top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-13

The darker side of being a doctor (2017)

https://drericlevi.substack.com/p/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor

2 years ago

621 upvotes – 500 comments

The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/04/harmful-5g-fast-lanes-are-coming-fcc-needs-stop-them

2 years ago

433 upvotes – 320 comments

Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2024/03/23/summers-inflation-reached-18-in-2022-using-the-governments-previous-formula/

2 years ago

362 upvotes – 422 comments

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/pmf-framework/

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 99 comments

Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/04/1242264274/siblings-science-identical-twin-brothers-autism-spectrum

2 years ago

283 upvotes – 203 comments

Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)

https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/11/24/tree-shaking-the-horticulturally-misguided-algorithm

2 years ago

247 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters

https://sunboxlabs.com

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 229 comments

A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/13/a-disgruntled-federal-employees-1980s-desk-calendar/

2 years ago

214 upvotes – 78 comments

Old CSS, new CSS (2020)

https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 111 comments

Japanese police arrest man for tampering with Pokémon Violet save data

https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-police-arrest-36-year-old-man-on-suspicion-of-tampering-with-pokemon-violet-save-data

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 236 comments

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 192 comments

I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5591

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 210 comments

Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/ubisoft-is-stripping-peoples-licences-for-the-crew-weeks-after-its-shutdown-nearly-squandering-hopes-of-private-servers-and-acting-as-a-stark-reminder-of-how-volatile-digital-ownership-is/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 125 comments

Research into why some people have a better sense of direction

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/why-do-some-people-always-get-lost-but-others-dont

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 206 comments

Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?

https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/18gpl24/is_net_just_miles_ahead_or_am_i_delusional/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 252 comments

Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB

https://fordauthority.com/2024/04/ford-mustang-mach-e-using-bluecruise-at-time-of-crash-ntsb/

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 369 comments

Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types

https://www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-for-cxx-practitioners-value-types/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos

https://github.com/Evan-Wildenhain/CTRL-F-VIDEO

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 40 comments

Super Mario 64's invisible walls explained [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXCVsDFiXA

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 44 comments

Shape typing in Python

https://jameshfisher.com/2024/04/12/shape-typing-in-python/

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 75 comments

How to Determine the Error of an Air Quality Sensor?

https://www.airgradient.com/blog/how-to-determine-error-of-sensor/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

350 tons of of chocolate and wine arrive on world’s largest cargo sailboat

https://untappedcities.com/2024/04/12/grain-de-sail-ll/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 137 comments

Your LLM Is a Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07544

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

OpenBSD is a cozy operating system

https://btxx.org/posts/OpenBSD_is_a_Cozy_Operating_System/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 88 comments

The Stacks Project: A Wikipedia of algebraic geometry (2022)

https://news.columbia.edu/news/stacks-project-johan-dejong

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

The Microsoft-Dilemma – Europe as a Software Colony – Full Documentary

https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 134 comments

How do machines ‘grok’ data?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-machines-grok-data-20240412/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

Florence museum won suit against publisher that used Michelangelo's David image

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/florence-gallerie-dellaccademia-wins-david-lawsuit-2313262

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Physically attractive attorneys tend to have greater success in federal court

https://www.psypost.org/physically-attractive-attorneys-tend-to-have-greater-success-in-federal-court/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 114 comments

How Convex Works

https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments

15 Note Poly Tempo Pendulum [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTwg4mFF32E

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Emacs Info Expressions

https://susam.net/emacs-info-expressions.html

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Iran said to begin attack on Israel, launching drones

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-13-2024/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 127 comments

Show HN: ZSV (Zip Separated Values) columnar data format

https://github.com/Hafthor/zsvutil

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 69 comments

Grok-1.5 Vision Preview

https://x.ai/blog/grok-1.5v

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

ScanAllFish

https://www.adamsummers.org/scanallfish

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Dano is a wrapper for FFmpeg that checksums the internal file streams

https://github.com/kimono-koans/dano

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Purl – A Simple Tool for Text Processing

https://github.com/catatsuy/purl

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Self-Hosted Is Awesome

https://pixeljets.com/blog/self-hosted-is-awesome/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

AI-Startup Launches Ever-Expanding Library of Free Stock Photos and Music

https://torrentfreak.com/ai-startup-launches-ever-expanding-library-of-free-stock-photos-and-music-240413/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

Experience report: It will never work in theory

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/5555/01/10424425/1Ulj1Qa8tJ6

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

When Nostalgia Was Deadly

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/when-nostalgia-was-deadly

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Today's open source models beat closed source models from 1.5 years ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c33agw/todays_open_source_models_beat_closed_source/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Careful with That Lock, Eugene

https://kaveland.no/careful-with-that-lock-eugene.html

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Open Circuits Book

https://opencircuitsbook.com/

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22

https://benhoyt.com/writings/go-version-performance-2024/

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Can Gemini 1.5 read all the Harry Potter books at once?

https://twitter.com/deedydas/status/1778621375592485076/photo/1

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

DES/3DES Algorithm Illustration

https://hereket.com/tiny/des-algorithm/

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

Program synthesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_synthesis

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments
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