top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-18

TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem

https://omar.website/tabfs/

3 years ago

Email: Explained from first principles

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/

3 years ago

Password protect a static HTML page

https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt

3 years ago

Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-offensive-matilda-witches-twits/

3 years ago

Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NQQ7bPf6U

3 years ago

Internal review finds falsified data in Stanford President’s Alzheimer research

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/

3 years ago

Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers

https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adblocking.html

3 years ago

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

https://www.bbcelite.com/

3 years ago

Childhoods of Exceptional People

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CYN7swrefEss4e3Qe/childhoods-of-exceptional-people

3 years ago

The Janet Language

https://janet-lang.org

3 years ago

Text Is All You Need

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/text-is-all-you-need

3 years ago

Setting up an electronics workshop

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/setting-up-an-electronics-workshop

3 years ago

Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

https://www.noya.io/home

3 years ago

Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC

https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1626693524489121793

3 years ago

200-year old heat pump technology is back

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/how-heat-pumps-of-the-1800s-are-becoming-the-technology-of-the-future/

3 years ago

Apple gets a cut of search revenue from Chrome as part of secret Google deal

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/17/google-apple-chrome-search-revenue/

3 years ago

Statement on President Carter’s Health

https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2023/statement-on-president-carters-health.html

3 years ago

After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘pull the plug’

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/after-alaska-airlines-planes-bump-runway-a-scramble-to-pull-the-plug/

3 years ago

John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018)

http://www.sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on/

3 years ago

Civilization 7 Is in Development

https://www.polygon.com/23604146/civilization-7-release-date-firaxis-games-announcement

3 years ago

Cashless society in Switzerland? People to vote on keeping cash forever

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/02/06/cashless-society-not-in-switzerland-where-people-will-vote-to-keeping-banknotes-and-coins-

3 years ago

It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)

https://qntm.org/clean

3 years ago

OWASP Needs to Evolve

https://github.com/owasp-change/owasp-change.github.io

3 years ago

Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

https://grugnotes.com/

3 years ago

Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System

https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips

3 years ago

White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/18/white_castle_fingerprints_fine/

3 years ago

Watchmaking: Machining a 0.6 mm Screw [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVqLTzh_z4

3 years ago

Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning

https://nautil.us/researchers-discover-a-more-flexible-approach-to-machine-learning-261703/

3 years ago

The Lapdock Kit

https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-lapdock-kit/

3 years ago

Amazon Takes a 50% Cut of Seller's Revenue

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/amazon-takes-a-50-cut-of-sellers-revenue

3 years ago

What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11812

3 years ago

The AI Mirror Test, which smart people keep failing

https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test

3 years ago

Rejected emoji proposals

https://charlottebuff.com/unicode/misc/rejected-emoji-proposals/

3 years ago

Low-Level Software Security for Compiler Developers

https://llsoftsec.github.io/llsoftsecbook/

3 years ago

Voice.ai denies claim it violated open source software license requirements

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/voiceai_open_source/

3 years ago

Queues should be empty

http://joshvoigts.com/articles/queues-should-be-empty/

3 years ago

Color of the Night Sky (2019)

https://clarkvision.com/articles/color.of.the.night.sky/

3 years ago

Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Named_Booleans_prevent_bugs.html

3 years ago

Symbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06675

3 years ago

Twitter Lost $60M a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS

https://commsrisk.com/elon-musk-says-twitter-lost-60mn-a-year-because-390-telcos-used-bot-accounts-to-pump-a2p-sms/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has ChatGPT gotten worse at coding for anyone else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34848353

3 years ago

Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks

https://sporks.space/2023/02/18/poor-schemas-poor-cataloguing-why-music-tagging-sucks/

3 years ago

DOjS is a JavaScript programming environment for systems running MS-DOS

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS

3 years ago

Data consistency is overrated

https://two-wrongs.com/data-consistency-is-overrated

3 years ago

Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? (2021)

https://babeljs.io/blog/2021/05/10/funding-update

3 years ago

Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

https://sora.city/

3 years ago

Postgres Unlogged Tables

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgresl-unlogged-tables

3 years ago

How pervasive is corporate fraud?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11142-022-09738-5

3 years ago

Ask HN: What would it take for an AI to convince us it is conscious?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843137

3 years ago

Returning to Nim from Python and Rust

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9906

3 years ago

Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/microsoft-lobotomized-ai-powered-bing-chat-and-its-fans-arent-happy/

3 years ago

Debian 12 “Bookworm” Enters Its Soft Freeze

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/02/msg00003.html

3 years ago

Huell Howser Archives: California’s Gold

https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/

3 years ago

An AI porn industry is emerging through Stable Diffusion

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/17/meet-unstable-diffusion-the-group-trying-to-monetize-ai-porn-generators/

3 years ago

The Presocratic Philosophers [pdf]

https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/Kirk-Presocratic.pdf

3 years ago

Vancouver hospital patient loses Netflix access due to password crackdown

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-hospital-patient-loses-netflix-access-due-to-password-crackdown-1.6279452

3 years ago

Females more likely than males to be elected in US scientific societies

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00501-7

3 years ago

Beautiful Binary Search in D

https://muscar.eu/shar-binary-search-meta.html

3 years ago