top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-19

Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520

3 years ago

Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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

3 years ago

Mastodon hit 10M users

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110051957865629817

3 years ago

Leaving China

https://www.persuasion.community/p/leaving-china

3 years ago

Anti-recruiter prompt injection attack in LinkedIn profile

https://twitter.com/brdskggs/status/1637114268876144640

3 years ago

Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced

https://ambiso.github.io/bitwarden-pin/

3 years ago

Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas

https://apnews.com/article/un-oceans-biodiversity-treaty-0b024fa07e8c1947236d8b8491ebf92c

3 years ago

UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-19/ubs-agrees-to-buy-credit-suisse-in-historic-deal-to-end-crisis

3 years ago

Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT

https://github.com/npiv/chatblade

3 years ago

Epic Games, others accuse Sundar Pichai of violating retention obligations

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/03/us-states-epic-games-others-accuse.html

3 years ago

People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-had-to-be-convinced-of-the-usefulness-of-electricity-21221094/

3 years ago

Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/24/why-germany-is-building-risk-into-its-playgrounds

3 years ago

Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)

https://kottke.org/13/11/plane-landstakes-off-in-only-20-feet

3 years ago

My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1637443442921066497

3 years ago

Jaccard Index

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

3 years ago

Analyzing a failed drill bit with an electron microscope [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=887Q-LWBW48

3 years ago

The little-known story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-little-known-origin-story-behind-the-2022-nobel-prize-in-physics/

3 years ago

Glaze: Protecting artists from style mimicry

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

3 years ago

Alternative facts: How the media failed Julian Assange

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/alternative-facts-how-the-media-failed-julian-assange/

3 years ago

Meditations on Moloch (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

3 years ago

Qualcomm has open sourced its aptX and aptX HD encoders

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11t16lk/qualcomm_has_open_sourced_its_aptx_and_aptx_hd/

3 years ago

‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies

https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/catch-me-if-you-can-conman-frank-abagnale-lied-about-his-lies/

3 years ago

Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

https://yakshalang.github.io/

3 years ago

Regenerating Jordan’s native forests

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/09/greening-the-desert-architect-tayyun-regenerating-jordan-native-forests

3 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)

https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-please-resign

3 years ago

Banshees of Inisherin: The Game

https://bansheesthegame.com/

3 years ago

Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-lent-300-billion-in-emergency-funds-to-banks-in-the-past-week

3 years ago

Gallery of Minimal Design Websites

https://minimal.gallery/

3 years ago

UBS offers to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1B

https://www.ft.com/content/ec4be743-052a-4381-a923-c2fbd7ea9cfd

3 years ago

Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (2018)

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html

3 years ago

Design of GNU Parallel (2015)

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html

3 years ago

The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program

https://iamkroot.github.io/blog/zig-memleak

3 years ago

Tell HN: Instagram's API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35217226

3 years ago

Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop miniature nuclear reactor for moon base

https://www.space.com/rolls-royce-funding-microreactor-moon-base

3 years ago

Libreboot 20230319 Released

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20230319.html

3 years ago

Data from Atlassian dumped online after apparent hack

https://cyberscoop.com/atlassian-hack-employee-data-seigedsec/

3 years ago

Master Emacs in one year

https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/guide-en.org

3 years ago

Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs are spreading around

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fake-samsung-980-pro

3 years ago

‘Forever chemicals’ deserve more EPA scrutiny

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-18/pfas-are-everywhere-the-epa-must-be-more-aggressive

3 years ago

Switzerland Weighs Full or Partial Credit Suisse Nationalization

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-19/switzerland-weighs-full-or-partial-credit-suisse-nationalization

3 years ago

I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost

https://villekuosmanen.medium.com/i-played-chess-against-chatgpt-4-and-lost-c5798a9049ca

3 years ago

The Baumol effect

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

3 years ago

Show HN: Next.js ChatGPT – Responsive chat application powered by GPT-4

https://github.com/enricoros/nextjs-chatgpt-app

3 years ago

Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled

3 years ago

For long-term health and happiness, marriage still matters

https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-long-term-health-and-happiness-marriage-still-matters-86114ced

3 years ago

Black widows are losing to brown widows in the fight for attics and garages

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/science/brown-widows-black-widows.html

3 years ago

UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse in Swiss-assisted bid to calm markets

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ubs-take-over-credit-suisse-central-bank-2023-03-19/

3 years ago

A Whale-Oiled Machine

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/a-whale-oiled-machine/

3 years ago

Students of BloomTech, FKA Lambda School, file class-action lawsuit

https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-bloomtech-class-action-lawsuit-2023-3

3 years ago

Credit Suisse’s $17B of Risky Bonds Are Now Worthless

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-19/credit-suisse-s-17-billion-of-risky-bonds-are-now-worthless

3 years ago

Perturbation Theory

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

3 years ago

Bracketed paste mode (2013)

https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste

3 years ago