top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-12-22

Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

https://github.com/elanmart/cbp-translate

3 years ago

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/

3 years ago

UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol

https://f-droid.org/2022/12/18/unifiedpush.html

3 years ago

Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/12/japan-to-invest-on-nuclear-energy-in-major-policy-shift/

3 years ago

Welcome to Comprehensive Rust

https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/

3 years ago

LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

3 years ago

The pocket guide to debugging

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/21/new-zine--the-pocket-guide-to-debugging/

3 years ago

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill

https://www.benkuhn.net/abyss/

3 years ago

Are super-rich people just better at making money?

https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/

3 years ago

Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)

https://devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ipod-touch-qemu/

3 years ago

How Pitfall builds its world (2021)

https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html

3 years ago

Password Requirements: Myths and Madness

https://www.franzoni.eu/password-requirements-myths-madness/

3 years ago

A year of building for the terminal

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2022/12/20/a-year-of-building-for-the-terminal/

3 years ago

Bunny AI

https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-bunny-optimizer-ai-a-new-way-of-creating-content/

3 years ago

Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ftx-fraud-guilty-pleas.html

3 years ago

For Want of a JOIN

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/sql_join/

3 years ago

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250M bail

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-to-be-released-on-250-million-bail.html

3 years ago

O Holy Crap

https://www.thefp.com/p/an-elegy-to-all-my-crap

3 years ago

Pico8 Music Synthesizer

https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picosynth

3 years ago

Don't call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2011)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/

3 years ago

Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1143475374/hotels-labor-worker-shortage-robots-automation

3 years ago

24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/

3 years ago

How Apple names things

https://nicolas.kruchten.com/content/2022/12/apple_tm/

3 years ago

Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic

https://spectrum.ieee.org/thin-film-solar-panels

3 years ago

Docker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it

https://www.paolomainardi.com/posts/docker-performance-macos/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Two YC companies in a row hired and then didn't take me on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096010

3 years ago

Do simpler machine learning models exist and how can we find them?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/12/22/do-simpler-machine-learning-models-exist-and-how-can-we-find-them/

3 years ago

France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20221222-france-fines-microsoft-%E2%82%AC60m-for-imposing-advertising-cookies

3 years ago

Don't force users to register before they can buy (2015)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/optional-registration/

3 years ago

Thelonious Monk’s Tips for Musicians (1960)

https://www.openculture.com/2017/12/thelonious-monks-25-tips-for-musicians-1960.html

3 years ago

SantaCoder: A new 1.1B code model for generation and infilling

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/santacoder-demo

3 years ago

Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code

https://lemire.me/blog/2022/05/13/avoid-exception-throwing-in-performance-sensitive-code/

3 years ago

Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid

https://areomagazine.com/2022/01/12/the-ants-have-not-read-kant-petr-kropotkin-and-mutual-aid/

3 years ago

Ask HN: In-depth sites for various industries' news?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34093597

3 years ago

The Society of Mind (1986) [pdf]

http://www.acad.bg/ebook/ml/Society%20of%20Mind.pdf

3 years ago

Linux Kernel Ksmbd Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1690/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to find mentors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34092577

3 years ago

Researchers find that a simple “talking to strangers” intervention is effective

https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/psychology-researchers-find-that-a-simple-talking-to-strangers-intervention-is-surprisingly-effective-64561

3 years ago

Against Method

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

3 years ago

40 Years of PCMag: An Illustrated Guide

https://www.pcmag.com/news/40-years-of-pcmag-an-illustrated-guide

3 years ago

Scaling Down Deep Learning

https://greydanus.github.io/2020/12/01/scaling-down/

3 years ago

The largest Viking Ship sailing in modern times

https://www.drakenhh.com/about-the-ship

3 years ago

Grad student unions strike deal with University of California

https://www.science.org/content/article/grad-student-unions-strike-controversial-deal-university-california

3 years ago

Life cycle assessment of enzymatic PET recycling

https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2022/scientists-discover-enzymes-cheaper-to-recycle-waste-polyester-textiles-and-bottles-than-making-from-petroleum.html

3 years ago

Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)

https://www.patterns.app/blog/2022/12/21/finetune-llm-tech-support/

3 years ago

LL(1) Parser Visualization

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring20/cos320/LL1/

3 years ago

Startup childhood – Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form

https://dalton.substack.com/p/startup-childhood

3 years ago

Xbrowsersync – open-source Bookmark Synching

https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

3 years ago

Africa’s biggest photography library opens in Ghana

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/20/africas-biggest-photography-library-opens-in-ghana-accra-dikan-center

3 years ago

Common Lisp – Myths and Legends (2002)

http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html

3 years ago

Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments

https://www.withcoherence.com/post/staging-is-dead-the-rise-of-preview-environments

3 years ago

Tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world (2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/11/design-museum-california-designing-freedom-tech-design

3 years ago

Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life

https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-tentacled-microbe-may-resemble-ancestor-complex-life

3 years ago

Infinite Canvas

https://infinitecanvas.tools/

3 years ago

Hypercard on the Archive (2017)

https://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/

3 years ago

Linux /proc/pid/stat parsing bugs

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/21/6

3 years ago

State of OpenID Connect Providers

https://blog.m5e.de/post/state-of-openid-connect-providers/

3 years ago

Trading with BDDs

https://taeric.github.io/trading-with-bdds.html

3 years ago

Implementing the MySQL server protocol for fun and profit

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/implementing-the-mysql-server-protocol-for-fun-and-profit/

3 years ago

NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Display Engine

https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/de3

3 years ago

Tesla ‘full self-driving’ triggered an eight-car crash, a driver tells police

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/business/tesla-fsd-8-car-crash/index.html

3 years ago

Not Getting Hacked

https://www.jefftk.com/p/not-getting-hacked

3 years ago

Hardened_malloc

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc

3 years ago

LastPass users: Your info and vault data is now in hackers’ hands

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/lastpass-says-hackers-have-obtained-vault-data-and-a-wealth-of-customer-info/

3 years ago

The war on merit takes a bizarre turn

https://www.city-journal.org/war-on-merit-takes-bizarre-turn

3 years ago

Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

3 years ago

90s VR Sainsbury's [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnEWO0h5Gjo

3 years ago

LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/lastpass-customer-password-vaults-stolen/

3 years ago

Google tells employees more of them will be at risk for low performance ratings

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/google-tells-employees-higher-risk-of-low-performance-ratings-in-2023.html

3 years ago

Ocean geoengineering scheme aces its first field test

https://www.science.org/content/article/ocean-geoengineering-scheme-aces-its-first-field-test

3 years ago

Generating audio with literate futhark

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2022-12-22-literate-audio.html

3 years ago

H.L. Mencken Reviews the Great Gatsby (1925)

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-prj-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-hl-mencken-20141010-story.html

3 years ago

The hand-cranked Curta mechanical calculator (2021)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/the-remarkable-history-of-the-hand-cranked-curta-mechanical-calculator/

3 years ago

Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning

https://blog.aawadia.dev/2022/12/20/cats-pi-and-machine-learning/

3 years ago

A personal history of visual programming environments (2021)

https://nickarner.com/notes/a-personal-history-of-visual-programming-enviornments-november-13-2021/

3 years ago

Documentary Exposes How the FBI Tried to Destroy MLK with Wiretaps, Blackmail

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/956741992/documentary-exposes-how-the-fbi-tried-to-destroy-mlk-with-wiretaps-blackmail

3 years ago

American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/22/1144864971/american-life-expectancy-is-now-at-its-lowest-in-nearly-two-decades

3 years ago