Hacker News on Saturday, 9 December 2023

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application(github.com)

681 points by lsferreira42 2 years ago | 105 comments

GitHub repository for Gooey, a Python library that turns command line programs into full GUI applications with one line of code.

A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

551 points by xenophonf 2 years ago | 243 comments

Admiral Cloudberg's Medium article recounting the Qantas flight 32 A380 uncontained engine failure and its investigation.

W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine(w4games.com)

396 points by j_maffe 2 years ago | 81 comments

W4 Games announces a $15M funding round to support commercial video game development services built around the open-source Godot Engine.

Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#(github.com)

287 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 101 comments

OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault(github.com)

279 points by thinkmassive 2 years ago | 105 comments

Make Apps for Linux(makealinux.app)

258 points by jay-barronville 2 years ago | 299 comments

Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo(dougengelbart.org)

252 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 94 comments

PysimpleGUI(github.com)

225 points by nothrowaways 2 years ago | 128 comments

Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools(github.com)

207 points by d7y 2 years ago | 48 comments

Firefox Keeps Getting Faster(blog.mozilla.org)

200 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 138 comments

Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink(nytimes.com)

198 points by ren_engineer 2 years ago | 252 comments

Vulnerabilities in TETRA radio networks(cryptomuseum.com)

197 points by porsupah 2 years ago | 74 comments

OpenBSD – pinning all system calls(marc.info)

176 points by g0xA52A2A 2 years ago | 73 comments

Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for(osssoftware.org)

176 points by johnrushx 2 years ago | 58 comments

Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service(english.elpais.com)

164 points by hunglee2 2 years ago | 98 comments

EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech(bloomberg.com)

162 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 283 comments

EPA orders packaging firm Inhance to stop making PFAS(cen.acs.org)

161 points by geox 2 years ago | 43 comments

A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity(slack.com)

158 points by krigath 2 years ago | 91 comments

NetworkX – Network Analysis in Python(networkx.org)

157 points by comradesmith 2 years ago | 52 comments

Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy(archive.org)

155 points by dcminter 2 years ago | 45 comments

Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing(nebula.org)

150 points by all2 2 years ago | 72 comments

HashiCorp Vault Forked into OpenBao(theregister.com)

141 points by geerlingguy 2 years ago | 39 comments

Deadweight Loss as a Service(unoriginal.blog)

130 points by codon 2 years ago | 58 comments

Amazon Has an Honesty Issue(bentasker.co.uk)

127 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 85 comments

Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing(pncnmnp.github.io)

127 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 41 comments

Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)(kotaku.com)

111 points by cpeterso 2 years ago | 69 comments

Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS(github.com)

103 points by ta988 2 years ago | 47 comments

NeurIPS 2023 Posters Cluster Visualization(neurips2023.vizhub.ai)

99 points by skadamat 2 years ago | 12 comments

Apple to move key iPad engineering resources to Vietnam(asia.nikkei.com)

97 points by firstSpeaker 2 years ago | 83 comments

Gaussian explosion(aras-p.info)

93 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 27 comments

Clockhands: Rename-free instruction set architecture for out-of-order processors(dl.acm.org)

92 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 26 comments

Single-Dose Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Clinical Trial(jamanetwork.com)

83 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 56 comments

Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

80 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 28 comments

Introduction to Legion: life in the Roman army(britishmuseum.org)

78 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Fine-grained stylistic control of LLMs using model arithmetic(github.com)

71 points by OcelotBane 2 years ago | 7 comments

French AI startup Mistral secures €2B valuation(ft.com)

68 points by admp 2 years ago | 36 comments

Wine 9.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS(winehq.org)

68 points by neustradamus 2 years ago | 16 comments

Inside OpenAI's crisis over the future of artificial intelligence(nytimes.com)

67 points by twoodfin 2 years ago | 62 comments

Arrows of Time(quantamagazine.org)

64 points by mayankkaizen 2 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: Minimalist Calendars Generator(useminimal.com)

64 points by bjarocki 2 years ago | 30 comments

Nokia Bell Labs Is Moving to Helix in New Brunswick(roi-nj.com)

61 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 39 comments

Light No Fire – A Fantasy Game from the Makers of No Man's Sky(lightnofire.com)

57 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 39 comments

Android adds ggml lib to AICore(twitter.com)

56 points by tosh 2 years ago | 8 comments

Gilles Deleuze – What is Philosophy? [audio](philosophizethis.org)

55 points by tomtomistaken 2 years ago | 72 comments

New QuickJS Release(github.com)

55 points by rdtsc 2 years ago | 14 comments

Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns(reuters.com)

55 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 48 comments

'Greedflation' study finds many companies were lying to you about inflation(fortune.com)

53 points by safaa1993 2 years ago | 40 comments

Is Grok Basically Just an OpenAI Wrapper?(twitter.com)

51 points by bundie 2 years ago | 48 comments

Advent of Technical Writing: Style(jamesg.blog)

51 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 13 comments

Mistral's mixtral-8x7B-32kseqlen on Vercel(twitter.com)

50 points by tosh 2 years ago | 11 comments

Adolescent boys struggle with disorganization and distraction(wsj.com)

46 points by pretext 2 years ago | 33 comments

Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early(twitter.com)

46 points by danso 2 years ago | 30 comments

New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan(english.elpais.com)

45 points by orcul 2 years ago | 44 comments

Three things that LLMs have made us rethink(rodneybrooks.com)

41 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 29 comments

Neil Armstrong's Visit to Langholm(historic-uk.com)

38 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 5 comments

Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful(nytimes.com)

38 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 26 comments

A Cultural Critique of the Tesla Cybertruck(roadandtrack.com)

35 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 34 comments

Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)(wired.com)

33 points by nadermx 2 years ago | 11 comments

The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI(wired.com)

33 points by ek750 2 years ago | 31 comments