top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-24

Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505219

3 years ago

1042 upvotes – 199 comments

Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-void-seven-years-on-what-do-we-know-about-the-disappearance-of-malaysia-airlines-77fa5244bf99

3 years ago

719 upvotes – 431 comments

Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure

https://cal.com/

3 years ago

576 upvotes – 305 comments

Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations

https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-side-iterations/

3 years ago

474 upvotes – 259 comments

U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-lawsuit.html

3 years ago

415 upvotes – 246 comments

Wine 8.0

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0

3 years ago

404 upvotes – 199 comments

How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine

https://eaton-works.com/2023/01/24/how-the-xbox-360-knows-if-your-hard-drive-is-genuine/

3 years ago

383 upvotes – 256 comments

How to get new ideas

http://paulgraham.com/getideas.html

3 years ago

356 upvotes – 216 comments

ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOfN0iB_A0rEGYc2CbYnpIF44FupQn2I/view?usp=share_link

3 years ago

332 upvotes – 142 comments

NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/23/nyc-jail-rikers-mail-surveillance-securus/

3 years ago

328 upvotes – 396 comments

Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/hyperscale-your-homelab-compute-blade-arrives

3 years ago

326 upvotes – 1 comments

Some gut bacteria appear to communicate with the brain

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230120-how-gut-bacteria-are-controlling-your-brain

3 years ago

323 upvotes – 188 comments

Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers

https://passingtime.substack.com/p/perfidious-pricing

3 years ago

317 upvotes – 416 comments

Certified 100% AI-free organic content

https://substack.piszek.com/p/ai-free

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 268 comments

Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices involving browsers

https://twitter.com/openwebadvocacy/status/1617802614149894144

3 years ago

275 upvotes – 344 comments

How Equifax Became a Private IRS

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-equifax-became-a-private-irs

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 183 comments

Japan has changed in important and visible ways

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/actually-japan-has-changed-a-lot

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 442 comments

Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502566

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 496 comments

Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

https://www.konjer.xyz/

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 173 comments

GPT is all you need for the back end

https://github.com/TheAppleTucker/backend-GPT

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 264 comments

Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder

https://github.com/koskimas/kysely

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 70 comments

UK proposal to criminalize “sophisticated encrypted communication devices”

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1130978/2023_SOC_Measures_Consultation_Document_-_Final.pdf#page=14

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 170 comments

TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT

https://twitter.com/AlexAlexandrius/status/1617876020593557506

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 106 comments

Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem

https://marp.app/

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 102 comments

MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgybq7/apple-macbook-activation-lock-right-to-repair

3 years ago

220 upvotes – 425 comments

Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503176

3 years ago

219 upvotes – 238 comments

The Disappearance of the Ashtray

https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-disappearance-of-the-ashtray-4badc1be9e3b

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 636 comments

Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employee evaluation policy

https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-fires-wow-classic-lead-after-he-protests-employee-evaluation-policy/

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 7 comments

Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics

https://zserge.com/posts/fenster/

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 64 comments

Make a Resume in LaTeX

https://drshika.me/2022/04/15/latex-resumes

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 134 comments

On Markdown in Java documentation comments

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/javadoc-dev/2023-January/005563.html

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 63 comments

Mystery Signal from a Helicopter (2014)

https://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopter.html

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 27 comments

Now Available: Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 98 comments

Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/internet-archive-takes-down-upload-of-bbcs-modi-documentary/article66425460.ece

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 67 comments

The current layoffs were orchestrated by hedge funds

https://m6n.io/@fuzzychef/109740778756656452

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 185 comments

WTF with high school questions?

https://letmypeoplecode.com/job-hunt-diary-2023-wtf-with-high-school-questions/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 231 comments

Astro 2.0

https://astro.build/blog/astro-2/

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 44 comments

Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L23akTkDqTM

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 146 comments

The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer

https://litchipi.github.io/infosec/2023/01/24/git-code-audit-viewed-as-rust-programmer.html

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 64 comments

How to prioritize tasks?

https://jimmyislive.dev/posts/how-to-prioritize/

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 60 comments

The Story behind ASINs – Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (2021)

https://inventlikeanowner.com/blog/the-story-behind-asins-amazon-standard-identification-numbers/

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 49 comments

Build security with the assumption it will be used against your friends

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/65272.html

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 29 comments

Making sense of TypeScript using set theory

https://blog.thoughtspile.tech/2023/01/23/typescript-sets/

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 91 comments

Launch HN: Matano (YC W23) – Open-Source Security Lake Platform (SIEM) for AWS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505603

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 53 comments

PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pagerduty-to-lay-off-7-of-staff-revenue-officer-to-exit-271674568511

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 172 comments

Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/half-of-smart-appliances-remain-disconnected-from-internet-makers-lament/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 220 comments

CNET's AI journalist appears to have committed extensive plagiarism

https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-plagiarism

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 137 comments

NASA, DARPA will test nuclear engine for future Mars missions

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-darpa-will-test-nuclear-engine-for-future-mars-missions/

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 79 comments

Hackers demand $10M from Riot Games to stop leak of ‘League of Legends’ code

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjky8d/hackers-demand-dollar10m-from-riot-games-to-stop-leak-of-league-of-legends-source-code

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 154 comments

On the Algebraic Properties of Flame Graphs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08941

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 11 comments

International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you?

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/01/23/international-domain-names-where-does-https-mesagefactory-ca-lead-you/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 79 comments

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

https://www.reuters.com/legal/german-cartel-office-initiates-proceedings-against-paypal-2023-01-23/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 98 comments

512GB 14” M2 Pro MacBook Pro has slower SSD than previous model

https://twitter.com/ZONEofTECH/status/1617946631156162560

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 49 comments

Elastic, Loki and SigNoz – A Perf Benchmark of Open-Source Logging Platforms

https://github.com/SigNoz/logs-benchmark

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 72 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook requests and receives a 40% pay cut

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/apple-ceo-tim-cook-receives-a-40percent-pay-cut-after-shareholder-vote.html

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 95 comments

Tweak New Twitter

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

A Perceptually Meaningful Audio Visualizer (2016)

https://delu.medium.com/a-perceptually-meaningful-audio-visualizer-ee72051781bc

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 33 comments

Google investor TCI asking for more layoffs

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Google-investor-TCI-asking-for-more-layoffs-Hdbc5SGQ

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: ML Papers to Implement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503362

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager for developers

https://infisical.com/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34499286

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 129 comments

Why the infosec community is ahead of the curve and rationalists and nihilists

https://ioc.exchange/@invisv/109740474201888576

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

Fast JavaScript-to-WASM Call from FTL

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/8607

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Mac Malware of 2022

https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x71.html

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Stanford's New Study Validates Ancient Breathing Technique

https://superself.substack.com/p/stanfords-ancient-breathing-technique

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

Bayes Theorem for project managers (2010)

https://eight2late.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/bayes-theorem-for-project-managers/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr

https://iris.to/#/post/note1scags6u8fre3rhyc9h457wdrhu0r2c0h4t4e4d4nrwsjj6mcg2qqc2k7am

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 91 comments

Life and work of the great Visionary, Homi J. Bhabha

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/life-and-work-of-the-great-visionary-homi-j-bhabha-tata-institute-of-fundamental-research/swVxRxSI7wMA8A?hl=en

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (1997)

https://folk.ntnu.no/haugwarb/Programming/Oberon/oberon_vs_cpp_II.htm

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 102 comments

Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

https://www.paulgrahamai.com/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Airbnb requires my credit-card transaction history?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34499044

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 85 comments

MSFT Q2/2023 Earnings Release

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q2/press-release-webcast

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 60 comments
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