top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-06

Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

3 years ago

Water

https://oimo.io/works/water/

3 years ago

Postgres Language Server

https://github.com/supabase/postgres_lsp

3 years ago

I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)

https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/

3 years ago

The Sad Bastard Cookbook

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

3 years ago

Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)

https://blog.everydayscientist.com/replace-peer-review-with-peer-replication/

3 years ago

We are all animals at night

https://hazlitt.net/feature/we-are-all-animals-night

3 years ago

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2000)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

3 years ago

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/08/06/baldurs-gate-3-prepared-for-100000-concurrent-players-theyve-gotten-700000/

3 years ago

Meta blocking news links in Canada

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/metablockslinks/

3 years ago

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

3 years ago

The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of

3 years ago

In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black

https://www.businessinsider.com/in-every-reported-false-arrests-based-on-facial-recognition-that-person-has-been-black-2023-8

3 years ago

Barco: Linux Containers from Scratch in C

https://github.com/lucavallin/barco

3 years ago

Jupyter AI

https://jupyter-ai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

3 years ago

Cloth Simulation

https://oimo.io/works/cloth/

3 years ago

This code smells of desperation

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/this-code-smells-of-desperation/

3 years ago

Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64

https://dottedmag.net/blog/libvirt-14-pcie-devices/

3 years ago

Sync for Lemmy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=io.syncapps.lemmy_sync

3 years ago

Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed (2020)

https://filiph.net/text/memex-is-already-here,-it%27s-just-not-evenly-distributed.html

3 years ago

Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/zoom-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-for-work/

3 years ago

People who've received a black bar on Hacker News

https://bear.willmeyers.net/whos-received-a-black-bar/

3 years ago

The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent

https://www.businessinsider.com/employees-work-from-home-benefits-as-good-as-raise-2023-8

3 years ago

Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates

https://www.fastcompany.com/90933648/venture-backed-startups-are-failing-at-record-rates

3 years ago

What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally

https://agi-sphere.com/llama-2/

3 years ago

An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airtag-lost-luggage-flight/index.html

3 years ago

Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano

https://whipsaw.com/2023/06/05/unveiling-ravenchord-a-radical-piano-redesign-from-dan-harden/

3 years ago

Compiler Development: Rust or OCaml?

https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/compiler-development-rust-or-ocaml.html

3 years ago

Types of Garden Hoe

https://www.easydigging.com/garden-hoes/articles/types-of-hoes.html

3 years ago

Error Handling in Zig

https://www.aolium.com/karlseguin/4013ac14-2457-479b-e59b-e603c04673c8

3 years ago

China's Zombie Economy

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/zombie-economy

3 years ago

Lisp in Space

https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/

3 years ago

We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C

https://github.com/TodePond/C

3 years ago

Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol

https://gizmodo.com/cult-of-the-dead-cow-launches-veilid-encryption-project-1850699803

3 years ago

George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells

https://elifesciences.org/articles/83291

3 years ago

Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/08/building-alex-taradovs-open-source-usb-sniffer/

3 years ago

Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built Them All on This River

https://www.boredpanda.com/euro-notes-real-bridges-comparison-robin-stam/

3 years ago

Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/01/massachusetts-car-economy-costs-64-billion-study-finds/

3 years ago

The way out of burnout (2016)

https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/07/28/the-way-out-of-burnout

3 years ago

Eight months pregnant and arrested after false facial recognition match

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code

https://www.archsense.dev

3 years ago

Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)

https://timonoko.github.io/

3 years ago

How to enjoy SF

http://zhayitong.com/2023/06/17/sf1.html

3 years ago

Write Elixir NIFs in Rust

https://docs.rs/crate/rustler/latest

3 years ago

Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/1/23815450/us-offshore-wind-potential-berkley-report

3 years ago

New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online

https://blog.google/products/search/new-privacy-tools/

3 years ago

Critique of Lazy Sequences in Clojure

https://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-deadly-sin/

3 years ago

ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016)

http://altexxanet.org/

3 years ago

An unconventional LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case

https://dotat.at/@/2023-08-06-ltbs.html

3 years ago

Nvidia Launches a 100kb text-to-image model called Perfusion

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/par/Perfusion/

3 years ago

RISC-V Origins and Architecture, Part 1

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/risc-v-part-1-origins-and-architecture

3 years ago

Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-rolled-out-yubikeys-for-all-employees

3 years ago

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html

3 years ago