Hacker News on Friday, 6 October 2023

Making Hard Things Easy(jvns.ca)

998 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 186 comments

Julia Evans' blog post sharing the video, slides, and transcript of her Strange Loop keynote on why some technical things are hard to learn and how to make them easier.

AMD may get across the CUDA moat(hpcwire.com)

498 points by danzheng 3 years ago | 266 comments

HPCwire article by Doug Eadline discussing how AMD's Instinct GPUs and software stack might overcome Nvidia's CUDA software lock-in for GenAI workloads.

We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms(gds.blog.gov.uk)

318 points by open-source-ux 3 years ago | 168 comments

A Government Digital Service blog post explaining how GDS is opening up access to GOV.UK Forms, its tool for building online government forms.

23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack(bleepingcomputer.com)

293 points by nickthegreek 3 years ago | 191 comments

Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor(github.com)

246 points by alex028502 3 years ago | 127 comments

Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder(rolepad.com)

242 points by romanhn 3 years ago | 103 comments

The Economics of Programming Languages [video](youtube.com)

231 points by satvikpendem 3 years ago | 101 comments

Thread-per-core(without.boats)

231 points by ingve 3 years ago | 139 comments

What is in that .git directory?(blog.meain.io)

224 points by Ivoah 3 years ago | 34 comments

CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg(ccc.de)

216 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 118 comments

Show HN: DotBigBang – Multiplayer game engine with 120fps and 2 second load time(dotbigbang.com)

214 points by bobbydigitales 3 years ago | 83 comments

Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

213 points by drunner 3 years ago | 103 comments

Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize(cnn.com)

211 points by michaeltimo 3 years ago | 223 comments

Rails 7.1 Released(github.com)

206 points by sathishmanohar 3 years ago | 162 comments

Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes(shortbread.ai)

198 points by Fengjiao 3 years ago | 53 comments

Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs(clojure.org)

197 points by grzm 3 years ago | 121 comments

Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

175 points by SeenNotHeard 3 years ago | 220 comments

Exploratory data analysis for humanities data(awk.dev)

160 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 38 comments

Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00(pcjs.org)

156 points by ingve 3 years ago | 79 comments

How we manage 200 open-source repos(turbot.com)

153 points by nathanwallace 3 years ago | 20 comments

Tiny Language Models Come of Age(quantamagazine.org)

148 points by nsoonhui 3 years ago | 75 comments

SlowLlama: Finetune llama2-70B and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization(github.com)

147 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 48 comments

Lasers deflected using air(desy.de)

144 points by geox 3 years ago | 28 comments

23andMe scraping incident leaked data on 1.3M users(therecord.media)

143 points by doener 3 years ago | 42 comments

Ollama is now available as an official Docker image(ollama.ai)

138 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 22 comments

EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer(hpcwire.com)

137 points by timthorn 3 years ago | 97 comments

Android devices with backdoored firmware found in US schools(securityweek.com)

136 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 55 comments

Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America(economist.com)

135 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 206 comments

Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all(creativebloq.com)

132 points by intunderflow 3 years ago | 87 comments

Half a million kinksters can't be wrong(asteriskmag.com)

131 points by barry-cotter 3 years ago | 117 comments

Google's agreement with Samsung prevented Branch from launching: testimony(bigtechontrial.com)

127 points by EMIRELADERO 3 years ago | 61 comments

Braid is dead, long live Braid(amandapeyton.com)

125 points by inmygarage 3 years ago | 60 comments

Fail2Ban(github.com)

121 points by redbell 3 years ago | 94 comments

Looking back on SaaS product strategy(ghiculescu.substack.com)

112 points by ghiculescu 3 years ago | 15 comments

The White Gold of Turda, Romania(holeinthedonut.com)

104 points by joveian 3 years ago | 24 comments

NSA publishes ten most common misconfigurations in networks(cisa.gov)

104 points by skilled 3 years ago | 41 comments

The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil(space.com)

101 points by saikatsg 3 years ago | 77 comments

Petscii Side-Scrolling Platformer by Jimbo(jimbo.itch.io)

99 points by reaperducer 3 years ago | 11 comments

Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing(arstechnica.com)

94 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 36 comments

Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN(here.news)

94 points by hker 3 years ago | 89 comments

Open-ribbon – A Project to reverse engineer the PS1 music game Vib-Ribbon(github.com)

91 points by millerhooks 3 years ago | 22 comments

Chicago independently abolishes subminimum wage for tipped workers(chicagotribune.com)

90 points by toomuchtodo 3 years ago | 81 comments

How to add documentation to your product life cycle(thisisimportant.net)

88 points by taubek 3 years ago | 12 comments

Emacs and shellcheck(amitp.blogspot.com)

87 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Decorate Java stack traces with source code snippets(github.com)

85 points by laech 3 years ago | 18 comments

When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?(intego.com)

84 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 96 comments

Ash: A Gentle Primer(jon.hk)

83 points by zachdaniel 3 years ago | 12 comments

OpenPubKey and Sigstore(blog.sigstore.dev)

83 points by dlor 3 years ago | 26 comments

Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting(retractionwatch.com)

82 points by williamsmj 3 years ago | 72 comments

When allocators are hoarding your precious memory (2021)(algolia.com)

82 points by marcodiego 3 years ago | 47 comments

Reversing 'France Identité': The New French Digital ID(reversemode.com)

81 points by vitplister 3 years ago | 64 comments

Could we make C arrays memory safe? Probably not, but let's try(nibblestew.blogspot.com)

80 points by ingve 3 years ago | 74 comments

OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates acquisition targets(reuters.com)

80 points by rasbt 3 years ago | 77 comments

X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked(mashable.com)

79 points by hn1986 3 years ago | 50 comments

Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue(sfchronicle.com)

77 points by uladzislau 3 years ago | 35 comments

Addictive cheap and controversial: the rise of China’s Temu app(theguardian.com)

75 points by c420 3 years ago | 52 comments

A 20MP Sensor in a Film Canister Reinvigorates Vintage Analog Cameras(petapixel.com)

72 points by mikece 3 years ago | 44 comments

A California hedge fund bulldozed state labor laws, imposed harshest noncompetes(businessinsider.com)

72 points by LastNevadan 3 years ago | 37 comments

MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach(reuters.com)

72 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 89 comments

Bus Sniffing the IBM 5150(martypc.blogspot.com)

71 points by ingve 3 years ago | 12 comments