top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-22

Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912

2 years ago

1313 upvotes – 508 comments

Stable Diffusion Public Release

https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release

2 years ago

770 upvotes – 413 comments

Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

https://about.maps.earth/

2 years ago

696 upvotes – 111 comments

The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool

https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-tv-ad-blocking.html

2 years ago

505 upvotes – 561 comments

Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/08/apple-expands-self-service-repair-to-mac-notebooks/

2 years ago

464 upvotes – 480 comments

Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Application-submitted-for-US-molten-salt-research

2 years ago

446 upvotes – 210 comments

Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled

https://status.stripe.com/

2 years ago

395 upvotes – 199 comments

Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi

https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/colour-e-ink-display-raspberry-pi/

2 years ago

383 upvotes – 150 comments

Workplace surveillance is coming for you

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 184 comments

Why is Snowflake so expensive

https://blog.devgenius.io/why-is-snowflake-so-expensive-92b67203945

2 years ago

364 upvotes – 207 comments

Color has been disappearing from the world

https://tumblr.macleodsawyer.com/post/691054353059053568/color-has-been-disappearing-from-the-world

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 289 comments

Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1561813046338748417

2 years ago

354 upvotes – 300 comments

Applying a rule from Pixar with a camera from 1961

https://news.gregjeanneau.com/pixar-camera-1961/

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 80 comments

Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor

https://www.modzero.com/modlog/archives/2022/08/22/ridiculous_vulnerability_disclosure_process_with_crowdstrike_falcon_sensor/index.html

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 159 comments

Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google

https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 205 comments

10BASE-T using Raspberry Pi Pico with 2 GPIO pins

https://github.com/kingyoPiyo/Pico-10BASE-T

2 years ago

296 upvotes – 88 comments

Clip control on the Apple GPU

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html

2 years ago

276 upvotes – 119 comments

YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech

https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 222 comments

A general overview of what happens before main() (2019)

https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2019/04/08/a-general-overview-of-what-happens-before-main/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 42 comments

Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application

https://www.levminer.com/blog/tauri-vs-electron

2 years ago

215 upvotes – 104 comments

Using the power of the sun to roast green chile

https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2022/06/30/using-the-power-of-the-sun-to-roast-green-chile/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 115 comments

A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

https://github.com/jotaen/xit

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 111 comments

A few ops lessons we all learn the hard way (2020)

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 63 comments

SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web

https://surrealdb.com/

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 120 comments

Google Timer is back

https://www.google.com/search?q=timer+6+minutes

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 89 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 204 comments

Euro falls below parity with the dollar

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/dollar-hits-5-week-high-hawkish-fed-before-jackson-hole-2022-08-22/

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 276 comments

“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)

https://blog.google/inside-google/googlers/marking-birth-of-modern-day-internet/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 130 comments

QEMU Internals (2021)

https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 22 comments

Visualizing Toxic Air

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/visualizing-toxic-air

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 66 comments

The GPU Banana Stand

https://acko.net/blog/the-gpu-banana-stand/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 60 comments

Why does everything on Netflix look like that?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake3j5/why-does-everything-on-netflix-look-like-that

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 210 comments

NYC Fire Department forcible entry reference guide [pdf] (2006)

https://ia800207.us.archive.org/15/items/FDNYforcibleEntryReferenceGuide/FDNY_Forcible_entry_reference_guide.pdf

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 43 comments

This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions

https://artemis.sh/2022/08/21/this-program-is-illegally-packaged-in-14-distributions.html

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 103 comments

Reflections on my time in Y Combinator

https://chrisfrantz.com/reflections-on-my-time-in-y-combinator/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 83 comments

The CRPG Addict

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 23 comments

Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 74 comments

Starting Sep 1, GPT-3 is becoming 3X Cheaper

https://openai.com/api/pricing/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 1 comments

Pure Data: an open source visual language for multimedia

https://puredata.info/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

https://digs.fm

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 71 comments

A bike tour of Dresden, the heart of Germany’s semiconductor industry

https://innovationorigins.com/en/on-the-road-with-the-9-euro-ticket-part-8-a-bike-tour-of-dresden-the-heart-of-germanys-semiconductor-industry/

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 88 comments

Song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives

https://www.techspot.com/news/95671-janet-jackson-song-1989-declared-cybersecurity-vulnerability-crashing.html

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

Are we going back to the cable days?

https://thehustle.co/08222022-streaming-vs-cable/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 373 comments

The top layer: a solution to z-index:10000

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/what-is-the-top-layer/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 100 comments

How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive them? (2019)

https://www.givedirectly.org/how-do-cash-transfers-impact-neighbors/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 94 comments

Using Mypy in Production

https://notes.crmarsh.com/using-mypy-in-production-at-spring

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 129 comments

Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/22/1118713393/astrophotographers-moon-reddit-image

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

What alcohol does to your body, brain and health [video]

https://hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain-health/

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 204 comments

Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2022/08/solving-my-trucks-tpms-sensor-problem-with-the-help-of-an-rtl-sdr-dongle/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 122 comments

Tell HN: Stop sending unsolicited emails to developers GitHub email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552134

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 78 comments

How messed up was Germany's energy policy?

https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/how-messed-up-was-germanys-energy

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 214 comments

UK inflation forecast to hit 18.6% next year, energy bills may rise to £6000

https://www.ft.com/content/778e65e1-6ec5-4fd7-98d5-9d701eb29567

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 246 comments

In two centuries, the labor to produce a kilogram of grain was reduced by 99.7%

https://twitter.com/krebs_adrian/status/1561753778675662848

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547605

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Moving to Estonia

https://maksimdrachov.github.io/2021/12/24/moving-to-estonia

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 145 comments

OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6485334-openai-api-pricing-update-faq

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 193 comments

Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/our-long-vulnerable-childhoods-may-be-the-key-to-our-success

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

The hitchhiker’s guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG hacking [slides] [pdf]

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2030/DEF%20CON%2030%20presentations/stacksmashing%20-%20The%20hitchhackers%20guide%20to%20iPhone%20Lightning%20%20%20JTAG%20hacking.pdf

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

Global Code Time Report

https://www.software.com/reports/code-time-report

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Halligan Bar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halligan_bar

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments
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