top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-18

More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships

https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-students-are-turning-away-from-college-and-toward-apprenticeships-15f3a05d

3 years ago

SETI@home is in hibernation

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

3 years ago

The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge

https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/03/18/the-dark-defaults-of-microsoft-edge.html

3 years ago

Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars

3 years ago

Anki-fy your life

https://abouttolearn.substack.com/p/anki-fy-your-life

3 years ago

Are you ok?

https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/72-are-you-ok.gmi

3 years ago

Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table

https://github.com/0x6b/libgsqlite

3 years ago

AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/awss-anti-competitive-move-hidden-in-plain-sight/

3 years ago

Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/dining/tavern-thin-crust-pizza-chicago.html

3 years ago

Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering truncated PNGs

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html

3 years ago

How to participate in Monday’s oral arguments re: Internet Archive

http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/

3 years ago

The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032

3 years ago

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass (2017)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

3 years ago

Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally

https://thenybble.de/posts/json-analysis/

3 years ago

LLVM 16.0.0 Release

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-16-0-0-release/69326

3 years ago

How to own your own Docker Registry address

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/docker-image-registry-facade/

3 years ago

20 years of Nix

https://20th.nixos.org/

3 years ago

AI fooled voice recognition to verify identity used by Australian tax office

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-system-used-to-verify-identity-by-centrelink-can-be-fooled-by-ai

3 years ago

Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

https://build-your-own.org/redis/

3 years ago

The Oberon+ Programming Language

https://oberon-lang.github.io/

3 years ago

PLATO: An educational computer system from the 60s shaped the future

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/

3 years ago

Laptop Brands with GNU/Linux Preinstalled

https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/109597861116785251

3 years ago

YouTube millionaires are not your friends

https://www.vox.com/culture/23640192/sebastian-ghiorghiu-youtube-hustle-gurus-passive-income-dropshipping

3 years ago

Sleep habits may have long-term benefits

https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2023/02/22/21/35/Getting-Good-Sleep-Could-Add-Years-to-Your-Life

3 years ago

Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31

https://nitter.bird.froth.zone/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570#m

3 years ago

JPEG-XL vs. AVIF and Others: 27 Images Compared

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/image-comparison/

3 years ago

How Async/Await Works in C#

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-async-await-really-works/

3 years ago

Acropalypse: a vulnerability in Google's screenshot editing tool

https://twitter.com/ItsSimonTime/status/1636857478263750656

3 years ago

a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick

https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230316_go_full_slice/

3 years ago

Zero one infinity rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule

3 years ago

Nuclear power plant leaked 1.5M litres of radioactive water in Minnesota

https://globalnews.ca/news/9559326/nuclear-power-plant-leak-radioactive-water-minnesota/

3 years ago

Real-Time Video Processing with WebCodecs and Streams

https://webrtchacks.com/real-time-video-processing-with-webcodecs-and-streams-processing-pipelines-part-1/

3 years ago

Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?

https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-building-a-ui-in-rust-so-hard

3 years ago

Thoughts on Video Editing (2022)

https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/thoughts-on-video-editing/

3 years ago

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/firefox-66-to-block-automatically-playing-audible-video-and-audio/

3 years ago

How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive

https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html

3 years ago

Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/google-nixes-paying-out-rest-of-medical-leave-for-laid-off-employees.html

3 years ago

The Io Language

https://iolanguage.org

3 years ago

Klint: Compile-time detection of atomic context violations for kernel Rust code

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/gary-guo-klint-rust-tools/

3 years ago

We're Drowning in Subscriptions

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-17/we-re-drowning-in-subscriptions-as-retailers-join-too

3 years ago

Yes, you should still learn to code

https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/yes-you-should-still-learn-to-code

3 years ago

Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

https://www.capable.design

3 years ago

This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”

https://pointieststick.com/2023/03/17/this-week-in-kde-more-wayland-fixes/

3 years ago

Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits

https://www.vox.com/money/23641875/food-grocery-inflation-prices-billionaires

3 years ago

Tungsten gold plated bar

http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html

3 years ago

Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017)

https://qz.com/846530/something-weird-happens-to-companies-when-they-hit-150-people

3 years ago

Strife at eLife: inside a journal’s quest to upend science publishing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00831-6

3 years ago

Simulations and games in economics education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulations_and_games_in_economics_education

3 years ago

Meta employees grill Mark Zuckerberg at all-hands meeting following layoffs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/16/zuckerberg-meta-townhall/

3 years ago

On the left is GPT-3.5. On the right is GPT-4

https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1636955260680847361

3 years ago

A four-decade secret: One man’s story of sabotaging Carter’s re-election

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html

3 years ago

The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/16/the-fed-smothers-capitalism-in-an-attempt-to-save-it

3 years ago

A different approach to fuzzy finding

https://nathancraddock.com/blog/2023/a-different-approach-to-fuzzy-finding/

3 years ago

The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe

https://aeon.co/essays/jwsts-cosmic-revelations-will-change-our-interior-lives-too

3 years ago

PHP 8.2.4

https://www.php.net/index.php

3 years ago

CIEL is a ready-to-use collection of Lisp libraries

http://ciel-lang.org/#/?id=ciel

3 years ago