top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-19

Self hosting in 2023

https://grifel.dev/decentralization/

3 years ago

566 upvotes – 296 comments

New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint

https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2023/02/19/new-headless-chrome.html

3 years ago

463 upvotes – 240 comments

Local-First Web Development

https://localfirstweb.dev

3 years ago

428 upvotes – 163 comments

Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C

https://blog.joren.ga/less-known-c

3 years ago

410 upvotes – 176 comments

Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/colossal-ai-chatgpt

3 years ago

338 upvotes – 152 comments

CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d

https://www.cadsketcher.com

3 years ago

336 upvotes – 93 comments

80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)

https://www.earthcam.net/projects/empirestatebuilding/gigapixelpanorama/2021/

3 years ago

318 upvotes – 97 comments

Facebook Announces Meta Verified

https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/good-morning-and-new-product-announcement-this-week-were-starting-to-roll-out-me/10114993498750111/

3 years ago

310 upvotes – 731 comments

Writing an engineering strategy

https://lethain.com/eng-strategies/

3 years ago

305 upvotes – 51 comments

Revenue is easy, profit is harder

https://www.edge.ceo/p/revenue-is-easy-profit-is-harder

3 years ago

301 upvotes – 168 comments

Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

https://www.samdickie.me/writing/experiment-1-creating-a-landing-page-using-ai-tools-no-code

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 166 comments

Building an ARM64 home server the hard way

https://jforberg.se/blog/posts/2023-02-19-rockpro64/rockpro64.html

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 118 comments

Vramfs – GPU VRAM based file system for Linux

https://github.com/Overv/vramfs

3 years ago

★ 1.5k C++
243 upvotes – 77 comments

IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink

https://www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2023-02-14/iris2-the-eus-response-to-elon-musks-starlink-satellites-project

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 483 comments

Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-germany-gotham-dragnet/

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 41 comments

LOL Verifier

https://brianmoore.com/lol-verifier/

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 44 comments

AWS Publishes Reference Architecture, Implementations for Deployment Pipelines

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/02/aws-deployment-pipelines/

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 51 comments

The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-16/hollywood-sign-centennial-los-angeles

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 135 comments

Cobalt is suddenly abundant

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/02/16/cobalt-a-crucial-battery-material-is-suddenly-superabundant

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 268 comments

"BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home

https://aaka.sh/posts/20230129-bgp-at-home.html

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 97 comments

Lost in the Stock

https://www.eater.com/23552129/what-is-in-store-bought-chicken-stock

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 96 comments

GPTZero Case Study – Exploring False Positives

https://gonzoknows.com/posts/GPTZero-Case-Study/

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 113 comments

Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This

https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2023/02/voice-ai-stole-open-source-code.html

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 20 comments

What Is Textmode?

http://polyducks.co.uk/what-is-textmode/

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 45 comments

City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue

https://kotaku.com/workers-resources-steam-pc-dmca-takedown-communism-1850125125

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 123 comments

Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? [pdf]

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.2022.09.25a.pdf

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 91 comments

Talk-to-ChatGPT

https://github.com/C-Nedelcu/talk-to-chatgpt

3 years ago

★ 1.9k JavaScript AGPL-3.0
142 upvotes – 43 comments

Google is no longer sponsoring Fastlane

https://mastodon.social/@joshdholtz/109892201251474243

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 47 comments

Functional Core, Imperative Shell (2012)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 39 comments

Portugal Says No More Golden Visas and No More Airbnbs

https://gizmodo.com/digital-nomad-airbnb-golden-visa-remote-work-1850127066

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 2 comments

Infiltration – the zine about going places you're not supposed to go

http://www.infiltration.org/

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 23 comments

I still Lisp (2021)

https://betterprogramming.pub/why-i-still-lisp-and-you-should-too-18a2ae36bd8

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 114 comments

Whisper: Wraps any Go io.ReadWriter in a secure tunnel using Ed25519/X25519

https://github.com/lukejoshuapark/whisper

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

The next subleq

https://github.com/tomhea/flip-jump

3 years ago

★ 137 Text BSD-2-Clause
121 upvotes – 17 comments

Vinyl Chloride and the Ohio Train Derailment

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition-history/vinyl-chloride-and-ohio-train-derailment

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 131 comments

AI won’t make artists redundant – thanks to information theory

https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2023/02/ai-arts-information-theory/

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 260 comments

A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database (2021)

https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 114 comments

Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

https://medium.com/@fulalas/how-bullshit-has-dominated-the-tech-industry-bc63257f2a91

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 103 comments

Intentional Camera Movement Photography Magazine

https://www.icmphotomag.com/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license

https://www.scintilla.org/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 47 comments

RIP WC

https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2023/02/15/r-i-p-w-c-1930s-southern-railway-toilets-havant-station-hampshire-uk/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 20 comments

The Norvig – Chomsky debate (2017)

http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~stiff.4/cse3521/norvig-chomsky.html

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 74 comments

Lessons learnt while trying to modernize some C code (2022)

https://dorinlazar.ro/220710-trying-to-modernize-goaccess.en/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 129 comments

Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDpaqFLD24

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/domestic-violence-hotline-calls-will-soon-be-invisible-on-your-family-phone-plan/

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/never-use-a-url-shortening-service-even-if-you-own-it/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 77 comments

University administrators used ChatGPT to write email following mass shooting

https://vanderbilthustler.com/2023/02/17/peabody-edi-office-responds-to-msu-shooting-with-email-written-using-chatgpt/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 85 comments

The cameras worked fine, but their maker said they had reached their end of life

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cameras-worked-fine-their-maker-said-they-had-reached-their-end-of-life-b6fd3036

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 117 comments

Finland is the latest EU country to crack down on Google Analytics

https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/finland-is-latest-eu-country-to-crack-down-on-google-analytics

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

A Spiritual Successor to Emacs

https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/a-spiritual-successor-to-emacs/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 57 comments

Shimano’s three-pulley rear derailleur could revolutionise drivetrain design

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/shimano-three-pulley-rear-derailleur-patent/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 98 comments

Rust – What made it “click” for me (Ownership and memory internals)

https://deavid.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/rust-what-made-it-click-for-me-ownership-memory-internals/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 74 comments

Privilege drop, separation, and restricted-service operating mode in OpenBSD

https://sha256.net/privsep.html

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you

https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/psa_docker_edits_firewall_rules/

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 123 comments

Dancing is stupid

https://stan.bar/dancing-is-stupid/

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 123 comments

The age 30 crisis and seasons of a man‘s life

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-age-30-crisis-and-seasons-of

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

The Varieties of Bad Stoicism

https://figsinwinter.substack.com/p/the-varieties-of-bad-stoicism

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments
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