top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-05

NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html

4 years ago

974 upvotes – 443 comments

We're improving search results when you use quotes

https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-search-results-when-you-use-quotes/

4 years ago

741 upvotes – 687 comments

Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/twitter-says-musks-spam-analysis-used-tool-that-called-his-own-account-a-bot/

4 years ago

589 upvotes – 559 comments

Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED

https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Zenbook/Zenbook-17-Fold-OLED-UX9702/

4 years ago

588 upvotes – 576 comments

Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/

4 years ago

503 upvotes – 744 comments

Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/amazon-to-acquire-maker-of-roomba-vacuum-for-roughly-1point7-billion.html

4 years ago

482 upvotes – 475 comments

DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source

https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source

4 years ago

440 upvotes – 107 comments

My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement

https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/my-favorite-iphone-feature-was-removed

4 years ago

432 upvotes – 359 comments

Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Apple-warns-suppliers-to-follow-China-rules-on-Taiwan-labeling

4 years ago

408 upvotes – 449 comments

StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song

https://github.com/stemrollerapp/stemroller

4 years ago

391 upvotes – 97 comments

Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy

https://cyclingtips.com/2022/07/interview-silca-on-amazon-e-commerce-fraud-theft-returns/

4 years ago

360 upvotes – 254 comments

Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-07-14-taming-unix-with-nix/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 202 comments

A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/08/05/mofi-records-analog-digital-scandal/

4 years ago

268 upvotes – 354 comments

Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08

4 years ago

259 upvotes – 107 comments

C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu

https://thephd.dev/c23-is-coming-here-is-what-is-on-the-menu

4 years ago

257 upvotes – 196 comments

Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62444302

4 years ago

247 upvotes – 297 comments

Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY?

https://twitter.com/JerusalemDemsas/status/1555360241931485186

4 years ago

238 upvotes – 7 comments

Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/team-member-enablement/onboarding-access-requests/

4 years ago

234 upvotes – 312 comments

Patent Act requires an inventor to be a natural person, not an AI [pdf]

https://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/21-2347.OPINION.8-5-2022_1988142.pdf

4 years ago

220 upvotes – 170 comments

Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/gitlab_reverses_deletion_policy/

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 126 comments

Ctrl-C

https://kevinlawler.com/ctrl-c

4 years ago

210 upvotes – 90 comments

Libraries – how companies do not understand open spaces

https://www.mtajchert.com/libraries-and-open-spaces/

4 years ago

203 upvotes – 80 comments

French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeemk/chorizo-james-webb-space-telescope

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 135 comments

3Hz Computer, Hold the Transistors

https://mcyoung.xyz/2022/07/24/curta/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 39 comments

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

https://www.w3.org/2022/07/pressrelease-did-rec.html.en

4 years ago

194 upvotes – 102 comments

Political betting site PredictIt to shut down after CFTC withdraws approval

https://www.predictit.org/platform-announcements

4 years ago

186 upvotes – 128 comments

Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum

https://twitter.com/yaish_aviv/status/1555445499041300481

4 years ago

185 upvotes – 55 comments

Godot 3.5

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-5-cant-stop-wont-stop

4 years ago

179 upvotes – 115 comments

How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-estimate-distance-using-just-your-thumb-1849365952

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: I created a browser automation tool

https://www.rocketride.io

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 55 comments

Bringing back the golden days of Bell Labs

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-022-00426-6

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: PDF-Diff - Visualize any differences between two PDFs

https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff

4 years ago

169 upvotes – 36 comments

What ever happened to the transhumanists?

https://gizmodo.com/what-happened-to-transhumanism-in-2022-life-extension-1849199492

4 years ago

158 upvotes – 422 comments

California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising Autopilot and FSD features

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-05/dmv-false-advertising-tesla

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 78 comments

Helium

https://blog.dshr.org/2022/08/helium.html

4 years ago

150 upvotes – 108 comments

Documenting software architecture with arc42

https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/brief-introduction-to-arc42/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 32 comments

CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText

4 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

The Echidna Is Australia’s Most Delightfully Different Mammal

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-an-echidna

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 44 comments

Some notes on DynamoDB 2022 paper

http://_.0xffff.me/dynamodb2022.html

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 57 comments

How to integrate a trackpoint in a mechanical keyboard

https://github.com/alonswartz/trackpoint

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 32 comments

Analysis of energy consumption of Bluetooth Low Energy versus Bluetooth Classic

http://hj.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1683816&dswid=1160

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

What is the cost of a cashless society?

https://thewalrus.ca/cashless-society/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 283 comments

The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (2012)

https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/12/13/bruno-munari-speak-italian-gestures/

4 years ago

124 upvotes – 47 comments

BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/blenderbot-3-a-175b-parameter-publicly-available-chatbot-that-improves-its-skills-and-safety-over-time/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 94 comments

I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence

https://www.kerrang.com/i-was-at-woodstock-99-and-it-destroyed-my-innocence

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 147 comments

Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.mbna.ca

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/107661

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Convert English to Cron Expressions

https://cronprompt.com/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358038

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 77 comments

Lowbar – The simplest no-nonsense loading bar for Python

https://github.com/AnnikaV9/lowbar

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Italy, Intel close to $5B deal for chip factory

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-italy-intel-close-5-bln-deal-chip-factory-sources-2022-08-04/

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 59 comments

Reverse-engineering a 1960s hybrid flip flop module with X-ray CT scans

http://www.righto.com/2022/08/lumafield-flip-flop.html

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Blender 3.2.2 Released

https://www.blender.org/download/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

Aug 5 – 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthday to Curiosity

https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/news-and-media/happybirthday/

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 35 comments

Every U.S. Crypto Exchange (and Binance) Is Being Investigated by the SEC

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/08/04/every-us-crypto-exchange-and-binance-is-being-investigated-by-the-sec-says-senator-lummis-staffer/

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

Keeping a project bisectable

https://andrealmeid.com/post/2022-07-31-keep-bisect/

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 84 comments

Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2022/07/11/plan-b-for-uuids-double-aes-128/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 64 comments

AllegroServe, a web server written in Common Lisp

https://github.com/franzinc/aserve

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Learning to Love Myself

http://blog.chaselambda.com/2016/12/11/learning-to-love-myself.html

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Parts of Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover seen in 36 years

https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2021-22

4 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

The Overlooked Indian Dynasties: On Anirudh Kanisetti’s “Lords of the Deccan”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-overlooked-indian-dynasties-on-anirudh-kanisettis-lords-of-the-deccan/

4 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Alex Jones must pay $4M in damages for Sandy Hook hoax claims

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62427918

4 years ago

83 upvotes – 132 comments

The Two Types of Quality

https://zenorocha.com/the-two-types-of-quality

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354994

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

A captured American spy plane that crashed during a Hungarian pleasure flight

https://telex.hu/english/2022/08/05/the-captured-american-spy-plane-which-crashed-during-a-hungarian-pleasure-flight

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

More Privacy and Transparency for DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections

https://spreadprivacy.com/more-privacy-and-transparency/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

Detroit Industry Murals

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/diego-rivera-s-detroit-industry-detroit-institute-of-arts/ewXxGMIKj_6xLQ?hl=en

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Vantem builds modular homes out of energy-efficient panels

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/03/this-gates-backed-startup-builds-modular-homes-out-of-energy-efficient-panels/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 101 comments

Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/hevc-video-extensions/9NMZLZ57R3T7?hl=en-us&gl=US

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple retaliated against women who complained about misconduct

https://www.engadget.com/report-apple-retaliated-against-misconduct-victims-094505393.html

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Amazon to Acquire iRobot

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-and-irobot-sign-an-agreement-for-amazon-to-acquire-irobot

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments
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