Hacker News on Sunday, 16 July 2023

Discord is not documentation(shkspr.mobi)

487 points by edent 3 years ago | 257 comments

Terence Eden's blog post arguing that open source projects should not use Discord chat as a substitute for proper documentation, citing the Watchy platform.

Underwater ears everywhere(computer.rip)

433 points by lonk11 3 years ago | 161 comments

Computers Are Bad newsletter post by J. B. Crawford on military hydrophone and wide-area sonar surveillance and its role in detecting the Titan submersible implosion.

Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm(nytimes.com)

391 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 333 comments

New York Times Upshot article on private equity firms increasingly acquiring doctors' practices; the page shows a subscription paywall.

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus(zapatopi.net)

352 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 165 comments

The classic hoax website about the fictional endangered Pacific Northwest tree octopus, used to teach internet media literacy.

How I run my servers (2022)(blog.wesleyac.com)

345 points by ingve 3 years ago | 147 comments

Wesley Aptekar-Cassels's 2022 blog post describing how he runs and deploys his own server software on VMs instead of cloud services.

6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)(edw519.posthaven.com)

308 points by tempodox 3 years ago | 219 comments

How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania(danwilkerson.com)

273 points by danwilkerson 3 years ago | 333 comments

SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation(google-research.github.io)

272 points by sh_tomer 3 years ago | 119 comments

Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page(ratfactor.com)

240 points by ingve 3 years ago | 72 comments

Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope(tortel.li)

227 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 125 comments

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode(righto.com)

220 points by kens 3 years ago | 75 comments

Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)(scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)

217 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 262 comments

How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide(oneusefulthing.org)

214 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 52 comments

A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp(stylewarning.com)

213 points by varjag 3 years ago | 35 comments

Self hosted YouTube media server(tubearchivist.com)

210 points by 037 3 years ago | 43 comments

Penrose 3.0(penrose.cs.cmu.edu)

207 points by sestep 3 years ago | 34 comments

Red Programming Language(red-lang.org)

202 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 119 comments

TODO apps are meant for robots(frantic.im)

194 points by imadj 3 years ago | 157 comments

No CSS Club(nocss.club)

193 points by Fred34 3 years ago | 204 comments

CSS Findings from the Threads App(ishadeed.com)

187 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 130 comments

It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (2010)(mathoverflow.net)

183 points by susam 3 years ago | 59 comments

Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes(nytimes.com)

182 points by dwighttk 3 years ago | 75 comments

How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (2016)(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

177 points by cglong 3 years ago | 37 comments

Teddit Is Shutting Down(tedd.it)

176 points by keyboardJones 3 years ago | 172 comments

A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database(github.com)

171 points by justinclift 3 years ago | 66 comments

Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft(paul.reviews)

170 points by varun_ch 3 years ago | 63 comments

Electric bike, stupid love of my life(craigmod.com)

169 points by ingve 3 years ago | 281 comments

Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting(automorphic.ai)

150 points by sandkoan 3 years ago | 45 comments

WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using(slashnext.com)

147 points by mikpanko 3 years ago | 57 comments

Miyazaki has used the art of animation to study the major problem of adult life(nybooks.com)

145 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 48 comments

Dusk OS: 32-bit Forth OS. Useful during first stage of civilizational collapse(duskos.org)

143 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 85 comments

Exploring Linear A(lineara.xyz)

137 points by mwenge 3 years ago | 46 comments

What makes developers productive?(jeremymikkola.com)

130 points by piinbinary 3 years ago | 113 comments

Using XPath in 2023(denizaksimsek.com)

125 points by recursivedoubts 3 years ago | 75 comments

New study gives clues on why exercise helps with inflammation(sciencedaily.com)

124 points by lxm 3 years ago | 43 comments

Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light(theverge.com)

120 points by el_hacker 3 years ago | 121 comments

Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS(getgrav.org)

115 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 54 comments

Citizen scientists observe gamma ray glow associated with lightning flash(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

105 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 30 comments

Zoom fatigue unpacked(leadership.garden)

103 points by ochronus 3 years ago | 125 comments

Speeding up the Super Game Boy(nicole.express)

95 points by zdw 3 years ago | 10 comments

WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas(surma.dev)

93 points by pythops 3 years ago | 45 comments

Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy(piratesurgeon.com)

92 points by blumpy22 3 years ago | 27 comments

The Homepage of the Oldternet(geocities.ws)

85 points by theden 3 years ago | 44 comments

Shell Script RSS Publishing(shinobi.bt.ht)

80 points by Fred34 3 years ago | 15 comments

LOGO Manual (1974) [pdf](dspace.mit.edu)

80 points by susam 3 years ago | 43 comments

Lisp Programming on an Atari 2600(forums.atariage.com)

79 points by reaperducer 3 years ago | 6 comments

The Perfect Laptop(blog.brossia.com)

79 points by signa11 3 years ago | 271 comments

SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos(svgmix.com)

78 points by tinhat 3 years ago | 14 comments

Mk: A Successor to Make (1987) [pdf](doc.cat-v.org)

77 points by SllX 3 years ago | 39 comments

OpenBenches – A map of memorial benches(openbenches.org)

68 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 29 comments

ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers(techradar.com)

66 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 59 comments

Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile(cloudnativeengineer.substack.com)

63 points by EntICOnc 3 years ago | 142 comments

“That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, & Computer Culture(uvm.edu)

60 points by geekamongus 3 years ago | 49 comments

I don't know how I feel about email(xeiaso.net)

58 points by blackhole 3 years ago | 37 comments

A novel solid, rechargeable air battery(waseda.jp)

55 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 50 comments

L-System Simulations(eliben.github.io)

51 points by kretaceous 3 years ago | 16 comments

AmazonBasics Microwave: Accessible for People with Visual Impairments (2019)(afb.org)

49 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 49 comments

Hundreds of drones plunge into Melbourne’s Yarra River(abc.net.au)

43 points by richardjam73 3 years ago | 20 comments

How to Convert Bytes to Grams(thatxliner.github.io)

40 points by thatxliner 3 years ago | 28 comments

Peepdf – Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents(github.com)

37 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 6 comments