Hacker News on Saturday, 24 June 2023

Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system(github.com)

1029 points by espressoRunner 3 years ago | 179 comments

GitHub repository for try, a tool that runs a shell command in an overlay sandbox so its filesystem effects can be inspected before committing them.

Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around(nytimes.com)

237 points by veer 3 years ago | 318 comments

Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed(rssboard.org)

216 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 88 comments

Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys?(alexharri.com)

210 points by alexharri 3 years ago | 124 comments

Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road(economist.com)

197 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 272 comments

US vendor accused of violating GDPR by reputation-scoring EU citizens(theregister.com)

185 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 129 comments

A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux(fosstodon.org)

179 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 72 comments

Building a new ZX Spectrum from all new parts(lostretrotapes.com)

178 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 23 comments

Common Bugs in Writing (2021)(cs.columbia.edu)

178 points by pablode 3 years ago | 87 comments

$900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI(levels.fyi)

174 points by zuhayeer 3 years ago | 234 comments

Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)(paulgraham.com)

171 points by mad2021 3 years ago | 67 comments

North Korean market prices suggest serious food shortages(38north.org)

169 points by EA-3167 3 years ago | 167 comments

An open source web-based flashcard studying system(github.com)

153 points by hwgilbert16 3 years ago | 88 comments

Take action, Protect end-to-end encryption(fsf.org)

151 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 48 comments

The free soloist who fell to earth(outsideonline.com)

148 points by gmays 3 years ago | 122 comments

On the paper “Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using LLMs” [pdf](people.csail.mit.edu)

143 points by jlaneve 3 years ago | 69 comments

Pi.ai LLM Outperforms Palm/GPT3.5(inflection.ai)

140 points by ergodas 3 years ago | 79 comments

Decades-long bet on consciousness ends(nature.com)

133 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 212 comments

AMD EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” CPUs: 128 Zen 4c CPU Cores for Servers, Shipping Now(anandtech.com)

132 points by ksec 3 years ago | 82 comments

NHTSA: Car crashes cost Americans $340B(nhtsa.gov)

117 points by doener 3 years ago | 125 comments

Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default(utcc.utoronto.ca)

114 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 81 comments

Mineverse(evanw.github.io)

108 points by memalign 3 years ago | 29 comments

WeeChat 4(blog.weechat.org)

107 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 30 comments

History is just one damn thing after another(collabfund.com)

106 points by prakhar897 3 years ago | 22 comments

Australian Government Style Manual(stylemanual.gov.au)

105 points by kimburgess 3 years ago | 35 comments

The Magic of Embeddings(stack.convex.dev)

103 points by gk1 3 years ago | 20 comments

Has Xbox lost the console wars?(theverge.com)

102 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 360 comments

Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari(historytoday.com)

97 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 55 comments

All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (2013)(labs.ripe.net)

97 points by JdeBP 3 years ago | 113 comments

Why thousands of board games are buried beneath Mankato(startribune.com)

96 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 26 comments

Yunohost(yunohost.org)

92 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 12 comments

Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions(devblogs.microsoft.com)

88 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary(writedown.app)

88 points by NayamAmarshe 3 years ago | 34 comments

Simple Statistics: Statistical methods in JavaScript for browsers and servers(simple-statistics.github.io)

84 points by favourable 3 years ago | 7 comments

Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)(blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)

79 points by bsilvereagle 3 years ago | 24 comments

Bolwoningen: Living in spherical homes(parametric-architecture.com)

77 points by hochmartinez 3 years ago | 74 comments

RunInSandbox: Run/extract files in Windows Sandbox with a right-click(systanddeploy.com)

77 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 14 comments

Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf](dni.gov)

75 points by agomez314 3 years ago | 54 comments

Semantic MediaWiki(semantic-mediawiki.org)

73 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 33 comments

The Case Against Travel(newyorker.com)

72 points by tkgally 3 years ago | 108 comments

Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and me(nytimes.com)

72 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 53 comments

New rule would give electric utilities incentives for investing in cybersecurity(federalregister.gov)

71 points by geox 3 years ago | 43 comments

OpenSuse Tumbleweed: State-of-the-art desktop and server operating system(get.opensuse.org)

66 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 24 comments

How to Be an Engineer That PMs Don't Hate(staysaasy.com)

64 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 45 comments

Semantic compression (2014)(caseymuratori.com)

63 points by noob_eng 3 years ago | 26 comments

PDF Subpage Navigation(nibblestew.blogspot.com)

61 points by ingve 3 years ago | 13 comments

Why and how to add Home Manager to NixOS(drakerossman.com)

59 points by drakerossman 3 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

58 points by sgbeal 3 years ago | 45 comments

Russia 'Coup' Live Forecast(swiftcentre.org)

56 points by qb 3 years ago | 39 comments

Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up(narcity.com)

56 points by woranl 3 years ago | 60 comments

London’s ancient cart marking ceremony(ianvisits.co.uk)

56 points by zeristor 3 years ago | 17 comments

How to Kill a Decentralised Network(ploum.net)

50 points by pimeys 3 years ago | 10 comments

We may be on the cusp of a golden age for medicine(nytimes.com)

46 points by gsatic 3 years ago | 38 comments

Now on the menu at Toast: A new 99 cent fee(boston.com)

43 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 37 comments

All EU Members are committed to achieving full climate neutrality by 2050(ff55.info)

43 points by doener 3 years ago | 33 comments

Staying Alive(philosophyexperiments.com)

43 points by memalign 3 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: HN comments sidebar bookmarklet(gist.github.com)

43 points by srimukh 3 years ago | 10 comments

Fully Open Public Licence(github.com)

42 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 22 comments

NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s colossal(arstechnica.com)

39 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 51 comments

Fast and free multi-language code editor for Android(github.com)

38 points by timeoperator 3 years ago | 15 comments