top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-18

Clock

https://oimo.io/works/clock/

3 years ago

Astral

https://astral.sh/

3 years ago

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/software-firms-face-huge-tax-bills-that-threaten-tech-startup-survival.html

3 years ago

Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/port-starboard.html

3 years ago

Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content

https://search.marginalia.nu/

3 years ago

An example of LLM prompting for programming

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-chatgpt-xu-hao.html

3 years ago

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/17/firefox-may-interact-with-cookie-prompts-automatically-soon/

3 years ago

Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/microsoft_windows_start_ads/

3 years ago

Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/media/netflix-dvds-earnings.html

3 years ago

Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans

https://tailscale.com/blog/pricing-v3/

3 years ago

French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publisher-arrested-london-counter-terrorism-police-ernest-moret

3 years ago

A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting

https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25020

3 years ago

Reddit will begin charging for access to its API

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html

3 years ago

Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance

https://openfolder.sh/heroku-anti-dx

3 years ago

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/missing-pieces/lost-movies

3 years ago

Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/23688627/meta-layoffs-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-whatsapp

3 years ago

My Emacs eye candy

https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy/

3 years ago

PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html

3 years ago

Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows

https://github.com/little-brother/sqlite-gui

3 years ago

Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky

https://petapixel.com/2023/04/17/giant-spiral-appears-amid-the-aurora-lights-in-alaskas-night-sky/

3 years ago

MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

https://today.duke.edu/2023/04/brain-images-just-got-64-million-times-sharper

3 years ago

Show HN: AI Playground by Vercel Labs

https://play.vercel.ai

3 years ago

Broadband Consumer Labels

https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels

3 years ago

LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant

https://llava-vl.github.io/

3 years ago

Brain images just got 64 million times sharper

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-brain-images-million-sharper.html

3 years ago

Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-settlement/

3 years ago

The New XOR Problem

https://blog.wtf.sg/posts/2023-02-03-the-new-xor-problem/

3 years ago

Ampersand (2015)

http://haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/ampersand.html

3 years ago

Apple’s agreement with Cupertino

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/apples-agreement-with-cupertino-is-taxpayer-fleecing-collusion

3 years ago

Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/hundreds-of-years-after-the-first-try-we-can-finally-read-a-ptolemy-text/

3 years ago

Don't write clean code, write CRISP code

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/crisp-code

3 years ago

Node.js 20 is now available

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v20-release-announce

3 years ago

OpenWRT 22.03.4

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases/tag/v22.03.4

3 years ago

A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-kind-of-symmetry-shakes-up-physics-20230418/

3 years ago

MMC4: An open, billion-scale corpus of images interleaved with text

https://github.com/allenai/mmc4

3 years ago

NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/18/nso-apple-iphones-citizen-lab/

3 years ago

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html

3 years ago

NIST Privacy Framework

https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework

3 years ago

AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/18/ai-song-featuring-fake-drake-and-weeknd-vocals-pulled-from-streaming-services

3 years ago

Show HN: Database for analyzing US companies, visualize using Apache SuperSet

https://tesseractanalytics.ai/

3 years ago

Coinbase CEO: we're preparing to go to court with the U.S. SEC

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/coinbase-ceo-says-it-is-preparing-to-go-to-court-with-the-us-sec-.html

3 years ago

What it's like to go blind (2015)

https://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8365853/blind-vision-loss

3 years ago

Microsoft is heading further down the path of advertising in Windows 11

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-start-menu-ads-look-set-to-get-even-worse-this-is-getting-painful-now

3 years ago

The US Wants to Close an ‘SUV Loophole’ That Supersized Cars

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-loophole-that-supersized-cars/

3 years ago

Generalized Macros

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/generalized-macros/

3 years ago

Southwest Airlines halts flight departures amid technology issue

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-18/southwest-airlines-halts-flight-departures-amid-technology-issue

3 years ago

Tailscale Enterprise

https://tailscale.com/blog/enterprise/

3 years ago

Skybox: Open-Source Graphic Rendering on Programmable RISC-V GPUs

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3582016.3582024

3 years ago

Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ninth-circuit-berkeley-natural-gas-ban-17902110.php

3 years ago

Wikipedia Joined Mastodon

https://wikis.world/@wikipedia/110189029188205820

3 years ago

Why I’m using a keyboard phone in 2023

https://www.theverge.com/23673548/keyboard-phone-2023-features-unihertz-titan-pocket

3 years ago

Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Democracies in East Central Europe, 1918–1923

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/ministates-and-microsovereignty-local-democracies-in-east-central-europe-19181923/68ECB1DC9F610696C966B63C9CE2B736

3 years ago

Synthetic Data from Diffusion Models Improves ImageNet Classification

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08466

3 years ago

An evidence-based guide to expanding your comfort zone

https://every.to/no-small-plans/a-founder-s-guide-to-expanding-your-comfort-zone

3 years ago

Southwest Airlines pauses departures after reporting technical problems

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/southwest-airlines-departures-pause.html

3 years ago

Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/18/ico_surrey_sussex_police/

3 years ago

Remembering Virginia Norwood, the ‘Mother’ of NASA’s Landsat Program

https://www.engadget.com/remembering-virginia-norwood-the-mother-of-nasas-landsat-program-213705046.html

3 years ago