top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-10

Vim Boss

https://neovim.io/news/2023/08

3 years ago

The Future of the Vim Project

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/dq9Wu5jqVTw

3 years ago

Speed Test

https://speed.cloudflare.com/

3 years ago

HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

3 years ago

My Overkill Home Network

https://blog.networkprofile.org/my-home-network-complete-details-2023/

3 years ago

Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll

3 years ago

Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser

https://ofrak.com/tetris/

3 years ago

Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/grokking/

3 years ago

eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/esignature-google-docs-google-drive.html

3 years ago

MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

3 years ago

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

3 years ago

Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'

https://kuow.org/stories/seattle-becomes-first-in-u-s-to-protect-gig-workers-from-sudden-deactivation

3 years ago

GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

https://gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk/

3 years ago

Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI

https://aerolite.dev/applite/index.html

3 years ago

Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-students-shoot-down-a-widely-believed-math-conjecture-20230810/

3 years ago

A Modern C Development Environment

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/a-modern-c-dev-env

3 years ago

Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists

https://dynomight.net/harvard/

3 years ago

Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years

https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years

3 years ago

MIT Pirate Certificate

https://physicaleducationandwellness.mit.edu/about/pirate-certificate/

3 years ago

Rewriting wipEout

https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout

3 years ago

The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data

https://www.confiant.com/news/the-yandex-leak-how-a-russian-search-giant-uses-consumer-data

3 years ago

SQLite Functions for Working with JSON

https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

3 years ago

Llama 2 on ONNX runs locally

https://github.com/microsoft/Llama-2-Onnx

3 years ago

Was Y Combinator worth it?

https://tableflow.com/blog/was-y-combinator-worth-it

3 years ago

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source

https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

3 years ago

Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/paul-graham/

3 years ago

Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols

https://vpncentral.com/russia-starts-blocking-vpn-protocols/

3 years ago

Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (2020)

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

3 years ago

CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association

https://www.suse.com/news/OpenELA-for-a-Collaborative-and-Open-Future/

3 years ago

Has Google Translate been fixed yet?

https://isgooglefixed.tw/

3 years ago

Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (2015)

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac/

3 years ago

'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3jwb/unbelievable-astronomer-claims-direct-evidence-of-gravity-breaking-down

3 years ago

Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/workplace_monitoring_select_committee/

3 years ago

MetaGPT: Meta Programming for Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00352

3 years ago

Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/

3 years ago

Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost

https://graphite.dev/blog/how-an-aws-aurora-feature-cut-db-costs

3 years ago

What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)

https://daily.jstor.org/whats-causing-the-rise-of-hoarding-disorder/

3 years ago

Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/10/vigin-galactic-space-flight-vss-unity-landing

3 years ago

Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels

https://evergreenoffgrid.com/water-cooled-rooftop-solar-panels/

3 years ago

Doctors on TikTok

https://thewalrus.ca/medical-tiktok/

3 years ago

A Grumman F11 Tiger Shot Itself Down (2021)

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/pilot-talk/grumman-f11-tiger-shoot-itself-down/

3 years ago

Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark

https://wiki.makerdiary.com/nrf52840-mdk-usb-dongle/guides/ble-sniffer/

3 years ago

What Is Happening with ChatGPT?

https://chat.openai.com/share/ca5e0c33-7a19-41a1-8f8a-b146b68e2d1a

3 years ago

Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-cuts-dozens-of-house-brands-as-it-battles-costs-regulators-3f6ad56d

3 years ago

Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076693

3 years ago

US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-set-unveil-long-awaited-crackdown-real-estate-money-laundering-2023-08-10/

3 years ago

Lichess will no longer cooperate with the USCF and the Saint Louis Chess Club

https://lichess.org/blog/ZNTniBEAACEAJZTn/breaking-the-silence

3 years ago

UChicago scientists see first evidence of 'quantum superchemistry' in the lab

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-scientists-observe-first-evidence-quantum-superchemistry-laboratory

3 years ago

Autogenerating Rust-JS Bindings with UniFFI

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/08/autogenerating-rust-js-bindings-with-uniffi/

3 years ago

Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/

3 years ago

Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory

https://news.fnal.gov/2023/08/muon-g-2-doubles-down-with-latest-measurement/

3 years ago

Show HN: Retake – Open-Source Hybrid Search for Postgres

https://github.com/getretake/retake

3 years ago

Median Center of Population for the United States: 1880 to 2020 (2021)

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/geo/center-of-population-1880-2020.html

3 years ago

UK defends plan to demand access to encrypted messages to protect children

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-defends-plan-demand-access-encrypted-messages-protect-children-2023-08-10/

3 years ago

Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution

https://rhinolinux.org/

3 years ago

I reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives

https://konfigthis.com/blog/graphql-vs-rest

3 years ago

Publish Everything (Pretty Much)

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/publish-everything-pretty-much

3 years ago

Show HN: Bubblic – end loneliness together using the power of your voice

https://bubblic.co/

3 years ago

HashiCorp Switches to BSL License

https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#What-did-HashiCorp-announce-today-(Aug-10)

3 years ago