top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-28

4B If Statements

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html

2 years ago

IDEs we had 30 years ago

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and

2 years ago

Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

https://incident.io/blog/festive-macbooks

2 years ago

Cold-blooded software

https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

2 years ago

NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-open-ai-microsoft-over-copyright-infringement/

2 years ago

Firefox Sync actually works

https://www.howtogeek.com/the-best-reason-to-use-firefox-is-sync-that-actually-works/

2 years ago

Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/amazoncom-inc-662503-12202023

2 years ago

You've just been fucked by psyops [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12326-you_ve_just_been_fucked_by_psyops

2 years ago

Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives

2 years ago

Particle Life

https://github.com/hunar4321/particle-life

2 years ago

Generation Junk

https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/generation-junk

2 years ago

Game-icons.net: Free icons for your games

https://game-icons.net/

2 years ago

Lode Runner (HTML5 Remake)

https://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/

2 years ago

Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

http://www.liero.be/

2 years ago

Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-formally-modeled-dreidel-for-no-good-reason/

2 years ago

Hexcodle

https://hexcodle.com/

2 years ago

You can't do that because I hate you

https://bvisness.me/you-cant/

2 years ago

New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-u-s-immigration-rules-spur-more-visa-approvals-stem-workers

2 years ago

THAT: A brand new analog computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/try-this-new-analog-computer

2 years ago

It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load

https://fernandovillalba.substack.com/p/its-not-microservice-or-monolith

2 years ago

How random is xkcd? (2015)

https://hardmath123.github.io/xkcd-random.html

2 years ago

OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App

https://osmapp.org

2 years ago

Foundations (1997-2000)

https://www.gregegan.net/FOUNDATIONS/

2 years ago

Outlook/Hotmail is no longer blocking my mail server

https://taoshu.in/net/outlook-delist.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management

https://anytype.io/

2 years ago

Little File Explorer – File Manager for Android 1.0 and above

https://github.com/martinmimigames/little-file-explorer

2 years ago

Smallest Typeface

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-51468.html

2 years ago

Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-28/google-maps-sending-people-wrong-way-quairading-shire/103207090

2 years ago

BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

https://learnbchs.org/

2 years ago

Vim users are encouraged to make a donation to ICCF

https://vimhelp.org/uganda.txt.html

2 years ago

Custom firmware for MI fitness band

https://github.com/atc1441/ATCmiBand8fw

2 years ago

Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38792541

2 years ago

Book list for streetfighting computer scientists (2022)

https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Book_list_for_streetfighting_computer_scientists

2 years ago

Dark Visitors – A list of known AI agents on the internet

https://darkvisitors.com

2 years ago

Developer Productivity for Humans: Software Quality

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10372494

2 years ago

Details on Xiaomi EV

https://www.engadget.com/xiaomi-says-its-su7-ev-can-outperform-porsche-and-has-more-tech-than-tesla-095637762.html

2 years ago

Repurposing Hugo as a wiki

https://justinmiller.io/posts/2023/12/27/hugo-as-wiki/

2 years ago

37C3 Video List

https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2023

2 years ago

Unix as IDE (2012)

https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/

2 years ago

A/UX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

2 years ago

Docs Deserve More Respect

https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/docs-deserve-more-respect

2 years ago

I am the fold (2015)

https://iamthefold.com

2 years ago

One of the Most Controversial US Spy Programs Just Got Renewed

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/one-of-the-most-controversial-us-spy-programs-just-got-quietly-renewed/

2 years ago

ChatGPT will lie, cheat, use insider trading when under pressure to make money

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-will-lie-cheat-and-use-insider-trading-when-under-pressure-to-make-money-research-shows

2 years ago

Emacs from Scratch Part Two

https://arne.me/articles/emacs-from-scratch-part-two

2 years ago

Technological innovations that produced the shale revolution

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-technological-innovations-that

2 years ago

Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext

https://kagi.com/changelog#2793

2 years ago

AirLLM enables 8GB MacBook run 70B LLM

https://github.com/lyogavin/Anima/tree/main/air_llm

2 years ago

Electronics Flea Market

https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com

2 years ago