top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-06

SQL for data scientists in 100 queries

https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/

2 years ago

834 upvotes – 158 comments

TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-build-second-japan-chip-105111276.html

2 years ago

634 upvotes – 466 comments

The Ladybird browser project

https://ladybird.dev/

2 years ago

625 upvotes – 284 comments

"Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

https://www.thebureau.news/p/fake-chinese-income-mortgages-fuel

2 years ago

462 upvotes – 395 comments

Go 1.22

https://go.dev/doc/go1.22

2 years ago

419 upvotes – 160 comments

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better

https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better

2 years ago

418 upvotes – 335 comments

PostgreSQL is enough

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb

2 years ago

414 upvotes – 316 comments

Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16212

2 years ago

389 upvotes – 264 comments

Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia

https://en.nearbywiki.org/map/

2 years ago

377 upvotes – 103 comments

Bluesky signups are now open to the public

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

2 years ago

349 upvotes – 273 comments

Command line interface guidelines (2021)

https://clig.dev/

2 years ago

341 upvotes – 201 comments

AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 252 comments

OKRs Are Bullshit

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/okrs-are-bullshit

2 years ago

300 upvotes – 223 comments

Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-monitor-plus-a-new-tool-to-automatically-remove-your-personal-information-from-data-broker-sites/

2 years ago

288 upvotes – 201 comments

Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages

2 years ago

284 upvotes – 175 comments

Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming

https://eos.org/articles/oceans-may-have-already-seen-1-7c-of-warming

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 362 comments

Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA24MA063%20Preliminary%20report.pdf

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 266 comments

Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 276 comments

LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices

https://9to5google.com/2023/11/20/lineageos-number-of-devices/

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 182 comments

Making steel without emitting CO2

https://www.science.org/content/article/electrifying-new-ironmaking-method-could-slash-carbon-emissions

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 117 comments

We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TrackingMachineImportance

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 143 comments

Write a Letter to Your Future Self

https://www.futureme.org/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 107 comments

What happened with the Web Monetization API?

https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/24/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 261 comments

NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network

https://netbox.dev/

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 69 comments

Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production

https://medium.com/@.anders/learnings-from-our-8-years-of-kubernetes-in-production-two-major-cluster-crashes-ditching-self-0257c09d36cd

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 203 comments

How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck

https://helixml.substack.com/p/how-we-got-fine-tuning-mistral-7b

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 47 comments

The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111892646485958733

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 110 comments

Demystifying GPU compute architectures

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/demystifying-gpu-compute-architectures

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 59 comments

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-01-29/prisoners-in-the-us-are-part-of-a-hidden-workforce-linked-to-hundreds-of-popular-food-brands.html

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 237 comments

Cannabis use linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders

https://globalnews.ca/news/10275463/cannabis-anxiety-ontario-study/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 196 comments

The Apple Vision Pro

https://stratechery.com/2024/the-apple-vision-pro/

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 331 comments

BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained

https://depot.dev/blog/buildkit-in-depth

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 44 comments

The Sinusoidal Tetris

https://www.andreinc.net/2024/02/06/the-sinusoidal-tetris

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 52 comments

Billion file filesystem

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/billion/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 103 comments

New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-02-06-New-IBM-LinuxONE-4-Express-to-Offer-Cost-Savings-and-Client-Value-through-a-Cyber-Resilient-Hybrid-Cloud-and-AI-Platform

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 211 comments

Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software

https://pika.page

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 54 comments

The perverse policies that fuel wildfires

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-perverse-policies-that-fuel-wildfires

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 164 comments

Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0305062.pdf

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 137 comments

Will satellite megaconstellations weaken earth's magnetic field?

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2024/02/01/will-satellite-megaconstellations-weaken-earths-magnetic-field/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 93 comments

Dean of Engineering at University of Nevada wrote a paper that’s bad

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/06/its-bezzle-time-the-dean-of-engineering-at-the-university-of-nevada-gets-paid-372127-a-year-and-wrote-a-paper-thats-so-bad-you-cant-believe-it-i-mean-really-you-have-to-take-a-look-at-t/

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 79 comments

Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)

https://longform.asmartbear.com/survivor-bias/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 84 comments

DeepSeekMath 7B achieved 51.7% on MATH benchmark

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272953

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Logdy.dev – web based log viewer UI for local development environments

https://logdy.dev/blog/post/web-based-logs-viewer-ui-for-local-development-environment

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1028415X.2021.1945858

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 128 comments

A teen's fatal plunge into the London underworld

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 96 comments

Review: Framework's Laptop 16 is unique, laudable and flawed

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/review-frameworks-laptop-16-is-unique-laudable-fascinating-and-flawed/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 91 comments

Vision 1993

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/02/02/Vision-1993

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 72 comments

JVM Performance Comparison for JDK 21

https://ionutbalosin.com/2024/02/jvm-performance-comparison-for-jdk-21/

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

China spied on Dutch Cyber Intelligence through FortiGate backdoors

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/02/06/mivd-onthult-werkwijze-chinese-spionage-in-nederland

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

Instruction-Based Image Editing via LLM

https://github.com/apple/ml-mgie

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

Why I Live in IRC (2015)

https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Unify – Dynamic LLM Benchmarks and SSO for Multi-Vendor Deployment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279998

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)

https://blog.schmizz.net/disaggregated-wal

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop

https://github.com/aleixsr/HP-Pavilion-Aero-13-Hackintosh

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 65 comments

Edit This Blog Post

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/01/edit-this-blog-post/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/02/Setting-up-a-secondary-Pi-Hole-on-my-home-network.html

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 74 comments

TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-is-destroying-itself-from-the-inside-out-1851227491

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 183 comments

Hal Finney was the designer of Bitcoin

https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23217056&cid=64218342

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 56 comments
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