top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-10-21

We have used too many levels of abstractions

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/we-have-used-too-many-levels-of-abstractions-and-now-the-future-looks-bleak.html

a year ago

834 upvotes – 530 comments

What every developer should know about GPU computing

https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing

a year ago

465 upvotes – 176 comments

Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru Outback battery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971038

a year ago

454 upvotes – 215 comments

FPGA N64

http://www.ultrafp64.com/

a year ago

407 upvotes – 82 comments

"No, it's less effort than that"

https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/

a year ago

388 upvotes – 373 comments

Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator

https://ruffle.rs/

a year ago

351 upvotes – 173 comments

Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE

a year ago

344 upvotes – 213 comments

O3DE

https://o3de.org/

a year ago

304 upvotes – 79 comments

Adtech surveillance and government surveillance are often the same

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/adtech-surveillance-and-government-surveillance-are-often-same-surveillance

a year ago

255 upvotes – 47 comments

My website is one binary (2022)

https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html

a year ago

249 upvotes – 168 comments

George Carlin's "Soft Language" (2019)

https://www.thoughtco.com/soft-language-euphemism-1692111

a year ago

246 upvotes – 385 comments

OpenRefine

https://openrefine.org/

a year ago

244 upvotes – 21 comments

The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250710-the-decline-of-computers-as-a-general-purpose-technology/fulltext

a year ago

242 upvotes – 231 comments

The Pixel 8 Pro's Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MrWhosetheboss-video-reveals-Google-s-Pixel-8-Pro-Tensor-G3-off-loads-all-generative-AI-tasks-to-the-cloud.760215.0.html

a year ago

240 upvotes – 130 comments

Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination

https://cointelegraph.com/news/reddit-mods-dumped-tokens-hours-before-blockchain-program-termination

a year ago

238 upvotes – 153 comments

How to self study pure math – a step-by-step guide [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byNaO_zn2fI

a year ago

222 upvotes – 42 comments

Pigging

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

a year ago

222 upvotes – 80 comments

With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/17/1

a year ago

220 upvotes – 188 comments

Human microbiome myths and misconceptions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01426-7

a year ago

217 upvotes – 90 comments

Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-entrepreneurs-shortage-solutions-1.7002171

a year ago

207 upvotes – 327 comments
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