top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-25

Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ReportConfigFileLocations

3 years ago

XML is the future

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles

3 years ago

Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/06/15/boys-in-crisis-masculinity-andrew-reiner

3 years ago

Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

https://www.open-resume.com/

3 years ago

The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)

https://cedwards.xyz/the-fuck-you-pattern/

3 years ago

Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1

https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/

3 years ago

Tintin, Hergé and Chang

https://thewire.in/books/tintin-herge-and-chang-a-friendship-that-changed-the-world

3 years ago

Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7GHqq28uU

3 years ago

Monitoring Is a Pain

https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/

3 years ago

A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_type_of_exercise_is_best_for_mental_health

3 years ago

Eight-mile frieze of Ice Age beasts found in Amazon rainforest (2020)

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/amazon-rainforest-ice-age-paintings-scli-intl/index.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Open-source shooter which made it to AC: Valhalla and Skydio drones

https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia

3 years ago

Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes

3 years ago

What are embeddings?

https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/

3 years ago

ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2023/06/25/ThinMachine-a-Thin-Client-MacOS-Time-Machine-Appliance.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Fossfox – paid opportunities for open-source devs

https://fossfox.com

3 years ago

Publishers carpet-bomb IPFS gateway operators with DMCA notices

https://torrentfreak.com/publishers-carpet-bomb-ipfs-gateway-operators-with-dmca-notices-230625/

3 years ago

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (2009)

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

3 years ago

The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23771064/european-union-battery-regulation-ecodesign-user-replacable-batteries

3 years ago

Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)

https://fs.blog/saying-no/

3 years ago

DragGAN source code release: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images

https://github.com/XingangPan/DragGAN

3 years ago

FP2: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/05/fbip.pdf

3 years ago

Why Google Zanzibar shines at building authorization

https://blog.warrant.dev/why-zanzibar-shines-at-building-authorization/

3 years ago

Air quality reporting on iOS

https://intergalactic.systems/posts/post-1965946732.html

3 years ago

LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-furious-after-being-locked-out-due-to-mfa-resets/

3 years ago

Time is not a synchronization primitive

https://xeiaso.net/blog/nosleep

3 years ago

The .meta directory: let's tidy things up

https://dotmeta.org/

3 years ago

Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040

https://fortune.com/2023/06/23/commercial-real-estate-crash-office-values-unlikely-to-recover-by-2040-says-capital-economics/

3 years ago

Gut–Brain axis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut%E2%80%93brain_axis

3 years ago

Ask HN: What topics are good for a UI/UX Primer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36468535

3 years ago

Like diffusion but faster: The Paella model for fast image generation

https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/the-paella-model-for-fast-image-generation-explained/

3 years ago

INTERCAL: Practically impossible

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal/pgpi.html

3 years ago

How the most popular cars in the US track drivers

https://www.wired.com/story/car-data-privacy-toyota-honda-ford/

3 years ago

Miles Davis: A candid conversation (1962)

https://www.erenkrantz.com/Music/MilesDavisInterview.shtml

3 years ago

WeeChat 4

https://blog.weechat.org/post/2023/06/24/Version-4.0.0

3 years ago

4D Toys Update 8: Rotating the 3D Slice, 2D Faces Projections, Marble Scenes

https://marctenbosch.com/news/2023/03/4d-toys-update-v-1-8-rotating-the-3d-slice-2d-faces-projections-marble-scenes-and-many-more/

3 years ago

The Shitty Stack System

https://tryingtruly.substack.com/p/the-shitty-stack-system

3 years ago

No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36466406

3 years ago

Generate invoices from the command line

https://github.com/maaslalani/invoice

3 years ago

Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

https://www.narcity.com/netflix-canada-got-rid-of-cheapest-ad-free-subscription

3 years ago

Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions

https://simondalvai.com/blog/godot-itchio-upload/

3 years ago

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/slashdot-founder-rob-malda-on-why-there-wont-be-another-hacker-news/

3 years ago

How the Military Is Using E-Girls to Recruit Gen Z into Service

https://www.mintpressnews.com/simp-to-soldier-e-girls-military-recuitment-gen-z/284897/

3 years ago

Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board computer (2020)

http://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2020/09/breadbee-build-your-own-single-board.html

3 years ago

BrowserBox Pro goes open-source

https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36468335

3 years ago

How platform engineering works

https://chadxz.dev/platform/

3 years ago

Web-based cryptography is snake oil

https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto

3 years ago

Btop++: Resource monitor for processor, memory, disks, network and processes

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

3 years ago

FAA issues ground stop for all DC-area airports due to equipment fire

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/faa-issues-ground-stop-for-all-dc-area-airports-due-to-equipment-fire-federal-avaiation-administration-dca-iad-bwi-ric

3 years ago

The hidden cost of gasoline

https://grist.org/accountability/gas-stations-underground-storage-tank-leaks-environmental-disaster/

3 years ago

Adversarial Collaboration Project

https://web.sas.upenn.edu/adcollabproject/

3 years ago

Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/

3 years ago

Delhi man gets AliExpress order after four years

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/delhi-man-gets-aliexpress-order-after-four-years-8684225/

3 years ago

Formula E team caught using RFID scanner that got live tire data from other cars

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23772725/formula-e-ds-penske-rfid-tire-data-wireless-scanner

3 years ago

Happiness is a reward from our ancestors

https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/happiness-is-a-reward-from-our-ancestors

3 years ago

The Little Book of Deep Learning

https://fleuret.org/francois/#lbdl

3 years ago

Adobe Account Expiration

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/06/23/adobe-account-expiration/

3 years ago

How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01987-x

3 years ago