top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-15

The Shit Show

https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/

3 years ago

723 upvotes – 320 comments

Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34388866

3 years ago

541 upvotes – 448 comments

Four thousand weeks

https://leebyron.com/4000/

3 years ago

524 upvotes – 249 comments

For your next side project, make a browser extension

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/01/08/for-your-next-side-project-make-a-browser-extension.html

3 years ago

516 upvotes – 279 comments

The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (2014)

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-transform-explained-in-one-sentence.html

3 years ago

483 upvotes – 159 comments

Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport

https://viewfromthewing.com/what-we-know-now-about-friday-nights-near-disaster-at-jfk-airport/

3 years ago

393 upvotes – 350 comments

CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/14/circleci-hackers-stole-customer-source-code/

3 years ago

390 upvotes – 147 comments

Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2023/01/15/remastering-colin-mcrae-rally-3-silentpatch/

3 years ago

367 upvotes – 29 comments

Enabling Bluetooth connections on Stadia Controllers

https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-General/A-Gift-from-the-Stadia-Team-amp-Bluetooth-Controller/m-p/85936#M34875

3 years ago

360 upvotes – 174 comments

Revisiting KDE

https://jackevansevo.github.io/revisiting-kde.html

3 years ago

332 upvotes – 387 comments

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 222 comments

Interactive Music Theory Cheat Sheet

https://muted.io/cheat-sheet/

3 years ago

321 upvotes – 51 comments

Windows 98 icons are great (2015)

https://alexmeub.com/old-windows-icons/

3 years ago

312 upvotes – 318 comments

NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/14/in_brief_security/

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 143 comments

How to improve Python packaging

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-python-packaging/

3 years ago

292 upvotes – 200 comments

Subverting the software interview (2021)

https://nliu.net/posts/2021-03-19-interview.html

3 years ago

279 upvotes – 73 comments

I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing

https://daverupert.com/2023/01/shadow-banned-by-duckduckgo-and-bing/

3 years ago

269 upvotes – 193 comments

A formula for the nth digit of 𝜋 and 𝜋^n

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12601

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 133 comments

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2204ServerPhasedUpdates

3 years ago

256 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: Create your own video clips with Stable Diffusion

https://www.neuralframes.com

3 years ago

247 upvotes – 72 comments

Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf?la=en&hash=9A8788FD44A62D8BB927123544205CE476E01654

3 years ago

231 upvotes – 280 comments

Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 95 comments

Faster than the filesystem (2021)

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 137 comments

HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge

https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/looney-tunes-hbo-max-removed.html

3 years ago

214 upvotes – 224 comments

Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/stripe-clawed-back-pension-contributions-after-staff-cuts/

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 137 comments

MSI's (in)Secure Boot

https://dawidpotocki.com/en/2023/01/13/msi-insecure-boot/

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 149 comments

How the blog broke the web (2017)

https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 116 comments

Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 69 comments

Twitter API Page

https://developer.twitter.com/apitools

3 years ago

176 upvotes – 98 comments

DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS – 2023 Edition

https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Raspberry-Orange-Pi-NAS-That-Really-Looks-Like/

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 73 comments

Elliptic Curves: The Great Mystery

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/elliptic-curves-the-great-mystery-61599a93c61d

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 18 comments

Amazon is no longer allowing downloading Kindle Unlimited titles via USB

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-no-longer-allowing-downloading-kindle-unlimited-titles-via-usb

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 102 comments

Rust vs. C++ Formatting

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2023/01/02/rust-cpp-format/

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 104 comments

ChatGPT scores 80% on SAT reading/writing with collective chain of thought

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10bpzjb/chatgpt_scores_80_correct12_out_of_15_on_sample/

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 119 comments

The Bibites: Artificial Life Simulation

https://leocaussan.itch.io/the-bibites

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 16 comments

More Than 150 Organizations Call to Close Guantánamo on 21st Anniversary

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/11/guantanamo-bay-letter-biden/

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 103 comments

A Letter from _why (2005)

https://aberant.tumblr.com/post/167375099/a-letter-from-why

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 72 comments

VToonify: Controllable high-resolution portrait video style transfer

https://github.com/williamyang1991/VToonify

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 22 comments

Dell Tried to Hide Bad Capacitors Problem 2003-2005 (2010)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dell-tried-to-hide-bad-capacitors-problem

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 78 comments

Gimp 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon (2022)

https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/12/02/gimp-2.10.32-apple-silicon/

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 64 comments

The global health-care collapse

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/01/15/the-global-health-care-collapse

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 397 comments

Running KDE Plasma on RISC-V VisionFive-2

https://cordlandwehr.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/running-plasma-on-visionfive-2/

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

How to beat lag when developing a multiplayer RTS game

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/rts-devlog-beat-lag-1607

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Two research teams reverse signs of aging in mice

https://www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 96 comments

NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/scale-new-york-police-facial-recognition-revealed/

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 88 comments

SLT – A Common Lisp Language Plugin for Jetbrains IDE Lineup

https://github.com/Enerccio/SLT

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 28 comments

Wasavi – Vi editor for any webpage

http://appsweets.net/wasavi/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34393273

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 109 comments

Death of Korea's 'apartment king' leaves 100s in property purgatory

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/12/15/business/economy/korea-apartment-property/20221215162841416.html

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

Tell HN: Repurposing old iPads as home security cameras

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34392783

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 69 comments

How I ruined my SEO

https://johnnyreilly.com/2023/01/15/how-i-ruined-my-seo

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 92 comments

A skeptic’s guide to software architecture decisions

https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-skeptics-guide/

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 4 comments

Go FOSS: Information is power

https://gofoss.net/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 20 comments

Making Lenses Practical in Java

https://chriskiehl.com/article/practical-lenses

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/01/14/bayesian-statistics-and-machine-learning-how-do-they-differ/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Supply Chain Attack Using PyPI Packages “Colorslib”, “Httpslib”, and “Libhttps”

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/supply-chain-attack-using-identical-pypi-packages-colorslib-httpslib-libhttps

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 57 comments

Porth, It's Like Forth but in Python

https://gitlab.com/tsoding/porth

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Rendering like it's 1996 – Bitmap fonts and DOS

https://marioslab.io/posts/rendering-like-its-1996/dos-nostalgia/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 10 comments

The Scandal of Financial Nihilism

https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-scandal-of-financial-nihilism

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 158 comments

Common Hall-effect sensor myths (2022)

https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/analogwire/posts/5-common-hall-effect-sensor-myths

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

Scaling Bevy Development

https://bevyengine.org/news/scaling-bevy-development/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Explaining the global chip shortage

https://www.jabil.com/blog/global-chip-shortages.html

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?

https://semiengineering.com/will-floating-point-8-solve-ai-ml-overhead/

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 80 comments

The Next Button

https://maxhodak.com/nonfiction/2023/01/14/the-next-button.html

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

TAB electronics books

https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf_TAB.htm

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BMCsCanNeedRebooting

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 94 comments

Rendering like it's 1996 – Baby's first pixel

https://marioslab.io/posts/rendering-like-its-1996/babys-first-pixel/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Faster virtual machines: Speeding up programming language execution

https://mort.coffee/home/fast-interpreters/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle

https://blog.forret.com/2023/01/15/realistic-daily-range-ev/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 249 comments

Why is Chat GPT so expensive to operate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34390123

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: AI-powered code correction that teaches you along the way

https://useadrenaline.com

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Netflix to open $900M facility at former Fort Monmouth Army base in New Jersey

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/netflix-open-900m-facility-former-fort-monmouth-army-base-new-jersey

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Muse: Text-to-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers

https://muse-model.github.io/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Scissors NOT Gate [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVS7YGSKmJM

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

Remembering Intel’s Andrew Grove, who sounded alarm against offshoring (2016)

https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/opinion-remembering-intels-andrew-grove-who-sounded-the-alarm-against-offshoring/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Restoring a Vintage Rolex GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2ztR5askE

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 62 comments

Building a 100% New Commodore 64 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhdc-jgwqVQ

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Oops: Learning from the incident you didn't have

https://www.learningfromincidents.io/posts/oops-learning-from-the-incident-you-didnt-have

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Do you or someone you know give money to your parents?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34392425

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 108 comments

TI-Basic interpreter written in JavaScript

https://www.davidtorosyan.com/ti-js/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments
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