top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-01

Conversation skills essentials

https://tynan.com/letstalk/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206219

3 years ago

Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/goalposts/

3 years ago

“My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609613748364509184

3 years ago

Casio-F-91W die-shot

https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Casio-F-91W-OKI-quartz-watch

3 years ago

Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30

https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/

3 years ago

The internet wants to be fragmented

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragmented

3 years ago

Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`

https://brandur.org/fragments/deleted-record-insert

3 years ago

Pop2Piano: Pop audio-based piano cover generation

https://sweetcocoa.github.io/pop2piano_samples/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Are there any good open source text-to-speech tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211457

3 years ago

Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146221454/epstein-jpmorgan-virgin-islands-lawsuit

3 years ago

German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act

https://www.bakertilly.de/en/news/detail/bundestag-beschliesst-hinweisgeberschutzgesetz-welche-neuerungen-fuer-unternehmen-nun-wichtig-sind.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34205294

3 years ago

“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/how-internet-in-space-will-transform

3 years ago

Get Running with Couch to 5K

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-exercises/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/

3 years ago

Coworkers are less ambitious; bosses adjust to the new order

https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-coworkers-are-less-ambitious-bosses-adjust-to-the-new-order-11672441067

3 years ago

Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023

https://vad.solutions/ipmap/

3 years ago

Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-31/twitter-sued-for-nonpayment-of-rent-on-san-francisco-office

3 years ago

Ask HN: How does a hobby programmer get hired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206559

3 years ago

Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain December 30th, 2022

https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/

3 years ago

Once an open sewer, New York Harbor now teems with life

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opinion/new-york-harbor-clean-water-act.html

3 years ago

Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/roauss.htm

3 years ago

Mini brains grown from stem cells developed eye-like features (2021)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mini-brains-grown-stem-cells-developed-eyes-can-sense-light-180978478/

3 years ago

Remaking old computer graphics with AI image generation

https://jalammar.github.io/ai-image-generation-tools/

3 years ago

AI Voice Generator: Text to Speech Software

https://murf.ai

3 years ago

Smalltalk-80 on Raspberry Pi: A bare metal implementation

https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk

3 years ago

Tesla broke labor laws by telling workers not to discuss pay, NLRB claims

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/31/23533743/tesla-florida-workers-pay-working-conditions-nlrb

3 years ago

Modeling my Grandpa with 3D Photogrammetry (2021)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/modeling-my-grandpa-3d-photogrammetry

3 years ago

A secret message in a Colombian song gave hostages hope

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63995293

3 years ago

Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

3 years ago

Worst interview questions for software developers

https://fibery.io/blog/worst-interview-questions-for-software-developers/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211796

3 years ago

Ripes: Visual computer architecture simulator, assembly code editor for RISC-V

https://github.com/mortbopet/Ripes

3 years ago

Xfinity Stream on Linux: A Tale of Widevine, ChromeOS, and a patched Glibc

https://thebrokenrail.com/2022/12/31/xfinity-stream-on-linux.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is programming culture immature?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34207699

3 years ago

SQLite 2022 Recap

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/df285a4182688791

3 years ago

Tell HN: Did you know that you can help restore a person’s eyesight for $50?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34208100

3 years ago

Bring Back Personal Blogging

https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging

3 years ago

Building a Frankenstein 64

https://celso.io/retrocomputing/2022/12/27/c64-from-scratch

3 years ago

Competitive programming in Haskell: better binary search

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/competitive-programming-in-haskell-better-binary-search/

3 years ago

To be productive, be prepared

https://martinrue.com/to-be-productive-be-prepared/

3 years ago

Adding design-by-contract conditions to C++ via a GCC plugin

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/adding-invariant-to-cpp-design-by-contract

3 years ago

Why a global recession is inevitable in 2023

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2022/11/18/why-a-global-recession-is-inevitable-in-2023

3 years ago

Automating heating with Home Assistant

https://seanblanchfield.com/2022/02/automating-heating-with-home-assistant

3 years ago

ElonJet Wrapped 2022

http://elonjet.net/wrapped22/

3 years ago

Blood test can detect 'toxic' protein years before Alzheimer's symptoms emerge

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221205153722.htm

3 years ago

Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground

https://til.simonwillison.net/clickhouse/github-explorer

3 years ago

George Santos story broken by local newspaper months ago

https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/the-leader-told-you-so-us-rep-elect-george-santos-is-a-fraud-and-wanted-criminal

3 years ago

Disagreeable personalities do not have an advantage in power at work (2020)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32868412/

3 years ago

Understanding the N + 1 queries problem

https://ananthakumaran.in/2023/01/01/solving_n_plus_1_queries_on_rails.html

3 years ago

Offensive Nim

https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/OffensiveNim

3 years ago

USB-C done cheap: when 2 ports become 1 (2020)

https://richardg867.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/usb-c-done-cheap/

3 years ago

Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port for the Price of Two

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/31/dirty-usb-c-tricks-one-port-for-the-price-of-two/

3 years ago

Show HN: Sierra, a DSL for building Java Swing applications

https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra

3 years ago

Homoiconic Spreadsheets: What, How and Why [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uZlEqUQw0

3 years ago

On Charlie Munger (2019)

https://jasonzweig.com/on-charlie-munger/

3 years ago

Langoguessr

https://langoguessr.com

3 years ago

Running Advent of Code on a $2 microcontroller

https://medium.com/@erik_68861/running-advent-of-code-on-a-2-microcontroller-fa35b596cf11

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206768

3 years ago

Matrix Community Year in Review 2022

https://blog.neko.dev/posts/matrix-year-in-review-2022.html

3 years ago

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the spontaneous city

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/tokyo-s-urban-planning-secrets-revealed-in-new-book

3 years ago

FatFs – Generic FAT Filesystem Module

http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html

3 years ago

What will happen in 2023

https://avc.com/2023/01/what-will-happen-in-2023/

3 years ago

Map, Filter, Reduce in Fortran (2019)

https://milancurcic.com/2019/05/22/map-filter-reduce-in-fortran-2018.html

3 years ago

Digital Logic Sim

https://sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-sim

3 years ago

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon

3 years ago

Coding on a 1980s business minicomputer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CgafaxnQ9A

3 years ago

A Decade of HardenedBSD

https://git.hardenedbsd.org/shawn.webb/articles/-/blob/master/hardenedbsd/2023-01_decade/article.md

3 years ago