top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-24

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres

https://philbooth.me/blog/nine-ways-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-with-postgresql

2 years ago

743 upvotes – 268 comments

MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

https://www.augmental.tech/

2 years ago

586 upvotes – 170 comments

Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court-battle-with-epic-games-appeals-court-rules/

2 years ago

514 upvotes – 603 comments

Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption

https://www.globalencryption.org/2023/04/statement-on-eu-us-cooperation-against-encryption/

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 228 comments

Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator-now-supports.html

2 years ago

468 upvotes – 333 comments

DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results

https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-help-pages/commit/d35d03e532c7618bcdd2be10ea67e9e1f021dd96

2 years ago

421 upvotes – 326 comments

Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

https://bullettrain.co/

2 years ago

418 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS

http://rocket.jonh.net

2 years ago

410 upvotes – 53 comments

LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-24/a-high-school-teacher-s-free-image-database-powers-ai-unicorns

2 years ago

351 upvotes – 193 comments

1Password to Add Telemetry

https://blog.1password.com/privacy-preserving-app-telemetry/

2 years ago

349 upvotes – 342 comments

I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)

https://www.katsnyderux.com/post/no-i-don-t-want-to-sign-up-for-your-newsletter-horrible-uses-of-exit-overlays

2 years ago

340 upvotes – 303 comments

UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/uk-threatens-end-to-end-encryption.html

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 217 comments

Ox

https://sesquiotic.com/2023/04/20/ox/

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 38 comments

QEMU 8.0

https://www.qemu.org/2023/04/20/qemu-8-0-0/

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 33 comments

Deleting System32\curl.exe

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/04/24/deleting-system32curl-exe/

2 years ago

280 upvotes – 128 comments

Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11062

2 years ago

277 upvotes – 132 comments

A WiFi color eInk picture frame

https://spritesmods.com/?art=wifipicframe&f=rss

2 years ago

274 upvotes – 85 comments

Second IC – Homemade 1000 transistor array chip (2021)

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 37 comments

GUI development with Rust and GTK 4

https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/hello_world.html

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 166 comments

Remote work brings hidden penalty for young professionals, study says

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/remote-work-feedback.html

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 442 comments

Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees

https://wraltechwire.com/2023/04/24/red-hat-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-ceo-says-in-letter-to-employees/

2 years ago

266 upvotes – 153 comments

Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/snapchat-sees-spike-in-1-star-reviews-as-users-pan-the-my-ai-feature-calling-for-its-removal/

2 years ago

263 upvotes – 206 comments

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International

https://www.sri.com/press/press-release/the-palo-alto-research-center-parc-will-join-sri-international/

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 118 comments

As an AI Language Model

https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1649466422018318338

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 92 comments

'Delete Act' seeks to give Californians more power to block data tracking

https://www.kqed.org/news/11947039/delete-act-seeks-to-give-californians-more-power-to-block-data-tracking

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 131 comments

Capturing the Flag with GPT-4

https://micahflee.com/2023/04/capturing-the-flag-with-gpt-4/

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 55 comments

OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:jtelqq.2.16

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 173 comments

Keep the monolith, but split the workloads

https://incident.io/blog/monolith

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 157 comments

A mutual aid auto shop in Alabama

https://lux-magazine.com/article/mutual-aid-cars-alabama/

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 188 comments

An introduction to lockless algorithms (2021)

https://lwn.net/Articles/844224/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 69 comments

Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22tom+lesley%22

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 175 comments

Inferno-OS: distributed operating system where everything is a file

https://github.com/inferno-os/inferno-os

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 123 comments

The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)

https://hms.harvard.edu/magazine/viral-world/effects-noise-health

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 120 comments

The Geomagnetic Storm Continues

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/geomagnetic-storm-continues

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 116 comments

Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

https://wiki.wellorder.net/post/nostr-intro/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 141 comments

Technology of water in ancient Iran from prehistory to the Islamic Golden Age

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01617-x

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 106 comments

Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bean-leaves-dont-let-the-bedbugs-bite-by-using-tiny-impaling-spikes-18427074/

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 203 comments

ONNX Runtime merges WebGPU backend

https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/pull/14579

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 35 comments

The Great Electrician Shortage

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dept-of-energy/the-great-electrician-shortage

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 348 comments

Tony Hsieh’s Friends/Family Milked Millions in His Drug-Fueled Final Months

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2023/04/23/wonder-boy-book-excerpt-tony-hsieh-final-days/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 54 comments

Double Descent in Human Learning

https://chris-said.io/2023/04/21/double-descent-in-human-learning/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 34 comments

I built a special PCIe card to test GPUs on the Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/i-built-special-pcie-card-test-gpus-on-pi

2 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

Layoff Runbook

https://github.com/derwiki/layoff-runbook

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 52 comments

Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23690960/microsoft-windows-11-taskbar-never-combine-app-icons-labels-features

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 164 comments

Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2

https://airlied.blogspot.com/2023/04/fedora-38-llvm-vs-team-fortress-2-tf2.html

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 109 comments

European Parliament calls for ban on facial recognition

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ban-facial-recognition-brussels/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 34 comments

The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016)

https://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9866-the-interstellar-style-of-sun-ra/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 24 comments

Egypt builds worlds largest man-made river

https://www.constructionweekonline.com/business/egypt-builds-worlds-largest-114km-man-made-river

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 87 comments

Heavy particles don’t explain gravitational lensing oddities

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/gravitational-lensing-may-point-to-lighter-dark-matter-candidate/

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 94 comments

Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3694090/amazon-s-quiet-open-source-revolution.html

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

The shrinking role of semaphores

https://lwn.net/Articles/928026/

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed

https://www.devever.net/~hl/imx8

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 68 comments

Haiku's (Kernel) Condition Variables API: Design and Implementation

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2023-04-24_condition_variables/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

Highway to Ruin: The crash of Southern Airways flight 242 (2022)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/highway-to-ruin-the-crash-of-southern-airways-flight-242-7eb1433281fe

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 81 comments

What’s the point of tech conferences?

https://chelseatroy.com/2023/04/21/whats-the-point-of-tech-conferences/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 112 comments

Open Questions

https://gwern.net/question

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 59 comments

Training open-source LLMs on ChatGPT output is a really bad idea.

https://gist.github.com/mlaprise/bf4745655194162babfc2d158162e2e0

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

Open source smartwatch integrates ESP32 MCU with e-paper display

https://linuxgizmos.com/open-source-smartwatch-integrates-esp32-mcu/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

LVMH becomes the first European company to surpass $500B in market value

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/lvmh-becomes-the-first-european-company-surpass-500-billion-in-value.html

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 237 comments

The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-business-influencer-guys-must

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 76 comments

My remaining 13M minutes: Productivity, ambition, being realistic in older age

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/22/my-remaining-13-million-minutes-productivity-ambition-and-being-realistic-in-older-age

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/transform/can-generative-ai-help-humans-understand-animals-earth-species-project-conservation

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 100 comments

RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/risc-on-a-chip-david-patterson-and

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-falls-apart-without-imaginary-numbers/

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 157 comments

The transition from logins to cryptographic passkeys is getting messy

https://www.wired.com/story/passwords-passkey-transition-time/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 150 comments

Seeing Triple (Annotated)

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2302b/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 5 comments

Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S. appeals court says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-upholds-lower-court-order-forcing-apple-allow-third-party-app-2023-04-24/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Transistor Made of Wood

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218380120

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 22 comments

A thief who stole 106 rare clocks

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-time-thief-who-stole-106-rare-clocks-in-a-daring-heist-180981979/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Tesla tries to get owners to give up ‘unlimited free Supercharging for life’

https://electrek.co/2023/04/24/tesla-triesowners-give-up-unlimited-free-supercharging-for-life/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 152 comments

Show HN: Duck, a chat-based note app for your knowledge base

https://site.ducknote.app

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

I use Nix and make(1) to develop

https://glorifiedgluer.com/blog/2023/developing-with-nix-and-make/

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

Local License Key Verification

https://matradomski.com/posts/local_license_key_verification_theory/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 57 comments

The problems with live coding interviews

https://garrettdimon.com/journal/posts/live-coding-interviews

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 219 comments
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