top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-12-27

DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop

2 years ago

First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61106

2 years ago

3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js

https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/

2 years ago

The curse of the goitre in Switzerland

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil

2 years ago

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/27/24016212/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit-copyright-infringement

2 years ago

Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

2 years ago

Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers

https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/

2 years ago

Things software developers should learn about learning

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/1/278891-10-things-software-developers-should-learn-about-learning/fulltext

2 years ago

Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

2 years ago

Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

https://valetudo.cloud/

2 years ago

4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/

2 years ago

Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video]

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/37c3/relive/12142

2 years ago

No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability

https://joshua.hu/apple-ios-patched-unpatched-vulnerabilities

2 years ago

Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29

2 years ago

How we turned the tide in the roach wars

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/11/cockroach-bait-invention-combat/676167/

2 years ago

Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits

https://minimaxir.com/2023/12/chatgpt-structured-data/

2 years ago

Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j1b4whvmIOc

2 years ago

High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan

https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia-epidemic/

2 years ago

Donald Knuth’s 2023 Christmas Lecture: Making the Cells Dance

https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2023-christmas-lecture-make-the-cells-dance/

2 years ago

Will scaling work?

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work

2 years ago