top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-21

Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately

https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret/

3 years ago

I still use Flash

https://foon.uk/how-flash-2022/

3 years ago

3M to end 'forever chemicals' output

https://www.reuters.com/business/3m-stop-making-forever-chemicals-take-up-23-bln-charge-2022-12-20/

3 years ago

WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers

https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/docker-without-containers/

3 years ago

Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-says-its-github-account-hacked-source-code-stolen/

3 years ago

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)

https://realizeengineering.blog/2021/01/20/we-are-drowning-in-information-while-starving-for-wisdom/

3 years ago

ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html

3 years ago

Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-freeform-a-powerful-new-app-designed-for-creative-collaboration/

3 years ago

Stable Diffusion 2 Depth Guided model: architecture photos from dollhouse

https://twitter.com/justlv/status/1605276764598665217

3 years ago

Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/threeuk-blocks-tutanota

3 years ago

Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA

https://www.thedrive.com/news/29205/repairing-your-car-in-your-own-garage-is-considered-illegal-in-sacramento-california

3 years ago

Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges

https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-binanceus-a-fake-exchange

3 years ago

Pfizer Penalties Since 2000: $10B

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/pfizer

3 years ago

Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI‑powered Deband feature

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2022/12/21/pixelmator-pro-gets-a-magical-ai-powered-deband-feature/

3 years ago

Web IDE Beta

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide_beta/

3 years ago

Checked C

https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc

3 years ago

Philadelphia Phreakers installing free payphone

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/tech/pay-phone-philadelphia/3452775/

3 years ago

‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/20/my-powers-really-low-nasas-insight-mars-rover-signs-off-from-the-red-planet

3 years ago

The cost of being poor: Why it costs so much to be poor in America

https://finmasters.com/cost-of-being-poor/

3 years ago

All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

3 years ago

Jazz.Computer

http://jazz.computer/

3 years ago

How “See a Satellite Tonight” Works

https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight-works

3 years ago

Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/12/21/version-20-rc.html

3 years ago

Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules

https://but-her-flies.bearblog.dev/mastodon-is-not-a-good-social-network/

3 years ago

Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-created-male-and-female-cells-from-a-single-person/

3 years ago

Using ChatGPT to make Bash palatable

https://brev.dev/blog/ai-wont-replace-you-write-bash

3 years ago

Guide to Go profiling, tracing and observability

https://github.com/DataDog/go-profiler-notes/blob/main/guide/README.md

3 years ago

A non-constructive proof of the Four Colour Theorem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09835

3 years ago

Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks

https://www.philipithomas.com/posts/why-i-built-postcard-a-calmer-alternative-to-social-networks

3 years ago

Wells Fargo Penalties Since 2000: $22B

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?parent=wells-fargo&order=penalty&sort=desc

3 years ago

Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2022/12/21/dolphin-progress-report-september-october-november-2022/

3 years ago

Show HN: Write 500 Words a Day

https://www.fivehundredwordsaday.com/beta

3 years ago

Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis

https://waveletbeam.com/index.php/news/48-netflix-film-grain-synthesis

3 years ago

I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/21/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-do-what-backstage-does-for-free/

3 years ago

Stable Diffusion on AMD RDNA3

https://nod.ai/sd-on-rdna3/

3 years ago

CLEAR is a pox on America’s airports

https://slate.com/business/2022/12/clear-airports-line-tsa-precheck.html

3 years ago

OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation

https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/openjdk-galahad-Dec22/

3 years ago

Swing Ratio

https://nld-intern.ds.mpg.de/swingratio/

3 years ago

Programming as Play

https://austinhenley.com/blog/programmingasplay.html

3 years ago

Ink – Inkle's narrative scripting language

https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

3 years ago

NTSC encoding/decoding in C89 using only integers and fixed point math

https://github.com/LMP88959/NTSC-CRT

3 years ago

The Decline of the City Grid

https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-decline-of-the-city-grid

3 years ago

Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/

3 years ago

The End of Programming

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext

3 years ago

TensorFlow Datasets

https://github.com/tensorflow/datasets

3 years ago

Bike Frame Stiffness

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/11046/bike-frame-stiffness

3 years ago

Palantir’s SPAC bets backfire

https://www.wsj.com/articles/palantirs-spac-bets-backfire-hitting-companys-growth-11671511333

3 years ago

Jami: Share, Message, Call freely and privately

https://jami.net/

3 years ago

Older iPhones bricked for being too outdated, locking users from data [video]

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

3 years ago

The Physics of baking good Pizza (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08790

3 years ago

Against All Applications

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/against-all-applications

3 years ago

This year in LLVM

https://www.npopov.com/2022/12/20/This-year-in-LLVM-2022.html

3 years ago

Protocols, not platforms

https://allenbrunson.com/posts/protocols-not-platforms/

3 years ago

Large-format camera movements (2020)

https://www.alexbond.com.au/understanding-large-format-camera-movements/

3 years ago

Linux's strcmp() for the m68k has always been broken

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-m68k-strcmp-Always-Broken

3 years ago

Pixi3D – 3D rendering library for the web

https://github.com/jnsmalm/pixi3d

3 years ago

Systemd-coredump: CVE-2022-4415: local information leak

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/21/3

3 years ago

Raytheon completes engine run of hybrid-electric flight demonstrator

https://www.timesaerospace.aero:443/news/general-aviation/raytheon-completes-engine-run-of-hybrid-electric-flight-demonstrator

3 years ago

QTS refits Dutch datacenter to warm thousands of homes with waste heat

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/datacenter_district_heating/

3 years ago

A swarm of robots built this tunnel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJY0syocfU

3 years ago

Saving power on an ESP8266 web server using delays

https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2022/08/saving_power_on_an_esp8266_web_server_using_delays/

3 years ago

Interview with Martin Hellman of Diffie-Hellman (2004)

https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107353/oh375mh.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

3 years ago

Crochet: A little hook to improve attention?

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283453v1

3 years ago

C64 OS v1.0

https://www.c64os.com/post/c64osv1release

3 years ago

Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

https://journa.host/@jeremybowers/109551706041274437

3 years ago

Gut microbiome affects motivation to exercise in mice: study

https://singularityhub.com/2022/12/20/to-hack-your-motivation-to-exercise-you-may-just-need-to-tweak-your-gut-microbiome/

3 years ago

Regulating Crypto: How we move forward as an industry from here

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/regulating-crypto-how-we-move-forward-as-an-industry-from-here

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to build F-You Skills

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34084782

3 years ago

The Generation Ship Model of Software Development (2014)

https://medium.com/@wm/the-generation-ship-model-of-software-development-5ef89a74854b

3 years ago

I trained ChatGPT on my childhood journal entries to talk to my inner child

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-trained-ai-chatbot-on-my-journals-inner-child-2022-12

3 years ago

All American Five radio receivers

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

3 years ago

Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars? (2021)

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/02/whatever-happened-to-williams-f1s-flywheel-hybrid-idea/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34077266

3 years ago

DBpedia Ontology

https://www.dbpedia.org/resources/ontology/

3 years ago

I was a useful idiot for capitalism

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/

3 years ago

Roll or Don’t

https://www.rollordont.com/

3 years ago

Sea Anchor

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

3 years ago

Number Stations and Enigma Stations

https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Category:Numbers_Stations

3 years ago

This isn't over-complicated, it's just complicated

https://www.benlorantfy.com/no-this-isnt-over-complicated-its-just-complicated

3 years ago

South Park Creators Land $20M in Funding for Their Deepfake VFX Studio

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/trey-parker-matt-stone-deep-voodoo-deepfake-funding-1235466563/

3 years ago

Mastodon server maintenance: The Queues down in Queueville

https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2022/12/20/the-queues-%EF%B8%8F-down-in-queueville/

3 years ago

The death of the line of death

https://emilymstark.com/2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-death.html

3 years ago

Using Mastodon to power blog comments

https://grahammacphee.com/writing/mastodon-blog-comments

3 years ago