top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-05

Mac OS 9

https://macos9.app/

3 years ago

945 upvotes – 349 comments

Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location

https://www.hetzner.com/news/12-22-cloud-usa/

3 years ago

545 upvotes – 334 comments

Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting

https://ploum.net/2022-12-05-drowning-in-ai-generated-garbage.html

3 years ago

506 upvotes – 439 comments

AI Homework

https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/

3 years ago

472 upvotes – 288 comments

Lichess on Scala3 – Help needed

https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess-on-scala3-help-needed/2bpotLb0

3 years ago

450 upvotes – 65 comments

Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth

https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

3 years ago

407 upvotes – 137 comments

You might not need a CRDT

https://driftingin.space/posts/you-might-not-need-a-crdt

3 years ago

372 upvotes – 133 comments

If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

https://mrjamesbell.com/if-you-unscrew-your-belly-button-your-bottom-will-fall-off-and-other-things-my-dad-taught-me/

3 years ago

354 upvotes – 98 comments

Thunderbird for Android preview: Modern message redesign

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/12/thunderbird-for-android-preview-modern-message-redesign/

3 years ago

348 upvotes – 159 comments

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/france_no_windows_google/

3 years ago

323 upvotes – 115 comments

Federal court requires Amazon to stop firing employees for protected activities

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-region-29-wins-federal-court-order-requiring-amazon-to-cease-and

3 years ago

320 upvotes – 141 comments

Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a29802208/helmet-laws-safety/

3 years ago

320 upvotes – 574 comments

When McKinsey comes to town

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/laleh-khalili/in-clover

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 208 comments

Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

https://torrentfreak.com/company-hijacks-blenders-cc-by-licensed-film-youtube-strikes-user-221205/

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 132 comments

Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports

https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-to-pay-168-million-to-customers-arrested-due-to-their-false-police-reports/

3 years ago

284 upvotes – 173 comments

Play Windows Pinball (Space Cadet) on the Web

https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/

3 years ago

278 upvotes – 111 comments

Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark

https://github.com/jgm/djot

3 years ago

276 upvotes – 94 comments

Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder

https://www.atomic14.com/2022/12/05/using-chatgpt-as-a-co-founder.html

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 298 comments

Amazon shipped fake product, refuses refund until 'correct' item returned

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-returns-1.6669601

3 years ago

251 upvotes – 179 comments

Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

https://bitwarden.com/blog/passwordless-authentication-access-your-bitwarden-web-vault-without-a-password/

3 years ago

240 upvotes – 136 comments

Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/17587/can-lego-city-powered-up-trains-be-automated

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 75 comments

Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-mysteriously-bright-black-hole-jet.html

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 174 comments

How to estimate an SSD’s working life

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/05/how-to-estimate-an-ssds-working-life/

3 years ago

209 upvotes – 178 comments

Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 139 comments

Build List: A directory of on-demand manufacturers for your creative projects

https://buildlist.org/

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 28 comments

FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi

https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/freebsd-raspberry-pi.html

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 85 comments

Nibbler 4 Bit CPU (2013)

https://www.bigmessowires.com/nibbler/

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 33 comments

Tell HN: ChatGPT can reply like a specific Reddit or HN user, including you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860562

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 145 comments

Tell HN: Giving ChatGPT access to a real terminal

https://github.com/greshake/Alice

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 243 comments

SPACs collapse as $11B of deals are called off within an hour

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/spacs-collapse-as-11-billion-of-deals-are-called-off-within-an-hour

3 years ago

188 upvotes – 109 comments

The great Covid and smoking cover-up?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/05/the-great-covid-and-fags-cover-up/

3 years ago

186 upvotes – 237 comments

The Making of Dune II: The birth of the real-time strategy game

https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-dune-ii/

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 97 comments

Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 747 comments

Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive

https://www.evuniverse.io/newsletter/semi

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 497 comments

One does not simply destroy a nuclear weapon

https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/nuclear-weapon-disposal/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 153 comments

A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director

https://letsencrypt.org/2022/12/05/ed-letter-2022.html

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: Can you recommend a book to learn basic electrical concepts/engineering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33869277

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 46 comments

MIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased it 10 years out

https://www.pocnetwork.net/internet-news/mirc-ended-its-lifetime-license-agreement-with-all-who-purchased-its-software-10-years-out/

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 261 comments

CVS sued over ‘fraudulent’ donations to American Diabetes Association

https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cvs-sued-over-fraudulent-donations-to-american-diabetes-association/

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 110 comments

Inkscape 1.2.2

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.2/

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 31 comments

Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins

https://viewfromthewing.com/air-marshals-will-refuse-orders-to-go-to-the-border-prefer-protecting-first-class-cabins/

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 162 comments

ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword

https://jameswillia.ms/posts/chatgpt-cryptics.html

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 122 comments

New process allows 3-D printing of microscale metallic parts

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-process-allows-3-d-printing-of-microscale-metallic-parts

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 15 comments

The Peking Duck Exemption

https://www.culinarycrush.biz/all/pekin-duck-exception

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 150 comments

Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers (2021)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/mozambique-elephants-born-without-tusks-evolutionary-response/

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 128 comments

We’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-accessibility-text-recognition-screen-readers/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: Chrome extension to summarize blogs and articles using ChatGPT

https://github.com/clmnin/summarize.site

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 54 comments

Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33871204

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 62 comments

Sci-fi illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001)

https://retro-futurism.livejournal.com/418315.html

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

Autonomous trucking upstart Embark has gone from $5B+ to basically worthless

https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/autonomous-driving-spac-embk/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 91 comments

Cops can extract data from 10k different car models’ infotainment systems

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/01/10000-cars-can-be-data-raided-by-police-ice-cbp-love-it/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 112 comments

Vancouver Special

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

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-year-old-uluburun-shipwreck-reveal-complex.html

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: Do you measure and/or mitigate CO2 in your living space?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33864195

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 145 comments

Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (1996)

http://users.ics.aalto.fi/tho/stes/step96/hyotyniemi1/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

FX swap debt a $80T 'blind spot', global regulator says

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/global-markets-bis-urgent-2022-12-05/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 173 comments

QOIR: A fast, simple, lossless image file format

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2022/qoir.html

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

DHS announces extension of Real ID full enforcement deadline

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/12/05/dhs-announces-extension-real-id-full-enforcement-deadline

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 242 comments

Fe: next generation smart contract language for Ethereum

https://fe-lang.org/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 131 comments

Discuss HN: Software Careers Post ChatGPT+

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863749

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 143 comments

Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/5/rust-chatgpt-copilot/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Sign Everything

https://avc.com/2022/12/sign-everything/

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 87 comments

‘We kind of lost track’: how SBF blurred lines between FTX and Alameda

https://www.ft.com/content/a1df1d73-9932-4d1b-b63a-c0c82241a236

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 145 comments

Be Less Scared of Overconfidence

https://www.benkuhn.net/overconfidence/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

Causal Explanations Considered Harmful

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/causal-explanations-considered-harmful

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

On the subject of earwax and unsupported medical arguments

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-exciting-subject-of-earwax

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 88 comments

The Great Pi Zero Showdown

https://bret.dk/pi-zero-showdown/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

VCs using scouts means founders get the short end of the stick (2021)

https://sifted.eu/articles/vc-scout-programme-problems/

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments
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