Hacker News on Friday, 7 April 2023

Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?(nytimes.com)

899 points by deeg 3 years ago | 954 comments

A Wirecutter advice column answering a reader's request for a TV recommendation without smart features, discussing options for non-smart or 'dumb' TVs.

Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails(github.blog)

594 points by Lukas_Skywalker 3 years ago | 276 comments

GitHub engineering blog post on how GitHub.com is built as a Ruby on Rails monolith of nearly two million lines worked on by over 1,000 engineers.

We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics(simonwillison.net)

474 points by simonw 3 years ago | 373 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that people should be plainly told ChatGPT lies, rather than debating terms like hallucination.

Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub(codeberg.org)

461 points by oblio 3 years ago | 182 comments

Homepage of Codeberg, a nonprofit collaboration platform and Git hosting service for free and open source software projects.

Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again(npr.org)

452 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 237 comments

NPR Short Wave article about newly developed perennial rice strains that regrow and stay productive after harvest without replanting.

U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables(reuters.com)

344 points by gmays 3 years ago | 297 comments

Reuters special report on the U.S.-China rivalry over control and construction of undersea internet cables.

Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days(status.mycloud.com)

318 points by cloudking 3 years ago | 178 comments

Western Digital's My Cloud Home status page announcing that My Cloud Home and My Cloud OS 5 services are down.

NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security(privacy.org.nz)

276 points by EdwardDiego 3 years ago | 131 comments

Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack(arstechnica.com)

248 points by carride 3 years ago | 139 comments

Go port of SQLite without CGo(gitlab.com)

219 points by cube2222 3 years ago | 96 comments

The machines of Tatjana van Vark(craftsmanshipmuseum.com)

189 points by jamez 3 years ago | 22 comments

Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?(raphkoster.com)

182 points by Dx5IQ 3 years ago | 74 comments

How to be consistent(csprimer.com)

177 points by nedwin 3 years ago | 43 comments

James Niehues Ski Map Artist(jamesniehues.com)

171 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant(github.com)

167 points by pgosar0514 3 years ago | 46 comments

How to Design Programs 2nd Edition(htdp.org)

165 points by noob_eng 3 years ago | 28 comments

How to Stop Ruminating(sudarkoff.blog)

162 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 83 comments

JavaScript-algorithms: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript(github.com)

160 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 54 comments

Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out?(statnews.com)

159 points by greyface- 3 years ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Building musical synthesizers with SQL queries(github.com)

155 points by zX41ZdbW 3 years ago | 13 comments

SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch(spacenews.com)

147 points by mska 3 years ago | 103 comments

Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9(estesrockets.com)

143 points by ArtWomb 3 years ago | 80 comments

The longest straight line in Great Britain without crossing a public road(statsmapsnpix.com)

130 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 119 comments

Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test(nature.com)

129 points by AiaAidan 3 years ago | 97 comments

Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API(intuitiveexplanations.com)

128 points by luu 3 years ago | 28 comments

Big Ball of Mud (1999)(laputan.org)

124 points by softwaredoug 3 years ago | 26 comments

Haxe 4.3(haxe.org)

115 points by MokaAkashiya 3 years ago | 30 comments

Ampere Altra Dev Kit has launched 32, 64, 80 core arm64 processor(ipi.wiki)

113 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 81 comments

Flipper Zero banned by Amazon for being a ‘card skimming device’(bleepingcomputer.com)

107 points by nazgulsenpai 3 years ago | 94 comments

DPReview Will Remain Available as an Archive After It Closes(petapixel.com)

107 points by jacooper 3 years ago | 7 comments

Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness(theverge.com)

106 points by zdw 3 years ago | 40 comments

Quantum Computing 101(academy.meetiqm.com)

105 points by doener 3 years ago | 37 comments

Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better(antonhowes.substack.com)

98 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 71 comments

A Case Study on the Uber Alumni Network(trailruncapital.substack.com)

89 points by amrrs 3 years ago | 79 comments

The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under(futurism.com)

88 points by SheddingPattern 3 years ago | 38 comments

Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video](youtube.com)

87 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 98 comments

Show HN: Learn Rust 101 – A guide to aid your journey of becoming a Rustacean(github.com)

83 points by gdcbe 3 years ago | 12 comments

Neovim 0.9(github.com)

83 points by eugene_pirogov 3 years ago | 51 comments

Cerebras-GPT: Open Compute-Optimal Language Models Trained on Cerebras Cluster(arxiv.org)

83 points by cs-fan-101 3 years ago | 10 comments

Board game where tigers hunt goats while goats block their movements(github.com)

82 points by iamsuman 3 years ago | 23 comments

NYPD officers brag about milking overtime in accidental recording(gothamist.com)

81 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 8 comments

What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, gympie-gympie(iflscience.com)

79 points by anotherevan 3 years ago | 63 comments

Avoidance Speech(en.wikipedia.org)

77 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 74 comments

In 2019, Volkswagen decided to create a car OS. How’s that going?(arstechnica.com)

76 points by laktak 3 years ago | 38 comments

Porting the Slint UI Toolkit to a Microcontroller with 264K RAM(slint-ui.com)

74 points by zdw 3 years ago | 22 comments

Administrative Scripting with Julia(github.com)

73 points by xgdgsc 3 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: A minimal job board for signal processing engineers(signalprocessingjobs.com)

71 points by polalavik 3 years ago | 15 comments

NSA created online cybersecurity course with 100s of classes(clark.center)

70 points by graderjs 3 years ago | 11 comments

Ex-S.F. fire commissioner with fractured skull after metal pipe attack(sfchronicle.com)

70 points by nailer 3 years ago | 29 comments

Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950 (2021)(nature.com)

66 points by joebiden2 3 years ago | 20 comments

Frequency comb breathalyzer detects Covid with excellent accuracy(nist.gov)

64 points by geox 3 years ago | 3 comments

Frank Rosenblatt(en.wikipedia.org)

62 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 29 comments

Ask HN: Is it appropriate to ask a startup to let me see their cap table?

60 points by golly_ned 3 years ago | 83 comments

Will another Forbes 30 under 30 member be arrested for fraud before 2025?(manifold.markets)

59 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 6 comments

Wing Commander IV(filfre.net)

59 points by doppp 3 years ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: What's your best resource for keeping up-to-date on AI developments?

58 points by GavCo 3 years ago | 33 comments

“No Way to Prevent This”, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens(en.wikipedia.org)

58 points by philshem 3 years ago | 2 comments

Elusive ‘Einstein’ solves a longstanding math problem(nytimes.com)

57 points by crazydoggers 3 years ago | 15 comments

I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week(twitter.com)

56 points by doener 3 years ago | 34 comments

USA Cycling champion dies after being struck by car in San Francisco’s Presidio(sfchronicle.com)

56 points by latchkey 3 years ago | 60 comments