Hacker News on Thursday, 14 September 2023

The Tyranny of the Marginal User(nothinghuman.substack.com)

1311 points by ivee 3 years ago | 721 comments

A Substack essay by Ivan Vendrov arguing that consumer software gets worse over time because companies optimize for the least-engaged marginal user.

Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates(blog.google)

634 points by twapi 3 years ago | 371 comments

Google Keyword blog post announcing that Chromebooks will receive 10 years of automatic ChromeOS updates.

Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes(gamerbraves.com)

545 points by agluszak 3 years ago | 140 comments

GamerBraves news article reporting that Unity quietly deleted its GitHub repository tracking Terms of Service changes and updated its license.

PostgreSQL 16(postgresql.org)

440 points by pella 3 years ago | 47 comments

Official PostgreSQL news announcement of the PostgreSQL 16 release on September 14, 2023.

How mobile apps illegally share personal data(noyb.eu)

417 points by latexr 3 years ago | 269 comments

A noyb news article from September 2023 explaining how mobile apps illegally share users' personal data, part of its Forced Consent & Consent Bypass project.

How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?(ipapi.is)

379 points by incolumitas 3 years ago | 134 comments

An ipapi.is documentation page explaining how its IP geolocation database is built from WHOIS data and interpolation, with downloadable IPv4 and IPv6 databases.

iNaturalist strikes out on its own(baynature.org)

371 points by kscottz 3 years ago | 69 comments

Bay Nature article on iNaturalist becoming an independent nonprofit, supported by a new $10 million grant.

Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship(tails.net)

355 points by gslin 3 years ago | 158 comments

Homepage of Tails, a portable live operating system that runs from a USB stick and protects users against surveillance and censorship.

Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts(arstechnica.com)

355 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 247 comments

Ars Technica article on California passing a right-to-repair bill requiring manufacturers to supply parts for seven years and repair shops to disclose non-authorized parts.

In a Git repository, where do your files live?(jvns.ca)

331 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 88 comments

Julia Evans blog post explaining where git stores file versions inside the .git/objects directory, investigated with short Python programs.

Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative(nuejs.org)

305 points by tipiirai 3 years ago | 225 comments

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)(vole.wtf)

282 points by bagpuss 3 years ago | 130 comments

Godot Development Fund(fund.godotengine.org)

279 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 34 comments

Googlers told to avoid words like ‘share’ and ‘bundle,’ US says(bloomberg.com)

251 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 33 comments

Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes(nature.com)

222 points by taylorbuley 3 years ago | 172 comments

Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag(smithsonianmag.com)

221 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 72 comments

So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine(impromptugames.com)

217 points by Kye 3 years ago | 107 comments

Arm IPO to kick off today(theregister.com)

214 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 140 comments

Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap(wiki.xfce.org)

213 points by LaSombra 3 years ago | 174 comments

A clever “perpetual motion” device [video](youtube.com)

205 points by ed_westin 3 years ago | 105 comments

MenuetOS(menuetos.net)

190 points by LorenDB 3 years ago | 42 comments

Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security(whonix.org)

188 points by Run_DOS_Run 3 years ago | 46 comments

Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea(github.com)

187 points by FloatArtifact 3 years ago | 30 comments

Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics(github.com)

186 points by madviper 3 years ago | 31 comments

A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications(github.com)

156 points by robertnishihara 3 years ago | 41 comments

Cannabis use disorder and subsequent risk of depression and bipolar disorder(jamanetwork.com)

136 points by ytNumbers 3 years ago | 185 comments

Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX(chipsandcheese.com)

128 points by gautamcgoel 3 years ago | 106 comments

The end of tweeted articles(houseofstrauss.com)

126 points by jger15 3 years ago | 79 comments

Show HN: Improved freemusicdemixer – AI music demixing in the browser(freemusicdemixer.com)

123 points by sevagh 3 years ago | 32 comments

Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave(smithsonianmag.com)

118 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 34 comments

Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay(mobilegamer.biz)

116 points by stuckinhell 3 years ago | 55 comments

An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide(procustodibus.com)

116 points by justinludwig 3 years ago | 61 comments

Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds(eurekalert.org)

109 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 50 comments

How I stay reasonably anonymous online (2022)(tmp.bearblog.dev)

108 points by randomint64 3 years ago | 97 comments

Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater(actu.epfl.ch)

106 points by geox 3 years ago | 34 comments

Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte(workerorganizing.org)

104 points by ughitsaaron 3 years ago | 152 comments

Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake(theguardian.com)

99 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 99 comments

Painting with math: A gentle study of raymarching(blog.maximeheckel.com)

97 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 9 comments

Johnny Decimal: A System to Organize Projects (2015)(johnnydecimal.com)

93 points by trauco 3 years ago | 88 comments

Can I take ducks home from the park?(dynomight.net)

91 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 55 comments

An easy way to concurrency and parallelism with Python stdlib(bitecode.dev)

90 points by olsgaarddk 3 years ago | 45 comments

Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels(eea.europa.eu)

88 points by cassianoleal 3 years ago | 8 comments

How far back in time can I take my website's design?(ajxs.me)

88 points by FLpxpyJ 3 years ago | 44 comments

Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention(arxiv.org)

87 points by jmorgan 3 years ago | 17 comments

Webhook Failure Scenarios(hermanradtke.com)

84 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments

Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website(community.adobe.com)

82 points by mcenedella 3 years ago | 55 comments

3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing(undeadly.org)

80 points by peter_hansteen 3 years ago | 34 comments

Bluesky Exploits(github.com)

80 points by shakna 3 years ago | 51 comments

The inside story of Threads(engineering.fb.com)

77 points by jshchnz 3 years ago | 66 comments

Google hid evidence by training workers to avoid words monopolists use, DOJ says(arstechnica.com)

72 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 44 comments

Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times for the industry(gamesindustry.biz)

65 points by stuckinhell 3 years ago | 122 comments

Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)(people.inf.ethz.ch)

63 points by ingve 3 years ago | 9 comments

Arm jumps 18% in market debut to notch $60B valuation(reuters.com)

61 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 28 comments

Diamonds are losing their allure(economist.com)

57 points by j-a-a-p 3 years ago | 49 comments

HTTP Status Dogs (2011)(httpstatusdogs.com)

57 points by onteri 3 years ago | 11 comments

Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)(trisul.org)

57 points by anderspitman 3 years ago | 15 comments

Stanford is a platform(miles.land)

50 points by rnjailamba 3 years ago | 38 comments

Early response to false claims in Wikipedia, 15 years later(firstmonday.org)

47 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 39 comments

The great American eye-exam scam (2019)(theatlantic.com)

45 points by NavinF 3 years ago | 46 comments

Blogscroll – an open-source directory of personal blogs and digital gardens(blogscroll.com)

44 points by Curiositry 3 years ago | 10 comments