top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-08-07

I would rather see my books get pirated than this

https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/

3 years ago

Google Maps has become an eyesore

https://www.fastcompany.com/90930810/google-maps-eyesore-5-examples-apple-maps

3 years ago

Some tactics for writing in public

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/

3 years ago

PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

https://www.techpowerup.com/312122/psa-intel-graphics-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-by-default

3 years ago

Raku: A language for gremlins

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/raku-a-language-for-gremlins/

3 years ago

Kafka is dead, long live Kafka

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/kafka-is-dead-long-live-kafka

3 years ago

Overworked and underpaid, VFX workers vote to unionize at Marvel

https://www.vulture.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-vote-to-unionize-at-marvel-for-the-first-time.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033652

3 years ago

Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi

https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2023/08/police-raid-worldcoin-cryptocurrency-warehouse-in-nairobi/

3 years ago

GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

3 years ago

How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features

https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/

3 years ago

Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-13

3 years ago

The Alexander Piano

https://www.alexanderpiano.nz/page/the-alexander-piano

3 years ago

Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1451807

3 years ago

The $1M shot that changed sports contests

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36146138/million-dollar-shot-michael-jordan-chicago-bulls-1993

3 years ago

Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”

https://kottke.org/23/08/car-bloat-huge-cars-are-terrible-for-society

3 years ago

My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

https://getwaitlist.com/blog/solo-dev-startup-stack

3 years ago

Not Using Zoom

https://the.webm.ink/not-using-zoom

3 years ago

Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/

3 years ago

Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

https://mhatta.medium.com/gnu-hurd-strikes-back-4021433d506d

3 years ago