top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-18

Imaginary problems are the root of bad software

https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software

3 years ago

Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet

https://lecromee.github.io/posts/swing_vpn_ddosing_sites/

3 years ago

Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod

http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/

3 years ago

Jellyfin: Free software media system

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin

3 years ago

Goodbye, Twilio

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/goodbye-twilio

3 years ago

I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1670298370550779905

3 years ago

A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021)

https://pkolaczk.github.io/server-slower-than-a-laptop/

3 years ago

Sketch.systems

https://sketch.systems

3 years ago

Show HN: Answer Overflow – Indexing Discord content into the web

https://www.answeroverflow.com/

3 years ago

Follow up to “I booted Linux 293k times”

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/06/18/follow-up-to-i-booted-linux-292612-times/

3 years ago

HDR QR Code

https://notes.dt.in.th/HDRQRCode

3 years ago

Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09310

3 years ago

Scientists create contained ball of turbulence in a tank

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/tempest-teacup-uchicago-physicists-make-breakthrough-creating-turbulence

3 years ago

Keycloak – Open-source identity and access management interview

https://console.substack.com/i/128451029/interview-with-michal-of-keycloak-open-source-identity-and-access-management-for-modern-applications

3 years ago

A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science

https://github.com/Lesabotsy/bootcamp

3 years ago

Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults, Whines

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/16/reddit-ceo-triples-down-insults-protesters-whines-about-not-making-enough-money-from-reddit-users/

3 years ago

Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it for pizza ovens

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/in-the-early-1960s-soviet-union-sold-titanium-to-the-us-believing-they-needed-it-for-pizza-ovens-but-instead-they-used-it-to-build-the-iconic-sr-71-blackbird-mach-3-spy-plane/

3 years ago

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely

https://netflixtechblog.com/migrating-netflix-to-graphql-safely-8e1e4d4f1e72?gi=4217a3fd9c5c

3 years ago

Most tech content is bullshit (2020)

https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer

3 years ago

Graphic design items from Internet Archive

https://archives.design

3 years ago

OpenLLaMA 13B Released

https://huggingface.co/openlm-research/open_llama_13b

3 years ago

A complete guide to getting what you want (2018)

https://www.raptitude.com/2018/06/getting-what-you-want/

3 years ago

Redbean Systems

https://redbean.systems/

3 years ago

BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

https://www.databreaches.net/blackcat-claims-they-hacked-reddit-and-will-leak-the-data/

3 years ago

The WFH future is destroying bosses' brains (2021)

https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destroying

3 years ago

Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

3 years ago

Milk-V Duo: A $9 RISC-V Computer

https://milkv.io/duo

3 years ago

Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida

https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620

3 years ago

The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)

https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html

3 years ago

Get It Done

https://boz.com/articles/get-it-done

3 years ago

Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the info he wants? (2011)

https://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-auditor-is-an-idiot-how-do-i-give-him-the-information-he-wants

3 years ago

Falcon LLM – A 40B Model

https://falconllm.tii.ae/

3 years ago

How I feel quitting my own startup

https://www.aquiles.me/how-it-feels-quitting-your-own-startup/

3 years ago

Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)

https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/

3 years ago

DIY-Audio-Heaven

https://diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com/

3 years ago

Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (2020)

https://mbernste.github.io/posts/sourcecoding/

3 years ago

Apple Vision Pro – Potential hardware issues

https://kguttag.com/2023/06/16/apple-vision-pro-part-2-hardware-issues/

3 years ago

Why you can't Kickstart a conference

https://abnercoimbre.com/post/why-you-cant-kickstart-a-conference/

3 years ago

ChatGPT, Google Bard Generates Generic Windows 11, Windows 10 Pro Keys

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-generates-windows-11-pro-keys

3 years ago

Database Gyms [pdf]

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/papers/p27-lim.pdf

3 years ago

Moldable Live Programming for Clojure

https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk

3 years ago

Go: Execution Tracer Overhaul

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/ac09a140c3d26f8bb62cbad8969c8b154f93ead6/design/60773-execution-tracer-overhaul.md

3 years ago

The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots

https://www.ft.com/content/a70a4460-0267-4a8a-8612-a6f6c187a3c6

3 years ago

Port forwarding

https://blog.azirevpn.com/port-forwarding/

3 years ago

The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single GitHub user

https://gmplib.org/

3 years ago

The top-selling game on Steam is a new 254-player FPS made by 4 people

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-top-selling-game-on-steam-right-now-is-a-new-254-player-fps-made-by-4-people/

3 years ago

The Difference Between Root Certificate Authorities, Intermediates and Resellers

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/roots_intermediates_and_resellers

3 years ago

Squeezing a Little More Performance Out of Bytecode Interpreters

https://stefan-marr.de/2023/06/squeezing-a-little-more-performance-out-of-bytecode-interpreters/

3 years ago

Meta/Facebook is inviting Fediverse admins under NDA for “meetings”

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110548129223290575

3 years ago

Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/

3 years ago

A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/scientists-discover-lost-world-early-ancestors-billion-year-old-rocks

3 years ago

How to Read and Organize Online Articles (Without Driving Yourself Crazy) (2013)

https://www.gregoryciotti.com/reading-organization/

3 years ago

Dynamic programming in Haskell: automatic memoization

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/dynamic-programming-in-haskell-automatic-memoization/

3 years ago

Chemists introduce a two-step process for making phosphorus compounds

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-two-step-phosphorus-containing-chemicals.html

3 years ago

I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches (2020)

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/jesboard.html

3 years ago

Hybrid SDF-Voxel Traversal

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/dtVSzw

3 years ago

A History Of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor

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

3 years ago

Reddit's CEO: Third-Party Apps Add 'No Value.' How He Lost the Thread

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/reddits-ceo-says-third-party-apps-add-no-value-hes-measuring-it-all-wrong.html

3 years ago

Fruit-Bat/Pico-Zxspectrum: ZX Spectrum for Raspberry Pico Pi RP2040

https://github.com/fruit-bat/pico-zxspectrum

3 years ago

What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear (2013)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-mann-my-augmediated-life

3 years ago

Processing medical images at scale on the cloud

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-04-20-medical-computing-at-scale/

3 years ago

In a surprising twist, I just received a second $100k sponsorship for Ladybird

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1670440822129532928

3 years ago

Hexa Lift: Single person drone

https://www.liftaircraft.com

3 years ago

Companies in Japan opting for select offices to work in English

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14922639

3 years ago