top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-31

Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to-lose-all-zoning-powers

3 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you test SQL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34602318

3 years ago

“In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped”

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/109777576538835360

3 years ago

Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34600985

3 years ago

Hermes: An open-source document management system

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-hermes-an-open-source-document-management-system

3 years ago

I want to lose every debate

https://sive.rs/led

3 years ago

Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34598563

3 years ago

Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579552/artifact-instagram-cofounders-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-news-app

3 years ago

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

3 years ago

Japanese explained to programmers

https://lajili.com/posts/post-1/

3 years ago

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9823

3 years ago

I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business

https://www.mostlymetrics.com/p/i-lost-209640-of-my-own-money-trying

3 years ago

YouTube has become the world's nanny

https://qz.com/youtube-has-become-the-worlds-nanny-1850047610

3 years ago

Modernizing C arrays for greater memory safety: a case study in the Linux kernel

https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c

3 years ago

Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/192977/need-help-with-students-whove-turned-my-class-into-a-dating-service

3 years ago

The limits of "computational photography"

https://yager.io/comp/comp.html

3 years ago

Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment

https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off-2023/

3 years ago

Sourcehut will not blacklist the Go module mirror

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/

3 years ago

How to smooth and spread A* paths for an RTS

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/rts-devlog-extreme-pathfinding-1608

3 years ago

Nim and Go programs identified by Carbon Black as malware on Windows

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9850

3 years ago

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/

3 years ago

Marko: An HTML-Based Language

https://markojs.com

3 years ago

Is AM radio dead?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/am-radio-dead

3 years ago

DIY triple-screen laptop based on the framework

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKpY0o5tMo

3 years ago

Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-comments-reduce-technical-debt

3 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried's anonymous bail sponsors should be public, judge says

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-bail-sponsors-should-be-public-judge-says-2023-1

3 years ago

Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23577499/spotify-q4-2022-earnings-release-subscriber-growth-layoffs

3 years ago

Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-physical-theory-for-when-the-brain-performs-best-20230131/

3 years ago

Extracting training data from diffusion models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188

3 years ago

Tesla tells investors it’s being investigated by the Justice Department

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/tesla-confirms-justice-department-investigation-into-autopilot/

3 years ago

Elementary OS 7

https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-available-now/

3 years ago

Concordia students set to launch most powerful rocket developed by civilians

https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2023/01/23/members-of-space-concordia-have-their-hearts-set-on-the-stars.html

3 years ago

UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64452995

3 years ago

C++ Neural Network in a Weekend (2020)

https://www.jeremyong.com/cpp/machine-learning/2020/10/23/cpp-neural-network-in-a-weekend/

3 years ago

Show HN: TunnlTo – Windows WireGuard split tunnel client built with Rust, Tauri

https://github.com/TunnlTo/desktop-app

3 years ago

Discovery could extend battery life by replacing tape that causes self‑discharge

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/01/16/dalhousie-battery-discovery-self-discharge.html

3 years ago

Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structured-movement-editing-treesitter

3 years ago

Sharing Your Netflix Account

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/123277

3 years ago

Ask HN: What to do when someone clones your site?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34596309

3 years ago

Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34598406

3 years ago

Bitrex – the brand name of the bitterest substance in the world

https://www.bitrex.com/

3 years ago

Reducing Go execution tracer overhead with frame pointer unwinding

https://blog.felixge.de/reducing-gos-execution-tracer-overhead-with-frame-pointer-unwinding/

3 years ago

Show HN: Working on a Zero-Knowledge Daily Journaling App

https://jumblejournal.org/

3 years ago

Show HN: DocAsker – Use LLMs to ask documentation questions

https://www.docasker.com/

3 years ago

The x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction

http://www.righto.com/2023/01/understanding-x86s-decimal-adjust-after.html

3 years ago

How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb voice assistant

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/how-to-control-your-smart-home-without-yelling-at-a-dumb-voice-assistant/

3 years ago

Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

https://www.mindlygames.com

3 years ago

PayPal lays off 7% of staff

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2023-01-31-Update-on-Our-Transformation

3 years ago

D.C. free bus bill becomes law as zero-fare transit systems take off

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/dc-free-bus-bill-becomes-law-zero-fare-transit.html

3 years ago

Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/godels-solution-to-einsteins-field

3 years ago

America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/01/american-rich-men-work-less-hours-workism/672895/

3 years ago

Typed Lisp, A Primer (2019)

http://alhassy.com/TypedLisp

3 years ago

Fast, Optimal, Any-Angle Pathfinding (Polyanya)

https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/compromise-free-pathfinding-on-a-navigation-mesh

3 years ago

India’s population will start to shrink sooner than expected (2021)

https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/12/02/indias-population-will-start-to-shrink-sooner-than-expected

3 years ago