Hacker News on Friday, 10 November 2023

Cursorless is alien magic from the future(xeiaso.net)

701 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 297 comments

Xe Iaso blog post about using Cursorless voice-controlled code editing after an RSI flare-up, praising it as remarkably powerful.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it(builder.io)

469 points by tortilla 3 years ago | 219 comments

Builder.io blog post by Steve Sewell arguing against building AI products as thin LLM wrappers and describing an alternative approach to building them.

How to boss without being bossy(jeffwofford.com)

326 points by putzdown 3 years ago | 155 comments

A blog post by Jeff Wofford on how leaders can direct people and give commands without coming across as bossy.

Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM(mullvad.net)

316 points by kisamoto 3 years ago | 120 comments

Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly(blog.rust-lang.org)

316 points by mcp_ 3 years ago | 125 comments

Switching to Elixir(leemeichin.com)

299 points by orlandohill 3 years ago | 239 comments

Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says(arstechnica.com)

296 points by nataz 3 years ago | 178 comments

Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V(blog.nordicsemi.com)

292 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 107 comments

The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday(unixtimestamp.com)

277 points by dezmou 3 years ago | 69 comments

Typing fast is about latency, not throughput(two-wrongs.com)

240 points by chriskrycho 3 years ago | 193 comments

Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people of AD 6939(futilitycloset.com)

231 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 254 comments

Texture Healing for Monospace Fonts(github.com)

219 points by notpushkin 3 years ago | 79 comments

We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus(antipope.org)

218 points by ttepasse 3 years ago | 229 comments

The hijacking of rare Japanese KitKats(straitstimes.com)

216 points by janpio 3 years ago | 137 comments

Real-time image editing using latent consistency models(twitter.com)

194 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 87 comments

Iceland declares state of emergency over volcanic eruption threat(theguardian.com)

192 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 60 comments

Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads(businessinsider.com)

186 points by acecreamu 3 years ago | 124 comments

Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook(heise.de)

183 points by r0nny 3 years ago | 91 comments

Write your own terminal(flak.tedunangst.com)

177 points by ingve 3 years ago | 35 comments

Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna rediscovered in Indonesia(cbc.ca)

177 points by curmudgeon22 3 years ago | 49 comments

FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE(lists.freebsd.org)

174 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 63 comments

GPU advancements in M3 and A17 Pro [video](developer.apple.com)

167 points by bhj 3 years ago | 123 comments

AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical services don't support IPv6(old.reddit.com)

165 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 161 comments

Hashmaps in Factor are faster than in Zig(re.factorcode.org)

162 points by kencausey 3 years ago | 48 comments

Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0(keeperfx.net)

162 points by MrJagil 3 years ago | 78 comments

Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)(helen.fi)

159 points by iljah 3 years ago | 85 comments

Interview with Jeff Geerling(raspberrypi.com)

159 points by mikece 3 years ago | 79 comments

The Svalbard fibre optic cable connection (2022)(spacenorway.no)

158 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 82 comments

Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it(macworld.com)

158 points by jay_kyburz 3 years ago | 213 comments

How Git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge(jvns.ca)

150 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 94 comments

New York restaurants fight back against reservations by bots(bloomberg.com)

149 points by lxm 3 years ago | 251 comments

Lessons learned by a software guy venturing into hardware(sidecart.xyz)

145 points by belial1971 3 years ago | 34 comments

Business questions worth asking(gmays.com)

140 points by gmays 3 years ago | 23 comments

EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning experts(theregister.com)

133 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 44 comments

Protégé: A free, open-source ontology editor for building intelligent systems(protege.stanford.edu)

112 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 25 comments

Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars(malarna.nu)

111 points by SiempreViernes 3 years ago | 102 comments

Microsoft pulls OneDrive update that would quiz you before letting you quit(arstechnica.com)

105 points by stalfosknight 3 years ago | 72 comments

What process created this X11 window?(unix.stackexchange.com)

105 points by signa11 3 years ago | 61 comments

Link-Time Optimisation (LTO)(convolv.es)

105 points by signa11 3 years ago | 35 comments

Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training(cloud.google.com)

102 points by infixed 3 years ago | 43 comments

Microsoft steals access data: Beware of the new Outlook (German)(heise.de)

101 points by doener 3 years ago | 16 comments

Implementing Mario's Stack Blur 15 times in C++ (with tests and benchmarks)(melatonin.dev)

99 points by wlll 3 years ago | 34 comments

Prominent S.F. developers charged with bribery in widening corruption scandal(sfchronicle.com)

95 points by cft 3 years ago | 36 comments

Automa – Automate the browser by connecting blocks(automa.site)

93 points by judiisis 3 years ago | 10 comments

Nanoparticle-remodeled gut microbiota slows neurodegeneration via gut–brain axis(nature.com)

92 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 45 comments

Let's create a Python Debugger together(mostlynerdless.de)

90 points by parttimenerd 3 years ago | 6 comments

World Population Estimated at 8 Billion(census.gov)

90 points by geox 3 years ago | 108 comments

At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars(reuters.com)

87 points by bcks 3 years ago | 57 comments

Eltanin Antenna(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by pyinstallwoes 3 years ago | 14 comments

We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters(danluu.com)

85 points by 0x000042 3 years ago | 102 comments

The Ornate Bird Palaces of Ottoman-Era Turkey (2017)(thisiscolossal.com)

83 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 8 comments

System Transparency: a security architecture for bare-metal servers(system-transparency.org)

83 points by harporoeder 3 years ago | 21 comments

Apple’s first online store played a crucial role in the company’s resurgence(appleinsider.com)

83 points by spking 3 years ago | 59 comments

Missing windows discovered on U.S.-bound plane after departing London(npr.org)

82 points by asimpleusecase 3 years ago | 72 comments

Braid, Anniversary Edition trailer [video](youtube.com)

79 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 46 comments

Widespread drastic reduction of brain myelin upon prolonged endurance exercise(biorxiv.org)

78 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 34 comments

Terminating an employee with a bus factor of 1(workplace.stackexchange.com)

76 points by azeemba 3 years ago | 42 comments

EuclideanSpace(euclideanspace.com)

75 points by nullhole 3 years ago | 11 comments

Leonard vs. Pepsico, Inc(en.wikipedia.org)

75 points by EndXA 3 years ago | 49 comments