top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-12-31

Happy New Year HN!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38826283

a year ago

1393 upvotes – 265 comments

Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

https://danluu.com/seo-spam/

a year ago

950 upvotes – 465 comments

I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

https://iliana.fyi/blog/build-your-own-steamos-updates/

a year ago

472 upvotes – 244 comments

Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite

a year ago

381 upvotes – 108 comments

Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs

https://github.com/jart/emacs-copilot

a year ago

377 upvotes – 156 comments

7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen

https://mattgadient.com/7-watts-idle-on-intel-12th-13th-gen-the-foundation-for-building-a-low-power-server-nas/

a year ago

332 upvotes – 183 comments

Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/EmailAddressesBadPermanentIDs

a year ago

332 upvotes – 441 comments

Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors

https://bsky.app/profile/donohoe.dev/post/3khu7w2kz7l2b

a year ago

243 upvotes – 123 comments

Getting things done in small increments (2022)

https://dubroy.com/blog/getting-things-done-in-small-increments/

a year ago

233 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language

https://cassette-lang.com

a year ago

231 upvotes – 71 comments

Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea

https://gcaptain.com/maersk-ship-hit-by-missile-in-the-red-sea/

a year ago

199 upvotes – 472 comments

Bun, JavaScript, and TCO

https://www.onsclom.net/posts/javascript-tco

a year ago

174 upvotes – 162 comments

A 1690s Peanut is Reborn

https://nationalpeanutboard.org/news/a-1690s-peanut-is-reborn/

a year ago

166 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38822569

a year ago

164 upvotes – 122 comments

Sweden Solar System

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

a year ago

158 upvotes – 46 comments

Ottopot, a sophisticated DIY MIDI controller

https://gerotakke.de/ottopot/

a year ago

156 upvotes – 30 comments

Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip

https://www.righto.com/2023/12/amd-lance-ethernet-double-poly.html

a year ago

148 upvotes – 17 comments

High Precision Mapping from Scratch

https://bendauphinee.com/writing/2023/12/30/to-know-where-you-are/

a year ago

141 upvotes – 46 comments

An Easy Fix

https://chhopsky.itch.io/an-easy-fix

a year ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

WWII heroics of 'Bazooka Charlie' doubted until daughter sets record straight

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/12/31/bazooka-charlies-granville-daughter-shares-wwii-heroics-in-new-book/72033226007/

a year ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments
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