top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-21

Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI

https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32932137

4 years ago

LiteFS

https://fly.io/blog/introducing-litefs/

4 years ago

Can I use a system call?

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/functions.html

4 years ago

The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition

https://frame.work/at/en/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-chromebook-edition

4 years ago

AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different

https://freeman.vc/notes/aws-vs-gcp-reliability-is-wildly-different

4 years ago

Olive.c: a simple graphics library that does not have any dependencies

https://tsoding.org/olive.c/

4 years ago

New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/new-webb-image-captures-clearest-view-of-neptune-s-rings-in-decades/

4 years ago

Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.524076/gov.uscourts.nysd.524076.247.0.pdf

4 years ago

Meta and Google are cutting staff

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-and-google-are-cutting-staff-just-dont-mention-layoffs-11663778729

4 years ago

Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (2011)

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Effects-of-Grill-Patterns-on-Fan-Performance-Noise-107/

4 years ago

Danish Data Protection Agency concludes Google Analytics cannot be used lawfully

https://www.datatilsynet.dk/english/google-analytics/use-of-google-analytics-for-web-analytics

4 years ago

Hacking anything with GNU Guix

https://gexp.no/blog/hacking-anything-with-gnu-guix.html

4 years ago

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of copyright claims

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/21/23364696/getty-images-ai-ban-generated-artwork-illustration-copyright

4 years ago

Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?

https://www.timothyrice.org/icecreamsalt/

4 years ago

A text adventure game on TypeScript's type system

https://github.com/cassiozen/TDungeon

4 years ago

The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]

https://archive.org/details/the-it-crowd-us-pilot

4 years ago

Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65

https://www.airlive.net/breaking-russian-airlines-ordered-to-stop-selling-tickets-to-russian-men-aged-18-to-65/

4 years ago

20×10%

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/09/20/20x10/

4 years ago

Next steps for Rust in the kernel

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/908347/da67a5162d1bc4a3/

4 years ago

Ask HN: Do you regret being a generalist?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32920577

4 years ago

Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird

https://www.betterbird.eu/##

4 years ago

Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

https://www.decipad.com

4 years ago

Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32923098

4 years ago

President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia

https://www.netnewsledger.com/2022/09/20/russian-president-putin-to-declare-mobilization/

4 years ago

Twitch finally takes action against gambling

https://www.jacobwolf.report/p/twitch-finally-takes-action-against

4 years ago

Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files

http://harelba.github.io/q/

4 years ago

Entitlement in Open Source

https://mikemcquaid.com/entitlement-in-open-source/

4 years ago

Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?

https://blog.webpagetest.org/posts/will-html-content-make-site-faster/

4 years ago

Your work matters – Build your schedule accordingly

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/09/20/your-work-matters-build-your-schedule-accordingly/

4 years ago

I’ve been building a database of successful companies

https://www.starterstory.com/explore

4 years ago

Using a Canon EOS camera as a webcam in Debian

https://www.schlachter.xyz/projects/debian-dslr-webcam-with-secure-boot

4 years ago

How Julia ODE Solve Compile Time Was Reduced from 30 Seconds to 0.1

https://sciml.ai/news/2022/09/21/compile_time/

4 years ago

SIM swapper abducted, beaten, held for ransom

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/09/sim-swapper-abducted-beaten-held-for-200k-ransom/

4 years ago

System memory allocator free operation zeroes out deallocated blocks in iOS 16

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/09/20/zeroing-freed-memory/

4 years ago

Burrows–Wheeler Transform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform

4 years ago

Backend for Front-end

https://blog.frankel.ch/backend-for-frontend/

4 years ago

Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points for the third time

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20220921a.htm

4 years ago

Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN for the future

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621003327

4 years ago

The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201550119

4 years ago

Innernet: A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood

https://github.com/tonarino/innernet

4 years ago

An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393k USD) to redox_OS

https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1572350419594268673

4 years ago

HP Saturn

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

4 years ago

Hotel safety tips from a former intelligence officer

https://www.securitymagazine.com/blogs/14-security-blog/post/89106-hotel-safety-tips-from-a-former-intelligence-officer

4 years ago

Ask HN: A math study program?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32923390

4 years ago

MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls

https://blog.min.io/one-billion-docker-pulls/

4 years ago

What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/what-does-the-post-crash-vc-market-look-like-ed81cd884021?gi=4617a961d30d

4 years ago

Cloudflare’s Zero Egress Fee Object Storage, R2, Is Now GA

https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga/

4 years ago

Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections

https://www.libraryassociation.ie/irish-librarians-condemn-publisher-wileys-removal-of-hundreds-of-titles-from-ebook-collections/

4 years ago

Daily 'Breath Training' can work as well as Meds to reduce high blood pressure

https://text.npr.org/1123500781

4 years ago

Fed raises rates by another 75 bps to fight inflation

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/21/fed-rate-hike-september-2022-.html

4 years ago

Since mid-April, the Fed has withdrawn ~$140B of liquidity from financial system

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=TXcI

4 years ago

Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits to treat anxiety

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/17/museums-on-prescription-brussels-tests-cultural-visits-to-treat-anxiety

4 years ago

Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-created-a-new-builder-experience-team-to-fix-developer-culture-2022-9

4 years ago

60 knights paused a war to fight a battle royale

https://www.historynet.com/60-knights-death-match/

4 years ago

Nvidia Reveals RTX 6000 with 48GB GDDR6 ECC Memory

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-reveals-rtx-6000-with-48gb-gddr6-ecc-memory

4 years ago

PayPal Demonetises the Daily Sceptic

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/21/paypal-demonetises-the-daily-sceptic/

4 years ago

WebSDR: Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet

http://websdr.org/

4 years ago

What's new for RISC-V in LLVM 15

https://muxup.com/2022q3/whats-new-for-risc-v-in-llvm-15

4 years ago

Financing offshore wind

https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-part-1

4 years ago

Linux by No Starch Press

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-no-starch-press-books

4 years ago

Show HN: I made a site that easily lets you generate AI images using templates

https://phantasmagoria.stavros.io/templates/

4 years ago

Neutralisation of cockroaches with laser automated by machine vision

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363699728_Selective_neutralisation_and_deterring_of_cockroaches_with_laser_automated_by_machine_vision

4 years ago

Putin orders partial Russian mobilisation, warns West over nuclear blackmail

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-signs-decree-mobilisation-says-west-wants-destroy-russia-2022-09-21/

4 years ago

“I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (1982)

https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/pasad.htm

4 years ago

Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]

https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sleFinal.pdf

4 years ago

Book Review: Open Circuits

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6558

4 years ago

Pliant language and FullPliant operating system

http://www.fullpliant.org/

4 years ago

Getty Images will cease to accept art created using AI generative models

https://app.engage.gettyimages.com/e/es?e=11409471&elq=ffb9ca1a980a43f29bb0563b4f8b5f27

4 years ago

Skipping the boring parts of building a database using FoundationDB

https://blog.tigrisdata.com/building-a-database-using-foundationdb

4 years ago

The Big Bang should have made cracks in spacetime–why haven’t we found them?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/the-big-bang-should-have-made-cracks-in-spacetime-why-havent-we-found-them/

4 years ago

Show HN: Send a GitHub webhook to a private URL

https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/webhookz

4 years ago

The Right to Read (1997)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

4 years ago