top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-27

Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232

3 years ago

Datomic is Free

https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/datomic-is-free.html

3 years ago

Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit

3 years ago

As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/664502/using-clothesline-steel-core-wire-rope-for-ac-and-dc

3 years ago

Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

https://brave.com/search-independence/

3 years ago

Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/colorado-governor-signs-tractor-right-to-repair-law-opposed-by-john-deere/

3 years ago

Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/27/apple-employees-siri-struggles/

3 years ago

Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Integrations/Why-So-Much-Telemetry/td-p/455961/page/3

3 years ago

A visual book recommender

https://nathanrooy.github.io/posts/2023-04-12/visual-book-recommender/

3 years ago

Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/a-message-from-drew

3 years ago

Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world

https://monadical.com/posts/shades-of-rust-gui-library-list.html

3 years ago

ChatGPT for Hardware Design

https://docs.flux.ai/tutorials/ai-for-hardware-design

3 years ago

On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch

https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/beamer-dressman-bodybag/en

3 years ago

Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPfkY#73mBtVKKfeJGJ1yaY7hV

3 years ago

The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs

https://twitter.com/FedeItaliano76/status/1650871570137600000

3 years ago

FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update

https://blog.flipperzero.one/1-month-battery-life-with-firmware-update/

3 years ago

US Supreme Court Justices get lavish gifts; Raise bar for bribery prosecutions

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/04/26/u-s-supreme-court-justices-take-lavish-gifts-then-raise-the-bar-for-bribery-prosecutions/

3 years ago

Forbes mocked as another '30 Under 30' honoree accused of fraud

https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/forbes-mocked-as-another-30-under-30-honoree-accused-of-fraud-incredible-track-record/

3 years ago

Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows library code in memory-safe Rust

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/27/microsoft_windows_rust/

3 years ago

NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-power-hack-extends-voyager-2-mission-science-1850378890

3 years ago

European DSA Recipients of Services Report

https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/dsa/mt/

3 years ago

Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/

3 years ago

California Court of Appeal finds geofence warrant unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/first-us-appellate-court-decide-finds-geofence-warrant-unconstitutional

3 years ago

Hotspot performance engineering fails

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/04/27/hotspot-performance-engineering-fails/

3 years ago

Brazil judge orders temporary suspension of Telegram

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-telegram-suspension-social-media-school-violence-d72acaacd3c1b4d07c2c4fcb094f4ce6

3 years ago

New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches, Up to 10~15% Better Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-RPS-Threshold-Linux-Tune

3 years ago

Quicssh: SSH over QUIC

https://github.com/moul/quicssh

3 years ago

XTDB 2.x Early Access

https://www.xtdb.com/v2

3 years ago

GCC 13 Released

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html

3 years ago

The Disappointment of 5G

https://circleid.com/posts/20230127-the-disappointment-of-5g

3 years ago

The Canoe Commuters of the CIA (2019)

https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/declassified-cias-canoe-pool

3 years ago

The future of programming: Research at CHI 2023

https://austinhenley.com/blog/futureofprogramming2023.html

3 years ago

Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US

https://electrek.co/2023/04/27/wind-and-solar-are-now-beating-coal-in-the-us/

3 years ago

The Italian farmers saving an ancient fruit with solar power

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230424-how-agrivoltaics-helped-save-italys-citron-and-lemon-trees

3 years ago

Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)

https://buildyourownlisp.com/contents

3 years ago

Listening to Satellites: A Journey with My RTL-SDR V3

https://moh53n.medium.com/listening-to-satellites-a-journey-with-my-rtl-sdr-v3-5ba719bc68a5

3 years ago

Current architectural best practices for LLM applications

https://mattboegner.com/knowledge-retrieval-architecture-for-llms/

3 years ago

Lyft to cut 1,072 employees, or 26% of its workforce

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/lyft-layoffs-company-to-cut-1072-employees-or-26percent-of-its-workforce.html

3 years ago

Why gravity is not like the other forces

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-gravity-is-not-like-the-other-forces-20200615/

3 years ago

New nanoparticles can perform gene editing in the lungs

https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-nanoparticles-can-perform-gene-editing-lungs-0330

3 years ago

The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software

https://www.filfre.net/2023/04/the-next-generation-in-graphics-part-1-three-dimensions-in-software-or-quake-and-its-discontents/

3 years ago

Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-11-and-cbuilder-11-community-editions-released/

3 years ago

Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees

https://blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-2023/

3 years ago

Pinecone raises $100M Series B

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series-b/

3 years ago

Samsung Profits Plunge 95%

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/tech/south-korea-samsung-q1-profits-plunge-intl-hnk/index.html

3 years ago

Kids trying to play video games on school laptops

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mxkj/inside-the-chaotic-world-of-kids-trying-to-play-video-games-on-school-laptops

3 years ago

Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer (2021)

https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html

3 years ago

The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/27/1072102/the-future-of-generative-ai-is-niche-not-generalized/

3 years ago

Why Oatmeal Is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation [pdf]

https://knivesandpaintbrushes.org/projects/why-oatmeal-is-cheap/why_oatmeal_is_cheap_fdg2023.pdf

3 years ago

Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/04/of-sun-ray-laptops-mips-and-getting.html

3 years ago

High-res image reconstruction, latent diffusion models from human brain activity

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v3

3 years ago

GNU Pascal (2005)

https://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html

3 years ago

Lithuanian university locks out students again for not using proprietary 2FA

https://gitlab.digilol.net/Siren/vgtu-article/-/blob/4a34721d392b856f26956a9e185e4d8c5371d27d/vgtu.md

3 years ago

Oral Sex Stoking Throat Cancer ‘Epidemic’ in UK and US

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/oral-sex-throat-cancer-uk-us-b2327921.html

3 years ago

BlueHat IL 2023: Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6ClX-y2AE

3 years ago

Everything Is Interpolated: Music’s Nostalgia-Industrial Complex

https://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/everything-is-interpolated-inside-musics-nostalgia-industrial-complex/

3 years ago

Tell HN: iOS converts units for highlighted text

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35722865

3 years ago

German researchers figure out how lager first developed in Bavaria

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-german-figure-lager-bavaria.html

3 years ago

TSMC Outlines 2nm Plans: N2P Brings Backside Power Delivery in 2026, N2X Added

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18832/tsmc-outlines-2nm-plans-n2p-brings-backside-power-delivery-in-2026-n2x-added-to-roadmap

3 years ago

LLM with Planning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11477

3 years ago