Hacker News on Saturday, 7 October 2023

Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system(nerdyarticles.com)

571 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 169 comments

A blog post describing the author's adoption of Paperless-ngx, an open source document management system, including a Docker setup guide and workflow.

Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story(wired.com)

454 points by r721 3 years ago | 198 comments

An X post showing WIRED's editor's note that the op-ed "How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet" was removed for not meeting editorial standards.

Organization probably doesn't want to improve things(ludic.mataroa.blog)

445 points by l0b0 3 years ago | 372 comments

A Ludicity blog post arguing that organizations often say they want improvement but don't, using the Japanese honne-tatemae concept to explain workplace frustration.

Decomposing language models into understandable components(anthropic.com)

402 points by tompark 3 years ago | 58 comments

Anthropic research post from Oct 2023 on decomposing language model neurons into more interpretable features.

The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds(theguardian.com)

247 points by c420 3 years ago | 106 comments

Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language(berry-lang.github.io)

243 points by dannyobrien 3 years ago | 88 comments

Subtraction is functionally complete(orlp.net)

228 points by orlp 3 years ago | 66 comments

Documented source code for Elite on the NES(github.com)

214 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 52 comments

Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive(eclecticlight.co)

195 points by ingve 3 years ago | 91 comments

John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI(amii.ca)

189 points by hardmaru 3 years ago | 167 comments

Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View(erinkissane.com)

186 points by joeyh 3 years ago | 76 comments

Permission Slip: Consumer Reports app to take back control of your data(permissionslipcr.com)

170 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 59 comments

Shell using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to convince kids fossil fuels are cool(kotaku.com)

166 points by c_ris 3 years ago | 137 comments

Joys of small game development(abagames.github.io)

164 points by ingve 3 years ago | 28 comments

Role of Algorithms(matklad.github.io)

153 points by GlobalFrying 3 years ago | 38 comments

FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number(twitter.com)

143 points by danso 3 years ago | 96 comments

Quake related work logs (1996)(gamers.org)

135 points by waihtis 3 years ago | 87 comments

ChatGPT – Dalle3 System Prompt(twitter.com)

133 points by rinesh 3 years ago | 80 comments

”Be Useful”(npr.org)

131 points by lxm 3 years ago | 98 comments

Brave layoffs(techcrunch.com)

131 points by theoldlove 3 years ago | 87 comments

Lost film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces(theguardian.com)

130 points by telesilla 3 years ago | 16 comments

Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone(blog.cloudflare.com)

127 points by KoftaBob 3 years ago | 82 comments

1400 year old gold foil figures found in Norwegian pagan temple(sciencenorway.no)

124 points by n1c 3 years ago | 58 comments

Dockerized local and offline backing up of PostgreSQL with rotation, compression(github.com)

122 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 23 comments

Moving Marginalia to a new server(marginalia.nu)

118 points by marginalia_nu 3 years ago | 33 comments

Getting Started in KiCad 7.0(docs.kicad.org)

117 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 46 comments

Twenty: A Modern open-source CRM(github.com)

113 points by pretext 3 years ago | 51 comments

RISC-V chip technology emerges as new battleground in US-China tech war(reuters.com)

108 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 57 comments

Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet(carehart.org)

106 points by rmason 3 years ago | 69 comments

The Last Express(filfre.net)

104 points by zdw 3 years ago | 13 comments

“Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel(arstechnica.com)

100 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 77 comments

How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans (2019)(americanprogress.org)

95 points by hammock 3 years ago | 47 comments

"Attention is all you need" paper digested (2018)(youtube.com)

92 points by binidxaba 3 years ago | 23 comments

Railway Time(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 40 comments

Researchers find link between plastic additive and autism, ADHD(today.rowan.edu)

85 points by kungfudoi 3 years ago | 23 comments

Council of Europe says 5 governments must investigate Pegasus spyware abuse(pace.coe.int)

83 points by NKosmatos 3 years ago | 1 comments

The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Home Network(simone.org)

79 points by HermanMartinus 3 years ago | 41 comments

Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California(politico.com)

75 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 82 comments

Using Awk and R to parse 25tb (2019)(livefreeordichotomize.com)

74 points by xrayarx 3 years ago | 6 comments

Whatever happened to interoperability?(theamericanconservative.com)

72 points by fiddlerwoaroof 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It(nytimes.com)

72 points by XitN 3 years ago | 45 comments

Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer(righto.com)

72 points by picture 3 years ago | 27 comments

Fleuron (typography)(en.wikipedia.org)

69 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 33 comments

HVM updates: simplifications, finally runs on GPUs, 80x speedup on RTX 4090(twitter.com)

68 points by LightMachine 3 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Timbre – An app that finds the best sounds for your sleep(apps.apple.com)

67 points by bryan-vh 3 years ago | 72 comments

Workloads on Arm-based AWS instances(bignacio.github.io)

67 points by BiraIgnacio 3 years ago | 25 comments

Auto Xylophone with Homemade Solenoids(rachad47.github.io)

66 points by phoenixreader 3 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally?

62 points by rootsudo 3 years ago | 41 comments

Is the first cure for advanced rabies near?(medicalxpress.com)

61 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 34 comments

Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix(thedrive.com)

52 points by elorant 3 years ago | 70 comments

Dramatic Increase in DPRK-Russia Border Rail Traffic After Kim-Putin Summit(beyondparallel.csis.org)

49 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 31 comments

Kyushu University released more than 1500 3D models of animals and plants (2022)(sketchfab.com)

47 points by NKosmatos 3 years ago | 3 comments

Internet traffic impacted in Palestine after attacks. Some ISPs are offline(twitter.com)

42 points by emot 3 years ago | 25 comments

Amazon launches its Bedrock generative AI service in general availability(techcrunch.com)

40 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 8 comments

More than 10k pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia(science.org)

40 points by rntn 3 years ago | 0 comments

Photo Tampering Throughout History [pdf](faculty.cc.gatech.edu)

40 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 8 comments

California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes(theguardian.com)

40 points by c420 3 years ago | 14 comments

AI offers improved civility for polarizing online conversations(newatlas.com)

37 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 59 comments

Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack(radar.cloudflare.com)

37 points by emot 3 years ago | 39 comments

True BASIC by Kemeny and Kurtz(truebasic.com)

37 points by schmudde 3 years ago | 17 comments