Hacker News on Saturday, 16 December 2023

The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen(bunniestudios.com)

385 points by kungfudoi 2 years ago | 131 comments

Bunnie Huang's blog post announcing an updated, crowdfunded edition of The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen, now maintained by Naomi Wu.

NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus(phys.org)

369 points by wglb 2 years ago | 177 comments

Phys.org article on a NASA study finding a potential energy source and a life-relevant molecule in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model(theverge.com)

323 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 225 comments

The Verge quick post reporting that OpenAI suspended ByteDance's API account after ByteDance used GPT-generated data to train its own competing AI model.

Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling(geekwire.com)

323 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 294 comments

GeekWire opinion article arguing that Hasbro's layoffs at Wizards of the Coast are baffling and could cause a brain drain.

SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC(github.com)

313 points by kieto 2 years ago | 172 comments

Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS(github.com)

311 points by 3np 2 years ago | 190 comments

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors(spectrum.ieee.org)

307 points by jnord 2 years ago | 125 comments

Advancements in machine learning for machine learning(blog.research.google)

282 points by atg_abhishek 2 years ago | 126 comments

MongoDB security notice(mongodb.com)

229 points by ciudilo 2 years ago | 136 comments

Chimera Linux(chimera-linux.org)

227 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 140 comments

Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation(github.com)

217 points by spenczar5 2 years ago | 98 comments

Moving from relational data to events(event-driven.io)

212 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 119 comments

Causal Trees(farley.ai)

198 points by sno6 2 years ago | 24 comments

Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024(bloomberg.com)

193 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 123 comments

The falling nutritional value of crops(jeroenvanbaar.substack.com)

189 points by AnEducatedGuess 2 years ago | 127 comments

Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship(theguardian.com)

187 points by tonyedgecombe 2 years ago | 72 comments

Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work(dwarkeshpatel.com)

156 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 109 comments

Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)(cambridge.org)

139 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 153 comments

Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices(businessinsider.com)

136 points by SkyMarshal 2 years ago | 113 comments

A female albatross over 70 years old(lemonde.fr)

133 points by geox 2 years ago | 37 comments

What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf](cs.uwaterloo.ca)

131 points by cokernel_hacker 2 years ago | 250 comments

ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips(koreaherald.com)

122 points by ycdxvjp 2 years ago | 62 comments

RAG to Riches(sourcegraph.com)

121 points by sidcool 2 years ago | 62 comments

Where Johnny Cash came from(neh.gov)

116 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 68 comments

Preparing for missions in difficult places(bitecode.dev)

103 points by _dain_ 2 years ago | 35 comments

What is the point of a public key fingerprint?(johndcook.com)

96 points by rolph 2 years ago | 129 comments

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s(crowdsupply.com)

94 points by justanotherdot 2 years ago | 59 comments

City council passes bill enabling tenants to report vacant apartments(thecity.nyc)

91 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 110 comments

S3 Express One Zone, not quite what I hoped for(jack-vanlightly.com)

91 points by e2e4 2 years ago | 18 comments

Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies(phys.org)

84 points by wglb 2 years ago | 61 comments

Island gigantism(en.wikipedia.org)

84 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 27 comments

Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor(righto.com)

82 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 13 comments

Structure of FTS5 Index in SQLite(darksi.de)

76 points by ellieh 2 years ago | 12 comments

Rising Temperatures in the Netherlands(koenvangilst.nl)

75 points by vnglst 2 years ago | 48 comments

Transformers on Chips(etched.ai)

74 points by vasinov 2 years ago | 42 comments

How the Feds bounced Binance(programmablemutter.com)

71 points by haskellandchill 2 years ago | 83 comments

UK court allows ANN patent saying computer programs exclusion does not apply(bailii.org)

71 points by alok-g 2 years ago | 73 comments

25 hours of Xcode Cloud now included with the Apple Developer Program(developer.apple.com)

71 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 47 comments

Studying stars with central black holes(arxiv.org)

71 points by belter 2 years ago | 65 comments

XLights – open source light sequencer and show scheduler(xlights.org)

66 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 14 comments

Run Mistral 7B on M1 Mac(wandb.ai)

66 points by byyoung3 2 years ago | 25 comments

Victorian romantic rituals and charms(historytoday.com)

65 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 7 comments

A guide to technical report writing [pdf](ias.ieee.org)

64 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 12 comments

A curiously recurring lifetime issue(blog.dureuill.net)

62 points by irsagent 2 years ago | 23 comments

Tastes are a point in space(dynomight.substack.com)

58 points by have_faith 2 years ago | 41 comments

Tabletop RPGs we played in 2023(polygon.com)

57 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 17 comments

USB Boot of Multiple ISO Files by GRUB2 Boot Loader(linuxbabe.com)

56 points by transpute 2 years ago | 26 comments

Fakes: Not an internet thing, a human thing(spectrum.ieee.org)

52 points by jruohonen 2 years ago | 20 comments

Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023(axios.com)

51 points by safaa1993 2 years ago | 52 comments

No Stinking Loops(nsl.com)

50 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 26 comments

Tree plantations are not the environmental solution they’re purported to be(wired.com)

50 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 48 comments

US begins review that could eventually lead to PVC ban(phys.org)

50 points by jelliclesfarm 2 years ago | 46 comments

Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution(theguardian.com)

49 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 27 comments

Hubless-wheel electric penny farthing is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece(newatlas.com)

48 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 14 comments

Rotor Technologies launches production of R550X autonomous helicopter(futureflight.aero)

43 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 15 comments

The many faces of fsck (2007)(lwn.net)

43 points by nolist_policy 2 years ago | 24 comments

Show HN: SQL Polyglot(codapi.org)

43 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 12 comments

A Beautiful library of SVG logos(svgl.vercel.app)

41 points by anupsurendran 2 years ago | 17 comments

Research shows immune cells shape lung tissue before birth(medicalxpress.com)

39 points by wglb 2 years ago | 1 comments

My Raspberry Pi Learns to Drive(smist08.wordpress.com)

39 points by ingve 2 years ago | 2 comments