top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-01-22

Reading QR codes without a computer

https://qr.blinry.org/

a year ago

655 upvotes – 87 comments

Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/modder-recreates-game-boy-advance-games-using-the-audio-from-crash-sounds/

a year ago

582 upvotes – 83 comments

Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/kb3WBpHMFL

a year ago

554 upvotes – 382 comments

My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/my-toddler-still-loves-planes-so

a year ago

533 upvotes – 117 comments

Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts

https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-now-lets-eu-users-unlink-their-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-accounts/

a year ago

483 upvotes – 241 comments

GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much

https://iter.ca/post/gpt-crash/

a year ago

465 upvotes – 151 comments

U.S. National Park Service API

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/digital/nps-data-api.htm

a year ago

410 upvotes – 191 comments

Czech republic sets IPv4 end date

https://konecipv4.cz/en/

a year ago

367 upvotes – 359 comments

Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine

https://winlator.org/

a year ago

363 upvotes – 124 comments

Should I open source my company? (2022)

https://supabase.com/blog/should-i-open-source-my-company

a year ago

341 upvotes – 210 comments

LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning

https://lightning.ai/lightning-ai/studios/code-lora-from-scratch?view=public&section=all

a year ago

339 upvotes – 79 comments

Forging signed commits on GitHub

https://iter.ca/post/gh-sig-pwn/

a year ago

308 upvotes – 117 comments

Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088551

a year ago

280 upvotes – 422 comments

An RNG that runs in your brain

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/randomness/

a year ago

259 upvotes – 63 comments

What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/

a year ago

259 upvotes – 221 comments

RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby

https://rubyflow.com/p/pb1tu2-rubywm-an-x11-window-manager-in-pure-ruby

a year ago

233 upvotes – 96 comments

Too much serendipity

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oA23zoEjPnzqfHiCt/there-is-way-too-much-serendipity

a year ago

222 upvotes – 105 comments

Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?

https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p

a year ago

204 upvotes – 161 comments

Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off

https://tuananh.net/2024/01/21/cloud-cost-optimization-at-scale-part-1/

a year ago

191 upvotes – 192 comments

Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle

https://theconversation.com/helium-is-an-essential-material-for-research-and-medical-equipment-but-its-nonrenewable-and-difficult-to-recycle-218668

a year ago

176 upvotes – 171 comments
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