top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-06

FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boeing-737-max-9-grounding-after-alaska-airlines-door-blows-midflight.html

2 years ago

861 upvotes – 838 comments

IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/your-money/irs-tax-filing-free-online.html

2 years ago

703 upvotes – 323 comments

Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/18ysttu/aoe_is_written_in_assembly_is_this_actually_true_o/

2 years ago

411 upvotes – 107 comments

Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV

https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 82 comments

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/06/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-max-9-planes-after-mid-air-window-blowout

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 347 comments

Chromium bug bounty money tree browser

https://lyra.horse/misc/chromium_vrp_tree.html

2 years ago

358 upvotes – 77 comments

Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/18znz5p/as_1282_kpdx_to_kont_diverted_for_rapid/

2 years ago

291 upvotes – 359 comments

Carta doing unsolicited tender offer outreach to their customers' investors

https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1743398553500971331

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 81 comments

Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2/commit/7e10f3ea09c0ebd373aebc73bc6e6ca58204628d

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 90 comments

The best way to get unstuck

https://ggnotes.com/the-best-way-to-get-unstuck

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 85 comments

In-browser code playgrounds

https://antonz.org/in-browser-code-playgrounds/

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 39 comments

The Everything NPM Package

https://socket.dev/blog/when-everything-becomes-too-much

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 151 comments

Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/05/do-we-think-of-git-commits-as-diffs--snapshots--or-histories/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 210 comments

A tiny hand crafted CPU emulator, C compiler, and Operating System

https://github.com/rswier/swieros

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 10 comments

Ultima (2012)

https://www.filfre.net/2012/02/ultima-part-1/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 69 comments

Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/can-brain-science-help-us-break-bad-habits

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 226 comments

FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67903655

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 4 comments

Libwebsockets: pure C library for http, websockets, MQTT

https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 61 comments

Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/sounds-of-cologne-wdr/gQWRzsVclcCYPA?hl=en

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 53 comments

Retro on Viberary

https://vickiboykis.com/2024/01/05/retro-on-viberary/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 32 comments

Systemd through the eyes of a musl distribution maintainer

https://catfox.life/2024/01/05/systemd-through-the-eyes-of-a-musl-distribution-maintainer/

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 152 comments

BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h

https://carnewschina.com/2023/09/20/byds-yangwang-u8-launched-can-float-on-water-for-30-minutes-and-sail-3km-h/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 225 comments

Comics I Loved in 2023

https://riteshbabu.net/2024/01/05/comics-i-loved-in-2023/

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 129 comments

Westworld: The first film with CGI (and its source code)

https://behind-the-screens.tv/#ww1

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 52 comments

Live Map of Swiss Trains

https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 84 comments

Nitro: A fast, lightweight inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API

https://nitro.jan.ai/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 78 comments

Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-Max suffers window blowout after taking off

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932631/Brand-new-Alaska-Airlines-Boeing-737-Max-suffers-mid-air-window-BLOW-causing-depressurization-ripped-childs-shirt-jet-returned-Portland-Airport-High-tech-jet-suffered-two-deadly-crashes.html

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 2 comments

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 41 comments

First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134722-100-worlds-first-tunnel-to-a-magma-chamber-could-unleash-unlimited-energy/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 116 comments

Tex-Oberon: Make Project Oberon Pretty Again

https://github.com/guidoism/tex-oberon

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 50 comments

Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/10-ai-research-papers-2023

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 19 comments

NIST identifies types of cyberattacks that manipulate behavior of AI systems

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/nist-identifies-types-cyberattacks-manipulate-behavior-ai-systems

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 46 comments

Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2023-193-adventures-of-linux-userspace-at-meta

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 31 comments

Chess-GPT's Internal World Model

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_llm_interpretability

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 2 comments

Chess-GPT's Internal World Model

https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/chess-world-models.html

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life

https://github.com/grahame/pharus

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 9 comments

NuScale Lays off 40% of its Staff

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuscale-layoffs-nuclear-power_n_65985ac5e4b075f4cfd24dba

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 49 comments

Adélie Linux

https://www.adelielinux.org/about/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 77 comments

A tale of two teenagers (2023)

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/a-tale-of-two-teenagers

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 191 comments

The perils and pleasures of bartending in Antarctica (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bartender-antarctica-south-pole

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

LLaMA-Pro-8B

https://huggingface.co/TencentARC/LLaMA-Pro-8B

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

The journey of the Roman gladius and other swords

https://acoup.blog/2024/01/05/collections-the-journey-of-the-roman-gladius-and-other-swords/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/01/04/we-should-have-followed-up-lancet-journal-retracts-article-on-hearing-aids-and-dementia-after-prodding/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Fortran vs Python: The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/the-counter-intuitive-rise-of-python-in-scientific-computing/469

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 98 comments

UIDesignDaily 4 years later, 1600 open-source designs

https://www.uidesigndaily.com/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/discontinued-and-unreleased-microsoft-peripherals-revived-by-licensing-deal/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 78 comments

1195725856 and other mysterious numbers (2020)

https://chrisdown.name/2020/01/13/1195725856-and-friends-the-origins-of-mysterious-numbers.html

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

A Beginner's Companion to Theorem Proving in Lean 4

https://emallson.net/blog/a-beginners-companion-to-theorem-proving-in-lean/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

AI Is Already Killing Books

https://matduggan.com/ai-is-gonna-kill-books/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 155 comments

STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++

https://github.com/nothings/stb

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Scheme modules vs. whole-program compilation: fight

http://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/05/scheme-modules-vs-whole-program-compilation-fight

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

What the heck is a homomorphic mapped type?

https://andreasimonecosta.dev/posts/what-the-heck-is-a-homomorphic-mapped-type/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash

https://linderud.dev/blog/stream-to-chromecast-with-resolved-vlc-and-bash/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

2024-01-01 Emacs News

https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/01/2024-01-01-emacs-news/

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Focus and Flow: trade-offs in programmer productivity (2021)

https://www.aaronbuxbaum.com/focus-and-flow/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Two classic radiosity books now free

https://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/two-classic-radiosity-books-now-free/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

AMD's 22-year-old GPUs still getting driver updates thanks to the FOSS community

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-22-year-old-gpus-are-still-getting-driver-updates-atis-r300-r500-from-the-early-2000s-live-on-in-linux-driver-patches-thanks-to-the-open-source-community

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Inverting PhotoDNA (2021)

https://anishathalye.com/inverting-photodna/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Celebrating 30 Years of Blender

https://www.blender.org/news/celebrating-30-years-of-blender/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Optimizing the unoptimizable: a journey to faster C++ compile times

https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/faster-cpp-compile-times/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support

https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Thorium – The first browser to score over 600 speedometer points on a Mac M3 Pro

https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-MacOS/releases/tag/M119.0.6045.214

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: New RISC-V emulator for Computer Science education

https://github.com/gboncoffee/egg

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Universities Are Not on the Level

https://www.joshbarro.com/p/universities-are-not-on-the-level

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 56 comments

The ThinkPad P14s

https://utkarshsingh.xyz/blog/thinkpad-p14s

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 77 comments

Radio reporter fired over jokes is reinstated after arbitrator finds them funny

https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-comedian-fired-whyy-9b5da652a795d77904b660e0c901195d

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

The Light Herder and the Fractal Time Machine

https://www.thelightherder.com/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

An Easy to Build Real Homemade Computer: Z80-MBC2

https://www.instructables.com/An-Easy-to-Build-Real-Homemade-Computer-Z80-MBC2/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

Dimensional Analysis and Black Holes (2019) [pdf]

https://hapax.github.io/assets/dimensional-analysis.pdf

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A Wonderful Curse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMPGhezj0s

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments
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