top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-26

Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate

https://www.galaxus.ch/en/page/refreshingly-honest-digitec-galaxus-now-displays-warranty-score-and-return-rate-25950

3 years ago

Realistic computer-generated handwriting

https://www.calligrapher.ai/

3 years ago

Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

https://www.lungy.app/

3 years ago

An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151435033/a-robot-was-scheduled-to-argue-in-court-then-came-the-jail-threats

3 years ago

Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052

3 years ago

DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pull/5836

3 years ago

Rails on Docker

https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/rails-on-docker/

3 years ago

Ugly Gerry – Gerrymandering font

https://fontsarena.com/ugly-gerry/

3 years ago

A dinosaur with a remarkably preserved face

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/researchers-look-a-dinosaur-in-its-remarkably-preserved-face/

3 years ago

NYSE Tuesday opening mayhem traced to a staffer who left a backup system running

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-25/nyse-mayhem-traced-to-a-staffer-who-left-a-backup-system-running

3 years ago

Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367325876_Sexual_loneliness_A_neglected_public_health_problem

3 years ago

Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34532295

3 years ago

How a CPU works: Bare metal C on my RISC-V toy CPU

https://florian.noeding.com/posts/risc-v-toy-cpu/cpu-from-scratch/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531989

3 years ago

SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released

https://www.sqlalchemy.org/blog/2023/01/26/sqlalchemy-2.0.0-released/

3 years ago

Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cause-of-depression-is-probably-not-what-you-think-20230126/

3 years ago

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (2018)

https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

3 years ago

Thoughts on what a next Rust compiler would do

https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/25/next-rust-compiler.html

3 years ago

PayPal data breach notification

https://apps.web.maine.gov/online/aeviewer/ME/40/766753f1-f9c7-4dc5-9a5c-fe0f3ff51c06.shtml

3 years ago

Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/mexico-cracks-down-on-solar-geoengineering-stalling-make-sunsets.html

3 years ago

Stripe sets one-year timetable to decide on going public

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-sets-one-year-timetable-to-decide-on-going-public-11674749304

3 years ago

Self-hosted vector tiles

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rtnf/diary/400836

3 years ago

Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua

https://nelua.io/

3 years ago

France's largest semiconductor company got nationalized in plain sight (2022)

https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/how-frances-largest-semiconductor

3 years ago

Grokking big unfamiliar codebases

https://www.jeremyong.com/game%20engines/2023/01/25/grokking-big-unfamiliar-codebases/

3 years ago

Airframes.io an aircraft-related aggregator for ACARS, VDL, HFDL and SATCOM data

https://app.airframes.io

3 years ago

Amazon removes “contact us” support, disables support for wrong grocery orders

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34539901

3 years ago

There’s no such thing as affordable housing

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/1/3/theres-no-such-thing-as-affordable-housing

3 years ago

Resilience and Waste in Software Teams

https://jessitron.com/2023/01/16/resilience-and-waste-in-software-teams/

3 years ago

OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

https://status.openai.com/#

3 years ago

Fun with Gentoo: Why don't we just shuffle those ROP gadgets away?

https://quitesimple.org/page/fun-gentoo-shuffle-rop-gadgets

3 years ago

What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

https://slite.com/blog/gpt-knowledge-revolution-is-coming

3 years ago

Laid Off from Google Search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534095

3 years ago

How the video game Fallout became a backdrop for live Shakespeare shows

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/25/the-open-worlds-a-stage-how-the-video-game-fallout-became-a-backdrop-for-live-shakespeare-shows

3 years ago

Arizona legislature changes rules on retaining correspondence

https://mohavedailynews.com/news/145057/legislature-changes-rules-on-retaining-correspondence/

3 years ago

The product I worked on for the last 4 years is now open-source

https://www.confluent.io/blog/announcing-the-open-source-confluent-cli/

3 years ago

IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘higher growth’ areas

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-25/ibm-layoff-3900-workers-still-hiring

3 years ago

Imitating Human Behaviour with Diffusion Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10677

3 years ago

Surviving without a superuser in Postgres 16

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2023/01/surviving-without-superuser-coming-to.html

3 years ago

Google is screwed, even if it wins its antitrust case

https://gizmodo.com/google-bing-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-antitrust-doj-screwed-1850029781

3 years ago

Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China

https://svrooij.io/2023/01/25/disconnect-your-smart-appliance/

3 years ago

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086 processor's HALT circuits

https://www.righto.com/2023/01/reverse-engineering-intel-8086.html

3 years ago

NASA predicts asteroid to make one of closest approaches to Earth ever recorded

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-system-predicts-small-asteroid-to-pass-close-by-earth-this-week

3 years ago

Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32

https://github.com/harbaum/galagino

3 years ago

Blogging is not dying anytime soon

https://dariusforoux.com/blogging-not-dying/

3 years ago

An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit

https://katedowninglaw.com/2023/01/26/an-ip-attorneys-reading-of-the-stable-diffusion-class-action-lawsuit/

3 years ago

Tell HN: IBM and SAP are cutting thousands of jobs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34532983

3 years ago

Ask HN: Good resources to become financially literate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531858

3 years ago

Show HN: 1Kb Webspace

https://onekb.uber.space/

3 years ago

Airbyte makes 100 alpha / beta connectors free

https://airbyte.com/blog/why-airbyte-made-alpha-and-beta-connectors-free

3 years ago

Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’

https://www.thefire.org/news/report-stanford-student-may-need-take-accountability-acknowledge-harm-reading-hitlers-mein

3 years ago

Librandombytes – a public domain library for generating randomness

https://randombytes.cr.yp.to/

3 years ago

Pip and cargo are not the same

https://blog.williammanley.net/2022/02/23/pip-and-cargo-are-not-the-same.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Knotend – a keyboard-driven flowchart editor

https://www.knotend.com

3 years ago

Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-is-not-particularly-innovative-and-nothing-revolutionary-says-metas-chief-ai-scientist/

3 years ago

Death as entertainment at the Paris Morgue

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing

3 years ago

Show HN: Doc Converter – Convert PDF docs to Word documents on your computer

https://docconverter.app/

3 years ago

Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/health/long-covid-work.html

3 years ago

Disassembly of the Asteroids arcade game firmware

https://github.com/nmikstas/asteroids-disassembly

3 years ago

The cathedral that failed

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-cathedral-that-failed.html

3 years ago

9 years maintaining a sorta-popular open-source package: lessons learned

https://evanhahn.com/lessons-learned-maintaining-a-sorta-popular-open-source-package/

3 years ago

Two Supreme Court cases that could break the internet

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/two-supreme-court-cases-that-could-break-the-internet

3 years ago

Newsboat: an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console

https://newsboat.org/index.html

3 years ago