top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-04

Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no-outdoor.html

3 years ago

Companies must stop using Google Analytics

https://www.imy.se/en/news/companies-must-stop-using-google-analytics/

3 years ago

More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

https://mastodon.cloud/@boilingsteam/110655979942850128

3 years ago

Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583419

3 years ago

How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries

https://www.kodingkitty.com/blog/how-to-build-a-website/

3 years ago

Sourcegraph is no longer open source

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

3 years ago

Learning needs to be effortful to be effective

https://giansegato.com/essays/edutainment-is-not-learning

3 years ago

Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

https://shant.nu/turning-my-passion-hobby-into-a-business-made-me-hate-it/

3 years ago

Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-programming

3 years ago

Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom

https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/04/dutch-rules-will-soon-prevent-schoolchildren-phone-classroom

3 years ago

Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

https://usebottles.com/

3 years ago

A curated list of uBlock origin filters

https://letsblock.it/filters

3 years ago

Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better

https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/open-source-with-profanity-in-comments-is-statistically-better-than-code-without-it/

3 years ago

Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib

3 years ago

ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13392

3 years ago

Type system updates: moving from research into development

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/

3 years ago

Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia

https://makie.org

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to do market research for product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36582117

3 years ago

LXD is now under Canonical

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/

3 years ago

SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can

https://blog.turso.tech/sqlite-based-databases-on-the-postgres-protocol-yes-we-can-358e61171d65?gi=b00cf93b1837

3 years ago

Stable Diffusion XL technical report [pdf]

https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models/blob/main/assets/sdxl_report.pdf

3 years ago

How to pass a first-round interview

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-pass-any-first-round-interview

3 years ago

An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf]

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.pdf

3 years ago

Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI

https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html

3 years ago

Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02214-3

3 years ago

Firefox 115 Now Available with Intel GPU Video Decoding on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-115

3 years ago

Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/dark-waters-of-self-delusion-the-crash-of-transair-flight-810-a4eeb033bc00

3 years ago

Show HN: Degrees What?

https://degreeswhat.com

3 years ago

What gets to the front page of Hacker News?

https://randomshit.dev/posts/what-gets-to-the-front-page-of-hacker-news

3 years ago

Encyclopaedia Metallum

https://www.metal-archives.com/

3 years ago

A header-only C implementation of C++ <algorithm>

https://github.com/clibraries/array-algorithms

3 years ago

Show HN: Iridescent crystal with raymarching and signed distance fields

https://varun.ca/ray-march-sdf/

3 years ago

Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/monday-was-hottest-day-for-global-average-temperature-on-record-as-climate-crisis-bites

3 years ago

Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite

https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB

3 years ago

The Lone Banana Problem in AI

https://www.digital-science.com/tldr/article/the-lone-banana-problem-or-the-new-programming-speaking-ai/

3 years ago

Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063125/http://www.redhatisnotlinux.org/

3 years ago

GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/jolly_roger_telephone_company/

3 years ago

The ancient Roman secret to concrete resilience in seawater (2017)

https://als.lbl.gov/ancient-roman-secret-concrete-resilience-seawater/

3 years ago

OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web

3 years ago

Passwords Are Fine

https://herman.bearblog.dev/passwords-are-fine/

3 years ago

“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288103

3 years ago

How many people have ever lived on Earth?

https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/

3 years ago

I Hate the News (2006)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

3 years ago

Designing a Language Without a Parser

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/type-inference/

3 years ago

Growing a Language (1998) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

3 years ago

Why there may never be a libjpeg-turbo 3.1

https://groups.google.com/g/libjpeg-turbo-announce/c/YZ2wRgB0zIE

3 years ago

CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal

https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-declares-metafacebooks-gdpr-approach-largely-illegal

3 years ago

Token revocation

https://www.biscuitsec.org/docs/guides/revocation/

3 years ago

How Lee Valley built a cult-like following

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-lee-valley-tools-business-success/

3 years ago

Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/

3 years ago

Threads.net

https://www.threads.net/

3 years ago

Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115

https://www.askvg.com/fix-some-extensions-are-not-allowed-in-firefox-115-and-later/

3 years ago

Seriously, Don't Sign a CLA

https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html

3 years ago

Life after detonation (2012)

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=22554

3 years ago

Repair adventure: A single white LED causing stuck keys on a RN988 keyboard

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/052_rn988_keyboard/

3 years ago

Google and HTTP (2018)

http://this.how/googleAndHttp/

3 years ago

The Text Editor Sam

http://sam.cat-v.org

3 years ago

How the RWKV language model works

https://johanwind.github.io/2023/03/23/rwkv_details.html

3 years ago

Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/apple-forced-to-make-major-cuts-to-vision-pro-headset-production-plans/

3 years ago

Boom, Bubble, Bust: The Fiber Optic Mania [pdf]

https://internethistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OSA_Boom.Bubble.Bust_Fiber.Optic_.Mania_.pdf

3 years ago

Writing about writing about programming

https://axleos.com/writing-about-writing-about-programming/

3 years ago

Opening up Intel's Device Modeling Language (2022)

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Products-and-Solutions/Software/Opening-up-the-Device-Modeling-Language/post/1417739

3 years ago

July 4th injunction bars feds from encouraging social media to delete content

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/07/04/july-4-injunction-bars-various-federal-departments-from-encouraging-social-media-platforms-to-delete-content/

3 years ago

A human just defeated an AI in Go. Here's why that matters

https://www.zmescience.com/future/a-human-just-defeated-an-ai-in-go-heres-why-that-matters/

3 years ago

The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20091224

3 years ago

Terraria's devs have been trying to stop developing Terraria for years

https://www.pcgamer.com/terrarias-devs-have-been-trying-to-stop-developing-terraria-for-years-but-they-just-cant-quit/

3 years ago