top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-02

Eye Candy

https://eycndy.com

3 years ago

Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers

https://www.modular.com/mojo

3 years ago

News Minimalist – Only significant news

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

3 years ago

Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla

https://www.fakespot.com/post/fakespot-acquired-by-mozilla

3 years ago

Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/judge-wont-force-reddit-to-identify-anonymous-users-who-discussed-piracy/

3 years ago

Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-google-chrome-feature-broken-edge-1850392901

3 years ago

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/

3 years ago

Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card

https://www.printables.com/model/467332-framework-laptop-cupholder-expansion-card

3 years ago

PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law

https://kslnewsradio.com/2003298/adult-website-pornhub-blocks-users-in-utah-from-accessing-the-site/

3 years ago

Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs

https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer

3 years ago

African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize

https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

3 years ago

Investigating Linux phantom disk reads

https://questdb.io/blog/investigating-linux-phantom-disk-reads/

3 years ago

Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option

https://blog.edwardloveall.com/lets-make-sure-github-doesnt-become-the-only-option

3 years ago

faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14717

3 years ago

An Update on the Lock Icon

https://blog.chromium.org/2023/05/an-update-on-lock-icon.html

3 years ago

IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-replace-212747073.html

3 years ago

How to Design Programs 2nd Edition

https://htdp.org/2023-3-6/Book/part_preface.html

3 years ago

Show HN: I've built a spectrogram analyzer web app

https://webfft.net/dft/

3 years ago

Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/samsung-bans-use-of-ai-like-chatgpt-for-staff-after-misuse-of-chatbot.html

3 years ago

Some personal news

https://natesilver.substack.com/p/some-personal-news

3 years ago

GPT makes learning fun again

https://www.vipshek.com/blog/gpt-learning

3 years ago

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)

https://brutalist-web.design/

3 years ago

Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients

https://www.utu.fi/en/news/press-release/exercise-increases-the-number-of-cancer-destroying-immune-cells-in-cancer

3 years ago

Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-is-inflation-so-sticky-it-could-be-corporate-profits-b78d90b7

3 years ago

Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/49034/is-infinity-an-odd-or-even-number

3 years ago

NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/nypd-urges-citizens-to-buy-airtags-to-fight-surge-in-car-thefts/

3 years ago

SIMD with Zig

https://www.openmymind.net/SIMD-With-Zig/

3 years ago

Adult-use cannabis delivers $15B in tax revenues

https://www.greenmarketreport.com/adult-use-cannabis-has-delivered-15-billion-in-tax-revenues/

3 years ago

America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/20/why-america-will-soon-see-a-wave-of-bank-mergers

3 years ago

Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/2/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request/

3 years ago

Red Canary Mac Monitor

https://redcanary.com/blog/mac-monitor/

3 years ago

T-Mobile Breached, Again

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/t-mobile-discloses-2nd-data-breach-of-2023-this-one-leaking-account-pins-and-more/

3 years ago

Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371316-brain-activity-of-dying-people-shows-signs-of-near-death-experiences/

3 years ago

IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSgJE5mPJM

3 years ago

How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer

https://andreizgirvaci.com/blog/how-to-reduce-stress-and-overcome-anxiety-as-a-software-developer

3 years ago

Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/

3 years ago

Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1172301798/workers-affordable-housing-companies-building

3 years ago

Building a Compiler with Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) (2020) [pdf]

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2020-09/slides/MLIR_Tutorial.pdf

3 years ago

Google Cloud Storage FUSE

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse

3 years ago

Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35792898

3 years ago

Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications

https://vectara.com/avoiding-hallucinations-in-llm-powered-applications/

3 years ago

Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/are-mental-health-apps-better-or-worse-at-privacy-in-2023/

3 years ago

Anonymous Tor Phone

https://0ut3r.space/2023/05/02/anonymous-tor-phone/

3 years ago

Why champagne has stable “bubble chains” and other carbonated drinks do not

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/physicists-unlock-secret-of-why-champagne-bubbles-form-straight-chain-as-they-rise/

3 years ago

ChatGPT has no inner monologue or meta-cognition

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/chatgpt-no-inner-monologue-or-meta-cognition/

3 years ago

Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99

3 years ago

Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35792481

3 years ago

OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera

https://blazsemprimoznik.com/okto35/

3 years ago

Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7

https://github.com/retrospectmike/MacDock

3 years ago

Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

https://currl.io/

3 years ago

AI Generated Propaganda

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1653227309967482880

3 years ago

Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing

https://innovation.alteryx.com/introducing-grasshopper-an-open-source-python-library-for-load-testing/

3 years ago

Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/openai-sends-shutdown-letter-to-gpt4free

3 years ago

Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/2/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request/

3 years ago

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/world/asia/korea-us-comfort-women-sexual-slavery.html

3 years ago

Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses in America [pdf] (2022)

https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/coyne_hall_ct_vol10_iss9_10.pdf

3 years ago

Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes

https://www.macarthur.me/posts/maps-for-dom-nodes

3 years ago

uBlock Origin 1.49.2 Available as Thunderbird Add-On

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.49.2

3 years ago

Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/haruki-murakami-novelist-vocation/

3 years ago

Banana Equivalent Dose

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

3 years ago

UFOs exist in the low information zone

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/are-the-navy-ufos-real-or-just-in-the-low-information-zone-the-liz.10921/

3 years ago

Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kbkv/pornhub-blocks-utah-age-verification

3 years ago

Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021)

https://alexanderell.is/posts/rpc-from-scratch/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Project ideas for a Linux kernel module

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784514

3 years ago

Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

https://news.utexas.edu/2023/05/01/brain-activity-decoder-can-reveal-stories-in-peoples-minds/

3 years ago

“A Great Ox Stands on My Tongue”: The Pitfalls of Latin Translation

https://antigonejournal.com/2021/06/pitfalls-latin-translation/

3 years ago

Lactic Acid Bacteria as Markers for the Authentication of Swiss Cheeses

https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2016_349/1089

3 years ago

‘Star Trek’ Fans Can Now Virtually Tour Every Starship Enterprise Bridge

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/star-trek-fans-can-now-virtually-tour-every-starship-enterprise-bridge-180982090/

3 years ago

Org-assistant.el – Org Babel extension for Chat Assistant APIs

https://github.com/tyler-dodge/org-assistant

3 years ago

The Cairo Programming Language

https://cairo-book.github.io/ch00-00-introduction.html

3 years ago

More Americans are using fake license plates

https://slate.com/business/2023/04/fake-license-plates-traffic-cameras-policing-yglesias.html

3 years ago

What Is Type-Level Programming?

https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/type-level-programming/

3 years ago

Half of America’s banks are already insolvent

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/half-america-banks-already-insolvent-133000968.html

3 years ago

macOS Activation Lock: Friend or Foe

https://www.zipsec.com/blog/activation-lock-friend-or-foe

3 years ago

Qwik Reaches v1.0

https://www.builder.io/blog/qwik-v1

3 years ago

Cardinal/WASM: In-Browser Modular Synth Based on VCV Rack

https://cardinal.kx.studio

3 years ago