top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-14

Low Earth Orbit Visualization

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

3 years ago

Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

https://www.businessinsider.com/equifax-fires-employees-for-working-two-jobs-2022-10

3 years ago

Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fishing-alaska-snow-crab-season-canceled-investigation-climate-change/#app

3 years ago

Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/sweden-s-incoming-cabinet-says-will-build-new-nuclear-reactors

3 years ago

On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/how-to-travel

3 years ago

Unlaunching the 12GB 4080

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/

3 years ago

Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go

https://frankenphp.dev

3 years ago

Ex Police Officer Used Law Enforcement Tech to Hack Women’s Explicit Photos

https://www.leoweekly.com/2022/10/feds-ex-louisville-police-officer-used-law-enforcement-tech-to-help-hack-sexually-explicit-photos-from-women/

3 years ago

Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load

https://www.georgiapower.com/company/news-center/2022-articles/vogtle-unit-3-nuclear-fuel-load.html

3 years ago

Some remotely exploitable Linux kernel WiFi vulnerabilities

https://lwn.net/Articles/911062/

3 years ago

Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-vs-the-rest

3 years ago

Disposable Root Servers

https://blog.thc.org/disposable-root-servers

3 years ago

Guthib

https://guthib.com/

3 years ago

Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/why-ancient-browsers.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205970

3 years ago

Normalising Layoffs/Firing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200261

3 years ago

Linear.app

https://linear.app/homepage

3 years ago

Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published

https://zenodo.org/record/7070952

3 years ago

WebKit Quirks.cpp

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

3 years ago

Cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud Platform may be the wrong choice

https://www.karlsutt.com/articles/you-should-not-be-using-aws/

3 years ago

Retrowin32, a Win32 emulator

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/10/retrowin32.html

3 years ago

A Chinese American gangster transformed money laundering for drug cartels

https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering

3 years ago

TikTok has an open computational chemistry position

https://careers.tiktok.com/position/7140410179162196238/detail?spread=G1DWUPV

3 years ago

Queueing Theory

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

3 years ago

Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro

https://datagubbe.se/mkdem/

3 years ago

A Minimalist Guide To Program Synthesis

https://evanthebouncy.github.io/program-synthesis-minimal/

3 years ago

Minetest for the Web

https://minetest.dustlabs.io/

3 years ago

Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/claims-ai-can-boost-workplace-diversity-are-spurious-and-dangerous-researchers-argue

3 years ago

Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp

https://applied-langua.ge/posts/zero-feet.html

3 years ago

Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week

https://cypherphunk.blogspot.com/2022/05/using-free-pascal-ide-for-week.html

3 years ago

Tell HN: Getting Ready for Unemployment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33199602

3 years ago

Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption Insecure Mode of Operation

https://labs.withsecure.com/advisories/microsoft-office-365-message-encryption-insecure-mode-of-operation

3 years ago

Why wasn’t the steam engine invented earlier? Part III

https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-why-wasnt-the-steam-76c

3 years ago

Financial Institution Letters: Vacation Policies (1995)

https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/1995/fil9552.html

3 years ago

An Open-Source HDMI Capture Card

https://hackaday.com/2022/10/14/an-open-source-hdmi-capture-card/

3 years ago

Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger

https://www.engadget.com/apple-19-million-fine-brazil-for-not-selling-phones-with-a-charger-051025019.html

3 years ago

Lufthansa abandons AirTag ban

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/lufthansa-awkwardly-abandons-airtag-ban-after-baffling-face-plant/

3 years ago

Bun v0.2.0

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/tag/bun-v0.2.0

3 years ago

Cork is making a comeback

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221013-why-the-humble-wine-cork-is-being-reinvented

3 years ago

Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/11/psychiatry-wars-psychoanalysis-antidepressants-rachel-aviv

3 years ago

Oracle lays off more than 200 California-based workers

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-lays-off-more-than-200-california-based-workers/

3 years ago

Code Review Handbook

https://www.sledgeworx.io/code-review-handbook/

3 years ago

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

https://www.wigle.net/

3 years ago

Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’

https://tvpworld.com/63914655/turkey-adopts-media-law-jailing-for-spreading-disinformation

3 years ago

5G’s Rollout Rattled Hundreds of Pilots

https://spectrum.ieee.org/faa-5g

3 years ago

If AI can read, then plain text can be weaponized (2019)

https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/04/02/ai-nlp-paraphrasing-adversarial-attacks/

3 years ago

On the Proper Use of Post-Its

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/05/28/on-the-proper-use-of-post-its/

3 years ago

Beware of Bun.js

https://gist.github.com/littledivy/b9351c3ccf8ab99f7e14461db37044dc

3 years ago

A DRAM Failure

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/failing-memory.html

3 years ago

Beacown (Linux WiFi Exploit)

https://github.com/PurpleVsGreen/beacown

3 years ago

Tell HN: I'm nervous and don't know where else to go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202928

3 years ago

Hello World Under the Microscope

https://asawicki.info/articles/Hello_world_under_the_microscope.php5

3 years ago

In Jordan, an ancient bread tradition rises again

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-happened-to-jordans-bread

3 years ago

Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project

https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/pull/411

3 years ago

Tell HN: Reddit started asking logged-in users to use the app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202034

3 years ago

Evolution of HTTP

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Evolution_of_HTTP

3 years ago

Data leak exposes Mexico military corruption, incl. collusion with drug cartels

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/14/1129001666/data-leak-exposes-mexico-military-corruption-including-collusion-with-drug-carte

3 years ago

Shein owner fined $1.9M for failing to notify 39M users of data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/13/shein-zoetop-fined-1-9m-data-breach/

3 years ago

How to Plan?

https://kellanem.com/notes/how-to-plan

3 years ago

What Happened to Lee (2020)

https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/

3 years ago

Homo Sapiens lithic technology in South Asian rainforest (C. 45k – 8k years ago)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273450

3 years ago

The Debian Administrator's Handbook

https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/

3 years ago

Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) – plain text human readable typed storage format

https://github.com/mark-summerfield/uxf

3 years ago

In Canada it's illegal to call yourself software engineer

https://engineerscanada.ca/become-an-engineer/use-of-professional-title-and-designations

3 years ago