Hacker News on Tuesday, 13 June 2023

McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game(retrododo.com)

821 points by outime 3 years ago | 300 comments

Retro Dodo news article about McDonald's releasing Grimace's Birthday, a new Game Boy Color-style game, in June 2023.

Cormac McCarthy has died(nytimes.com)

803 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 330 comments

New York Times obituary reporting the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023).

Comic Mono(dtinth.github.io)

682 points by lolinder 3 years ago | 130 comments

Project page for Comic Mono, a monospace font forked from Shannon Miwa's Comic Shanns, with download links for regular and bold TTF files.

Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration(github.com)

640 points by gzer0 3 years ago | 265 comments

A draft GitHub pull request to llama.cpp adding full CUDA GPU acceleration for all ggml tensors, including storing the KV cache in VRAM.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

Rewriting the Ruby parser(railsatscale.com)

480 points by kddeisz 3 years ago | 144 comments

Shopify's Rails at Scale blog post by Kevin Newton describing YARP, a new Ruby parser being merged into CRuby, and its motivations and development.

Open source hospital price database(dolthub.com)

457 points by alecst 3 years ago | 221 comments

DoltHub repository page for the transparency-in-pricing database, a 62.9 GB open dataset of US hospital prices with a SQL query view of the rate table.

Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)(jsomers.net)

444 points by cal85 3 years ago | 164 comments

James Somers' 2015 blog essay arguing that working quickly matters more than it seems; the page loaded as a 500 server error.

Finish your projects(github.com)

442 points by aarondf 3 years ago | 184 comments

A GitHub ReadME guide offering advice to developers on how to finish their software projects rather than abandoning them.

Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted(theverge.com)

420 points by tedivm 3 years ago | 434 comments

The Verge interview with Apollo developer Christian Selig about his dispute with Reddit over API pricing and the subreddit blackout protest.

Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React(resend.com)

405 points by zenorocha 3 years ago | 259 comments

Landing page for Resend, a YC-backed email API for developers to build, test, and send transactional emails, with templates written in React.

JupyterLab 4.0(blog.jupyter.org)

396 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 165 comments

Jupyter Blog post announcing the release of JupyterLab 4.0, now available on PyPI and conda-forge, with upgrade instructions and updated documentation.

Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video](youtube.com)

382 points by henning 3 years ago | 172 comments

YouTube video by Matt's Ramblings explaining the code behind Quake's lightning gun bug that lets it shoot through walls.

Moving fast with the core Vim motions(barbarianmeetscoding.com)

366 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 219 comments

Chapter 6 of the online book "Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim," covering the core Vim motions for moving quickly through code.

Johnny Decimal(johnnydecimal.com)

348 points by ralgozino 3 years ago | 171 comments

Introduction page of the Johnny.Decimal system, a numbered scheme for organising files, projects, and information into areas, categories, and IDs.

Text Editor Data Structures(cdacamar.github.io)

312 points by starfreakclone 3 years ago | 63 comments

Reddit Doubles Down(platformer.news)

310 points by stanislavb 3 years ago | 310 comments

U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Personal Data(wsj.com)

279 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 160 comments

Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, files for bankruptcy(cbc.ca)

260 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 287 comments

Function calling and other API updates(openai.com)

259 points by staranjeet 3 years ago | 105 comments

Teach yourself Computer Science functionally(functionalcs.github.io)

253 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 82 comments

Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely(theverge.com)

253 points by edsimpson 3 years ago | 250 comments

Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE(autodesk.com)

251 points by ambientenv 3 years ago | 170 comments

Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories(nami.land)

211 points by namiwang 3 years ago | 68 comments

Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking(eugeneyan.com)

208 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 62 comments

The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved (1970) [pdf](brianb.freeshell.org)

206 points by luu 3 years ago | 84 comments

SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices Within Two Seconds(snap-research.github.io)

202 points by synapse26 3 years ago | 51 comments

Do high interest rates fix high inflation?(lynalden.com)

201 points by fuoqi 3 years ago | 274 comments

ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard(github.com)

196 points by zoenolan 3 years ago | 46 comments

Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to US Government agencies(bloomberg.com)

165 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 178 comments

Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP(eetimes.com)

165 points by JoachimS 3 years ago | 93 comments

Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)(dkriesel.com)

150 points by gurjeet 3 years ago | 43 comments

The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget(arxiv.org)

149 points by indus 3 years ago | 94 comments

Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?(mirrors.edge.kernel.org)

149 points by nequo 3 years ago | 122 comments

Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones(hackcompute.com)

141 points by iancarroll 3 years ago | 19 comments

Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language(scholar.google.com)

129 points by hackandthink 3 years ago | 139 comments

Oyster: Towards Unsupervised Object Detection from Lidar Point Clouds(waabi.ai)

125 points by abrichr 3 years ago | 67 comments

Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross(andromedacluster.com)

125 points by mobileexpert 3 years ago | 29 comments

Dating, education, and sex ratios(robkhenderson.com)

120 points by Melchizedek 3 years ago | 176 comments

Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment(github.com)

117 points by hnlmorg 3 years ago | 53 comments

Thinking Like Transformers (2021) [pdf](arxiv.org)

107 points by jbay808 3 years ago | 16 comments

Stochastic Parrot(en.wikipedia.org)

107 points by miobrien 3 years ago | 117 comments

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’(theverge.com)

106 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 79 comments

TypeCell, open source TypeScript notebooks live programming environment(typecell.org)

106 points by throwaway888abc 3 years ago | 22 comments

NVD Damage Continued(daniel.haxx.se)

105 points by psanford 3 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: LLaMA tokenizer that runs in browser(github.com)

103 points by belladoreai 3 years ago | 19 comments

Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century “photo stories”(smithsonianmag.com)

97 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 46 comments

Where did the long tail go? (2022)(honest-broker.com)

88 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 56 comments

Writing a Linux Debugger (2017)(blog.tartanllama.xyz)

87 points by lrsjng 3 years ago | 10 comments

Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022)(therealdeal.com)

87 points by andrewstuart 3 years ago | 60 comments

AMD Expands AI Product Lineup with GPU-Only Instinct Mi300X with 192GB Memory(anandtech.com)

85 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 61 comments

Infantilism as a norm (2018)(iq.hse.ru)

85 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 181 comments

The Design Principles of the Elixir Type System [pdf](irif.fr)

83 points by weatherlight 3 years ago | 12 comments

Repairing Electronics: A circular economy solution(nextbillion.net)

83 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 49 comments

Vintage National Geographic Photos(vintagenatgeographic.tumblr.com)

76 points by ZunarJ5 3 years ago | 13 comments

Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story(bitfieldconsulting.com)

74 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 41 comments

Aspect-Oriented Programming(en.wikipedia.org)

70 points by alraj 3 years ago | 57 comments

Ask HN: Is there a good camping chair that is comfortable for programming?

69 points by reimertz 3 years ago | 56 comments

To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine(nytimes.com)

65 points by ingve 3 years ago | 51 comments