top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-26

Portable EPUBs

https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/#epub-content%2FEPUB%2Findex.xhtml$

2 years ago

659 upvotes – 232 comments

Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system

https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

2 years ago

★ 3k Roff
531 upvotes – 277 comments

ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-genocide-court-south-africa-27cf84e16082cde798395a95e9143c06

2 years ago

517 upvotes – 1401 comments

Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit

https://skii.dev/rook-to-xss/

2 years ago

430 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

https://www.platoedu.org

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 97 comments

CNC lasers for cutting and engraving

https://jacquesmattheij.com/cnc-lasers/

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 174 comments

The rise of batteries in six charts

https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/

2 years ago

278 upvotes – 269 comments

Untranslatable

https://untranslatable.co/

2 years ago

278 upvotes – 98 comments

ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s

https://jacobfilipp.com/arvid-vhs/

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 133 comments

Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2024/01/26/lossy-css-compression/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 43 comments

Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/alberta-tar-sands-pollution-up-to-6300-higher-than-industry-reported-finds-study-8162834

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 71 comments

How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer

https://blog.awais.io/o1-visa/

2 years ago

244 upvotes – 198 comments

Multi-database support in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2024/01/26/multi-database-support-in-duckdb.html

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 43 comments

AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-XDNA-Linux-Driver-Ryzen-AI

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 89 comments

I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)

https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0136/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 148 comments

The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 84 comments

Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements

https://webkit.org/blog/14933/bringing-back-horizontal-rules-in-select-elements/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 68 comments

TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator

https://www.tinysa.org/wiki/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 64 comments

Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68079300

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 90 comments

PinePhone review after a month of daily driving

https://yaky.dev/2024-01-25-pinephone-post-daily-driver-review/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 174 comments

Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-teams-outage-causes-connection-issues-message-delays/

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 123 comments

How French was medieval England?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-french-was-medieval-england

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 225 comments

Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100

https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-is-rapidly-turning-into-a-formidable-opponent-to-bff-nvidia-the-tpu-v5p-ai-chip-powering-its-hypercomputer-is-faster-and-has-more-memory-and-bandwidth-than-ever-before-beating-even-the-mighty-h100

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 133 comments

iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/26/ios-17-app-stores-and-more-ipad-changes/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 183 comments

Mozilla says Apple's new browser rules are 'as painful as possible' for Firefox

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-ios-browser-rules-firefox

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 158 comments

Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-pixel-phones-unusable-after-january-2024-system-update/

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 160 comments

The things nobody wants to pay for

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/959069/c96f34ed67a168e4/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 129 comments

Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today

http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/01/fifty-years-ago-today.html

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 100 comments

Teatotaller cafe owner wins Instagram case in court

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/2024/01/26/teatotaller-cafe-owner-wins-instagram-case-nh-supreme-court/72345276007/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 96 comments

Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108

https://www.suzuki-music.co.jp/special/omnichord_om-108/en/index.html

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 87 comments

The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story (1990) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5AE-qYan8

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 62 comments

The blogger who spotted problems in Dana-Farber cancer papers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00202-9

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 53 comments

Understanding the world science fiction convention

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon-in-the-news.html

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 52 comments

Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development

https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/outdoor-risky-play

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 214 comments

Phones track everything but their role in car wrecks

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/health/cars-phones-accidents.html

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 231 comments

WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters

https://wasmcloud.com/blog/wasi-preview-2-officially-launches

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 105 comments

Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard

https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1750921228012122526

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use

https://theconversation.com/dangerous-chemicals-found-in-recycled-plastics-making-them-unsafe-for-use-experts-explain-the-hazards-220498

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 115 comments

US agencies warn companies: Don’t delete Slack or Signal chats

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/dont-delete-slack-or-signal-chats-us-agencies-warn-companies

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 132 comments

Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/rat-selfies-1.7093886

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 90 comments

Plant patents sow fear among small growers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/25/plant-patents-large-companies-intellectual-property-small-breeders

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 63 comments

'They're knowingly addicting kids': the attorney challenging social media firms

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/kids-addicted-social-media-congress-meta-tiktok-snap

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 85 comments

On Proprioception, the Sixth Sense of Storytelling (2022)

https://themillions.com/2022/09/on-proprioception-the-sixth-sense-of-storytelling.html

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56880

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 192 comments

Rich People Don't Talk to Robots

https://www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/rich-people-dont-talk-robots

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

Tailwind Isn't for Me

https://www.spicyweb.dev/why-tailwind-isnt-for-me/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 187 comments

How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background

https://news.mit.edu/2024/how-brain-responds-reward-socioeconomic-background-0122

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 118 comments

2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn

https://spectrum.ieee.org/medal-of-honor-bob-kahn

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

https://alzheimersbuddy.com/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: How to get into quantitative trading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146654

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 81 comments

Google's New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/new-ai-powered-google-chrome-browser-end-of-human-internet.html

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 95 comments

An ideological divide is emerging between young men and women around the world

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1750849189834022932

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 173 comments

A man who collects lost pet posters

https://ameliatait.substack.com/p/the-man-who-collects-lost-pet-posters

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol' Nginx

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/i-abandoned-openlitespeed-and-went-back-to-good-ol-nginx/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Apple to EU, Drop Dead

https://spyglass.org/apple-to-eu-drop-dead/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 95 comments

Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/26/apple-faces-strong-action-if-app-store-changes-fall-short-eus-breton-says.html

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BrowserEngineKit?changes=latest_minor

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 102 comments

The cancer that some doctors don't want to call cancer

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/prostate-cancer-low-risk-treatment-rename-185b6e3f

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 92 comments

2013 Airbus A380 for sale in Rolling Hills Estates, California

https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/224908431/2013-airbus-a380-jet-aircraft

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

Developmental timing of trauma associated with depressive symptoms in adulthood

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479490/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Is it really so dull to work in huge company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39148513

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 87 comments

Skulls reveal scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital (2018)

https://www.science.org/content/article/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments

Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2024/01/dont-talk-to-people-like-theyre-chatbots.html

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 88 comments

If you make $10M in sales, Apple's cut is $6.2M annually

https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1750592825060921353

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 54 comments

A Terribly Serious adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/01/19/oxford-philosophy-history-book-krishnan/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

My Impressions of Hare

https://vfoley.xyz/hare/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron

https://hyperdiskapp.com/blog/too-many-mac-apps-are-being-built-with-electron/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 104 comments

Understanding Mesh Allocator

https://veera.app/mesh_allocator.html

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with constant interruptions at work (with ADHD)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139462

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 96 comments

Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13782

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Epic Games CEO Likens Apple's Core Tech Fee to Unity's Disastrous Runtime Fee

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1750661023936209400

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Long Term Refactors

https://max.engineer/long-term-refactors

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

China Added More Solar Panels in 2023 Than US Did in Its Entire History

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/china-added-more-solar-panels-in-2023-than-us-did-in-its-entire-history

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

Astronomical Data Used for Litigation (FAQ)

https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/lawyers

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple's Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-01-26/apples-proposed-changes-reject-the-goals-of-the-dma/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

Nobody Cares About Your Git History

https://spin.atomicobject.com/git-history/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 63 comments

LTSE shutters cap table management business (formerly captable.io)

https://equity.ltse.com/lp/important-updates

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Comparing dd and cp when writing a file to a thumb drive

https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20240122#qa

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 40 comments

Web Calendars Should Be Discoverable and Provide iCalendar Feeds

https://ericlathrop.com/2024/01/web-calendars-should-be-discoverable-and-provide-icalendar-feeds/

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments
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