Hacker News on Sunday, 5 November 2023

Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly(blog.paavo.me)

779 points by paavohtl 3 years ago | 482 comments

Blog post analyzing the technical reasons behind Cities: Skylines 2's poor performance, including rendering issues beyond overly detailed character teeth.

Building a high performance JSON parser(dave.cheney.net)

469 points by davecheney 3 years ago | 158 comments

Dave Cheney's GopherCon Singapore 2023 talk notes on designing an efficient Go package by building a high performance JSON parser.

Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts(nytimes.com)

455 points by ljosa 3 years ago | 653 comments

New York Times article explaining why banks are abruptly closing individual and small-business customer accounts, leaving people unable to pay rent and bills.

Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes(dw.com)

275 points by cxrlosfx 3 years ago | 62 comments

Show HN: WireHub – easily create and share WireGuard networks(wirehub.org)

267 points by rudasn 3 years ago | 64 comments

A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time(salon.com)

256 points by mgerdts 3 years ago | 137 comments

Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU(xtof.info)

248 points by blakespot 3 years ago | 147 comments

Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese nonfiction book collection(annas-blog.org)

206 points by sillysaurusx 3 years ago | 130 comments

Show HN: Sshx, a web-based collaborative terminal(github.com)

199 points by ekzhang 3 years ago | 44 comments

Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT(bulkninja.notion.site)

194 points by skeetmtp 3 years ago | 179 comments

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)(beej.us)

192 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 28 comments

The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days(washingtonpost.com)

188 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 315 comments

Website hosted on ESP32(esp.khalsalabs.com)

186 points by harry247 3 years ago | 155 comments

Montreal’s new rapid transit line saved millions per mile(bloomberg.com)

167 points by TheIronYuppie 3 years ago | 134 comments

Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana(cowboystatedaily.com)

167 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 123 comments

Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy(twitter.com)

160 points by zone411 3 years ago | 134 comments

Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers(sustainabilitybynumbers.com)

151 points by ZeroGravitas 3 years ago | 222 comments

How did people deal with punch cards?(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)

148 points by zdw 3 years ago | 158 comments

What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0?(lepiter.io)

146 points by rmhsilva 3 years ago | 42 comments

Solar energy storage breakthrough could make households self-sufficient(sifted.eu)

142 points by stareatgoats 3 years ago | 52 comments

Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge (2018) [pdf](direct.mit.edu)

140 points by simonpure 3 years ago | 39 comments

Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals(theregister.com)

131 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 36 comments

I like gentoo's package deprecation process(artemis.sh)

129 points by edward 3 years ago | 60 comments

Mondrian – KDE Plasma desktop inspired by Piet Mondrian's paintings(store.kde.org)

128 points by leonry 3 years ago | 37 comments

Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future(npr.org)

126 points by toomuchtodo 3 years ago | 214 comments

Scientists create artificial protein that can degrade PET plastics in bottles(phys.org)

126 points by rose_ann_ 3 years ago | 73 comments

Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm and curiosity(npr.org)

118 points by ianai 3 years ago | 68 comments

Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video](media.ccc.de)

113 points by transpute 3 years ago | 158 comments

Soda additive linked to thyroid toxicity may finally get banned by FDA(arstechnica.com)

113 points by RadixDLT 3 years ago | 70 comments

Teflon is still toxic to birds(teflon.com)

109 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 171 comments

The fight between cataphiles and police in the Paris catacombs(atlasobscura.com)

108 points by dave1010uk 3 years ago | 34 comments

StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops(stackstorm.com)

107 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 22 comments

Topic: Discord Stealer(github.com)

104 points by badrabbit 3 years ago | 70 comments

My experience taking Tesla to court about FSD(teslamotorsclub.com)

104 points by nixass 3 years ago | 56 comments

Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges(axios.com)

103 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 35 comments

Formalising modern research mathematics in real time(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

99 points by mauricioc 3 years ago | 12 comments

Microdot(microdot.readthedocs.io)

96 points by kristianpaul 3 years ago | 25 comments

See the History of a Method with Git log -L(calebhearth.com)

95 points by caleb_thompson 3 years ago | 21 comments

The First App Store(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

94 points by kizunajp 3 years ago | 12 comments

Kolmogorov Neural Networks can represent discontinuous functions(arxiv.org)

93 points by ubj 3 years ago | 27 comments

Daylight saving time can seriously affect your health(apnews.com)

92 points by belltaco 3 years ago | 86 comments

EPA plans to limit or eliminate salmon-killing tire chemical found in Alaska(alaskabeacon.com)

91 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 40 comments

Applied Category Theory: Textbook (2019)(ocw.mit.edu)

88 points by johnsonjo 3 years ago | 13 comments

BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit(github.com)

87 points by bauta-steen 3 years ago | 21 comments

Almost fifty thousand roman coins discovered in the waters of Sardinia(agenzianova.com)

86 points by michelangelo 3 years ago | 64 comments

Automata: "Robots" designed hundreds of years ago [video](youtube.com)

82 points by jstanley 3 years ago | 29 comments

ReactOS Newsletter 103 – Late 2023 News(reactos.org)

82 points by simjue 3 years ago | 19 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug(joanwestenberg.com)

79 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 103 comments

Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers(theverge.com)

77 points by roody15 3 years ago | 83 comments

Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling(brookings.edu)

73 points by elashri 3 years ago | 30 comments

UN chief warns Nepal's mountains have lost one-third of their ice(euronews.com)

71 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 46 comments

M/o/Vfuscator: A single instruction C compiler(github.com)

69 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 21 comments

Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS power supply (2005)(kioan.users.uth.gr)

67 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 49 comments

Suzuki Omnichord Heaven(suzukimusic.co.uk)

65 points by brudgers 3 years ago | 14 comments

Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat"(lareviewofbooks.org)

64 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 8 comments

Effective Neovim: An Instant IDE [video](youtube.com)

63 points by tu7001 3 years ago | 37 comments

Monsters of the Road: What Should the UK Do About SUVs?(theguardian.com)

63 points by pharmakom 3 years ago | 73 comments

Tech startups selling to police(economist.com)

62 points by edward 3 years ago | 44 comments

Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word(theregister.com)

60 points by rntn 3 years ago | 43 comments

Cortextual(cortextual.net)

60 points by badorg 3 years ago | 12 comments