top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-01

Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0

2 years ago

846 upvotes – 248 comments

Standard Ebooks

https://standardebooks.org/

2 years ago

701 upvotes – 153 comments

Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

https://solvingprocrastination.com/perfectionism/

2 years ago

695 upvotes – 221 comments

A* tricks for videogame path finding

https://timmastny.com/blog/a-star-tricks-for-videogame-path-finding/

2 years ago

478 upvotes – 103 comments

All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus

https://torrentfreak.com/all-dmca-notices-filed-against-torrentfreak-in-2023-were-bogus-240101/

2 years ago

451 upvotes – 128 comments

Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20360

2 years ago

450 upvotes – 154 comments

Disney's earliest Mickey Mouse enters public domain as US copyright expires

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67833411

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 188 comments

OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01479

2 years ago

399 upvotes – 192 comments

27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/27-years-ago-steve-jobs-said-best-employees-focus-on-content-not-process-workplace-research-shows-he-was-right.html

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 273 comments

DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser

https://dustinbrett.com/

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 133 comments

Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)

https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll20/id/35/

2 years ago

349 upvotes – 240 comments

Fixing annoying blue standby lights

https://www.fullcircuit.com/blog/fixing-annoying-blue-standby-lights

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 247 comments

Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network

https://meshtastic.org/

2 years ago

335 upvotes – 78 comments

Writing a TrueType font renderer

https://axleos.com/writing-a-truetype-font-renderer/

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 83 comments

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240101_15/

2 years ago

273 upvotes – 64 comments

uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 89 comments

Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend

https://github.com/webui-dev/webui

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 173 comments

Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python

https://benhoyt.com/writings/markov-chain/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 71 comments

Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/31/ai-in-2023/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 132 comments

Steamboat Willie [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzO--ox7X0

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 129 comments
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