top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-27

The Camera-Shy Hoodie

https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie

3 years ago

780 upvotes – 291 comments

Keep your AI claims in check

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your-ai-claims-check

3 years ago

760 upvotes – 282 comments

Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery

https://writing.samsonhu.com/how-poor-sleep-drove-me-insane-and-my-long-path-to-recovery/

3 years ago

655 upvotes – 364 comments

Most data work seems fundamentally worthless

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/most-data-work-seems-fundamentally-worthless/

3 years ago

605 upvotes – 310 comments

Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot

https://www.wired.com/story/you-can-turn-your-backyard-into-a-biodiversity-hotspot/

3 years ago

392 upvotes – 207 comments

From Go on EC2 to Fly.io

https://benhoyt.com/writings/flyio/

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 200 comments

Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer

https://www.windytan.com/2023/02/using-hdmi-radio-interference-for-high.html

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 25 comments

Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT

https://github.com/nebuly-ai/nebullvm/tree/main/apps/accelerate/chatllama

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 115 comments

Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments

https://www.thedrive.com/news/future-fords-could-repossess-themselves-and-drive-away-if-you-miss-payments

3 years ago

286 upvotes – 544 comments

Steam Deck: First Anniversary

https://boilingsteam.com/steam-deck-first-anniversary-of-the-ultimate-gaming-platform/

3 years ago

281 upvotes – 248 comments

How the biggest fraud in German history unravelled

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/how-the-biggest-fraud-in-german-history-unravelled

3 years ago

280 upvotes – 148 comments

Zig's multi-sequence for loops

https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-multi-sequence-for-loops/

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 291 comments

What Is Anglish?

https://anglish.org/wiki/Anglish

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 346 comments

Google just shut down our $1M business

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34961069

3 years ago

259 upvotes – 81 comments

The Determinate Nix Installer

https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer

3 years ago

250 upvotes – 76 comments

The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

https://www.fastcompany.com/90824702/vertical-farming-failing-profitable-appharvest-aerofarms-bowery

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 270 comments

Ongoing Incident in Google Cloud

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/LnvJwfYu3TCyUrcrP7yf#RP1d9aZLNFZEJmTBk8e1

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 105 comments

Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34955699

3 years ago

231 upvotes – 121 comments

AMD releases a new flagship CPU for consumer market with 128M of L3 Cache

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d/

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 208 comments

TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter

https://twitter.com/memotv/status/1629905103724396546

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 174 comments

Very Long-Term Backup (2008)

https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 142 comments

Amazon removes books from Kindle Unlimited after they appear on pirate sites

https://torrentfreak.com/amazon-removes-books-from-kindle-unlimited-after-they-appear-on-pirate-sites-230206/

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 152 comments

Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/10/04/work-smarter-not-harder/

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 116 comments

Linux-factory: A framework used to create custom Linux Debian operating systems

https://github.com/clayrisser/linux-factory

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 82 comments

Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America

https://slate.com/business/2023/02/subway-costs-us-europe-public-transit-funds.html

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 248 comments

KDE Plasma development switches to Qt 6 tomorrow

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2023-February/001699.html

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 72 comments

Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone

https://bbarrows.com/posts/how-to-get-around-paywalls-with-debug-tools

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 120 comments

Plutonium: The most dangerous substance known to man?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-most-dangerous-substance-known-to-man

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 156 comments

Unidentified Halo, an anti-surveillance wearable project

https://beccaricks.space/Unidentified-Halo

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 97 comments

Idris 2 0.6.0 is now available for the JVM

https://github.com/mmhelloworld/idris-jvm/releases/tag/latest

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 64 comments

CoffeeScript for TypeScript

https://civet.dev/

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 135 comments

Minimum Viable Hugo

https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/minimum-viable-hugo

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 111 comments

Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health

https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-pascagoula-pollution-future-cancer-risk

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 129 comments

Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals

https://hbr.org/2023/02/research-the-transformative-power-of-sabbaticals

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

The GitHub 1000 year archive may be the last code dataset uncontaminated by AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34956107

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 30 comments

Graph DBMSs need new join algorithms: Story of worst-case optimal joins

https://kuzudb.com/blog/wcoj.html

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 26 comments

Diffusion with Offset Noise: Finetuning SD to generate very dark or light images

https://www.crosslabs.org//blog/diffusion-with-offset-noise

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

Will Carbon Replace C++?

https://semaphoreci.com/blog/carbon

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 321 comments

The cursed universes of Dana Sibera

https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/the-cursed-universes-of-dana-sibera/

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: What companies have publicly available handbooks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959242

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Out of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf]

https://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 66 comments

Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affordable Housing

https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/02/27/lawsuits-block-downtown-homes/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 150 comments

Show HN: Former game devs building a platform showcasing game projects

https://projectgoobii.com/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 58 comments

Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot

https://bert.org/2023/02/27/recreating-ansi-art-from-a-screenshot/

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

https://github.com/Hesse/gitgpt

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

Dutch man needs CPR, but YouTube shows ads before tutorial

https://myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl/consent?siteKey=mcv8h7juKXm7kdOx&callbackUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ed.nl%2Fprivacy-gate%2Faccept-tcf2%3FredirectUri%3D%252Fbinnenland%252Fstijn-reanimeerde-buurman-met-behulp-van-youtube-video-maar-werd-onderbroken-door-advertenties~a7111a50%252F

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 122 comments

The Nixon White House plotted to assassinate a journalist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/25/nixon-jack-anderson-assassination/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

Couchbase withdraws non-profit event sponshorship 4 days before

https://twitter.com/T3chFest/status/1630139044129648640

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

In neutron stars, astrophysicists see a form of matter like none other

https://nautil.us/giant-zombie-atoms-of-the-cosmos-263495/

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 71 comments

Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/doj_to_block_adobe_purchase/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/physically-demanding-work-tied-male-fertility

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 96 comments

W3C Beta Website

https://beta.w3.org/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 72 comments

SCOTUS Says Domestic Spying Is Too Secret to Be Challenged in Court

https://reason.com/2023/02/27/scotus-says-domestic-spying-is-too-secret-to-be-challenged-in-court/

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Dak – a Lisp-like language that transpiles to JavaScript

https://www.daklang.com/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking (2012)

https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/mathematical-foundations-of-computer-networking/P200000009272/9780321792105

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

Dumpster Diving FAQ (2004)

http://ranprieur.com/misc/dumpster.html

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 86 comments

DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub

https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 74 comments

Why are so many young men single and sexless?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-state-of-our-unions/202302/why-are-so-many-young-men-single-and-sexless

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 205 comments

Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14747049221112657

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments

Reverse-engineering the ModR/M addressing microcode in the Intel 8086 processor

https://www.righto.com/2023/02/8086-modrm-addressing.html

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

First Image from Sony Star Sphere Satellite Released

https://tlpnetwork.com/news/2023/02/first-image-from-sony-star-sphere-released

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Python is two languages now

https://threeofwands.com/python-is-two-languages-now-and-thats-actually-great/

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 106 comments

Human height remained unchanged for 2k years in Milan, finds study

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-human-height-unchanged-years-milan.html

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

https://www.shortwave.com/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

The rise of self-hosted apps

https://chromakode.com/post/the-rise-of-self-hosted-apps/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Unit Testing PDF Generation

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/02/unit-testing-pdf-generation.html

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments
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