top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-03

Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

3 years ago

$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

https://medium.com/@david073/7-million-dollar-amazon-bankrupt-cf977fb085f5

3 years ago

The best leaders are great individual contributors, not professional managers

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/37-years-ago-steve-jobs-said-best-managers-never-want-to-be-a-manager-science-says-he-was-right.html

3 years ago

Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c

3 years ago

Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor

https://www.blockbench.net/

3 years ago

Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform

https://silverbullet.md/

3 years ago

MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot

https://futurism.com/msn-is-publishing-more-fake-news

3 years ago

Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/

3 years ago

New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content

https://reclaimthenet.org/new-zealand-government-facebook-content-takedown-portal/

3 years ago

Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

http://wikiwho.ailef.tech

3 years ago

Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-security-camera-cloud-private-encryption-authentication-storage

3 years ago

Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist

https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

3 years ago

How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works

https://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-engine.html

3 years ago

An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT

https://thetinycto.com/gpt-game

3 years ago

Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks

https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap

3 years ago

The impotence of being clever

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/hope-itself/articles/the-impotence-of-being-clever

3 years ago

Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool

https://www.taiga.io/

3 years ago

France prepares for possibility of electricity blackouts during winter months

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20221201-how-france-is-preparing-to-avoid-a-major-blackout-this-winter

3 years ago

ChatGPT produces made-up nonexistent references

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672

3 years ago

Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/01/britain-sleepwalking-censorship-running-time-stop/

3 years ago

MagSpoof: Wireless Magstrip Spoofer

https://github.com/samyk/magspoof

3 years ago

Instagram Is Over

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/instagram-tiktok-twitter-social-media-competition/672305/

3 years ago

One of France's oldest butter producers makes 380 tons per year [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b--l_0eMbo8

3 years ago

EmacsConf 2022

https://emacsconf.org/2022/

3 years ago

Fosshost Is Shutting Down

https://fosshost.org/

3 years ago

Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672221104927

3 years ago

I’m thrilled to announce that nothing is going on with me

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/im-thrilled-to-announce-that-nothing-is-going-on-with-me

3 years ago

Ask HN: Getting into AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33840860

3 years ago

Judge finds no rights violations in FBI seizure Beverly Hills safe-deposit boxes

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-30/judge-backs-fbi-beverly-hills-safe-deposit-box-raid

3 years ago

AI solves Advent of Code 2022

https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

3 years ago

The future is analog: How to create a more human world

https://thewalrus.ca/why-the-future-is-analog/

3 years ago

Gameboy Doctor: debug and fix your gameboy emulator

https://robertheaton.com/gameboy-doctor/

3 years ago

Twitter is limiting Mastodon Twitter Crossposter

https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

3 years ago

Rackspace Exchange hosting down ~18 hours; “solution” is to start over on O365

https://twitter.com/rackspace/status/1598854426105548801

3 years ago

Why We’re Suing NSO

https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/why-were-suing-nso-group?_preview_=7bd805e6dc

3 years ago

Complete working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS6502 microprocessor

https://monster6502.com/

3 years ago

Adventures in Advent of Code

https://davedelong.com/blog/2022/12/03/adventures-in-advent-of-code/

3 years ago

The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It

https://secularhumanism.org/2022/12/the-truth-matters-and-secular-humanists-should-defend-it/

3 years ago

A German experiment that placed foster children with pedophiles (2021)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles

3 years ago

Moog dancers prove that TV was more adventurous in the 70s

https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2022/12/02/moog-dancers-prove-that-tv-was-a-lot-more-adventurous-in-the-70s/

3 years ago

The Oldschool PC Font Pack (v2.2)

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/

3 years ago

Streaming lossless VNC to a web browser with Quite OK image format

https://kasmweb.com/docs/latest/how_to/lossless.html

3 years ago

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

https://scribe.rip/using-rust-at-a-startup-a-cautionary-tale-42ab823d9454

3 years ago

Show HN: A nice C string API

https://github.com/mickjc750/str

3 years ago

The first Geely was a fake Mercedes-Benz E-Class based on a real Audi 100

https://chinacarhistory.com/2018/02/07/the-first-geely-was-a-mercedes-benz-e-class-based-on-an-audi-100/

3 years ago

Call of Duty players flock to buy “all-black” DLC skin, hide in dark corners

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/call-of-duty-players-flock-to-buy-all-black-dlc-skin-hide-in-dark-corners/

3 years ago

The Dawn of Mediocre Computing

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-dawn-of-mediocre-computing

3 years ago

Magpies – Smart, witty birds

https://www.ouraynews.com/feature-coverage/magpies-smart-witty-birds

3 years ago

Adobe at 40

https://www.fastcompany.com/90817765/adobe-at-40-the-past-present-and-future-of-creativity-softwares-enduring-giant

3 years ago

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools

https://calmcode.io/

3 years ago

The Effects of Uber and Lyft in U.S. Cities

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/november/ride-hailing-brief.html

3 years ago

RISC-V Bytes

https://danielmangum.com/categories/risc-v-bytes/

3 years ago

macOS Monterey still vulnerable to CVE-2022-40303

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/MontereyCVE.html

3 years ago

France bans internal flights in favor of trains

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/02/is-france-banning-private-jets-everything-we-know-from-a-week-of-green-transport-proposals

3 years ago

A Mindmap of Linux Commands

https://xmind.app/m/WwtB/

3 years ago

PX or REM in CSS? Just Use REM

https://austingil.com/px-or-rem-in-css/

3 years ago

Ofcom letter on restrictions on internet services for “designated persons” [pdf]

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/237218/open-letter-russia-sanctions.pdf

3 years ago