Hacker News on Sunday, 17 December 2023

Ventoy(ventoy.net)

494 points by matthberg 2 years ago | 98 comments

Homepage of Ventoy, an open source tool for creating bootable USB drives by simply copying ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD/EFI files to the drive.

The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)(charliechaplin.com)

494 points by hypertexthero 2 years ago | 318 comments

Official Charlie Chaplin site page presenting the video and text of the final speech from his 1940 film The Great Dictator.

How to learn chess as an adult (2021)(alexcrompton.com)

492 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 255 comments

Personal blog post by Alex Crompton describing how he learned chess as an adult, improving from 300 to 1500 Elo in nine months.

0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article remain(twitter.com)

367 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 84 comments

A post by @depthsofwiki noting that the Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since 2003 and none of its original phrases remain.

An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs(arxiv.org)

338 points by vincent_s 2 years ago | 302 comments

arXiv paper presenting a user study of 1,400 participants solving 14,000 modern CAPTCHAs, evaluating solve times and user perceptions.

3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public(minnesotareformer.com)

334 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 166 comments

Minnesota Reformer investigative article reporting that internal 3M documents show the company knew for decades its PFAS chemicals were harmful but concealed it.

BrainGPT turns thoughts into text(iflscience.com)

318 points by 11thEarlOfMar 2 years ago | 180 comments

IFLScience article about BrainGPT, a system that decodes brain signals into on-screen text, offering hope for people unable to communicate otherwise.

AMD's CDNA 3 Compute Architecture(chipsandcheese.com)

241 points by ksec 2 years ago | 111 comments

“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs(jacobbartlett.substack.com)

221 points by jakey_bakey 2 years ago | 177 comments

How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time(nytimes.com)

192 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 403 comments

Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems(github.com)

188 points by karlicoss 2 years ago | 73 comments

The Apollo Syndrome(teamtechnology.co.uk)

168 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 100 comments

Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review(onemileatatime.com)

162 points by resolutebat 2 years ago | 49 comments

So you want custom allocator support in your C library(nullprogram.com)

157 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 91 comments

Promptbase: All things prompt engineering(github.com)

154 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 29 comments

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over(nature.com)

148 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 138 comments

Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF 3D model(github.com)

140 points by OmarShehata 2 years ago | 26 comments

Evaluating new software forges(notgull.net)

125 points by riidom 2 years ago | 105 comments

He felt 'creatively dead', then harnessed the power of boredom(npr.org)

122 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 60 comments

Tracking Java native memory with JDK flight recorder(morling.dev)

120 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 27 comments

The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale(daviddfriedman.substack.com)

112 points by notgloating 2 years ago | 126 comments

Misra C++:2023(forum.misra.org.uk)

111 points by ksec 2 years ago | 90 comments

A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration(blog.information-superhighway.net)

102 points by panic 2 years ago | 19 comments

Tree of Life Explorer(evogeneao.com)

87 points by n42 2 years ago | 17 comments

Microsoft forced people to install their browser (2010)(toastytech.com)

80 points by dannyw 2 years ago | 98 comments

Dynamic soaring(en.wikipedia.org)

78 points by KolmogorovComp 2 years ago | 29 comments

Intel proposes XeGPU dialect for LLVM MLIR(discourse.llvm.org)

77 points by artagnon 2 years ago | 11 comments

What made Apollo a success? (1971) [pdf](ntrs.nasa.gov)

76 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 54 comments

A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire(thehustle.co)

75 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 24 comments

Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators(nowdo.org)

75 points by sanity31415 2 years ago | 60 comments

Goodreads asks users to help combat 'review bombing'(npr.org)

70 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 122 comments

OpenAI employee: GPT-4.5 rumor was a hallucination(twitter.com)

67 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 60 comments

Augmenting long-term memory (2018)(augmentingcognition.com)

63 points by MovingTheLimit 2 years ago | 23 comments

How does Base32 (or any Base2^n) work exactly?(ptrchm.com)

62 points by pchm 2 years ago | 38 comments

Pearl: A Production-Ready Reinforcement Learning Agent(github.com)

61 points by da4id 2 years ago | 7 comments

Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014)(qz.com)

61 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 50 comments

ArtBot for Stable Diffusion(tinybots.net)

61 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 18 comments

Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species Across the World(scientificamerican.com)

59 points by elorant 2 years ago | 57 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?

58 points by mattkenefick 2 years ago | 27 comments

'Tranq tourism': TikTokers travel to film drug users(theguardian.com)

56 points by rntn 2 years ago | 109 comments

Perl Poetry Generators in 256 Characters(nickm.com)

55 points by raldu 2 years ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job

54 points by dookahku 2 years ago | 35 comments

BC Supreme Court bars man from calling himself an 'engineer'(cbc.ca)

52 points by whycome 2 years ago | 65 comments

The Divorce Colony (2015)(magazine.atavist.com)

52 points by daddy_drank 2 years ago | 32 comments

Why it's taking so long for Americans to get payments instantly(wsj.com)

50 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 72 comments

The OS Classics(allthingsdistributed.com)

50 points by belter 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: How to figure out a good direction/goals for the year ahead?

50 points by ChildOfChaos 2 years ago | 35 comments

The largest money-printing UI element ever made(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

50 points by saeedesmaili 2 years ago | 36 comments

Games in the GPU Shaders (2021)(arugl.medium.com)

48 points by generichuman 2 years ago | 6 comments

On the pronunciation of “fsck”(hachyderm.io)

48 points by trelane 2 years ago | 51 comments

Reindeer can see UV light(journals.sagepub.com)

46 points by geox 2 years ago | 41 comments

Responsive scrollable videos without obscure video encoding requirements(scrollyvideo.js.org)

45 points by lovegrenoble 2 years ago | 36 comments

Hylomorphism(1000wordphilosophy.com)

45 points by wyndham 2 years ago | 50 comments

A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy(economist.com)

45 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Made a forum for depressed founders to confide(depressedfounders.com)

44 points by vforissi 2 years ago | 28 comments

A medieval map that made cartography into a science(newscientist.com)

44 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 8 comments

Don't wake me up too soon(granta.com)

43 points by unpredict 2 years ago | 5 comments

Quicktake for Apple II(colino.net)

43 points by mikerg87 2 years ago | 11 comments

NaiveSystems Analyze – FOSS static analyzer for MISRA C/C++, AUTOSAR C++14, etc.(github.com)

40 points by xjia 2 years ago | 7 comments

Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted(careercutler.substack.com)

39 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 51 comments