top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-16

The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6886

2 years ago

446 upvotes – 152 comments

NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-nasa-life-sparking-energy-source-molecule.html

2 years ago

408 upvotes – 199 comments

Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/hasbro-laying-off-wizards-of-the-coast-staff-is-baffling-and-could-lead-to-a-brain-drain/

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 372 comments

OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003542/openai-suspends-bytedances-account-after-it-used-gpt-to-train-its-own-ai-model

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 267 comments

Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS

https://github.com/skysafe/reblog/tree/main/cve-2023-45866

2 years ago

368 upvotes – 250 comments

SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC

https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3

2 years ago

344 upvotes – 192 comments

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cfet-intel-samsung-tsmc

2 years ago

329 upvotes – 130 comments

Advancements in machine learning for machine learning

https://blog.research.google/2023/12/advancements-in-machine-learning-for.html

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 151 comments

MongoDB security notice

https://www.mongodb.com/alerts

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 169 comments

Chimera Linux

https://chimera-linux.org/

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 207 comments

Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation

https://github.com/tlack/atree

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 105 comments

Moving from relational data to events

https://event-driven.io/en/the_end_is_near_for_crud_data/

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 134 comments

Causal Trees

https://www.farley.ai/posts/causal

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 29 comments

Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-12/solar-and-wind-to-top-coal-power-in-us-for-first-time-in-2024

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 163 comments

Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/you-didnt-just-succeed-you-exceled-sydney-man-dubbed-the-annihilator-wins-excel-world-championship

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 87 comments

The falling nutritional value of crops

https://jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/data-dispatch-4-the-falling-nutritional

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 146 comments

Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/andy-matuschak

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 149 comments

Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-maps-location-data-history-stored-locally-2023-12

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 184 comments

A female albatross over 70 years old

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2023/12/16/a-female-albatross-over-70-years-old_6349131_10.html

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 45 comments

Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/silurian-hypothesis-would-it-be-possible-to-detect-an-industrial-civilization-in-the-geological-record/77818514AA6907750B8F4339F7C70EC6

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 187 comments

RAG to Riches

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/rag-to-riches

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 72 comments

What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.pdf

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 272 comments

ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20231215000518

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 91 comments

Where Johnny Cash came from

https://www.neh.gov/article/where-johnny-cash-came

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 83 comments

Preparing for missions in difficult places

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/preparing-for-missions-in-difficult

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 93 comments

What is the point of a public key fingerprint?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/12/15/pgp-fingerprint/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 146 comments

Rising Temperatures in the Netherlands

https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/rising-temperatures

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 77 comments

Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor

https://www.righto.com/2023/12/386-xor-circuits.html

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 13 comments

Run Mistral 7B on M1 Mac

https://wandb.ai/byyoung3/ml-news/reports/How-to-Run-Mistral-7B-on-an-M1-Mac-With-Ollama--Vmlldzo2MTg4MjA0

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 51 comments

City council passes bill enabling tenants to report vacant apartments

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/12/06/warehousing-vacant-apartments-report-council/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 172 comments

Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-astronomers-extremely-metal-poor-galaxies.html

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 62 comments

S3 Express One Zone, not quite what I hoped for

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/11/29/s3-express-one-zone-not-quite-what-i-hoped-for

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Structure of FTS5 Index in SQLite

https://darksi.de/13.sqlite-fts5-structure/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Transformers on Chips

https://www.etched.ai

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 62 comments

Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/paris-mayor-plans-to-triple-suv-parking-tariffs-cut-air-pollution

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 149 comments

Island gigantism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Studying stars with central black holes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07647

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 96 comments

XLights – open source light sequencer and show scheduler

https://xlights.org/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

How the Feds bounced Binance

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/how-the-feds-bounced-binance

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 103 comments

A guide to technical report writing [pdf]

https://ias.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2020-01-16_IET_Technical_Report_Writing_Guidelines.pdf

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

25 hours of Xcode Cloud now included with the Apple Developer Program

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=ik9z4ll6

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 65 comments

UK court allows ANN patent saying computer programs exclusion does not apply

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2023/2948.html

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 86 comments

A curiously recurring lifetime issue

https://blog.dureuill.net/articles/recurring-lifetime/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 33 comments

Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/15/homelessness-increase-rent-crisis-2023

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 135 comments

US begins review that could eventually lead to PVC ban

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-pvc.amp

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 86 comments

Hubless-wheel electric penny farthing is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece

https://newatlas.com/bicycles/penn-e-farthing-hubless-wheel-electric-penny-farthing/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: 'We took steps to protect our users'

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/9/23995150/beeper-imessage-android-apple-statement

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 98 comments

USB Boot of Multiple ISO Files by GRUB2 Boot Loader

https://www.linuxbabe.com/desktop-linux/boot-from-iso-files-using-grub2-boot-loader

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Victorian romantic rituals and charms

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/victorian-romantic-rituals-and-charms

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Tabletop RPGs we played in 2023

https://www.polygon.com/23989775/best-tabletop-rpgs-2023

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

No Stinking Loops

https://www.nsl.com/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-stop-telling-law-enforcement-001953651.html

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Tree plantations are not the environmental solution they’re purported to be

https://www.wired.com/story/stop-planting-trees-thomas-crowther/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 61 comments

Tastes are a point in space

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/class

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 49 comments

Fakes: Not an internet thing, a human thing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/deepfake-history-of-internet

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

A Beautiful library of SVG logos

https://svgl.vercel.app/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments
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