top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-24

Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-says-google-destroyed-evidence-related-to-antitrust-lawsuit-5dad2d6

3 years ago

I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to

https://cohost.org/morayati/post/925436-i-saw-real-page-s-cra

3 years ago

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/

3 years ago

Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948906657878016

3 years ago

LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/

3 years ago

Paper Models of Vintage Computers

http://rockybergen.com/papercraft

3 years ago

Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by company profits, not wages

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/an-economic-fairytale-australias-inflation-being-driven-by-company-profits-and-not-wages-analysis-finds

3 years ago

Show HN: Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather

https://thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean

3 years ago

John Boyer, blind software engineer, has died

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2023/02/24/john-boyer-blind-software-engineer-in-madison-wisconsin-dies/69907224007/

3 years ago

Burgr – Books in Your Terminal

https://blubsblog.bearblog.dev/burgr-books-in-your-terminal/

3 years ago

Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001

3 years ago

FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms

https://tcpaworld.com/2023/02/23/closing-the-lead-generator-loophole-fcc-considering-banning-transfer-of-online-consent-forms-and-other-critical-changes-and-i-warned-you/

3 years ago

North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/02/22/north-korean-hackers-stole-a-record-17bn-of-crypto-last-year

3 years ago

Learn Vim (2021)

https://github.com/iggredible/Learn-Vim

3 years ago

It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube?

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/02/23/its-time-for-alphabet-to-spin-off-youtube

3 years ago

Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34920400

3 years ago

Hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups

https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-ransomware-getting-laid-off-amid-better-cybersecurity-report-2023-2

3 years ago

Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ericsson-lay-off-8500-employees-memo-2023-02-24/

3 years ago

The gap between how old you are and how old you think you are

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/subjective-age-how-old-you-feel-difference/673086/

3 years ago

Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS

https://konstaui.com/

3 years ago

The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-legacy-of-fy_iceworld-counter-strikes-divisive-and-hugely-popular-custom-map

3 years ago

A tale of Phobos – How we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2023/02/breaking-phobos/

3 years ago

Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning

https://dilpreet.co/projects/eduard

3 years ago

Serving 250k developers with one support engineer

https://blog.railway.app/p/scaling-railway-automating-support

3 years ago

Drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10

https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/109919980697679274

3 years ago

You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)

https://thefinancialdiet.com/the-spirit-of-the-girlboss-is-alive-in-mlm-schemes/

3 years ago

Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64759118

3 years ago

Loopholes in Google’s data safety labels

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/googles-data-safety-labels/

3 years ago

An overview of modern Japanese wood construction (2004) [pdf]

https://www.forum-holzbau.com/pdf/an_overview-Yoshiaki.pdf

3 years ago

Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap

https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-24-02-2023/

3 years ago

How to date a recording using background electrical noise

https://robertheaton.com/enf/

3 years ago

Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23612833/metas-next-big-round-of-layoffs-are-coming

3 years ago

How to weaponize the Yubikey (2019)

https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/how-to-weaponize-the-yubikey/

3 years ago

TikTok “teen” AI filter is hitting hard for Gen-X users

https://twitter.com/memotv/status/1628758590033993728

3 years ago

Bun v0.5.7

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v0.5.7

3 years ago

Online Lens/Optics Simulator

https://opticexplorer.sharedigm.com

3 years ago

Aggressive Attack on PyPI Attempting to Deliver Rust Executable

https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-another-attack-on-pypi

3 years ago

NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages

https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/devops/npm-repository-15000-phishing-packages

3 years ago

Show HN: While painting this, I had nothing in mind

https://krickelkrackel.com/en

3 years ago

Non-Compete Clause Rule (NPRM)

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2023-0007-0001

3 years ago

Phoenix 1.7.0 Released

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.7-final-released

3 years ago

German university life seen through American eyes, 1900-1901

https://www.irwincollier.com/germany-university-life-seen-through-american-eyes-tupper-1900-1901/

3 years ago

Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron

https://www.electronjs.org/fiddle/

3 years ago

So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules? (2016)

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2016/06/so-youve-been-challenged-to-a-duel-what-are-the-rules/

3 years ago

Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/23/excess-weight-obesity-more-deadly-previously-believed

3 years ago

Apple I operation manual (1976) [pdf]

http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/apple.applei.1976.102646518.pdf

3 years ago

Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-ai-language-model-llama-2023-02-24/

3 years ago

Planning for AGI and Beyond

https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

3 years ago

Training Deep Networks with Data Parallelism in Jax

https://www.mishalaskin.com/posts/data_parallel

3 years ago

Daily.place

https://www.daily.place/

3 years ago

Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor

https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar

3 years ago

Deno 1.31: Package.json Support

https://deno.com/blog/v1.31

3 years ago

Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/02/speedy-transactions-in-multicore-in.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Get advice from a GPT3-based stoic philosopher

https://seneca.dylancastillo.co/

3 years ago

Dwarf Fortress Wins “Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year” at Dice Awards

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1628975132202143744

3 years ago

One Year into the War in Ukraine

https://acoup.blog/2023/02/24/collections-one-year-into-the-war-in-ukraine/

3 years ago

Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnZac6lA1_k

3 years ago

4-day workweek trial

https://apnews.com/article/business-d114ef8be69e1665fd22c39515bdaecf

3 years ago

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (2021)

https://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/hamiltonian-monte-carlo/

3 years ago

Why SAT Is Hard

https://matklad.github.io/2023/02/21/why-SAT-is-hard.html

3 years ago

An online archive of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead

https://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/category/the-book-subcategories/the-poem

3 years ago

The Tyranny of “The Plan”

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tyranny-of-plan/

3 years ago

Bitnami ARM containers available at Docker Hub

https://blog.bitnami.com/2023/02/bitnami-arm-containers-available-at.html

3 years ago

How the cover art of Defender of the Crown (1986) was made (2013)

https://spelpappan.se/2013/08/this-is-how-the-cover-art-of-defender-of-the-crown-1986-was-made/

3 years ago

Wendelstein 7-X: 8 min Plasma with 1.3 GJ Energy Turnover [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmje2qsVgY

3 years ago

Ray Dalio's Bridgewater exit package could amount to billions of dollars

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/business/bridgewater-ray-dalio-retire.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to prevent a company from taking my domain name?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34922979

3 years ago

How to date a recording using background electrical noise

https://robertheaton.com/enf/

3 years ago

Sounding the Secrets of AudioLM

https://www.shaped.ai/blog/sounding-the-secrets-of-audiolm

3 years ago

Neal Stephenson doesn't seem keen on crypto anymore

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/even-neal-stephenson-doesn-t-seem-keen-on-crypto-anymore

3 years ago

Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (1981)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-06

3 years ago

Google has gotten so cheap, employees now have to share desks

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/google-has-gotten-so-cheap-employees-now-have-to-share-desks/

3 years ago

To build truly intelligent machines, teach them cause and effect

https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-machines-teach-them-cause-and-effect-20180515/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

3 years ago

Snow Crash Related Items Auction

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/snow-crash

3 years ago

AI chatbots are having their “tulip mania” moment

https://www.salon.com/2023/02/21/ai-chatbots-are-having-their-tulip-mania-moment/

3 years ago

Show HN: Convert sketches into images using ControlNet

https://clio.so/sketch

3 years ago

PayPal Fees Are Insane

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34922395

3 years ago

Human mind control of rat cyborg's movement via brain-to-brain interface (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36885-0

3 years ago