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Stories from January 18, 2024
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1. Losing my son (fortressofdoors.com)
2437 points by lukeplato on Jan 18, 2024 | 396 comments
2. We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime (gds.blog.gov.uk)
589 points by sh_tomer on Jan 18, 2024 | 199 comments
3. The quiet death of Ello's big dreams (waxy.org)
503 points by waxpancake on Jan 18, 2024 | 253 comments
4. Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds (bloomberg.com)
848 points by simula67 on Jan 18, 2024 | 579 comments
5. The case for single-stair multifamily (thesisdriven.com)
351 points by jbrins1 on Jan 18, 2024 | 550 comments
6. WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper (github.com/collabora)
464 points by nickmcc on Jan 18, 2024 | 114 comments
7. New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy (bbc.com)
260 points by pella on Jan 18, 2024 | 134 comments
8. Launch HN: Talc AI (YC S23) – Test Sets for AI
132 points by maxrmk on Jan 18, 2024 | 47 comments
9. Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation (ieee.org)
211 points by geox on Jan 18, 2024 | 170 comments
10. Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features (thetransmitter.org)
242 points by wjb3 on Jan 18, 2024 | 218 comments
11. Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies (consumerreports.org)
294 points by mfiguiere on Jan 18, 2024 | 140 comments
12. A million ways to die on the web (archiveteam.org)
242 points by hexage1814 on Jan 18, 2024 | 98 comments
13. A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal (westerninvestor.com)
134 points by voisin on Jan 18, 2024 | 120 comments
14. Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun (polybdenum.com)
180 points by muglug on Jan 18, 2024 | 122 comments
15. WebGPU is now available on Android (chrome.com)
240 points by astlouis44 on Jan 18, 2024 | 72 comments
16. Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match (binaryigor.com)
257 points by alexzeitler on Jan 18, 2024 | 179 comments
17. RSA is deceptively simple and fun (ntietz.com)
157 points by mikecarlton on Jan 17, 2024 | 84 comments
18. Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
387 points by welfare on Jan 18, 2024 | 378 comments
19. How to Design an ISA (acm.org)
146 points by eatonphil on Jan 17, 2024 | 104 comments
20. Systemd: Enable indefinite service restarts (stapelberg.ch)
126 points by secure on Jan 17, 2024 | 78 comments
21. Barcoding Bees (2020) (theapiarist.org)
84 points by wibbily on Jan 17, 2024 | 16 comments
22. The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare (oup.com)
60 points by PaulHoule on Jan 18, 2024 | 20 comments
23. White space does matter in C23 (gustedt.wordpress.com)
103 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2024 | 52 comments
24. Linear transformers are faster after all (manifestai.com)
116 points by JoelEinbinder on Jan 18, 2024 | 22 comments
25. What happened to the US machine tool industry? (construction-physics.com)
230 points by jseliger on Jan 18, 2024 | 211 comments
26. ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core (moorinsightsstrategy.com)
85 points by ksec on Jan 17, 2024 | 84 comments
27. Teller: Universal secret manager, never leave your terminal to use secrets (github.com/tellerops)
109 points by nateb2022 on Jan 18, 2024 | 26 comments
28. Flattr is closing down (2023) (flattr.com)
223 points by pabs3 on Jan 18, 2024 | 240 comments
29. The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List (troyhunt.com)
156 points by AdmiralAsshat on Jan 17, 2024 | 146 comments
30. Polymorphic Types in C [pdf] (open-std.org)
99 points by sigsev_251 on Jan 15, 2024 | 104 comments

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