top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-27

macOS command-line tools you might not know about

https://saurabhs.org/advanced-macos-commands

3 years ago

The Password Game

https://neal.fun/password-game/

3 years ago

Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0

3 years ago

The hidden cost of air quality monitoring

https://www.airgradient.com/blog/hidden-costs-of-air-quality-monitoring/

3 years ago

FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans

https://www.thedrive.com/news/fedex-accused-of-largest-odometer-rollback-fraud-in-history-with-used-vans

3 years ago

Is ORM still an anti-pattern?

https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Is-ORM-still-an-%27anti-pattern%27%3F

3 years ago

The Deep Sea (2019)

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

3 years ago

Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress

https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-ceo-tells-us-house-open-source-ai-is-extremely-aligned-with-american-interests/

3 years ago

Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot

https://akashrajpurohit.com/blog/build-your-own-docker-with-linux-namespaces-cgroups-and-chroot-handson-guide/

3 years ago

Sears offered complete houses in large DIY kits

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1673569802022010880

3 years ago

LLM Powered Autonomous Agents

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-agent/

3 years ago

Blender 3.6 LTS Released

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-6/

3 years ago

Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/06/rust-fact-vs-fiction-5-insights-from-googles-rust-journey-2022.html

3 years ago

Patterns of Distributed Systems (2022)

https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/

3 years ago

Time to subsidize e-bikes?

https://clivethompson.medium.com/its-time-to-subsidize-e-bikes-900a862b8e76

3 years ago

FreeBSD Jails Containers

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/freebsd-jails-containers/

3 years ago

Testing a 1,000 player Minecraft server with Folia

https://cubxity.dev/blog/folia-test-june-2023

3 years ago

Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/

3 years ago

I Built Linux from Scratch

https://thesloth.me/posts/5/

3 years ago

OPNsense: Open-source security platform

https://opnsense.org/

3 years ago

It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1673622294227308546

3 years ago

A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPiqk0-zDY

3 years ago

Zellij New WASM Plugin System

https://zellij.dev/news/new-plugin-system/

3 years ago

Half of US wetlands lost federal protection. Their fate is up to the states

https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/06/19/half-the-nations-wetlands-just-lost-federal-protection-their-fate-is-up-to-the-states/

3 years ago

New bioinspired robot flies, rolls, walks, and more

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-bioinspired-robot-flies-rolls-walks-and-more

3 years ago

Finding the best sine function for Nintendo 64 [video]

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

3 years ago

Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language

https://cooklang.org

3 years ago

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/

3 years ago

Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/drugmakers-are-abandoning-cheap-generics-and-now-us-cancer-patients-cant-get-meds/

3 years ago

Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era

https://github.com/wolfi-dev

3 years ago

Google does little to reduce advertisers' costs

https://simpleblog.ai/blog/google-ads-can-do-more-for-customers/

3 years ago

Optimizing a ring buffer for throughput (2021)

https://rigtorp.se/ringbuffer/

3 years ago

H100 GPUs Set Standard for Gen AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/06/27/generative-ai-debut-mlperf/

3 years ago

Why write?

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2023/writing_why/

3 years ago

OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC

3 years ago

The Comprehensive Guide to Elixir's List Comprehension (2022)

https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/the-comprehensive-guide-to-elixirs-for-comprehension/

3 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried fails to dismiss criminal charges related to FTX

https://www.ft.com/content/935ec2fc-ce52-424c-a615-a7d49c26c397

3 years ago

Writing Python like Rust (2020)

https://oatzy.github.io/2020/05/10/writing-python-like-rust.html

3 years ago

False 911 Calls Increase During Festival as iOS Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes

https://gizmodo.com/iphones-false-911-calls-bonnaroo-android-uk-999-1850576151

3 years ago

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit

http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

3 years ago

Giant 'Gravity Hole' in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/

3 years ago

The quest for a simple smartwatch

https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/writing/the-quest-for-a-simple-smartwatch/

3 years ago

Arduino Uno R4

https://store.arduino.cc/pages/uno-r4

3 years ago

Pixar was never a masterpiece factory

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/pixar-was-never-a-masterpiece-factory

3 years ago

Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the BoE admit it?

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/

3 years ago

Show HN: An Interactive Guide to Teach Derivatives and Backpropagation

https://x0axz.com/blog/autograd.html

3 years ago

Tinyx – Resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history

https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx

3 years ago

Plane crash rates by model

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm

3 years ago

Solving “Two Sum” in C with a tiny hash table

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/06/26/

3 years ago

Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps

https://www.superblocks.com/blog/introducing-superblocks-ai

3 years ago

Emacs4CL: A DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming

https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl

3 years ago

AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Emulation

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1141/amd-introduces-worlds-largest-fpga-based-adaptive-soc

3 years ago

TSMC Expected to Charge $25,000 per 2nm Wafer

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-expected-to-charge-25000usd-per-2nm-wafer

3 years ago

Vaporwave and Unicode Analysis

https://yaytext.com/blog/vaporwave-unicode-analysis/

3 years ago

Show HN: BillaBear – Self-Hosted SaaS Subscription Management and Billing

https://github.com/billabear/billabear

3 years ago

The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook

https://www.theverge.com/23770770/apple-mac-pro-m2-ultra-2023-review

3 years ago

South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/south-korea-new-age-system-2023-b2364809.html

3 years ago

In deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/27/jwst_carbon_molecule_discovery/

3 years ago

Cloud, why so difficult? (2022)

https://www.winglang.io/blog/2022/11/23/manifesto

3 years ago

Launch HN: Fuse (YC W19) – Unified API for financial data aggregators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36494639

3 years ago

Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Another-Linux-GPU-Dev-23

3 years ago

The future of AI according to thousands of forecasters

https://www.metaculus.com/ai/

3 years ago

Docker Acquires Mutagen

https://www.docker.com/blog/mutagen-acquisition/

3 years ago

Show HN: Endless – An attempt to unify the social media experience

https://github.com/kaangiray26/endless

3 years ago

Show HN: Flux Copilot – Generative AI for hardware design

https://www.flux.ai/p/blog/generative-ai-for-hardware-design

3 years ago

Lilos: A wee async RTOS for Cortex-M

https://github.com/cbiffle/lilos

3 years ago

Intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories, new study finds

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/26/1184390543/intermittent-fasting-effective-weight-loss

3 years ago

The forced return to the office is the definition of insanity

https://fortune.com/2023/06/26/forced-return-to-office-is-the-definition-of-insanity-remote-hybrid-work-careers-gleb-tsipursky/

3 years ago

A Syntax for Self-Tracking (2020)

https://www.gibney.org/a_syntax_for_self-tracking

3 years ago

How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01929-7

3 years ago

InfluxDB 3.0 System Architecture

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-3-0-system-architecture/

3 years ago

Show HN: Tweak your chord progressions for practice or composition

https://chord-alt.vercel.app/

3 years ago

Xerox PARC's NoteCards in a Nutshell (1987) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/29933.30859

3 years ago

LetMeSpy, a stalkerware app spying on thousands, says it was hacked

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/letmespy-hacked-spyware-thousands/

3 years ago

Google Removes Sort by Date options in search

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-search-removes-sort-by-date

3 years ago

Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressreleases/316416/electric-volvo-car-drivers-will-get-access-to-12000-tesla-superchargers-across-the-united-states-can

3 years ago

Bootstrapping Atlassian: $10k In Credit Card Debt To $20M In Revenue In 5 years

https://thedisruptors.beehiiv.com/p/bootstrapping-atlassian-from-10-000-in-credit-card-debt-to-over-20m-in-revenue-in-5-years

3 years ago

Integrated Information Theory

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Integrated_information_theory

3 years ago

U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car

3 years ago

Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/27/google_tweaks_topics_api_ahead/

3 years ago