top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-07-14

Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/melbourne-woman-dehumanised-by-viral-tiktok-filmed-without-her-consent

4 years ago

DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/07/dns-esoterica-why-you-cant-dig-switzerland/

4 years ago

Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux

https://justine.lol/pledge/

4 years ago

Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings

http://unblah.me/

4 years ago

Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer

https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-made-a-malware-installer/

4 years ago

It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot

https://jolexxa.medium.com/its-time-to-make-that-indie-c-game-in-godot-cea383151470

4 years ago

Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

https://www.westerninvestor.com/british-columbia/saskatchewan-ontario-to-roll-out-mini-nuclear-reactors-5568249

4 years ago

Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/

4 years ago

30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled

https://www.surgehq.ai//blog/30-percent-of-googles-reddit-emotions-dataset-is-mislabeled

4 years ago

Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/14/manhattan-rents-cross-5000-threshold-for-first-time

4 years ago

Books to read to understand financial crime

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-reads/2022/07/11/the-best-books-to-read-to-understand-financial-crime

4 years ago

OpenDroneMap

https://www.opendronemap.org/

4 years ago

Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games

http://www.whicken.com/scorch/

4 years ago

Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]

https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp/blob/main/tinylisp.pdf

4 years ago

Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-cuts-internal-valuation-by-28-11657815625

4 years ago

The Preprocessor Iceberg Meme

https://jadlevesque.github.io/PPMP-Iceberg/

4 years ago

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018)

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

4 years ago

The DynamoDB Paper

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/07/12/dynamodb.html

4 years ago

Element (Matrix) adds video/voice rooms

https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-rooms-and-a-new-search-experience/

4 years ago

Lessons from Writing a Compiler

https://borretti.me/article/lessons-writing-compiler

4 years ago

World's oldest tree still growing near the Norwegian-Swedish border

https://sciencenorway.no/dna-forests-trees/worlds-oldest-tree-still-growing-near-the-norwegian-swedish-border/2037756

4 years ago

U.S. public health agencies aren't ‘following the science,’ officials say

https://www.commonsense.news/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following

4 years ago

Rocky Linux 9.0

https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-0-ga-release/

4 years ago

The Dhall Configuration Language

https://dhall-lang.org/

4 years ago

Celsius acknowledges $1.2B hole in balance sheet

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/14/celsius-acknowledges-12b-hole-in-balance-sheet/

4 years ago

Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32096656

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is best way to do hands-on practice for system design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093879

4 years ago

GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093987

4 years ago

Doom hacker gets Doom running in Doom

https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-hacker-gets-doom-running-in-doom/

4 years ago

The History of User Interfaces

https://history.user-interface.io

4 years ago

Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-3-pre-release-1.org

4 years ago

What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)

https://ryanrodemoyer.github.io/what-i-wish-someone-would-have-told-me-about-using-rabbitmq-before-it-was-too-late/

4 years ago

Twitter Is Down

https://twitter.com/

4 years ago

PostgreSQL views and materialized views and how they influenced TimescaleDB

https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-postgresql-views-and-materialized-views-work-and-how-they-influenced-timescaledb-continuous-aggregates/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092943

4 years ago

Why don’t we have a strategy?

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-3052-why-do-we-have-no-strategy

4 years ago

Vincent Van Gogh: Hidden self-portrait discovered by X-ray

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62135891

4 years ago

Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares

https://charmindustrial.com/blog/corn-cobs-fuel-of-nightmares/

4 years ago

A graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit

https://atari8.co.uk/gui/

4 years ago

ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like

https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2022/06/24/ML-code-gen-vs-coding-by-hand-future

4 years ago

I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding statistical evidence (2014)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2014/09/03/disagree-alan-turing-daniel-kahneman-regarding-strength-statistical-evidence/

4 years ago

Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32100524

4 years ago

Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (2021)

https://surma.dev/things/js-to-asc/

4 years ago

Show HN: Permify – Open-source authorization service based on Google Zanzibar

https://github.com/Permify/permify

4 years ago

Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/07/smart-thermostats-inadvertently-strain-electric-power-grids

4 years ago

OctoSQL allows you to join data from different sources using SQL

https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

4 years ago

We must protect our ability to transact privately online (2019)

https://www.coincenter.org/we-must-protect-our-ability-to-transact-privately-online/

4 years ago

52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

https://datahorde.org/youtube-was-made-for-reuploads/

4 years ago

Comdb2

https://bloomberg.github.io/comdb2/overview_home.html

4 years ago

Secret Service Deleted Jan 6 Text Messages After Officials Requested Them

https://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/jan-6-texts-deleted-secret-service/

4 years ago

RISC-V Guns for Raspberry Pi, Legacy Chips

https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-raspberry-pi

4 years ago

Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2022/7/13/cve-2022-30136-microsoft-windows-network-file-system-v4-remote-code-execution-vulnerability

4 years ago

Node-Red 3.0 Released

https://nodered.org/blog/2022/07/14/version-3-0-released

4 years ago

Hot Reloading in Swift

https://www.merowing.info/hot-reloading-in-swift/

4 years ago

Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/07/13/ukraines-new-rockets-are-wreaking-havoc-on-russias-army

4 years ago

To-do waves

https://sysiak.substack.com/p/to-do-waves

4 years ago

ChromeOS Flex is now ready to scale to PCs and Macs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/chromeos-flex-ready-to-scale-to-pcs-and-macs

4 years ago

Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ExecAndShebangHistory

4 years ago

We discovered a 7-year old performance issue in Elixir (2020)

https://code.tubitv.com/how-we-discovered-a-7-year-old-performance-issue-in-elixir-99080bdce9a1?gi=60329427cb38

4 years ago

EU lawmakers slam “radical proposal“ to let ISPs demand new fees from websites

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/eu-lawmakers-slam-idea-of-forcing-big-tech-to-pay-for-isps-network-upgrades/

4 years ago

“A Mild Recession”

https://thereformedbroker.com/2022/07/13/a-mild-recession/

4 years ago

The Backstory of Picasso's “Guernica”

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/picasso-guernica-political-art-history-myth/670496/

4 years ago

All History Is Revisionist History

https://www.neh.gov/article/all-history-revisionist-history

4 years ago

Torus-Earth (2014)

http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2014/02/torusearth.html

4 years ago

BMW introduces new heated seat subscription in UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62142208

4 years ago

What I learned from trying to hang Socrates

https://1517.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-trying-to-hang

4 years ago

Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?

https://www.technollama.co.uk/crypto-winter-or-crypto-ice-age

4 years ago

Celsius Networks: cryptocurrency lender files for bankruptcy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/celsius-networks-cryptocurrency-lender-files-for-bankruptcy

4 years ago

“Today is a hard day for OpenSea, as we’re letting go of ~20% of our team.”

https://twitter.com/dfinzer/status/1547648521607659522

4 years ago

PicoMite – Basic Interpreter for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://geoffg.net/picomite.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Payload – Cross-platform desktop app for LAN file transfers

https://payload.app/

4 years ago