top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-02-16

Alexei Navalny has died

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/

2 years ago

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-6/

2 years ago

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/magika-ai-powered-fast-and-efficient-file-type-identification.html

2 years ago

Think Python, 3rd Edition

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/

2 years ago

Popular Git config options

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/

2 years ago

If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240216-00/?p=109409

2 years ago

Coding in Vision Pro

https://willem.com/blog/2024-02-16_vision-pro/

2 years ago

Video generation models as world simulators

https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators

2 years ago

Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page

https://kagi.com/changelog#3179

2 years ago

Paying people to work on open source is good

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

2 years ago

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/16/plastic-industry-knew-recycling-was-a-farce-for-decades-yet-deceived-the-public-report-rev

2 years ago

German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation

https://noyb.eu/en/german-credit-agency-earns-millions-through-unlawful-customer-manipulation

2 years ago

Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit

2 years ago

Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game

https://frenchie14.itch.io/driftmania

2 years ago

The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

2 years ago

Guix on the Framework 13 AMD

https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/02/16/guix-on-the-framework-13-amd

2 years ago

Clean your codebase with basic information theory

https://taylor.town/compress-code

2 years ago

$5 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: study

https://studyfinds.org/device-breast-cancer-5-seconds/

2 years ago

How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?

https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-survive-alone-1000-years-desert-islands-off-africa

2 years ago

Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

https://www.firefly-iii.org/

2 years ago