Hacker News on Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states(irs.gov)

823 points by dwynings 3 years ago | 298 comments

IRS news release announcing the Direct File pilot, a free IRS-run tax filing option projected for eligible taxpayers in 13 states for the 2024 season.

Write more "useless" software(ntietz.com)

819 points by greenSunglass 3 years ago | 239 comments

Blog post arguing that writing playful, "useless" software like the Hurl language is a valuable way to explore and enjoy computing.

Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security(minnesotareformer.com)

546 points by danso 3 years ago | 454 comments

Minnesota Reformer article reporting that Minneapolis small business owners feel pressured to hire off-duty MPD officers for security, as the city weighs challenging a 1997 injunction.

Frasier Fantasy(edward-la-barbera.itch.io)

496 points by gaws 3 years ago | 124 comments

An itch.io browser game page for Frasier Fantasy, a Final Fantasy-style parody of the sitcom Frasier by Edward La Barbera.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music(music.ishkur.com)

451 points by diggan 3 years ago | 135 comments

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music, an interactive timeline map of electronic music genres and subgenres from the 1900s to the 2010s.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme(krebsonsecurity.com)

374 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 286 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article on Micfo CEO Amir Golestan being sentenced to five years for using shell companies to fraudulently obtain over 735,000 IP addresses from ARIN.

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police(reason.com)

322 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 163 comments

Reason article about an Iowa man suing after being arrested twice for criticizing police at a public meeting.

BB(3, 3) is Hard(sligocki.com)

271 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 103 comments

Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem(cloud.google.com)

249 points by jasondavies 3 years ago | 137 comments

Llemma: An Open Language Model for Mathematics(arxiv.org)

239 points by AlphaWeaver 3 years ago | 43 comments

Making CRDTs More Efficient(jakelazaroff.com)

232 points by jakelazaroff 3 years ago | 50 comments

Universal cancer vaccine trial shows significant improvement in overall survival(ultimovacs.com)

210 points by espenwa 3 years ago | 42 comments

Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video](youtube.com)

207 points by throwaway71271 3 years ago | 154 comments

Superlinear Returns(paulgraham.com)

201 points by jger15 3 years ago | 132 comments

Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end(github.com)

193 points by e2le 3 years ago | 75 comments

What happened to blogging for the hell of it?(blog.whiona.me)

170 points by bovermyer 3 years ago | 133 comments

Show HN: I made an all-in-one desktop app with a no-BS approach to get work done

168 points by daniel_sushil 3 years ago | 98 comments

The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City(untappedcities.com)

168 points by geox 3 years ago | 93 comments

"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4(andrealyip.com)

159 points by cl42 3 years ago | 136 comments

Leaked Microsoft pay guidelines – salary, hiring bonus, stock awards by level(businessinsider.com)

157 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 134 comments

Antibiotic Identified by AI(nature.com)

156 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics(riffusion.com)

155 points by haykmartiros 3 years ago | 37 comments

Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees(ifmetall.se)

153 points by brtkdotse 3 years ago | 135 comments

The importance of handwriting is now better understood(economist.com)

143 points by heresie-dabord 3 years ago | 109 comments

Waymo Layoffs(sfstandard.com)

141 points by whynot-123 3 years ago | 89 comments

Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics (2019)(cognitivemedium.com)

141 points by sebg 3 years ago | 59 comments

Billing Engines Don't Solve Pricing Problems(tier.run)

132 points by jmacd 3 years ago | 55 comments

Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead(chrlschn.dev)

131 points by CharlieDigital 3 years ago | 174 comments

SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML(allaboutcircuits.com)

131 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 62 comments

No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known(chemistryworld.com)

127 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 149 comments

AI Graphics at JetBrains(blog.jetbrains.com)

123 points by SerCe 3 years ago | 59 comments

Circulant Matrices, Eigenvectors, and the FFT(johndcook.com)

114 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 5 comments

Mypy 1.6(mypy-lang.blogspot.com)

108 points by hackandthink 3 years ago | 41 comments

AWS takedown notice to third-party Re:Invent session trackers(twitter.com)

107 points by cebert 3 years ago | 43 comments

Anti-ageing molecule boosts fertility in ageing mice(nature.com)

102 points by mgl 3 years ago | 38 comments

*(char*)0 = 0; – What does the C++ programmer intend with this code? [video](youtube.com)

101 points by rramadass 3 years ago | 132 comments

Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)(themarginalian.org)

100 points by ncarroll 3 years ago | 60 comments

Finland's ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well(news.err.ee)

93 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 109 comments

Winsorized mean(en.wikipedia.org)

91 points by dedalus 3 years ago | 40 comments

ExecuTorch: Run PyTorch programs on mobile and edge devices(pytorch.org)

83 points by resolve-ev 3 years ago | 22 comments

Google Proposes New Mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall for Linux(phoronix.com)

81 points by mikece 3 years ago | 82 comments

Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B(picockpit.com)

78 points by proompter5 3 years ago | 85 comments

GaussianDreamer: Fast Generation from Text to 3D Gaussian Splatting(taoranyi.com)

77 points by bondarchuk 3 years ago | 14 comments

The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (1997)(wired.com)

75 points by solomonb 3 years ago | 38 comments

Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150(cnn.com)

74 points by belltaco 3 years ago | 87 comments

Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig(businessinsider.com)

70 points by momirlan 3 years ago | 87 comments

Unfounded concerns about photovoltaic toxicity and waste slowing decarbonization(nature.com)

64 points by ZeroGravitas 3 years ago | 103 comments

Stable Diffusion Gets a Major Boost with RTX Acceleration(nvidia.com)

63 points by ortusdux 3 years ago | 19 comments

Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise(esa.int)

60 points by gmays 3 years ago | 13 comments

Ask HN: Why is there no modern successor to the 3D Pinball games of yesteryear?

58 points by eigenvalue 3 years ago | 64 comments

The Paperweight Dilemma(blog.mobian.org)

52 points by nfriedly 3 years ago | 12 comments

Security Vulnerability of Switzerland's E-Voting System(schneier.com)

50 points by mikece 3 years ago | 38 comments

VirtualBox 7.0.12(virtualbox.org)

49 points by neustradamus 3 years ago | 30 comments

Alternatives to Adobe(untested.sonnet.io)

40 points by rpastuszak 3 years ago | 37 comments

The Thing About PHP(asko.dev)

39 points by askonomm 3 years ago | 36 comments

Do You Need a Visit to the Confident Man Ranch?(gq.com)

39 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 38 comments

Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Risk of Dementia(jamanetwork.com)

38 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 40 comments

AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding(techcrunch.com)

38 points by bemmu 3 years ago | 25 comments

Lumalabs AI(lumalabs.ai)

38 points by downboots 3 years ago | 6 comments