top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-26

Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd

3 years ago

Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news

3 years ago

Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

3 years ago

Sinead O’Connor has died

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/

3 years ago

Google vs. the Open Web

https://interpeer.io/blog/2023/07/google-vs-the-open-web/

3 years ago

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

https://stackdiary.com/web-environment-integrity/

3 years ago

Mold 2.0

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.0.0

3 years ago

Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset

https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-first-world-wide-open-map-dataset/

3 years ago

People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-recycling-backfired

3 years ago

Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/stability-ai-releases-its-latest-image-generating-model-stable-diffusion-xl-1-0/

3 years ago

Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

3 years ago

Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

https://github.com/continuedev/continue

3 years ago

Rethinking Window Management

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

3 years ago

Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/boeing-has-now-lost-1-1-billion-on-starliner-with-no-crew-flight-in-sight/

3 years ago

A world where people pay for software

https://1sub.dev/

3 years ago

Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)

https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-app-store-wechat-china

3 years ago

Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/home-taping-is-killing-music-when-the-music-industry-waged-war-on-the-cassette-tape.html

3 years ago

Data brokers selling license plate location and analytics data

https://www.tlo.com/vehicle-sightings

3 years ago

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas

3 years ago

Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web

https://github.com/expo/expo

3 years ago

Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/put-learners-first-unesco-calls-for-global-ban-on-smartphones-in-schools

3 years ago

Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning

https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

3 years ago

Jupyter Notebook 7

https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-jupyter-notebook-7-8d6d66126dcf?gi=91803318295b

3 years ago

“It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (2019)

https://dwdraju.medium.com/how-it-works-in-my-machine-turns-it-works-in-my-container-1b9a340ca43d

3 years ago

Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/25/google-abandons-assistant-speakers-fuchsia/

3 years ago

Florida ocean temps surge to 100F; mass coral bleaching event is found in reefs

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/us/florida-ocean-heat-coral-bleaching-climate/index.html

3 years ago

Study shows glyphosate impairs learning in bumblebees

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-glyphosate-impairs-bumblebees.html

3 years ago

Plants that are signs of former human settlements

https://worldsensorium.com/your-legacy-on-earth-may-be-a-plant/

3 years ago

TeamTopologies

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TeamTopologies.html

3 years ago

UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process

https://easydns.com/blog/2023/07/26/uk-version-of-online-harms-bill-wants-to-prefilter-content-without-due-process/

3 years ago

Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity

https://ericswpark.com/blog/2023/2023-07-26-exway-doesnt-care-about-usb-c-conformity/

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a multiplayer Gameboy

https://github.com/tjholm/multiboy

3 years ago

Mexico's heirloom corn strains are resurging amid more demand

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/heirloom-corn-organic-mexico-resurging-industrial-white-corn-rcna96412

3 years ago

How MOS 6502 illegal opcodes work

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=39

3 years ago

My Netlify account has been suspended, I don’t know why?

https://answers.netlify.com/t/my-netlify-account-ha-been-suspended-i-dont-know-why/97537

3 years ago

A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus

3 years ago

An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby

https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/07/26/an-introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-ruby.html

3 years ago

Quad9 blocks pirate site globally after Sony demanded €10k fine

https://torrentfreak.com/quad9-blocks-pirate-site-globally-after-sony-demanded-e10000-fine-230725/

3 years ago

Memory Copy Hunting

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-26-copy-hunting/

3 years ago

WordPress Core to start using SQLite

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/19/status-update-on-the-sqlite-project/

3 years ago

Visualizing every job in the world

https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/every-job-world

3 years ago

Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

https://lobste.rs/s/ih3cwj/where_do_you_discuss_computer_related

3 years ago

JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default

https://openjdk.org/jeps/400

3 years ago

US conducted ‘multi-decade’ secret UFO program, ex-intelligence official says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/26/ufo-hearing-congress-evidence-david-grusch

3 years ago

Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/15a086f/community_note_correcting_musks_antivax_tweet/

3 years ago

TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids

https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/

3 years ago

How to build toxic software teams

https://badsoftwareadvice.substack.com/p/how-to-build-toxic-software-teams

3 years ago

Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-66307705

3 years ago

Smart Contract Security Field Guide

https://scsfg.io/

3 years ago

Mind Grenade (2019)

https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/MindGrenade/

3 years ago

FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/ftc-lawsuit-break-up-amazon-00108130

3 years ago

Mathematics in Movies

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/

3 years ago

Tuning and Testing Llama 2, Flan-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio

https://www.sematic.dev/blog/tuning-and-testing-llama-2-flan-t5-and-gpt-j-with-lora-sematic-and-gradio

3 years ago

How to Be Blind

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-to-be-blind

3 years ago

‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for controversial physicist

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02401-2

3 years ago

Rewind.ai now available for iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rewind-truly-personalized-ai/id6449795815

3 years ago

Making 'The Blue Flash': How I reconstructed a fatal atomic accident

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230725-making-the-blue-flash-how-i-reconstructed-a-fatal-atomic-accident

3 years ago

Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/02/bjsports-2022-106503

3 years ago

A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic

https://thewalrus.ca/the-greatest-scam-ever-written/

3 years ago

Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light

https://jalopnik.com/fired-tesla-employee-posts-video-fsd-running-red-light-1850678098

3 years ago

Caffeine Half-Life Calculator

https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/caffeine-halflife/

3 years ago

As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900k AI Job

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/25/strike-hollywood-ai-disney-netflix/

3 years ago

House UFO hearing livestream [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkEnx2REz7U

3 years ago

Norwegian shipping company bans electric cars on board classic ferry route

https://ctif.org/news/norwegian-shipping-company-bans-electric-cars-board-classic-ferry-route

3 years ago

Xerox PARC Special

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/chip-letter-links-no-21-xerox-parc

3 years ago

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/

3 years ago

EXGBoost: Gradient Boosting in Elixir

https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/07/18/introducing-exgboost-gradient-boosting-in-elixir

3 years ago

NASA funds 11 moon projects to help mission to 'live off the land

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/nasa-moon-artemis/

3 years ago