Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2023-02-25

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Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/25/nokia-launches-diy-repairable-budget-android-phone

2 years ago

1792 upvotes – 1038 comments

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My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-daughters-school-took-over-my-personal-microsoft-account

2 years ago

1346 upvotes – 476 comments

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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

2 years ago

1024 upvotes – 335 comments

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Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/25/signal_uk_online_safety_bill/

2 years ago

433 upvotes – 302 comments

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A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109917995005981968

2 years ago

395 upvotes – 291 comments

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Awesome Docker Compose Examples

https://github.com/Haxxnet/Compose-Examples

2 years ago

375 upvotes – 82 comments

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Open Airport Map

https://openairportmap.org

2 years ago

363 upvotes – 100 comments

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Upwork just stole $10k from me

https://twitter.com/ilyanovohatskyi/status/1626310838872145925

2 years ago

342 upvotes – 130 comments

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Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 218 comments

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SymPy makes math fun again

https://wordsandbuttons.online/sympy_makes_math_fun_again.html

2 years ago

323 upvotes – 87 comments

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Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/dns_bizarre_and_unusual_uses_of_dns/

2 years ago

318 upvotes – 138 comments

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Elixir for Humans Who Know Python

https://hibox.live/elixir-for-humans-who-know-python

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 193 comments

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Bloom's 2 sigma problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 130 comments

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Using GPT3, Supabase and Pinecone to automate a personalized marketing campaign

https://vimota.me/writing/gpt3-klaviyo-automation

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 62 comments

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Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939231

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 250 comments

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Forth: The programming language that writes itself

https://ratfactor.com/forth/forth_talk_2023.html

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 85 comments

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U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Missouri

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1159007203/selfie-china-balloon-photo

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 161 comments

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Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9996741

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 75 comments

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UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/23/uk-proposes-even-more-stupid-ideas-for-directly-regulating-the-internet-service-providers/

2 years ago

218 upvotes – 129 comments

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Wine Wayland Driver

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2275

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 103 comments

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Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2023/02/valent-is-kde-connect-client-for-gtk.html

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 87 comments

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Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/X7-debris-cloud-near-supermassive-black-hole

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 211 comments

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Symbolic Programming with Clojure [pdf]

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cs378.pdf

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 12 comments

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Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (2009)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-thioacetone

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 75 comments

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ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2023/chatgpt-get-rich-quick-schemes-are-coming-for-magazines-amazon-and-youtube

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 140 comments

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Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine

https://pointersgonewild.com/2023/02/24/building-a-minimalistic-virtual-machine/

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 61 comments

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SwissGL: Swiss Army Knife for WebGL2

https://github.com/google/swissgl

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 18 comments

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Masonry Heaters: 18-24 hours of heat output from a single wood fire

https://www.mha-net.org/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 105 comments

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Place Your Bets

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/02/place-your-bets.html

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 140 comments

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Age: Modern file encryption format with multiple pluggable recipients

https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 76 comments

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mruby 3.2.0

https://mruby.org/releases/2023/02/24/mruby-3.2.0-released.html

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 22 comments

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A Lambda Calculus with Coroutines and Heapless, Directly-Called Closures

https://ayazhafiz.com/articles/23/a-lambda-calculus-with-coroutines-and-heapless-closures#source-language

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 23 comments

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Gut microbes could drive brain disorders

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00260-3

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 82 comments

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My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (2014)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/my-friend-stalins-daughter

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 55 comments

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Online 3D Viewer for FreeCAD files

https://3dviewer.net/embed.html#model=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/master/data/examples/PartDesignExample.FCStd$camera=66.34677,160.67932,-135.55368,17.48001,-50.00000,-14.99847,0.00000,1.00000,0.00000,45.00000$cameramode=perspective$envsettings=fishermans_bastion,off$backgroundcolor=42,43,46,255$defaultcolor=200,200,200$edgesettings=on,0,0,0,20

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 23 comments

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Show HN: LeanCreator – a stripped-down QtCreator for C/C++, LeanQt and BUSY

https://github.com/rochus-keller/LeanCreator

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 72 comments

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Oops, You Wrote a Database

https://dx.tips/oops-database