top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-15

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html

2 years ago

High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98

https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2024/01/14/high-speed-usb4-mesh-network/

2 years ago

FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/ABC-of-FSRS

2 years ago

Slashing data transfer costs in AWS

https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashing-data-transfer-costs/

2 years ago

SQLite 3.45 released with JSONB support

https://www.sqlite.org/changes.html#version_3_45_0

2 years ago

A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/antique-dress-maine-encrypted-message-cec/index.html

2 years ago

Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/279178-niklaus-wirth-or-the-importance-of-being-simple/fulltext

2 years ago

A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)

https://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

2 years ago

Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri

https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/onigiri/

2 years ago

Scrum Sucks

https://blog.mb-consulting.dev/scrum-sucks-9960011fc5cf

2 years ago

Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38999485

2 years ago

Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/commit/e16f1865a494b6281f8a44ed0db5338e718b3f07

2 years ago

Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/04/inflammation-disease-diet

2 years ago

Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100%

https://aus.social/@zanchey/111760402786767224

2 years ago

FedEx launches new e-commerce platform

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/14/24038042/fedex-fdx-e-commerce-platform-amazon-rival-shoprunner

2 years ago

ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023

https://www.themotte.org/post/797/chatgpt-vs-advent-of-code

2 years ago

Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer

2 years ago

RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs

https://kuzudb.com/docusaurus/blog/llms-graphs-part-2/

2 years ago

The M2 is more advanced than it seemed

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/15/why-the-m2-is-more-advanced-that-it-seemed/

2 years ago

Immediate Mode GUI Programming

https://eliasnaur.com/blog/immediate-mode-gui-programming

2 years ago

Venice's Secret Service

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/2024/01/venices-secret-service/

2 years ago

Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1746254000914092480

2 years ago

Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk

https://www.sprakradet.no/Vi-og-vart/Om-oss/English-and-other-languages/English/norwegian-bokmal-vs.-nynorsk/

2 years ago

"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)

https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/dresses.html

2 years ago

'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tongue-controlled-touchscreens-hit-market-year-rcna133270

2 years ago

A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust

https://www.abubalay.com/blog/2024/01/14/rust-effect-lowering

2 years ago

Z – Jump around

https://github.com/rupa/z

2 years ago

Watch Free Online Documentaries

https://ihavenotv.com/

2 years ago

Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud

https://eligrey.com/blog/link-fraud/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week

https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-is-now-manufacturing-70000-pi-5s-per-week-will-surge-to-90000-in-february

2 years ago

Harnessing heat from wastewater

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240103-sewage-a-low-cost-low-carbon-way-to-warm-homes

2 years ago

Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/

2 years ago

Beaver Drop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop

2 years ago

YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/13/youtube-new-wave-slow-downs-ad-blocker/

2 years ago

App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-in-two/

2 years ago

Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/14/beeper-mini-users-find-macs-banned-from-imessage-network

2 years ago

Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres

https://github.com/buzzm/postgresbson

2 years ago

ARMv8 AArch64/ARM64 Full Beginner's Assembly Tutorial

https://mariokartwii.com/armv8/

2 years ago

PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games

https://azeemba.com/posts/pids-creating-stable-control-in-games.html

2 years ago

Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover

https://borncity.com/win/2024/01/13/order-license-chaos-for-vmware-products-after-broadcom-takeover-jan-2024/

2 years ago

Spotted water hemlock: the most toxic plant in North America (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spotted-water-hemlock-toxic-plant

2 years ago

Pwned Certificates on the Fediverse

https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/01/16/pwned-certificates-on-the-fediverse.html

2 years ago

Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]

https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3212.pdf

2 years ago

Tracking and mapping the data broker ecosystem

https://databrokerswatch.org/

2 years ago

(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"

https://www.danielcorin.com/posts/2024/fine-tuning-connections/

2 years ago

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/youtube-is-loading-slower-for-users-with-ad-blockers-yet-again

2 years ago

MIT MicroMasters

https://micromasters.mit.edu/

2 years ago

Expand Everything: Userscript to click "show more" links to expand all the text

https://github.com/ludios/expand-everything

2 years ago

Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers

https://kindllm.app

2 years ago

Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin

https://nixcademy.com/2024/01/15/nix-on-macos/

2 years ago

Google is no longer bringing the full Chrome browser to Fuchsia

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/

2 years ago

The incredible shrinking podcast industry?

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/14/2024/the-incredible-shrinking-podcast-industry

2 years ago

25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge

https://twitter.com/WillManidis/status/1746894832415719554

2 years ago

Exploring Object File Formats

https://maskray.me/blog/2024-01-14-exploring-object-file-formats

2 years ago

Heads up – effectively offline for now

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.1/06297.html

2 years ago

Our language, our world

https://aeon.co/essays/does-language-mirror-the-mind-an-intellectual-history

2 years ago

Show HN: A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game

https://github.com/awwsmm/hello-rust-sdl2-wasm

2 years ago

GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him

https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-5-actor-goes-nuclear-on-ai-company-that-made-a-voice-chatbot-of-him-im-not-worried-about-being-replaced-i-just-hate-these-fkers/

2 years ago

"Paste this post into ChatGPT 4"

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1746685366952735034

2 years ago

The Swimmer (1964)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/07/18/the-swimmer

2 years ago

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67977967

2 years ago

Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06794-y

2 years ago

Paper Pipe Organ (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujdlxAQw5oA

2 years ago

Git Branches as a Social Construct

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GitBranchesSocialConstructs

2 years ago

Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240115170740

2 years ago

Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/compression-attached-memory-modules-may-make-upgradable-laptops-a-thing-again/

2 years ago

Future gigantic solar farms might impact solar power elsewhere in the world

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-future-gigantic-solar-farms-impact.amp

2 years ago

When Optimising Code, Measure

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WhenOptimisingCodeMeasure.html?xa15hn

2 years ago

How much of the world is it possible to model?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/how-much-of-the-world-is-it-possible-to-model

2 years ago