top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-08-29

The Big [Censored] Theory

https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/

4 years ago

1444 upvotes – 835 comments

Stable Diffusion is a big deal

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/29/stable-diffusion/

4 years ago

874 upvotes – 471 comments

Welcome Home, Garry Tan

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-home-garry-tan/

4 years ago

749 upvotes – 269 comments

90s Cursor Effects

https://tholman.com/cursor-effects/

4 years ago

620 upvotes – 170 comments

Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

https://community.blokada.org/t/google-cracks-down-on-vpn-based-adblockers/26110

4 years ago

571 upvotes – 597 comments

Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion

https://github.com/hlky/sd-enable-textual-inversion

4 years ago

442 upvotes – 162 comments

Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode

https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest

4 years ago

415 upvotes – 156 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to help you read Hacker News on Kindle

https://ktool.io/hacker-news-to-kindle

4 years ago

393 upvotes – 78 comments

Why are you so busy?

https://tomlingham.com/articles/why-are-you-so-busy/

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 123 comments

The silent majority in software

https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/the-silent-majority/

4 years ago

291 upvotes – 353 comments

OCaml at First Glance

https://batsov.com/articles/2022/08/29/ocaml-at-first-glance/

4 years ago

267 upvotes – 78 comments

Why 12 notes in Western music?

https://github.com/aguaviva/articles/blob/main/why_12_notes.ipynb

4 years ago

253 upvotes – 158 comments

Run Stable Diffusion on Intel CPUs

https://github.com/bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino

4 years ago

236 upvotes – 106 comments

DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it

https://wagslane.dev/posts/no-one-does-devops/

4 years ago

235 upvotes – 303 comments

Teenager invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-teenager-invented-a-low-cost-tool-to-spot-elephant-poachers-in-real-time-180980522/

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 103 comments

Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit

https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2022/08/29/rewriting_my_blog_in_rust_for_fun_and_profit/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641259

4 years ago

223 upvotes – 264 comments

Git’s database internals I: packed object store

https://github.blog/2022-08-29-gits-database-internals-i-packed-object-store/

4 years ago

216 upvotes – 64 comments

List of Creepypastas

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

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 123 comments

Ferret: A functional, lazy language for realtime embedded control systems

https://ferret-lang.org/

4 years ago

177 upvotes – 32 comments

Rights, Laws, and Google

https://stratechery.com/2022/rights-laws-and-google/

4 years ago

173 upvotes – 138 comments

Launch Attempt Scrubbed

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/08/29/launch-attempt-scrubbed/

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 228 comments

A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/handmade-italian-amusement-park

4 years ago

167 upvotes – 41 comments

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

https://alexanderell.is/posts/websockets-from-scratch/

4 years ago

157 upvotes – 19 comments

Supporting four operating systems in a 400 byte ELF executable

https://justine.lol/sizetricks/#elf

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 42 comments

NASA Artemis I Launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5KfrDAM2Bo

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 61 comments

SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business model

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/softbank-s-23-billion-loss-looks-like-more-wework-fun

4 years ago

149 upvotes – 192 comments

A handy guide to financial support for open source

https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 77 comments

The OK? Programming Language

https://github.com/jesseduffield/OK

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 87 comments

Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SSHBruteForceAttacksNoMoreHere

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 119 comments

Hacker News is a masterpiece

https://thesumup.substack.com/p/hacker-news-is-a-masterpiece

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 121 comments

Microformats Wiki

http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

Are GPUs Worth It for ML?

https://exafunction.com/blog/are-gpus-worth-it

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 91 comments

A CSS-Inspired Syntax for Flowcharts

https://tone-row.com/blog/graph-syntax-css-selectors

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 47 comments

The sudden silencing of Guantanamo's artists

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62399826

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 135 comments

AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch: Ryzen 7950X and More, Coming Sept. 27th

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17552/amd-details-ryzen-7000-launch-up-ryzen-7900x-coming-sept-30

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 77 comments

Chezmoi – Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely

https://www.chezmoi.io/

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 59 comments

Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator

https://emmanuel6.medium.com/why-dall-e-will-not-steal-my-job-6a1e2943cb82

4 years ago

120 upvotes – 160 comments

SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies

https://www.techinsights.com/blog/smic-7nm-truly-7nm-technology-how-it-compares-tsmc-7nm

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 114 comments

The state of Flow-based Programming

https://blog.kodigy.com/post/state-of-flow-based-programming/

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/29/stable-diffusion/#ai-vegan

4 years ago

112 upvotes – 194 comments

Eastern European Guide to Writing Reference Letters

https://www.inference.vc/the-east-european-guide-to-writing-reference-letters/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

How to Get into Tabletop RPGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9NtdF51GWE

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing

https://schmud.de/posts/2022-08-23-the-consumer-computer.html

4 years ago

107 upvotes – 77 comments

Auditory brainstem response distinguishes occasional and constant tinnitus

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/155094

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

Python library for univariate regression, interpolation, and smoothing

https://github.com/brendanartley/Regressio

4 years ago

102 upvotes – 27 comments

Bit twiddling with Arm Neon: beating SSE movemasks, counting bits and more

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/infrastructure-solutions-blog/posts/porting-x86-vector-bitmask-optimizations-to-arm-neon

4 years ago

96 upvotes – 7 comments

It's astounding how bad the web is without an ad blocker

https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1564292487744978946

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Losslessly Optimising Images

https://rubenerd.com/losslessly-optimise-images/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

AWS services, explained in Victorian English with GPT-3

https://victorianaws.com/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone else's domain via helpdesk

https://twitter.com/NamecheapCEO/status/1564041532470358016

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 93 comments

Alpaca – Stable Diffusion Plugin for Photoshop

https://www.getalpaca.io/

4 years ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments

Advantages of CRT over LCD

https://dfarq.homeip.net/advantages-of-crt-over-lcd/

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 136 comments

Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed (274mm) sea-level rise

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01441-2

4 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

Tracker Beeper

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

C++ coroutines: Understanding the compiler transform

https://lewissbaker.github.io/2022/08/27/understanding-the-compiler-transform

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Sidekick - Live application debugger is now open source

https://github.com/runsidekick/sidekick

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Knockles – eBPF Port Knocking Tool

https://github.com/eeriedusk/knockles

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Speech by Chair Powell on monetary policy and price stability

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20220826a.htm

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 166 comments

Silicon Values

https://pxlnv.com/blog/silicon-values/

4 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

Project Highwater

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

4 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What's a small example of some of the best code ever written?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32644357

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 54 comments

In search of Britain’s oldest pub

https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/britain-england-oldest-pub-where-how-identify/

4 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments
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