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Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
https://obsidian.md/canvas
3 years ago
756
461
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
715
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Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/
553
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There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge
https://there.oughta.be/a/game-boy-capture-cartridge
470
559
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069106
396
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Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
369
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A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2
367
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Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-reaches-record-3-135449093.html
316
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Show HN: Create a paid link to anything
https://paidlink.to
310
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An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)
https://mastodon.online/@raph/109547934082265439
301
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Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe
https://ourworldindata.org/europe-mammal-comeback
283
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Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
https://vgel.me/posts/donut/
265
146
“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)
https://mdalmijn.com/p/11-laws-of-software-estimation-for-complex-work
247
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In praise of MIDI
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/19/in_praise_of_midi_techs/
245
66
The topologist’s world map (2020)
https://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/
243
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The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38499883
240
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Ruby delights built into the language
https://technology.doximity.com/articles/ruby-delights-built-into-the-language
230
60
Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-is-paying-a-whole-lot-of-developers-to-keep-the-steam-decks-open-source-software-going/
228
Boring Python: Code quality
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2022/dec/19/boring-python-code-quality/
222
40
Point-E: Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis
https://github.com/openai/point-e
214
69
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6606
70
D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML
https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
207
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Apple is struggling to build Mac Pro based on its own silicon
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-struggles-to-build-mac-pro-based-on-own-cpus
195
120
The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in beta
https://github.com/microsoft/WSA/discussions/167
141
AI's Jurassic Park Moment
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/267674-ais-jurassic-park-moment/fulltext
191
MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2022/12/19/mariadb-goes-public-in-spac-merger.html
177
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Amiga Forever
https://www.amigaforever.com
103
NY Governor stalls right-to-repair bill; has until Dec 28 to avoid “pocket veto”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/right-to-repair-bill-passed-in-june-still-awaits-ny-governors-signature/
169
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The “Wavefunction Collapse” generation algorithm explained clearly (2018)
https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/
168
50
Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
https://jorzel.github.io/deep-work-essentialism-in-asynchronous-culture/
167
89
OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4B fraud
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/20/crypto_ponzi_scheme_cofounder_pleads/
164
WordPress to support SQLite back end
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/12/20/help-us-test-the-sqlite-implementation/
161
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An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1
https://web.archive.org/web/20230206124408/https://manny.codes/this-week-in-rails-wrapped-an-overview-of-rails-7-1-features-part-i/
86
Show HN: Death by AI
https://deathbyai.com
Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
https://github.blog/changelog/2022-12-19-tencent-wechat-is-now-a-github-secret-scanning-partner/
151
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Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63871090
142
People took some potassium and lost some weight
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/12/20/people-took-some-potassium-and-lost-some-weight/
139
80
UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64036529
135
158
Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34065234
132
32
Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2022/12/upgrading-my-old-chumby-8-linux-kernel-part-1-u-boot/
131
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Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802
115
23
More than 100 new designs discovered in Peru’s ancient Nazca plain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/peru-nazca-plain-ancient-art-new-designs-discovered
344
The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the contact era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16505
106
Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2022/11/well-tempered-clavier-bach-300-years-accidental-masterpiece
113
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LoRa: Field Testing Antennas
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/5497
242
Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane?
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/12/19/is-forced-treatment-for-the-mentally-ill-ever-humane
108
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Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621599
58
The APL Source Code (2012)
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/
104
Why we picked Java
https://blog.picnic.nl/why-picnic-picked-java-e53fafe0df1b
92
Censoring Naked Yoga
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/no-nudity-allowed-censoring-naked-yoga
90
The future our grandchildren deserve
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/The-Year-Ahead-2023
237
Elon Musk’s $44B education on free speech
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/12/19/elon-musks-44bn-education-on-free-speech
88
Atari 2600 Manual: Basic Programming (1979)
https://archive.org/details/Basic_Programming_1979_Atari_US_a
84
34
Cormac McCarthy loves a good diner
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/books/cormac-mccarthy-food-passenger.html
78
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Ask HN: One of our Azure accounts was hacked – how to negotiate the bill?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061174
51
George Hotz: Resigned from Twitter Today
https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/1605341207109939201
9
Reanimate: Build declarative animations with SVG and Haskell
https://reanimate.github.io/
109
Hacking Go's runtime with generics
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-12-19-maphash/
68
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Serial Reader: Reading Schedule Builder
https://www.serialreader.org/schedule-builder/2023/
67
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Show HN: There's an AI for That
https://theresanaiforthat.com/
65
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2023's public domain is a banger
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada
64
Ask HN: Favorite Purchases of 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064889
63
Ask HN: Given AI advancements, is a master’s degree in CS worthless?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34067707
62
Early retirement and ageing population causing labour shortages: Lords report
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/175/economic-affairs-committee/news/175197/early-retirement-and-our-ageing-population-are-causing-labour-shortages-says-lords-report/