top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-22

Reading QR codes without a computer

https://qr.blinry.org/

2 years 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/

2 years ago

582 upvotes – 83 comments

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

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

2 years 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

2 years 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/

2 years ago

483 upvotes – 241 comments

GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much

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

2 years ago

465 upvotes – 151 comments

U.S. National Park Service API

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

2 years ago

410 upvotes – 191 comments

Czech republic sets IPv4 end date

https://konecipv4.cz/en/

2 years ago

367 upvotes – 359 comments

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

https://winlator.org/

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 124 comments

Should I open source my company? (2022)

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

2 years 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

2 years ago

339 upvotes – 78 comments

Forging signed commits on GitHub

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

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 117 comments

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

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

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 423 comments

An RNG that runs in your brain

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

2 years 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/

2 years 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

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 96 comments

Too much serendipity

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

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 105 comments

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

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

2 years 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/

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 192 comments

Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system

https://www.inngest.com/blog/building-the-inngest-queue-pt-i-fairness-multi-tenancy

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 57 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

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 171 comments

Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right

https://repair.eu/news/the-price-is-not-right/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 192 comments

CSS3D Clouds

https://spite.github.io/CSS3DClouds/

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 14 comments

Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim

https://www.ft.com/content/a84327c6-f939-480c-925d-19d3f41062bf

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 207 comments

Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?

https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 204 comments

Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/google-and-att-invest-in-starlink-rival-for-satellite-to-smartphone-service/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 117 comments

When America first dropped acid

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/tripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 176 comments

Self-driving as a case study for AGI

https://karpathy.github.io/2024/01/21/selfdriving-agi/

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 193 comments

Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-player-update

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 165 comments

Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 MAX 9 blowout

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68052160

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 58 comments

NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing

https://nypost.com/2024/01/22/news/nyc-bound-flight-canceled-when-passenger-notices-missing-bolts-on-plane-wing/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 148 comments

Chinese researchers planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/china-planning-1600-core-chips-that-use-an-entire-wafer-similar-to-american-company-cerebras-wafer-scale-design

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 109 comments

Haier Europe Eases Off on Legal Threat and Seeks Dialogue

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/22/haier-europe-eases-off-on-legal-threat-and-seeks-dialogue/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 82 comments

Riot Games laying off 11%

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-rioter-update

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 149 comments

Toronto man uses AirTags to track stolen SUV to Dubai [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3eG8ZbeXeQ

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 133 comments

Cervical Cancer incidence drops 65% in women who benefited from HPV vaccine

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/hpv-vaccine-cervical-cancer-rising-women-research-rcna134224

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 46 comments

Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/consumer/expensive-fridges-dying-fraud-claims/3428989/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 182 comments

Jazelle DBX: Allow ARM processors to execute Java bytecode in hardware

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

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 75 comments

Two File Descriptors for Sockets

http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/twofd.html

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 65 comments

The absurdity of the return-to-office movement

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/opinions/remote-work-jobs-bergen/index.html

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 102 comments

Performance Analysis of Python's Dict() and {}

https://madebyme.today/blog/python-dict-vs-curly-brackets/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 92 comments

Monster Hunter Rise adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/monster-hunter-rise-adds-new-drm-that-breaks-it-on-steam-deck/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

Scientists discovered perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside fossilized egg

https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/dinosaur-egg-embryo-fossil-213524-20231107

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers

https://www.wsj.com/health/dana-farber-harvard-retractions-corrections-ceo-laurie-glimcher-935636f5

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

Battery-free self-powered sensor harvests magnetic energy

https://news.mit.edu/2024/self-powered-sensor-harvests-magnetic-energy-0118

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Boulder VC firm Foundry to shutter after 18 years, 200 investments

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2024/01/19/boulder-vc-firm-foundry-to-close.html

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 131 comments

Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/28-sunsetting-strict-fingerprinting-mode/

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 81 comments

The Downward Spiral of Technology

https://www.creativedestruction.club/p/the-downward-spiral-of-technology

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Vx.dev – GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development

https://vxdev.pages.dev

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056421

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 111 comments

An introduction to temporal logic and how it can be used to analyze concurrency

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/introduction_to_temporal_logic

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Caches: LRU vs. Random (2014)

https://danluu.com/2choices-eviction/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Google cites 'durable cost savings' as CEO Sundar Pichai warns of more layoffs

https://nypost.com/2024/01/22/business/google-cites-durable-cost-savings-as-2024-goal-amid-layoffs/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 117 comments

Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data

https://github.com/LiheYoung/Depth-Anything

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

The building blocks of offline support

https://pketh.org/building-offline.html

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Trello Allegedly Breached

https://twitter.com/H4ckManac/status/1747527579559411959

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 129 comments

Apple sold an estimated 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend

https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/vision-pro%E9%A6%96%E9%80%B1%E6%9C%AB%E9%A0%90%E8%B3%BC%E6%AA%A2%E8%A6%96-%E7%AC%A6%E5%90%88%E9%A0%90%E6%9C%9F%E4%BD%86%E9%9A%B1%E6%86%82%E6%B5%AE%E7%8F%BE-vision-pros-first-weekend-pre-order-review-expectations-in-line-0450c1effe66

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 115 comments

New theory suggests LLMs can understand text

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 106 comments

Clickr, or a young man's Flickr clonejure

https://jmglov.net/blog/2024-01-17-clickr.html

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Is Apple's R1 a Discrete GPU?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094181

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

Fair Cake-Cutting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 27 comments

Ten Simple IT Security Rules for Early-Stage Startups

https://chris-haarburger.com/posts/security_startups.html

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

Nvidia RTX Remix Open Beta Available Now – Remaster the Classics with RTX

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-remix-open-beta-half-life-2-rtx-trailer/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft facing lawsuit for shutting down game

https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/assassins-creed-ubisoft-facing-lawsuit-from-fan-568060-20240122

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

QuickTime as a Tape Archival Format

https://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=409

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Games don't need venture capitalism

https://iatia.substack.com/p/games-dont-need-venture-capitalism

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 76 comments

BiomeJS 2024 Roadmap

https://biomejs.dev/blog/roadmap-2024/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/walmart-says-ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-causing-slight-pullback-by-shoppers

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Simply Reading Analog Gauges – GPT4, CogVLM Can't

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Synanthropic/reading-analog-gauge

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

Office Landlords Use Cash Gifts, Loans to Inflate Building Values

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/office-landlords-use-cash-gifts-loans-to-inflate-building-values-92faae2a

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

Feral Minds

https://www.noemamag.com/feral-intelligence/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 51 comments
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