Hacker News on Monday, 17 July 2023

A Firefox-only minimap (2021)(stefanjudis.com)

647 points by sph 3 years ago | 110 comments

A short blog post by Stefan Judis showing how to build a page minimap using Firefox's CSS element() function, which only works in Firefox.

LazyVim(lazyvim.org)

527 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 453 comments

Getting Started documentation page for LazyVim, a Neovim configuration built on lazy.nvim that aims to make customizing and extending the editor easy.

Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer(reuters.com)

446 points by sndean 3 years ago | 246 comments

Reuters article reporting that Johnson & Johnson has sued researchers whose studies linked its talc products to cancer.

You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email(twitter.com)

434 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 198 comments

Tweet by Jake Moore showing he deactivated a WhatsApp account on a test device by emailing WhatsApp support claiming the phone was lost or stolen.

Never waste a midlife crisis(austinkleon.com)

370 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 343 comments

Austin Kleon blog post from July 2023 reflecting on how to make productive use of a midlife crisis, illustrated with a Don Quixote engraving.

Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?(kenschutte.com)

341 points by ks2048 3 years ago | 109 comments

Blog post arguing the "gzip beats BERT" text classification paper reports top-2 accuracy instead of kNN(k=2) accuracy due to a code bug, inflating results.

Coroutines for Go(research.swtch.com)

302 points by trulyrandom 3 years ago | 150 comments

The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X(twitter.com)

300 points by Dig1t 3 years ago | 573 comments

How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)(jacquesmattheij.com)

288 points by wofo 3 years ago | 124 comments

The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse(wikimedia.social)

247 points by Kye 3 years ago | 71 comments

The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality(lelanthran.com)

229 points by lelanthran 3 years ago | 117 comments

The force that shapes everything around us: Parking(vox.com)

219 points by vwoolf 3 years ago | 364 comments

A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves(news.umich.edu)

218 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 534 comments

Notes on Puzzles(nabeelqu.substack.com)

202 points by nqureshi 3 years ago | 45 comments

Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy(en.wikipedia.org)

197 points by akolbe 3 years ago | 151 comments

What's wrong with enterprise Linux(unix.foo)

184 points by cylo 3 years ago | 185 comments

Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases(nautil.us)

171 points by jnord 3 years ago | 134 comments

Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram(datatilsynet.no)

168 points by matsemann 3 years ago | 134 comments

Strlcpy and strlcat added to glibc 2.38(sourceware.org)

163 points by synergy20 3 years ago | 158 comments

What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables for decades(wsj.com)

161 points by hammock 3 years ago | 117 comments

My broken ThinkPad plays music upon booting(nerology.substack.com)

156 points by NeroVanbierv 3 years ago | 46 comments

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era(theverge.com)

146 points by DemiGuru 3 years ago | 64 comments

The Nano ESP32(blog.arduino.cc)

146 points by pyprism 3 years ago | 115 comments

Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords(chrome.google.com)

144 points by aeontech 3 years ago | 85 comments

Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app(deepakg.com)

128 points by DamnInteresting 3 years ago | 29 comments

Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers(katacontainers.io)

127 points by flanked-evergl 3 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information

119 points by danradunchev 3 years ago | 79 comments

Are large language models a threat to digital public goods?(arxiv.org)

118 points by oss_fan 3 years ago | 117 comments

Copy is all you need(arxiv.org)

116 points by mottiden 3 years ago | 70 comments

The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline(indiehackers.com)

115 points by ChanningAllen 3 years ago | 43 comments

Harry Frankfurt has died(nytimes.com)

108 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 19 comments

Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts(techcrunch.com)

106 points by sahin 3 years ago | 78 comments

WHO aspartame brouhaha(dynomight.net)

95 points by cantaloupe 3 years ago | 176 comments

Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?

93 points by cgb223 3 years ago | 139 comments

Launch HN: Grai (YC S22) – Open-Source Data Observability Platform

89 points by ersatz_username 3 years ago | 33 comments

Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator(ft.com)

88 points by cafemachiavelli 3 years ago | 32 comments

Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage(newatlas.com)

86 points by DamnInteresting 3 years ago | 89 comments

Moodle: Open-Source LMS(moodle.org)

78 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 59 comments

Backyard Metalcasting (2018)(backyardmetalcasting.com)

78 points by ishtanbul 3 years ago | 60 comments

Booking.com halts payments to hosts over IT technical maintenance(nltimes.nl)

77 points by jb1991 3 years ago | 57 comments

Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (2016)(wired.com)

77 points by SehajPasricha 3 years ago | 17 comments

Crystal 1.9.1(crystal-lang.org)

76 points by mikece 3 years ago | 42 comments

Crosswords and chess may help more than socializing in avoiding dementia(medicalxpress.com)

75 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 36 comments

A.I. (1981)(newyorker.com)

74 points by lioeters 3 years ago | 43 comments

Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island(independent.co.uk)

72 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 57 comments

The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler(gutenberg.org)

67 points by agomez314 3 years ago | 71 comments

A technical look at ZeroNet(znano.eu.org)

64 points by znano 3 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler(peeng.sh)

64 points by talboren 3 years ago | 56 comments

FlashAttention-2, 2x faster than FlashAttention(twitter.com)

57 points by machdiamonds 3 years ago | 12 comments

Couples with joint checking accounts are happier(academic.oup.com)

55 points by its_ethan 3 years ago | 77 comments

AI watches millions of cars and tells cops if you’re driving like a criminal(forbes.com)

53 points by thehoff 3 years ago | 54 comments

US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circumvent tinted windows(drive.google.com)

52 points by coloneltcb 3 years ago | 91 comments

The Future of LLMs with Arthur, MosaicML, LangChain, and Weaviate [video](youtube.com)

51 points by bobvanluijt 3 years ago | 1 comments

Glykon, was an ancient snake god(en.wikipedia.org)

48 points by pyinstallwoes 3 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: DiskerNet – Browse the Internet from Your Disk, Now Open Source(github.com)

47 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 25 comments

You can't stop the business, or why rewrites fail(swizec.com)

46 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Open-Source AI Playground(chathub.gg)

45 points by wonderfuly 3 years ago | 2 comments

Tokyo Is the New Paris(noahpinion.blog)

41 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 19 comments

Camneerg: The Mac Plus Web Server(spacerogue.net)

38 points by cdcarter 3 years ago | 8 comments

Byte Fanless Mini PC – Built for Linux(us.starlabs.systems)

37 points by doener 3 years ago | 37 comments