top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-02

Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

5 years ago

Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying

https://www.medialens.org/2021/a-remarkable-silence-media-blackout-after-key-witness-against-assange-admits-lying/

5 years ago

Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

https://purelymail.com

5 years ago

Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)

https://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207

5 years ago

Neovim v0.5

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.5.0

5 years ago

Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/another-0-day-looms-for-many-western-digital-users/

5 years ago

Two Portland delivery companies revolt against Amazon, shut down

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7ez5x/amazon-delivery-companies-revolt-against-amazon-shut-down

5 years ago

Mise-en-place for knowledge workers

https://fortelabs.co/blog/mise-en-place-for-knowledge-workers/

5 years ago

Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price

https://www.migadu.com/

5 years ago

The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/

5 years ago

RateOurCops – Like Yelp, but for Cops

https://rateourcops.org/

5 years ago

Back to the Future with RSS

https://ncase.me/rss/

5 years ago

Image unshredding using a TSP solver

https://github.com/robinhouston/image-unshredding

5 years ago

HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise medical bills

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule-to-protect-consumers-from-surprise-medical-bills.html

5 years ago

When Orcs Were Real

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/when-orcs-were-real

5 years ago

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20131130191257/http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

5 years ago

Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President

https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Leadership-Changes

5 years ago

Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-07-02/pokemon-go-bagram-troop-withdrawal-2027917.html

5 years ago

The Yoghurt Mafia

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018800662/the-yoghurt-mafia

5 years ago

Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-play-dumps-apks-for-the-more-google-controlled-android-app-bundle/

5 years ago

Leaky pipes can be better for moving water

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01822-1

5 years ago

The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/scientists-climate-crisis-big-oil-climate-crimes

5 years ago

First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta

https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/07/first-look-macos-monterey-public-beta/

5 years ago

Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs

https://github.com/semiosis/pen.el/

5 years ago

Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser

https://www.napkin.io/

5 years ago

To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe

https://bellmar.medium.com/how-to-be-a-genius-6d8b3709edca

5 years ago

“Space age electronics”: Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s

https://www.righto.com/2021/07/space-age-electronics-inside-ge-thin.html

5 years ago

Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/past-courses/cs6510/public_html/lispm.pdf

5 years ago

Towards richer colors on the Web

https://darker.ink/writings/Towards-richer-colors-on-the-Web

5 years ago

Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/colosseum-rome-underground-hypogea/index.html

5 years ago

Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710270

5 years ago

An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)

https://duo.com/decipher/an-oral-history-of-the-l0pht

5 years ago

Alzheimer’s enigma: Why is incidence falling 16% a decade in richest countries?

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-07-01/the-alzheimers-enigma-why-is-the-incidence-falling-at-16-a-decade-in-the-worlds-richest-countries.html

5 years ago

Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/a-deep-dive-into-airbnbs-server-driven-ui-system-842244c5f5

5 years ago

Miami orders evacuation of 156-unit as structurally and electrically unsafe

https://apnews.com/article/fl-state-wire-florida-evacuations-c2f6b6efe50d3c5a87c4a97363fa8772

5 years ago

Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer should know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710097

5 years ago

Machine Learning for Beginners – A Curriculum

https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners

5 years ago

The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)

https://typeclasses.com/phrasebook

5 years ago

Distill Hiatus

https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/

5 years ago

Koka: A Functional Language with Effects

https://github.com/koka-lang/koka

5 years ago

Cops play music during filmed encounters to game YouTube's copyright striking

https://mashable.com/article/police-playing-music-copyright-youtube-recording

5 years ago

Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs

https://slate.com/business/2021/07/miami-building-collapse-condo-boards.html

5 years ago

Protecting reserved roles with PostgreSQL Hooks

https://supabase.io/blog/2021/07/01/roles-postgres-hooks

5 years ago

Google reports soaring attrition among Black women

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/google-reports-soaring-attrition-among-black-women-2021-07-01/

5 years ago

Gitlab 14

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-modern-devops/

5 years ago

Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ Covid study

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/scientists-quit-journal-board-protesting-grossly-irresponsible-study-claiming-covid-19

5 years ago

Aspirin could cut risk of death in cancer patients by 20%

https://ecancer.org/en/journal/article/1258-aspirin-and-cancer-survival-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-of-118-observational-studies-of-aspirin-and-18-cancers

5 years ago

Kind Engineering [video]

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21/presentation/smith

5 years ago

Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/tech/facebook-extremist-notification/

5 years ago

API Improvement Proposals

https://google.aip.dev/

5 years ago

Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on fire

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/kolyma-highway-in-yakutia-also-known-as-the-road-of-bones-is-on-fire-and-temporarily-shut/

5 years ago

Getting to know logical clocks by implementing them

https://brunocalza.me/getting-to-know-logical-clocks-by-implementing-them/

5 years ago

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

5 years ago

Plants that change our consciousness

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/06/plants-change-our-consciousness

5 years ago

Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/01/could-miniature-forests-help-air-condition-cities

5 years ago

Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever

https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-than-ever/

5 years ago

REvil ransomware executes supply chain attack via malicious Kaseya update

https://therecord.media/revil-ransomware-executes-supply-chain-attack-via-malicious-kaseya-update/

5 years ago

AlpineJS – Lightweight JavaScript Framework

https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

5 years ago

Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/02/canadian-inferno-northern-heat-exceeds-worst-case-climate-models

5 years ago

‘Dragon Man’ may be an elusive Denisovan

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6550/11

5 years ago

Libertarian Party of Colorado First to Officially Support Ending IP

https://lpedia.org/wiki/Document:Colorado_State_Party_Platform_2021#Intellectual_Monopolies

5 years ago

Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React

https://research.protocol.ai/blog/2021/designing-a-dataflow-editor-with-typescript-and-react/

5 years ago

Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon’s CEO After 27 Years

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/jeff-bezos-steps-down-amazon-110000036.html

5 years ago

WASM to PS Compiler

https://github.com/no-defun-allowed/wasm2ps

5 years ago