top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-21

Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible

https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-extension

3 years ago

Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-now-injecting-full-size-ads-on-chrome-website-to-make-you-stay-on-edge/

3 years ago

Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and academic performance

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01531-x

3 years ago

World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/four-day-work-week-uk-study-finds-majority-of-employers-shifting

3 years ago

Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering

https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide

3 years ago

Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

3 years ago

Spy Balloon Simulator

https://spyballoonsim.hornetsnestguild.com/

3 years ago

Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'

https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1627449217294958592

3 years ago

Software 2.0 (2017)

https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

3 years ago

The age of cargo cult Agile must end

https://jchyip.medium.com/the-age-of-cargo-cult-agile-must-end-9408e1d13e1d

3 years ago

Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480

https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t480

3 years ago

Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/116vvpp/saying_goodbye_to_stack_overflow/

3 years ago

Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Databricks---deplorable-company-5TX4Mn6C

3 years ago

Show HN: Phind.com – Generative AI search engine for developers

https://phind.com

3 years ago

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021)

https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad

3 years ago

Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination

https://www.knkx.org/social-justice/2023-02-20/seattle-could-become-the-first-city-to-ban-caste-discrimination

3 years ago

Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge to NSA mass surveillance

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/21/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-to-nsa-mass-surveillance/

3 years ago

EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct all cleanup actions related to derailment

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-orders-norfolk-southern-conduct-all-cleanup-actions-associated-east-palestine

3 years ago

KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction

https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/

3 years ago

Show HN: Yobulk – Open-source CSV importer powered by GPT3

https://github.com/yobulkdev/yobulkdev

3 years ago

U.S. food additives banned in Europe

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/

3 years ago

Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-push-ceo-andy-jassy-to-drop-return-to-office-mandate.html

3 years ago

Haiku package management

https://www.markround.com/blog/2023/02/13/haiku-package-management/

3 years ago

Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/sci-fi-becomes-real-as-renowned-magazine-closes-submissions-due-to-ai-writers/

3 years ago

SEC charges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35

3 years ago

TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)

https://hynek.me/til/copyright-years/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34885077

3 years ago

ChatGPT for Robotics

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/autonomous-systems-group-robotics/articles/chatgpt-for-robotics/

3 years ago

How to build a super-slim smart mirror

https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-super-slim-smart-mirror/

3 years ago

Poisoning web-scale training datasets is practical

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10149

3 years ago

Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers-of-ais-modular-future

3 years ago

Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/chemists-create-artificial-photosynthesis-system-10-times-more-efficient-existing-systems

3 years ago

Albanian gangs have set up their own CCTV networks to spy on cops

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgynb4/albanian-gangs-cctv

3 years ago

What is the randomart image for?

https://bytes.zone/posts/what-is-the-randomart-image-for/

3 years ago

OODA Loop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

3 years ago

AWS will offer HF’s products to its customers and run its next LLM tool

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/amazon-s-aws-joins-with-ai-startup-hugging-face-as-chatgpt-competition-heats-up

3 years ago

Linux 6.3 Introducing Hardware Noise “Hwnoise” Tool

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-hwnoise

3 years ago

TreeTalk London – Tree Map

https://www.treetalk.co.uk/map/

3 years ago

McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-21/mckinsey-to-cut-about-2-000-jobs-in-one-of-its-biggest-headcount-reductions

3 years ago

My favourite 3 lines of CSS

https://andy-bell.co.uk/my-favourite-3-lines-of-css/

3 years ago

Computer Networking Introduction: Ethernet and IP – Heavily Illustrated (2021)

https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/computer-networking-101/

3 years ago

Asp.net Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 1

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-dotnet-8-preview-1/

3 years ago

The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-remarkable-ivan-sutherland/

3 years ago

For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a US Forest

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/science/genetically-modified-trees-living-carbon.html

3 years ago

NASA's planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-nasa-planetary-radar-captures-view.html

3 years ago

We stand to save $7M over five years from our cloud exit

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our-cloud-exit-53996caa

3 years ago

Hugging Face and AWS partner to make AI more accessible

https://huggingface.co/blog/aws-partnership

3 years ago

Clarksworld closes submissions due to GPT spam

https://twitter.com/ShackletonCI/status/1627730312925966336

3 years ago

Show HN: Gargantuan Takeout Rocket – Google Takeout Transloader to Azure

https://github.com/nelsonjchen/gargantuan-takeout-rocket

3 years ago

Show HN: Planlike.pro – New Estimating Tool

https://planlike.pro/

3 years ago

Magic doesn't work that way

https://jakobgreenfeld.com/modern-magic

3 years ago

How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workplaces and beyond

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/how-indias-caste-system-manifests-in-seattle-area-workplaces-and-beyond/

3 years ago

Fruit trees – SmartView Christchurch

https://smartview.ccc.govt.nz/map/layers/trees#/@172.64777,-43.52686,16

3 years ago

Millions of active WebSockets with Node.js

https://unetworkingab.medium.com/millions-of-active-websockets-with-node-js-7dc575746a01

3 years ago

Reddit is experiencing a partial outage

https://www.redditstatus.com

3 years ago

A pilot scheme to trail the four-day workweek in Britain deemed a success (2022)

https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/11/17/a-pilot-scheme-to-trail-the-four-day-workweek-in-britain

3 years ago

Ask HN: YC co-founder matching is bad

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34883106

3 years ago

Office Landlord Defaults Are Escalating as Lenders Brace for More Distress

https://www.wsj.com/articles/office-landlord-defaults-are-escalating-as-lenders-brace-for-more-distress-894938c0

3 years ago

Spike mRNA vaccine sequences circulate in blood up to 28 days after vaccination

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apm.13294

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do I get back into the tech industry after 4 years of unemployment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34883423

3 years ago

Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories

https://www.pcmag.com/news/sci-fi-mag-pauses-submissions-amid-flood-of-ai-generated-short-stories

3 years ago

‘It took over my life ’ How one man made his dream 90s video game on his own

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/feb/21/it-took-over-my-life-how-one-man-made-his-dream-90s-video-game-on-his-own

3 years ago

AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

https://adnauseam.io/

3 years ago

Dansk and the Promise of a Simple Scandinavian Life

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/dansk-and-the-promise-of-a-simple-scandinavian-life

3 years ago

Reddit should have to identify users discussing piracy, film studios tell court

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/reddit-should-have-to-identify-users-who-discussed-piracy-film-studios-tell-court/

3 years ago

ChatGPT has already decreased my income security, and likely yours too

https://www.scottsantens.com/chatgpt-has-already-decreased-my-income-security/

3 years ago

College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11776279/Vanderbilt-apologizes-using-ChatGPT-write-email-students-MSU-mass-shooting.html

3 years ago

US military investigating leak of emails from Pentagon server

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/politics/us-military-leaked-emails-server-special-operations/index.html

3 years ago

Bifurcate the Problem Space

https://potetm.com/devtalk/bifurcate-the-problem.html

3 years ago

Chrome 110 will automatically discard background tabs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chrome-110-will-automatically-discard-background-tabs-heres-how-to-stop-it/

3 years ago

ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/

3 years ago