top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-14

Internet Archive expands Flash support

https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/110697893762381822

3 years ago

WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser

https://developer.wordpress.org/playground/

3 years ago

S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/driverless-taxi-cruise-waymo-18157172.php

3 years ago

Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash

https://verticalmag.com/news/dropped-ipad-implicated-in-fatal-chinook-helicopter-crash/

3 years ago

On Becoming a VP of Engineering

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/becoming-vp-of-engineering-pt1

3 years ago

Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/14/how-food-companies-sweetened-the-world-and-increased-the-risk-of-disease-acc

3 years ago

The Problem with LangChain

https://minimaxir.com/2023/07/langchain-problem/

3 years ago

India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2382565-indias-chandrayaan-3-launches-to-explore-moons-water-rich-south-pole/

3 years ago

Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A

3 years ago

Sniffnet – Comfortably monitor your internet traffic (like Wireshark)

https://www.sniffnet.net/

3 years ago

Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230714121907

3 years ago

COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-skies-of-a-colorado-july-2023/

3 years ago

Binance lays off over 1k Employees

https://www.wsj.com/articles/binance-lays-off-over-1-000-employees-d59ff6ad

3 years ago

Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305762120

3 years ago

Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG

https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/avast-scandal-why-we-stopped-recommending-avast-avg/

3 years ago

Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9

3 years ago

VanMoof encryption key exporter

https://github.com/grossartig/vanmoof-encryption-key-exporter

3 years ago

★ 393 TypeScript GPL-3.0

There is no data engineering roadmap

https://www.alasdairb.com/posts/there-is-no-data-engineering-roadmap/

3 years ago

Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d

3 years ago

Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support

https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.2

3 years ago

Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/#bridge-CssSelectorBridge

3 years ago

Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (2021)

https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests

3 years ago

Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)

https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html

3 years ago

Intuitionism

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

3 years ago

Meta to release open-source commercial AI model

https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-to-release-open-source-commercial-ai-model-to-compete-with-openai-and-google/

3 years ago

Could an industrial civilization have predated humans on Earth?

https://nautil.us/could-an-industrial-civilization-have-predated-humans-on-earth-352964/

3 years ago

Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding

https://blog.polar.sh/polar-v1-0-lets-fix-open-source-funding/

3 years ago

On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/becoming-vp-of-engineering-pt2

3 years ago

OpenBSD Innovations

https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

3 years ago

Personal relations as a manager

https://fev.al/posts/personal-relations/

3 years ago

OpenSSH has some peculiar handling around command line arguments

https://blog.devops.dev/ssh-might-surprise-you-in-all-the-wrong-ways-a5926d11ff11?gi=0437cfc73438

3 years ago

Gallery of Processor Cache Effects

http://igoro.com/archive/gallery-of-processor-cache-effects/

3 years ago

The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)

https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/

3 years ago

Eddiots

https://eddiots.com/1

3 years ago

2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server

http://brutmanlabs.org

3 years ago

A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning (2016)

https://meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning/

3 years ago

Polyhedral Splines

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/issues/91180

3 years ago

Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/bank-transfers-as-a-payment-method/

3 years ago

Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusiast programmers is ending

https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-07-12-the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer/

3 years ago

Alto Trek

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

3 years ago

Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxkgx/voice-actor-turns-instagrams-terms-of-service-into-51-minute-sleep-aid

3 years ago

Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

3 years ago

The deindustrialization of Germany

https://www.politico.eu/article/rust-belt-on-the-rhine-the-deindustrialization-of-germany/

3 years ago

Game design wiki

https://rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-wiki-6902c5dc9d1242c9a70822f13e6c76b3

3 years ago

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/10/lewis-carroll-determinants/

3 years ago

Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year

https://pb.co.za/keyboards-and-web-apps-my-post-slash-rant-for-the-year

3 years ago

Building a safer FIDO2 key with privilege separation and WebAssembly

https://benkettle.xyz/posts/plat/

3 years ago

Darmok and Jalad on the Internet-The Importance of Metaphors in Natural Language

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357662253_Darmok_and_Jalad_on_the_Internet_the_importance_of_metaphors_in_natural_languages_and_natural_language_processing

3 years ago

Life After Coding: Becoming a Mentor

https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/good-mentor/

3 years ago

Ever Given report highlights Suez Canal pilots’ role in grounding

https://gcaptain.com/ever-given-report-highlights-suez-canal-pilots-role-in-grounding/

3 years ago

Why they're smearing Lina Khan

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/

3 years ago

Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023 (Parody) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfQu0bQTKc

3 years ago

Why was the F-117 retired so quickly?

https://www.technology.org/how-and-why/why-was-the-f-117-retired-so-quickly-top-facts/

3 years ago

Libxo: Easy way to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML

https://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html

3 years ago

Claude 2 Internal API Client and CLI

https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/claude-unofficial-api

3 years ago

★ 743 JavaScript Unlicense

Fudge: Reverse Tetris

https://vividfax.itch.io/fudge

3 years ago

Iranians sell kidneys on Instagram to survive economic hardship

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/07/14/iranians-sell-kidneys-on-instagram-to-survive-economic-hardship/

3 years ago

Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue syndrome?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/09/microbiome-chronic-fatigue-me-long-covid-research

3 years ago

Large-scale analysis of code re-use in Atari 2600 games (2022)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3555858.3555948

3 years ago

Striking SAG actors in disbelief over studios’ dystopian AI proposal

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/actors-strike-sag-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-studios-background-1234788191/

3 years ago

Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt (2021)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56067717

3 years ago

US inflation cooled in June for the 12th straight month

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/economy/cpi-inflation-june/index.html

3 years ago

FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/fda-says-aspartame-is-safe-disagrees-with-who-on-possible-cancer-link.html

3 years ago

Neural stimulation as a treatment for addiction

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tms-for-addiction

3 years ago

Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon

https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/

3 years ago

Astronomers witness energetic switch on of black hole

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-astronomers-witness-energetic-black-hole.html

3 years ago

Documents show scientist calling lab leak likely after paper claiming opposite

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/

3 years ago

Aya: An open science project to build open multilingual models and datasets

https://txt.cohere.com/aya-multilingual/

3 years ago

Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/14/meta-is-blocking-eu-based-users-from-accessing-threads-via-vpn/

3 years ago

Htmx 1.9.3 Released

https://htmx.org/posts/2023-07-14-htmx-1-9-3-is-released/

3 years ago

Scaling to around 15K requests per second with Java

https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/journey-to-handling-15k-requests-per-second-with-java-part-1-fc405319c726

3 years ago

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/14/the_right_to_sex.html

3 years ago

Japan’s love affair with the fax machine (2021)

https://theconversation.com/japans-love-affair-with-the-fax-machine-a-strange-relic-of-technological-fantasies-168674

3 years ago

Enigmatic Ancient ‘Unknown Kushan Script’ 60% Deciphered by Scientists

https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/07/13/unknown-kushan-script-deciphered/

3 years ago

SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers

https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-conjunction-increase-threatens-space-sustainability

3 years ago

Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language

https://languageworldmap.com

3 years ago

“The days of using untyped languages on non-trivial projects are over.”

https://github.com/readme/featured/typescript-gradual-types

3 years ago

People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours, cry

https://restofworld.org/2023/indonesia-government-ban-tiktok-mud-bath/

3 years ago

An Indiana police department has been using Clearview AI for a year

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/13/an-indiana-police-department-has-been-using-clearview-ai-for-a-year-much-to-the-surprise-of-its-oversight/

3 years ago