Hacker News on Sunday, 30 April 2023

Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely(covertactionmagazine.com)

826 points by onewheeltom 3 years ago | 368 comments

CovertAction Magazine opinion article by Ashley Gjøvik arguing that whistleblowers act as society's conscience but face severe retaliation for exposing the powerful.

Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices(grist.org)

500 points by toomuchtodo 3 years ago | 275 comments

Grist article reporting that Microsoft quietly supported right-to-repair legislation and explaining why that matters for device repairability.

Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you(ratethelandlord.org)

459 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 355 comments

Homepage of Rate The Landlord, a community platform where tenants anonymously submit and read reviews of landlords to promote accountability.

Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”(news.ubc.ca)

424 points by benguild 3 years ago | 190 comments

Report on a UBC-developed water treatment that captures and destroys PFAS 'forever chemicals'; the screenshot shows an NBC News video page with a pre-roll ad.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf](fleuret.org)

420 points by dataminer 3 years ago | 29 comments

A PDF of François Fleuret's The Little Book of Deep Learning, a short introductory textbook on deep learning.

Minetest: An open source voxel game engine(minetest.net)

394 points by doener 3 years ago | 176 comments

Homepage of Minetest, an open source voxel game engine for playing, modding, and creating games, available on desktop platforms and Android.

Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs(justsimply.dev)

391 points by cbracketdash 3 years ago | 250 comments

JustSimply.dev is an essay urging writers of technical documentation to stop describing things as "simple" or "easy" because it alienates readers who are struggling.

Pure Sh Bible(github.com)

359 points by akraker 3 years ago | 103 comments

GitHub repository by dylanaraps collecting pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes, as a shell scripting reference.

40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi(thecurb.com.au)

304 points by pizza 3 years ago | 102 comments

FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying(apnews.com)

271 points by FridayoLeary 3 years ago | 128 comments

MLC-LLM: GPT/Llama on consumer-class GPUs and phones(github.com)

264 points by junrushao1994 3 years ago | 93 comments

My favorite C compiler flags during development(nullprogram.com)

247 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 111 comments

Chess is booming among teens(polygon.com)

236 points by zdw 3 years ago | 176 comments

FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks(chess24.com)

229 points by Qqqwxs 3 years ago | 151 comments

Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminal(github.com)

211 points by willm 3 years ago | 59 comments

Why are lithium prices collapsing?(internationalbanker.com)

206 points by xbmcuser 3 years ago | 467 comments

Show HN: EVA – AI-Relational Database System(github.com)

202 points by jarulraj 3 years ago | 28 comments

The web’s most important decision(thehistoryoftheweb.com)

198 points by zdw 3 years ago | 73 comments

Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month(cnn.com)

198 points by ezconnect 3 years ago | 457 comments

Orbital Mechanics(braeunig.us)

189 points by belter 3 years ago | 48 comments

Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news(ishadeed.com)

171 points by shadeed 3 years ago | 75 comments

A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (2015)(atlasobscura.com)

137 points by cwillu 3 years ago | 54 comments

Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking(bagerbach.com)

129 points by jasim 3 years ago | 17 comments

Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981-)(digibarn.com)

128 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 62 comments

Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars are being totaled(thedrive.com)

126 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 129 comments

Gears (2020)(ciechanow.ski)

124 points by mhb 3 years ago | 5 comments

DIY Adapter: Using an e-bike battery to run a laptop(transistor-man.com)

120 points by transistor-man 3 years ago | 60 comments

Whisper.cpp v1.4.0(github.com)

115 points by tosh 3 years ago | 32 comments

Second ‘impossible’ ring found around distant dwarf planet(nytimes.com)

105 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 58 comments

EmuDeck 2.1: Steam Deck emulation installer(emudeck.com)

105 points by brandrick 3 years ago | 24 comments

Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science(insidehighered.com)

105 points by jwond 3 years ago | 65 comments

Advanced Amiga Architecture (1992)(archive.org)

103 points by doener 3 years ago | 76 comments

Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)(github.com)

102 points by ggzor 3 years ago | 30 comments

The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain(weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

95 points by Michelangelo11 3 years ago | 174 comments

Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief(wsj.com)

86 points by VagueMag 3 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: PySaaS – Python SaaS starter kit(pysaas.io)

86 points by BowTiedRay 3 years ago | 32 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Broke Meta(washingtonpost.com)

84 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 107 comments

Lego Googol Machine(brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com)

84 points by galfarragem 3 years ago | 21 comments

What Is ML Compilation(mlc.ai)

78 points by tosh 3 years ago | 3 comments

Vicuna on iPhone(mlc.ai)

75 points by tosh 3 years ago | 14 comments

llama.cpp: Roadmap May 2023(github.com)

73 points by tosh 3 years ago | 4 comments

Pirated books thrive on Amazon(nypost.com)

71 points by vanilla-almond 3 years ago | 60 comments

Reddit's proposed API changes and the continued existence of RedReader(old.reddit.com)

70 points by gibspaulding 3 years ago | 37 comments

More people are getting away with murder(npr.org)

69 points by haltingproblem 3 years ago | 92 comments

Tesla ran over worker rights, again, US labor judge finds(theregister.com)

68 points by belter 3 years ago | 26 comments

Modern perfect hashing for strings(0x80.pl)

66 points by jandrewrogers 3 years ago | 9 comments

AI / ML / LLM / Transformer Models Timeline(ai.v-gar.de)

65 points by vemgar 3 years ago | 11 comments

Weekend hacking: wireless charging for a HP-25 calculator(partsbox.com)

65 points by zdw 3 years ago | 17 comments

Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext(qword.net)

63 points by qword 3 years ago | 34 comments

No Mow May, Low Mow Spring(beecityusa.org)

63 points by xarthna 3 years ago | 81 comments

The RISC Wars Part 1: The Cambrian Explosion(thechipletter.substack.com)

61 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: I built a database GUI with ChatGPT integration(dbpilot.io)

56 points by Dennizz 3 years ago | 39 comments

A US Bill Would Ban Kids Under 13 from Joining Social Media(wired.com)

55 points by Freddie111 3 years ago | 58 comments

ESA – Space Debris by the Numbers(esa.int)

54 points by mkl95 3 years ago | 17 comments

Beating Bisect with Branchless Binary Search(github.com)

53 points by juliusgeo 3 years ago | 29 comments

Do Papercuts Matter?(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

50 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 53 comments

AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation(economist.com)

50 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 28 comments

Use singular nouns for database table names(teamten.com)

45 points by pkkm 3 years ago | 53 comments

Speed Is All You Need: On-Device Acceleration of Large Diffusion Models(arxiv.org)

44 points by Pelayu 3 years ago | 5 comments

Flame-Throwing Tractors Kill Weeds [video](youtube.com)

44 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 27 comments