Hacker News on Wednesday, 16 August 2023

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor(nature.com)

2063 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 679 comments

Nature news article from August 2023 explaining how researchers determined that LK-99 is not a room-temperature superconductor.

Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator(htmx.org)

1025 points by jjdeveloper 3 years ago | 457 comments

Announcement that htmx was accepted into the first class of the GitHub Open Source Accelerator, with plans to start htmx 2.0 and recommendations of fellow projects.

Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)(wiki.debian.org)

323 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 107 comments

Ian Murdock's original 1993 Usenet announcement of the Debian Linux Release, hosted as a text attachment on the Debian wiki.

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes(hackingbutlegal.com)

311 points by dsr_ 3 years ago | 107 comments

NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN(netmaker.io)

257 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 143 comments

Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around(theverge.com)

246 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 121 comments

Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models(bellard.org)

224 points by Deeg9rie9usi 3 years ago | 126 comments

How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County(desertsun.com)

222 points by cute_boi 3 years ago | 172 comments

How They Tried to Kill Me(nplusonemag.com)

214 points by microbyte 3 years ago | 70 comments

QR codes appearing in Google street view?(nso.group)

210 points by notbeuller 3 years ago | 68 comments

Is this a good book for me, now?(maryrosecook.com)

207 points by ingve 3 years ago | 43 comments

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc(arstechnica.com)

203 points by dddddaviddddd 3 years ago | 127 comments

Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics(kotaku.com)

198 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 154 comments

Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud(github.com)

187 points by dkgs1998 3 years ago | 90 comments

$HOME, not so sweet $HOME(gist.github.com)

181 points by delta_p_delta_x 3 years ago | 177 comments

New York City bans TikTok for government employees(engadget.com)

175 points by mikece 3 years ago | 122 comments

Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2(github.com)

172 points by mayankchhabra 3 years ago | 63 comments

The Mathematics of Training LLMs(latent.space)

171 points by FanaHOVA 3 years ago | 58 comments

λ Calculus (2013) [pdf](cs.rpi.edu)

157 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 57 comments

Fred Fish(en.wikipedia.org)

155 points by atan2 3 years ago | 42 comments

Putting Down the Pen: Reflecting on Oryx’s Journey(oryxspioenkop.com)

154 points by awnird 3 years ago | 34 comments

How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg(terraformindustries.wordpress.com)

152 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 233 comments

Minimum Viable Secure Product(mvsp.dev)

149 points by jot 3 years ago | 56 comments

Scientists are only beginning to understand how PFAS impacting our health(nytimes.com)

149 points by ianrahman 3 years ago | 112 comments

Casio G-Shock time sync radio(gshock.casio.com)

147 points by joos3 3 years ago | 151 comments

Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf](princeton.edu)

147 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 47 comments

A new instrument found unusual success(theguardian.com)

143 points by Turukawa 3 years ago | 85 comments

Open Challenges in LLM Research(huyenchip.com)

142 points by muggermuch 3 years ago | 61 comments

Spring 6.1 now compatible with virtual threads and JDK 21(github.com)

139 points by philonoist 3 years ago | 91 comments

What happens to all the stuff we return?(newyorker.com)

139 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 176 comments

Uses and abuses of cloud data warehouses(materialize.com)

134 points by Malp 3 years ago | 63 comments

Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard(community.intel.com)

132 points by ot 3 years ago | 55 comments

Why Tailwind CSS Won(matt-rickard.com)

129 points by damethos 3 years ago | 411 comments

Anonfiles is shutting down(anonfiles.com)

122 points by Vt71fcAqt7 3 years ago | 112 comments

Math proof draws new boundaries around black hole formation(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by EA-3167 3 years ago | 38 comments

The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill(lastweekinaws.com)

112 points by bpugh 3 years ago | 42 comments

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video](youtube.com)

111 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 111 comments

MLIR For Beginners: A series of articles on the MLIR framework(github.com)

109 points by matt_d 3 years ago | 38 comments

Spinoza: Life and Legacy(thecritic.co.uk)

104 points by pepys 3 years ago | 41 comments

Part-DB: open-source inventory management system for your electronic components(github.com)

101 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 10 comments

A simple way to test the charge level on alkaline batteries (2015) [video](youtube.com)

99 points by gumby 3 years ago | 95 comments

New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl(npr.org)

98 points by 8ig8 3 years ago | 116 comments

Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America(energy.gov)

97 points by geox 3 years ago | 148 comments

July 2023 was the hottest month on record(twitter.com)

89 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 91 comments

Why did people in the past look so much older?(dazeddigital.com)

87 points by helsinkiandrew 3 years ago | 94 comments

Captain Zilog Crushed: The Story of the Z8000(thechipletter.substack.com)

86 points by thedday 3 years ago | 50 comments

Debugging a Futex Crash(rustylife.github.io)

86 points by rustylife 3 years ago | 12 comments

Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store(blog.trampolinetales.com)

84 points by detcader 3 years ago | 44 comments

$70 device can spoof an Apple device sending BLE Advertising Packets(techcrunch.com)

82 points by mzs 3 years ago | 22 comments

Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices(betterprogramming.pub)

80 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 27 comments

Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man(krebsonsecurity.com)

76 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 21 comments

Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)(threadreaderapp.com)

76 points by celadevra_ 3 years ago | 75 comments

OpenAI acquires Global Illumination(openai.com)

74 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 33 comments

Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items(kshb.com)

67 points by celtoid 3 years ago | 26 comments

The DeSantis Campaign Texted Me with a Large Language Model(nalanj.dev)

65 points by commondream 3 years ago | 36 comments

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter(nature.com)

65 points by zzzeek 3 years ago | 31 comments

System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool(systeminit.com)

62 points by vmbrasseur 3 years ago | 39 comments

What do I think about Community Notes?(vitalik.eth.limo)

61 points by pra6in 3 years ago | 19 comments

The tech job recession is over(businessinsider.com)

60 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 49 comments

The 8088 Prefetch Algorithm(martypc.blogspot.com)

59 points by ingve 3 years ago | 6 comments