top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-28

ChatGPT Enterprise

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-enterprise

3 years ago

When your classmates threaten you with felony charges

https://miles.land/posts/classmates-legal-threat-fizz-defcon/

3 years ago

CLI text processing with GNU awk

https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/awk-introduction.html

3 years ago

What do I think about Community Notes?

https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html

3 years ago

Amazon acquires Fig

https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-joins-aws

3 years ago

OpenTelemetry in 2023

https://bit.kevinslin.com/p/opentelemetry-in-2023

3 years ago

Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

https://undark.org/2023/08/22/federal-study-links-testicular-cancer-to-forever-chemicals/

3 years ago

New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/new-images-and-video-confirm-austin-made-tesla-model-y-has-cracked-front-casting-220165.html

3 years ago

Scrum is a cancer

https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1695806027256475777

3 years ago

An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space (2021)

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unused-index-size

3 years ago

Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/en/index.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293002

3 years ago

Serial adapter/reboot controller for Apple M1/M2

https://www.tindie.com/products/aaafnraa/serial-adapter-reboot-controller-for-apple-m1m2/

3 years ago

3M is paying $5.5B to resolve 300k lawsuits over defective combat earplugs

https://qz.com/3m-is-paying-5-5-billion-to-resolve-300-000-lawsuits-o-1850780085

3 years ago

Live worm found in Australian woman’s brain

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

3 years ago

West Point discovers time capsule from 1828

https://www.westpoint.edu/news/press-releases/west-point-discovers-time-capsule-monument-base

3 years ago

SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-163

3 years ago

Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups

https://firefish.social/notes/9iqefgi8rzfksnqc

3 years ago

E-bike industry blames consumers for fires to undermine right to repair laws

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/28/e-bike-industry-blames-consumers-for-fires-in-effort-to-undermine-right-to-repair-laws/

3 years ago

Evergrande shares plunge as much as 87% as trading resumes after 17 months

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/28/china-evergrande-shares-plunge-as-trading-resumes-trade-after-17-months.html

3 years ago

North Korean science fiction

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/08/the-strange-secretive-world-of-north-korean-science-fiction/

3 years ago

Launch HN: HyLight (YC S23) – Hydrogen airships to inspect energy infrastructure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295149

3 years ago

How to find time to learn after work (2017)

https://www.feststelltaste.de/how-to-find-time-to-learn-after-work/

3 years ago

The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/08/22/the-sudden-demise-of-indian-vultures-killed-thousands-of-people

3 years ago

Raise less, build more

https://trohan.com/2023/08/20/raise-less-build-more/

3 years ago

Lfortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler

https://lfortran.org/

3 years ago

Zero-Downtime Hetzner Deploys with Ansible

https://scratchdb.com/blog/ansible-hetzner-deploys/

3 years ago

Parallel garbage collection for SBCL [pdf]

https://applied-langua.ge/~hayley/swcl-gc.pdf

3 years ago

C++ Papercuts

https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/c++-papercuts/

3 years ago

Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.8 released: “a mark-region parallel GC is available”

https://www.sbcl.org/news.html#2.3.8

3 years ago

Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-braces-its-first-trial-involving-autopilot-fatality-2023-08-28/

3 years ago

False canopies on fighters work, one almost killed me

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/false-canopies-on-fighters-work-one-almost-killed-me

3 years ago

Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains

https://go.dev/blog/rebuild

3 years ago

Wet-bulb temperature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

3 years ago

PHP-Tokio – Use any async Rust library from PHP

https://github.com/danog/php-tokio

3 years ago

Writing Linux Modules in Ada (2016)

http://www.nihamkin.com/2016/10/23/writing-linux-modules-in-ada-part-1/#writing-linux-modules-in-ada-part-1

3 years ago

We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/we-put-half-a-million-files-in-one-git-repository-heres-what-we-learned/

3 years ago

Continue with LocalAI: An alternative to GitHub's Copilot that runs locally

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/163nxcm/continue_with_localai_an_alternative_to_githubs/

3 years ago

Nvidia on the Mountaintop

https://stratechery.com/2023/nvidia-on-the-mountaintop/

3 years ago

Google moderates Google Collections items

https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598

3 years ago

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/28/23849754/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-remote-employees-return-to-office

3 years ago

The Elements of Style [pdf]

https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/StrunkWhite.pdf

3 years ago

Frequent and infrequent users of social media respond differently to rewards

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/social-media-addiction-share-mindlessly/

3 years ago

Designing a new concurrent data structure

https://questdb.io/blog/concurrent-lockfree-datastructure-design-walkthrough/

3 years ago

What does it take to make your own integrated circuits at home?

https://hackaday.com/2022/03/22/old-printer-becomes-direct-laser-lithography-machine/

3 years ago

Hackers can get your IP through Skype by just sending a link, no click required

https://www.404media.co/hackers-find-your-skype-ip-address-microsoft-wont-fix/

3 years ago

A JVM in Rust part 5 – Executing instructions

https://andreabergia.com/blog/2023/08/a-jvm-in-rust-part-5-executing-instructions/

3 years ago

Divide your life into semesters, even when you’re not in school

https://www.vox.com/even-better/23835758/divide-life-semesters-not-in-school-motivation-goals

3 years ago

Dining like Darwin: When scientists swallow their subjects (2015)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/12/430075644/dining-like-darwin-when-scientists-swallow-their-subjects

3 years ago

How to Design Programs (2023)

https://htdp.org/2023-8-14/Book/index.html

3 years ago

Loose lips save sunken ships

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/loose-lips-save-sunken-ships/

3 years ago

Dark Messiah modding community got Ubisoft approval

https://www.moddb.com/mods/dark-messiah-co-op/news/a-call-to-dark-messiah-arms

3 years ago

The V Programming Language 0.4

https://vlang.io/

3 years ago

Bioregions 2023

https://www.oneearth.org/bioregions-2023/

3 years ago

Linux 6.5

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2308.3/03287.html

3 years ago

Foxconn puts its empty buildings in Wisconsin up for sale

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/28/23849080/foxconn-wisconsin-empty-buildings-for-sale

3 years ago

How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/08/how-to-create-a-qt-5-arm-intel-universal-binary-for-mac/

3 years ago

Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize

https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/walt-disney-pictures-vfx-workers-union-1235706136/

3 years ago

How trees guard their seeds with mast seeding

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-trees-seeds-secrets-mast-seeding.html

3 years ago

MastApple//C, a Mastodon client for the Apple II (//C and ][e)

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/binary-release-of-mastodon-for-the-apple-c/

3 years ago

Ohio LinuxFest 2023 Conference Speakers

https://olfconference.org/speakers/

3 years ago

Milk bag

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

3 years ago

Most cancer screenings don’t extend life, study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/health/cancer-screenings-extend-life-wellness/index.html

3 years ago

Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color

https://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-less-likely-detect-kids-people-of-color-2023-8

3 years ago

Souvenir Spoons Museum

http://spoonplanet.com/

3 years ago

Utopia Clicker

https://tinysubversions.com/game/utopia/

3 years ago

Polish railway system hacked, trains forced to stop by attackers

https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1695604752661295610

3 years ago

Water-purifying cup makes drinkable water from creeks and streams

https://cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive/9720-water-purifying-cup-makes-drinkable-water-from-creeks-and-streams-in-minutes

3 years ago

Hacker Smacker: Friend/foe individual writers on Hacker News

https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker

3 years ago

A Harvard professor became the world’s leading alien hunter

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/magazine/avi-loeb-alien-hunter.html

3 years ago

Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/08/26/029217/72-year-old-c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-shares-life-advice

3 years ago

Why the AGPL is often unenforceable (2015)

https://www.devever.net/~hl/agplunenforceable

3 years ago

Google Gemini Eats the World

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-gemini-eats-the-world-gemini

3 years ago

Feds probing roughly 5k pilots suspected of withholding major health issues

https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-investigating-pilots-suspicion-major-health-issues-flying-veterans-benefits-2023-8

3 years ago

An open-source MySQL alternative for running database on Kubernetes

https://github.com/apecloud/kubeblocks

3 years ago

Ask HN: Are “theoretical” concepts being lost by new engineers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293143

3 years ago

'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a Covid-19 Joke

https://reason.com/2023/08/28/no-reasonable-officer-would-have-arrested-a-guy-for-a-covid-19-joke-the-5th-circuit-says/

3 years ago