Hacker News on Monday, 21 August 2023

We’re all just temporarily abled(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

793 points by imadj 3 years ago | 447 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on a knee injury and the idea that everyone is only temporarily abled, relating it to accessibility.

uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox(addons.mozilla.org)

604 points by tech234a 3 years ago | 299 comments

Firefox Add-ons listing for uBlock Origin Lite by Raymond Hill, a permission-less content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and miners.

Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation(nature.com)

424 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 185 comments

Nature Communications open-access research article showing anxious individuals shift emotion control from the lateral frontal pole to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?(alexplescan.com)

380 points by alexpls 3 years ago | 192 comments

Blog post describing how the author used GNU Parallel to repeatedly run long end-to-end tests and gather pass/fail statistics on flakiness.

Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)

346 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 269 comments

Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.

Saving Lives (2004)(folklore.org)

314 points by compiler-guy 3 years ago | 282 comments

FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs(twitter.com)

304 points by gslin 3 years ago | 244 comments

I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images(minimaxir.com)

270 points by minimaxir 3 years ago | 57 comments

The ideal viewport doesn't exist(viewports.fyi)

250 points by Kye 3 years ago | 166 comments

A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants(economist.com)

236 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 102 comments

Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads(blog.podman.io)

214 points by twelvenmonkeys 3 years ago | 86 comments

The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies(davidgomes.com)

211 points by munchor 3 years ago | 58 comments

5 years ago Valve released Proton(gamingonlinux.com)

208 points by chungus 3 years ago | 153 comments

All of the vehicle license plates available in America(beautifulpublicdata.com)

204 points by jonathanmkeegan 3 years ago | 242 comments

Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power(pewresearch.org)

204 points by freedude 3 years ago | 183 comments

GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver(github.com)

201 points by 882542F3884314B 3 years ago | 65 comments

Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe(advancedsciencenews.com)

200 points by geox 3 years ago | 227 comments

Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing(rese1f.github.io)

197 points by satvikpendem 3 years ago | 40 comments

P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications(p2panda.org)

195 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 28 comments

Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries(arunraghavan.net)

191 points by edward 3 years ago | 176 comments

Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices(security.googleblog.com)

188 points by transpute 3 years ago | 101 comments

Be careful of the examples you use. They stick(blog.thinkst.com)

178 points by mh_ 3 years ago | 110 comments

Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase(namecheap.com)

174 points by nonoesp 3 years ago | 132 comments

Study: Inflammation drives social media use(buffalo.edu)

170 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 154 comments

Ego Death(krisnova.net)

164 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 87 comments

Kullback–Leibler divergence(en.wikipedia.org)

158 points by dedalus 3 years ago | 66 comments

Inside the JVM: Arrays(blogs.oracle.com)

156 points by ternaryoperator 3 years ago | 96 comments

Why Open Source?(getconvoy.io)

154 points by subomi 3 years ago | 95 comments

The History of Windows 2.0(abortretry.fail)

152 points by jnord 3 years ago | 99 comments

Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks(kjhealey.medium.com)

144 points by whoiskatrin 3 years ago | 94 comments

NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF(nytimes.com)

138 points by NullHypothesist 3 years ago | 258 comments

Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)(longreads.com)

138 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 92 comments

9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023(i.imgur.com)

137 points by hanniabu 3 years ago | 76 comments

Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper(kansascity.com)

134 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 56 comments

Early Days of AI(blog.eladgil.com)

129 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 48 comments

Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites(rameshvarun.github.io)

118 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 26 comments

FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver(phoronix.com)

117 points by mikece 3 years ago | 33 comments

Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)

117 points by stanrivers 3 years ago | 58 comments

I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)(accu.org)

115 points by open-source-ux 3 years ago | 89 comments

SolarPi experiment 2: Finally something that works(blog.rfox.eu)

108 points by marbu 3 years ago | 51 comments

When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

108 points by savagejohn 3 years ago | 29 comments

Unix is both a technology and an idea(utcc.utoronto.ca)

107 points by zdw 3 years ago | 65 comments

Precompiled binaries removed from serde v1.0.184(github.com)

96 points by MallocVoidstar 3 years ago | 24 comments

Bluegrass Archive(bluegrassarchive.com)

87 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 26 comments

Flatpak is not the future (2021)(ludocode.com)

84 points by shrvtv 3 years ago | 77 comments

MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

83 points by zdw 3 years ago | 10 comments

My talk with Kris Nova about being homeless. See you on the other side, friend(kubecuddle.transistor.fm)

83 points by birdiesanders 3 years ago | 1 comments

Last rites for the UK Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead(theregister.com)

81 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: VisionScript, abstract programming language for computer vision(github.com)

79 points by zerojames 3 years ago | 14 comments

A man who can talk backwards (2017)(linguischtick.wordpress.com)

79 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 69 comments

Taos Operating System (1995)(uruk.org)

79 points by xyzzy3000 3 years ago | 38 comments

Building a digital music collection in 2023(worthe-it.co.za)

77 points by ingve 3 years ago | 68 comments

The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games(if50.substack.com)

74 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 69 comments

Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI(niemanlab.org)

74 points by jyunwai 3 years ago | 28 comments

New study measures grammatical complexity of languages(phys.org)

70 points by wglb 3 years ago | 76 comments

Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF(lwn.net)

70 points by mfrw 3 years ago | 28 comments

The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance(lithub.com)

68 points by pepys 3 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: The Uncolouring Book(lines.potato.horse)

68 points by rpastuszak 3 years ago | 36 comments

How to use a Breadboard. How do breadboards work? (2021) [video](youtube.com)

67 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 24 comments

Screen Time at Age 1 Year and Communication, Problem-Solving Developmental Delay(jamanetwork.com)

66 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 59 comments