Hacker News on Thursday, 17 August 2023

How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole(charity.wtf)

548 points by zdw 3 years ago | 211 comments

Blog post by Charity Majors on careful communication when rebuilding trust, drawn from her experience repairing her cofounder relationship.

StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet(us.starlabs.systems)

528 points by focusedone 3 years ago | 278 comments

Star Labs product page for the StarLite, a compact 12.5-inch tablet/laptop that ships with Linux.

Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools(blog.jgc.org)

485 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 166 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post on recovering 1TB of data from a failed Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD in his gaming PC, using woodworking tools.

Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites(foundation.mozilla.org)

449 points by Raed667 3 years ago | 208 comments

Mozilla Foundation petition opposing France's SREN bill, which would require browsers like Firefox to block government-listed websites.

Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults(jobcorps.gov)

350 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 294 comments

Homepage of Job Corps, a US government program offering free residential career training and education for low-income young adults.

Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

308 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 385 comments

Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say(australiangeographic.com.au)

289 points by mafro 3 years ago | 176 comments

1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards(theverge.com)

284 points by DemiGuru 3 years ago | 140 comments

Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable(bloomberg.com)

282 points by cududa 3 years ago | 281 comments

Debian celebrates 30 years(bits.debian.org)

272 points by susam 3 years ago | 73 comments

Mullvad Browser(blog.torproject.org)

272 points by dotcoma 3 years ago | 123 comments

Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems(tokio.rs)

253 points by zbentley 3 years ago | 24 comments

SUSE to go private(suse.com)

246 points by mroche 3 years ago | 94 comments

Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode(aheze.substack.com)

243 points by aheze 3 years ago | 315 comments

AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs(qz.com)

238 points by geox 3 years ago | 185 comments

DIY Espresso (2020)(fourbardesign.com)

229 points by timvdalen 3 years ago | 181 comments

SUSE to Go Private(opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

226 points by CrankyBear 3 years ago | 79 comments

Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption(economist.com)

226 points by jdkee 3 years ago | 176 comments

I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)(rachit.pl)

213 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 76 comments

Fusion Foolery(dothemath.ucsd.edu)

172 points by rohansingh 3 years ago | 186 comments

Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job(dancowell.com)

171 points by promiseofbeans 3 years ago | 144 comments

Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters(anoopdixith.com)

163 points by philofsofia 3 years ago | 109 comments

Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

150 points by abj 3 years ago | 343 comments

Railway Safety Posters (2022)(thaitrainguide.com)

145 points by DemiGuru 3 years ago | 76 comments

Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests(nytimes.com)

142 points by gumby 3 years ago | 103 comments

Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI(blog.google)

141 points by jonifico 3 years ago | 170 comments

A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us(wingolog.org)

134 points by fulafel 3 years ago | 107 comments

Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart(medium.com)

134 points by mdhb 3 years ago | 162 comments

“Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

128 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 102 comments

A look into the finances of SpaceX(wsj.com)

127 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 229 comments

AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion(old.reddit.com)

125 points by virgulino 3 years ago | 43 comments

RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills(robopen.github.io)

124 points by reqo 3 years ago | 17 comments

Managing difficult software engineers(vadimkravcenko.com)

119 points by redbell 3 years ago | 142 comments

Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves(atlasobscura.com)

116 points by Vigier 3 years ago | 90 comments

NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)(jeremykun.com)

115 points by stefanpie 3 years ago | 84 comments

Market Map(marketmap.one)

114 points by ernaem 3 years ago | 29 comments

A search for technosignatures around nearby stars(arxiv.org)

112 points by arbuge 3 years ago | 186 comments

Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point(techcrunch.com)

112 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 147 comments

Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers(consensus.app)

111 points by birriel 3 years ago | 40 comments

Joys and pains of insects(scientificamerican.com)

110 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 67 comments

The aging brain: is misplaced DNA to blame?(science.org)

107 points by nabla9 3 years ago | 21 comments

My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair(groups.google.com)

106 points by nickmain 3 years ago | 96 comments

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

104 points by CameronNemo 3 years ago | 106 comments

An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa(kentik.com)

102 points by dtjb 3 years ago | 26 comments

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)(blog.regehr.org)

102 points by tmalsburg2 3 years ago | 139 comments

Too many fonts in Windows 10 can cause slow application starts(bigdanzblog.wordpress.com)

97 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 77 comments

Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency(autoevolution.com)

95 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 81 comments

Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests(questdb.io)

92 points by bluestreak 3 years ago | 23 comments

YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says(nytimes.com)

89 points by donohoe 3 years ago | 50 comments

YOLO-Driven Development Manifesto(andersoncardoso.github.io)

89 points by apierre_cardoso 3 years ago | 57 comments

Unit: A visual programming system [video](youtube.com)

83 points by spiralganglion 3 years ago | 26 comments

Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood(nature.com)

81 points by gmays 3 years ago | 99 comments

Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias: study(uea.ac.uk)

81 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 111 comments

A Blood Factor Can Rejuvenate the Aging Brain(insideprecisionmedicine.com)

79 points by sinak 3 years ago | 21 comments

Algebraic data types in Lua (almost)(mrcjkb.dev)

73 points by mrcjkb 3 years ago | 7 comments

The Fill and Flush deplaning method(fillandflush.com)

73 points by very_good_man 3 years ago | 156 comments

Abbrev: A hidden Ruby gem(akshaykhot.com)

72 points by software_writer 3 years ago | 26 comments

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics [pdf](sites.math.rutgers.edu)

70 points by k2enemy 3 years ago | 21 comments

DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs(github.com)

67 points by jacky2wong 3 years ago | 23 comments

The ancient technology keeping space missions alive(bbc.com)

66 points by alex1212 3 years ago | 36 comments