top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-02-24

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle/

2 years ago

GPT in 500 Lines of SQL

https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/

2 years ago

Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds

2 years ago

Please make your table headings sticky

https://btxx.org/posts/Please_Make_Your_Table_Headings_Sticky/

2 years ago

Architecture.md (2021)

https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html

2 years ago

Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

https://notes.atomutek.org/power-metal-and-dragons.html

2 years ago

Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?

https://minimaxir.com/2024/02/chatgpt-tips-analysis/

2 years ago

How Does Bluesky Work?

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work

2 years ago

Losing two jobs in one year

https://jbennetcodes.medium.com/how-to-lose-two-jobs-in-one-year-e8e428702b91

2 years ago

Frugly vs. Freemium

https://taylor.town/frugly

2 years ago

Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga

https://dansalva.to/coding-the-anime-woosh-screen-on-amiga/

2 years ago

Quality is a hard sell in big tech

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/big-tech-quality/

2 years ago

Ledger

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/ledger.html

2 years ago

The Earth is getting greener

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2024/2/7/24057308/earth-global-greening-climate-change-carbon

2 years ago

GenAI and erroneous medical references

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/generating-medical-errors-genai-and-erroneous-medical-references

2 years ago

V Language Review (2023)

https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/

2 years ago

Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240222-depaving-the-cities-replacing-concrete-with-earth-and-plants

2 years ago

Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU

https://github.com/Victormeriqui/Consol3

2 years ago

Chronic stress spreads cancer

https://www.cshl.edu/chronic-stress-spreads-cancer-heres-how/

2 years ago

U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-rice-exports-haiti-have-unhealthy-levels-arsenic-study-finds-2024-02-24/

2 years ago