top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-23

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report

2 years ago

648 upvotes – 751 comments

Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret

2 years ago

621 upvotes – 308 comments

Xmas.c (1988)

https://udel.edu/~mm/xmas/

2 years ago

559 upvotes – 95 comments

The Art of Electronics (2015)

https://artofelectronics.net/

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 110 comments

NY Governor vetoes ban on noncompete clauses, waters down LLC transparency bill

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-gov-hochul-vetoes-ban-on-noncompete-clauses-waters-down-llc-transparency-bill

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 289 comments

StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation

https://github.com/cumulo-autumn/StreamDiffusion

2 years ago

365 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks

https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 67 comments

Suno AI

https://www.suno.ai/

2 years ago

336 upvotes – 160 comments

Crown shyness

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

2 years ago

332 upvotes – 48 comments

They want you to forget what a film looks like

https://aftermath.site/true-lies-4k-uhd-blu-ray-james-cameron-peter-jackson-park-road-post

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 213 comments

How does a B-tree make queries fast?

https://blog.allegro.tech/2023/11/how-does-btree-make-your-queries-fast.html

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 77 comments

Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service

https://github.com/joaovitoriasilva/endurain

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 118 comments

In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users

https://organicmaps.app/news/2023-12-23/in-2023-organic-maps-got-its-first-million-users/

2 years ago

243 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/ask-yourself-dumb-questions-and-answer-them/

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 119 comments

Bayesians moving from defense to offense

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/12/23/bayesians-moving-from-defense-to-offense-i-really-think-its-kind-of-irresponsible-now-not-to-use-the-information-from-all-those-thousands-of-medical-trials-that-came-before-is-that-very/

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 135 comments

Understanding every byte in a WASM module

https://danielmangum.com/posts/every-byte-wasm-module/

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 37 comments

How Pinterest scaled

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 147 comments

Hbomberguy didn't want to make that 4-hour plagiarism video

https://www.vulture.com/2023/12/hbomberguy-interview-james-somerton-plagiarism.html

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 18 comments

BBS: The Documentary (2005)

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 65 comments

Otter, Fastest Go in-memory cache based on S3-FIFO algorithm

https://github.com/maypok86/otter

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 71 comments

Quantum computing's reality check

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 129 comments

Cummins pickup truck engines tricked air quality controls, feds say

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/22/cummins-truck-engines-defeat-devices-feds-say/72013430007/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 105 comments

Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable

http://plumshell.com/2023/12/23/having-a-game-im-really-into-makes-every-day-incredibly-enjoyable/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 83 comments

DIY ventilation heat exchanger (2010)

https://ecorenovator.org/forum/showthread.php?s=41c17447383e29b03903f4e0136e55be&p=5792

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 99 comments

Was BASIC that horrible or better?

https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 262 comments

"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/sam-altman-openai-peter-thiel-silicon-valley/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 163 comments

Beeper Mini is now open-source

https://github.com/beeper/imessage

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 144 comments

Let me repeat that back to you

https://roughlywritten.substack.com/p/let-me-repeat-that-back-to-you

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 70 comments

Rumble turns off access in Brazil because of government's censorship demands

https://reclaimthenet.org/rumble-challenges-brazil-censorship-demands

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 207 comments

Indexing a billion pages

https://blog.mwmbl.org/articles/indexing-a-billion/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 35 comments

How Many People? Ancient Demography

https://acoup.blog/2023/12/22/collections-how-many-people-ancient-demography/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 5 comments

2TB microSD card is on the way early next year

https://overkill.wtf/2tb-microsd-card-on-the-way/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 176 comments

2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found under Rome

https://www.cnn.com/style/rome-palatine-hill-archaeology-discovery/index.html

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 19 comments

Researchers discover neuronal biomarkers of schizophrenia in the blood

https://hmri.org.au/news-article/researchers-discover-neuronal-biomarkers-schizophrenia-blood

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Translation and accelerated solving of differential equations on GPU platforms

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06835

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better

http://www.nicemice.net/par/

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 33 comments

GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues

https://www.engadget.com/gm-halts-sales-of-its-new-chevy-blazer-ev-amid-reports-of-major-software-issues-214225984.html

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Talk Paper Scissors

https://talkpaperscissors.com/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 31 comments

Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03009

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 51 comments

Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board for pro-Palestine blog post

https://hachyderm.io/@paulbiggar/111627367674590120

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

AI companies required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/22/24012757/ai-foundation-model-transparency-act-bill-copyright-regulation

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 45 comments

Spare a Thought for Julian Assange Spending His Fifth Christmas Behind Bars

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/spare-a-thought-for-julian-assange-spending-his-fifth-christmas-behind-bars/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Termdbms – A TUI for viewing and editing database files

https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client

https://github.com/curdinc/skylar-email

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (2011)

https://longform.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 83 comments

Cummins Fined $1.6B for Diesel Defeat Devices in 630K RAM Trucks

https://www.thedrive.com/news/cummins-fined-1-67-billion-for-diesel-defeat-devices-in-630000-ram-pickups

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 152 comments

Elixir v1.16 Released

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/12/22/elixir-v1-16-0-released/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Is Tetr.io Legal?

https://blog.osk.sh/post.php?p=643dbb578e1ba3.57021842

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Goodsteins theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Ghidra 11.0 Released

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/tag/Ghidra_11.0_build

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

What is a parser mismatch vulnerability? (2022)

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2022/04/11/what-is-parser-mismatch/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules

https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-violated-contract-by-failing-pay-millions-bonuses-us-judge-rules-2023-12-23/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Network Science by Albert-László Barabási

http://networksciencebook.com/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board

https://twitter.com/paulbiggar/status/1738371292271616220?s=46

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Bug story: Sorting by timestamp

https://adam-p.ca/blog/2023/12/sort-by-timestamp/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38742311

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 61 comments

Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p2981r1.html

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 68 comments

OCaml as the Universal Translator – DkSDK Merry Christmas 2023

https://gitlab.com/diskuv/samples/merrychristmas2023#ocaml-as-the-universal-translator-dksdk-merry-christmas-2023

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males

https://newatlas.com/science/chemosignals-womens-tears-reduces-male-aggression-decreases-brain-activity/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 65 comments

Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the data (2011) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/notices/201105/rtx110500667p.pdf

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments
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