top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-15

Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year

https://younganimator.uk/winner/1699875910225x437970782709919500

2 years ago

Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

https://www.ledger.com/blog/hacking-adhd-strategies-for-the-modern-developer

2 years ago

Push ifs up and fors down

https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html

2 years ago

The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/19-website-discoverability-crisis/

2 years ago

Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/15/gpts/

2 years ago

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1724815159590293764

2 years ago

Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

2 years ago

U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-power-plant-2666199640

2 years ago

WASM by example

https://wasmbyexample.dev/home.en-us.html

2 years ago

B-trees in Factorio

https://razberry.substack.com/p/btree-factorio

2 years ago

Curl on 100 Operating Systems

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/14/curl-on-100-operating-systems/

2 years ago

Use Timestamps

https://jankremer.eu/micro/timestamps/

2 years ago

Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674922014774

2 years ago

The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-gpu-ai-chips-azure-maia-cobalt-specifications-cloud-infrastructure

2 years ago

The Decline of Usability: Revisited

https://datagubbe.se/usab2/

2 years ago

US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-surgeons-world-eye-transplant.html

2 years ago

ARRL hails FCC action to remove symbol rate restrictions

https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-hails-fcc-action-to-remove-symbol-rate-restrictions

2 years ago

Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/16/australia-antibiotics-overuse-drug-resistant-infections

2 years ago

Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Change-Wayland-Release

2 years ago

AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/ai-outperforms-conventional-weather-forecasting-for-the-first-time-google-study/

2 years ago

The truth is always made of details

https://www.raptitude.com/2023/10/the-truth-is-always-made-of-details/

2 years ago

Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4309219-google-paid-8-billion-to-make-its-apps-default-on-samsung-phones/

2 years ago

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/15/fbi_director_fisa_section_702/

2 years ago

ML for Beginners GitHub

https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners

2 years ago

Operating on a minimal two-core Postgres instance: Query optimization insights

https://robertrode.com/2023/11/15/operating-an-entire-company-on-a-minimal-two-core-postgresql-instance-query-optimization-insights-part-1.html

2 years ago

Don't Spy EU

https://dontspy.eu/

2 years ago

Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/14/iowa-teen-farmer-donate-garden/

2 years ago

She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years, but her life was a mystery

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1213003434/she-lived-in-a-new-york-hotel-for-more-than-40-years-but-her-life-was-a-mystery

2 years ago

The Architecture of Serverless Data Systems

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/11/14/the-architecture-of-serverless-data-systems

2 years ago

Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types

https://numbat.dev/articles/intro.html

2 years ago

EFF Call to Action: Tell Congress to Stop 'Kids Online Safety Act'

https://act.eff.org/action/call-congress-to-stop-kosa

2 years ago

Diskomator – NVMe-TCP at your fingertips

https://github.com/poettering/diskomator

2 years ago

Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-amd

2 years ago

Frutiger Aero

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Aero

2 years ago

Is Delaware the cheapest place to incorporate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276515

2 years ago

Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64

https://accentual.com/bmc64/

2 years ago

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

https://www.404media.co/guardian-deletes-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-after-it-goes-viral-on-tiktok/

2 years ago

Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/15/magicians-less-prone-to-mental-disorders-than-other-artists-finds-research

2 years ago

Canonical Launches MicroCloud to Deploy Your Own "Fully Functional Cloud"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Ubuntu-MicroCloud

2 years ago

Beyond Memorization: Violating privacy via inference with LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07298

2 years ago

My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/11/my-primality-testing-code-is-6x-faster.html

2 years ago

Orthodox Privilege (2020)

http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html

2 years ago

Second Reality for Apple II

http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/

2 years ago

The Great Sphinx of Giza may have have started out as a natural formation

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/study-reveals-how-natural-processes-helped-sculpt-the-great-sphinx-of-giza/

2 years ago

What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model

https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-meta-learned-from-galactica-the-doomed-model-launched-two-weeks-before-chatgpt/

2 years ago

James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-distant-galaxies

2 years ago

I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/i-visited-over-120-ev-chargers-three-reasons-why-so-many-were-broken/ar-AA1jXDcA

2 years ago

Show HN: Watermelon – copilot for code review

https://github.com/marketplace/watermelon-context

2 years ago

In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/15/illinois-federal-prison-thomson-abuse-thomas-bergami

2 years ago

Escaping the Edge sandbox: A bug that speaks for itself

https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Escaping-the-sandbox-A-bug-that-speaks-for-itself/

2 years ago

M1076 Analog Matrix Processor

https://mythic.ai/products/m1076-analog-matrix-processor/

2 years ago

Show HN: MonkeyPatch – Cheap, fast and predictable LLM functions in Python

https://github.com/monkeypatch/monkeypatch.py

2 years ago

Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD's flagship MI300X GPU

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/azure-announces-new-ai-optimized-vm-series-featuring-amd-s/ba-p/3980770

2 years ago

Hello World on the GPU (2019)

https://acko.net/blog/hello-world-on-the-gpu/

2 years ago

Demoscene (2004)

https://www.demoscene.info/

2 years ago

Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-introduces-its-own-chips-ai-with-eye-cost-2023-11-15/

2 years ago

Common pesticides in food reducing sperm count worldwide, study says

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/health/sperm-damage-pesticides-wellness/index.html

2 years ago

Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder

https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/

2 years ago

Grand Ball Given by the Whales (1861)

https://energyhistory.yale.edu/grand-ball-given-by-the-whales-vanity-fair-april-20-1861/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in the US?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38275614

2 years ago

Canned food went from military rations to fancy appetizers

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/canned-food-history

2 years ago

Meta allows ads saying 2020 election was rigged on Facebook and Instagram

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/15/facebook-ads-2020-election-rigged-stolen-instagram-policy

2 years ago

Fixing bug 109595 makes MySQL almost 4X faster on the Insert Benchmark

http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2023/11/fixing-bug-109595-makes-mysql-almost-4x.html

2 years ago

The Collapse of Insects

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

2 years ago

COBOL for GCC Development

https://cobolworx.com/pages/cobforgcc.html

2 years ago

Language models and linguistic theories beyond words

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00703-8

2 years ago