opioids-lawsuits/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 105 comments

Flipper Zero can be used to crash iPhones running iOS 17

https://www.zdnet.com/article/flipper-zero-can-lock-up-an-iphone-running-the-latest-ios-17/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Security Vulnerability of Switzerland's E-Voting System

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/security-vulnerability-of-switzerlands-e-voting-system.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37918308

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 87 comments

Lab leak fight casts chill over virology research

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/science/covid-lab-leak-research.html

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 241 comments

Mazda's DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist's smart car API tool

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/mazdas-dmca-takedown-kills-a-hobbyists-smart-car-api-tool/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Antarctic_ice_shelf_demise

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Marc Andreessen's AI manifesto hurts his own cause

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/marc-andreessens-ai-manifesto-hurts-his-own-cause

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 119 comments

Unfounded concerns about photovoltaic toxicity and waste slowing decarbonization

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02230-0

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 153 comments

The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (1997)

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

VirtualBox 7.0.12

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v12

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37917077

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Tesla owner received a $21,000 bill after the battery was damaged by rain

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-owners-bill-battery-damaged-ev-scotland-weather-2023-10

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

Lumalabs AI

https://lumalabs.ai

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Alternatives to Adobe

https://untested.sonnet.io/Alternatives+to+Adobe

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 60 comments
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