Hacker News on Saturday, 1 July 2023

Twitter Is DDOSing Itself(sfba.social)

1275 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 208 comments

A Mastodon post with videos showing Twitter's web client firing about 10 requests per second at its own servers after Twitter started requiring login to read tweets.

How to Do Great Work(paulgraham.com)

872 points by razin 3 years ago | 370 comments

Paul Graham's July 2023 essay offering a cross-field guide to doing great work, starting with choosing work that matches aptitude and deep interest.

Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)(archive.org)

552 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 271 comments

Internet Archive item page hosting the complete source code for Far Cry version 1.34 from 2006.

Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules(washingtonpost.com)

534 points by rrauenza 3 years ago | 223 comments

Washington Post Help Desk article on proposed FTC rules that would make fake online reviews illegal and subject to large fines.

Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

467 points by 3cats-in-a-coat 3 years ago | 413 comments

Hacker News discussion of Elon Musk's announcement that Twitter temporarily limited daily post reads per account to counter data scraping.

“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”(sfba.social)

356 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 209 comments

A Mastodon post showing a Firefox network console screenshot of Twitter's web client flooding its own servers with repeated requests, effectively self-DDoSing.

Gping – ping, but with a graph(github.com)

304 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 46 comments

VUDA: A Vulkan Implementation of CUDA(github.com)

297 points by tormeh 3 years ago | 75 comments

How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera(github.com)

289 points by ingve 3 years ago | 89 comments

New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)(crosswordunclued.com)

281 points by lazycouchpotato 3 years ago | 42 comments

The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment(hachyderm.io)

269 points by jclulow 3 years ago | 164 comments

A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)(theprivacywhisperer.com)

268 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 168 comments

Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video](youtube.com)

262 points by danuker 3 years ago | 172 comments

Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C(jorengarenar.github.io)

251 points by jiripospisil 3 years ago | 75 comments

Radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected(tri-cityherald.com)

239 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 112 comments

Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances(lemmymap.feddit.de)

238 points by impissedoff1 3 years ago | 112 comments

Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go(wazero.io)

233 points by ingve 3 years ago | 61 comments

Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading(smithsonianmag.com)

215 points by elorant 3 years ago | 150 comments

Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder? (2010)(math.stackexchange.com)

206 points by eigenvalue 3 years ago | 109 comments

TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would(github.com)

205 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 53 comments

To make more stingers, U.S. needs to revive production technology from scratch(technology.org)

184 points by belter 3 years ago | 315 comments

Oregon County Sues BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon for $51B Climate Damages(carboncredits.com)

176 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 100 comments

Get a personal teacher(sebastian.bearblog.dev)

170 points by real-sebastian 3 years ago | 124 comments

Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic(bsky.app)

162 points by chandramdutta 3 years ago | 158 comments

SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope to map the 'dark universe'(space.com)

159 points by gostsamo 3 years ago | 73 comments

Simula – The forgotten programming language(deusinmachina.net)

153 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 86 comments

Leveling up in job interviews for software engineers (2022)(phauer.com)

152 points by 0x54MUR41 3 years ago | 142 comments

How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation(careercutler.substack.com)

146 points by jordancutler 3 years ago | 57 comments

Rust on Espressif chips(mabez.dev)

139 points by childintime 3 years ago | 19 comments

YouTube's copyright system isn't broken, the world's is (2020) [video](youtube.com)

133 points by CHB0403085482 3 years ago | 51 comments

Twitter bug causes self-DDoS, related to Musk’s emergency blocks, rate limits(waxy.org)

130 points by cmckn 3 years ago | 21 comments

Kaboom.js 3000(kaboomjs.com)

124 points by amasad 3 years ago | 13 comments

Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI(mitsloan.mit.edu)

121 points by diskmuncher 3 years ago | 87 comments

Don Lancaster has died(gilaherald.com)

119 points by magoghm 3 years ago | 28 comments

Sqlpkg – SQLite Package Registry(sqlpkg.org)

113 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 9 comments

The problem with federated web apps(devever.net)

113 points by hlandau 3 years ago | 130 comments

Beyond Markdown (2018)(johnmacfarlane.net)

112 points by unforswearing 3 years ago | 108 comments

The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor(righto.com)

111 points by zdw 3 years ago | 55 comments

Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from GitHub(torrentfreak.com)

110 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 39 comments

Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex(seattletimes.com)

105 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 100 comments

In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change(utcc.utoronto.ca)

103 points by ingve 3 years ago | 46 comments

C++ GPT-2 inference engine(github.com)

103 points by version_five 3 years ago | 6 comments

Douglas Rushkoff: Crashing Technosolutionism [video](youtube.com)

77 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 40 comments

Lev Landau's “Theoretical Minimum”(physics.stackexchange.com)

70 points by belter 3 years ago | 45 comments

June 25th, 2023 Deno Deploy Postmortem(deno.com)

70 points by mikece 3 years ago | 36 comments

Ball und Panzer Golf: making a Playdate game in a week(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

69 points by msephton 3 years ago | 19 comments

A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married(pewresearch.org)

68 points by gmays 3 years ago | 49 comments

Serverless to monolith – Should serverless lovers be worried?(beabetterdev.com)

68 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 74 comments

Vector support in PostgreSQL services to power AI-enabled applications(cloud.google.com)

67 points by srameshc 3 years ago | 20 comments

Higher- than-recommended doses of Vitamin D reduced risk of atrial fibrillation(uef.fi)

66 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 10 comments

Theory X and Theory Y management(en.wikipedia.org)

64 points by bdg 3 years ago | 25 comments

Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL(opengoal.dev)

64 points by phant0mas 3 years ago | 12 comments

The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)(queue.acm.org)

61 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 3 years ago | 106 comments

The FBI Has Formed a National Database to Track and Prevent “Swatting”(nbcnews.com)

60 points by andrewl 3 years ago | 17 comments

Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries(rybicki.io)

59 points by chriscbr 3 years ago | 13 comments

David Rumsey Map Collection(davidrumsey.com)

56 points by pera 3 years ago | 7 comments

FBI obtains Kolektiva.social database while executing warrant on administrator(kolektiva.social)

56 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 57 comments

Freedom Respecting Technology: Next Generation Open Source and Open Knowledge(makesourcenotcode.github.io)

54 points by dosourcenotcode 3 years ago | 8 comments

Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project (2020)(developers.redhat.com)

53 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 16 comments

GPU accelerated SMT constraint solving (2021)(blog.osiris.cyber.nyu.edu)

52 points by zdw 3 years ago | 12 comments