top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-27

DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

https://github.com/hrvach/deskhop

2 years ago

1248 upvotes – 273 comments

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

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

2 years ago

1012 upvotes – 1123 comments

3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js

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

2 years ago

847 upvotes – 185 comments

The curse of the goitre in Switzerland

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

2 years ago

610 upvotes – 269 comments

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

593 upvotes – 868 comments

Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

2 years ago

555 upvotes – 196 comments

Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers

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

2 years ago

549 upvotes – 399 comments

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

507 upvotes – 164 comments

Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)

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

2 years ago

502 upvotes – 202 comments

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

https://valetudo.cloud/

2 years ago

470 upvotes – 154 comments

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

436 upvotes – 7 comments

Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video]

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

2 years ago

378 upvotes – 51 comments

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

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

2 years ago

359 upvotes – 230 comments

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

348 upvotes – 5 comments

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

337 upvotes – 233 comments

Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits

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

2 years ago

304 upvotes – 89 comments

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

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

2 years ago

294 upvotes – 193 comments

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

285 upvotes – 187 comments

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

264 upvotes – 24 comments

Will scaling work?

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

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 283 comments

PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements

https://patrick.engineering/posts/postgres-internals/

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 57 comments

2023: Focusing on a single product pays off

https://maxrozen.com/2023-focus-single-product-pays-off

2 years ago

232 upvotes – 93 comments

2nd City Zoning

https://secondcityzoning.org

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 107 comments

CSS Is Fun Again

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 147 comments

Operation Snow White

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

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 72 comments

The surprising genius of sewing machines [video]

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

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 68 comments

Julia 1.10

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/NEWS/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 99 comments

Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

https://lwn.net/Articles/956187/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 146 comments

What's up Python? Epic CPython commit, Django 5 and 2FA for PyPI

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-epic-cpython-commit

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 113 comments

Scientists discover new antibiotics using AI

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/20/scientists-discover-the-first-new-antibiotics-in-over-60-years-using-ai

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 98 comments

37c3 Live Streams

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

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 12 comments

Light-induced whole-molecule vibration can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane

https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/molecular-jackhammers-good-vibrations-eradicate-cancer-cells

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons

http://zenorogue.blogspot.com/2023/12/hyperrogue-130.html

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 26 comments

Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language

https://github.com/chipsalliance/chisel

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 76 comments

Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/reindeer-sleep-and-eat-simultaneously-saving-precious-time-in-the-short-arctic-summer-180983495/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 61 comments

Open Source Game Clones

https://osgameclones.com/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 26 comments

How to (and how not to) fix color banding

https://blog.frost.kiwi/GLSL-noise-and-radial-gradient/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 28 comments

What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 179 comments

Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect

https://pluto-lang.org/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 71 comments

Thanks to Don Bateman, airplanes don't crash into mountains anymore (2016)

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bateman-airplane-safety-device/

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 71 comments

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (2009)

https://codersatwork.com/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 34 comments

Web Development History – Internet history for the technically curious

https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/index/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

Poor Man's Web

https://zserge.com/posts/small-web/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

Laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote

https://maya.land/monologues/2023/12/26/laptop-of-the-magi-apple-antitrust.html

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 134 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783338

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 78 comments

Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-wins-bid-pause-apple-watch-ban-us-appeals-court-2023-12-27/

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Scan QR codes to check in guests registered via Google Forms

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_ticket_for_attendance/9398047938

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Questions for two 40 year IBM Mainframe repair and programmers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782948

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 40 comments

TU Berlin Scientists Hack Tesla Autopilot and Discover Secret Elon-Mode

https://t3n.de/news/tesla-autopilot-hack-geheimer-elon-modus-1598800/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

Comedian Tom Smothers has died

https://apnews.com/article/tom-smothers-dies-smothers-brothers-3e1727faf1b6469da7b2cfc7b2874c56

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 63 comments

Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files

https://suggestions.ink

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 66 comments

Rep and Ren: A new approach to CLI find, replace, and renaming

https://blog.robenkleene.com/2023/12/26/introducing-rep-ren/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic

https://allegralaboratory.net/a-claxonomy-of-mexico-citys-traffic/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Public Facing Dog

https://sarahendren.com/2023/11/27/public-facing-dog/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 41 comments

Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no.

https://www.dossier.today/p/these-scholars-asked-claudine-gay

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 89 comments

Bread, How Did They Make It? (2020)

https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

History-making SpaceX booster mostly destroyed in post-flight topple

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-122623a-spacex-falcon-9-first-stage-1058-lost-recovery.html

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 84 comments

Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf]

https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/_pdf/Pitfalls_of_Object_Oriented_Programming_GCAP_09.pdf

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 126 comments

A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet

https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/a-lighthouse-keeper-hangs-up-her-bonnet/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

'Merchants of Complexity': Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud

https://thenewstack.io/merchants-of-complexity-why-37signals-abandoned-the-cloud/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Scratch in the Browser

https://squeak.js.org/scratch/#fullscreen

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Clash: A Functional Hardware Description Language

https://clash-lang.org/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

CloudEvents Event Specification

https://cloudevents.io/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments
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