top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-21

Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth

https://www.skyfi.com/pricing

3 years ago

713 upvotes – 337 comments

IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free

3 years ago

386 upvotes – 247 comments

A page with no code

https://danq.me/2023/01/11/nocode/

3 years ago

375 upvotes – 130 comments

My husband was right about DVDs

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/streaming-libraries-dvds-blu-rays.html

3 years ago

324 upvotes – 405 comments

Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

https://vikunja.io/

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 90 comments

GNU Octave

https://octave.org/index

3 years ago

313 upvotes – 195 comments

Techniques to improve reliability

https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/techniques_to_improve_reliability.md

3 years ago

302 upvotes – 61 comments

What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2023/1/16/what-really-happened-with-the-substation-attack-in-north-carolina

3 years ago

285 upvotes – 229 comments

You don't have to engage with people on the Internet

https://xeiaso.net/blog/lesson-online-feedback

3 years ago

279 upvotes – 205 comments

A large network of fake Google Maps comments/reviews and fake businesses

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Right+Way+Laboratory/@40.9957803,-74.2784512,15z/data=!3m1!5s0x89c303336bbaf299:0x341e1cb1b4d7560d!4m13!1m5!8m4!1e1!2s112286728424662092965!3m1!1e1!3m6!1s0x89c30351e348823d:0x6d3151713097139c!8m2!3d40.9929449!4d-74.2811153!9m1!1b1?hl=en-US

3 years ago

263 upvotes – 138 comments

Ask HN: How did Sam Altman fail upward so well?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34471720

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 118 comments

Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder?

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/18/is-apple-checking-images-we-view-in-the-finder/

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 175 comments

The 88x31 GIF Collection

https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 45 comments

AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law

https://heathermeeker.com/2023/01/19/is-copyright-eating-ai/

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 682 comments

Self-Soldering Circuits [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0csHZveVvY

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34469154

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 156 comments

Capital One axes 1k tech roles

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/20/capital_one/

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 181 comments

Make up a guy

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/01/make-up-a-guy.html

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 168 comments

ECC RAM should be a human right

https://dmitrybrant.com/2023/01/21/ecc-ram-should-be-a-human-right

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 134 comments

Paper map sales are booming

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-paper-map-sales-are-booming-11674164824

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 319 comments

Show HN: Names

https://joostjansen.me/index

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 112 comments

An unexpected benefit of unit tests

https://matthewc.dev/musings/unit-tests/

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 228 comments

Direct Memory Access computing machine RP2040

https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/RP2040/C_SDK_DMA_machine/DMA_machine_rp2040.html

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 17 comments

Official Warning: Zero3K

https://reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21714

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 114 comments

A Dump of the Raw Stadia Controller BT Firmware

https://github.com/Scyne/stadiaRawBtFw

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 46 comments

Andromeda Invaders: A retro-style game written in HTML5, Canvas, and Web Audio

https://susam.net/invaders.html

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 34 comments

Quiet, ultrathin AirJet solid state active cooling chips could replace fans

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/01/20/quiet-ultrathin-airjet-solid-state-active-cooling-could-replace-fans/

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 59 comments

US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A secret for 50 years

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/asia/korean-war-fighter-pilot-soviet-shootdown-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 39 comments

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight

https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 32 comments

TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/19/tsmc-is-making-the-best-of-a-bad-geopolitical-situation

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 242 comments

Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/could-viral-illness-increase-chances-developing-alzheimers-or-other-neurodegenerative-disease

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/21/microsoft_office_count_update/

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 106 comments

Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem

https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/21/thoughts-on-python-packaging/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 114 comments

An instruction oddity in the ppc64 (PowerPC 64-bit) architecture

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/PowerPCInstructionOddity

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 29 comments

iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync

https://tidbits.com/2023/01/11/iphones-and-ipads-now-require-a-passcode-on-every-backup-sync/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 91 comments

Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/20/area-120-googles-in-house-incubator-severely-impacted-by-alphabet-mass-layoffs/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 175 comments

The McMurdo Webcams

https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

Amazon Smile Gets a Frown

https://seths.blog/2023/01/amazon-smile-gets-a-frown/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

VSCode Swift 1.0

https://forums.swift.org/t/vscode-swift-v1-0-0/62668

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

What to do when you’ve ruined your life

https://www.bigfeels.club/public-articles/what-to-do-when-youve-ruined-your-life

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 134 comments

Information about a recent security incident at Mailchimp

https://mailchimp.com/january-2023-security-incident/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux

https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

How to Use AVX512 in Golang

https://gorse.io/posts/avx512-in-golang.html

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Tech companies are quietly defunding diversity pledges

https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/tech-companies-quietly-defunding-diversity-pledges/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 195 comments

FTX’s Venture Capital Backers Face ‘Serious Questions,’ CFTC Official Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-21/ftx-s-venture-capital-backers-face-serious-questions-cftc-official-says

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 74 comments

An incomplete guide to stealth addresses

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/01/20/stealth.html

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/19/it-is-still-legal-to-hit-children-in-school-in-19-american-states

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 307 comments

TimeMyMeeting

https://timemymeeting.com/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Mercedes-Benz is first to get approval for Level 3 autonomous driving in US

https://www.arenaev.com/mercedesbenz_is_first_to_get_approval_for_level_3_autonomous_driving_in_us-news-1267.php

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

Pattern Theory: The Mathematics of Perception (2002)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212400

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US with one-way Mexico ticket, prosecutors say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/21/elizabeth-holmes-mexico-plane-ticket-prosecutors

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Government investigation finds Tesla FSD engaged during the Bay Bridge pileup

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Government-investigation-finds-Tesla-FSD-was-indeed-engaged-during-the-Bay-Bridge-pileup.682641.0.html

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 130 comments

Make believe

https://sive.rs/mb

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

San Francisco Falls into the Abyss

https://www.hoover.org/research/san-francisco-falls-abyss

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 76 comments

Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/big-pharma-greed-knows-no-bounds/

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 75 comments

Swift payments network to cut access to crypto exchanges

https://www.asiamarkets.com/swift-network-cuts-access-to-cryptocurrency/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

US Army Corp of Engineers Cat Calendar Is So Bad It's Brilliant

https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/us-army-corp-of-engineers-cat-calendar-is-so-bad-its-brilliant/

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

NomadBSD: Persistent USB flash drive based desktop OS

https://nomadbsd.org/

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/21/protester-killed-georgia-cop-city-police-shooting

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 46 comments

Could ultrasound replace the stethoscope?

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/could-ultrasound-replace-the-stethoscope

3 years ago

60 upvotes – 59 comments

Confluence on-premise is dead, what now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34464636

3 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments
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