top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-03

Niklaus Wirth has died

https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347

2 years ago

Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

https://blog.lenot.re/a/introduction

2 years ago

Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00999

2 years ago

Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets

https://swizec.com/blog/the-3-budgets/

2 years ago

The One Billion Row Challenge

https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/

2 years ago

Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames

https://frameos.net/

2 years ago

Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them

https://osanseviero.github.io/hackerllama/blog/posts/random_transformer/

2 years ago

Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/

2 years ago

Making small games, which is fun in itself

https://abagames.github.io/joys-of-small-game-development-en/fun_to_make_small_games.html

2 years ago

With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/

2 years ago

Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US

https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-car-ev-sales-prices-problem-transportation-2024-1

2 years ago

Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise

https://ambiph.one?hn

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858075

2 years ago

Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords

https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2024/bitwarden-heist/

2 years ago

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

2 years ago

Sieve is simpler than LRU

https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/

2 years ago

The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-drive-stats-of-backblaze-storage-pods/

2 years ago

23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/

2 years ago

Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs

https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm

2 years ago

Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linux-hits-nearly-4-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/

2 years ago