Hacker News on Monday, 15 January 2024

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)(norvig.com)

535 points by janchorowski 2 years ago | 281 comments

Peter Norvig's classic essay arguing that becoming a skilled programmer takes about ten years of deliberate practice, not 24 hours or 21 days.

FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm(github.com)

339 points by rickcarlino 2 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub wiki page for fsrs4anki explaining the basics of FSRS, a spaced repetition scheduling algorithm by Jarrett Ye intended to replace Anki's SM2.

Slashing data transfer costs in AWS(bitsand.cloud)

297 points by danielklnstein 2 years ago | 203 comments

Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple(cacm.acm.org)

278 points by madmax108 2 years ago | 134 comments

A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note(cnn.com)

271 points by rmason 2 years ago | 90 comments

High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98(fangpenlin.com)

268 points by fangpenlin 2 years ago | 172 comments

A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)(visual-literacy.org)

264 points by Daub 2 years ago | 46 comments

SQLite 3.45 released with JSONB support(sqlite.org)

252 points by genericlemon24 2 years ago | 36 comments

Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

232 points by zdw 2 years ago | 96 comments

Scrum Sucks(blog.mb-consulting.dev)

180 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 179 comments

FedEx launches new e-commerce platform(theverge.com)

176 points by jollofricepeas 2 years ago | 114 comments

Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)(harvardmagazine.com)

174 points by gardenfelder 2 years ago | 109 comments

ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023(themotte.org)

163 points by luu 2 years ago | 149 comments

Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD(github.com)

157 points by jicea 2 years ago | 83 comments

The M2 is more advanced that it seemed(eclecticlight.co)

151 points by ingve 2 years ago | 145 comments

Immediate Mode GUI Programming(eliasnaur.com)

151 points by jstanley 2 years ago | 95 comments

Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools(github.com)

150 points by vanous 2 years ago | 34 comments

Venice's Secret Service(thomas-huehn.com)

146 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 35 comments

RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs(kuzudb.com)

141 points by semihsalihoglu 2 years ago | 26 comments

Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk(sprakradet.no)

135 points by cmbothwell 2 years ago | 134 comments

Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer(theguardian.com)

131 points by ciconia 2 years ago | 164 comments

Z – Jump around(github.com)

129 points by lovestaco 2 years ago | 64 comments

'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues(nbcnews.com)

127 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 55 comments

Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France(twitter.com)

127 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 100 comments

Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud(eligrey.com)

124 points by Sephr 2 years ago | 42 comments

A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust(abubalay.com)

121 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 35 comments

"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)(classicshorts.com)

120 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 52 comments

Beaver Drop(en.wikipedia.org)

114 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 40 comments

Harnessing heat from wastewater(bbc.co.uk)

114 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 128 comments

Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week(tomshardware.com)

109 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 69 comments

Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024(hackaday.com)

109 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 82 comments

Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres(github.com)

104 points by buzzm 2 years ago | 22 comments

Pwned Certificates on the Fediverse(hezmatt.org)

100 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 18 comments

YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled(9to5google.com)

100 points by Hary06 2 years ago | 104 comments

PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games(azeemba.com)

98 points by azeemba 2 years ago | 30 comments

Spotted water hemlock: the most toxic plant in North America (2017)(atlasobscura.com)

92 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 122 comments

ARMv8 AArch64/ARM64 Full Beginner's Assembly Tutorial(mariokartwii.com)

92 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 15 comments

Polymorphic Types in C [pdf](open-std.org)

90 points by sigsev_251 2 years ago | 85 comments

(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"(danielcorin.com)

90 points by danielcorin 2 years ago | 42 comments

Watch Free Online Documentaries(ihavenotv.com)

89 points by momentmaker 2 years ago | 16 comments

Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover(borncity.com)

88 points by Findus23 2 years ago | 49 comments

Tracking and mapping the data broker ecosystem(databrokerswatch.org)

86 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 14 comments

App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report(macrumors.com)

83 points by marban 2 years ago | 138 comments

Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100%(aus.social)

82 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers(kindllm.app)

78 points by rexec 2 years ago | 39 comments

Expand Everything: Userscript to click "show more" links to expand all the text(github.com)

77 points by sni 2 years ago | 30 comments

The incredible shrinking podcast industry?(semafor.com)

77 points by marban 2 years ago | 73 comments

Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin(nixcademy.com)

76 points by jonge 2 years ago | 41 comments

Exploring Object File Formats(maskray.me)

74 points by ingve 2 years ago | 15 comments

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again(tomsguide.com)

74 points by doener 2 years ago | 77 comments

Heads up – effectively offline for now(lkml.iu.edu)

74 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 61 comments

Our language, our world(aeon.co)

72 points by Vigier 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game(github.com)

71 points by awwsmm 2 years ago | 29 comments

MIT MicroMasters(micromasters.mit.edu)

70 points by tosh 2 years ago | 42 comments

Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network(appleinsider.com)

68 points by lnguyen 2 years ago | 46 comments

Paper Pipe Organ (2019) [video](youtube.com)

63 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 4 comments

Git Branches as a Social Construct(utcc.utoronto.ca)

63 points by ingve 2 years ago | 60 comments

The Swimmer (1964)(newyorker.com)

61 points by js2 2 years ago | 17 comments

Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again(arstechnica.com)

60 points by WithinReason 2 years ago | 76 comments

25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge(twitter.com)

60 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 67 comments