top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-16

I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREokZa4dNU

a year ago

1268 upvotes – 428 comments

Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

a year ago

1114 upvotes – 907 comments

I think I need to go lie down

https://twitter.com/multikev/status/1724908185361011108

a year ago

796 upvotes – 456 comments

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/

a year ago

793 upvotes – 709 comments

The real realtime preemption end game

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/951337/e9139cdb65a9cb93/

a year ago

459 upvotes – 269 comments

Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)

https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code

a year ago

358 upvotes – 90 comments

Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sweden-plans-new-nuclear-reactors-by-2035-can-take-costs-2023-11-16/

a year ago

314 upvotes – 406 comments

From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)

https://www.martinvigo.com/email2phonenumber/

a year ago

312 upvotes – 125 comments

Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year

https://blog.oneuptime.com/moving-from-aws-to-bare-metal/

a year ago

291 upvotes – 335 comments

Justice Dept Says Collusion Suit Against Apartment Owners Should Move Forward

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/justice-department-clears-the-way-for-collusion-suit-against-apartment-owners-e545f260

a year ago

289 upvotes – 190 comments

Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aaib-says-film-lights-caused-window-damage-on-titan-a321neo/

a year ago

275 upvotes – 190 comments

Tell HN: How you changed my life trajectory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291452

a year ago

270 upvotes – 55 comments

DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support

https://dosdeck.com/

a year ago

267 upvotes – 53 comments

Migrating to OpenTelemetry

https://www.airplane.dev/blog/migrating-to-opentelemetry

a year ago

257 upvotes – 75 comments

Last Post, Please Read

http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2023/11/last-post-please-read.html

a year ago

254 upvotes – 105 comments

A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons

https://mazzzystar.github.io/2023/11/16/ai-girlfriend-product/

a year ago

253 upvotes – 382 comments

Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/smart-drugs-arent-so-smart-after-all

a year ago

246 upvotes – 225 comments

You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience

https://zknill.io/posts/collaboration-no-crdts/

a year ago

236 upvotes – 64 comments

Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/transforming-the-future-of-music-creation/

a year ago

209 upvotes – 352 comments

Printed robots with bones, ligaments, and tendons

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/11/printed-robots-with-bones-ligaments-and-tendons.html

a year ago

201 upvotes – 40 comments

Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones

https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-editing-research/

a year ago

201 upvotes – 47 comments

Why thinking hard makes us feel tired

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02161-5

a year ago

189 upvotes – 156 comments

Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API

https://blog.opensubtitles.com/opensubtitles/saying-goodbye-to-opensubtitles-org-api-embrace-the-20-black-friday-treat

a year ago

176 upvotes – 156 comments

Hackers know everything is securities fraud

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-16/hackers-know-everything-is-securities-fraud

a year ago

175 upvotes – 68 comments

Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

a year ago

171 upvotes – 131 comments

Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/breaking-apple-will-support-rcs-in-2024

a year ago

169 upvotes – 4 comments

SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy OFT-2 Launch Authorized

https://www.faa.gov/media/69476

a year ago

166 upvotes – 111 comments

Microsoft will allow uninstalling Edge, Bing, and disable ads to comply with Act

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-will-let-windows-11-users-in-europe-uninstall-edge-bing-and-disable-ads-in-eea-dma

a year ago

161 upvotes – 68 comments

More people should write (2012)

https://jsomers.net/blog/more-people-should-write

a year ago

160 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: I made a silly personal landing page

https://davidadler.pages.dev/

a year ago

152 upvotes – 27 comments

Pointer Pointer

https://pointerpointer.com/

a year ago

149 upvotes – 20 comments

Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint over Victim's Failure Disclose Data Breach

https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-group-files-sec-complaint-over-victims-failure-to-disclose-data-breach/

a year ago

146 upvotes – 50 comments

Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-23-0113.1/BAMS-D-23-0113.1.xml

a year ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks

https://tinyllms.vercel.app/dashboard

a year ago

142 upvotes – 23 comments

Ohio commission approves fracking in state parks and wildlife areas

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-fracking-state-parks-8b8e73c6918e97e588d44855dc8b47eb

a year ago

140 upvotes – 76 comments

Zimbra 0-day used to steal email data from government organizations

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/zimbra-0-day-used-to-target-international-government-organizations/

a year ago

133 upvotes – 28 comments

My open source project got stolen by a HN user

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293698

a year ago

131 upvotes – 65 comments

How to build trust as a new engineering manager

https://becomingaleader.substack.com/p/how-to-build-trust

a year ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

The push to save the Itanium architecture in Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/950466/0999d63fdf270781/

a year ago

123 upvotes – 126 comments

What if money expired?

https://www.noemamag.com/what-if-money-expired/

a year ago

116 upvotes – 175 comments

Bad bots account for most internet traffic? Analysis

https://www.securityweek.com/bad-bots-account-for-73-of-internet-traffic-analysis/

a year ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

Flathub – The Linux App Store

https://flathub.org/

a year ago

109 upvotes – 89 comments

Running Signal will soon cost $50M a year

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/

a year ago

109 upvotes – 2 comments

LLMs by Hallucination Rate

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard

a year ago

107 upvotes – 132 comments

Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator

https://acko.net/blog/stable-fiddusion/

a year ago

107 upvotes – 17 comments

Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964233/amazon-car-online-sale-hyundai-dealer-alexa

a year ago

101 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: Beta test Execute Program's interactive "Python for Programmers" course

https://www.executeprogram.com/courses/python-for-programmers

a year ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

Rolls-royce confirms all of its current engines can run on 100 percent SAF

https://www.flyingmag.com/rolls-royce-confirms-all-of-its-current-engines-can-run-on-100-percent-saf/

a year ago

98 upvotes – 129 comments

Types of Conversations with Generative AI

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/AI-conversation-types/

a year ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

Oink's Pink Palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace

a year ago

92 upvotes – 82 comments

U.S. states sue Instagram owner for making social media addictive to kids

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-lawsuit-children-addictive-1.7006259

a year ago

90 upvotes – 107 comments

Federated finetuning of Whisper on Raspberry Pi 5

https://flower.dev/blog/2023-11-15-federated-finetuning-of-openai-whisper-with-flower/

a year ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38285361

a year ago

90 upvotes – 215 comments

std::source_location doesn't work if you need strings to be types

https://www.elbeno.com/blog/?p=1738

a year ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers

a year ago

87 upvotes – 90 comments

WordPress plugins are a little sad?

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/13/the-top-wordpress-plugins-are-a-little-sad/

a year ago

83 upvotes – 82 comments

OCapN, Interoperable Capabilities over the Network

https://spritely.institute/news/introducing-ocapn-interoperable-capabilities-over-the-network.html

a year ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments
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