top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-11-05

Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly

https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance/

2 years ago

Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/business/banks-accounts-close-suddenly.html

2 years ago

Building a high performance JSON parser

https://dave.cheney.net/paste/gophercon-sg-2023.html

2 years ago

Show HN: WireHub – easily create and share WireGuard networks

https://www.wirehub.org/

2 years ago

A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/05/a-brain-injury-removed-my-ability-to-perceive-time-heres-what-its-like-in-a-world-without-it/

2 years ago

Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes

https://www.dw.com/en/dengue-rates-plummeted-in-colombia-after-lab-infected-mosquito-release/a-67268943

2 years ago

Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU

https://www.xtof.info/intel80386.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Sshx, a web-based collaborative terminal

https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx

2 years ago

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

https://beej.us/guide/bggdb/

2 years ago

Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection

https://annas-blog.org/duxiu-exclusive.html

2 years ago

The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/04/battle-sabbath-13-month-calendar/

2 years ago

Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT

https://bulkninja.notion.site/Email-Obfuscation-Rendered-almost-Ineffective-Against-ChatGPT-728fba1b948d42c6b8dfa73cb64984e4

2 years ago

Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

https://twitter.com/xai/status/1721027348970238035

2 years ago

Montreal’s new rapid transit line saved millions per mile

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/how-montreal-s-new-rapid-transit-line-saved-millions-per-mile

2 years ago

Scientists create artificial protein that can degrade PET plastics in bottles

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-artificial-protein-capable-degrading.html

2 years ago

Website hosted on ESP32

https://esp.khalsalabs.com

2 years ago

Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/11/04/63-grizzlies-some-drunk-on-fermented-grain-killed-by-trains-in-montana/

2 years ago

Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/can-solar-and-wind-power-britain

2 years ago

What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0?

https://lepiter.io/feenk/what-exactly-is-glamorous-toolkit-v1-0--7sex44dze2dqlocqxwfz8ju0i/

2 years ago

How did people deal with punch cards?

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/11/in-bad-old-days-we-had-punchcards-how.html

2 years ago