top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-07-03

I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot

https://thelig.ht/abandoning-github/

5 years ago

848 upvotes – 516 comments

US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57703836

5 years ago

611 upvotes – 486 comments

The Untold Story of SQLite

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

5 years ago

548 upvotes – 95 comments

Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots

https://historyofyesterday.com/suppose-i-wanted-to-kill-a-lot-of-pilots-f126bbc756fa

5 years ago

374 upvotes – 169 comments

Things I wish Git had: Commit groups

http://blog.danieljanus.pl/2021/07/01/commit-groups/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 193 comments

GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you

https://twitter.com/bphogan/status/1411097686854488067

5 years ago

277 upvotes – 198 comments

Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/apple-intel-first-use-tsmc-3nm-2021-07/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 189 comments

Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-cities-want-to-end-single-family-home-15983648.php

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 344 comments

How to add eBPF observability to your product

https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-07-03/how-to-add-bpf-observability.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 31 comments

What did ancient languages sound like?

https://antigonejournal.com/2021/07/what-did-ancient-languages-sound-like/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 149 comments

What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210629-00/?p=105378

5 years ago

190 upvotes – 176 comments

Research recitation: A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions

https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitation

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 87 comments

Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement

https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue

5 years ago

182 upvotes – 75 comments

Darktable 3.6

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.6.0

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 73 comments

Freespin: C64 demo running on 1541 floppy drive

http://www.quiss.org/freespin/

5 years ago

174 upvotes – 30 comments

BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-turns-20-the-file-sharing-revolution-revisited-210702/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 90 comments

Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-case-of-intellectual-capture-on

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 127 comments

Wav2vec Overview: Semi and Unsupervised Speech Recognition

https://vaclavkosar.com/ml/Wav2vec2-Semi-and-Unsupervised-Speech-Recognition

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 22 comments

Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack

https://www.wionews.com/world/major-swedish-supermarket-chain-hit-by-cyberattack-395556

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 176 comments

Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3623830/only-windows-11-pro-will-let-you-install-windows-11-with-a-local-account.html

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 167 comments

What every coder should know about gamma (2016)

http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should-know-about-gamma/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 50 comments

A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask HN: How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27722254

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 57 comments

70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/8-out-of-10-san-franciscans-say-crime-has-gotten-worse-poll/

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 245 comments

Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods

https://ntietz.com/tech-blog/future-of-software-engineering-is-formal-methods/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 131 comments

The Dawn of Formalized Mathematics

http://math.andrej.com/2021/06/24/the-dawn-of-formalized-mathematics/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 58 comments

A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)

https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (2018)

http://nicolas.kruchten.com/content/2018/02/seriation/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

The ‘flow state’: Where creative work thrives (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190204-how-to-find-your-flow-state-to-be-peak-creative

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 50 comments

Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM

https://chimera-linux.org/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 110 comments

Ways to ship software

https://review.firstround.com/the-right-way-to-ship-software

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 11 comments

In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/last-return-wins/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser

https://jamesl.me/atto/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

Tiny FORTH from scratch in 1 week (bootloader-based Arduino UNO, 2K of RAM)

https://www.thanassis.space/miniforth.html

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: Literature for mathematical optimization?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27719928

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Mouse lungs after long-term exposure to atmosphere predicted by climate change

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP7305

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 103 comments

Plotext – Python Plotting on the Terminal

https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext

5 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Microbes in cow stomachs can break down plastic

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2021.684459/full

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

The Gospel of Consumption

https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-gospel-of-consumption/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

Custom domain names are coming to iCloud mail with iCloud+

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/custom-domain-names-are-coming-to-icloud-mail-with-icloud/

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Decoding radio pH capsules with rtl_433

https://analogist.net/post/decoding-radio-ph-capsules-with-rtl_433/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 8 comments

Product validation frameworks are mostly useless without taste

https://commoncog.com/blog/product-validation-taste/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

What Made Early Humans Smart

https://nautil.us/issue/102/hidden-truths/what-made-early-humans-smart

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 71 comments

Learning Squeak (2019)

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6622

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

San Francisco recorded a 753 percent rise in car burglaries compared to May 2020

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-car-break-ins-tourism-16275241.php

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain

https://www.ainarratives.com/resources/ai-communism

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 118 comments

One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/natures-safe

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Getting Unstuck

https://www.iamjonas.me/2021/06/getting-unstuck.html

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Scripps O2 Global Oxygen Measurements

https://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/index.html

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments
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