Hacker News on Tuesday, 4 July 2023

Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)(amusingplanet.com)

659 points by pmoriarty 3 years ago | 376 comments

Amusing Planet article from 2013 about São Paulo's 2006 Clean City Law, which banned billboards and most outdoor advertising in the city.

More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck(mastodon.cloud)

579 points by ekianjo 3 years ago | 354 comments

A Mastodon post from Boiling Steam reporting that over 75% of tested Steam games are rated playable or verified on the Steam Deck.

Companies must stop using Google Analytics(imy.se)

575 points by pseudotrash 3 years ago | 400 comments

Swedish privacy authority IMY announces audit of four companies' use of Google Analytics, fining two and ordering them to stop using it.

Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

459 points by guzik 3 years ago | 604 comments

An Ask HN thread inviting founders of hardware startups (IoT, robotics, consumer electronics) to share what they are building.

How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries(kodingkitty.com)

434 points by KodingKitty 3 years ago | 232 comments

A Koding Kitty blog post explaining how the author built their website without frameworks or heavy libraries, prompted by an IndieHackers question.

Sourcegraph is no longer open source(github.com)

399 points by CAP_NET_ADMIN 3 years ago | 201 comments

The CHANGELOG.md file in Sourcegraph's GitHub repository, documenting notable changes including the move away from an open source license.

Learning needs to be effortful to be effective(giansegato.com)

311 points by bvsrinivasan 3 years ago | 129 comments

Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it(shant.nu)

311 points by shantnutiwari 3 years ago | 171 comments

Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux(usebottles.com)

286 points by manaskarekar 3 years ago | 161 comments

Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI(spectrum.ieee.org)

277 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 269 comments

Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better(blog.desdelinux.net)

276 points by dev_snd 3 years ago | 203 comments

Type system updates: moving from research into development(elixir-lang.org)

264 points by weatherlight 3 years ago | 69 comments

ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged(github.com)

264 points by turrini 3 years ago | 141 comments

Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming(github.com)

259 points by 6581 3 years ago | 67 comments

Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom(nltimes.nl)

249 points by the-dude 3 years ago | 228 comments

Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia(makie.org)

240 points by simondanisch 3 years ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: How to do market research for product?

205 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 85 comments

LXD is now under Canonical(linuxcontainers.org)

196 points by chenrui 3 years ago | 159 comments

A curated list of uBlock origin filters(letsblock.it)

188 points by spacebuffer 3 years ago | 46 comments

Stable Diffusion XL technical report [pdf](github.com)

184 points by GaggiX 3 years ago | 49 comments

An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf](cseweb.ucsd.edu)

182 points by lproven 3 years ago | 112 comments

SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can(blog.turso.tech)

178 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 32 comments

How to pass a first-round interview(lennysnewsletter.com)

166 points by jger15 3 years ago | 174 comments

Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

158 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 101 comments

Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories(nature.com)

139 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 168 comments

Show HN: Iridescent crystal with raymarching and signed distance fields(varun.ca)

139 points by winkerVSbecks 3 years ago | 5 comments

Encyclopaedia Metallum(metal-archives.com)

139 points by Kaibeezy 3 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite(github.com)

135 points by aleksi 3 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: Degrees What?(degreeswhat.com)

133 points by perilunar 3 years ago | 93 comments

The ancient Roman secret to concrete resilience in seawater (2017)(als.lbl.gov)

130 points by kvee 3 years ago | 71 comments

A header-only C implementation of C++ <algorithm>(github.com)

128 points by clibraries 3 years ago | 62 comments

Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI(engadget.com)

125 points by firstSpeaker 3 years ago | 58 comments

Firefox 115 Now Available with Intel GPU Video Decoding on Linux(phoronix.com)

124 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 41 comments

Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)(web.archive.org)

119 points by lproven 3 years ago | 110 comments

What gets to the front page of Hacker News?(randomshit.dev)

112 points by mikpanko 3 years ago | 42 comments

GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers(theregister.com)

108 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 50 comments

OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature(help.openai.com)

105 points by gpayan 3 years ago | 77 comments

Designing a Language Without a Parser(thunderseethe.dev)

104 points by thunderseethe 3 years ago | 91 comments

How many people have ever lived on Earth?(prb.org)

101 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 137 comments

The Lone Banana Problem in AI(digital-science.com)

101 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 66 comments

Token revocation(biscuitsec.org)

98 points by geal 3 years ago | 30 comments

Why there may never be a libjpeg-turbo 3.1(groups.google.com)

95 points by stargrave 3 years ago | 78 comments

How Lee Valley built a cult-like following(theglobeandmail.com)

95 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 62 comments

Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites(theguardian.com)

94 points by rntn 3 years ago | 45 comments

“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress(journals.plos.org)

94 points by luplex 3 years ago | 89 comments

CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal(noyb.eu)

88 points by draugadrotten 3 years ago | 67 comments

I Hate the News (2006)(aaronsw.com)

86 points by sealeck 3 years ago | 69 comments

Passwords Are Fine(herman.bearblog.dev)

83 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 98 comments

Life after detonation (2012)(sciencemadness.org)

72 points by areoform 3 years ago | 29 comments

Repair adventure: A single white LED causing stuck keys on a RN988 keyboard(halestrom.net)

68 points by panic 3 years ago | 15 comments

Threads.net(threads.net)

65 points by waqasaday 3 years ago | 62 comments

Opening up Intel's Device Modeling Language (2022)(community.intel.com)

63 points by mepian 3 years ago | 6 comments

Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)(techcrunch.com)

62 points by yawnxyz 3 years ago | 24 comments

Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans(arstechnica.com)

61 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 43 comments

Google and HTTP (2018)(this.how)

60 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 103 comments

How the RWKV language model works(johanwind.github.io)

58 points by EvgeniyZh 3 years ago | 4 comments

The Text Editor Sam(sam.cat-v.org)

57 points by bluedino 3 years ago | 17 comments

Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115(askvg.com)

49 points by muxator 3 years ago | 46 comments

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator(atlasobscura.com)

47 points by sarang23592 3 years ago | 32 comments

The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)(apenwarr.ca)

47 points by tzhenghao 3 years ago | 28 comments