top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-15

Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music

https://www.riffusion.com/about

2 years ago

2421 upvotes – 465 comments

Autopsy-based characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5

2 years ago

495 upvotes – 621 comments

Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned

https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess--scala-3/y1sbYzJX

2 years ago

478 upvotes – 213 comments

Doors of McMurdo

https://brr.fyi/posts/doors-of-mcmurdo

2 years ago

457 upvotes – 126 comments

NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/12/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm

2 years ago

443 upvotes – 205 comments

Python 3.11 Delivers

https://twitter.com/pypi/status/1603089763287826432

2 years ago

423 upvotes – 146 comments

Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?

https://vmst.io/@selzero/109512557990367884

2 years ago

410 upvotes – 825 comments

Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans

https://singularityhub.com/2022/12/13/deepminds-alphacode-conquers-coding-performing-as-well-as-humans/

2 years ago

338 upvotes – 543 comments

Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app

https://readwise.io/read

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 156 comments

Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

https://medusajs.com/blog/9-best-ecommerce-ux-practices-with-examples

2 years ago

322 upvotes – 167 comments

Na-S Battery: Low-cost with four times the capacity of lithium

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/12/07/low-cost-battery-built-with-four-times-the-capacity-of-lithium.html

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 156 comments

Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-is-turning-off-online-services-and-servers-for-some-older-games

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 352 comments

XFCE 4.18

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_8.html

2 years ago

296 upvotes – 143 comments

Request for Startups: Climate Tech

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/rfs-climatetech

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 273 comments

Native Reflection in Rust

https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/deflect/

2 years ago

277 upvotes – 65 comments

Maryland law limits homeowner association control over eco-friendly yards

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 213 comments

Adding WebRTC support to OBS using Rust

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7926

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 34 comments

Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-12/elon-musk-s-5-7-billion-mystery-gift-went-to-his-own-charity

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 325 comments

‘Luddite’ Teens

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/style/teens-social-media.html

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 282 comments

Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon

https://twitter.com/joinmastodon

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 104 comments

Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999296

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 378 comments

The Gates of Argonath in VR at 50 FPS on Unreal Engine

https://old.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/zlytkq/hi_guys_i_made_the_argonath_from_the_lord_of_the/

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 118 comments

The rise and fall of peer review

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

2 years ago

199 upvotes – 104 comments

Things I want from Devs as SRE/DevOps

https://oschvr.com/posts/what-id-like-as-sre/

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 143 comments

IvorySQL: Open-source Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL

https://github.com/IvorySQL/IvorySQL

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 70 comments

Soyuz module on International Space Station is leaking something

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1603213585307541506

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 73 comments

Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker

https://twitter.com/vickio96064997/status/1603051469040762881

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 89 comments

Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

https://twitter.com/henrylim96/status/1603281698287935488

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 94 comments

IDN is crazy

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/14/idn-is-crazy/

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 136 comments

Apollo Layoffs

https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 212 comments

Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available

https://z-wavealliance.org/news_p/z-wave-alliance-announces-z-wave-source-code-project-is-complete-now-open-and-widely-available-to-members/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 122 comments

Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07332

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 81 comments

Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch Overture Foundation for open map data

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/meta-microsoft-aws-and-tomtom-launch-the-overture-maps-foundation-to-develop-interoperable-open-map-data/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 56 comments

Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set

https://kottke.org/22/12/vintage-map-mandelbrot-set

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 25 comments

Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules

https://sourcery.ai/blog/dependency-rules/

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 75 comments

How the brain distinguishes memories from perceptions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-distinguishes-memories-from-perceptions-20221214/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 20 comments

PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3gw9v7jnvo

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 61 comments

Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election

https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/14/istanbul-mayor-jailed-for-insulting-officials-ahead-of-2023-election

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 48 comments

Supabase Wrappers: A framework for building Postgres foreign data wrappers

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-foreign-data-wrappers-rust

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 46 comments

Fusion breakthrough is a noteworthy step

https://spectrum.ieee.org/national-ignition-facility-impractical

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 112 comments

New and Improved Embedding Model for OpenAI

https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 48 comments

Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to 42 Months for Acting as a Foreign Agent

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-twitter-employee-sentenced-42-months-federal-prison-acting-foreign-agent

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 10 comments

DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time

https://www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-cloud-package-update/

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

TikTok’s Secret Sauce

https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/tiktoks-secret-sauce

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting

https://webkit.org/blog/13607/help-choose-from-options-for-css-nesting-syntax/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 159 comments

Common Lisp (1986)

https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/P7W_1ISJ-sU/m/GAo6w-0B7oQJ

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34000076

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 137 comments

A thin gold layer could be the secret to glasses that don't fog

https://gizmodo.com/glasses-fog-anti-no-fog-without-spray-heating-gold-laye-1849887511

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 99 comments

The Bitter Lesson (2019)

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

What did Unix fans learn from the end of Unix workstations?

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/13/unix_workstations_lessons/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 104 comments

Libreboot 20221214

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20221214.html

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Overture Maps Foundation

https://overturemaps.org/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

22 Discoveries of 2022

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/most-amazing-discoveries-2022

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Bestselling books have been getting shorter

https://wordsrated.com/bestselling-books-have-never-been-shorter/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 114 comments

What Is a Query Planner?

https://planetscale.com/blog/what-is-a-query-planner

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 48 comments

‘Two years of lost immigration’ is responsible for half of missing workforce

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/15/immigration-reform-congress-worker-shortage/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 116 comments

I quiz ChatGPT about math

https://billwadge.com/2022/12/15/just-how-smart-are-you-chatgpt-i-quiz-chatgpt-about-math/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 84 comments

Flock is Building a New AI-Driven Mass-Surveillance System [pdf]

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/flock_1.pdf

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Sen. Wyden Requests Probe into Sale of DNS Query Data [pdf]

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Signed%20Neustar%20letter%2012.15.22.pdf

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

Report of alleged wrongdoing in poker hand and audit of security live stream

https://hustlercasinolive.com/j4report/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 70 comments

Finding JIT Optimizer Bugs using SMT Solvers and Fuzzing

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2022/12/jit-bug-finding-smt-fuzzing.html

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Update on Vulkan video decoding vith open-source AMD driver RADV

https://airlied.blogspot.com/2022/12/vulkan-video-decoding-radv-status.html

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: How do you use upvote on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997986

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 92 comments

Valve hit a home run with the first year of Steam Deck

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/valve-steam-deck-home-run/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Ellie – Your GPT-3 email assistant

https://ellieai.com

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments
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