top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-26

Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423167

2 years ago

Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat

https://naev.org/

2 years ago

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

2 years ago

Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/

2 years ago

The Periodic Table of Tools

https://periodictableoftools.com/index.html

2 years ago

Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit

https://getwhisky.app

2 years ago

Understanding Deep Learning

https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/

2 years ago

Making a font

https://kokorobot.ca/site/making_a_font.html

2 years ago

Fish – Update on the Rust port

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

2 years ago

VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search

https://vectordb.com/

2 years ago

Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud

https://monzo.com/blog/2023/09/06/making-it-clear-when-were-on-a-call-with-you/

2 years ago

Ripgrep 14 Released

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/14.0.0

2 years ago

Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire

2 years ago

The key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-hunter-gatherer-approach-childcare-key-mother.html

2 years ago

The Flix Programming Language

https://flix.dev/

2 years ago

PipeWire 1.0.0

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/1.0.0

2 years ago

The Curse of Docker

https://computer.rip/2023-11-25-the-curse-of-docker.html

2 years ago

Titled Tuesday Cheating

https://dorianquelle.github.io/blog/How-To-Catch-Smart-Cheaters/

2 years ago

Fun with DNS TXT Records

https://thoughts.theden.sh/posts/dns-txt-record-fun/

2 years ago

HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/nov/23/hp-says-i-should-have-known-its-399-laptop-bargain-was-too-good-to-be-true

2 years ago

Signal reflections in electronic circuits

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/signal-reflections-in-electronic

2 years ago

Apertus – Open-Source Camera

https://www.apertus.org/en

2 years ago

Oracle of Zotero: LLM QA of Your Research Library

https://github.com/Frost-group/The-Oracle-of-Zotero

2 years ago

Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html

2 years ago

The most powerful cosmic ray since the oh-my-god particle puzzles scientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03677-0

2 years ago

First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15

https://nicole.express/2023/not-another-color-post-i-swear.html

2 years ago

Show HN: An open-source notification infrastructure

https://github.com/novuhq/

2 years ago

Build your own hi-fi ear defenders

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hi-fi-ear-defenders

2 years ago

We have lost access to approximately €6k in bounties

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/we-have-lost-access-to-bountysource/

2 years ago

Get started with technical writing

https://opensource.net/get-started-with-technical-writing/

2 years ago

Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2023/write-package-definitions-in-a-breeze/

2 years ago

Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation enhances skill learning

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01457-7

2 years ago

Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent

https://karthinks.com/software/different-strokes-for-different-folks/

2 years ago

Artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ice-stupa-sonam-wangchuk/index.html

2 years ago

PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/10179

2 years ago

Let's Write a Malloc (2014)

https://danluu.com/malloc-tutorial/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Cheapest way to run local LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425761

2 years ago

Yann LeCun on why AI must be open source [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGDG3hgPNp8

2 years ago

Storing data in pointers

https://muxup.com/2023q4/storing-data-in-pointers

2 years ago

City of Boulder Open Data

https://open-data.bouldercolorado.gov

2 years ago

Cisco aids Ukraine defense with modified switches to counter Russian attacks

https://www.itworldcanada.com/post/cisco-aids-ukraine-in-cyber-defense-with-modified-switches-to-counter-russian-attacks

2 years ago

Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars founder, has died

https://marcthorpe.com/about/

2 years ago

Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (1978)

https://nloewen.com/docs/lucas-spielberg-kasdan--raiders-of-the-lost-ark-story-conference/

2 years ago

Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease

https://news.tulane.edu/pr/walking-more-five-flights-stairs-day-can-cut-risk-heart-disease-20-study-says

2 years ago

OpenWrt: Smartphone USB Tethering

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/smartphone.usb.tethering

2 years ago

Unix shells and the current directory

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShellsAndCurrentDirectory

2 years ago

Aspirin 81 (2019)

https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2019/02/22/the-history-behind-aspirin-81/

2 years ago

Mystery-o-matic.com random murder generator is open-source

https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io

2 years ago

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

https://adeeplookbydavehook.wordpress.com/2023/11/25/the-collected-stories-of-vernor-vinge-2001-tor/

2 years ago

Can a Passenger Hack an Airplane?

https://blog.1password.com/can-you-hack-plane-ken-munro-interview/

2 years ago

RFC9460: Service Binding via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9460

2 years ago

Tell HN: Firefox has madea lotof progress. Let the browser wars continue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418958

2 years ago

Linux being secure is a common misconception

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html

2 years ago

Leaked ChatGPT and CustomGPT Prompts

https://github.com/LouisShark/chatgpt_system_prompt

2 years ago

Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4

2 years ago

Reasonable GPUs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422807

2 years ago

Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study (2016)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/

2 years ago

FontForge

https://fontforge.org

2 years ago

Freezing in style

https://blog.broulik.de/2023/11/freezing-in-style/

2 years ago

Office Life in the 1980's (Vintage Photos) (2019)

https://weare.guru/office-life-in-the-1980s-vintage-photos/

2 years ago