top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-07

Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-microphone-disconnect-secbbd20b00b/web

3 years ago

Discord, or the Death of Lore

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509

3 years ago

ChatGPT Explained: A normie's guide to how it works

https://www.jonstokes.com/p/chatgpt-explained-a-guide-for-normies

3 years ago

React is holding me hostage

https://emnudge.dev/blog/react-hostage

3 years ago

Hi again @elonmusk

https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

3 years ago

The lost art of lacing cable (2018)

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/12400/the-lost-art-of-lacing-cable

3 years ago

Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

http://www.haraldurthorleifsson.com

3 years ago

HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges

https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/11l4kne/hp_have_updated_their_printers_to_outright_ban/

3 years ago

Parse, don't validate (2019)

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

3 years ago

Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

https://growth.design/case-studies/mario-kart-revenue-model

3 years ago

RJIT, a new JIT for Ruby

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7448

3 years ago

French workers protest plan to increase retirement age

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-nationwide-strikes-pensions-1.6770345

3 years ago

The decline of net neutrality activism

https://neelc.org/posts/net-neutrality-activism/

3 years ago

Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/meta-is-said-to-plan-thousands-more-layoffs-as-soon-as-this-week

3 years ago

Stripe faces $3.5B tax bill as employees' shares expire

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-06/stripe-details-3-5-billion-tax-bill-in-latest-fundraising-round

3 years ago

Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-mushrooms-magnify-memory-boosting-nerve.html

3 years ago

Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/3/6/ways-to-think-about-amazon-advertising

3 years ago

Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust

https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/

3 years ago

Show HN: NESFab – Programming language for making NES games

https://pubby.games/nesfab.html

3 years ago

Zero energy ready homes are coming

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/zero-energy-ready-homes-are-coming-neighborhood-near-you

3 years ago

Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL

https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/ogd-in-sql/

3 years ago

My Hardest Bug Ever (2013)

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-ever

3 years ago

Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication

https://edri.org/our-work/press-release-poll-youth-in-13-eu-countries-refuse-surveillance-of-online-communication/

3 years ago

A low latency guitar effects processor suitable for running on a Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/Quinny/GuitarEffects

3 years ago

Malvertising on Google Ads

https://www.kolide.com/blog/malvertising-on-google-ads-it-s-hiding-in-plain-site

3 years ago

RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust

https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

3 years ago

Plankalkül

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

3 years ago

Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model

https://palm-e.github.io/

3 years ago

Mars After Midnight: Gameplay Loop

https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight/devlog/495856/gameplay-loop

3 years ago

Trouble with Erythritol

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/trouble-erythritol

3 years ago

Haraldur Þorleifsson sweeps person of the year awards

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/

3 years ago

Possible reasons for 8-bit bytes

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/03/06/possible-reasons-8-bit-bytes/

3 years ago

Fake sugars sneak into foods and disrupt metabolic health

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2023/sugar-substitutes-health-effects/

3 years ago

Boulder Dash

https://lutzroeder.github.io/digger/

3 years ago

Atlassian to shed 5 per cent of workers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-07/atlassian-cuts-5-per-cent-of-work-force-tech-industry-layoffs/102062078

3 years ago

A Vulnerability in Implementations of SHA-3, Shake, EdDSA

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/331

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

https://www.typingmind.com/

3 years ago

Launch HN: DAGWorks – ML platform for data science teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056903

3 years ago

E-bandages lightly zap and heal wounds

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electroceuticals-e-bandages

3 years ago

Graduate students at the University of Southern California have won a union

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/university-of-southern-california-grad-student-workers-union-bargaining-demands-nlrb

3 years ago

Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2023-domain-names-as-handles-in-bluesky

3 years ago

Cabel Sasser: Untitled Goose Game rejected from the Mac App Store twice

https://social.panic.com/@cabel/109977366338856750

3 years ago

Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data

https://www.hnhiringtrends.com/

3 years ago

Sued by Meta, Freenom halts domain registrations

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/sued-by-meta-freenom-halts-domain-registrations/

3 years ago

ChatGPT has trouble giving an answer before explaining its reasoning

https://blog.valentin.sh/chatgpt5/

3 years ago

Georgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-nuclear-reactor-electricity-voglte-startup-305145dc46cc1752c2d9371fa70aea35

3 years ago

Dividing a Square into 7 Similar Rectangles

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/03/06/dividing-a-square-into-7-similar-rectangles/

3 years ago

Remote Code Execution as a Service

https://earthly.dev/blog/remote-code-execution/

3 years ago

Globally Distributed Elixir over Tailscale

https://www.richardtaylor.dev/articles/globally-distributed-elixir-over-tailscale

3 years ago

No Lodash

https://thescottyjam.github.io/snap.js/#!/nolodash

3 years ago

Feb 27 2023 GCP Outage Incident Report

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

3 years ago

Pure Storage Teases 300 TB Ultra-Large NVMe SSD with Tentative 2026 Launch

https://wccftech.com/pure-storage-teases-monstrous-300-tb-ultra-large-capacity-nvme-ssd-with-a-tentative-2026-launch-date/

3 years ago

Category Theory ∩ Machine Learning

https://github.com/bgavran/Category_Theory_Machine_Learning

3 years ago

BlinderKitten: Free lighting software

http://blinderkitten.lighting

3 years ago

Filmed interview with Georges Lemaître, 'father of the Big Bang,' rediscovered

https://www.livescience.com/lost-georges-lemaitre-interview-recovered

3 years ago

Show HN: Bearer – Open-source code security scanning solution (SAST)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055843

3 years ago

Show HN: Regex Derivatives (Brzozowski Derivatives)

https://github.com/c0stya/brzozowski

3 years ago

After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear winner

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/02/after-seven-years-of-brexit-talks-europe-has-emerged-as-the-clear-winner

3 years ago

A study on the extent of global air pollution

https://scienceswitch.com/2023/03/07/the-pm2-5-pandemic-a-first-ever-study-on-the-extent-of-global-air-pollution-reveals-startling-results/

3 years ago

Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html

3 years ago

Inconvenient EU piracy study kept hidden for years (2017)

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/09/22/inconvenient-eu-piracy-study-kept-hidden-for-years/

3 years ago

Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform fight

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/unions-seek-bring-france-halt-block-pension-reform-2023-03-07/

3 years ago

Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions (2022)

https://news.iu.edu/live/news/18907-evolution-of-tree-roots-may-have-driven-mass

3 years ago

EVs are far cleaner than gas-powered cars even if batteries require more mining

https://qz.com/electric-vehicles-cleaner-battery-mining-1850129845

3 years ago

ChatGPT powered GitHub code review app

https://chatcody.umso.co

3 years ago

Stability AI Acquires Init ML, Makers of Clipdrop Application

https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-acquires-init-ml-makers-of-clipdrop-application

3 years ago

A curated list of engineering blogs

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

3 years ago

SWAR: Find any byte from set

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2023-03-06-swar-find-any.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you start over with 2FA after losing your phone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055000

3 years ago

Signal is for everyone, and everyone is different

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/

3 years ago