top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-26

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touchscreens-vw-porsche-nissan-hyundai.html

3 years ago

Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

https://www.linen.dev/s/linen/t/10511167/linen-dev-the-500kb-slack-alternative

3 years ago

Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-25/netflix-loses-1-million-users-in-spain-over-password-policing

3 years ago

Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

https://www.nango.dev/blog/why-is-oauth-still-hard

3 years ago

UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/microsoft-s-69-billion-activision-deal-blocked-by-uk-watchdog

3 years ago

Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software

https://scrapscript.org

3 years ago

Why did Google Brain exist?

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/why_brain/

3 years ago

Lessons by 3blue1brown

https://www.3blue1brown.com/

3 years ago

Colorado becomes first to pass ‘right to repair’ for farmers

https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-becomes-1st-to-pass-right-to-repair-for-farmers/

3 years ago

Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored

https://defcon.social/@mysk/110262313275622023

3 years ago

Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)

https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/prime-spirals

3 years ago

Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/

3 years ago

Payments 101 for a Developer

https://github.com/juspay/hyperswitch/wiki/Payments-101-for-a-Developer

3 years ago

DeepFloyd IF: open-source text-to-image model

https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF

3 years ago

Google contractors vote to unionize in historic landslide election

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/google-contractors-vote-to-unionize-17920684.php

3 years ago

The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control

https://ottertune.com/blog/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most/

3 years ago

Mastodon is doomed?

https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/

3 years ago

Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

3 years ago

Your First LTE

https://open5gs.org/open5gs/docs/tutorial/01-your-first-lte/

3 years ago

Observable Plot: A JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization

https://observablehq.com/plot

3 years ago

Google Cloud Europe service disruption

https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/europe

3 years ago

What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers

https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/solution-set/i-canceled-22-digital-newspaper-subscriptions-heres-what-i-learned-about-digital-retention-strategies/

3 years ago

Show HN: Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework

https://neat.joeldare.com

3 years ago

The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36993403/

3 years ago

DeepDoctection: Document extraction and analysis using deep learning models

https://github.com/deepdoctection/deepdoctection

3 years ago

A guide to prompting AI, for what it is worth

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-guide-to-prompting-ai-for-what

3 years ago

Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories

https://webbu.app/german

3 years ago

Google will add E2E encryption to Authenticator backups

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-will-add-end-to-end-encryption-to-google-authenticator/

3 years ago

Show HN: ChatGPT on 2-Dimensional Map

https://www.superusapp.com/chatgpt2d/

3 years ago

Science is a strong-link problem

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem

3 years ago

Ruby's switch statement is flexible

https://www.akshaykhot.com/ruby-switch-statement/

3 years ago

HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields

https://xhuangcv.github.io/hdr-nerf/

3 years ago

Gradle still sucks

https://silverhammermba.github.io/blog/2023/01/06/gradle

3 years ago

You could have invented futexes

https://tavianator.com/2023/futex.html

3 years ago

Performance excuses debunked

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/performance-excuses-debunked

3 years ago

Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game Carmageddon

https://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace

3 years ago

How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-inside-container

3 years ago

Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in gaming

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/microsoft-activision-deal-prevented-to-protect-innovation-and-choice-in-cloud-gaming

3 years ago

A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repair-mycelium

3 years ago

Netflix to invest $2.5B in South Korea to make TV shows, movies

https://www.reuters.com/technology/netflix-invest-25-bln-south-korea-make-tv-shows-movies-2023-04-25/

3 years ago

SpaceX, Rogers to connect mobiles phones to satellites in remote Canadian areas

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-rogers-connect-mobiles-phones-satellites-remote-canadian-areas-2023-04-26/

3 years ago

FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine

https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt

3 years ago

Microsoft Edge Is Leaking the Sites You Visit to Bing

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/25/209254/microsoft-edge-is-leaking-the-sites-you-visit-to-bing

3 years ago

Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript

https://neutralino.js.org/docs/

3 years ago

Starbucks claims $181M in revenue from unused gift cards (2022)

https://www.pymnts.com/earnings/2022/starbucks-claims-181m-in-revenue-from-unused-gift-cards-and-loyalty-credits/

3 years ago

Creating AI assistant with GPT and Ruby and Redis using embeddings

https://release.com/blog/training-chatgpt-with-custom-libraries-using-extensions

3 years ago

Tesla Again Paints a Misleading Story with Their Crash Data

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/04/26/tesla-again-paints-a-very-misleading-story-with-their-crash-data/

3 years ago

CardStock

https://github.com/benjie-git/CardStock

3 years ago

BOE Chief Economist Says Britons ‘Need to Accept’ They’re Worse Off

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-25/boe-economist-says-uk-people-need-to-accept-they-re-worse-off

3 years ago

A detailed comparison of REST and gRPC

https://kreya.app/blog/rest-vs-grpc/

3 years ago

Bringing Memory Safety to sudo and su

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-and-su/

3 years ago

We need female mice in neuroscience research

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/study-confirms-why-we-need-female-mice-in-neuroscience-research/

3 years ago

The Epistemology of Software Quality

https://increment.com/teams/the-epistemology-of-software-quality/

3 years ago

Massive geothermal apartment complex is going up in Brooklyn, first of its kind

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/26/a-massive-geothermal-apartment-complex-is-going-up-in-brooklyn.html

3 years ago

Tech jobs remain a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1170522239/tech-job-openings-mass-layoffs-workers-silicon-valley-google-meta-amazon

3 years ago

CISC-y RISC-ness

https://tedium.co/2023/04/26/transmeta-crusoe-processor-history/

3 years ago

DJI Mavic 3 Pro

https://www.dji.com/mavic-3-pro

3 years ago

Possible toxicity of chronic CO2 exposure associated with face mask use

https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(23)01324-5

3 years ago

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes again delays start of 11-year prison term

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/26/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-prison-sentence-delayed

3 years ago

Building the Pocket CO2 Project

https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2023/04/building-pocket-co2-project.html

3 years ago

Someone Has to Run the Fabs

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/repost-someone-has-to-run-the-fabs

3 years ago

Freud as Talmudist

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-history/13912/freud-as-talmudist/

3 years ago

Update millions of records in Rails

https://blog.eq8.eu/til/update-millions-of-records-in-rails.html

3 years ago

AI used photographer’s photos for training, then slapped him with an invoice

https://www.diyphotography.net/ai-used-photographers-photos-for-training-then-slapped-him-with-an-invoice/

3 years ago

Schools are ditching homework, deadlines in favor of ‘equitable grading’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-are-ditching-homework-deadlines-in-favor-of-equitable-grading-dcef7c3e

3 years ago

Star Trek LCARS Interface

https://www.mewho.com/titan/

3 years ago

Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230426_23/

3 years ago

A Winelike Sea

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea

3 years ago

The Early Days of Linux

https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/

3 years ago

A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-10.html

3 years ago

Meta Q1 2023 Earning Results

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-First-Quarter-2023-Results/default.aspx

3 years ago

Database branching: three-way merge for schema changes

https://planetscale.com/blog/database-branching-three-way-merge-schema-changes

3 years ago

The lesson about the end of nuclear in Germany

https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/the-real-lesson-about-the-end-of

3 years ago