top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-30

Show HN: I automated half of my typing

https://github.com/eschluntz/compress

3 years ago

My Caste

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~meel/opinions/caste.html

3 years ago

A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9

3 years ago

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851902/microsoft-bing-popups-windows-11-malware

3 years ago

Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/08/25/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-23531-dev-channel/

3 years ago

FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/fcc-says-too-bad-to-isps-complaining-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard/

3 years ago

Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules

https://lwn.net/Articles/939842/

3 years ago

Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/08/hundreds-thousands-trafficked-work-online-scammers-se-asia-says-un-report

3 years ago

Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/

3 years ago

Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID

https://gist.github.com/kj800x/be3001c07c49fdb36970633b0bc6defb

3 years ago

High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers

https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Drone-race.html

3 years ago

Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor

https://www.figma.com/blog/keeping-figma-fast/

3 years ago

Fairphone 5

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5

3 years ago

New Map APIs from Google

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/going-beyond-map-introducing-environment-apis

3 years ago

Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)

https://leifgehrmann.com/2021/09/05/photogrammetry-on-a-plane/

3 years ago

Weight-based motor vehicle tax

https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/weight-based-motor-vehicle-tax/

3 years ago

2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map

https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

3 years ago

Authentication on meet.jit.si

https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/

3 years ago

The End of the Googleverse

https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords

3 years ago

DevTools Tips

https://devtoolstips.org/

3 years ago

How to get transactions between almost any data stores

https://petereliaskraft.net/blog/epoxy

3 years ago

Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf

3 years ago

I wrote, “Scrum is a cancer,” and the Internet had thoughts about it

https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1696869327335571833

3 years ago

iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23850595/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machines-ifixit

3 years ago

Bad Apple Font

https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/

3 years ago

Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ahead-of-ai-11-new-foundation-models

3 years ago

The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/decoupling-isnt-phoney

3 years ago

Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

https://petapixel.com/2023/08/23/this-giant-fake-town-was-built-exclusively-for-filming-tv-and-movies/

3 years ago

Why do shared hospital rooms not violate HIPAA?

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28878/how-is-it-legal-for-a-hospital-to-put-two-patients-together-in-the-same-room-in

3 years ago

Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-kills-two-year-pixel-pass-subscription-after-just-22-months/

3 years ago

Keisan Casio is shutting down

https://keisan.casio.com/keisan/abolition.php

3 years ago

DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app

https://github.com/ESP32-COOP/ESP32-COOP-DOC

3 years ago

Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/31/roadmap-for-age-verification-online-pornographic-material-adult-websites-australia-law

3 years ago

Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-sites-from-users-privately-saved-links-230830/

3 years ago

File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images

https://xata.io/blog/file-attachments

3 years ago

Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability

https://samiramly.com/chess

3 years ago

At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/axon-taser-exposures/

3 years ago

Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD

https://buildkite.com/blog/applying-sre-principles-to-cicd

3 years ago

ChatLZMA – text generation from data compression

http://pepijndevos.nl/2023/07/15/chatlmza.html

3 years ago

N guilty men (1997)

https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm

3 years ago

OpenAI predicted to generate over $1B

https://the-decoder.com/openai-shatters-revenue-expectations-predicted-to-generate-over-1-billion/

3 years ago

Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul

https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/30/microsoft-visual-studio-mac-discontinued/

3 years ago

How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s

https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00915/

3 years ago

The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance (2020)

https://hakibenita.com/sql-medium-text-performance

3 years ago

Visa, Mastercard Prepare to Raise Credit-Card Fees

https://www.wsj.com/finance/visa-mastercard-prepare-to-raise-credit-card-fees-ed779be1

3 years ago

When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?

https://ottertune.com/blog/query-best-practices-when-should-you-use-the-in-instead-of-the-or-operator

3 years ago

Developing 120-year-old photos found in a time capsule [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDj4mXdqmc

3 years ago

The end of cool small cars

https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/the-end-of-cool-small-cars

3 years ago

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms/

3 years ago

Population.io

https://mobile.population.io/

3 years ago

OSM River Basins

https://amandasaurus.github.io/osm-river-basins/#map=2/0/0

3 years ago

Housing Is a Labor Issue: Land owners are taking all the wage gains

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is-a-labor-issue

3 years ago

Deno 1.36

https://deno.com/blog/v1.36

3 years ago

Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/08/28/738095.htm

3 years ago

Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/security-update-august-2023

3 years ago

ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May

https://sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzed-millions-of-chatgpt-user-sessions-visits-are-down-29-since-may-programming-assistance-is-30-of-use/

3 years ago

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-verizon-at-t-and-t-mobile-want-to-access-your-bank-account-e62449f3

3 years ago

ThirdAI Uses Ray for Parallel Training of Billion-Parameter NN on Commodity CPUs

https://www.anyscale.com/blog/how-thirdai-uses-ray-for-parallel-training-of-billion-parameter-neural-networks-on-commodity-cpus

3 years ago

A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration

https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-serious-case-for-dynamic-scoring

3 years ago

How might life migrate through the universe?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-might-life-migrate-through-the-universe/

3 years ago

Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries

https://www.thedrive.com/news/honda-solid-state-batteries-will-offer-same-energy-density-at-half-the-weight

3 years ago

Pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress (2017)

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/11/16458142/congress-alzheimers-pharmacist

3 years ago

People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up

https://text.npr.org/1196059950

3 years ago

Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint

https://twitter.com/WizardLM_AI/status/1696527036804989171

3 years ago

Real-world ranges for Teslas 50-60% of EPA Range

https://www.recurrentauto.com/news/real-world-range-for-tesla

3 years ago

Multiplix, operating system kernel for RISC-V and AArch64 SBCs

https://github.com/zyedidia/multiplix

3 years ago

Designing deep networks to process other deep networks

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/designing-deep-networks-to-process-other-deep-networks/

3 years ago

Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax

https://www.thefp.com/p/why-i-traded-my-smartphone-for-an-ax

3 years ago

Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37325594

3 years ago

Buffer Overflows in Notepad++

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-092_Notepad__/

3 years ago

Titanium micro-spikes skewer resistant superbugs

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2023/aug/antifungal-titanium

3 years ago

Produce HTML from S-Expressions

https://github.com/lelanthran/l2h

3 years ago

Politicians, scientists spar over alleged NIH coverup using COVID19 origin paper

https://www.science.org/content/article/politicians-scientists-spar-over-alleged-nih-cover-up-using-covid-19-origin-paper

3 years ago

Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux

https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2023/08/24/making-amiga-iff-thumbnails-work-in-linux/

3 years ago