top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-20

Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated

https://devpod.sh/

3 years ago

“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)

http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/

3 years ago

Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/submarine-missing-near-titanic-used-a-30-logitech-gamepad-for-steering/

3 years ago

Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated

https://sub.rehab/

3 years ago

Loneliness is stronger when not alone

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37293324/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403607

3 years ago

YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36410777

3 years ago

A daytime nap is good for the brain

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65950168

3 years ago

Style your RSS feed

https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/

3 years ago

Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs

https://ev-edition.com/2023/06/rivian-joins-forces-with-tesla-embracing-their-charging-standard-for-electric-vehicles/

3 years ago

Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'

https://twitter.com/johnreedstark/status/1666780985189433347

3 years ago

Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust

https://www.linen.dev/s/linen/t/12647025/building-a-slack-discord-alternative-with-tauri-rust

3 years ago

Hashing

https://samwho.dev/hashing/

3 years ago

Minimal downtime major PostgreSQL version upgrades with pg_easy_replicate

https://github.com/shayonj/pg_easy_replicate

3 years ago

Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/19/even_google_warns_its_own/

3 years ago

vLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention

https://vllm.ai/

3 years ago

Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/6/20/introducing-mullvad-leta-a-search-engine-used-in-the-mullvad-browser/

3 years ago

Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)

https://www.wheelingit.us/2011/09/22/10-things-i-wished-id-known-before-fulltime-rving/

3 years ago

Emerging architectures for LLM applications

https://a16z.com/2023/06/20/emerging-architectures-for-llm-applications/

3 years ago

Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to

https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate

3 years ago

Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney

https://blog.usmanity.com/comparing-adobe-firefly-dalle-2-and-openjourney/

3 years ago

I made a smooth shadows generator

https://smoothshadows.com/

3 years ago

LCD TVs won’t see any further development

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/its-official-lcd-tvs-wont-see-any-further-development

3 years ago

Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14dt9ly/removed_as_moderator_of_rcelebrities_after_over/

3 years ago

Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview

https://www.dpreview.com/site-news/8298318614/dpreview-com-looks-forward-to-a-new-chapter-with-gear-patrol

3 years ago

Cloud Appreciation Society

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

3 years ago

Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

3 years ago

Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326257/

3 years ago

RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/robocat-a-self-improving-robotic-agent

3 years ago

Why Tcl?

https://gist.github.com/nat-418/bdccb2428cde750c9f42bf9bbc1a50d3

3 years ago

My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot

https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503

3 years ago

Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling

https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-site-distributed-premise-graywater-blackwater-recycling

3 years ago

3 Men Convicted of Harassing Family on Behalf of China’s Government

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/nyregion/verdict-china-spying-trial.html

3 years ago

Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

https://github.com/undb-xyz/undb

3 years ago

The Matasano crypto challenges (2014)

https://cryptopals.com/

3 years ago

Welcome Lemmy.world

https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world

3 years ago

ChatGPT: Fear Litany

https://web.archive.org/web/20230620052350/https://chat.openai.com/share/312e82f0-cc5e-47f3-b368-b2c0c0f4ad3f

3 years ago

Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/20/ohio-odrc-prison-book-ban-java-hitler

3 years ago

Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/free_user_limit.html

3 years ago

Gannett CEO: Here's why we are suing Google for deceptive business practices

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/06/20/gannett-ceo-why-we-are-suing-google-for-its-business-practices/70336910007/

3 years ago

Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/life-before-cell-phones-internet-after-work.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Autolabel, a Python library to label and enrich text data with LLMs

https://github.com/refuel-ai/autolabel

3 years ago

I give up on free software phones (2019)

https://yotam.net/posts/why-i-give-up-on-free-software-phones/

3 years ago

OpenWrt Project: a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices

https://openwrt.org/

3 years ago

OpenBSD: Shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230620064255

3 years ago

How to make your own Selectric Typeballs

https://github.com/settinger/selectric_typeballs

3 years ago

How scientists are hacking the genetic code to give proteins new powers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01980-4

3 years ago

A Bayesian view of Amazon resellers (2011)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/09/27/bayesian-amazon/

3 years ago

Representing Enums in PostgreSQL

https://making.close.com/posts/native-enums-or-check-constraints-in-postgresql

3 years ago

Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

https://milkv.io/mars

3 years ago

Compiling Typed Python

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/typed-python/

3 years ago

Adobe’s $20B deal to acquire Figma under threat from EU investigation

https://www.ft.com/content/d041351e-0974-4a27-ada2-7c026f67e765

3 years ago

I post when browser makers announce their intent to ship features in web engines

https://botsin.space/@intenttoship

3 years ago

Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public in Rome

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/rome-open-square-julius-caesar-scli-intl/index.html

3 years ago

ASU: The New American University (2021)

https://nadia.xyz/asu

3 years ago

Predicting hit songs with 97% accuracy

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2023.1154663/full

3 years ago

Render Raises $50M Series B

https://render.com/blog/render-series-b

3 years ago

Blowing up my compile times for dubious benefits

https://claytonwramsey.github.io/2023/06/20/fiddler-const-magic.html

3 years ago

Defer for Shell (2020)

https://cedwards.xyz/defer-for-shell/

3 years ago

Goodbye, San Francisco

https://yolken.net/blog/goodbye-san-francisco

3 years ago

Show HN: Inngest – Developer platform for background jobs and workflows

https://www.inngest.com

3 years ago

Stackoverflow is investing into baking GenAI

https://stackoverflow.co/labs/

3 years ago

Jamsocket: Back Ends for Realtime Apps

https://jamsocket.com/

3 years ago

The world's largest "radio" station (2005) [pdf]

https://pages.hep.wisc.edu/~prepost/ELF.pdf

3 years ago

Nigerian engineering students’ favorite teachers are Indian YouTubers

https://restofworld.org/2023/nigerian-engineering-students-indian-youtubers/

3 years ago

XEmacs 21.5.35 “kohlrabi” is released

https://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.5.35.html

3 years ago

Compilers for the Future

https://adam-mcdaniel-blog.github.io/compilers-for-the-future/

3 years ago

U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid Outbreak

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-funded-scientist-among-three-chinese-researchers-who-fell-ill-amid-early-covid-19-outbreak-3f919567

3 years ago

Iron nitrides: powerful magnets without the rare earth elements

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magnets-without-the-rare-earth-elements/

3 years ago

Cognitive Load Developer's Handbook

https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

3 years ago

Don't Use Mocks

https://joeblu.com/blog/2023_06_mocks/

3 years ago

Rivian Adopts NACS and Access to Tesla’s Supercharger Network for Rivian Drivers

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230620267452/en/Rivian-Accelerates-Electrification-through-Adoption-of-North-American-Charging-Standard-and-Access-to-Tesla%E2%80%99s-Supercharger-Network-for-Rivian-Drivers

3 years ago

Crypto Exchange Backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity, Schwab Starts Operations

https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-exchange-backed-by-citadel-securities-fidelity-schwab-starts-operations-597f6d46

3 years ago

Petaflops to the People: From Personal Compute Cluster to Person of Compute

https://www.latent.space/p/geohot

3 years ago

Document reasoning to block DNS to 127.0.0.1

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/16372

3 years ago

53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/20/climate-change-affects-53percent-of-parents-decision-to-have-more-kids.html

3 years ago