top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-25

Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires

https://usoldering.com/switch-lite/

a year ago

513 upvotes – 114 comments

Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/inside-north-koreas-forced-labor-program-in-china

a year ago

355 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

https://nekoweb.org/

a year ago

353 upvotes – 117 comments

Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

a year ago

308 upvotes – 474 comments

Coroutines in C (2000)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

a year ago

307 upvotes – 93 comments

Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL

https://osquery.io/

a year ago

300 upvotes – 99 comments

Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/climate/impacts/january-2024-hottest-on-record-tops-warmest-12-month-period-in-history

a year ago

275 upvotes – 406 comments

Marginalia: 3 Years

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_101_marginalia-3-years/

a year ago

274 upvotes – 44 comments

Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers

https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html

a year ago

270 upvotes – 93 comments

Microsoft is driving users away

https://christitus.com/microsoft-is-driving-users-away/

a year ago

226 upvotes – 413 comments

Console.delight

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/console-delight/

a year ago

224 upvotes – 31 comments

Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)

https://hackneybooks.co.uk/books/364/686/Pleasures.html

a year ago

209 upvotes – 116 comments

Selfish reasons to want more humans

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-a-larger-population

a year ago

205 upvotes – 458 comments

Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning

https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-blocks-long-running-fire-tv-capability-breaking-popular-apps-with-no-warning-and-giving-developers-the-runaround/

a year ago

196 upvotes – 162 comments

You almost never see a clock at the mall

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall

a year ago

193 upvotes – 178 comments

TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/02/22/tsmc-is-having-more-luck-building-in-japan-than-in-america

a year ago

192 upvotes – 297 comments

Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.2c07780

a year ago

187 upvotes – 85 comments

Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay

https://twitter.com/zephray_wenting/status/1761548861896606014

a year ago

186 upvotes – 44 comments

The Top of the DNS Hierarchy

https://computer.rip/2024-02-11-the-top-of-the-DNS-hierarchy.html

a year ago

178 upvotes – 61 comments

Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152

a year ago

176 upvotes – 136 comments

Profiteering hampers U.S. grid expansion

https://spectrum.ieee.org/transmission-expansion

a year ago

176 upvotes – 116 comments

Readability.js

https://github.com/mozilla/readability

a year ago

164 upvotes – 23 comments

Zero-rupee note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rupee_note

a year ago

160 upvotes – 76 comments

Notes on paper (2023)

https://voussoir.net/writing/notes_on_paper

a year ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

It's OK to abandon your side-project

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/

a year ago

146 upvotes – 79 comments

Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python

https://altair-viz.github.io/index.html

a year ago

142 upvotes – 42 comments

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html

a year ago

135 upvotes – 45 comments

Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)

https://bigmedium.com/ideas/design-system-pace-layers-slow-fast.html

a year ago

134 upvotes – 65 comments

Windsor Typeface (2018)

https://fontreviewjournal.com/windsor/

a year ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements

https://www.aspiring.dev/fly-io-scheduler-part-2/

a year ago

132 upvotes – 18 comments

A retrospective on Requests

https://blog.ian.stapletoncordas.co/2024/02/a-retrospective-on-requests

a year ago

125 upvotes – 42 comments

I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/?

https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358

a year ago

124 upvotes – 75 comments

ViHN: Vim for Hacker News

https://qsantos.fr/2024/02/24/vihn-vim-for-hacker-news/

a year ago

124 upvotes – 57 comments

Working with Purpose, Forever

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/working-with-purpose-forever/

a year ago

122 upvotes – 71 comments

I'm Coder

https://www.fellipe.com/apps/im-coder/

a year ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

https://playstationcouch.com/post.php?id=161

a year ago

117 upvotes – 183 comments

Write Dumb Code (2018)

https://matthewrocklin.com/write-dumb-code.html

a year ago

113 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Functional UI Kit – twin Figma and React component libraries

https://github.com/functional-ui/functional-ui-kit

a year ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)

https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/

a year ago

101 upvotes – 316 comments

Falsehoods junior developers believe about becoming senior

https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/

a year ago

98 upvotes – 125 comments

So Google's Gemini Doesn't Like Python Programming and Sanskrit?

https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/so-evidently/

a year ago

97 upvotes – 94 comments

The virtuous mean between time drunkenness and work martyrdom

https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/the-virtuous-mean-between-time-drunkenness

a year ago

94 upvotes – 90 comments

Faster: Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store

https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER

a year ago

94 upvotes – 54 comments

Documentation for the JSON Lines text file format

https://jsonlines.org/

a year ago

93 upvotes – 88 comments

How to Change a System

https://www.enablingchange.com.au/blog/strategy-2/how-to-change-a-system/

a year ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

Egypt announces $35B deal with UAE to buy premium Mediterranean area

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-announces-massive-35-billion-deal-uae-develop-ras-el-hekma-north-coast

a year ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

Asynchronous clean-up

https://without.boats/blog/asynchronous-clean-up/

a year ago

87 upvotes – 70 comments

Windows in a Docker Container

https://github.com/dockur/windows

a year ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

The Snazzy D Compiler

https://github.com/snazzy-d/sdc

a year ago

85 upvotes – 4 comments

What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-do-we-get-wrong-about-byzantine-empire

a year ago

85 upvotes – 101 comments

Starving to Death on a Full Stomach

https://slothconservation.org/starving-death-full-stomach/

a year ago

84 upvotes – 99 comments

Why fake research is rampant in China

https://www.economist.com/china/2024/02/22/why-fake-research-is-rampant-in-china

a year ago

83 upvotes – 63 comments

Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14583

a year ago

82 upvotes – 72 comments

As solar panels age out, recyclers hope to cash in

https://e360.yale.edu/features/solar-energy-panels-recycling

a year ago

79 upvotes – 55 comments

The oldest hackies tell it like it was (1966)

http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-oldest-hackies-tell-it-like-it-was-and-is/

a year ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Why the world stopped having sex

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/10/france-sex-lives-lowest-level-britain-japan-korea/

a year ago

73 upvotes – 122 comments

Ask HN: How to Overcome the Trough of Sorrow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504470

a year ago

70 upvotes – 85 comments

Parasite infection is associated with entrepreneurship (2020)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1042258719890992

a year ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

Love Letter to Obsidian

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1761467904737067456

a year ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments

Drawing and illustrating in the pre-digital time (2019)

https://www.daube.ch/docu/glossary/drawingtools.html

a year ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Patterns of Software (1996) [pdf]

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

a year ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Consumers are increasingly pushing back against price increases – and winning

https://thegrio.com/2024/02/25/consumers-respond-to-price-increases/

a year ago

67 upvotes – 117 comments

Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, according to Google court filings

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/24/microsoft-sell-bing-to-apple/

a year ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Meta Staff Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. They Did It Anyway

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-staff-found-instagram-subscription-tool-enabled-child-exploitation-the-company-pressed-ahead-anyway-a18e81e6

a year ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

Steve Jobs adopted no 'bozos' policy – best managers those who never wanted job

https://www.aol.com/finance/steve-jobs-adopted-no-bozos-130000644.html

a year ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments
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