top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-08

Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years

https://www.hackster.io/news/andreas-eriksen-s-potatop-is-a-lisp-powered-laptop-with-a-battery-life-measured-in-years-2f5d79653f24

3 years ago

Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/

3 years ago

Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html

3 years ago

AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search

https://rachsmith.com/i-want-good-search/

3 years ago

Google Groups has been left to die

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2023-03-08-google-groups/

3 years ago

Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (2003)

https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

3 years ago

Bee and butterfly numbers are falling, even in undisturbed forests

https://www.science.org/content/article/bee-butterfly-numbers-are-falling-even-undisturbed-forests

3 years ago

Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979

3 years ago

Gang members hold positions at ‘highest levels’ of LA Sheriff’s department

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/la-sheriff-department-gangs-alex-villanueva-1234691873/

3 years ago

Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

https://riskybiznews.substack.com/p/risky-biz-news-canadas-tax-revenue

3 years ago

Microsoft Designer

https://designer.microsoft.com/?hn

3 years ago

Governments should compete for residents, not businesses

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-07/amazon-hq2-pause-could-be-a-sign-of-a-new-era-for-development

3 years ago

The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

https://vpnoverview.com/privacy/apps/most-deleted-apps-in-united-states/

3 years ago

The Registers of Rust

https://without.boats/blog/the-registers-of-rust/

3 years ago

FTC bars GoodRx from sharing consumers’ sensitive health info for advertising

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/02/ftc-enforcement-action-bar-goodrx-sharing-consumers-sensitive-health-info-advertising

3 years ago

Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU

https://github.com/markasoftware/llama-cpu

3 years ago

The False Promise of ChatGPT

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

3 years ago

Show HN: CodeGPT.nvim – ChatGPT plugin for Neovim

https://github.com/dpayne/CodeGPT.nvim

3 years ago

ChatGPT-Linux-Assistant

https://github.com/rareranger/chatgpt-linux-assistant

3 years ago

How Californians are weaponizing environmental law to eliminate housing

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-environmental-law-hurts-housing/618264/

3 years ago

Writeout.ai – Transcribe and translate any audio files

https://writeout.ai/

3 years ago

Appler: Apple ][ emulator for IBM PC, written in 8088 assembly

https://github.com/zajo/appler

3 years ago

Show HN: Construct Animate – our new browser-based animation tool

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/construct-official-blog-1/launching-construct-animate-1612

3 years ago

Code coverage for Go integration tests

https://go.dev/blog/integration-test-coverage

3 years ago

Microphones

https://coutant.org/1.html

3 years ago

DataDog is having a major outage across almost all services

https://status.datadoghq.com

3 years ago

How we deploy faster with warm Docker containers

https://dagster.io/blog/fast-deploys-with-pex-and-docker

3 years ago

Overhead of Python asyncio tasks

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/03/08/overhead-of-python-asyncio-tasks/

3 years ago

Intel tapes out chips on 1.8nm and 2nm production nodes

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-completes-development-of-18a-20a-nodes

3 years ago

GDevelop: An open-source, cross-platform, free, and easy game-making app

https://gdevelop.io/

3 years ago

Effective Altruism’s obsession with AI safety helps bury bad behavior

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-07/effective-altruism-s-problems-go-beyond-sam-bankman-fried

3 years ago

Launch HN: UpTrain (YC W23) – Open-source performance monitoring for ML models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35069839

3 years ago

I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc27GxSD_bI

3 years ago

BeaglePlay from BeagleBoard brings fun to building with computers

https://beagleboard.org/blog/2023-03-08-beagleplay-annoucement

3 years ago

Infra-Red, in Situ (Iris) Inspection of Silicon

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6712

3 years ago

PEP 709 – Inlined Comprehensions

https://peps.python.org/pep-0709/

3 years ago

Intel continues with more optimizations to the Linux kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-rcuref-Linux-Speed-Up

3 years ago

Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters)

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

3 years ago

FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns

https://www.reuters.com/technology/fbi-chief-says-tiktok-screams-us-national-security-concerns-2023-03-08/

3 years ago

Come Break My Compiler

https://bellmar.medium.com/come-break-my-compiler-afd2582f48ee

3 years ago

“Forbidden-word” lists are a symptom of administrative bloat

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/03/forbidden-word-lists-are-a-symptom-of-administrative-bloat/

3 years ago

Full screen triangle optimization

https://30fps.net/pages/twotris/

3 years ago

How secure is merely discarding (TRIMing) all of a SSD's blocks?

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDBlockDiscardHowSecure

3 years ago

Room-temperature superconductor discovery meets with resistance

https://www.quantamagazine.org/room-temperature-superconductor-discovery-meets-with-resistance-20230308/

3 years ago

Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD installer

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230308063109

3 years ago

Building big systems with remote hardware teams

https://oxide.computer/blog/building-big-systems-with-remote-hardware-teams

3 years ago

Silvergate Bank to begin voluntary liquidation

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/03/08/dfpi-statement-silvergate-bank-to-begin-voluntary-liquidation/

3 years ago

Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database

https://www.plato.io/blog/launch

3 years ago

Dust XP1 switches to GPT-3.5-turbo, is now free to use

https://dust.tt/xp1

3 years ago

An experimental beach barrier could be key to rebuilding eroding coastlines

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/washaway-no-more-an-experimental-beach-barrier-could-be-key-to-rebuilding-eroding-coastlines/

3 years ago

Vanilla OS 2.0 Shifting from Ubuntu Base to Debian Sid

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vanilla-OS-2.0-Debian

3 years ago

Researchers develop blood test for anxiety

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230307143746.htm

3 years ago

Truck: CAD Kernel in Rust

https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

3 years ago

Signal K – open-source universal marine data exchange format

https://signalk.org/

3 years ago

Hospital’s iced water machine purifier stripped out chlorine, killing 3 patients

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/hospitals-water-purification-system-stripped-out-chlorine-killing-3-patients/

3 years ago

Tesla was likely on autopilot in deadly fire truck crash in Bay Area, feds say

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/tesla-autopilot-deadly-fire-truck-crash-17827415.php

3 years ago

Ask HN How do I learn marketing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064250

3 years ago

R.L. Stine accuses publisher of censoring Goosebumps books without permission

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/r-l-stine-self-censoring-goosebumps-books-to-be-more-inclusive/

3 years ago

Show HN: WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death

https://weexpire.org

3 years ago

It Turns Out Money Does Buy Happiness

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/money-does-buy-happiness-at-least-up-to-500-000

3 years ago