top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-11-13

Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

https://apnews.com/article/nepal-tiktok-ban-social-media-854846a42ef566fa296ddaacd0099447

2 years ago

Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB

https://matthew.science/posts/occupancy/

2 years ago

Placemark is going open source and shutting down

https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark

2 years ago

Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

2 years ago

HTML Web Components

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/html-web-components/

2 years ago

Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/google-bard-data-exfiltration/

2 years ago

Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf

2 years ago

Ship Shape

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/ship-shape/

2 years ago

Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge

https://www.secondstate.io/articles/fast-llm-inference/

2 years ago

Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths

https://cdm.link/2023/11/black-goo-ferrofluid-synths/

2 years ago

Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/12/dont-waste-money-on-a-math-coprocessor-they-said/

2 years ago

Beg Bounties (2021)

https://www.troyhunt.com/beg-bounties/

2 years ago

Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner paid $4M to skip the line

https://fortune.com/2023/11/08/panama-canal-congestion-record-4-million-skip-line/

2 years ago

Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/reauthorizing-mass-surveillance-shouldnt-be-tied-funding-government

2 years ago

Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-13/apple-gets-36-of-google-revenue-from-search-deal-witness-says

2 years ago

Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs

https://www.loro.dev/blog/loro-now-open-source

2 years ago

Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code

https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith

2 years ago

Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256

https://peergos.org/posts/blake3

2 years ago

The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)

https://greekreporter.com/2023/11/09/best-timed-shot-tv-history/

2 years ago

Smarter summaries with finetuning GPT-3.5 and chain of density

https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/blog/2023/11/05/chain-of-density/

2 years ago