top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-29

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

https://andadinosaur.com/youtube-s-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin

2 years ago

781 upvotes – 760 comments

Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition

https://linear.axler.net

2 years ago

631 upvotes – 294 comments

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-reproducible-builds-minimal-installation-iso-successfully-independently-rebuilt/34756

2 years ago

548 upvotes – 173 comments

Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)

https://allenpike.com/2022/giving-a-shit

2 years ago

494 upvotes – 261 comments

The product manager role is a mistake

https://sollecitom.github.io/software-product-development-blog/posts/2023/2023-10-21-product-manager-role-is-a-mistake/

2 years ago

424 upvotes – 357 comments

Life lessons from the death bed

https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-1-issue-2/life-lessons-from-the-death-bed/

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 188 comments

'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/28/its-quite-soul-destroying-how-we-fell-out-of-love-with-dating-apps

2 years ago

418 upvotes – 987 comments

π in Other Universes

https://azeemba.com/posts/pi-in-other-universes.html

2 years ago

339 upvotes – 110 comments

Running Speeds

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/10/28/why-are-you-so-slow/

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 188 comments

Are colonoscopies worth it?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/04/you-re-invited-to-a-colonoscopy?ref=thebrowser.com

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 278 comments

The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/6826

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 353 comments

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)

https://calculusmadeeasy.org

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 60 comments

Apple's Blue Ocean

https://hypercritical.co/2023/10/29/apples-blue-ocean

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 258 comments

(learn 'scheme)

http://jaredkrinke.github.io/learn-scheme/toc.html

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 40 comments

DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 87 comments

Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-2100-year-old-gold-coin-bears-name-of-obscure-ruler-from-pre-roman-britain

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 210 comments

Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U

https://garyodernichts.blogspot.com/2023/10/exploiting-dns-response-parsing-on-wii-u.html

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 25 comments

Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 207 comments

Friend's Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 141 comments

AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/10/25/ai-can-catalogue-a-forests-inhabitants-simply-by-listening

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 104 comments

How many billions of transistors in an iPhone processor?

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/10/18/how-many-billions-of-transistors-in-your-iphone-processor/

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 196 comments

Ivan Illich’s radical critique of modern certitudes (2021)

https://www.noemamag.com/a-forgotten-prophet-whose-time-has-come/

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 167 comments

A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/mars-lost-oceans-magnetic-field/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 176 comments

Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs

https://www.xfire.com/alan-wake-2-performing-well-low-end-pcs/

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 235 comments

Disappearing Polymorphs

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

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law

https://umarbutler.com/how-i-built-the-largest-open-database-of-australian-law/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 61 comments

Research Unix Sixth Edition (WASM)

https://research.swtch.com/v6/

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 34 comments

Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/25/ken-burns-chronicles-the-sad-fate-of-the-american-buffalo

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 104 comments

Kubernetes releases ingress2gateway tool for upcoming GA of Gateway API

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/10/25/introducing-ingress2gateway/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 35 comments

Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io

https://www.openstatus.dev/blog/migration-backend-from-vercel-to-fly

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 150 comments

Linux running on RISC-V emulated in Scratch

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/25/wild-linux-running-on-risc-v-emulated-in-scratch-riscv-linux-scratch/

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 34 comments

All GB/s without FLOPS – Nvidia CMP 170HX Review

https://niconiconi.neocities.org/tech-notes/nvidia-cmp-170hx-review/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 74 comments

12ft.io has been banned by Vercel

https://twitter.com/thmsmlr/status/1718663563353755982

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 63 comments

Apple Watch violates patents held by Orange Co. tech company, ITC finds

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-10-27/apple-watches-violate-patents-held-by-orange-county-tech-company-us-international-trade-commission-finds

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 104 comments

Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989)

https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 99 comments

A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/fourth-us-health-visits-now-delivered-non-physicians

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 151 comments

MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly

http://www.menuetos.net/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

Casio fx-CG50 calculator comes with Python built-in

https://www.casio.com/intl/scientific-calculators/product.FX-CG50/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 150 comments

Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday (2016)

http://plumshell.com/2016/03/10/work-for-only-3-hours-a-day-but-everyday/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary

https://kimchi-reader.app

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 44 comments

GitHub – system-design-primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems

https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thomas-edisons-concrete-houses

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 87 comments

Building a Digital Audio Mixer

https://blog.brixit.nl/building-a-digital-audio-mixer/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934691/hertz-tesla-uber-ev-plans-damage-repair-price-cuts

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 164 comments

Atari Video Music

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

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

RattleCAD

https://archive.org/details/rattlecad

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Analyzing Data 170,000x Faster with Python

https://sidsite.com/posts/python-corrset-optimization/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059036

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 206 comments

The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list

https://thehustle.co/the-murky-math-of-the-new-york-times-bestsellers-list/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

The Pictorial C64 Fault Guide

https://www.pictorial64.com/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Is Express still "de-facto" for building Node back ends?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059004

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 97 comments

Project Silica

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-silica/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/where-the-heck-did-all-those-structures-inside-complex-cells-come-from/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Dungeons and Dragons saved my life

https://www.hearsay.tech/2023-10-29-dungeons-and-dragons-saved-my-life.gmi

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

History of Philosophy without any gaps

https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/all-episodes

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/aftershock-of-the-new/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Raven – CI/CD Security Analyzer

https://github.com/CycodeLabs/raven

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++

https://thenewstack.io/bjarne-stroustrups-plan-for-bringing-safety-to-c/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 57 comments

The Compiler Is Just Ignoring All My Comments

https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments
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