Hacker News on Thursday, 8 June 2023

Apollo will close down on June 30th(old.reddit.com)

3188 points by timf 3 years ago | 1467 comments

Reddit announcement post by Apollo's developer stating the iOS Reddit client will shut down June 30, 2023 due to Reddit's API decisions.

iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on(9to5mac.com)

782 points by belfalas 3 years ago | 269 comments

9to5Mac article reporting that iOS 17 strips tracking parameters from clicked links as part of Apple's Link Tracking Protection privacy feature.

The Last Egg(brr.fyi)

573 points by focusedone 3 years ago | 166 comments

A blog post on brr.fyi from a worker at an Antarctic station about cooking the last fresh egg before winter resupply ends.

Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch(instructables.com)

506 points by zdw 3 years ago | 156 comments

An Instructables project with build video showing how to convert a dead Apple Watch case into a functional mechanical wristwatch.

Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes(nskyc.com)

492 points by sethbannon 3 years ago | 106 comments

NSKYC is a website showing a grid of tiles with the average color of the New York City sky, sampled every five minutes.

Understanding GPT tokenizers(simonwillison.net)

380 points by simonw 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining how GPT tokenizers convert text to integer tokens, with an Observable notebook tool for encoding, decoding and searching tokens.

Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews(fortune.com)

304 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 271 comments

Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging(science.org)

303 points by gumby 3 years ago | 260 comments

r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes(reddit.com)

296 points by owenpalmer 3 years ago | 259 comments

A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm(quantamagazine.org)

295 points by the-mitr 3 years ago | 105 comments

Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits(the-scientist.com)

282 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 295 comments

Reddit is Fun will shut down on June 30th in response to Reddit API changes(old.reddit.com)

282 points by robbiet480 3 years ago | 61 comments

Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset(theverge.com)

261 points by astlouis44 3 years ago | 789 comments

Sync will shut down on June 30(reddit.com)

254 points by LawnGnome 3 years ago | 87 comments

NYC Subwaysheds(subwaysheds.com)

245 points by l3x 3 years ago | 104 comments

Tailscale doesn't want your password(tailscale.com)

243 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 231 comments

AI browser extensions are a security nightmare(kolide.com)

242 points by terracatta 3 years ago | 110 comments

Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”(twitter.com)

233 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 190 comments

Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool(databasediagram.com)

227 points by npack 3 years ago | 75 comments

The US is building factories at a fast rate(businessinsider.com)

226 points by culturestate 3 years ago | 252 comments

Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat(vivaldi.com)

223 points by Madko 3 years ago | 135 comments

Autocomplete – A JavaScript library for building autocomplete experiences(github.com)

204 points by auraham 3 years ago | 45 comments

Why do cats knead?(livescience.com)

202 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 98 comments

Infinite Mac: Classic Macintosh system releases and software on a web browser(infinitemac.org)

200 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Tremor 3.0 – Open-source library to build dashboards fast(tremor.so)

192 points by exod983 3 years ago | 33 comments

The guide to software development with Guix(guix.gnu.org)

185 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 116 comments

GPT-4 “discovered” the same sorting algorithm as AlphaDev by removing “mov S P”(twitter.com)

181 points by machdiamonds 3 years ago | 58 comments

Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy(manjaro.org)

165 points by doener 3 years ago | 160 comments

Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta(blog.tomayac.com)

164 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 121 comments

Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket(49travel.vercel.app)

163 points by whinvik 3 years ago | 203 comments

Official Apple Design Resources for Figma – iOS 17 and iPadOS 17(figma.com)

159 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 32 comments

Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive: 180W Power Adapter(frame.work)

156 points by pimterry 3 years ago | 83 comments

fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C(github.com)

155 points by sph 3 years ago | 87 comments

Intravenous Caffeine(sexdrugsandsuicide.com)

154 points by euthymiclabs 3 years ago | 171 comments

The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years(grist.org)

151 points by DantesKite 3 years ago | 135 comments

HashiCorp just let go 8%(twitter.com)

147 points by ushakov 3 years ago | 144 comments

GM to use Tesla charging network, joining Ford(cnbc.com)

143 points by kloch 3 years ago | 165 comments

Cost of ‘reformatting’ prompts a call for journals to change their requirements(nature.com)

139 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 90 comments

The Icelandic Saga Database(sagadb.org)

136 points by ughitsaaron 3 years ago | 32 comments

Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across life course (2006)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

134 points by tosh 3 years ago | 145 comments

TransparentHMD: Revealing the HMD User’s Face to Bystanders (2017) [pdf](medien.ifi.lmu.de)

121 points by ramboldio 3 years ago | 116 comments

The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “Loving Vincent”(artpublikamag.com)

116 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 49 comments

Ex-ByteDance exec: Communist Party had ‘God credential’(businessinsider.com)

110 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 51 comments

Could seaweed be the 'fastest and least expensive' tool to fight climate change?(nationalgeographic.com)

103 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 159 comments

Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API(reddit.com)

102 points by throw7 3 years ago | 65 comments

Why you’re going about recovering from perfectionism all wrong (2021)(candrews.medium.com)

101 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 34 comments

You can't reach the brain through the ears(experimental-history.com)

98 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 51 comments

Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?(hackaday.com)

97 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 158 comments

US CDC sets first federal target for ventilation of indoor air to lower risk(cnn.com)

97 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 40 comments

Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes(theverge.com)

93 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 78 comments

Startups drive commercialization of high-impact innovations(nber.org)

91 points by hhs 3 years ago | 19 comments

The History of VisiCalc (1999-2018)(bricklin.com)

91 points by damir 3 years ago | 14 comments

France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones(francetvinfo.fr)

91 points by dgan 3 years ago | 58 comments

Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (2018)(engineering.desmos.com)

90 points by vector_spaces 3 years ago | 15 comments

Writing a C Compiler (2017)(norasandler.com)

86 points by lrsjng 3 years ago | 29 comments

Synthesis Tutor – Math tutor for children(synthesis.com)

84 points by brennancolberg 3 years ago | 58 comments

Another cluster of potentially malicious Chrome extensions(palant.info)

82 points by supermatou 3 years ago | 41 comments

Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets(nytimes.com)

80 points by danso 3 years ago | 199 comments

Lawyer Who Used ChatGPT Faces Penalty for Made Up Citations(nytimes.com)

77 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 75 comments

New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta(monicahq.com)

68 points by robinhood 3 years ago | 57 comments