Hacker News on Sunday, 24 December 2023

Costs of running a macOS app studio business(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)

591 points by alin23 2 years ago | 179 comments

Alin Panaitiu's note breaking down the costs of running The low-tech guys, his one-person macOS app studio business.

Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)(english.stackexchange.com)

461 points by ent101 2 years ago | 391 comments

An English Language & Usage Stack Exchange question asking whether English ever had a formal second-person pronoun like German Sie or French vous.

Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?(aviation.stackexchange.com)

365 points by ent101 2 years ago | 236 comments

An Aviation Stack Exchange question asking whether Microsoft Flight Simulator can help someone learn to fly or improve as a pilot.

Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them(generals.io)

271 points by emj 2 years ago | 60 comments

The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close(bytecellar.com)

270 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 133 comments

Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf](networkcontagion.us)

248 points by hammock 2 years ago | 166 comments

"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"(bactra.org)

240 points by macleginn 2 years ago | 60 comments

America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"(theatlantic.com)

206 points by vwoolf 2 years ago | 138 comments

Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB(railsatscale.com)

184 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 67 comments

Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends(wsj.com)

183 points by himaraya 2 years ago | 113 comments

How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?(worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)

181 points by unleaded 2 years ago | 64 comments

x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (2022)(egr.unlv.edu)

173 points by generichuman 2 years ago | 47 comments

Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)(web.mit.edu)

170 points by cryingpotato 2 years ago | 49 comments

San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels(sfchronicle.com)

156 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 194 comments

Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people(statnews.com)

137 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 124 comments

Resetting the timer in my toothbrush(nonnullish.pages.dev)

137 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 82 comments

If only someone told me this before my first startup

129 points by johnrushx 2 years ago | 33 comments

Toyota's Daihatsu to halt all vehicle shipments as safety scandal widens(cnbc.com)

116 points by LopRabbit 2 years ago | 35 comments

Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis?(perfectcircuit.com)

114 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 46 comments

The Limits to Growth (1972)(donellameadows.org)

104 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 91 comments

Chemical reactions fuel crises at LA County's two largest landfills(phys.org)

102 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Weeks of Your Life(weeksofyour.life)

99 points by petemilly 2 years ago | 59 comments

Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models(arxiv.org)

99 points by convexstrictly 2 years ago | 40 comments

Enlightenment 0.26(enlightenment.org)

93 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 39 comments

Interview about Austral, a systems programming language with linear types(blog.lambdaclass.com)

86 points by unbalancedparen 2 years ago | 26 comments

Germany hits 80 GW milestone(pv-magazine.com)

84 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 104 comments

Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?(marginalrevolution.com)

81 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 89 comments

Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world(mexiconewsdaily.com)

78 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 59 comments

North America: Hand-Drawn Portrait of a Continent(antonthomasart.com)

76 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 16 comments

When the Power Macintosh Ran NetWare (Featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

75 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 3 comments

Let the terminal bells ring out(muxup.com)

69 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 27 comments

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency(theregister.com)

66 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 50 comments

Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?(spectrum.ieee.org)

65 points by Turing_Machine 2 years ago | 66 comments

Meilisearch expands search power with Arroy's filtered disk ANN(blog.kerollmops.com)

64 points by Kerollmops 2 years ago | 16 comments

Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII(filfre.net)

63 points by doppp 2 years ago | 93 comments

Pixelating Live with SVG(meyerweb.com)

59 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 24 comments

Intel's CEO says Moore's Law is slowing to a three-year cadence but not dead yet(tomshardware.com)

55 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 28 comments

Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C(hackaday.com)

52 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 6 comments

A circular 3D-printed concrete bridge(designboom.com)

50 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 58 comments

Preparedness Framework(openai.com)

49 points by ianrahman 2 years ago | 40 comments

2024 Quadrantid meteor shower to peak January 3-4(earthsky.org)

49 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 10 comments

Many prehistoric handprints show missing finger. What if this wasn't accidental?(theguardian.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 49 comments

Beeper Mini removed from Google Play?(play.google.com)

48 points by pxeboot 2 years ago | 36 comments

You don't need analytics on your blog(blog.yossarian.net)

48 points by woodruffw 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why isn't the new year on the winter solstice? (2018)(slj.ma)

47 points by satchlj 2 years ago | 23 comments

My first Z80 assembly language program(nanochess.org)

47 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 8 comments

Neocities – Developers API(neocities.org)

47 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 39 comments

Commodore Season's Greetings for the PET(masswerk.at)

46 points by masswerk 2 years ago | 8 comments

People aren't posting on social media as much(wsj.com)

43 points by muser8 2 years ago | 33 comments

Quantum Computer Music(ctm-festival.de)

41 points by e12e 2 years ago | 16 comments

Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin(phoronix.com)

40 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 27 comments

Sireum Logika(logika.v3.sireum.org)

40 points by gone35 2 years ago | 2 comments

Dolphin-2_6-Phi-2(huggingface.co)

39 points by tosh 2 years ago | 16 comments

I Just Need a Programmer(blobstreaming.org)

37 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 35 comments

I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions(mastodon.cyborch.com)

36 points by riidom 2 years ago | 43 comments

The end of retirement(thewalrus.ca)

35 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 41 comments

YM3812 Register Basics(thingsmadesimple.com)

34 points by brudgers 2 years ago | 1 comments

Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?(collapsemusings.com)

31 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 33 comments

Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar: 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen' [video](youtube.com)

30 points by martialg 2 years ago | 17 comments

Half of software jobs are in non-tech companies(lmy.medium.com)

30 points by tslmy 2 years ago | 30 comments