top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-20

Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

https://varun.ch/server

2 years ago

615 upvotes – 583 comments

Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/19/24008426/volkswagen-audi-porsche-tesla-nacs-ev-charging-plug

2 years ago

432 upvotes – 633 comments

High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs

https://github.com/SJTU-IPADS/PowerInfer

2 years ago

417 upvotes – 83 comments

Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch

https://github.com/johnma2006/mamba-minimal

2 years ago

417 upvotes – 108 comments

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/advice-for-new-software-devs-whove-read-all-those/

2 years ago

399 upvotes – 345 comments

Wireflow – free, online, open source tool for creating user-flow prototypes

https://wireflow.co

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: I'm open-sourcing my game engine

https://github.com/moddio/moddio2

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 86 comments

Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis in mice

https://news.stanford.edu/2023/12/20/breast-cancer-metastasis-off-switch-revealed/

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 81 comments

Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles

https://waymo.com/blog/2023/12/waymo-significantly-outperforms.html

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 861 comments

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

2 years ago

305 upvotes – 307 comments

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 69 comments

LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory

https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.11514

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 53 comments

Build a search engine, not a vector DB

https://blog.elicit.com/search-vs-vector-db/

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 82 comments

iMessage Key Verification

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213465

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 121 comments

Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized

https://openpipe.ai/blog/mistral-7b-fine-tune-optimized

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 103 comments

Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition for five years

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/rite-aid-banned-using-ai-facial-recognition-after-ftc-says-retailer-deployed-technology-without

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 80 comments

Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online

https://usa.watchpro.com/rolex-fined-100-million-for-preventing-its-watches-being-sold-online/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 263 comments

How to Escape a Container

https://www.panoptica.app/research/7-ways-to-escape-a-container

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 135 comments

The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive

https://www.righto.com/2023/12/HP-silicon-on-sapphire-phi-chip.html

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 45 comments

What's next for Tor and privacy online?

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-in-2023/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 90 comments

A KDE Plasma theme that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows 7

https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 78 comments

100 Lines of C, in a Closet (2020)

https://blog.notryan.com/009.txt

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 15 comments

Making synthesized sounds more acoustic

https://nathan.ho.name/posts/acoustic-sounds/

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

https://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gameboy/

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 50 comments

VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaScript

https://vanjs.org/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 168 comments

Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights

https://jalopnik.com/mercedes-turquoise-automated-driving-lights-level-3-1851110043

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 185 comments

Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine

https://antonz.org/trying-chdb/

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 16 comments

There's a Concorde Engine Complete with Afterburner for Sale on eBay

https://simpleflying.com/concorde-engine-for-sale-ebay/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 112 comments

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective

https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-blamed-drivers-failures-parts-it-long-knew-were-defective-2023-12-20/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 5 comments

Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app

https://notesnook.com/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 141 comments

Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: I built an open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI

https://avse.vercel.app

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-cannot-be-patent-inventor-uk-supreme-court-rules-landmark-case-2023-12-20/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 83 comments

An AI that learns about chemical reactions and designs a procedure to make them

https://new.nsf.gov/science-matters/meet-coscientist-your-ai-lab-partner

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 46 comments

California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years

https://www.powermag.com/california-regulators-vote-to-keep-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-open-another-five-years/

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 170 comments

Hacker News Activity Analysis with GPT-4 Agent

https://eu.getdot.ai/share/c80139c9-13f4-4db4-88f6-6e058ba31ad4?org_id=getdot.ai

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 51 comments

Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features

https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.6

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 81 comments

Math Team

https://benexdict.io/p/math-team

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 102 comments

Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software after false ID shoplifters

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/rite-aid-facial-recognition/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 86 comments

Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (2010)

https://secretgeek.net/dod_intro

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://zoo.dev/blog/introducing-text-to-cad

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 95 comments

IBM demonstrates 133-qubit Heron

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/ibm-demonstrates-useful-quantum-computing-within-133-qubit-heron-announces-entry-into-quantum-centric-supercomputing-era

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 62 comments

String pinsetters are upending bowling

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-21/la-me-bowling-revolution

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 169 comments

SSH protects the most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

How I Work

https://blar.do/how-i-work/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 15 comments

Null Island Tourist Shirt

https://github.com/yetzt/null-island

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/bird-bankruptcy/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 118 comments

An update on HDR and color management in KWin

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition

https://www.jeffquast.com/post/ucs-detect-test-results/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/uniqlo-self-checkout-rfid-holiday-shopping-fast-retailing-c4287e2f

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 116 comments

SOGo: Open-source groupware solution to Share calendars, address books and mails

https://www.sogo.nu/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

End of an era for electronics giant Toshiba

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67757333

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

Pissandshittium: The Browser that doesn't give a shit

https://pissandshittium.org/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 16 comments

Uniting the Linux random-number devices (2022)

https://lwn.net/Articles/884875/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-14/are-underground-tubes-the-future-of-home-delivery-this-startup-hopes-so

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 186 comments

Lessons on building business value

https://lockedinspace.com/posts/002.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Easily train AlphaZero-like agents on any environment you want

https://github.com/s-casci/tinyzero

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

NRF retracts its assertion that organized retail crime led to 50% of losses

https://stateline.org/2023/12/19/smash-and-grab-robberies-fuel-new-laws-but-critics-question-the-need/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 93 comments

Wayland vs. X – Overview

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch01.html

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 181 comments

C Object Oriented Programming (2014)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/10/21/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 58 comments

Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/restored-478-key-31-tone-moog-synthesizer-from-1968-sounds-beautifully-bizarre/

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Building a faster hash table for high performance SQL joins

https://questdb.io/blog/building-faster-hash-table-high-performance-sql-joins/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Record global temperatures and U.S. billion-dollar disasters

https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/record-global-temperatures-and-us-billion-dollar-disasters-2023

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Forwarder – FOSS MITM proxy written in Go

https://forwarder-proxy.io

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a Unix socket

https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/12/19/ssh-over-unix-socket/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 59 comments

I spent a year building an app and failed – The story of Taskwer

https://www.buildingwithchris.com/how-i-spent-a-year-building-an-app-and-failed-the-story-of-taskwer/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: I made a dead simple logo maker

https://shipfa.st/tools/logo-fast

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/11/15/was-an-ancient-bacterium-awakened-by-an-industrial-accident

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

Creating a Disc Golf picker upper

https://victorguyard.com/projects/createxcapstone

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Hn.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 44 comments

The Machiavellian Maze

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/the-machiavellian-maze

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material

https://www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-csam-child-abuse/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706167

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

Update tinsel bunting

https://github.com/alphagov/frontend/pull/3895

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 35 comments

New York Times Doxxes Source By Publishing Passport Number

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/20/new-york-times-doxxes-source-human-trafficking/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

GM Dealer Chat Bot Agrees to Sell 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/12/gm-dealer-chat-bot-agrees-to-sell-2024-chevy-tahoe-for-1/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments
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