top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-30

Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models

https://dangeng.github.io/visual_anagrams/

2 years ago

826 upvotes – 71 comments

The weirdest bug I've seen yet

https://engineering.gusto.com/the-weirdest-bug-ive-seen-yet/

2 years ago

619 upvotes – 308 comments

I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hr-performance-improvement-plans-pip-pivot-had-to-quit-2023-11

2 years ago

593 upvotes – 599 comments

Henry Kissinger Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/henry-kissinger-dead.html

2 years ago

590 upvotes – 565 comments

Brickception

https://brickception.xyz/

2 years ago

579 upvotes – 88 comments

Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/stanislaw-lems-prescient-vision-of-artificial-life/

2 years ago

481 upvotes – 165 comments

CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages

https://edri.org/our-work/csar-european-parliament-rejects-mass-scanning-of-private-messages/

2 years ago

477 upvotes – 92 comments

Turbo Pascal Turns 40

https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2023-november-turbopascal40.html

2 years ago

441 upvotes – 265 comments

Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

2 years ago

390 upvotes – 188 comments

Animate Anyone: Image-to-video synthesis for character animation

https://humanaigc.github.io/animate-anyone/

2 years ago

378 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: Bi-directional sync between Postgres and SQLite

https://powersync.com

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 105 comments

XCurl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/30/xcurl/

2 years ago

334 upvotes – 90 comments

How to ripen and store avocados

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-ripen-avocados-7377071

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 179 comments

Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck/design

2 years ago

309 upvotes – 1002 comments

Accelerating Generative AI with PyTorch II: GPT, Fast

https://pytorch.org/blog/accelerating-generative-ai-2/

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe

https://www.paper-tactics.com

2 years ago

303 upvotes – 83 comments

Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 218 comments

Hyundai Uni Wheel electric drive system could revolutionize EV design

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/11/29/uni-wheel-hyundai-kia-electric-vehicle-design/

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 184 comments

Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/29/adobes_buy_of_figma_is/

2 years ago

284 upvotes – 156 comments

Large language models lack deep insights or a theory of mind

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16093

2 years ago

277 upvotes – 261 comments

Shane MacGowan has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67546785

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 91 comments

You do need a technical co-founder [video]

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/why-you-really-do-need-a-technical-co-founder/

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 365 comments

Q-Transformer

https://qtransformer.github.io/

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 63 comments

Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-30/broadcom-to-cut-almost-1-300-vmware-jobs-in-california-after-takeover

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 125 comments

Astronomers find six planets orbiting in resonance

https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-find-six-planets-orbiting-in-resonance/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 59 comments

In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1424461-openzfs-is-still-battling-a-data-corruption-issue?p=1424496#post1424496

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 165 comments

Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union

https://timeuse.barcelona/projects/permanent-time-zones-eu/

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 248 comments

Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE

https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 106 comments

Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts

https://kolibrios.org/en/index.htm

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 100 comments

Why we’re dropping Basecamp

https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 141 comments

Senator calls for the public release of AT&T 'Hemisphere' surveillance records

https://www.engadget.com/us-senator-calls-for-the-public-release-of-att-hemisphere-surveillance-records-083627787.html

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments

Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons

https://liliputing.com/firefox-for-android-is-adding-support-for-400-add-ons/

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 73 comments

The Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit

https://www.righto.com/2023/11/intel-386-clock-circuit.html

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 15 comments

Can generalist foundation models beat special-purpose tuning?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16452

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

Open source supply chain security at Google [video]

https://research.swtch.com/acmscored

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/29/us-gdp-grew-at-a-5point2percent-rate-in-the-third-quarter-even-stronger-than-first-indicated.html

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 177 comments

Retro.directory

http://retro.directory/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

Google to pay Canada's "link tax," drops threat of removing news from search

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-to-pay-canadas-link-tax-drops-threat-of-removing-news-from-search/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 3 comments

Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++

https://best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.html

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 71 comments

Interview with Viktor Lofgren from Marginalia Search

https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20231016-marginalia.html

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Is anyone using self hosted LLM day to day and training it like a new employee

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38476038

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 72 comments

Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/29/lets-not-flip-sides-on-ip-maximalism-because-of-ai/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 120 comments

'Weird Al' Roasts Spotify's Artist Payout System in Year-End Wrapped Video

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weird-al-yankovic-spotify-wrapped-video-criticism-1234905887/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 135 comments

Properties of Lights Out: The Game

https://imois.in/posts/the-properties-of-lights-out-the-game/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Taipy – Turns Data and AI algorithms into full web applications

https://github.com/Avaiga/taipy

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Life lessons from a 44 year old (2022)

https://www.anniemacmanus.com//articles/life-lessons-from-a-44-year-old

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

Elon Musk: "Don't advertise. Go f*** yourself"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/elon-musk-on-x-antisemitism-controversy-dont-advertise-go-f-yourself/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 147 comments

Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes starting December 4

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/its-official-evernote-will-restrict-free-users-to-50-notes/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

How I made Bomb Rush Cyberfunk multiplayer

https://notnite.com/blog/slop-crew

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

Godot 4.2 Released

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-2-arrives-in-style/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

To safely deploy generative AI in health care, models must be open source

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03803-y

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Qdorks.com – Advanced Google search query composer

https://qdorks.com/composer

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their 'app of the year'

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/apple-and-google-avoid-naming-chatgpt-as-their-app-of-the-year-picking-alltrails-and-imprint-instead/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 80 comments

Henry Kissinger Has Died

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/henry-kissinger-american-diplomat-nobel-winner-dead-100-2023-11-30/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try Out Mozilla's .deb Package

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/11/firefox-developer-edition-and-beta-try-out-mozillas-deb-package/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Rolling Stone's negative obituary for Henry Kissinger

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

AI and the Rise of Mediocrity

https://time.com/6337835/ai-mediocrity-essay/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 102 comments
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