Hacker News on Thursday, 18 January 2024

Losing my son(fortressofdoors.com)

2307 points by lukeplato 2 years ago | 367 comments

A personal essay by Lars Doucet on his Fortress of Doors blog about the loss of his son.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime(gds.blog.gov.uk)

548 points by sh_tomer 2 years ago | 189 comments

A GOV.UK Government Digital Service blog post describing how the team migrated a PostgreSQL database with only 11 seconds of downtime.

The quiet death of Ello's big dreams(waxy.org)

455 points by waxpancake 2 years ago | 231 comments

Andy Baio's Waxy.org post from January 2024 on the decline and quiet shutdown of the ad-free social network Ello.

WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper(github.com)

405 points by nickmcc 2 years ago | 102 comments

GitHub repository for WhisperSpeech, Collabora's open source text-to-speech system built by inverting OpenAI's Whisper model.

Relearning math as an adult(gmays.com)

331 points by gmays 2 years ago | 187 comments

Personal blog post by Gabriel Mays describing how he is relearning math as an adult after 100 days of daily practice.

Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

299 points by welfare 2 years ago | 318 comments

The case for single-stair multifamily(thesisdriven.com)

297 points by jbrins1 2 years ago | 480 comments

Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel(ftp.mfek.org)

283 points by wut42 2 years ago | 219 comments

AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics(nature.com)

278 points by EA-3167 2 years ago | 86 comments

German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app(infosec.exchange)

247 points by zoobab 2 years ago | 156 comments

Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies(consumerreports.org)

245 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 104 comments

Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale(ergaster.org)

235 points by thibaultamartin 2 years ago | 196 comments

New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy(bbc.com)

229 points by pella 2 years ago | 119 comments

WebGPU is now available on Android(developer.chrome.com)

217 points by astlouis44 2 years ago | 56 comments

Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features(thetransmitter.org)

216 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 158 comments

A million ways to die on the web(wiki.archiveteam.org)

214 points by hexage1814 2 years ago | 91 comments

Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match(binaryigor.com)

214 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 127 comments

My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4(twitter.com)

211 points by ignoramous 2 years ago | 97 comments

What happened to the US machine tool industry?(construction-physics.com)

208 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 183 comments

Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation(spectrum.ieee.org)

189 points by geox 2 years ago | 159 comments

Flattr is closing down(flattr.com)

185 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 191 comments

Queues don't fix overload (2014)(ferd.ca)

166 points by akbarnama 2 years ago | 139 comments

Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years(cnet.com)

164 points by ksec 2 years ago | 99 comments

Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun(blog.polybdenum.com)

161 points by muglug 2 years ago | 96 comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence(theverge.com)

160 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 256 comments

Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year(techdirt.com)

145 points by rntn 2 years ago | 95 comments

YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix(bloomberg.com)

139 points by hnuser0000 2 years ago | 201 comments

Show HN: I made a website to share rejection letters(rejectedagain.lol)

132 points by jeron 2 years ago | 95 comments

Djgpp(delorie.com)

131 points by jmmv 2 years ago | 90 comments

A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal(westerninvestor.com)

126 points by voisin 2 years ago | 93 comments

Launch HN: Talc AI (YC S23) – Test Sets for AI

121 points by maxrmk 2 years ago | 44 comments

Cracking the code of Linear B(antigonejournal.com)

121 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 25 comments

Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find(arstechnica.com)

118 points by lapcat 2 years ago | 41 comments

Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News(404media.co)

115 points by rideontime 2 years ago | 136 comments

Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser(ziglang.org)

114 points by quic5 2 years ago | 13 comments

Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)(getpolarized.io)

111 points by edweis 2 years ago | 113 comments

Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history(arstechnica.com)

110 points by rntn 2 years ago | 63 comments

10 Second Teleportation(upollo.ai)

108 points by caydenm 2 years ago | 62 comments

Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State(greenpeace.org)

107 points by velmu 2 years ago | 103 comments

EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone(taler.net)

102 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 103 comments

IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points(theregister.com)

102 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 81 comments

PostgreSQL Operations Cheat Sheet: featuring security, scaling, structure, etc.(wiki.postgresql.org)

97 points by olestr 2 years ago | 5 comments

Linear transformers are faster after all(manifestai.com)

94 points by JoelEinbinder 2 years ago | 16 comments

'No AI Fraud Act' Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More(reason.com)

93 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 90 comments

Teller: Universal secret manager, never leave your terminal to use secrets(github.com)

92 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 16 comments

Automatic class sorting with Prettier (2022)(tailwindcss.com)

88 points by ekiauhce 2 years ago | 62 comments

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice(bleepingcomputer.com)

88 points by linker3000 2 years ago | 47 comments

Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer(bbc.co.uk)

81 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 26 comments

Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980)(folklore.org)

81 points by spking 2 years ago | 14 comments

Corporations Are Not to Be Loved(inessential.com)

80 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 34 comments

The geometry of other people(aeon.co)

74 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 3 comments

29M-year-old grasshopper nest found intact with eggs, study says(cnn.com)

72 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 23 comments

History Is Written by the Losers (2016)(scholars-stage.org)

69 points by delichon 2 years ago | 33 comments

Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told(theguardian.com)

69 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 43 comments

Archaeologists find intact medieval gauntlet(heritagedaily.com)

67 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 43 comments

Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88(nytimes.com)

67 points by cipherboy 2 years ago | 14 comments

Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission(bbc.com)

65 points by InsomniacL 2 years ago | 37 comments

Virtual tour of Museum of Failure(collection.museumoffailure.com)

64 points by laktak 2 years ago | 27 comments

Running Open Genera 2.0 on Linux(archives.loomcom.com)

61 points by GTP 2 years ago | 25 comments