top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-07

Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

https://twitter.com/parmy/status/1732811357068615969

2 years ago

1039 upvotes – 659 comments

Making noisy SVGs

https://daniel.do/article/making-noisy-svgs/

2 years ago

499 upvotes – 90 comments

Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/87664/fairphone-5-keeping-it-10-10

2 years ago

486 upvotes – 477 comments

SVG Tutorial

https://svg-tutorial.com/

2 years ago

484 upvotes – 110 comments

A lost X-Files song

https://twitter.com/laurenancona/status/1731900441800155459

2 years ago

455 upvotes – 170 comments

Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/google-calls-drive-data-loss-fixed-locks-forum-threads-saying-otherwise/

2 years ago

405 upvotes – 170 comments

A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-bioworks-faq

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 150 comments

23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration

https://stackdiary.com/23andme-updates-tos-to-force-binding-arbitration/

2 years ago

374 upvotes – 244 comments

He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price

https://www.ft.com/content/de5fea12-2938-4c20-b394-10ca258a5fa1

2 years ago

362 upvotes – 303 comments

Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/study-why-a-spritz-of-water-before-grinding-coffee-yields-less-waste-tastier-espresso/

2 years ago

346 upvotes – 262 comments

Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 219 comments

Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI

https://ai.meta.com/blog/purple-llama-open-trust-safety-generative-ai/

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 321 comments

Data Engineering Design Patterns

https://www.dedp.online/

2 years ago

334 upvotes – 48 comments

Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/11/23/lithium-shortage-bubble-implodes-once-again-as-demand-and-production-both-surged/

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 179 comments

Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers

https://electrek.co/2023/12/07/tesla-shares-48v-architecture-with-other-automakers-to-move-the-industry/

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 484 comments

Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67635851

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 156 comments

Choose your own IP

https://tailscale.com/blog/choose-your-ip/

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 173 comments

Building end-to-end security for Messenger

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-to-end-security-for-messenger/

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 385 comments

Fake chips, I got stung

https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2023/12/01/fake-chips-i-got-stung/

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 186 comments

OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12

2 years ago

273 upvotes – 258 comments

Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation

https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiobox-generating-audio-voice-natural-language-prompts/

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556188

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 234 comments

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 501 comments

Things I learned from teaching

https://claytonwramsey.github.io/blog/learned-from-teaching.html

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 130 comments

CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG

https://richg42.blogspot.com/2023/12/announcing-cpng-compatible-network.html

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 120 comments

Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 179 comments

Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 32 comments

Memray: Python memory profiler

https://bloomberg.github.io/memray/index.html

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 21 comments

A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”

https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique.html

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 9 comments

User Interface Typography

https://imperavi.com/books/ui-typography/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 44 comments

Electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals

https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2023/12/20231207-01.html

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 57 comments

WigglyPaint: A juicy, jiggly drawing program

https://internet-janitor.itch.io/wigglypaint

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 19 comments

How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111538350617290554

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 58 comments

How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

https://medium.com/@lymanstone/how-many-hobbits-a-demographic-analysis-of-middle-earth-cd53b91d141f

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 119 comments

Chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware

https://cdm.link/2023/12/chipsynth-c64/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 51 comments

Helen Toner shares her side

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/helen-toner-openai-board-2e4031ef

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 249 comments

Standard Webhooks: open-source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks

https://github.com/standard-webhooks/standard-webhooks

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 32 comments

Three Decades of HTML

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/06/three-decades-of-html/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 40 comments

A Schism in the OpenPGP World

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953797/7222cd75661fb888/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 271 comments

The diminishing half-life of knowledge

https://rednafi.com/zephyr/diminishing_half_life_of_knowledge/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 80 comments

Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers

https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2023/everyday-performance-rules-for-ruby-on-rails-developers

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in-gaming-performance-tests-against-3-Linux-gaming-distros.778624.0.html

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 126 comments

StableLM Zephyr 3B

https://stability.ai/news/stablelm-zephyr-3b-stability-llm

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance-3392252/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

https://danluu.com/p95-skill/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 181 comments

Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553008

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 88 comments

MIDI Editor

http://www.midieditor.org/index.php?category=intro

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/07/spotify-cfo-cashes-in-72m-in-shares-after-value-surges-on-news-of-job-cuts

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 186 comments

Milk-V Pioneer – native RISC-V computer

https://milkv.io/pioneer

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 64 comments

Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/fairphone_5_repairability/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 2 comments

Efficient parallelization of an ubiquitous sequential computation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06281

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

Ayllu: Hackable Code Forge Built on Open Standards

https://ayllu-forge.org/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments
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