Hacker News on Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Maps distort how we see the world(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

599 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 291 comments

A Tomas Pueyo Uncharted Territories newsletter post presenting 30 maps showing how map projections distort perceived country sizes, especially near the equator.

Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode(figma.com)

510 points by emilsjolander 3 years ago | 213 comments

Figma blog post by CTO Kris Rasmussen announcing Dev Mode, a new Figma workspace aimed at helping developers inspect designs and turn them into code.

Cookie Clicker saved my PhD(advaitsarkar.wordpress.com)

373 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 124 comments

Blog post by researcher Advait Sarkar recounting how his online gaming addiction, including Cookie Clicker, ended up helping him complete his PhD.

Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro(apple.com)

348 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 440 comments

Apple press release from June 21, 2023 announcing the availability of the visionOS SDK for building spatial apps for Apple Vision Pro.

A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)(noulakaz.net)

331 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 86 comments

A 2007 blog post explaining how the Perl regular expression /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ checks whether a number is prime using unary representation.

GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params(twitter.com)

322 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 167 comments

Tweet thread by swyx announcing a Latent Space podcast interview with George Hotz about tiny corp, including claims that GPT-4 is an 8x220B mixture model.

Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo(androidauthority.com)

306 points by xslvrxslwt 3 years ago | 155 comments

FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process(cnbc.com)

287 points by geekrax 3 years ago | 179 comments

Go 1.21 Release Candidate(go.dev)

275 points by pk2200 3 years ago | 165 comments

Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty(ft.com)

275 points by hansmeierbaum 3 years ago | 171 comments

Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces(yotam.net)

273 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 246 comments

Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says(reuters.com)

272 points by testrun 3 years ago | 109 comments

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability(lwn.net)

269 points by 0xdeafbeef 3 years ago | 218 comments

Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store(engadget.com)

266 points by gsibble 3 years ago | 115 comments

Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’(wired.com)

249 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 399 comments

Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?(incoherency.co.uk)

247 points by jstanley 3 years ago | 132 comments

Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google(post.news)

246 points by mtmail 3 years ago | 172 comments

Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as an employee?

241 points by gremlinsinc 3 years ago | 101 comments

Ego and Math [video](youtube.com)

218 points by andersource 3 years ago | 91 comments

Textbooks are all you need(arxiv.org)

218 points by foobarqux 3 years ago | 81 comments

Handles are the better pointers (2018)(floooh.github.io)

206 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 71 comments

A case for toe socks(herman.bearblog.dev)

202 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 321 comments

Free Organ(organclearinghouse.com)

188 points by mhb 3 years ago | 84 comments

How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch(furiouslyrotatingshapes.substack.com)

179 points by bluecalm 3 years ago | 174 comments

Moog sells its business to InMusic(ra.co)

176 points by 8bitsrule 3 years ago | 170 comments

AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models(lastmileai.dev)

168 points by Flux159 3 years ago | 30 comments

Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin(thebaffler.com)

168 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 287 comments

NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux(sam.gov)

165 points by InitEnabler 3 years ago | 131 comments

What every programmer should know about memory (2007) [pdf](people.freebsd.org)

165 points by quackulus 3 years ago | 30 comments

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)(kakoune.org)

161 points by r3trohack3r 3 years ago | 86 comments

Over 100k ChatGPT Account Credentials Made Available on the Dark Web(tomshardware.com)

154 points by _bohm 3 years ago | 69 comments

Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in elections(legis.delaware.gov)

152 points by lamontcg 3 years ago | 121 comments

Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google Cloud Platform(twitter.com)

151 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 92 comments

How RLHF Works(interconnects.ai)

149 points by natolambert 3 years ago | 30 comments

Google IS selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?(twitter.com)

149 points by raybb 3 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools

148 points by antonoo 3 years ago | 35 comments

Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)(foundation.mozilla.org)

140 points by TrisMcC 3 years ago | 50 comments

Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)(moretothat.com)

138 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 117 comments

Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction(tedunderwood.com)

127 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 41 comments

Some were meant for C [pdf](humprog.org)

125 points by craigkerstiens 3 years ago | 97 comments

Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation(axios.com)

122 points by redbell 3 years ago | 111 comments

The Almost Romance Languages(dannybate.com)

118 points by sokols 3 years ago | 66 comments

The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)(nautil.us)

115 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories(kodytools.com)

115 points by KodyBerns99 3 years ago | 105 comments

Ruby Hacking Guide (2004)(ruby-hacking-guide.github.io)

115 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 36 comments

What to do if your house is overflowing with books(lithub.com)

115 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 117 comments

MyNOR – The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough(mynor.org)

113 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 29 comments

Diaphora: an open-source program diffing IDA plugin(github.com)

111 points by DyslexicAtheist 3 years ago | 24 comments

Magvit: Masked Generative Video Transformer(magvit.cs.cmu.edu)

108 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 6 comments

Meta now officially outsources support to the legal system(imgur.com)

104 points by gndk 3 years ago | 39 comments

Platinum Photography(whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)

104 points by noahbrier 3 years ago | 45 comments

I won't pay on your website(github.com)

102 points by vedantkhairnar 3 years ago | 81 comments

Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf](mclibre.org)

100 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 61 comments

The History of Coffee (2015)(ncausa.org)

99 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 56 comments

Company to pay fine after hiring fake priest to extract confessions of workers(cnn.com)

99 points by exar0815 3 years ago | 24 comments

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics(nationsreportcard.gov)

93 points by alach11 3 years ago | 171 comments

Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system(arstechnica.com)

90 points by tosh 3 years ago | 21 comments

Tree-Ring Watermark: Invisible Robust Fingerprints of Diffusion Images(arxiv.org)

90 points by anjel 3 years ago | 60 comments

The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend(gwern.net)

89 points by belter 3 years ago | 42 comments

System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps(systeminit.com)

85 points by kelp 3 years ago | 58 comments