top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-22

Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

https://heynote.com/

2 years ago

1063 upvotes – 303 comments

How big is YouTube?

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/

2 years ago

814 upvotes – 246 comments

From Nand to Tetris (2017)

https://www.nand2tetris.org

2 years ago

667 upvotes – 174 comments

Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

2 years ago

567 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38733282

2 years ago

441 upvotes – 499 comments

SSH over HTTPS

https://trofi.github.io/posts/295-ssh-over-https.html

2 years ago

426 upvotes – 129 comments

Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

https://roughjs.com/

2 years ago

372 upvotes – 39 comments

A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks

https://00xbyte.github.io/posts/Don%27t-Believe-Your-Eyes-A-WhatsApp-Clickjacking-Vulnerability/

2 years ago

364 upvotes – 81 comments

LED Industrial Piercing

https://mitxela.com/projects/scaffold

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 61 comments

Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-overwhelmed-by-massive-spam-attack/504527/

2 years ago

325 upvotes – 226 comments

Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/12/22/a-proclamation-on-granting-pardon-for-the-offense-of-simple-possession-of-marijuana-attempted-simple-possession-of-marijuana-or-use-of-marijuana/

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 336 comments

Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kh5rbndrjd2x

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 333 comments

In the long run, we're all Dad

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-the-long-run-were-all-dad

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 157 comments

Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb

https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111618420373868285

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 103 comments

Lazarus IDE 3.0

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=65612.0

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview

https://webkit.org/blog/14879/webgpu-now-available-for-testing-in-safari-technology-preview/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 161 comments

How to make LLMs go fast

https://vgel.me/posts/faster-inference/

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 54 comments

A structured note-taking app for personal use

https://github.com/penxio/penx

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 151 comments

NewPipe 0.26

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.26.0

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 91 comments

Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash

https://biggieblog.com/celebrating-the-first-nes-tetris-game-crash/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 56 comments

IP over Spaghetti (2019)

https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 60 comments

Mozilla sccache: ccache with cloud storage

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 93 comments

Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/memory-safety-is-a-red-herring

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 158 comments

Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241778960_A_Pseudo-Quantum_Triad_Schrodinger%27s_Equation_the_Uncertainty_Principle_and_the_Heisenberg_Group

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 86 comments

SymbOS Z80 multitasking operating system

http://www.symbos.de/

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 69 comments

Maze Generator

https://mazegenerator.net/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 51 comments

The Hyperloop was always a scam

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 192 comments

Groqchat

https://chat.groq.com/

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 119 comments

Ohio gives historical status to building that once housed CompuServe

https://news.wosu.org/2023-12-21/ohio-gives-historical-status-to-building-that-once-housed-internet-service-pioneer-compuserve

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 52 comments

TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the power of language models for text rendering

https://jingyechen.github.io/textdiffuser2/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Emu2 – A Gemini-like open-source 37B Multimodal Model

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38730143

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 27 comments

3500 arrested in global cybercrime crackdown

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/3500-arrested-300m-seized-in-global-cybercrime-crackdown

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/shein-forces-amazon-to-lower-seller-fees

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 143 comments

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart (2021)

https://selmec.org.uk/articles/112-leonardo-da-vinci-s-self-powered-cart

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 40 comments

Do I need to get out the soldering iron again? (2018)

https://www.naughtycomputer.uk/do_i_really_need_to_get_out_the_soldering_iron_again.html

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 125 comments

Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance

https://today.tamu.edu/2023/12/21/texas-am-team-develops-polymers-that-can-kill-bacteria/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 85 comments

What We Need Instead of "Web Components"

https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/web-component-alternative-futures/

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 141 comments

Labs.Google

https://labs.google/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 105 comments

How to Build a Windmill (2012)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill/

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 22 comments

Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database

https://jonatron.github.io/shitflation/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care

https://materializedview.io/p/database-isolation-is-broken-you-should-care

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12615

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 46 comments

Modern C for Fedora (and the World)

https://lwn.net/Articles/954018/

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 87 comments

FreeBasic

https://www.freebasic.net/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 70 comments

Qsv: Efficient CSV CLI Toolkit

https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE

https://mixtral-moe-vis-d726c4a10ef5.herokuapp.com/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 23 comments

Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1982-perlis.pdf

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

What Is OIDC?

https://fusionauth.io/articles/identity-basics/what-is-oidc

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Ichiki Shirō

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiki_Shir%C5%8D

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

WARC'in the Crawler

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/94_warc_warc/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Open-source AI knowledge database with web UI and Enterprise SSO

https://github.com/casibase/casibase

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Scientists have 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale

https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-have-20-minute-conversation-with-a-humpback-whale-named-twain/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

NLP Research in the Era of LLMs

https://nlpnewsletter.substack.com/p/nlp-research-in-the-era-of-llms

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings

https://gcaptain.com/african-ports-overwhelmed-by-red-sea-reroutings/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 204 comments

AI can diagnose childhood autism from retinal photos

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/20/ai-can-diagnose-childhood-autism-in-eye-photos-with-100-accuracy/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 53 comments

Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary

https://www.science.org/content/article/kids-chattier-parents-are-more-talkative-may-have-bigger-vocabulary

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 58 comments

Comcast hit by CitrixBleed, 36M customers' data stolen

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/12/comcast-s-xfinity-hit-by-citrixbleed-hack-36-million-customers-data-exposed/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0261

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

The Richest Countries in 2023

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/12/15/the-worlds-richest-countries-in-2023

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments

The Sphere

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/12/22/the-sphere/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736625

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

GNU Radio – Project Update 2023 Q4

https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2023-12-15-2023-Q4-Project-Update/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-detecting-unwanted-location-trackers/01/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

How I obtained a business manager visa in Japan

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/obtaining-a-business-manager-visa-in-japan

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 52 comments

"Nightmare Tenant" Story Amplified by Seattle Times Crumbles Under Scrutiny

https://publicola.com/2023/12/22/nightmare-tenant-story-amplified-by-seattle-times-right-wing-media-crumbles-under-scrutiny/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

Enigmash Game

https://jacklance.github.io/PuzzleScript/play.html?p=cfdcc6e23f1fb3e9de2fd42fafaf4d4c

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Watching the world

https://webcamaze.engineering.zhaw.ch/watchingtheworld/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments
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