top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-04

Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone

https://www.clicks.tech/

2 years ago

953 upvotes – 543 comments

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

https://papereditor.app/dev

2 years ago

740 upvotes – 378 comments

Sit.

https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/

2 years ago

686 upvotes – 125 comments

Go: What we got right, what we got wrong

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html

2 years ago

642 upvotes – 689 comments

Nestflix

https://nestflix.fun/

2 years ago

428 upvotes – 127 comments

Power over fiber

https://chaos.social/@f4grx/111697027153656114

2 years ago

395 upvotes – 265 comments

Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf]

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf

2 years ago

346 upvotes – 40 comments

Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

https://andykong.org/blog/icloudconfusion

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 186 comments

Iggy.rs – building message streaming in Rust

https://blog.iggy.rs/posts/building-message-streaming-in-rust/

2 years ago

320 upvotes – 61 comments

SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/business/spacex-elon-musk-nlrb-workers.html

2 years ago

300 upvotes – 292 comments

Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38868185

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 101 comments

AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/26816

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 103 comments

WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home

https://smallstep.com/blog/home-network-eap-tls-wifi/

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 193 comments

AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea

https://globalfishingwatch.org/press-release/new-research-harnesses-ai-and-satellite-imagery-to-reveal-the-expanding-footprint-of-human-activity-at-sea/

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 184 comments

Think more about what to focus on

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/multi-armed-bandit

2 years ago

273 upvotes – 55 comments

Jobs you're applying to might not be real

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/03/those-jobs-youre-applying-to-they-might-not-be-real/

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 242 comments

Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)

https://yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-scientific-code-beats-code-following-best-practices.html

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 324 comments

"Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint

https://torrentfreak.com/silenzio-annas-archive-shadow-library-blocked-following-publishers-complaint-240104/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 113 comments

Cold showers on overhyped topics (2017)

https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 162 comments

Lilygo T-Deck: 2.8-inch IPS LCD display, mini keyboard, and ESP32 processor

https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 116 comments

Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/niklaus-wirth-1934-2024

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 61 comments

Internet Sacred Text Archive

https://sacred-texts.com/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 122 comments

Minimum Wage Clock

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/minimum-wage-clock/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 269 comments

A Science of Concurrent Programs [pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 33 comments

AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FPGA-User-Space-Interface-AMD

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 94 comments

Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf]

https://jamesg.blog/book.pdf

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 12 comments

Whistleblower Aid

https://whistlebloweraid.org/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 51 comments

Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/google_illegally_refusing_to_bargain/

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 205 comments

Audio2Photoreal

https://github.com/facebookresearch/audio2photoreal

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 55 comments

Making the web fun again (2013)

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2013/05/28/making-the-web-fun-again

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 80 comments

Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study

https://nautil.us/what-you-dont-know-about-sperm-482001/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 102 comments

Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-44-Best-Pens-for-2024-Gel-Ballpoint-Rollerball-and-Fountain-Pens/pt/974

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: Bring phone calls into the browser (SIP-to-WebRTC)

https://github.com/pion/example-webrtc-applications/tree/master/sip-to-webrtc

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 56 comments

Origins of J

https://github.com/kelas/ooj

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 72 comments

30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/january/giant-worm-fossils-.html

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 117 comments

NetSurf Web Browser

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 54 comments

How Gyms Make Money (2015)

https://medium.com/bull-market/sweaty-january-and-how-gyms-make-money-7d682ff5eeaf

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 215 comments

InVision design collaboration services shutdown

https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/invision-design-collaboration-services-shutdown/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 89 comments

SpaceX launches first phone service satellites

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/03/spacex-elon-musk-phone-starlink-satellites

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 106 comments

Databases in 2023: A Year in Review

https://ottertune.com/blog/2023-databases-retrospective

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 16 comments

How Open ID Connect Works

https://blog.digger.dev/how-open-id-connect-works-illustrated/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 92 comments

Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TenYearsNotLongEnough

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness

https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/spotlight/tiredness-experienced-by-long-covid-patients-has-a-physical-cause.htm

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 104 comments

Efficient LLM Inference (2023)

https://www.artfintel.com/p/efficient-llm-inference

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 11 comments

Patriot Missile Software Problem

https://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Esmp/COMP205/LECTURES/ERROR/lec23/node4.html

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 87 comments

The Art of Unix Programming (2003)

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir

https://joisig.com/2023-holiday-side-project-turtles

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 53 comments

23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach

https://www.itpro.com/security/data-breaches/23andme-risks-public-relations-disaster-as-it-blames-customers-for-data-breach

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 4 comments

Does your test suite account for weak transaction isolation?

https://concerningquality.com/txn-isolation-testing/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 55 comments

Late 70s and 80s: forget BASIC, we had Pascal and C

https://retrofun.pl/2024/01/03/70s-and-80s-forget-basic-we-had-pascal-and-c/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

GPT Store Launch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870249

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 65 comments

Main-Thread-Scheduling

https://github.com/astoilkov/main-thread-scheduling

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38873429

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Book of Kells (2018)

https://www.worldhistory.org/Book_of_Kells/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 45 comments

Grammar of Ornament

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/global-arts-cultures-and-design/grammar-of-ornament/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

CAS 761: Generative Programming (Winter 2024)

http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/CAS761/W2024/index.html

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

A Writer's Ruby

https://world.hey.com/dhh/a-writer-s-ruby-2050b634

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 70 comments

BitTorrent Tracker Blocks 'Infringing' Hashes

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-tracker-blocks-thousands-of-infringing-hashes-240103/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

SMS Censorship

https://blog.jmp.chat/b/sms-censorship

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke on Ableton (2016)

https://roberthenke.com/interviews/ableton.html

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

https://github.com/cursusdb/cursusdb

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments

Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]

https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/seneca.pdf

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments
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