top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-18

Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-adobe-abandon-proposed-merger/

2 years ago

2202 upvotes – 964 comments

Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase

https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3

2 years ago

559 upvotes – 142 comments

"I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1736533308849443121

2 years ago

432 upvotes – 381 comments

I Love Ruby

https://eliseshaffer.com/2023/12/18/i-love-ruby/

2 years ago

429 upvotes – 291 comments

VW is putting buttons back in cars

https://www.thedrive.com/news/vw-is-putting-buttons-back-in-cars-because-people-complained-enough

2 years ago

378 upvotes – 225 comments

Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013

https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60

2 years ago

369 upvotes – 158 comments

Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

2 years ago

368 upvotes – 208 comments

Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/954787/41470c731eda02a4/

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 237 comments

PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx

https://postgrest.org/en/stable/how-tos/providing-html-content-using-htmx.html

2 years ago

336 upvotes – 150 comments

3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series

https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/calculus

2 years ago

319 upvotes – 51 comments

The "Cheap" Web

https://potato.cheap

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 219 comments

Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/apple-halting-apple-watch-series-9-and-apple-watch-ultra-2-sales/

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 482 comments

Lessons from a never-ending personal project

https://siddhesh.substack.com/p/projects

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 78 comments

Fly Kubernetes

https://fly.io/blog/fks/

2 years ago

272 upvotes – 168 comments

Librum: Open-Source e-book platform

https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 95 comments

This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond

https://servo.org/blog/2023/12/18/this-year-in-servo/

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 81 comments

Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 304 comments

Grindavik [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvcP4kVVOnk

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 81 comments

The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgpjpr35nko

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 242 comments

Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH

https://terrapin-attack.com

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code

https://github.com/aymenfurter/microagents

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 75 comments

Many options for running Mistral models in your terminal using LLM

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/18/mistral/

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 99 comments

US Steel, once the largest corporation, agrees to sell to Nippon Steel

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/investing/us-steel-nippon-steel-deal/index.html

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 196 comments

Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/18/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentencing-fraud-charges.html

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 182 comments

Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity

https://ashvardanian.com/posts/python-c-assembly-comparison/

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 55 comments

Flipboard Begins to Federate

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-to-federate-c56ec788feaa

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 121 comments

Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory

https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-04-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-faster-while-using-less-memory/

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 55 comments

Handbook of Applied Cryptography

https://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 22 comments

The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days

https://www.bl.uk/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 126 comments

New PFAS discovered with novel testing method

https://research.unc.edu/2023/12/12/carolina-chemists-discover-eight-new-pfas-with-novel-testing-method/

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 87 comments

How many CPU cores can you use in parallel?

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/cpu-thread-pool-size/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 98 comments

Why are things expensive?

https://www.why-expensive.com/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 461 comments

EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 325 comments

AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-strikes-back-at-nvidia-with-new-mi300x-benchmarks-mi300x-shows-30-higher-performance-than-h100-even-with-an-optimized-software-stack

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation

https://www.androidauthority.com/beeper-vs-apple-us-senators-letter-doj-3395333/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 318 comments

Google's True Moonshot

https://stratechery.com/2023/googles-true-moonshot/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 123 comments

Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/12/15/pilots-mental-health-faa-certification/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 166 comments

Interactive Code Cells

https://antonz.org/code-cells/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 42 comments

Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application

https://mtlynch.io/notes/zig-unit-test-c/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 52 comments

Transaction Isolation in Postgres

https://www.thenile.dev/blog/transaction-isolation-postgres

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

To be great, be good, repeatably (2019)

https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Faster Inferencing

https://github.com/microsoft/LLMLingua

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Bricks Can Absorb Traffic Noise – Thesis Preso on Helmholtz Resonators [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-p4AkgVU8

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 102 comments

Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.

https://taylor.town/dollar-per-hour

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 133 comments

Paged Out Issue #3

https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 18 comments

Send Me to Heaven

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

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 62 comments

Dropbox has hidden third party AI settings, not disabled them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684252

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 31 comments

Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

https://web.media.mit.edu/%7Elieber/Teaching/Collaboration/Final-Projects/Starner-Project.html

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

Tiny Code Christmas

https://tcc.lovebyte.party/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 16 comments

PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication

https://www.highgo.ca/2023/12/18/new-in-postgresql-16-bi-directional-logical-replication/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

Figgie: Simulate stock trading with a deck of cards

https://figgie.com/how-to-play

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 24 comments

Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT

https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2023/12/small-offline-large-language-model.html

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 24 comments

New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker

https://github.com/thingsboard/tbmq

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 77 comments

Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/pumped-water-energy-storage

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 130 comments

ViewStats – YouTube Channel Statistics

https://www.viewstats.com/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 90 comments

Volcanic eruption started just north of the town of Grindavik, Iceland

https://www.visir.is/g/20232505181d/eld-gos-hafid-a-reykja-nes-skaga

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 2 comments

Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-foreign-surveillance-law-280k-times-to-snoop-on-people-in-the-us/

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs [video] - Eng Mgr @ OpenAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeKMEXUrlq4

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 7 comments

Church vs. Curry Types

https://ericnormand.me/article/church-vs-curry-types

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Continue will generate, refactor, and explain entire sections of code

https://continue.dev/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 72 comments

Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/copyright-claim-against-tolkien-estate-backfires-on-lord-of-the-rings-fanfiction-author

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 126 comments

Internet Archive appeals, says judge Koeltl "misapplied the fair use factors"

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/93985-internet-archive-seeks-reversal-in-book-scanning-suit.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to violations of Huawei patents

https://www.aroged.com/2023/12/15/fritzbox-avm-is-threatened-with-a-sales-ban-due-to-violations-of-huaweis-wlan-patents/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple halts US sales of watch after losing patent case

https://www.ft.com/content/52a15bec-8dc2-4a19-9749-8b353c53035c

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

You Don't Need HTML

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/you-dont-need-html/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

SEC's new data breach disclosure rules take effect, here's what you need to know

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/18/new-sec-data-breach-disclosure-rules/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/17/business/greyhound-buses-transportation-cities/index.html

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 100 comments

Jarvis: A Voice Virtual Assistant in Python (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram)

https://github.com/AlexandreSajus/JARVIS

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6709

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 126 comments

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019)

https://gwern.net/improvement

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

Ed Roberts: The Secret Father of Modern Computing

https://every.to/p/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments
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