top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-11

Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/07/unfortunately-kelly-rowland-couldnt.html

3 years ago

Displayport: A Better Video Interface

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/11/displayport-a-better-video-interface/

3 years ago

Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/

3 years ago

GPT-4 details leaked?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1678545170508267522.html

3 years ago

Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-3-percent-market-share/

3 years ago

SUSE is forking RHEL

https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

3 years ago

Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/10/mathew-lawrence-on-why-privatisation-has-been-a-costly-failure-in-britain

3 years ago

Claude 2

https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2

3 years ago

The Free Movie

https://thefreemovie.buzz/

3 years ago

Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-exiting-the-pc-business-as-it-stops-investment-in-the-intel-nuc/

3 years ago

GPT-Prompt-Engineer

https://github.com/mshumer/gpt-prompt-engineer

3 years ago

Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

https://www.landcamp.org/

3 years ago

Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

https://oldbytes.space/@48kRAM/110695813509755748

3 years ago

PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

3 years ago

Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win

3 years ago

Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML

https://www.trygloo.com/blog/classify-text-llms-learnings

3 years ago

We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed-database-in-the-browser/

3 years ago

A petabyte of health insurance prices per month

https://blog.turquoise.health/a-petabyte-of-health-insurance-rates-a-month/

3 years ago

Breaking java.lang.String

https://wouter.coekaerts.be/2023/breaking-string

3 years ago

Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

https://playlaser.xyz

3 years ago

The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/41f5284e-b79e-4c84-97e5-664a6ac5a1ee

3 years ago

Guam: The America that Americans forget

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/magazine/guam-american-military.html

3 years ago

Keras Core: Keras for TensorFlow, Jax, and PyTorch

https://keras.io/keras_core/announcement/

3 years ago

The Pile: An 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027

3 years ago

QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system

https://www.qubes-os.org/

3 years ago

Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler

https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/07/11/back-end-parallelism-in-the-rust-compiler.html

3 years ago

GitHub profile achievements

https://cqcumbers.com/github_achievements/

3 years ago

Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/big-tech-can-transfer-europeans-data-to-us-in-win-for-facebook-and-google/

3 years ago

Retro: A modern, pragmatic Forth

http://www.retroforth.org/

3 years ago

Emacs GUI Library

https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-07-11-emacs-gui-library/

3 years ago

Firejail: Light, featureful and zero-dependency security sandbox for Linux

https://firejail.wordpress.com/

3 years ago

IntelliJ Rust

https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/

3 years ago

UCLA professor refuses to cover for Dan Ariely in issue of data provenance

https://openmkt.org/blog/2023/ucla-professor-refuses-to-cover-for-dan-ariely-in-issue-of-data-provenance/

3 years ago

Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

https://web.dev/inp/

3 years ago

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/

3 years ago

Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-3-gets-seven-years-of-updates-besting-every-other-android-oem/

3 years ago

Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682746

3 years ago

Svelte is a language

https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0f910048478c2a6505d1c32185b61934

3 years ago

Memos: A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub

https://github.com/usememos/memos

3 years ago

AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-11-07-dislightenment.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

https://github.com/clickvote/clickvote

3 years ago

Storing Data in Control Flow

https://research.swtch.com/pcdata

3 years ago

Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot

https://g-w1.github.io/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourself-in-the-foot.html

3 years ago

Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc23-huye.pdf

3 years ago

Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/do-painters-subconsciously-paint

3 years ago

Elo for VC – Founder's Choice

https://www.founderschoicevc.com/

3 years ago

Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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

3 years ago

ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets

https://www.scylladb.com/2023/07/10/why-scylladb-is-moving-to-a-new-replication-algorithm-tablets/

3 years ago

HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?

https://neon.tech/blog/http-vs-websockets-for-postgres-queries-at-the-edge

3 years ago

Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor iOS Users

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/04/facebook-nso-group

3 years ago

Intel is quitting on NUC computers

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23790956/intel-nuc-compact-pc-discontinued

3 years ago

Cancer’s origin story features predictable plot line, researchers find

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/07/pre-cancer-evolution.html

3 years ago

Bubblewrap – Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

3 years ago

Vice Ran Out of Money (For Everyone Except Its Executives)

https://hellgatenyc.com/vice-bankruptcy-executive-salary

3 years ago

How much information is too much information? (2022)

https://sourcery.ai/blog/measuring_working_memory/

3 years ago

Tell HN: OneDrive sends your photos over unencrypted email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687266

3 years ago

Mailgun: Public Security Disclosure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678348

3 years ago

Roots of trust are difficult

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66907.html

3 years ago

Solar energy solves global warming

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/solar-energy-solves-global-warming

3 years ago

Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author

3 years ago

Bacon's Cipher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher

3 years ago

Google’s head of AR software quits, citing “unstable commitment and vision”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-head-of-ar-software-quits-citing-unstable-commitment-and-vision/

3 years ago

Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps

https://evolutionary.arweave.dev/

3 years ago

Teenager ‘taken to security room and interrogated’ for throwaway ticketing

https://viewfromthewing.com/teenager-taken-to-security-room-and-interrogated-by-american-airlines-for-throwaway-ticketing/

3 years ago

Grave of a man who never was (2015)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-the-man-who-never-was

3 years ago

Threads and the social/communications map

https://stratechery.com/2023/threads-and-the-social-communications-map/

3 years ago

Is it me, or do most software jobs cause burnout?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687859

3 years ago

SpaceX is stretching the lifetime of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/spacex-launches-its-fleet-leading-rocket-booster-for-record-16th-time/

3 years ago