top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-23

Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)

https://www.gkbrk.com/2016/05/hotel-music/

3 years ago

Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab

https://atomicsemi.com/

3 years ago

Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills

https://letgrow.org/childhood-independence-bills-update/

3 years ago

The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.html

3 years ago

Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34913596

3 years ago

Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

https://medium.com/@shiloholotu/disqualified-from-a-national-web-design-competition-for-using-github-c26e103b157a

3 years ago

Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server

https://github.com/mjl-/mox

3 years ago

Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

3 years ago

I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended

https://twitter.com/rafahari/status/1628765429790277632

3 years ago

KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

https://github.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator/blob/main/proposals/flathub-linux-app-store.md

3 years ago

Mermaid Cheat Sheet

https://jojozhuang.github.io/tutorial/mermaid-cheat-sheet/

3 years ago

Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-startup-surge/

3 years ago

DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20B Figma Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-preparing-suit-to-block-adobe-s-20-billion-deal-for-figma

3 years ago

Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch

https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/3677788723152833273

3 years ago

The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2023/01/31/coffee-science/

3 years ago

ThinkPad 701C with a Framework brain transplant

https://community.frame.work/t/thinkpad-701c-with-a-framework-brain-transplant-work-in-progress/27409

3 years ago

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/22/there-is-a-worrying-amount-of-fraud-in-medical-research

3 years ago

Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti

https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-runes/vikings-tagged-the-great-lion-in-venice-with-runes/2157444

3 years ago

Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles

https://www.anl.gov/article/new-design-for-lithiumair-battery-could-offer-much-longer-driving-range-compared-with-the-lithiumion

3 years ago

Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine

https://www.ambient.run/

3 years ago

MINIX from Scratch

https://github.com/o-oconnell/minixfromscratch

3 years ago

Introduction to Data-Centric AI

https://dcai.csail.mit.edu/

3 years ago

Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library

https://proton.me/blog/gluon-imap-library

3 years ago

Security audit of account and payment services

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/17/security-audit-of-account-and-payment-services/

3 years ago

95% of Bay Area Cities Lost Zoning Authority

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/96-of-bay-area-cities-lost-zoning

3 years ago

Common Lisp Implementations in 2023

https://www.n16f.net/blog/common-lisp-implementations-in-2023/

3 years ago

Let It Fail

https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/let-it-fail

3 years ago

AI’s Instagram Problem

https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/someone-elses-cool-ai-project-doesnt-make-your-project-less-valuable/

3 years ago

Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/lwp

3 years ago

I Broke into a Bank Account with an AI-Generated Voice

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7axa/how-i-broke-into-a-bank-account-with-an-ai-generated-voice

3 years ago

Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

3 years ago

TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months

https://www.firstpost.com/world/tiktok-owner-bytedance-planning-to-layoff-thousands-in-coming-months-in-china-12185652.html

3 years ago

Psql Tips

https://psql-tips.org/

3 years ago

PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/02/pfas-can-suppress-white-blood-cells-ability-to-destroy-invaders/

3 years ago

Diabetes drug Mounjaro was available at $25/month, then increased to $1k/month

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ozempic-mounjaro-side-effects-diabetes-weight-loss-b2288015.html

3 years ago

Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916815

3 years ago

Emacs is on F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.gnu.emacs/

3 years ago

Professor Says He Was Barred from Campus After Monsanto FOIA Inquiry

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/20/professor-says-he-was-barred-campus-after-monsanto-info-request

3 years ago

Show HN: IngestAI – NoCode ChatGPT-bot creator from your knowledge base in Slack

https://ingestai.io

3 years ago

Against predictive optimization

https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/

3 years ago

After defending false data, Comcast admits another FCC broadband map mistake

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-could-have-avoided-giving-false-map-data-to-fcc-by-checking-its-own-website/

3 years ago

Probability 101, the intuition behind martingales and solving problems with them

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/110801

3 years ago

Stanford faculty say anonymous student bias reports threaten free speech

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanford-faculty-moves-to-stop-students-from-reporting-bias-anonymously-cbac78ed

3 years ago

Bankman-Fried, others made 300 illegal political donations, new indictment says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-indictment-unsealed-against-bankman-fried-containing-12-charges-2023-02-23/

3 years ago

Biohazard: Iconic symbol designed to be “memorable but meaningless” (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/biohazard-symbol-designed-to-be-memorable-but-meaningless/

3 years ago

Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/kombucha-electronics-sure-why-not/

3 years ago

Portable Django

https://djngo.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner

https://github.com/joerdav/xc

3 years ago

Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/22/google-asks-some-employees-to-share-desks-amid-office-downsizing.html

3 years ago

More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com

https://www.reproof.app/blog/you-dont-need-a-dot-com

3 years ago

After death of girl yesterday, 12 more detected with H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501244375/after-death-of-girl-yesterday-12-more-detected-with-h5n1-bird-flu/

3 years ago

Show HN: ChatBotKit – The simplest way to build AI chat bots like ChatGPT

https://chatbotkit.com/

3 years ago

Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

3 years ago

Dioxus 0.3 – Templates, Hot Reloading, LiveView, and More

https://dioxuslabs.com/blog/release-030/

3 years ago

5 People killed as plane carrying environment workers to Ohio tragedy crashes

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/arkansas-plane-crash-little-rock-b2287648.html

3 years ago

Conversational AI will be used to Manipulate Us in real-time

https://www.barrons.com/articles/conversational-ai-will-learn-to-push-your-buttons-manipulation-problem-c9f797e8

3 years ago

Google tells employees to share desks as it looks to cut costs

https://www.techspot.com/news/97705-google-tells-employees-share-desks-looks-cut-costs.html

3 years ago

Difficult to impossible travel across wide swaths of the U.S.

https://www.weather.gov/

3 years ago

Sex, food or water? How mice decide

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00521-3

3 years ago

Toshiba HD-DVD firmware archive

http://www.mirrorsite.net/files/toshiba/hd-dvd/

3 years ago

Lessons from 35 Years of Newsletter Publishing (2022)

https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/35-lessons-from-35-years-of-newsletter-publishing/

3 years ago