Hacker News digest

Limited to 50 stories (≈20 per day). More were found.

Charlie Munger has died (www.berkshirehathaway.com)

394 comments 2 days, 1857 points

Who makes the most reliable new cars? (www.consumerreports.org)

998 comments 28 hours, 1476 points

The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster (octodon.social)

619 comments 38 hours, 1391 points

Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board (openai.com)

672 comments 22 hours, 1347 points

My $500M Mars rover mistake (www.chrislewicki.com)

331 comments 2 days, 1320 points

Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file (github.com)

259 comments 27 hours, 1248 points

Henry Kissinger Has Died (www.nytimes.com)

500 comments 21 hours, 1059 points

I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans (www.businessinsider.com)

529 comments 13 hours, 1057 points

Writing documentation for your house (luke.hsiao.dev)

308 comments 2 days, 1005 points

Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware (xuanwo.io)

229 comments 38 hours, 889 points

MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers (nihalsid.github.io)

154 comments 2 days, 884 points

The dead children we must see (www.newyorker.com)

507 comments 2 days, 710 points

Modern C++ Programming Course (github.com)

191 comments 2 days, 675 points

Cybertruck Launch (www.tesla.com)

484 comments 25 hours, 650 points

Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity (github.com)

223 comments 31 hours, 635 points

IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks (www.theverge.com)

239 comments 2 days, 628 points

How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like (www.forbes.com)

314 comments 38 hours, 585 points

PeerTube v6 (framablog.org)

188 comments 2 days, 580 points

Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud (www.phoronix.com)

238 comments 36 hours, 572 points

Brickception (brickception.xyz)

73 comments 15 hours, 562 points

Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video] (www.youtube.com)

155 comments 2 days, 538 points

Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016) (blog.burntsushi.net)

174 comments 13 hours, 521 points

Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership (www.wsj.com)

259 comments 2 days, 518 points

Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com (github.com)

122 comments 37 hours, 518 points

Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch (mcyoung.xyz)

77 comments 2 days, 512 points

The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye (kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)

253 comments 2 days, 509 points

CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages (edri.org)

80 comments 12 hours, 508 points

show Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform (dobb-e.com)

116 comments 2 days, 492 points

New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties (godforsaken.website)

127 comments 2 days, 453 points

Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension (loyalfordogs.com)

180 comments 2 days, 450 points

Orion Browser by Kagi (kagi.com)

179 comments 2 days, 447 points

Deno Cron (deno.com)

179 comments 31 hours, 441 points

Microsoft open-sources ThreadX (www.theregister.com)

136 comments 2 days, 436 points

Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users (www.bloomberg.com)

164 comments 44 hours, 431 points

Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere (whenistheweekend.com)

75 comments 28 hours, 425 points

SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model (stability.ai)

140 comments 2 days, 416 points

That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net (rachelbythebay.com)

118 comments 2 days, 413 points

self ask Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?

168 comments 2 days, 413 points

The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS (chriscoyier.net)

145 comments 2 days, 404 points

Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator (www.theregister.com)

139 comments 17 hours, 404 points

XCurl (daniel.haxx.se)

82 comments 15 hours, 404 points

Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous (www.butwhatfor.com)

230 comments 2 days, 394 points

It's Still Funny That 1k People Gave Tesla $250k for a Roadster Six Years Ago (jalopnik.com)

226 comments 40 hours, 378 points

Rolls-Royce calls off bets on electric planes, says low-carbon fuel is future (electrek.co)

234 comments 31 hours, 374 points

Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free (www.wgbh.org)

120 comments 44 hours, 371 points

Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset' (www.reuters.com)

156 comments 47 hours, 369 points

Extracting training data from ChatGPT (not-just-memorization.github.io)

123 comments 34 hours, 368 points

BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced (www.bbcbasic.co.uk)

109 comments 41 hours, 357 points

Travle: A daily game – get between countries in as few guesses as possible (imois.in)

69 comments 39 hours, 357 points

Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now (2022) (jasonstanford.substack.com)

241 comments 2 days, 340 points

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