Hacker News on Tuesday, 26 December 2023

A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors(github.com)

534 points by ssgodderidge 2 years ago | 208 comments

A GitHub README by minimaxir cataloging undocumented features and behaviors of Hacker News, such as karma effects, ranking penalties, and moderation mechanics.

Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies(asia.nikkei.com)

508 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 267 comments

Nikkei Asia report that Japan plans antitrust rules requiring Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and billing systems.

Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)(austinhenley.com)

489 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 286 comments

Austin Henley's 2019 blog post listing challenging side projects, such as a text editor, that programmers can build to learn new languages and skills.

Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought(freethink.com)

324 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 162 comments

Freethink article reporting that Moderna's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine significantly boosts a standard melanoma treatment's effectiveness.

Website search hurts my feelings(openmymind.net)

304 points by earthboundkid 2 years ago | 172 comments

Game Boy / Color Architecture(copetti.org)

253 points by ronama 2 years ago | 32 comments

Black Triangles (2014)(rampantgames.com)

249 points by andric 2 years ago | 60 comments

A copy-and-patch JIT compiler for CPython(github.com)

246 points by polyrand 2 years ago | 52 comments

Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math(wect.com)

243 points by IronWolve 2 years ago | 74 comments

Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video](youtube.com)

234 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 189 comments

Text Editor: Data Structures(averylaird.com)

217 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 67 comments

The life and death of open source companies(lucumr.pocoo.org)

213 points by zmk5 2 years ago | 176 comments

Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break(whataaabout.com)

198 points by erkjs 2 years ago | 77 comments

A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?(despairlabs.com)

196 points by moviuro 2 years ago | 97 comments

FUSE-T is a kext-less implementation of FUSE for macOS that uses NFSv4(github.com)

192 points by nimish 2 years ago | 59 comments

Using Make – writing less Makefile(text.causal.agency)

192 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 155 comments

US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect(arstechnica.com)

166 points by blueblueue 2 years ago | 143 comments

Simple Made Easy (2011) [video](youtube.com)

165 points by stcg 2 years ago | 32 comments

Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)(obsidian.md)

159 points by l2dy 2 years ago | 129 comments

How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip(theregister.com)

158 points by rntn 2 years ago | 100 comments

Positive news from 2023(gapminder.org)

154 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 90 comments

UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions(spectator.co.uk)

153 points by beejiu 2 years ago | 193 comments

Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals(medicalxpress.com)

152 points by rntn 2 years ago | 70 comments

Learn Modern C++(learnmoderncpp.com)

151 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 126 comments

What are farm animals thinking?(science.org)

137 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 136 comments

Schedule 37th Chaos Communication Congress(fahrplan.events.ccc.de)

133 points by y04nn 2 years ago | 12 comments

Cathedral, Mountain, Moon(apod.nasa.gov)

127 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 17 comments

Lab Notebooks (2020)(sambleckley.com)

125 points by momonga 2 years ago | 56 comments

Electronic soil boosts crop growth(earth.com)

122 points by geox 2 years ago | 36 comments

The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display(shop.invisible-computers.com)

118 points by spansoa 2 years ago | 116 comments

Let it snow()(discourse.julialang.org)

117 points by shmeano 2 years ago | 6 comments

Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language(buzz-lang.dev)

115 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 69 comments

Show HN: I made a GPU VRAM calculator for transformer-based models(vram.asmirnov.xyz)

114 points by furiousteabag 2 years ago | 33 comments

Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward(phys.org)

113 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 150 comments

Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming(theregister.com)

113 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 45 comments

Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole(torrentfreak.com)

111 points by CoBE10 2 years ago | 31 comments

Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware(devever.net)

110 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 16 comments

30 years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' are online – including 2023's(science.slashdot.org)

107 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 10 comments

Let's Build a Compiler (1988)(compilers.iecc.com)

105 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 13 comments

Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs(github.com)

103 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 27 comments

With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People(inc.com)

102 points by dylan604 2 years ago | 71 comments

Nintendo Switch's iGPU: Maxwell Nerfed Edition(chipsandcheese.com)

93 points by titaniumtown 2 years ago | 60 comments

BASIC was not just a programming language(gcher.com)

91 points by guillaumec 2 years ago | 92 comments

All I want for Christmas is 1TW of solar deployed annually(pv-magazine-usa.com)

90 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 87 comments

History of Alice and Bob (2017)(cryptocouple.com)

89 points by susam 2 years ago | 30 comments

Bad Apple as MS-DOS Escape Sequences(16colo.rs)

85 points by andy_herbert 2 years ago | 10 comments

Evolving the Infinite Canvas(wattenberger.com)

85 points by pps 2 years ago | 30 comments

Clanging(en.wikipedia.org)

80 points by joegibbs 2 years ago | 40 comments

High school student allegedly uses device to turn off nearby iPhones(arlnow.com)

78 points by faccacta 2 years ago | 74 comments

Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra(9to5google.com)

77 points by qainsights 2 years ago | 58 comments

Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations(npr.org)

76 points by throw0101b 2 years ago | 131 comments

Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate(drewdevault.com)

74 points by ingve 2 years ago | 82 comments

XPath Scraping with FreshRSS(danq.me)

74 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 13 comments

DreamCoder: Growing Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge(arxiv.org)

68 points by fbodz 2 years ago | 6 comments

Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America(cnn.com)

65 points by realmike33 2 years ago | 61 comments

37C3 Unlocked (37th Chaos Communication Congress)(events.ccc.de)

64 points by qwertox 2 years ago | 0 comments

Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)(twitter.com)

63 points by ent101 2 years ago | 33 comments

2023 Medley Interlisp Project Annual Report(interlisp.org)

55 points by mepian 2 years ago | 10 comments

Maildir-utils: index, search and manage Maildir mailboxes(djcbsoftware.nl)

54 points by zanchey 2 years ago | 2 comments

Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype(spectrum.ieee.org)

49 points by flgb 2 years ago | 39 comments