top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-08

Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

3 years ago

Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/

3 years ago

Ancient Greek terms worth reviving

https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should

3 years ago

FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup

https://www.spytalk.co/p/exclusive-fbi-agents-accuse-cia-of

3 years ago

Ancient Earth Globe

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth/#470

3 years ago

1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/

3 years ago

Cantonese Font with Pronunciation

https://visual-fonts.com/

3 years ago

You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/10/02/scrum-versus-kanban.html

3 years ago

Please don’t upload my code on GitHub

https://nogithub.codeberg.page/

3 years ago

Street Fighter II, paper trails (2021)

https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_sheets/index.html

3 years ago

KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825

3 years ago

LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: researchers

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-ostensible-emergent-abilities-are-mirage

3 years ago

Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

https://wccftech.com/intel-announces-layoffs-after-paying-1-5-billion-in-q1-dividends/

3 years ago

GitHub code search is generally available

https://github.blog/2023-05-08-github-code-search-is-generally-available/

3 years ago

Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet trade obligation

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-extends-copyright-protection-another-20-years-to-meet-new-trade/

3 years ago

Dutch town installs bat-friendly red LED street lights (2018)

https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/11940/dutch-town-becomes-first-to-install-bat-friendly-red-led-street-lights

3 years ago

Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users

https://www.techradar.com/news/your-gmail-account-is-set-to-be-invaded-by-even-more-annoying-ads

3 years ago

NeXT Computers

https://www.nextcomputers.org/

3 years ago

GPU vendor-agnostic fluid dynamics solver in Julia

https://b-fg.github.io/2023/05/07/waterlily-on-gpu.html

3 years ago

Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis–Until Now

https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-was-wrong-about-reverse-osmosis-until-now/

3 years ago

Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chiles-boric-announces-plan-nationalize-lithium-industry-2023-04-21/

3 years ago

Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug

https://bigthink.com/health/unlucky-history-rapamycin-anti-aging/

3 years ago

How to design software architecture for startups

https://appventuretime.blog/how-to-design-software-architecture-for-startups

3 years ago

The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/the-dennis-system-cvs-tips-for-senior

3 years ago

Show HN: SineRider, a math puzzle game

https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider

3 years ago

RasaGPT: First headless LLM chatbot built on top of Rasa, Langchain and FastAPI

https://github.com/paulpierre/RasaGPT

3 years ago

"Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per its Q1 earnings call"

https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak/status/1654577231937544192

3 years ago

People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes

https://text.npr.org/1174132413

3 years ago

Reflected Diffusion Models

https://aaronlou.com/blog/2023/reflected-diffusion/

3 years ago

Last Call to Migrate Mojang Accounts

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/account-migration-last-call

3 years ago

Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82

https://theuberger.ch/post/astrophotography/20230507-m81m82-collab/

3 years ago

US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/07/us-banking-crisis-warren-buffett-says-bosses-should-face-punishment

3 years ago

The Bronze Age has never looked stronger

https://www.thechatner.com/p/its-1178-bce-and-the-bronze-age-has

3 years ago

Vint Cerf on mistakes he made in TCP/IP

https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mistakes

3 years ago

A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mutation-turned-ants-into-parasites-in-one-generation-20230508/

3 years ago

OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230507122935

3 years ago

Unlighthouse: Like Lighthouse, but it scans every single page

https://unlighthouse.dev

3 years ago

Carbon-negative concrete

https://spectrum.ieee.org/concrete

3 years ago

Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

https://cptn.io

3 years ago

The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon

https://restofworld.org/2023/force-47-vietnam-military-group-facebook/

3 years ago

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok: Or how, platforms die

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

3 years ago

Giving GPT “Infinite” Knowledge

https://sudoapps.substack.com/p/giving-gpt-infinite-knowledge

3 years ago

PSVR2 hardware authentication has been cracked on PC

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/psvr2-hardware-authentication-has-been-cracked-on-pc.1656277/

3 years ago

Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.0_release_notes/deprecated_functionality

3 years ago

One line of code that did cost $8k

https://pietrasiak.com/one-line-of-code-that-did-cost-dollar8000

3 years ago

Unix: An Oral History

https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm#attic

3 years ago

DJI drone flight log viewer

https://www.flightreader.com/

3 years ago

Restricting network access using Linux Network Namespaces

https://blog.sigma-star.at/post/2023/05/sandbox-netns/

3 years ago

Tensegrity Wiki

https://tensegritywiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

3 years ago

Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and globally

https://twitter.com/threadsirish/status/1655512886226354176

3 years ago

Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-schedule-a-doctors-appointment-in-the-us/3222649/

3 years ago

Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/apple-corellium-lawsuit/

3 years ago

Codon: Python Compiler

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/codon-python-compiler#Rik%20Farrow

3 years ago

Company profits are keeping prices high

https://www.dw.com/en/how-company-profits-are-keeping-prices-high/a-65233235

3 years ago

Bluesky Is a Scam

https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

3 years ago

Evidence that the Neanderthals were the first seafarers?

https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/long-before-modern-humans-existed-100000-years-ago-neanderthals-built-boats-and-went-sailing

3 years ago

Suggestivity and Idioms in APL

https://www.sacrideo.us/suggestivity-and-idioms-in-apl/

3 years ago

Texas moves to create gold-backed digital currency

https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html

3 years ago

The man who invented the modern cop novel

https://quillette.com/2023/04/23/the-man-who-invented-the-cop-novel/

3 years ago

Vietnam records highest ever temperature of 44.1C

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/07/vietnam-records-highest-ever-temperature-of-441c

3 years ago