top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-31

German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

https://stackdiary.com/german-court-bans-linkedin-from-ignoring-do-not-track-signals/

2 years ago

1216 upvotes – 575 comments

Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m3-pro-and-m3-max-the-most-advanced-chips-for-a-personal-computer/

2 years ago

1035 upvotes – 1126 comments

Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

https://www.phind.com/phindmodelhn

2 years ago

891 upvotes – 347 comments

macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/macOS-Sonoma-Boot-Failures

2 years ago

667 upvotes – 282 comments

Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI

https://twitter.com/javilopen/status/1719363262179938401

2 years ago

651 upvotes – 309 comments

Firefox got faster for real users in 2023

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/10/down-and-to-the-right-firefox-got-faster-for-real-users-in-2023/

2 years ago

640 upvotes – 283 comments

I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map

https://darkhotels.co

2 years ago

576 upvotes – 211 comments

Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-growth-data-by-district/

2 years ago

507 upvotes – 1425 comments

Grist is a modern, relational spreadsheet

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 173 comments

Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU

https://www.datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/datatilsynets-vedtak-mot-meta-utvides-til-eueos-og-gjores-permanent/

2 years ago

449 upvotes – 240 comments

Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/10/android-and-risc-v-what-you-need-to-know.html

2 years ago

343 upvotes – 144 comments

Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand

https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/

2 years ago

324 upvotes – 269 comments

AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support

https://fullystacked.net/posts/av1/

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 202 comments

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/jury-finds-realtors-conspired-to-keep-commissions-high-awards-nearly-1-8-billion-in-damages-b26f9c2f

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 273 comments

A Grand Theft Auto III Re-Implementation

https://openrw.org/

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 129 comments

Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Merged-Linux-6.7

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 159 comments

Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"

https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-will-block-third-party-controllers-to-preserve-the-console-experience-3525752

2 years ago

299 upvotes – 362 comments

California employers must reimburse remote workers for all necessary expenses

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/working-from-home-in-california-does-my-employer-have-to-reimburse-me-for-utilities-or-other-expenses.html

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 442 comments

.io considered harmful

https://www.beep.blog/io/

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 239 comments

Show HN: Light implementation of Event Sourcing using PostgreSQL as event store

https://github.com/eugene-khyst/postgresql-event-sourcing

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 47 comments

Two hackers one keyboard two ways

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/two-hackers-one-keyboard-two-ways

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack

https://github.com/cozis/microtcp

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 41 comments

The beauty of finished software

https://josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software/

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 152 comments

Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die

http://www.righto.com/2023/10/reverse-engineering-ethernet-backoff-on.html

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-new-macbook-pro-featuring-m3-chips/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 427 comments

Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says

https://www.reuters.com/technology/alliance-40-countries-vow-not-pay-ransom-cybercriminals-us-says-2023-10-31/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 193 comments

Black 4.0

https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/black-4-0

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 89 comments

$95 AMD CPU Becomes 16GB GPU to Run AI Software

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dollar95-amd-cpu-becomes-16gb-gpu-to-run-ai-software

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 62 comments

Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform

https://www.linaro.org/blog/upstream-linux-support-now-available-for-the-the-qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-3-mobile-platform/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 98 comments

M51: A Feast for the Eyes

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2308a/

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 32 comments

Rules of schema growth (2017)

https://blog.datomic.com/2017/01/the-ten-rules-of-schema-growth.html

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 105 comments

Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/behind-the-scenes-at-scary-fast-apples-keynote-event-shot-on-iphone/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 146 comments

Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig

https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 39 comments

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats

https://www.techspot.com/news/100663-windows-11-extends-support-archive-formats-thanks-open.html

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: Streamdal – an open-source tail -f for your data

https://github.com/streamdal/streamdal

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 37 comments

WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/wework-plans-file-bankruptcy-early-next-week-wsj-2023-10-31/

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 91 comments

WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy-as-early-as-next-week-1fdcb6a5

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 100 comments

Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 11 comments

NASA can't open its asteroid capsule

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/27/nasa-cant-open-its-asteroid-capsule/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 72 comments

Boot legacy PCs from NVMe storage

https://github.com/Manawyrm/nvme-int13h-optionrom

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 31 comments

A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue

https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-european-telescope-rises-u-s-rivals-await-rescue

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 87 comments

Ohm: A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc

https://github.com/ohmjs/ohm

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 21 comments

Vendor lock-in in the observability space

https://www.keephq.dev/post/vendor-lock-in-is-in-the-small-details

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward

https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/news/we-show-that-in-fruit-flies-a-subpopulation-of-reward-encoding-dopaminergic-neurons-antagonizes-punishment-encoding-neurons-and-can-override-punishment-or-hunger-cues-in-favour-of-reward-seeking-behaviour

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084187

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 123 comments

.US harbors prolific malicious link shortening service

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/us-harbors-prolific-malicious-link-shortening-service/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 46 comments

Israel was removed from Baidu Maps earlier today

https://twitter.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1719200628990525595

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 120 comments

Moonbase Alpha Travel Tube Details

https://catacombs.space1999.net/main/cguide/umtravel.html

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

Engineers develop a process to make formate fuel from CO2

https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-develop-efficient-fuel-process-carbon-dioxide-1030

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Compare how GPT-2, 3, 3.5 and 4 answer the same questions

https://theaidigest.org/progress-and-dangers

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

Mars Cyclers

https://planetocracy.substack.com/p/mars-cyclers

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 61 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23939639/sam-bankman-fried-cross-exam-fraud

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 118 comments

Company with a 10% lifetime employee turnover shows their real secret is trust

https://fortune.com/2023/10/31/happiest-country-world-finnish-company-lifetime-employee-turnover-shows-real-secret-trust/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments

ROScribe: An LLM-based robotic platform

https://discourse.ros.org/t/looking-inside-roscribe-and-the-idea-of-llm-based-robotic-platform/34298

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Should you use a Lambda Monolith, a.k.a. Lambdalith, for your API?

https://rehanvdm.com/blog/should-you-use-a-lambda-monolith-lambdalith-for-the-api

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 127 comments

Bootstrapping GCC in RISC-V: Milestone: MesCC builds TinyCC and fun C errors

https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/bootstrapGcc8.html

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

In Support of Richard Stallman

https://stallmansupport.org/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments
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