top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-01

Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html

3 years ago

Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design

https://csspro.com

3 years ago

Zig is hard but worth it

http://ratfactor.com/zig/hard

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152014

3 years ago

Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites

https://netherlands.postsen.com/trends/198695/Securitytxt-now-mandatory-for-Dutch-government-websites.html

3 years ago

Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23744576/meta-quest-3-vr-headset-price-details

3 years ago

I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to

https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars

3 years ago

Vectorization: Introduction

https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/vector/default

3 years ago

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/

3 years ago

Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

https://brave.com/vertical-tabs/

3 years ago

Lost John Coltrane recording, from experimental phase with Eric Dolphy, emerges

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179098682/john-coltrane-eric-dolphy-village-gate-1961-lost-album

3 years ago

OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March

https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1663934947931897857

3 years ago

SQL:2023 has been released

https://www.iso.org/standard/76584.html

3 years ago

Industry docs reveal makers of 'forever chemicals' covered up health dangers

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-secret-industry-documents-reveal-makers.html

3 years ago

Own-goal football (2022)

https://generalist.academy/2022/06/07/own-goal-football/

3 years ago

Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3xe9/maryland-license-plates-now-inadvertently-advertising-filipino-online-casino

3 years ago

Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler

https://www.distcc.org/

3 years ago

The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-planning-of-u-s-physician-shortages/

3 years ago

Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

https://hnresumetojobs.com

3 years ago

Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/automatic-emergency-braking-should-become-mandatory-feds-say/

3 years ago

What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/people-who-prioritize-friendship-over-romance/616779/

3 years ago

Privacy: One of the Most Fundamental Human Rights, yet Constantly Under Threat

https://escapebigtech.info/posts/privacy-one-of-the-most-fundamental-human-rights-yet-constantly-under-threat/

3 years ago

Most important papers for quantitative traders

https://www.qmr.ai/most-important-papers-for-quantitative-traders/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153565

3 years ago

Autoimmune disease can attack the brain, cause psychiatric symptoms

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/01/schizophrenia-autoimmune-lupus-psychiatry/

3 years ago

What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)

https://elliottslaughter.com/2022/12/lisp

3 years ago

Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU

https://sidsite.com/posts/bert-from-scratch/

3 years ago

No salary wastes everyone's time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158166

3 years ago

The work is never just “the work” (2022)

https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/

3 years ago

EPYC 7002 CPUs may hang after 1042 days of uptime

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13wmowy/psa_epyc_7002_cpus_may_hang_after_1042_days_of/

3 years ago

Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation by 41% since 2021 investment

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152012

3 years ago

Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23744109/activision-blizzard-bobby-kotick-denies-harassment-variety

3 years ago

Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware

https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation/109842/

3 years ago

New open-source datasets for music-based development

https://metabrainz.org/datasets

3 years ago

What Vale taught me about linear types, borrowing, and memory safety

https://verdagon.dev/blog/linear-types-borrowing

3 years ago

Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/digital-library-blog/2023/03/stanford-libraries-launches-taube-archive-international-military

3 years ago

A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkag99/a-medieval-comedy-act-has-been-discovered-in-first-ever-find-researcher-says

3 years ago

Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill for Apollo

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/reddits-api-pricing-results-in-shocking-20-million-a-year-bill-for-apollo/

3 years ago

Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda

https://kotaku.com/legend-of-zelda-tears-kingdom-tlok-steal-japan-amazon-1850493783

3 years ago

Usenet over NNCP

https://www.complete.org/usenet-over-nncp/

3 years ago

“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/clickless-ios-exploits-infect-kaspersky-iphones-with-never-before-seen-malware/

3 years ago

Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project by Lukas Henkel

https://resources.altium.com/p/open-source-laptop-part-one

3 years ago

Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data

https://stonks.news/gpt

3 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Evidence Based Medicine (1998) [pdf]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13574786_The_rise_and_fall_of_EBM

3 years ago

Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language

https://macoy.me/code/macoy/cakelisp

3 years ago

No Man's Sky Now on Mac

https://www.nomanssky.com/2023/06/no-mans-sky-on-mac/

3 years ago

WordPress.com launches paid newsletters

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/06/01/newsletters-paid-subscriptions/

3 years ago

Do any startups still use WordPress after 20 years?

https://autopitch.ai/posts/blog/do-any-startups-use-wordpress-after-20-years

3 years ago

Scientists need to get high

https://nautil.us/why-scientists-need-to-get-high-305830/

3 years ago

You can't optimize for rest (2021)

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/you-cant-optimize-for-rest

3 years ago

When photography “produces something other than photographs”

https://we-make-money-not-art.com/diego-trujillo-pisanty-when-photography-produces-something-other-than-photographs/

3 years ago

Measuring the productivity impact of generative AI

https://www.nber.org/digest/measuring-productivity-impact-generative-ai

3 years ago

World Capitals Voronoi (2014)

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/capitals/

3 years ago

Chief executives cannot shut up about AI

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/06/01/chief-executives-cannot-shut-up-about-ai

3 years ago

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

https://openai.com/blog/openai-cybersecurity-grant-program

3 years ago

Show HN: Discipline.io – Make binding commitments to your better self

https://discipline.io/

3 years ago

People living near former atomic weapon plant in WA have increased cancer rates

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14738272/

3 years ago

Automate the CEOs

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/automate-the-ceos

3 years ago

Show HN: Verify LLM Generated Code with a Spreadsheet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152787

3 years ago

Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse

https://nickbusey.com/article/2023-06-01-removing-your-mouse/

3 years ago

PostgreSQL – Don't Do This

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

3 years ago

Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2115248119

3 years ago

Show HN: Git credential helper using OAuth in browser

https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth

3 years ago

Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM

https://laplab.me/posts/family-photos-vs-256-kb-ram/

3 years ago

Show HN: Word2vec Algorithm in ~100sloc with NumPy

https://github.com/JosephSBoyle/skip_gram/blob/346f79ff948ef3d279558a9460c44e7f7598fb7d/skip_gram/main.py

3 years ago

Ask HN: Lots of AWS credits expiring soon, ideas?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149966

3 years ago

Community-built hospital price database hits 400 hospitals

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-05-24-400-hospitals/

3 years ago

‘Tired’, ‘lonely’ and hated by locals: the reality for the digital nomad

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/tired-lonely-the-reality-for-those-sold-digital-nomad-dream/

3 years ago

Research Finds Women Are Advantaged in Being Hired in Academic Science

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15291006231163179

3 years ago

Logic programming is overrated, at least for logic puzzles (2013)

http://programming-puzzler.blogspot.com/2013/03/logic-programming-is-overrated.html

3 years ago

Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest VR headset days before Apple reveals its own

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/meta-quest-3-unveiled-ahead-of-apples-planned-vr-headset-debut.html

3 years ago

FAA seeks public input on drone operations

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-seeks-public-input-drone-operations

3 years ago

Introducing Meta Quest 3

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/introducing-meta-quest-3-the-first-mainstream-headset-with-high-res-color-mixed-/580074517583727/

3 years ago

Software licenses masquerading as open source

http://marble.onl/posts/software-licenses-masquerading-as-open-source.html

3 years ago

A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (2019)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wonders-of-new-york-map

3 years ago

FTC accuses Amazon Ring of nightmare IoT security fails

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/01/ftc_alexa_ring_amazon_settlement/

3 years ago

Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23736005/microsoft-windows-11-force-quit-taskbar-option-feature

3 years ago

Congress Shocked to Discover 10 Year Olds Check the ‘I’m over 18’ Box Online

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8k7/congress-shocked-to-discover-10-year-olds-check-the-im-over-18-box-online

3 years ago

The World Wide Web (1994)

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2769

3 years ago

AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

3 years ago

DNSSEC failures are how you get people to disable DNSSEC

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DNSSECFailureDrivesDisablement

3 years ago

Solar will soon eclipse other forms of energy generation

https://www.positive.news/environment/solar-will-soon-eclipse-all-forms-of-energy/

3 years ago

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Quixote

3 years ago

Rust 1.70.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/06/01/Rust-1.70.0.html

3 years ago

US banks lost $472B in deposits in the Q1 2023

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/qbp/2023mar/qbp.pdf#page=1

3 years ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152013

3 years ago

Show HN: Dltpay – Web3 and Stablecoin Payments for Business

https://www.dltpay.com/

3 years ago