top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-29

Let us serve you, but don't bring us down

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/

3 years ago

Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

https://mslivo.itch.io/setris

3 years ago

India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

https://www.altnews.in/wrestlers-detained-in-delhi-ai-image-of-smiling-vinesh-sangeeta-phogat-viral/

3 years ago

HBO Max new Captcha system

https://twitter.com/wondermeg_/status/1662454909353033730

3 years ago

An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

https://bigcapital.ly

3 years ago

300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time

https://www.nray.dev/blog/300ms-faster-reducing-wikipedias-total-blocking-time/

3 years ago

Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254032/wikipedia-had-the-wrong-vatican-city-flag-for-years-now-incorrect-flags-are-everywhere

3 years ago

Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer

https://github.com/clovaai/donut

3 years ago

Removing support for forwarded ports

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/

3 years ago

Production AI systems are hard

https://methexis.substack.com/p/production-ai-systems-are-really

3 years ago

A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store

https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/dagashiya/

3 years ago

‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/26/tesla-data-leak-customers-employees-safety-complaints

3 years ago

Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-tcp-socket-api-connect-databases/

3 years ago

A terminal case of Linux

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-terminal-case-of-linux

3 years ago

My first superoptimizer

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

3 years ago

C++17’s useful features for embedded systems

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/cpp-17-for-embedded

3 years ago

Software bugs that cause real-world harm

https://pointersgonewild.com/2023/05/29/software-bugs-that-cause-real-world-harm/

3 years ago

CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr

3 years ago

WP20 and Audrey Scholars

https://ma.tt/2023/05/wp20-audrey-scholars/

3 years ago

Thanks, David Peter

https://duncanlock.net/blog/2023/05/28/thanks-david-peter/

3 years ago

DNSSEC KSK rollover breaks DNS resolution for .nz domains

https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/gq1c6slz3198

3 years ago

Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain

https://simonschreibt.de/gat/deus-ex-alpha-terrain/

3 years ago

Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code

https://alentred.medium.com/cognitive-load-of-abstractions-in-the-source-code-20a889a106d4

3 years ago

LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

https://www.interactions.org///press-release/lhc-experiments-see-first-evidence-rare-higgs-boson-decay

3 years ago

Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person

https://block21m.substack.com/p/most-bitcoin-inscriptions-belong-d6d

3 years ago

Using computers more freely and safely

http://akkartik.name/freewheeling

3 years ago

You can serve static data over HTTP

https://ignore.pl/you_can_serve_static_data_over_http.html

3 years ago

Sigils are underappreciated (2022)

https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/

3 years ago

New Arm cores deliver up to 40% better performance

https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=23023

3 years ago

The UX Research Reckoning is Here

https://medium.com/onebigthought/the-ux-research-reckoning-is-here-c63710ea4084

3 years ago

XFS Metadata Corruption on Linux 6.3 Tracked Down to One Missing One-Line Patch

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-Patch-For-Linux-6.3

3 years ago

The metaverse was never alive in the first place

https://www.fastcompany.com/90893969/metaverse-was-never-alive-in-first-place

3 years ago

The Johari Window

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

3 years ago

Fitting 44% More Data on a C64/1541 Floppy Disk

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1107

3 years ago

The Statistics Handbook (free culture LaTeX handbook)

https://github.com/carloocchiena/the_statistics_handbook

3 years ago

One Click Deepfake

https://github.com/s0md3v/roop

3 years ago

Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (2014)

https://lindastone.net/2014/11/24/are-you-breathing-do-you-have-email-apnea/

3 years ago

Media Queries and Responsive Design

https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2023/media-queries-and-responsive-design/

3 years ago

Rheinmetall pilot project for curb stone chargers for EVs

https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/media/news-watch/news/2023/mai/2023-05-16-rheinmetall-launches-first-pilot-project-for-innovative-curb-stone-chargers

3 years ago

Show HN: Tiny – A 2D Game Engine in Kotlin Working with Lua

https://minigdx.github.io/tiny/

3 years ago

Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-harvest-abundant-energy-thin-air.html

3 years ago

Clever code considered harmful

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/career/clever-code-considered-harmful/

3 years ago

How much does it cost to develop and manufacture an electronic product? (2022)

https://predictabledesigns.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-and-manufacture-new-electronic-product/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113331

3 years ago

Tell HN: It's 2023 and you still can't import .ics files into iOS Calendar app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36116650

3 years ago

Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks

https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/e2-heavy-electric-trucks-cheaper-than-diesel-goods-trucks/

3 years ago

Container Runtimes and WasmEdge benchmarking on Arm

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/infrastructure-solutions-blog/posts/container-runtimes-wasmedge-arm

3 years ago

No A/C? No problem, if buildings copy networked tunnels of termite mounds

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/intricate-tunnels-of-termite-mounds-could-be-key-to-energy-efficient-buildings/

3 years ago

Tone: Cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor

https://github.com/sandreas/tone

3 years ago