top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-30

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https://steampipe.io/

4 years ago

790 upvotes – 282 comments

Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/vpn-built-browser-microsoft.html

4 years ago

608 upvotes – 584 comments

Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1575588277700026368

4 years ago

529 upvotes – 481 comments

Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33032470

4 years ago

423 upvotes – 315 comments

OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

https://2012.osmz.ru/#15/40.7822/-73.9685

4 years ago

399 upvotes – 191 comments

We worked for 4 months to build a port for Stadia and today we finished it

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/xrkpmf/horrible_night_with_stadia_we_worked_for_45/

4 years ago

376 upvotes – 112 comments

Hacking Google

https://h4ck1ng.google

4 years ago

351 upvotes – 157 comments

Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

https://support.google.com/adsense/thread/178197751/adsense-account?hl=en

4 years ago

337 upvotes – 270 comments

Neovim 0.8 Released

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.8.0

4 years ago

★ 99.1k Vim Script
326 upvotes – 221 comments

House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/house-democrats-facial-recognition-act/

4 years ago

322 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036748

4 years ago

320 upvotes – 195 comments

Get things done with Emacs

https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/GTD/index.html

4 years ago

292 upvotes – 80 comments

Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer

https://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemption-2-fan-with-nearly-6000-hours-on-stadia-begs-rockstar-for-character-transfer/

4 years ago

288 upvotes – 306 comments

Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B

https://www.cloud.com/news/press-release.html

4 years ago

269 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: uFuzzy.js – A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck

https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy

4 years ago

★ 2.9k JavaScript MIT
251 upvotes – 82 comments

Co-Founding Considered Harmful

https://florentcrivello.com/co-founding-considered-harmful/

4 years ago

249 upvotes – 118 comments

Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/09/lyra-v2-a-better-faster-and-more-versatile-speech-codec.html

4 years ago

229 upvotes – 68 comments

Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective

https://fhur.me/posts/why-read-dostoevsky

4 years ago

227 upvotes – 209 comments

MDM: Human Motion Diffusion Model

https://guytevet.github.io/mdm-page/

4 years ago

226 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038829

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 199 comments

Parent time

https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1571137341997318147

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 125 comments

A call to reconsider memory address-space isolation in Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/909469/95386a9171af0b46/

4 years ago

218 upvotes – 105 comments

The reality of celebratory gunfire

https://www.1point21interactive.com/celebratory-gunfire/

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 265 comments

'Big Short' investor says white-collar jobs bubble is 'bursting'

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4543813-big-short-says-white-collar-jobs-bubble-is-bursting-spy-implications

4 years ago

207 upvotes – 312 comments

Reducing logging cost by two orders of magnitude using CLP

https://www.uber.com/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two-orders-of-magnitude-using-clp/

4 years ago

204 upvotes – 103 comments

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (1991)

https://bertrandmeyer.com/2022/09/28/introduction-theory-programming-languages-full-book-now-freely-available/

4 years ago

199 upvotes – 54 comments

US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

https://reclaimthenet.org/us-government-plans-to-develop-ai-that-can-unmask-anonymous-writers/

4 years ago

191 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion

https://www.ghostlystock.com/

4 years ago

190 upvotes – 105 comments

FCC Approves 5 Year Satellite Deorbiting Rule

https://payloadspace.com/fcc-approves-5-year-satellite-deorbiting-rule/

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 115 comments

Rust and Elixir libraries for end-to-end encrypted secure communication

https://github.com/build-trust/ockam

4 years ago

★ 4.6k Rust Apache-2.0
176 upvotes – 19 comments

Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-nuclear-power-construction-c3c

4 years ago

172 upvotes – 290 comments

Pessimism is a barrier to progress

https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-progress/

4 years ago

171 upvotes – 181 comments

Everesting – Climb the Equivalent of Mt. Everest

https://everesting.cc/

4 years ago

155 upvotes – 132 comments

Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-chernobyl-black-frogs-reveal-evolution.html

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 61 comments

A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise

https://nautil.us/a-step-by-step-guide-to-our-solar-systems-demise-239245/

4 years ago

153 upvotes – 118 comments

AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation

https://felixkreuk.github.io/text2audio_arxiv_samples/

4 years ago

146 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33040211

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 210 comments

Go Micro: a standard library for distributed systems development

https://github.com/go-micro/go-micro

4 years ago

★ 22.7k Go Apache-2.0
141 upvotes – 44 comments

USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/30/23378231/usb-rebranding-2022-logos-gbps-wattage-charging-transfer-speeds-simplification-usb4-superspeed

4 years ago

138 upvotes – 136 comments

Eye-tracking is a missing input device for VR experiences

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/gaze-contingency

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 134 comments

Twitter Appears to Shadowban Videos of Italy’s First Female Incoming PM Meloni

https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-appears-to-shadowban-videos-of-italys-first-female-incoming-prime-minister

4 years ago

134 upvotes – 121 comments

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recording

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.29.509744v1

4 years ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 46 comments

Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2022/09/30/postgres-scanner.html

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 39 comments

'A fluke': The oldest webcam is still watching over San Francisco

https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/oldest-webcam-watches-san-francisco-17467544.php

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

The Other Internet

https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/the-other-internet/

4 years ago

131 upvotes – 74 comments

Magic Leap 2: The most immersive AR platform for enterprise

https://www.magicleap.com/en-us/magic-leap-2-video

4 years ago

130 upvotes – 141 comments

AMD Zen 4 is faster with CPU security mitigations enabled on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-4-Mitigations-Off

4 years ago

128 upvotes – 16 comments

Fixing an ancient GDB problem

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/909496/a56a9a4ab41ff079/

4 years ago

127 upvotes – 11 comments

A tool for capturing captions and transcripts from online videos

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/30/action-transcription/

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036782

4 years ago

121 upvotes – 75 comments

Taking a Break

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/09/break.html

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 29 comments

Advanced Scientific Data Format

https://github.com/asdf-format/asdf

4 years ago

★ 556 Python BSD-3-Clause
117 upvotes – 121 comments

Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers

https://vanschneider.com/blog/young-designers/junior-designers-vs-senior-designers/

4 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-29-private-profiles-are-now-generally-available/

4 years ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server

https://pub400.com/

4 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

NYC Proposal Offers Cash for Spotting Parking Violations in Bike Lanes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/nyc-may-pay-people-for-reporting-bike-lane-blockers

4 years ago

103 upvotes – 65 comments

New integer types I’d like to see

https://www.foonathan.net/2022/09/new-integer-types/

4 years ago

101 upvotes – 126 comments

It doesn't matter what a PM at Google tells you

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1575646435810213888

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Medtronic's MiniMed 600 insulin pumps potentially at risk of compromise

https://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/customer-support/product-and-service-updates/notice19-letter

4 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

GitHub's Missing Merge Option

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/09/30/githubs-missing-merge-option/

4 years ago

91 upvotes – 108 comments

The Fedora Project Remains Community Driven

https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022/09/30/the-fedora-project-remains-community-driven.html

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 70 comments

Why are so many adults acting just like children?

https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-kidults-from-hello-kitty-to-disney-weddings

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Red Goose – Convert your website to mobile app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33033129

4 years ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

Nordstream: An Accident?

https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 172 comments

Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play

https://www.polygon.com/guides/23380339/overwatch-2-sms-protect-phone-number-required

4 years ago

81 upvotes – 154 comments

First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/09/28/becoming-a-father-shrinks-your-cerebrum

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 132 comments

War and Peace and War – 35 to 32B.C.E. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURI6EHXybc

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Deepcake – Al solutions for video production

https://deepcake.io

4 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 63 comments

Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time

https://www.wired.com/story/sofia-the-historic-airplane-borne-telescope-lands-for-the-last-time/

4 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

In the Mind of a Whale: Can we make sense of the biggest brains on the planet?

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-mind-of-a-whale/

4 years ago

76 upvotes – 76 comments

Montreal is what North America could be

http://www.loukidelis.com/on-montreal.html

4 years ago

75 upvotes – 110 comments

Ask HN: HN people who write meaningful software, how did you learn to program?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035576

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 74 comments
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