Hacker News on Saturday, 2 September 2023

The worst programmer I know(dannorth.net)

1417 points by zdw 3 years ago | 571 comments

Dan North blog post about Tim Mackinnon, a colleague who scored zero on individual productivity metrics because he spent his time helping teammates.

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge(tylervigen.com)

910 points by graypegg 3 years ago | 230 comments

Tyler Vigen investigates why a pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 west of the Minneapolis airport, connecting Bloomington and Richfield.

Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing(opensecrets.org)

324 points by everybodyknows 3 years ago | 168 comments

OpenSecrets article on tax prep companies that spent over $90 million lobbying against a free government tax-filing system and now face scrutiny from lawmakers.

How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video](youtube.com)

266 points by progfolio 3 years ago | 104 comments

PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

255 points by bottiger1 3 years ago | 85 comments

Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’(techdirt.com)

246 points by rntn 3 years ago | 184 comments

Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs(arxiv.org)

245 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 137 comments

Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (1996)(archive.org)

229 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 44 comments

On Craft(drcathicks.com)

217 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 30 comments

I mirrored all the code from PyPI to GitHub and analysed it(py-code.org)

205 points by orf 3 years ago | 98 comments

Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows(bleepingcomputer.com)

190 points by turtlegrids 3 years ago | 33 comments

Kenton's House(kentonshouse.com)

175 points by jumploops 3 years ago | 72 comments

A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge(nicholas.carlini.com)

175 points by dwighttk 3 years ago | 108 comments

Semantic Zoom(alexanderobenauer.com)

163 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 49 comments

Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?(ucsf.edu)

152 points by gmays 3 years ago | 75 comments

How to edit your own lousy writing (2017)(stingingfly.org)

150 points by Curiositry 3 years ago | 59 comments

A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit(splice.com)

145 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 47 comments

A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm(arxiv.org)

142 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 124 comments

ForgeFed(forgefed.org)

140 points by 8organicbits 3 years ago | 46 comments

Index of Aesthetics(cari.institute)

133 points by detaro 3 years ago | 22 comments

Bézier Curves and the logic behind them(blog.richardekwonye.com)

133 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 21 comments

Show HN: Shaq, a CLI for Shazam(blog.yossarian.net)

132 points by woodruffw 3 years ago | 27 comments

Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster(ergodicityeconomics.com)

132 points by max_ 3 years ago | 212 comments

Calibre replacement considerations (2019)(anarc.at)

132 points by edward 3 years ago | 56 comments

Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’(ptv-news.com.pk)

130 points by belter 3 years ago | 118 comments

Show HN: XRss – RSS Reader and web stack demo(xrss.infogulch.com)

126 points by infogulch 3 years ago | 33 comments

Time to preserve those floppy disks(patreon.com)

125 points by wsces 3 years ago | 20 comments

LensLeech: Touch a camera to control your devices(volzo.de)

124 points by GistNoesis 3 years ago | 12 comments

‘Conserve food and water’: No way in or out of Burning Man after storm(sfgate.com)

119 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 87 comments

The B Lane Swimmer (2009)(holly.witteman.ca)

113 points by Schiphol 3 years ago | 31 comments

Lorapaper: A connected e-paper device that runs on light(github.com)

111 points by goodburb 3 years ago | 15 comments

Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language(github.com)

104 points by alex_marchant 3 years ago | 24 comments

Found in a Library Book (2022)(oaklandlibrary.org)

103 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 27 comments

Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)(research.swtch.com)

101 points by Smaug123 3 years ago | 51 comments

An intuition for logarithms(thasso.xyz)

99 points by D4ckard 3 years ago | 25 comments

Csound(csound.com)

99 points by lachlan_gray 3 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Menu Bar Calendar on macOS(sindresorhus.com)

94 points by mofle 3 years ago | 57 comments

GameRoy: JIT Compilation in High-Accuracy Game Boy Emulation(rodrigodd.github.io)

87 points by rodrigodd 3 years ago | 14 comments

Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica(smh.com.au)

87 points by jelliclesfarm 3 years ago | 48 comments

The tensor product, demystified (2018)(math3ma.com)

85 points by RevoGen 3 years ago | 17 comments

Open-sourcing SQX, a way to build flexible database models in Go(stytch.com)

81 points by doylemark 3 years ago | 22 comments

Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)(horace.io)

81 points by jpdus 3 years ago | 18 comments

DOS Game Club(dosgameclub.com)

80 points by rocky1138 3 years ago | 18 comments

A Company of One(rishad.substack.com)

74 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 48 comments

Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic Nightmare(wired.com)

69 points by belter 3 years ago | 43 comments

A little-known shipwreck that inspired ‘Dracula’(nationalgeographic.com)

68 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 20 comments

Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai(github.com)

67 points by doesntmeananyth 3 years ago | 78 comments

Recursive Racks [video](youtube.com)

67 points by tobr 3 years ago | 7 comments

Windows NT 3.1(abortretry.fail)

61 points by BirAdam 3 years ago | 29 comments

Samsung Unveils Industry's First 32Gbit DDR5 Memory Die: 1TB Modules Incoming(anandtech.com)

60 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 76 comments

Groundwater depletion in India may triple due to climate warming, study finds(news.umich.edu)

59 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 22 comments

Invariants: A Better Debugger?(brooker.co.za)

59 points by r4um 3 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: How to Focus Again?

53 points by brainrot 3 years ago | 36 comments

RIP, WordPad(thurrott.com)

53 points by ingve 3 years ago | 47 comments

Rescuing the lost code and stereo sound to Sinistar [video](youtube.com)

52 points by CmdrKrool 3 years ago | 9 comments

In-memory vs. disk-based DB: Why do you need a larger than memory architecture?(memgraph.com)

50 points by taubek 3 years ago | 42 comments

Landsat archive (since 1982) available in Living Atlas(livingatlas.arcgis.com)

50 points by vannizhang 3 years ago | 0 comments

The myths we tell ourselves about American farming(vox.com)

48 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 17 comments

Renting vs. Owning a Home, by State(flowingdata.com)

44 points by gmays 3 years ago | 38 comments

Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled(theguardian.com)

40 points by mindracer 3 years ago | 32 comments