top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-11

I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

https://willempennings.nl/balancing-cube/

2 years ago

2460 upvotes – 377 comments

Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code

https://killedbyapixel.github.io/TinyCode/256B/BitwiseLiminal/

2 years ago

450 upvotes – 61 comments

What it was like working for Gitlab

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/what-it-was-like-working-for-gitlab/

2 years ago

432 upvotes – 542 comments

Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch

https://github.com/fiddyschmitt/SimpleKVM

2 years ago

397 upvotes – 181 comments

Finding a new software developer job

https://henrikwarne.com/2024/02/11/finding-a-new-software-developer-job/

2 years ago

380 upvotes – 307 comments

2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/

2 years ago

345 upvotes – 82 comments

Deleting and destroying finished movies

https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/coyote-vs-acme-canceled

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 361 comments

A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/swatting-nikki-haley-trump-fbi-stalkers-b2494097.html

2 years ago

313 upvotes – 514 comments

Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336840

2 years ago

311 upvotes – 153 comments

RSS is still pretty great

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/rss/

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 85 comments

The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid

https://thehustle.co/the-surreal-life-of-a-professional-bridesmaid/

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 192 comments

Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 175 comments

RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python

https://datadreamer.dev/docs/latest/pages/get_started/quick_tour/aligning.html

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 66 comments

Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx

https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2024-02-10_keycloak-docker-compose-nginx/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 108 comments

OpenFPGA

https://www.analogue.co/developer

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

https://github.com/IdreesInc/Miracode

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 48 comments

Orbit: C/C++ Performance Profiler

https://github.com/google/orbit

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 59 comments

Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

2 years ago

194 upvotes – 138 comments

100% User-Supported

https://stephango.com/vcware

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 60 comments

Popcorn Time 0.5.0

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.0

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 135 comments

The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]

https://starwarz.com/tbone/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-Sequel-Brackett.pdf

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 108 comments

Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin

https://javalin.io/

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 84 comments

How Venus ended up with a mini-moon named Zoozve

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/how-venus-ended-up-with-a-mini-moon-named-zoozve/

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 73 comments

Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?

https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/is-the-modern-data-stack-still-a

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 128 comments

Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS

https://killedbyapixel.github.io/TinyCode/games/CrossMyHeart/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

Usborne 1980s Computer Books

https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

Notes on my Remarkable tablet

https://tomcritchlow.com/2024/02/09/remarkable-notes/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 96 comments

Sleeping our way to being productive

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/sleeping-our-way-to-being-productive.html

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 91 comments

Social networks are getting stingy with their data

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/social-network-api-apps-twitter-reddit-threads-mastodon-bluesky/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 95 comments

Minimal Linux Bootloader debugging story

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-02-11-minimal-linux-bootloader-debugging-story/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 3 comments

TurboTax maker Intuit spent millions in record lobbying blitz

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02/turbotax-maker-intuit-spent-millions-in-record-lobbying-blitz-amid-threats-to-tax-prep-industry/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

Waymo car vandalized and lit on fire in San Francisco

https://twitter.com/michael_vandi/status/1756550257851449372

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 165 comments

The Mana World Classic – Open-Source MMORPG

https://classic.themanaworld.org/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Tweening web visualisation, in Rust – (WASM)

https://rustween.mtassoumt.uk/

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

It's time to break free from Corporate Agile

https://bits.danielrothmann.com/corporate-agile

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 79 comments

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?

https://today.usc.edu/alzheimers-in-history-did-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-experience-dementia/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 101 comments

CSS Is Logical

https://geoffgraham.me/css-is-logical/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 101 comments

Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/30/24055807/spec-ops-the-line-delisting-licensing-2k

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments
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