top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-29

Tales of the M1 GPU

https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

3 years ago

Goodbye, data science

https://ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/goodbye-data-science/

3 years ago

Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/

3 years ago

JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization

https://jsonhero.io/

3 years ago

A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s

https://anlucas.neocities.org/88x31Buttons.html

3 years ago

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem/

3 years ago

WebTorrent

https://webtorrent.io/faq

3 years ago

Emacs 29 is nigh

https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/

3 years ago

An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole

https://www.crosstalksolutions.com/the-worlds-greatest-pi-hole-and-unbound-tutorial-2023/

3 years ago

Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-shortcuts-every-command-line-hacker-should-know-about-gnu-readline

3 years ago

Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33794293

3 years ago

Obsolete Sounds: collection of disappearing sounds and extinct sounds

https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

3 years ago

Tailwind is a leaky abstraction

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/tailwind-is-a-leaky-abstraction/

3 years ago

Ruby adds a core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects

https://blog.saeloun.com/2022/11/22/data-immutable-object.html

3 years ago

UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ditches-ban-legal-harmful-online-content-favour-free-speech-2022-11-28/

3 years ago

After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses personal details of users

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/after-court-order-telegram-discloses-phone-numbers-ip-addresses-of-users-accused-of-sharing-infringing-material-215311

3 years ago

WasmEdge

https://wasmedge.org/

3 years ago

A tiny C header-only RISC-V emulator

https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima

3 years ago

The best Go framework: no framework?

https://threedots.tech/post/best-go-framework/

3 years ago

European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling

https://www.ft.com/content/e4b31a4e-a79d-40f7-8a19-c1e451a95c4b

3 years ago

How do transistors work, anyway?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-do-transistors-work-anyway

3 years ago

Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web

https://singlepage.cc/

3 years ago

Pele's Hair

https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/nature/peles-hair.htm

3 years ago

A Compiler Writing Journey

https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj

3 years ago

Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years

https://www.themosaad.com/blog/two-years-of-tailwind-css

3 years ago

The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World

https://alpinemag.com/fake-snow-leopard-photomontage-spread-around-world-kittiya-pawlowski/

3 years ago

Godot Engine Release Management: 4.0 and beyond

https://godotengine.org/article/release-management-4-0-and-beyond

3 years ago

PCjs Machines

https://www.pcjs.org/

3 years ago

Jeffrey Epstein documents to be unsealed, potentially revealing acquaintances

https://www.foxnews.com/world/jeffrey-epstein-documents-unsealed-jugde-orders

3 years ago

DWARF-Based Stack Walking Using eBPF

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/profiling-without-frame-pointers/

3 years ago

Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2017)

https://auxiliarymemory.com/2017/01/06/rereading-the-soul-of-a-new-machine-by-tracy-kidder/

3 years ago

Dynamic types have the potential to be more than "no static types"

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-am-disappointed-by-dynamic-typing/

3 years ago

Ten Years of Image Synthesis

https://zentralwerkstatt.org/blog/ten-years-of-image-synthesis

3 years ago

For many widows, the hardest part is mealtime (2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/dining/widows-cooking-grief.html

3 years ago

Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Pages (Part 1)

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/low-latency-optimization-part-1/

3 years ago

Gaslighting is Word of the Year 2022

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year

3 years ago

Notes on ExFAT and Reliability (2021)

https://pawitp.medium.com/notes-on-exfat-and-reliability-d2f194d394c2

3 years ago

Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to bring zero-knowledge encryption to storage

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcryptor-assets-to-bring-zero-knowledge-encryption-to-file-storage/

3 years ago

Vision Transformers (ViT) Explained

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vision-transformers/

3 years ago

Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy

https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html

3 years ago

Mastodon isn’t just a replacement for Twitter

https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/

3 years ago

Creating a handwritten TrueType font in Linux (2018)

https://gordonlesti.com/creating-a-handwritten-truetype-font-in-linux/

3 years ago

Who Controls the Internet? Authoritative NS Records in gTLDs

https://netmeister.org/blog/nsauth-diversity.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Can you tell if an image is AI-generated?

https://aiquiz.ronsor.com/index.jsp?__qs=KBGIOLC

3 years ago

Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting-us-back

3 years ago

Shenzhou-15 manned mission ready for launch after final rehearsal

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-27/Shenzhou-15-mission-finishes-pre-launch-tests-1fiFExJ8AiA/index.html

3 years ago

Tesla fan sites propagate fake news of chip joint venture, but why?

https://electrek.co/2022/11/28/tesla-blogs-propagate-fake-news-chip-joint-venture/

3 years ago

New York City Will Hospitalize More Mentally Ill People Involuntarily

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/nyregion/nyc-mentally-ill-involuntary-custody.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Python library for embedding large graphs (Written in Rust)

https://github.com/H4kor/graph-force

3 years ago

ffmpeg.wasm – a pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app

3 years ago

The mall only has 3 stores

https://unfairnation.substack.com/p/the-mall-only-has-3-stores

3 years ago

Advent of Code 2022

https://adventofcode.com/2022

3 years ago

DWARF-based stack walking using eBPF

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/profiling-without-frame-pointers/

3 years ago

Scaling up a Mastodon server to 128K active users

https://gist.github.com/Gargron/aa9341a49dc91d5a721019d9e0c9fd11

3 years ago

Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptos-final-price-could-be-zero-technology-debt-lbo-twitter-musk-bankman-fried-ftx-market-cap-coin-11669567022

3 years ago

Phone interview with Sam Bankman-Fried [audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP54LZB3WRw

3 years ago

Twitter misses payroll in Germany and the UK

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-missed-payroll-for-some-european-staff-this-month/

3 years ago

The Balenciaga Controversy

https://www.glossy.co/fashion/the-balenciaga-controversy-explained/

3 years ago

Let's Encrypt has a neat annual report [pdf]

https://www.abetterinternet.org/documents/2022-ISRG-Annual-Report.pdf

3 years ago

Scaling Mastodon with systemd template units

https://www.eigenmagic.com/2022/11/29/scaling-mastodon-with-systemd-template-units/

3 years ago

Sii Poland CEO insults and fires employee who forms a union

https://www.za.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mail-od-Grega-1-1-1-724x1024.jpg

3 years ago

How Stuff Gets eXposed

https://sgx.fail/

3 years ago

Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L59xEQsy2r4

3 years ago

Show HN: A userscript that adds archive URLs below the paywalled HN submissions

https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall

3 years ago

Two minerals never before been seen on Earth found inside 17-ton meteorite

https://www.livescience.com/two-new-minerals-found-inside-meteorite

3 years ago

Japanese Researchers Faked Data in ISS Simulation

https://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-faked-data-iss-simulation-1849827303

3 years ago

Charles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/24/emperor-charles-vs-secret-code-cracked-after-five-centuries

3 years ago