top 50% 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

Writing books remains a tough way to make a living

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/93301-author-incomes-post-small-gains.html

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 267 comments

Git Things

https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/31/git-things.html#Git-Things

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 138 comments

NERV Disaster Prevention

https://nerv.app/en/

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828682

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 98 comments

Happy Public Domain Day

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 38 comments

PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2023/12/pypy-moved-to-git-github.html

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

https://github.com/cmang/durdraw

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 29 comments

Subject-First Commit Messages

https://github.com/aaronjensen/software-development/blob/master/commit-messages.md

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 168 comments

Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos

https://vincentsg.dev/dec31?

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Page Replica – Tool for Web Scraping, Prerendering, and SEO Boost

https://github.com/html5-ninja/page-replica

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 54 comments

Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/fireworks-likely-caused-water-contamination-mount-rushmore

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

Fish shell 3.7.0 released, the last release branch before the full Rust rewrite

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.0

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 46 comments

2024's public domain is a banger

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 40 comments

I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay's Getting Off Easy

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/31/honor-council-member-gay/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 70 comments

Nim on a Real-Time Operating System: Apache NuttX RTOS and Ox64 BL808 SBC

https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/nim.html

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

The fresh start effect

https://lars.yencken.org/fresh-start-effect

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

Calculating Logarithms by Hand (2010) [pdf]

https://fiziko.bureau42.com/teaching_tidbits/manual_logarithms.pdf

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 3 comments

Orange Site Hit

https://blog.davep.org/2024/01/01/oshit.html

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 89 comments

Displaying Content as a Graph

https://thisisimportant.net/posts/content-as-a-graph/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Fail2ban Sucks (2020)

https://j3s.sh/thought/fail2ban-sux.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 124 comments

The Procrastination Matrix (2015)

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/procrastination-matrix.html

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Microdot: Yet another Python web framework

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/microdot-yet-another-python-web-framework

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Generative AI flooding online crocheting spaces with unrealistic amigurumi pics

https://twitter.com/LauraRbnsn/status/1741494511849578753

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 88 comments

Merkle Town: Explore the certificate transparency ecosystem

https://ct.cloudflare.com/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 123 comments

Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

http://vonatinfo.mav-start.hu/info.aspx

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Free techical magazine about programming, hacking, security, electronics, retro

https://pagedout.institute

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: DBChaos – A Database stress testing tool

https://github.com/adaptive-scale/dbchaos

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines

https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/video-playback-on-low-end-ms-dos-machines/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Made some progress on character consistency for AI storytelling

https://app.artflow.ai/character-builder?feature=characters

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

SD4J – Stable Diffusion pipeline in Java using ONNX Runtime

https://github.com/oracle-samples/sd4j

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs [pdf] (1994)

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/pink/Taligent_-_Taligents_Guide_to_Designing_Programs_1994.pdf

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

The cheesy charm of the Clapper

https://spectrum.ieee.org/clapper

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

What happens when you quit sugar? (2023) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86uC5fgraiI

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Pokemon prototype game made with JavaScript and p5.js

https://github.com/JSLegendDev/Pokemon-p5js

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments
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