top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-21

Maps distort how we see the world

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/maps-distort-how-we-see-the-world

3 years ago

Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode

https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-dev-mode/

3 years ago

Cookie Clicker saved my PhD

https://advaitsarkar.wordpress.com/2021/12/17/how-my-online-gaming-addiction-saved-my-phd/

3 years ago

GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1671272883379908608

3 years ago

Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/developer-tools-to-create-spatial-experiences-for-apple-vision-pro-now-available/

3 years ago

FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html

3 years ago

A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)

https://www.noulakaz.net/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/

3 years ago

Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability

https://lwn.net/Articles/935592/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as an employee?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421483

3 years ago

Go 1.21 Release Candidate

https://go.dev/blog/go1.21rc

3 years ago

Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-swiss-fruit-company-change-logo-3336622/

3 years ago

Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store

https://www.engadget.com/apples-union-busting-practices-violated-employee-rights-at-nyc-store-judge-rules-115036323.html

3 years ago

Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces

https://yotam.net/posts/linux-namespaces-are-a-poor-mans-plan9-namespaces/

3 years ago

Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google

https://post.news/@/noam/2RTRvTNNxSCQb3yNjqa0DPfr1Yk

3 years ago

Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-duped-millions-consumers-into-enrolling-prime-ftc-2023-06-21/

3 years ago

Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef

3 years ago

Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-deepfakes-disinformation-psychology/

3 years ago

Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-fake-takedowns.html

3 years ago

Tell HN: Reddit Removes Multiple Moderator Teams of Large Subreddits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619

3 years ago

Textbooks are all you need

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644

3 years ago

Ego and Math [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7GVHB2wiyg

3 years ago

A case for toe socks

https://herman.bearblog.dev/a-case-for-toe-socks/

3 years ago

Handles are the better pointers (2018)

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

3 years ago

Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google Cloud Platform

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1670796482188910592

3 years ago

What every programmer should know about memory (2007) [pdf]

https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

3 years ago

Free Organ

https://www.organclearinghouse.com/organs-for-sale#/3141-austin-san-francisco

3 years ago

How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch

https://furiouslyrotatingshapes.substack.com/p/how-my-children-n2-acquired-absolute

3 years ago

AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models

https://lastmileai.dev/workbooks/clj2y933l000mr0avd2ck42s9

3 years ago

NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux

https://sam.gov/opp/2e0365ce1e3c4c179b50fb15573d68e4/view

3 years ago

Moog sells its business to InMusic

https://ra.co/news/79174

3 years ago

Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin

https://thebaffler.com/latest/brains-on-drugs-semley

3 years ago

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/

3 years ago

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)

https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

3 years ago

Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730

3 years ago

Google is selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1671603045640151041

3 years ago

Bill to allow corporate landowners to vote in elections in Seaford, Delaware

https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/130205

3 years ago

Over 100k ChatGPT Account Credentials Made Available on the Dark Web

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/over-100000-chatgpt-account-credentials-made-available-on-the-dark-web

3 years ago

Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/exhibit-k-microsoft-activision

3 years ago

How RLHF Works

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/how-rlhf-works

3 years ago

JetBrains Noria

https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2023/02/fleet-below-deck-part-vi-ui-with-noria/

3 years ago

Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)

https://moretothat.com/money/

3 years ago

Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/top-mental-health-and-prayer-apps-fail-spectacularly-at-privacy-security/

3 years ago

Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction

https://tedunderwood.com/2023/03/19/using-gpt-4-to-measure-the-passage-of-time-in-fiction/

3 years ago

Some were meant for C [pdf] (2017)

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf

3 years ago

Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories

https://www.kodytools.com/units

3 years ago

What to do if your house is overflowing with books

https://lithub.com/what-to-do-if-your-house-is-overflowing-with-books/

3 years ago

The Almost Romance Languages

https://dannybate.com/2022/11/21/the-almost-romance-languages/

3 years ago

I won't pay on your website

https://github.com/juspay/hyperswitch/wiki/Why-I-won%27t-pay-on-your-website

3 years ago

The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)

https://nautil.us/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic-235253/

3 years ago

Ruby Hacking Guide (2004)

https://ruby-hacking-guide.github.io

3 years ago

Company to pay fine after hiring fake priest to extract confessions of workers

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/business/california-restaurant-fake-priest-fine/index.html

3 years ago

Diaphora: an open-source program diffing IDA plugin

https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora

3 years ago

Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf]

https://www.mclibre.org/descargar/docs/libros/ooc-ats.pdf

3 years ago

MyNOR – The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough

http://www.mynor.org/

3 years ago

Magvit: Masked Generative Video Transformer

https://magvit.cs.cmu.edu/

3 years ago

Platinum Photography

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-platinum-photography-edition

3 years ago

System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps

https://www.systeminit.com/blog-second-wave-devops/

3 years ago

The real lesson of The Truman Show

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/06/the-truman-show-25-years-later/674456/

3 years ago

The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend

https://gwern.net/tank

3 years ago

Research papers on ML in Compilers

https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers

3 years ago

The History of Coffee (2015)

https://www.ncausa.org/about-coffee/history-of-coffee

3 years ago

Reading Log for Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

https://yongjie.codes/reading-logs/effective-c/

3 years ago

Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation with GOP Billionaire

https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

3 years ago

Africa’s Richest City Is Crumbling Under Chaos and Corruption

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-16/south-africa-s-crime-chaos-and-corruption-make-it-look-like-a-failed-state

3 years ago

Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/scientists-conduct-first-test-of-a-wireless-cosmic-ray-navigation-system/

3 years ago

Tree-Ring Watermark: Invisible Robust Fingerprints of Diffusion Images

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20030

3 years ago

Show HN: Image Upscaler AI

https://imageupscalerai.com/

3 years ago

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (1943)

https://www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity-entire-quote.html

3 years ago

Typography 2024: For America’s Best

https://practicaltypography.com/typography-2024.html

3 years ago

Agile is people, the rest is commentary

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/agile-is-people-the-rest-is-commentary/

3 years ago

US approves chicken made from cultivated cells

https://apnews.com/article/cultivated-meat-lab-grown-cell-based-a88ab8e0241712b501aa191cdbf6b39a

3 years ago

Show HN: Kysely, a type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript

https://kysely.dev/

3 years ago

Running Postgres as a Unikernel

https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-postgres-as-a-unikernel

3 years ago

A few scanning tips

https://www.scantips.com/

3 years ago

The art of refurbing old computers

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/21/pc_officina_positive_trashware/

3 years ago

Fallen Flag Railroad Photos

https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/

3 years ago

Leaking secrets through caching with Bunny CDN

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/bunny-cdn-caching-vulnerability/

3 years ago

The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767094/fcc-investigation-internet-data-caps-net-neutrality

3 years ago

Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05426

3 years ago

Ask HN: Refusing all cookies, still targeted by ads. How?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417699

3 years ago

How I installed TrueNAS on my new ASUSTOR NAS

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-i-installed-truenas-on-my-new-asustor-nas

3 years ago

Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest

https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-goes-nuclear-removes-moderators-of-subreddits-that-continued-to

3 years ago

Blue Ocean Strategy

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/blue-ocean-strategy

3 years ago

Show HN: Dependency Hell (Short Story)

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/dependency-hell.md

3 years ago

50% on HumanEval with just 1.3B model

https://twitter.com/sytelus/status/1671333552204693504

3 years ago

Tom MacWright's Projects

https://macwright.com/projects/

3 years ago

Microsoft rewrote Q# compiler in Rust

https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp

3 years ago

An app can transform smartphones into thermometers that accurately detect fevers

https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/06/21/an-app-can-transform-smartphones-into-thermometers-that-accurately-detect-fevers/

3 years ago

Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action

https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight-lite

3 years ago

If you can’t tell a story about it, it isn’t real

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/06/15/if-you-cant-tell-a-story-about-it-it-isnt-real/

3 years ago

Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/21/google_ftc_microsoft_anticompetitive_cloud/

3 years ago

Reddit: The r/MildlyInteresting and r/interestingasfuck mods removed

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14eq8ip/the_entire_rmildlyinteresting_mod_team_has_just/

3 years ago

React to LiveView for Performance [audio]

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/156

3 years ago

Notice of Intent to Amend the Prescription Drug List: Vitamin D (2020)

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/drug-products/prescription-drug-list/notices-changes/notice-intent-vitamin-d.html

3 years ago

Functional Programming in Coq

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/Basics.html

3 years ago

Banging sounds heard during Titan search, according to internal government memo

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/us/titanic-shipwreck-vessel-missing-tuesday/index.html

3 years ago