top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-12

Chiptune.app

https://chiptune.app/

3 years ago

Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL

https://xata.io/blog/postgres-full-text-search-engine

3 years ago

I Am Leaving

https://briefs.video/videos/i-am-leaving/

3 years ago

Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

https://verdagon.dev/blog/first-regions-prototype

3 years ago

Telling the Bees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees

3 years ago

Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government

https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685

3 years ago

“Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1679135426806784004

3 years ago

RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator

https://rpcs3.net/

3 years ago

Milan Kundera has died

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/milan-kundera-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-dies-dead-1235667595/

3 years ago

Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23791496/meta-google-tax-filing-warren-sanders-pixel

3 years ago

Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor

https://manifund.org/projects/recreate-the-cavity-preventing-gmo-bacteria-bcs3-l1-from-precursor-

3 years ago

Ask HN: Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36695633

3 years ago

Pines – Alpine and Tailwind UI Library

https://devdojo.com/pines

3 years ago

Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/

3 years ago

NotebookLM: An AI Notebook

https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-google-ai/

3 years ago

Figma Is a File Editor

https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-figma-is-a-file-editor/

3 years ago

Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

https://makerfaire.com/bay-area/call-for-makers/

3 years ago

Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student

https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/

3 years ago

SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

https://abc7news.com/anchor-brewing-company-san-francisco-brewery-closing-business/13493162/

3 years ago

Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

https://commitmono.com/

3 years ago

Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-66122775

3 years ago

Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings

https://creatoreconomy.so/p/kaz-coo-shopify-craft-and-no-meetings

3 years ago

PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator

https://pcsx2.net/

3 years ago

Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins

https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/media/press-releases/rebellious-birds-make-nests-out-of-anti-bird-pins

3 years ago

BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board

https://beagleboard.org/beaglev-ahead

3 years ago

The English Programming Language

https://github.com/theletterf/english-lang

3 years ago

Gene linked to long Covid found in analysis of thousands of patients

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02269-2

3 years ago

Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage

https://github.com/cncf/toc/commit/25b2ead46d56e3c39d48a6a87e3c558c2120d179

3 years ago

Tokenized Tokens

https://fly.io/blog/tokenized-tokens/

3 years ago

Mastodon has hit 2M active users today

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/110700438240156452

3 years ago

Solve your big problems by solving your real problem

https://jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-solve-big-problems

3 years ago

Windows: A software engineering odyssey (2000)

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/

3 years ago

MuseScore 4.1 is now available

https://musescore.org/en/4.1

3 years ago

xAI

https://x.ai/

3 years ago

Istanbul's blue tile paradise

https://onthearts.com/p/istanbuls-blue-tile-paradise

3 years ago

How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective (2020)

https://disneycicerone.com/how-the-design-of-disney-parks-affects-our-perspective/

3 years ago

TimeMaps (2017)

https://vincentmeertens.com/project/timemaps/

3 years ago

Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API

https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app

3 years ago

Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02666

3 years ago

June Inflation Drops to 3%

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/12/business/cpi-inflation-fed

3 years ago

Can Chess, with Hexagons? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgR3yESAEVE

3 years ago

Uber Eats Canada Ran Production in a MacBook Air

https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1679235946334781440

3 years ago

Europe’s agenda for undersea internet cables

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/behind-europes-agenda-for-undersea-internet-cables/

3 years ago

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/science/sea-otter-surfboard.html

3 years ago

Xenia: Xbox 360 Emulator (2022)

https://xenia.jp/

3 years ago

Minotaur: A SIMD-oriented synthesizing superoptimizer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00229

3 years ago

The Webb telescope just offered a revelatory view of humanity’s distant past

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/the-webb-telescope-just-offered-a-revelatory-view-of-humanitys-distant-past/

3 years ago

Bcachefs File-System Plans to Try Again to Land in Linux 6.6

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Plans-For-Linux-6.6

3 years ago

Show HN: AI companions stack – create and host your own AI companions

https://github.com/a16z-infra/companion-app

3 years ago

A chimpanzee brought Xerox to the masses

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/how-a-chimpanzee-brought-xerox-to-the-masses-1.6756916

3 years ago

Show HN: Inri – Digital KYC, Investing and Tax for Indian Expats (YC W23)

https://www.goinri.com/

3 years ago

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 brings a bit of Rust in the kernel

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/07/12/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-25905/

3 years ago

20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding

https://neon.tech/blog/pg-embedding-extension-for-vector-search

3 years ago

Ask HN: I am interested in reading about techniques HFT firms use

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36697191

3 years ago

Simone Weil’s Great Awakening

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/07/simone-weil-great-awakening-wolfram-eilenberger

3 years ago

Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’

https://www.dewanahmed.com/do-you-know-of-any-open-positions/

3 years ago

1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year

https://1password.community/discussion/131071/incorrect-date-format

3 years ago

The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-barbie-oppenheimer-double-feature-is-really-happening-data-shows-1.1944290

3 years ago

Serverless Semantic Search, Free tier only

https://qdrant.tech/articles/serverless/

3 years ago

Hardening Emulated Devices in OpenBSD's Vmd(8) Hypervisor [pdf]

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2023-hardening_vmd_devices.pdf

3 years ago

Computers and Automata (1953)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/computers-and-automata

3 years ago

Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach

https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/instagram-threads-the-problem-with

3 years ago

Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf

3 years ago

Google now requires and lists phone number in Play Store listings

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/boosting-trust-and-transparency-in-google-play.html

3 years ago

System Shock remake

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-the-system-shock-remake-is-excellent-and-nightdives-most-ambitious-work-yet

3 years ago

Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Plan: Let Writers Go Broke, “Lose Apartments”

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

3 years ago

Bank of Canada raises its interest rate to 5%

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-july-meeting-1.6904330

3 years ago

Teenager detained at airport after trying to use “skiplagging” trick

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12289667/Teenager-DETAINED-airport-trying-use-skip-lagging-trick.html

3 years ago

How to generate SQL statements with ChatGPT

https://forta.com/2023/07/10/how-to-generate-sql-statements-with-chatgpt/

3 years ago

Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36698482

3 years ago

How will ATSC 3.0 transform TV advertising?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-will-atsc-30-transform-tv-advertising/ar-AA1dGfvZ

3 years ago

AGI Simulator

https://agi.aitida.com/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why can't my old laptop be an AWS replacement?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36689659

3 years ago

Show HN: Floneum, a graph editor for local AI workflows

https://floneum.com/blog/anouncing_floneum/

3 years ago

ChatGPT visits the Emacs doctor

https://xenodium.com/chatgpt-visits-the-emacs-doctor/

3 years ago

Advice for finding a technical co-founder (2021)

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3445

3 years ago