top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-27

My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/my-toddler-loves-planes-so-i-built

a year ago

1304 upvotes – 245 comments

Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

https://tuta.com/blog/best-private-browsers

a year ago

964 upvotes – 709 comments

Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating

https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877

a year ago

930 upvotes – 735 comments

Google Drive files suddenly disappeared

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245055606/google-drive-files-suddenly-disappeared-the-drive-literally-went-back-to-condition-in-may-2023?hl=en

a year ago

726 upvotes – 317 comments

$20k bounty was claimed

https://prettier.io/blog/2023/11/27/20k-bounty-was-claimed

a year ago

716 upvotes – 325 comments

Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

https://dalle.party/

a year ago

587 upvotes – 149 comments

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/

a year ago

507 upvotes – 274 comments

Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

https://trains.fyi/

a year ago

503 upvotes – 302 comments

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a year ago

485 upvotes – 0 comments

No-Bullshit Games

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

a year ago

440 upvotes – 171 comments

GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/77046

a year ago

354 upvotes – 231 comments

Let's try to understand AI monosemanticity

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand

a year ago

350 upvotes – 179 comments

Beej's Guide to Interprocess Communication

https://beej.us/guide/bgipc/html/

a year ago

345 upvotes – 56 comments

Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-vmware-layoffs-employees-face-job-cuts-acquisition-2023-11

a year ago

339 upvotes – 210 comments

Where Is OpenCV 5?

https://opencv.org/blog/where-is-opencv-5/

a year ago

332 upvotes – 138 comments

How are zlib, gzip and zip related?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762094/how-are-zlib-gzip-and-zip-related-what-do-they-have-in-common-and-how-are-they

a year ago

300 upvotes – 77 comments

Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice

https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/tva-nutrient-cancer-immunity

a year ago

289 upvotes – 206 comments

$10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize

https://aimoprize.com/

a year ago

281 upvotes – 225 comments

Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/web-components-eliminate-javascript-framework-lock-in/

a year ago

263 upvotes – 292 comments

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978042/popular-science-digital-magazine-discontinued

a year ago

250 upvotes – 121 comments

My favorite database shirts

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2016/07/my-favorite-database-shirts.html

a year ago

240 upvotes – 128 comments

Robot Dad

https://blog.untrod.com/2023/11/robot-dad.html

a year ago

238 upvotes – 74 comments

Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/24/tata_210m_code_theft/

a year ago

219 upvotes – 97 comments

Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages

https://asmirnov.xyz/doppelganger

a year ago

216 upvotes – 69 comments

AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro

https://www.macworld.com/article/2150862/airjet-makes-a-macbook-air-perform-like-a-macbook-pro.html

a year ago

200 upvotes – 119 comments

How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/11/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/

a year ago

200 upvotes – 88 comments

Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2023/11/26/Monoprice-Blackbird-4K-Pro-HDCP-Converter.html

a year ago

190 upvotes – 62 comments

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

a year ago

188 upvotes – 85 comments

Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy

https://preslav.me/2023/11/27/python-is-easy-golang-is-simple-simple-is-not-easy/

a year ago

186 upvotes – 302 comments

Scientists succeed in growing dolomite in the lab

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-scientists-succeed-dolomite-lab-dissolving.html

a year ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

FPGAs and the renaissance of retro hardware

https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/fpgas-and-the-renaissance-of-retro-hardware/

a year ago

179 upvotes – 53 comments

Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/weird-dmca-takedown-google-play-bans-app-because-it-can-load-warnerbros-com/

a year ago

172 upvotes – 59 comments

Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown

https://torrentfreak.com/several-piracy-related-arrests-spark-fears-of-high-level-crackdown-231127/

a year ago

162 upvotes – 320 comments

Cheaper microscope could bring protein mapping technique to the masses

https://www.science.org/content/article/cheaper-microscope-could-bring-protein-mapping-technique-masses

a year ago

160 upvotes – 46 comments

C++ Memory Model: Migrating from x86 to ARM (2021)

https://arangodb.com/2021/02/cpp-memory-model-migrating-from-x86-to-arm/

a year ago

151 upvotes – 47 comments

Strange Metals: Where electricity may flow without electrons

https://www.quantamagazine.org/meet-strange-metals-where-electricity-may-flow-without-electrons-20231127/

a year ago

149 upvotes – 85 comments

Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/27/australian-housing-wealth-is-meaningless-destructive-and-fundamentally-changing-our-society

a year ago

149 upvotes – 258 comments

PiDP-11

https://retroviator.com/pidp-11/

a year ago

148 upvotes – 44 comments

ed.bf: text editor in Brainfuck

https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions/ed.bf

a year ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

Meta Designed Products to Capitalize on Teen Vulnerabilities, States Allege

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/meta-designed-products-to-capitalize-on-teen-vulnerabilities-states-allege-6791dad5

a year ago

147 upvotes – 157 comments

How could Al Bundy afford a house when he was making minimum wage?

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ggozng/in_the_sitcom_married_with_children_protagonist/

a year ago

146 upvotes – 183 comments

FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift

https://www.phoronix.com/review/freebsd-14-epyc

a year ago

142 upvotes – 97 comments

Linexjlin/GPTs: leaked prompts of GPTs

https://github.com/linexjlin/GPTs

a year ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

College Sports Need Their Tax-Exempt Status Revoked

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-25/jimbo-fisher-is-why-college-sports-need-to-lose-tax-exemption-status

a year ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

Download all of Wikipedia on your phone

https://practicalbetterments.com/download-all-of-wikipedia-on-your-phone/

a year ago

119 upvotes – 80 comments

Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/27/evaluating-m3-pro-cpu-cores-1-general-performance/

a year ago

119 upvotes – 58 comments

Wealth Systems in RPGs

https://troypress.com/wealth-systems-in-rpgs/

a year ago

118 upvotes – 108 comments

Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-peeking-into-the-cradle

a year ago

102 upvotes – 67 comments

Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage

https://www.thelocal.se/20231127/tesla-sues-swedish-transport-agency-over-number-plate-blockage

a year ago

99 upvotes – 340 comments

Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13320

a year ago

99 upvotes – 136 comments
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