top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-02

People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1598332648723976193

3 years ago

The Twitter Files

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

3 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

https://sqlfordevs.com/ebook

3 years ago

Puter

https://puter.com/

3 years ago

Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/why-hasnt-sam-bankman-fried-been-arrested-yet.html

3 years ago

South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-china-south-dakota-ban-bytedance-1849836201

3 years ago

Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]

https://twitter.com/samwcyo/status/1597792097175674880

3 years ago

If PHP Were British (2011)

https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

3 years ago

DNS over Wikipedia

https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia

3 years ago

Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Panasonic-Nikon-quit-developing-low-end-compact-digital-cameras

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

PyTorch 2.0

https://pytorch.org/get-started/pytorch-2.0/

3 years ago

Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

3 years ago

Julius: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius

3 years ago

BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/bloomtech-previously-lambda-school-cuts-half-of-staff/

3 years ago

Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte

https://escape.tech/blog/from-vue2-to-svelte/

3 years ago

Snap updates happen without user consent

https://smaller.fish/posts/snap_updates

3 years ago

What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (2021)

https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-software-industry/

3 years ago

Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-bureaucratic-bloat-harvard/

3 years ago

Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/2/datasette-write-api/

3 years ago

Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands

https://doctorow.medium.com/booz-allen-tickemastered-americas-public-lands-8edf4c0dddcc

3 years ago

Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/rail-strike-why-the-railroads-wont-give-in-on-paid-leave-psr-precision-scheduled-railroading.html

3 years ago

Roman Egypt was a strange province

https://acoup.blog/2022/12/02/collections-why-roman-egypt-was-such-a-strange-province/

3 years ago

Starlink speeds in US dropped from 105Mbps to 53Mbps in the past year

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/starlink-speeds-in-us-dropped-from-105mbps-to-53mbps-in-the-past-year/

3 years ago

Mona Sans and Hubot Sans

https://github.blog/2022-12-02-introducing-mona-sans-and-hubot-sans/

3 years ago

Game Engine Black Book: Doom [pdf]

https://fabiensanglard.net/b/gebbdoom.pdf

3 years ago

Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staff Leave

https://www.businessinsider.com/a16z-future-closes-staff-exit-2022-11

3 years ago

Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX

https://www.ft.com/content/5e9dc424-aef4-4981-a4d7-e3c40e1e6085

3 years ago

Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired

https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/12/02/i-thought-id-been-hacked-it-turned-out-id-been-fired-tales-of-a-twitter-engineer

3 years ago

HAProxy 2.7

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-2-7/

3 years ago

'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/

3 years ago

How to move fast and not break things as a remote company

https://jam.dev/blog/how-to-move-fast-and-not-break-things/

3 years ago

On the Joy of Reading Slowly

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/02/i-want-to-savour-every-word-the-joy-of-reading-slowly

3 years ago

Magma: Open-source carrier-grade wireless networking platform for rural areas

https://github.com/magma

3 years ago

The clever reason scammers can’t spell (2019)

https://itservices.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2019/06/06/the-clever-reason-scammers-cant-spell/

3 years ago

How to JIT – An Introduction

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/11/05/how-to-jit-an-introduction

3 years ago

Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215633119

3 years ago

Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

https://prabros.com/chat-ui-ideas/

3 years ago

No longer possible for the public to learn who owns a EU company

https://twitter.com/pevchikh/status/1597588206874157058

3 years ago

Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI

https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-takes-webassembly-libraries-manistream-with-wai

3 years ago

Carmack on star fields in VR

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1598792396191375361

3 years ago

Europe makes shipping vessels pay for carbon emissions

https://www.maxinomics.com/blog/europe-makes-shipping-vessels-pay-for-carbon-emissions

3 years ago

The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-financial-times-has-been-printing-an-obvious-error-on-its-market-data-page-for-18-months-and-nobody-else-seems-to-have-noticed

3 years ago

Drag and Drop from Terminal

https://blog.meain.io/2022/terminal-drag-and-drop/

3 years ago

The Death of Quanta Magazine

https://mateusaraujo.info/2022/12/01/the-death-of-quanta-magazine/

3 years ago

Biblical verse explaining how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1598513757805858820

3 years ago

Starshield: Secured satellite network for government entities

https://www.spacex.com/starshield/

3 years ago

FCC partially grants SpaceX Gen2 broadband satellite application

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-partially-grants-spacex-gen2-broadband-satellite-application

3 years ago

Upcoming price increases for Cloud Storage

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing-announce-apr23

3 years ago

Is it worth writing about?

https://notes.eatonphil.com/is-it-worth-writing-about.html

3 years ago

Date Masamune: the samurai who inspired Darth Vader (2016)

https://nipponrama.com/date-masamune-samurai-darth-vader/

3 years ago

The World Cup of Microsoft Excel

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/world-cup-microsoft-excel/672320/

3 years ago

The Book of CP-System [pdf]

https://fabiensanglard.net/b/cpsb.pdf

3 years ago

Show HN: A web front end for your Org-files

https://codeberg.org/gopiandcode/emacs-viewer

3 years ago

Cancer Weakness Discovered: New Method Pushes Cancer Cells into Remission

https://scitechdaily.com/cancer-weakness-discovered-new-method-pushes-cancer-cells-into-remission/

3 years ago

Evidence of an oceanic impact and megatsunami on Mars

https://gizmodo.com/mars-megatsunami-asteroid-impact-1849840566

3 years ago

A History of Encabulation

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/encabulation/

3 years ago

Zebras hate you for no reason: Why Amdahl's law is misleading (2017)

https://www.EmbeddedRelated.com/showarticle/1033.php

3 years ago

WTF Is T_paamayim_nekudotayim (2013)

https://phil.tech/2013/wtf-is-t-paamayim-nekudotayim/

3 years ago

After violent robberies, some photographers opt to stay away from San Francisco

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-photography-robbery-photographers-not-visiting-photographer-assaulted-palace-of-fine-arts-attack/12453913/

3 years ago

Clara.io Shutting Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834828

3 years ago

The EFF has launched a campaign to protect the Internet from ISPlevel censorship

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/international-coalition-rights-groups-call-internet-infrastructure-providers-avoid

3 years ago