top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-10-20

The HTTP crash course nobody asked for

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobody-asked-for

3 years ago

Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse

https://www.voys.co.za/blog/how-google-is-forcing-us-to-make-our-open-source-app-worse/

3 years ago

Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63309400

3 years ago

CT scans of batteries

https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/batteries

3 years ago

Stop Scanning Me

https://stopscanningme.eu/en/

3 years ago

DaVinci Resolve for iPad

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20221020-02

3 years ago

DevOps is broken

https://blog.massdriver.cloud/devops-is-bullshit

3 years ago

MagicDNS is generally available

https://tailscale.com/blog/magicdns/

3 years ago

AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers

https://chatterhead.bearblog.dev/ai-will-replace-middle-management-not-hourly-workers/

3 years ago

SHA-3 Buffer Overflow

https://mouha.be/sha-3-buffer-overflow/

3 years ago

Another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/yet-another-scientific-body-has-debunked

3 years ago

An account was suspended

https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1583059222555930629

3 years ago

As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-washington-officials-stocks-trading-markets-stimulus-11666192404

3 years ago

Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-10/msg01609.html

3 years ago

Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-22-10-kinetic-kudu

3 years ago

Apparent size of Andromeda galaxy compared to the Moon

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/23378/is-this-photocomposition-of-andromedas-galaxy-and-the-moon-accurate

3 years ago

OpenBSD 7.2

https://www.openbsd.org/72.html

3 years ago

New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-jersey-legislators-aim-to-ban-most-in-car-subscriptions

3 years ago

San Francisco to Spend $1.7M to Build a Single Public Toilet

https://news.yahoo.com/flushing-money-san-francisco-spend-154446848.html

3 years ago

Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

https://blog.pocketcasts.com/2022/10/19/pocket-casts-mobile-apps-are-now-open-source/

3 years ago

ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/

3 years ago

India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/20/india-fines-google-162-million-for-anti-competitive-practices-on-android/

3 years ago

Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1

3 years ago

The Overflow Offline project

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/20/introducing-the-overflow-offline-project/

3 years ago

Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make cities greener and less car-centric

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/03/barceolona-style-superblocks-a-surprising-number-of-cities-greener/

3 years ago

OpenRCT2: Open-source implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with new features

https://openrct2.org/

3 years ago

A Bluetooth Low Energy soil moisture sensor

https://github.com/rbaron/b-parasite

3 years ago

We Become What We Behold (2017)

https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

3 years ago

CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)

https://www.foxy.io/blog/cloudfront-vs-cloudflare-and-how-to-reduce-response-times-for-both-by-35/

3 years ago

The Mystery of 355/113 (2010)

http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/03/14/the_mystery_of_355113.html

3 years ago

TigYog

https://tigyog.app/

3 years ago

NIH blocks access to genetics database if research enters “forbidden” territory

https://www.city-journal.org/nih-blocks-access-to-genetics-database

3 years ago

Stop Writing Dead Programs

https://jackrusher.com/strange-loop-2022/

3 years ago

Stability.ai sent a take down request to Runway ML's SD v1.5 citing IP Leak

https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/discussions/1

3 years ago

Hans Niemann Suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65592749/niemann-v-carlsen/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273022

3 years ago

Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/battle-with-bots-prompts-mass-purge-of-amazon-apple-employee-accounts-on-linkedin/

3 years ago

Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits 'large chunks of my copyrighted code'

https://devclass.com/2022/10/17/github-copilot-under-fire-as-dev-claims-it-emits-large-chunks-of-my-copyrighted-code/

3 years ago

New motorcycle lighting design could save lives

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/new-motorcycle-lighting-design-could-save-lives

3 years ago

Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-developers-part-iii

3 years ago

Traff: A universal format for live traffic information

https://traffxml.gitlab.io/

3 years ago

AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time

https://tech.fb.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/10/ai-translation-unwritten-language/

3 years ago

BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD

https://github.com/Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE

3 years ago

NEC’s Tetris Processor

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2022/10/20/mini5-tetris-dump.html

3 years ago

The State of AV1 Playback Support

https://bitmovin.com/av1-playback-support/

3 years ago

Space-based solar power is getting serious

https://www.science.org/content/article/space-based-solar-power-getting-serious-can-it-solve-earth-s-energy-woes

3 years ago

It was all downhill after the Cuecat

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/benevolent-dictators/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

3 years ago

Social engineering dos and don'ts

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/social-engineering-dos-and-donts/

3 years ago

The Mod Archive

https://modarchive.org/

3 years ago

A large scale non-linear optimization library

https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver

3 years ago

What's different about next-gen transistors

https://semiengineering.com/whats-different-about-next-gen-transistors/

3 years ago

Tuna use sharks as back scratchers despite risk of being eaten

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343044-tuna-use-sharks-as-back-scratchers-despite-risk-of-being-eaten/

3 years ago

Quirks, Caveats, and Gotchas in SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/quirks.html

3 years ago

Most people on antidepressants don’t need them

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/19/most-people-on-antidepressants-dont-need-them

3 years ago

Nabla – Isometric Color Font

https://nabla.typearture.com/

3 years ago

C2Rust Transpiler

https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

3 years ago

PostgresML is 8-40x faster than Python HTTP microservices

https://postgresml.org/blog/postgresml-is-8x-faster-than-python-http-microservices/

3 years ago

Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (2013)

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/aizuchi-japanese-listening/

3 years ago

Firefox Beta for Android now supports custom add-on collections

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-now-supports-custom-add-on-collections/

3 years ago

Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good

https://www.plural.sh/blog/open-core-companies/

3 years ago

Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for 'favouring its own products'

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-faces-1-bln-lawsuit-uk-favouring-its-own-products-2022-10-20/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to overcome job search exhaustion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33276963

3 years ago

3M Glass Cloth Tape 361

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b40068300/

3 years ago

CarperAI announces plans for the first open-source “instruction-tuned” LM

https://carper.ai/instruct-gpt-announcement/

3 years ago

Cloud costs are in a bubble

https://www.the-investing-desk.com/cloud-costs-are-in-a-bubble/

3 years ago

Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/20/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts/

3 years ago

Microbenchmarking Intel’s Arc A770

https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/10/20/microbenchmarking-intels-arc-a770/

3 years ago

How I make my rugs

https://tabithaarnold.substack.com/p/the-process

3 years ago

New research suggests our brains use quantum computation

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-brains-quantum.html

3 years ago

Susan Kare designed user-friendly icons for the first Macintosh (2019)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-susan-kare-designed-user-friendly-icons-for-first-macintosh-180973286/

3 years ago

Iran's government moves to criminalize VPNs (2021)

https://www.article19.org/resources/tightening-the-net-is-the-dangerous-user-protection-bill-still-imminent/

3 years ago

Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841483/

3 years ago

Don't overreact to weak signals

https://themarketplace.guide/dont-overreact-to-weak-signals

3 years ago

Washington Pizza Index (1998)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/pizza121998.htm

3 years ago

The Mysterious Patient in Room 23: The Hermit Baroness

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/nyregion/baroness-birgit-thyssen-bornemisza.html

3 years ago

Buzz: Transcribe audio from your microphones in real-time using OpenAI's Whisper

https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz

3 years ago

Ask HN: Devs with ADHD do you use specialized tooling?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280461

3 years ago

What's the Deal with Zkapps?

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/575/whats-the-deal-with-zkapps/

3 years ago

Show HN: Transform Your City

https://transformyour.city/

3 years ago

How the ‘black death’ left its genetic mark on future generations

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/science/bubonic-plague-black-death-genetic-protection.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Record voice memo, receive transcription in email

https://whispermemos.com/

3 years ago

The M247/DataPacket Problem with Mullvad VPN

https://worldofmatthew.com/technology/mullvad-m247/

3 years ago