top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-10

Mechanical Watch (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

2 years ago

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

https://blakewatson.com/journal/omg-lol-an-oasis-on-the-internet/

2 years ago

Bad NEWS, Emacs

https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2023-12-10-bad-news.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591437

2 years ago

Write your own retro compiler

http://t3x.org/t3x/0/book.html

2 years ago

The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/the-surprising-connection-between-after-hours-work-and-decreased-productivity?nojsmode=1

2 years ago

End of Life of Technologies and Devices

https://endoflife.date/

2 years ago

Mistral AI Valued at $2B

https://www.unite.ai/paris-based-startup-and-openai-competitor-mistral-ai-valued-at-2-billion/

2 years ago

Please, expose your RSS

https://rknight.me/please-expose-your-rss/

2 years ago

How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python

https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/cpython-dynamic-dispatch-internals

2 years ago

AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting

https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep

2 years ago

Trippy – A Network Diagnostic Tool

https://trippy.cli.rs/

2 years ago

Mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the Ramsey number

https://www.quantamagazine.org/after-nearly-a-century-a-new-limit-for-patterns-in-graphs-20230502/

2 years ago

Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/stealthy-linux-rootkit-found-in-the-wild-after-going-undetected-for-2-years/

2 years ago

Ratatui

https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

2 years ago

Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

2 years ago

What is a zero refractive index material?

https://skullsinthestars.com/2023/12/09/what-is-a-zero-refractive-index-material/

2 years ago

BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/12/08/bsd-on-windows-things-i-wish-i-knew-existed/

2 years ago

A warrant showing the U.S. government is monitoring push notifications

https://www.404media.co/us-government-warrant-monitoring-push-notifications-apple-google-yahoo/

2 years ago

I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT

https://www.novaspivack.com/technology/nova-mode-the-ultimate-chatgpt-custom-instruction

2 years ago

Sigil II, a Doom WAD from J.Romero, has been released

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/SIGIL_II

2 years ago

‘Inert’ ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than thought

https://theconversation.com/inert-ingredients-in-pesticides-may-be-more-toxic-to-bees-than-scientists-thought-218005

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to inform YouTube a video is no longer under copyright?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591080

2 years ago

Methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm

https://theconversation.com/frozen-methane-under-the-seabed-is-thawing-as-oceans-warm-and-things-are-worse-than-we-thought-216054

2 years ago

Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590080

2 years ago

He steals them, of course

https://literaryreview.co.uk/he-steals-them-of-course

2 years ago

The subtleties of proper B+Tree implementation

https://ayende.com/blog/198241-B/the-subtleties-of-proper-b-tree-implementation

2 years ago

Waveterm

https://www.waveterm.dev/

2 years ago

High school math doesn't prepare most students for their college majors

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-professors-say-high-school-math-doesnt-prepare-most-students-for-their-college-majors/

2 years ago

The valley of the cheese of the dead

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-unusual-cheese-switzerland

2 years ago

Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fuzzy-finding-emacs-instead-of-fzf

2 years ago

FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2023-October/020095.html

2 years ago

PC GEOS: the multitasking DOS-based GUI OS that evolved from a C64 desktop

https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

2 years ago

Mistral-8x7B-Chat

https://huggingface.co/mattshumer/mistral-8x7b-chat

2 years ago

Cramming a tiny program into a tiny ELF file

https://tmpout.sh/3/22.html

2 years ago

Factors driving a productivity explosion

https://fortune.com/2023/12/09/what-is-fueling-productivity-boom-four-reasons/

2 years ago

Show HN: Rot - Offline secrets management

https://github.com/candiddev/rot

2 years ago

Innovation of the Year: BYD Blade Battery

https://www.electrifying.com/blog/best-cars/innovation-of-the-year-byd-blade-battery

2 years ago

Trust-based moderation systems

https://cblgh.org/trustnet/

2 years ago

Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a decade before Linux 0.01

https://github.com/gspu/Coherent

2 years ago

Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00381

2 years ago

Show HN: Watering my Christmas tree with ESPHome

https://johnzanussi.com/posts/diy-automated-christmas-tree-watering

2 years ago

First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tomato-lost-in-international-space-station-found-nasa-astronauts/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Assuming this 2023 LtG paper is correct, how do you prepare?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442

2 years ago

The United Arab Emirates' takeover of African forests

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2023/12/10/the-united-arab-emirates-takeover-of-african-forests_6328426_124.html

2 years ago

Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/climate/saudi-arabia-cop28-fossil-fuels.html

2 years ago

SomaFM

https://somafm.com/

2 years ago

Visual Basic for Applications Language Specification [pdf]

https://msopenspecs.azureedge.net/files/MS-VBAL/%5bMS-VBAL%5d.pdf

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi releases PCIe FFC connector specifications, new HAT+ standard

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/12/11/raspberry-pi-releases-pcie-ffc-connector-specifications-new-hat-standard/

2 years ago

Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591946

2 years ago

SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and NPM packages

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ssh-keys-stolen-by-stream-of-malicious-pypi-and-npm-packages/

2 years ago

Applesauce lead poisoning cases in kids surge amid questions on FDA oversight

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/12/09/applesauce-recall-lead-poisoning-cinnamon/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Should I subscribe to ChatGPT Plus if we can get it for free on Bing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38590313

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38589520

2 years ago

Tyrannosaur's Stomach Contents Have Been Found

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tyrannosaurs-stomach-contents-have-been-found-for-the-first-time/

2 years ago