Hacker News on Saturday, 1 April 2023

His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent(inverse.com)

407 points by kens 3 years ago | 192 comments

Input feature profiling Thomas Buchler, late creator of the Torah chanting program TropeTrainer, and whether his abandoned software can be revived.

Alexa, what is my wifi password?(dragon863.github.io)

399 points by voxadam 3 years ago | 160 comments

A blog post by Daniel B, dated March 15, 2023, titled "Alexa, what is my wifi password?", apparently about retrieving Wi-Fi credentials stored on Amazon Alexa devices.

Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (2022)(exhypothesi.com)

358 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 89 comments

A 2022 blog article explaining logical clock designs and how they help order events and track causality in distributed systems.

Managers, stop distracting employees(hbr.org)

344 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 183 comments

Harvard Business Review article by Nir Eyal urging managers to stop distracting their employees, published January 12, 2023.

Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users(arstechnica.com)

333 points by stereoradonc 3 years ago | 267 comments

Ars Technica article reporting Google Drive quietly introduced a per-account file count limit that locked out some users despite available paid storage.

Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative(cell.com)

326 points by ecosystem 3 years ago | 113 comments

Open-access Cell paper reporting that stressed plants emit airborne ultrasonic sounds that reveal their condition and can be classified.

Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France(en.hexatrek.com)

325 points by carabiner 3 years ago | 159 comments

Homepage of Hexatrek, a long-distance thru-hiking trail across France, with hiking stages, news, and association information.

Can water solve a maze? [video](youtube.com)

308 points by gronky_ 3 years ago | 111 comments

MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention [video](youtube.com)

301 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 42 comments

SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy(interactive.satellitetoday.com)

294 points by Teever 3 years ago | 244 comments

SpaceX moves Starship to launch site, and liftoff could be just days away(arstechnica.com)

257 points by kristianp 3 years ago | 185 comments

Show HN: Coursemate – connect with other self learners(coursem8.com)

238 points by collin1 3 years ago | 59 comments

Moving from Rust to C++(raphlinus.github.io)

219 points by raphlinus 3 years ago | 101 comments

Pursuing status will never bring true happiness(every.to)

217 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 141 comments

The Joy of Computer History Books(fabiensanglard.net)

213 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 76 comments

What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide(bloomberg.com)

202 points by SirLJ 3 years ago | 509 comments

Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire(queue.acm.org)

201 points by donmcc 3 years ago | 209 comments

Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes(groups.google.com)

186 points by tech234a 3 years ago | 130 comments

ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System(sharegpt.com)

182 points by indigodaddy 3 years ago | 81 comments

Wine 8.5(winehq.org)

169 points by neustradamus 3 years ago | 63 comments

NASA validates revolutionary propulsion design for deep space missions(nasa.gov)

161 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Use cookies from Chrome (CDP) in cURL without copy pasting(github.com)

160 points by fipso 3 years ago | 32 comments

Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan(bbc.co.uk)

155 points by mywacaday 3 years ago | 57 comments

Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals(sw.kovidgoyal.net)

147 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 41 comments

He who submits a resume has already lost(residentcontrarian.com)

139 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 132 comments

The origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover art (2015)(blogs.scientificamerican.com)

131 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 36 comments

The roots of Japan's Indian curry(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

122 points by kizunajp 3 years ago | 104 comments

MacUser 1996: How to Rig Up the Fastest Photoshop Machine(archive.org)

122 points by doener 3 years ago | 50 comments

Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum(finance.yahoo.com)

121 points by taubek 3 years ago | 112 comments

The Problems That Attract the Smartest People(medium.com)

120 points by wsgeorge 3 years ago | 70 comments

Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence (2021) [pdf](nber.org)

113 points by whack 3 years ago | 63 comments

The secret life of fsync(puzpuzpuz.dev)

109 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 42 comments

Less than half of U.S. workers use all their vacation days(bloomberg.com)

109 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 134 comments

The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility(nber.org)

101 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 75 comments

Dogme 95(en.wikipedia.org)

97 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 73 comments

PC keyboard hides an interesting secret(linuxjedi.co.uk)

96 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 60 comments

15k inserts/s with Rust and SQLite (2021)(kerkour.com)

95 points by mattrighetti 3 years ago | 74 comments

Show HN: PizzaGPT – ChatGPT clone accessible from Italy(pizzagpt.it)

94 points by LooerCell 3 years ago | 48 comments

APLcart – Find your way in APL(aplcart.info)

94 points by whereistimbo 3 years ago | 15 comments

Humanness in the Age of AI(worldcoin.org)

93 points by allanberger 3 years ago | 80 comments

If Philip Glass was a Film (2019) [video](youtube.com)

90 points by indigodaddy 3 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content(sitegpt.ai)

89 points by pbteja1998 3 years ago | 73 comments

Solaris movie review and film summary (1976)(rogerebert.com)

85 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 67 comments

Vectorized port of Klong array language(github.com)

84 points by tosh 3 years ago | 5 comments

My4TH – A minimalistic Forth computer with discrete CPU(mynor.org)

79 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 15 comments

Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware(ameliorated.io)

79 points by wolfskaempf 3 years ago | 43 comments

Magnon-based computation could signal computing paradigm shift(phys.org)

77 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 25 comments

3Dfx Voodoo Memory Upgrade – 6MB Mod [video](youtube.com)

77 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 27 comments

International Pascal Congress(pascalcongress.com)

74 points by aarroyoc 3 years ago | 26 comments

All Sliders to the Right(queue.acm.org)

68 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 49 comments

The Priest in the Arena(studio.ribbonfarm.com)

68 points by jger15 3 years ago | 30 comments

F**k Teams(youtube.com)

66 points by ChopSticksPlz 3 years ago | 11 comments

AMD’s HD 6950 vs. RX 6900 XT: What Does Adding 50 Do?(chipsandcheese.com)

65 points by gautamcgoel 3 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader(boredreading.com)

65 points by khet 3 years ago | 46 comments

Canonical to abandon Snap, remove in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS(news.itsfoss.com)

60 points by kbouck 3 years ago | 13 comments

Why Not document.write()?(csswizardry.com)

58 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 36 comments

Using Tailscale without using Tailscale(tailscale.dev)

56 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 26 comments

The Data Delusion(newyorker.com)

55 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 14 comments

San Francisco could be on the verge of collapse. What should California do?(sfchronicle.com)

53 points by aranchelk 3 years ago | 64 comments

Is It Imperative to Be Declarative?(blog.container-solutions.com)

50 points by zwischenzug 3 years ago | 38 comments