top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-07-09

Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

https://www.eidel.io/2023/07/09/vc-funding/

3 years ago

InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion

https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-from-gcp-europe-west1/30615

3 years ago

How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

https://blog.washi.dev/posts/tinysharp/

3 years ago

PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news

https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/poisongpt-how-we-hid-a-lobotomized-llm-on-hugging-face-to-spread-fake-news/

3 years ago

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

3 years ago

Using Lidar to map tree shadows

https://tedpiotrowski.svbtle.com/using-lidar-for-tree-shadows-in-shademap

3 years ago

Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery

https://adamsinger.substack.com/p/amateurs-obsess-over-tools-pros-over

3 years ago

California needs real math education, not gimmicks

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/california-needs-real-math-education

3 years ago

Defecting from North Korea is now harder

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/world/asia/north-korea-china-defectors.html

3 years ago

The Development of the C Language (1993)

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

3 years ago

Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1

3 years ago

Engineers should focus on writing

https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/why-engineers-should-write/

3 years ago

US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it

https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/

3 years ago

The 90s Developer Starter Pack

https://retrocoding.net/the-90s-developer-starter-pack

3 years ago

Wayland on OpenBSD

https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html

3 years ago

Fairphone 4 is coming to the US

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-is-coming-to-america/

3 years ago

Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar

https://eieio.games/nonsense/implementing-wordle-in-the-firefox-address-bar/

3 years ago

An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma

https://furbo.org/2023/07/09/an-alerting-vista-of-sonoma/

3 years ago

Deputy US Marshal pleads guilty to obtaining cell phone location unlawfully [pdf]

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/06-30-2023b.pdf

3 years ago

Clojure Plays Mario

https://blog.phronemophobic.com/mairio.html

3 years ago