top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-13

Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

3 years ago

Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

https://mastodon.social/@HalvarFlake/110883667162838296

3 years ago

A video game where you are an operating system

https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-created-the-nerdierst-game-ever-en/

3 years ago

PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

https://www.pdftool.org

3 years ago

Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/59045-mi-kama-sona-e-toki

3 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python

https://github.com/spandanb/learndb-py

3 years ago

Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/judge_denies_hps_request_to/

3 years ago

‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

3 years ago

The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity

https://www.okdoomer.io/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad/

3 years ago

Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use

https://korban.net/posts/2023-08-11-thoughts-on-elixir-phoenix-liveview/

3 years ago

Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?

https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/15pd5si/today_i_realized_i_now_trust_microsoft_more_than/

3 years ago

Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand

https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/708342/tech-salaries-largely-unchanged-as-skills-shortages-continue/

3 years ago

VirGL – A virtual 3D GPU for use inside QEMU virtual machines

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/virgl

3 years ago

NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37111256

3 years ago

Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-vp-claims-salesforce-lied-customer-data-platform-software-capabilities-2023-8

3 years ago

Thermodynamic Linear Algebra

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05660

3 years ago

Cargo Cult Science (1974) [pdf]

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf

3 years ago

Popcount CPU instruction (2019)

https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/

3 years ago

Render nuked my entire account with no notice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37107298

3 years ago

Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia

https://www.pcgamer.com/metro-2033-author-dmitry-glukhovsky-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-for-criticizing-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/

3 years ago

Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner

http://marionrecord.com/

3 years ago

Ode to the M1

https://fabiensanglard.net/m1/index.html

3 years ago

Symmetry in Chaos

http://paulbourke.net/fractals/symmetryinchaos/

3 years ago

Nobody ever paid me for code

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/nobody-ever-paid-me-for-code

3 years ago

I’ll never be an astronaut

https://shaunoconnell.com/2023/08/10/ill-never-be-an-astronaut/

3 years ago

If you succeed you will fail

https://boyter.org/posts/if-you-succeed-you-will-fail/

3 years ago

ZFSBootMenu

https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v2.2.x/#

3 years ago

Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/08/13/dolphin-progress-report-may-june-and-july-2023/

3 years ago

US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/economy/inflation-rate-spending/index.html

3 years ago

Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)

https://www.oxfordlearning.com/praising-children-for-effort-rather-than-ability/

3 years ago

Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed

https://astro.build/

3 years ago

Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/10/paul-brodeur-dead/

3 years ago

The first messenger without user IDs

https://simplex.chat/

3 years ago

Flying Toasters Screensaver After Dark in CSS

https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/all/flying-toasters.html

3 years ago

Babylon 5 Is a Perfect, Terrible Series

https://www.tor.com/2023/08/09/babylon-5-is-a-perfect-terrible-series/

3 years ago

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking

https://tedium.co/2023/08/11/content-pruning-news-websites-is-stupid/

3 years ago

Emulating x86 on X64 on Aarch64

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2023/08/x86-x64-aarch64.html

3 years ago

Tenable CEO says Microsoft security is blatantly negligent

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-flaw-after-being-called-irresponsible-by-tenable-ceo/

3 years ago

Mexico’s underground vanilla economy

https://thehustle.co/why-the-worlds-best-vanilla-is-so-easy-to-steal/

3 years ago

Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem

https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/

3 years ago

Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days

https://status.borgbase.com/status/default

3 years ago

How to parent more predictably (2018)

https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-parent-more-predictably

3 years ago

Solving a simple puzzle using SymPy

https://wsdookadr.github.io/posts/p9/

3 years ago

Stan Lippman has died (2022)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_B._Lippman

3 years ago

Weeds May Be a Better Friend to Pollinating Insects Than We Assume

https://www.inverse.com/science/weeds-and-pollination

3 years ago

Apple bleee. Everyone knows what’s on your iPhone (2020)

https://hexway.io/research/apple-bleee/

3 years ago

Rust vs. Go in 2023

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/rust-vs-go

3 years ago

Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam

https://github.com/llSourcell/DoctorGPT

3 years ago

Mozilla to reintroduce full Browser Extension support for Firefox Android app

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/8/mozilla-to-reintroduce-full-browser-extension-support-for-firefox-android-app/

3 years ago

Record Labels File $412M Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-412-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-1234806058/

3 years ago

Institutionalized Belief in the Greater Fool

https://investing1012dot0.substack.com/p/institutionalized-belief-in-the-greater

3 years ago

Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/neuralangelo/

3 years ago

Codelite

https://codelite.org/

3 years ago

Move Back to Datacenters

https://rakkhi.substack.com/p/why-you-should-move-back-to-datacenters

3 years ago

SBF was scheduled to speak to a Stanford class in a Tech ethics course

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/08/13/s-b-f-is-leaving-campus-but-stanfords-ties-to-his-case-are-deeper-than-previously-known/

3 years ago

The complex simplicity of my static websites

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/complex-simplicity-of-static-websites/

3 years ago

The AST Typing Problem

http://blog.ezyang.com/2013/05/the-ast-typing-problem/

3 years ago

Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/08/12/why-macos-anti-malware-scans-can-behave-oddly/

3 years ago