top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-08

Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-restricted-in-turkey-in-aftermath-of-earthquake-oy9LJ9B3

3 years ago

“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

3 years ago

Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows

https://videovillage.co/filmbox/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34710830

3 years ago

Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative

https://www.photoprism.app/

3 years ago

Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html

3 years ago

The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness-epidemic

3 years ago

Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years

https://www.techspot.com/article/2620-steam-deck-pc-gaming-moment/

3 years ago

Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust

https://blog.meilisearch.com/v1-enterprise-ready-stable/

3 years ago

Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game

https://kuboble.com

3 years ago

‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin

https://fallows.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-it-gets-without-body-bags

3 years ago

Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/08/why-does-0-1-plus-0-2-equal-0-30000000000000004/

3 years ago

Transmission v4.0

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.0.0

3 years ago

Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/02/08/is-googles-20-year-search-dominance-about-to-end

3 years ago

Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day

https://forum.cktn.de/t/twitter-starts-limiting-how-many-tweets-you-can-post-per-day/493

3 years ago

Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

https://weblog.antranigv.am/posts/2023/02/hardcoded-folder-icons-in-macos/

3 years ago

Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x

https://www.buildt.ai/blog/incorrectusage

3 years ago

Zrok: Open-source peer to peer

https://zrok.io/

3 years ago

Trustfall: How to Query (Almost) Everything

https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

3 years ago

Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708255

3 years ago

What 2023 will bring for PeerTube

https://joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-v6

3 years ago

Transparent telemetry for open-source projects

https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-intro

3 years ago

Open RuneScape Classic

https://rsc.vet/

3 years ago

A treasury of Zork maps

http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/02/a-treasury-of-zork-maps.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34706991

3 years ago

Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/probiotic-blocks-staph-bacteria-colonizing-people

3 years ago

Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to halt its use

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00347-z

3 years ago

New neural network architecture inspired by neural system of a worm

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-discover-a-more-flexible-approach-to-machine-learning-20230207/

3 years ago

Transmission 4.0

https://transmissionbt.com

3 years ago

Shells are two things

https://borretti.me/article/shells-are-two-things

3 years ago

Browsers are essential and how operating systems are holding them back (2022) [pdf] (2022)

https://research.mozilla.org/files/2022/10/Mozilla-Five-Walled-Gardens.pdf

3 years ago

Show HN: StackOverflow.gg – AI-generated answers to every coding question

https://stackoverflow.gg/

3 years ago

Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible

https://juicefs.com/en/

3 years ago

Mary, Queen of Scots prison letters finally decoded

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/08/mary-queen-of-scots-prison-letters-finally-decoded

3 years ago

Img2Prompt – Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images

https://www.img2prompt.io/

3 years ago

The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2023/the-digital-pound-consultation-paper

3 years ago

International Security and Estonia 2023

https://raport.valisluureamet.ee/2023/en/

3 years ago

Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades

https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2023/vestas-unveils-circularity-solution-to-end-landfill-for-c3710818

3 years ago

Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted to Being an LTS Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-LTS-Official

3 years ago

Fungi and bacteria are binging on burned soil

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/02/07/fungi-and-bacteria-are-binging-burned-soil

3 years ago

Keybase.pub Shutting Down on March 1 2023

https://keybase.pub/

3 years ago

Godot 4 Release Candidate 1

https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-0-rc-1/

3 years ago

OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free – Writeup and Proof-of-Concept

https://jfrog.com/blog/openssh-pre-auth-double-free-cve-2023-25136-writeup-and-proof-of-concept/

3 years ago

The Chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (2017)

https://sphericalbullshit.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/the-chemistry-of-yes-minister/

3 years ago

Etsy is awash with illicit products and mass produced goods (2021)

https://www.businessinsider.com/etsy-sells-ivory-weapons-poisonous-plants-mass-produced-products-2021-4

3 years ago

Google stock tumbles 8% after its Bard AI ad shows inaccurate answer

https://www.investors.com/news/google-stock-falls-after-googles-bard-ai-ad-shows-inaccurate-answer/

3 years ago

NIST selects ‘lightweight cryptography’ algorithms to protect small devices

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/02/nist-selects-lightweight-cryptography-algorithms-protect-small-devices

3 years ago

Can sanitizers find the two bugs I wrote in C++?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2023-02-07-cpp-bugs-sanitized/

3 years ago

Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing

https://www.confluent.io/blog/windowing-in-kafka-streams/

3 years ago

Something strange is happening on the sun, and we've never seen it before

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bm83/something-strange-is-happening-on-the-sun-and-weve-never-seen-it-before

3 years ago

ChatGPT3 Prompt Engineering

https://github.com/mattnigh/ChatGPT3-Free-Prompt-List

3 years ago

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare

https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283

3 years ago

Apple signs union agreement for Glasgow Apple Store staff

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/08/apple-signs-union-agreement-for-glasgow-apple-store-staff

3 years ago

Google will blur explicit image results for all users, requires login to disable

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/google-will-soon-default-to-blurring-explicit-image-search-results/

3 years ago

Telemetry in the Go Toolchain

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

3 years ago

George Orwell's 6 rules for writing (2018; originally published in 1946)

https://infusion.media/blog/george-orwells-six-rules-for-writing/

3 years ago

ChatGPT lied to me and then tried to deny it

https://qfabgtpxazxxnoc5h5rdcorsw4sivkmmte2kkpki5ejxuzqgq3eq.arweave.net/gUATTfcGb3a4XT9iMToytySKqYyZNKU9SOkTemYGhsk

3 years ago

FDroid debating Aves Libre app TOS as reason for removal

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2893

3 years ago

A lightweight (~5000 LOC) Python interpreter for game engines

https://github.com/blueloveTH/pocketpy

3 years ago

DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike (2022)

https://electrek.co/2022/07/24/diy-solar-power-electric-bike-1500w/

3 years ago

Chromium's impact on root DNS traffic (2020)

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

3 years ago

Toxic Exposure: The True Story Behind the Monsanto Trials

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12717/toxic-exposure

3 years ago

Heat pumps are defying Maine’s winters and oil industry pushback

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/07/maine-gas-industry-heat-pumps/

3 years ago

Polynomial interpolation

https://cohost.org/tomforsyth/post/982199-polynomial-interpola

3 years ago

Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03642

3 years ago

The Fascinating Influence of the Cyclone Language (2019)

https://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/cyclone/

3 years ago

CBMC: The C Bounded Model Checker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02384

3 years ago

A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/a-limited-interest-article-on-employer

3 years ago