top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-24

Costs of running a macOS app studio business

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Costs-of-running-a-macOS-app-studio-business

2 years ago

677 upvotes – 210 comments

Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 426 comments

Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/738/can-microsoft-flight-simulator-help-me-learn-to-fly-or-make-me-a-better-pilot

2 years ago

410 upvotes – 260 comments

The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close

https://bytecellar.com/2023/12/23/the-era-of-american-computer-magazines-has-drawn-to-a-close/

2 years ago

336 upvotes – 161 comments

Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them

https://generals.io/

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 74 comments

"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"

http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.html

2 years ago

300 upvotes – 76 comments

Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]

https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 225 comments

Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 181 comments

How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/114033/how-can-santa-keep-his-lists-when-the-gdpr-is-around

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 88 comments

America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/12/american-chestnut-perfect-tree-restoration/676927/

2 years ago

244 upvotes – 176 comments

x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (2022)

http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~ed/x86.html

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 55 comments

Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB

https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-19-irb-for-ruby-3-3/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 77 comments

If only someone told me this before my first startup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38755180

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 82 comments

Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)

https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 53 comments

San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels

https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-rent-prices-18534829.php

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 288 comments

Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/11/medical-schools-idd-education-intellectual-developmental-disabilities-patients/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 170 comments

Resetting the timer in my toothbrush

https://nonnullish.pages.dev/posts/resetting-the-timer-in-my-toothbrush/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

https://www.weeksofyour.life/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 83 comments

Toyota's Daihatsu to halt all vehicle shipments as safety scandal widens

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/20/toyotas-daihatsu-to-halt-vehicle-shipments-as-safety-scandal-widens.html

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 61 comments

Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis?

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/what-is-fm-synthesis

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 54 comments

Chemical reactions fuel crises at LA County's two largest landfills

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-uncontrolled-chemical-reactions-fuel-crises.html

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 85 comments

Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13401

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 55 comments

Enlightenment 0.26

https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2022-12-23-enlightenment-0.26.0

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 50 comments

The Limits to Growth (1972)

https://donellameadows.org/the-limits-to-growth-now-available-to-read-online/

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 123 comments

Germany hits 80 GW milestone

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/12/21/germany-hits-80-gw-milestone/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 198 comments

Interview about Austral, a systems programming language with linear types

https://blog.lambdaclass.com/austral/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 43 comments

Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-is-now-the-12th-largest-economy-in-the-world/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/is-bach-the-greatest-achiever-of-all-time.html

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 102 comments

When the Power Macintosh Ran NetWare (Featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/12/when-power-macintosh-ran-netware.html

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII

https://www.filfre.net/2023/12/putting-the-j-in-the-rpg-part-3-playing-final-fantasy-vii-or-old-man-yells-at-jrpg/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 120 comments

North America: Hand-Drawn Portrait of a Continent

https://www.antonthomasart.com/the-north-american-continent.html

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 2 comments

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/21/philips_exploding_mri/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 66 comments

Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 101 comments

Let the terminal bells ring out

https://muxup.com/2023q4/let-the-terminal-bells-ring-out

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

How to survive in a Chinese company

https://jaapgrolleman.com/how-to-survive-in-a-chinese-company/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Meilisearch expands search power with Arroy's filtered disk ANN

https://blog.kerollmops.com/meilisearch-expands-search-power-with-arroy-s-filtered-disk-ann

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Why isn't the new year on the winter solstice? (2018)

https://slj.ma/cal.html

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

Pixelating Live with SVG

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/21/pixelating-live-with-svg/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Neocities – Developers API

https://neocities.org/api

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Intel's CEO says Moore's Law is slowing to a three-year cadence but not dead yet

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intels-ceo-says-moores-law-is-slowing-to-a-three-year-cadence-but-its-not-dead-yet

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38757555

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments

I Just Need a Programmer

https://blobstreaming.org/i-just-need-a-programmer/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 67 comments

Beeper Mini removed from Google Play?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 77 comments

Authors and copyright scholars back Internet Archive in landmark legal battle

https://torrentfreak.com/authors-and-copyright-scholars-back-internet-archive-in-landmark-legal-battle-231222/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

You don't need analytics on your blog

https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/12/24/You-dont-need-analytics-on-your-blog

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 73 comments

Preparedness Framework

https://openai.com/safety/preparedness

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 65 comments

Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/21/displays-we-love-hacking-spi-and-i2c/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?

https://www.collapsemusings.com/should-we-tell-people-its-too-late-to-save-civilization/

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 122 comments

A circular 3D-printed concrete bridge

https://www.designboom.com/technology/holcim-3d-prints-phoenix-reinforcement-free-concrete-bridge-12-14-2023/

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 67 comments

Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Unify-usr-bin-sbin

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 78 comments

How the weak win wars: A theory of asymmetric conflict [pdf] (2001)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210827053020id_/https://watermark.silverchair.com/016228801753212868.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAtAwggLMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK9MIICuQIBADCCArIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMsFx_L4GNlU2N202gAgEQgIICg0JcfB_c0FpMcWGV1VmX2fx4NNs5ndOi5wzFx9l8AWBAd_KVbp5AuElpYXEUZSE8F28zUGJJ_pUhQ4dEjJfL8dH2EjaBPxsbstLCOyMPeXUuRQmDLLAPu5_cFf_NlscYvuanjGvnS3TpcYzjA6FHJaP9Y9OnjKkDpejzsEQeFy_aBOGujlgKU94alIeBgxrvxgXAFpLfHYsk3F4LNvKuWPw-AFvADltfKSnF77-4hJFj2oJOUsKSWIiLYmGnPRbP_kvawXfdyhg5W_Rt8KogNPKq4oLodfOokuGEoVdzLEmaX0FcOv_0Zz5LTrbWVG0NufNTglqp6XG3bG29XcXq-Zn5h4QzCudPhaj0_wps0WCgzM5SUjeGevsbRmLtkRHAY2xYrQDivd8RmF7cw3tucjBDxt8l-11KEEp9j5UANFhn5lQDObRsQcbaBGdNXO1SrYRwblxUFzSqgz160x05gFfdfipS1-xxbq2appUBYwS72GmFFROzKRToZy4MbNliSX-KCqXhJW6a6wz4RaL9z-38Xp0pIeYWn1pibF7vj6WF6eLSAU6u-95ufNY7o4aL83JJuhPJLeaowmfWnF4TsOaPNcYr6CfYgh0WAd-SK7gjoAxkZXWV9QpgOInzhgT9DNiD6CxK3UjJRQPxCyQrGUehvwRKmIwMbLrwViTGU60fJcCJxl-ZYbCsUAD8LqRnsDeMY40DE0h9pBQ-AlS5GEfwHmsKXiPgx04LEBz97wt-bEjL6RKBTrzGftTNlHPWpRXQ2QNGMVTtzSyUNUU-3Ci43zjcila8kT298HrAc8wGbX3gWzPMiEGBD8h4bCxToe8xLBH2NZ1jlsETYAsUqWJc9Ds

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 60 comments

I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions

https://mastodon.cyborch.com/@anders/111630551621669604

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 128 comments

My first Z80 assembly language program

https://nanochess.org/notebook.html

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

2024 Quadrantid meteor shower to peak January 3-4

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-quadrantid-meteor-shower/

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Dolphin-2_6-Phi-2

https://huggingface.co/cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2_6-phi-2

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

People aren't posting on social media as much

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/social-media-nobody-posting-f6c2fd3e

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

Many prehistoric handprints show missing finger. What if this wasn't accidental?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 62 comments

The end of retirement

https://thewalrus.ca/the-end-of-retirement/

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 95 comments
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