top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-20

Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/

3 years ago

FedNow Is Live

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20230720a.htm

3 years ago

No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets

3 years ago

Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2T9NpG8thZgJ:https://community.fly.io/t/service-interruption-cant-destroy-machine-deploy-or-restart/14227&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

3 years ago

Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative

https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal

3 years ago

TypeChat

https://microsoft.github.io/TypeChat/blog/introducing-typechat/

3 years ago

A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

https://www.linyangchen.com/Typography-Fell-Types-font

3 years ago

The past is not true

https://sive.rs/pnt

3 years ago

IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/irs-moves-forward-with-a-new-free-file-tax-return-system-that-has-both-supporters-and-critics-mobilizing

3 years ago

Accidentally Load Bearing

https://www.jefftk.com/p/accidentally-load-bearing

3 years ago

Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative

https://anytype.io/?hn

3 years ago

JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going

https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-how-it-started-how-its-going

3 years ago

Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it

https://addyosmani.com/blog/good-code/

3 years ago

Cool Retro Terminal

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

3 years ago

Oxide Computer: Docs

https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/introduction

3 years ago

Python Cheatsheet

https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/

3 years ago

Running Stable Diffusion in 260MB of RAM

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream

3 years ago

Become Ungoogleable

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/become_ungoogleable/

3 years ago

Custom instructions for ChatGPT

https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt

3 years ago

Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac

https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

3 years ago

What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/

3 years ago

MDN Playground

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/play

3 years ago

Lit: Simple, fast web components

https://lit.dev/

3 years ago

An invitation to a secret society

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-society

3 years ago

In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-moon-landing-was-opposed-by-majority

3 years ago

New laws trying to criminalize filming cops

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/jarrell-garris-bodycam-footage-filming-cops-law-indiana-florida.html

3 years ago

Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/uncensored-library-virtual-minecraft-architecture-houses-banned-journalism/

3 years ago

Project Aria 'Digital Twin' Dataset by Meta

https://www.projectaria.com/datasets/adt/

3 years ago

Sidebery – A Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar

https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

3 years ago

Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?

https://www.science.org/content/article/movie-adds-oppenheimer-s-celebrity-just-how-good-physicist-was-he

3 years ago

MSX-DOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-DOS

3 years ago

Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/new-slow-repeating-radio-source-we-have-no-idea-what-it-is/

3 years ago

Richard Rhodes wrote a classic book about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/richard-rhodes-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-ai/674777/

3 years ago

Google tries internet air-gap for some staff PCs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/19/google_cuts_internet/

3 years ago

My Beautiful Friend

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/my-beautiful-friend/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802579

3 years ago

In Memoriam: Hans Petter William Sirevåg Selasky

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-July/000076.html

3 years ago

TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-delays-U.S.-chip-plant-start-to-2025-due-to-labor-shortages

3 years ago

Images in the mind’s eye are quick sketches that lack simple, real-world details

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/images-in-the-minds-eye-are-quick-sketches-that-lack-simple-real-world-details1/

3 years ago

Unshackle: A tool to bypass Windows and Linux password logins

https://github.com/Fadi002/unshackle

3 years ago

Minigpt4 Inference on CPU

https://github.com/Maknee/minigpt4.cpp

3 years ago

Vacuum airship

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

3 years ago

Flame retardant found in US breast milk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/toxic-flame-retardants-human-breast-milk

3 years ago

Shelter Protocol: End-to-end encrypted, federated, user-friendly web apps

https://shelterprotocol.net

3 years ago

Hearing aids may cut risk of cognitive decline by nearly half

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/07/19/hearing-loss-hearing-aids-dementia-study/

3 years ago

Spoil your secret sauce

https://taylor.town/secret-sauce

3 years ago

Google tests A.I. tool that is able to write news articles

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/google-artificial-intelligence-news-articles.html

3 years ago

AI That Teaches Other AI

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2023/07/teaching-robots-to-teach-other-robots/

3 years ago

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9EKCyI1xU

3 years ago

Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/03/anton-corbijn-hipgnosis-film-pink-floyd-led-zeppelin

3 years ago

Fed opens service that dramatically speeds up U.S. payments

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/07/20/us-federal-reserve-kickstarts-fednow-instant-payments/

3 years ago

It Takes Long to Become Gaussian

https://two-wrongs.com/it-takes-long-to-become-gaussian

3 years ago

Why project-based learning fails (2018)

https://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/02/the-practice-is-not-performance-why.html

3 years ago

Show HN: RAGstack – private ChatGPT for enterprise VPCs, built with Llama 2

https://github.com/psychic-api/rag-stack

3 years ago

How We Made MuseScore 4 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qct6LKbneKQ

3 years ago

Leaving the Web3 cult

https://dope.bearblog.dev/leaving-the-web3-cult/

3 years ago

Azorius 0.1

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/azorius-01

3 years ago

Spy Kids

https://www.cia.gov/spy-kids/games/index.html

3 years ago

Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find

https://theconversation.com/blame-capitalism-why-hundreds-of-decades-old-yet-vital-drugs-are-nearly-impossible-to-find-206848

3 years ago

ChromiumOS Developer Guide, Programming languages and style

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/development_basics.md#programming-languages-and-style

3 years ago

Wall Street shrinks headcount as dealmaking and trading slump

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/wall-street-shrinks-ranks-by-21-000-amid-deals-trading-slump

3 years ago