top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-23

Ansel

https://ansel.photos/en/

2 years ago

Developer account removed by Apple

https://seraleev.notion.site/Our-developer-account-was-removed-by-Apple-and-they-haven-t-paid-out-108-878-b61192711c74487480373badc70d42c0

2 years ago

YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/181vbmk/youtube_is_now_blocking_ad_blockers_so_i_just/

2 years ago

test, [, and [[ (2020)

https://jmmv.dev/2020/03/test-bracket.html

2 years ago

Polio is on the brink of eradication

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03602-5

2 years ago

US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/wyden_hemisphere_letter/

2 years ago

Despite just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (2021)

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38_of_bug/

2 years ago

Git Branches: Intuition and Reality

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/23/branches-intuition-reality/

2 years ago

Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (2019)

https://habr.com/en/articles/456476/

2 years ago

Show HN: React Spreadsheet 2

https://www.rowsncolumns.app/

2 years ago

The story of titanium

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-story-of-titanium

2 years ago

Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts

https://www.shellcheck.net/

2 years ago

Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems

https://mirage.io/

2 years ago

After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing

https://gizmodo.com/ai-safety-openai-sam-altman-ouster-back-microsoft-1851038439

2 years ago

Intro to Large Language Models [Video]

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

2 years ago

Luiz André Barroso has died

https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-memoriam-nov-2023

2 years ago

Write libraries instead of services, where possible

https://catern.com/services.html

2 years ago

C diff spores resist bleach and remain viable on surgical scrubs, fabrics

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.001418

2 years ago

15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps

https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1727351922254852182

2 years ago

Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes-forward-with-plans-to-limit-ad-blockers-in-the-future

2 years ago

Retries – An interactive study of request retry methods

https://encore.dev/blog/retries

2 years ago

Gameboy technical reference for homebrew developers

https://gbdev.io/pandocs/

2 years ago

Fast Llama 2 on CPUs with Sparse Fine-Tuning and DeepSparse

https://neuralmagic.com/blog/fast-llama-2-on-cpus-with-sparse-fine-tuning-and-deepsparse/

2 years ago

The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/business/carl-rinsch-netflix-conquest.html

2 years ago

Experimental tree-based writing interface for GPT-3

https://github.com/socketteer/loom

2 years ago

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-grid/

2 years ago

I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing

https://blog.abctaylor.com/how-i-discovered-caching-cdns-were-throttling-my-everyday-browsing/

2 years ago

Auroratone, a psychedelic 1940s film that helped WWII vets overcome PTSD

https://www.openculture.com/2023/11/watch-an-auroratone-a-psychedelic-1940s-film.html

2 years ago

Committing to Rust for Kernel Code

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/952029/412bfd44912e90b2/

2 years ago

Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated (2022)

https://ourworldindata.org/guinea-worm-path-eradication

2 years ago

A Complete Guide to CSS Grid

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

2 years ago

The Eyes Have It (1953)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31516/31516-h/31516-h.htm

2 years ago

Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists

https://mixmag.net/read/spotify-end-service-uruguay-copyright-law-change-artists-fair-pay-amendment-news

2 years ago

Show HN: Lua Carousel, create little programs on desktop or mobile devices

https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

2 years ago

ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Hot_fire_Ariane_6_ready_to_rumble

2 years ago

Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2020)

https://www.kulesz.me/post/130-pocket-router/

2 years ago

Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down

https://insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com/2023/11/sorry-you-missed-it.html

2 years ago

The Revival of Medley/Interlisp

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/23/medley_interlisp_revival/

2 years ago

Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/binance_ceo_settlement/

2 years ago

How Gödel's proof works (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-proof-works-20200714/

2 years ago

Dbrand Is Suing Casetify

https://twitter.com/dbrand/status/1727721586856222893

2 years ago

Large amounts of carbon capture as a solution is an 'illusion'

https://electrek.co/2023/11/23/large-amounts-of-carbon-capture-as-a-solution-is-an-illusion-iea/

2 years ago

Max Headroom Signal Hijacking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

2 years ago

Tell HN: Me as solo developer – first year revenue revealed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38388608

2 years ago

Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Stacks

https://www.timdbg.com/posts/writing-a-debugger-from-scratch-part-6/

2 years ago

Snaps. Why? Please Stop

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=288004

2 years ago

About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/about-that-openai-breakthrough

2 years ago

Qt Creator 12 Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-12-released

2 years ago

Bidding error sees Finnish day-ahead power price tumble

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bidding-error-sees-finnish-day-ahead-power-price-tumble-to-203.40-euros-mwh

2 years ago

A gentle introduction to two's complement

https://imapenguin.com/2023/11/a-gentle-introduction-to-twos-complement/

2 years ago

Promises Training: Practical Exercises on Promises in JavaScript

https://github.com/henriqueinonhe/promises-training

2 years ago

What is it like to be a crab?

https://aeon.co/essays/are-we-ready-to-study-consciousness-in-crabs-and-the-like

2 years ago

Programming as a career isn't right for me

https://medium.com/blob-streaming/programming-as-a-career-isnt-right-for-me-f9f0846fef82

2 years ago

This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Mayor Is Your Judge.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fenton-louisiana-brought-in-1-million-through-mayors-court

2 years ago

Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/18/paul-auster-on-cancer-connection-and-the-fallacy-of-closure

2 years ago

What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting Europe's antitrust rules

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/17/apple_ec_dma/

2 years ago

Ubuntu runs 20% faster than Windows 11 on AMD's new 96-core Ryzen

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubuntu-runs-20-faster-than-windows-11-on-amd-threadripper-pro-7995wx

2 years ago