Hacker News on Friday, 29 December 2023

In 2024, please switch to Firefox(roytanck.com)

1328 points by Vinnl 2 years ago | 645 comments

Roy Tanck's blog post urging readers to switch to Firefox in 2024 as the only remaining ethical browser, citing its slipping market share.

Blot turns a folder into a website(blot.im)

532 points by angrymouse 2 years ago | 135 comments

Getting started documentation for Blot, a blogging service that turns files in a synced folder into posts on a website.

Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)(sprocketfox.io)

431 points by AndrewKemendo 2 years ago | 275 comments

A 2021 blog post by xssfox about choosing an unusual monitor rotation for programming, configured on Linux with xrandr.

Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?

405 points by kanodiaashu 2 years ago | 121 comments

Ask HN thread where a first-time startup CTO requests book and blog recommendations, with comments suggesting titles like An Elegant Puzzle and The Staff Engineer's Path.

Gentoo goes Binary(gentoo.org)

300 points by akhuettel 2 years ago | 240 comments

Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?(eclecticlight.co)

271 points by ingve 2 years ago | 220 comments

Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access(techdirt.com)

263 points by rntn 2 years ago | 185 comments

Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses(davidgomes.com)

256 points by munchor 2 years ago | 79 comments

Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

243 points by trwhite 2 years ago | 121 comments

"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel(construction-physics.com)

230 points by gok 2 years ago | 195 comments

U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes(fatherhood.gov)

226 points by sebg 2 years ago | 76 comments

Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts(bleepingcomputer.com)

196 points by schalkneethling 2 years ago | 82 comments

How the append-only btree works (2010)(bzero.se)

194 points by kevmo314 2 years ago | 84 comments

Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)(kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)

193 points by throwaway167 2 years ago | 199 comments

The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)(freedom-to-tinker.com)

189 points by zhan_eg 2 years ago | 82 comments

Koka: Strongly typed functional-style language with effect types and handlers(koka-lang.github.io)

187 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 56 comments

The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video](youtube.com)

171 points by zdw 2 years ago | 37 comments

Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1(koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

170 points by yladiz 2 years ago | 167 comments

UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector(nationalgrid.com)

161 points by Svip 2 years ago | 109 comments

Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy(twitter.com)

155 points by tosh 2 years ago | 227 comments

Unprivileged process injection techniques in Linux(joev.dev)

144 points by joe_v 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant(getinboxzero.com)

143 points by elieskilled 2 years ago | 90 comments

First personal search engine prototype(rsdoiel.github.io)

134 points by kmstout 2 years ago | 6 comments

Parsing an Undocumented File Format(blog.vivekpanyam.com)

128 points by vpanyam 2 years ago | 41 comments

Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol(en.wikipedia.org)

116 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Web Is Fantastic(rknight.me)

115 points by cdme 2 years ago | 18 comments

A Core Calculus for Documents [pdf](cs.brown.edu)

114 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 18 comments

Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)(observablehq.com)

106 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 19 comments

Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting(medium.com)

105 points by koryk 2 years ago | 112 comments

40% of US electricity is now emissions-free(arstechnica.com)

103 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 123 comments

48x32: A 1536 LED Game Computer(jacquesmattheij.com)

102 points by andrew_eu 2 years ago | 51 comments

Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers(arstechnica.com)

97 points by elorant 2 years ago | 224 comments

Toyota-owned automaker tampered with safety tests for 30 years(cnn.com)

96 points by tmalsburg2 2 years ago | 47 comments

2023 was the year that GPUs stood still(arstechnica.com)

94 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 70 comments

America doesn't know tofu(asteriskmag.com)

83 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 60 comments

Don't Say Velcro (2017)(velcro.com)

82 points by sickmate 2 years ago | 146 comments

I'm a world champion pea thrower(theguardian.com)

81 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 27 comments

Kaspersky discloses iPhone hardware feature vital in Operation Triangulation(kaspersky.com)

78 points by Corrado 2 years ago | 34 comments

QR error correction helps and hinders scanning (2021)(huonw.github.io)

75 points by lucb1e 2 years ago | 40 comments

Social media companies made $11B in US ad revenue from minors, study finds(apnews.com)

74 points by belter 2 years ago | 55 comments

Open Source Liability Is Coming(developersalliance.org)

74 points by danielam 2 years ago | 112 comments

Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark(npr.org)

72 points by geox 2 years ago | 10 comments

Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023(mliezun.github.io)

71 points by nickdevx 2 years ago | 34 comments

Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction(johnnysswlab.com)

69 points by r4um 2 years ago | 21 comments

Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man's basement(bigthink.com)

67 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 14 comments

Using linear programming to assess spatial access(andrewpwheeler.com)

66 points by apwheele 2 years ago | 12 comments

Strawberry case study: What if farmers had to pay for water?(nytimes.com)

65 points by jgwil2 2 years ago | 80 comments

Tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning(bbc.com)

62 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 55 comments

The Worst Kind of Programmer(mikhailian.mova.org)

59 points by sam_lowry_ 2 years ago | 59 comments

One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)(bbc.com)

56 points by osener 2 years ago | 12 comments

Comparing Tech Used for Apollo, Artemis NASA Missions(eetimes.com)

54 points by gumby 2 years ago | 25 comments

Novel helmet liner made from carbon nanotubes(newatlas.com)

52 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 28 comments

Demand the impossible: Rigorous database benchmarking(erthalion.info)

51 points by erthalion 2 years ago | 13 comments

Increasing purchases at farmers markets using point‐of‐sale scanner data(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

51 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 38 comments

Who made millions trading the October 7th attacks?(economist.com)

47 points by lxm 2 years ago | 25 comments

Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts (2022)(nytimes.com)

47 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 49 comments

Autorize – Authorization enforcement detection extension for Burp Suite(github.com)

45 points by quitten 2 years ago | 8 comments

Google Voice goes US only

44 points by 1oooqooq 2 years ago | 33 comments

Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data (2009)(norvig.com)

43 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 3 comments

A weird CPIO discrepancy(blog.colindou.ch)

43 points by vimda 2 years ago | 19 comments