Hacker News on Saturday, 25 November 2023

The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation(economicsfromthetopdown.com)

540 points by ljosifov 2 years ago | 187 comments

Blog post on Economics from the Top Down arguing that the Dunning-Kruger effect is a statistical artifact caused by autocorrelation.

Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers(sqids.org)

498 points by vyrotek 2 years ago | 201 comments

Homepage of Sqids (formerly Hashids), an open-source library that generates short, YouTube-like unique IDs from numbers using a custom alphabet.

The Bond villain compliance strategy(bitsaboutmoney.com)

462 points by takinola 2 years ago | 363 comments

A Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie (Nov 2023) on deliberately evasive compliance strategies in finance, framed as a "Bond villain" approach.

Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it(github.com)

351 points by momciloo 2 years ago | 111 comments

GitHub repository for a demo where two browser windows share screen and window positions over sockets, inspired by Bjorn Staal's multi-window experiment.

Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code(engadget.com)

325 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 193 comments

Engadget news article reporting that Valeo sued Nvidia for trade secret theft after a screensharing mistake revealed Valeo's code.

Normal Operating Sounds(tesla.com)

298 points by mvansch 2 years ago | 230 comments

The new Paris métro(forbes.com)

253 points by TheIronYuppie 2 years ago | 271 comments

Helm(tytel.org)

229 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 35 comments

Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed(10stripe.com)

185 points by marcodiego 2 years ago | 95 comments

ArchiveTeam is downloading and saving content from Blogger(wiki.archiveteam.org)

177 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 71 comments

Shh: Simple Shell Scripting from Haskell(github.com)

176 points by subset 2 years ago | 30 comments

Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion(ansel.photos)

151 points by lemper 2 years ago | 87 comments

Sopwith – a classic bi-plane shoot 'em up from 1984 in the browser(midzer.de)

145 points by midzer 2 years ago | 55 comments

Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study(theconversation.com)

138 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 45 comments

New CRISPR systems hold promise for genome editing(nature.com)

135 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 31 comments

New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964–1983(hilobrow.com)

129 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 62 comments

A DX7 USB Dongle(diyelectromusic.wordpress.com)

124 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest(lrb.co.uk)

123 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 61 comments

Your Brain on Books(publicbooks.org)

120 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 37 comments

Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023(dolphin-emu.org)

120 points by thepbone 2 years ago | 9 comments

Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now(linuximpact.com)

110 points by dddavid 2 years ago | 71 comments

The largest number representable in 64 bits(tromp.github.io)

100 points by tromp 2 years ago | 74 comments

Offpunk 2.0(ploum.net)

84 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 18 comments

Ancient Echoes(etymonline.com)

83 points by pcmaffey 2 years ago | 34 comments

Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it(github.com)

80 points by yell0wsnow 2 years ago | 41 comments

Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing existing databases(blog.det.life)

78 points by mnming 2 years ago | 49 comments

There are no strings on me(scattered-thoughts.net)

78 points by luu 2 years ago | 24 comments

Economic Effects of State Bans on Direct Manufacturer Sales to Car Buyers [pdf](justice.gov)

71 points by luu 2 years ago | 50 comments

A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['(utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by ingve 2 years ago | 42 comments

It's time for a new old language (2017) [pdf](groups.csail.mit.edu)

71 points by hackandthink 2 years ago | 12 comments

A Light in the Woods(alightinthewoods.net)

66 points by orlandohill 2 years ago | 13 comments

Aerial refuelling without human intervention(airbus.com)

65 points by geox 2 years ago | 70 comments

Process for mass producing Japanese 500 yen coins(theawesomer.com)

65 points by geox 2 years ago | 34 comments

Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions(ds-security.com)

63 points by Moneysac 2 years ago | 98 comments

Reflections on learning programming(blog.osm-ai.net)

58 points by osm3000 2 years ago | 13 comments

Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG(sortingsearching.com)

58 points by tczajka 2 years ago | 74 comments

AI Art Generators Can Be Fooled into Making NSFW Images(spectrum.ieee.org)

57 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 122 comments

Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (2015)(cs.dartmouth.edu)

57 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much(theatlantic.com)

54 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 16 comments

Postgres: Extensions Shape the Future [pdf](blog.rustprooflabs.com)

53 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 4 comments

Is there something similar to “distroless” images built with Nix?(discourse.nixos.org)

51 points by soraminazuki 2 years ago | 25 comments

Preparing for the end of third-party cookies(developer.chrome.com)

51 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 38 comments

Heron's Horse [video](youtube.com)

49 points by andrelaszlo 2 years ago | 5 comments

Optical Computing with Plasma [video](youtube.com)

48 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 3 comments

Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death(historytoday.com)

46 points by pepys 2 years ago | 56 comments

Is the S&P 500 Broken?(disciplinefunds.com)

45 points by calcifer 2 years ago | 14 comments

Anti-tumor activity of all-trans retinoic acid in gastric-cancer(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

45 points by birriel 2 years ago | 17 comments

Formation-Flying Interferometry in Geocentric Orbits(arxiv.org)

45 points by belter 2 years ago | 3 comments

Breezy Version Control System(breezy-vcs.org)

43 points by akkartik 2 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer?

43 points by lopatin 2 years ago | 30 comments

XPAK 400(kustomrama.com)

41 points by andreygrehov 2 years ago | 5 comments

This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)(deepesh-01.github.io)

40 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 62 comments

Regulating the Rag and Bone Man (2017)(blogs.loc.gov)

37 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 24 comments

AnyTracker: Track any number on any website(anytracker.org)

37 points by dev_at 2 years ago | 18 comments

Conversational AI is a great tool for education(twitter.com)

35 points by vishnuharidas 2 years ago | 24 comments

Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas(nature.com)

35 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 23 comments

Three Year Cruise for Remote Workers Canceled(cnn.com)

33 points by jbverschoor 2 years ago | 29 comments

Parenting Off-Balance(benexdict.io)

32 points by exolymph 2 years ago | 36 comments

Large Interferometer for Exoplanets [pdf](aanda.org)

31 points by hindsightbias 2 years ago | 3 comments

Superficial Toxicity Is the Enemy of Curiosity-Driven Innovation in Science(avi-loeb.medium.com)

30 points by wawayanda 2 years ago | 7 comments