top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-16

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7

3 years ago

Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

https://htmx.org/posts/2023-06-06-htmx-github-accelerator/

3 years ago

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

3 years ago

Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt

3 years ago

How They Tried to Kill Me

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/

3 years ago

How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-voice/2023/02/05/growing-alfalfa-in-imperial-county-and-california-wastes-water/69860506007/

3 years ago

NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN

https://www.netmaker.io/

3 years ago

Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834125/microsoft-windows-task-manager-pause-shortcut

3 years ago

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-clocks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/

3 years ago

Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

https://bellard.org/ts_server/ts_zip.html

3 years ago

Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-is-trying-to-patent-some-really-broad-tears-of-1850730637

3 years ago

$HOME, not so sweet $HOME

https://gist.github.com/sharadhr/39b804236c1941e9c30d90af828ad41e

3 years ago

Is this a good book for me, now?

https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/is-this-a-good-book-for-me-now

3 years ago

Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt

3 years ago

New York City bans TikTok for government employees

https://www.engadget.com/new-york-city-bans-tiktok-for-government-employees-174806575.html

3 years ago

Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud

https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud

3 years ago

The Mathematics of Training LLMs

https://www.latent.space/p/transformers-math#details

3 years ago

λ Calculus (2013) [pdf]

https://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/spring11/proglang/handouts/lambda-calculus-chapter.pdf

3 years ago

Putting Down the Pen: Reflecting on Oryx’s Journey

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2023/08/putting-down-pen-reflecting-on-oryxs.html

3 years ago

Minimum Viable Secure Product

https://mvsp.dev/

3 years ago

Casio G-Shock time sync radio

https://gshock.casio.com/intl/technology/radio/

3 years ago

Fred Fish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish

3 years ago

What happens to all the stuff we return?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/the-hidden-cost-of-free-returns

3 years ago

How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg

https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/how-to-produce-green-hydrogen-for-1-kg/

3 years ago

Scientists are only beginning to understand how PFAS impacting our health

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/magazine/pfas-toxic-chemicals.html

3 years ago

Open Challenges in LLM Research

https://huyenchip.com/2023/08/16/llm-research-open-challenges.html

3 years ago

Why Tailwind CSS Won

https://matt-rickard.com/why-tailwind-css-won

3 years ago

A new instrument found unusual success

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/if-stevie-wonder-wants-to-play-it-pay-attention-how-a-bizarre-new-instrument-found-unusual-success

3 years ago

Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]

https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

3 years ago

Uses and abuses of cloud data warehouses

https://materialize.com/blog/warehouse-abuse/

3 years ago

Spring 6.1 now compatible with virtual threads and JDK 21

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/What%27s-New-in-Spring-Framework-6.x

3 years ago

Anonfiles is shutting down

https://anonfiles.com/

3 years ago

The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-amazon-prime-day-2023-aws-bill/

3 years ago

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI

3 years ago

Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Artificial-Intelligence-AI/Intel-QuickAssist-Technology-Zstandard-Plugin-an-External/post/1509818

3 years ago

$70 device can spoof an Apple device sending BLE Advertising Packets

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/this-70-device-can-spoof-an-apple-device-and-trick-you-into-sharing-your-password/

3 years ago

New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194202562/new-york-times-considers-legal-action-against-openai-as-copyright-tensions-swirl

3 years ago

Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America

https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-finds-energy-jobs-have-increased-nearly-every-county-america

3 years ago

July 2023 was the hottest month on record

https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1691106509319806977?s=46&t=H_jBB1XRvGbGkpJRBZAq5Q

3 years ago

Math proof draws new boundaries around black hole formation

https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-proof-draws-new-boundaries-around-black-hole-formation-20230816/

3 years ago

MLIR For Beginners: A series of articles on the MLIR framework

https://github.com/j2kun/mlir-tutorial

3 years ago

OpenAI acquires Global Illumination

https://openai.com/blog/openai-acquires-global-illumination

3 years ago

Why did people in the past look so much older?

https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/60584/1/why-people-in-the-past-look-so-much-older-cheers-ageing-smoking-cosmetics

3 years ago

Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices

https://betterprogramming.pub/load-balancing-the-intuition-behind-the-power-of-two-random-choices-6de2e139ac2f

3 years ago

Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store

https://blog.trampolinetales.com/luck-be-a-landlord-is-now-banned-in-13-countries-on-the-google-play-store/

3 years ago

Spinoza: Life and Legacy

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-september-2023/a-brilliant-biography-of-an-elusive-genius/

3 years ago

Part-DB: open-source inventory management system for your electronic components

https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-server

3 years ago

Show HN: Repo with a list of 80 decent companies hiring remotely in Europe

https://github.com/EuropeanRemote/european-remote-software-companies

3 years ago

AMD Inception Mitigations Cause 20% Performance Drop in Database Servers

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks

3 years ago

What do I think about Community Notes?

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html

3 years ago

The DeSantis Campaign Texted Me with a Large Language Model

https://nalanj.dev/posts/desantis-campaign-sms-llm/

3 years ago

Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-15/Special_report

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150862

3 years ago

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

3 years ago

Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/marion-county-attorney-withdraws-search-warrant-against-kansas-newspaper-returns-items

3 years ago

Debugging a Futex Crash

https://rustylife.github.io/2023/08/15/futex-crash.html

3 years ago

Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)

https://twitter.com/aboodman/status/1427137725119959046

3 years ago

Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours

https://www.thestar.com/business/how-canada-poached-10-000-tech-workers-from-the-u-s-in-just-48-hours/article_c159c7cc-6163-5414-8453-0db70899df90.html

3 years ago

The tech job recession is over

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-tech-job-recession-is-over-when-will-hiring-reaccelerate-2023-8

3 years ago

Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/08/diligere-equity-invest-are-new-firms-of-u-k-con-man/

3 years ago

Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html

3 years ago

Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/23sc31%20Attachment%20A%20-%20Documents%20unsealed%20with%20redactions.pdf

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150986

3 years ago

Show HN: SpacetimeDB – A database that replaces your server

https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB

3 years ago

Towards HTTPS by Default

https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/towards-https-by-default.html

3 years ago

Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/ex-linus-tech-tips-employee-alleges-mistreatment-and-poor-conditions-2251613/

3 years ago

Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-pharmacy-automates-discounts-help-insulin-patients-get-pledged-prices-2023-08-15/

3 years ago

Nginx Development Guide

https://nginx.org/en/docs/dev/development_guide.html

3 years ago

On to Elixir

https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2023/08/05/on-to-elixir

3 years ago

The Open Sanctuary Project

https://opensanctuary.org/

3 years ago

Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for Less Range: Report

https://www.thedrive.com/news/teslas-10000-cheaper-model-s-x-software-locked-for-less-range-report

3 years ago

New book considers the impact of electronic logging devices on drivers

https://www.truckersnews.com/home/article/15305066/new-book-considers-the-impact-of-electronic-logging-devices-on-drivers

3 years ago

The US climate law is fueling a factory frenzy

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufacturing/the-us-climate-law-is-fueling-a-factory-frenzy-heres-the-latest-tally

3 years ago

System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool

https://www.systeminit.com/blog-open-source/

3 years ago

The 8088 Prefetch Algorithm

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-8088-prefetch-algorithm.html

3 years ago