top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-01

Organic Maps

https://organicmaps.app/

3 years ago

Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

https://wavacity.com/

3 years ago

Animated Knots

https://www.animatedknots.com/

3 years ago

Doug Lenat has died

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/doug-lenat-1950-2023

3 years ago

Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351667

3 years ago

X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

https://stackdiary.com/x-can-now-use-posts-for-ai-training-as-per-terms-of-service/

3 years ago

Doing laundry on campus without a phone

https://naveenarun.wordpress.com/2023/08/31/doing-laundry-on-campus-without-a-phone/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347657

3 years ago

Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline

https://www.leebutterman.com/2023/06/01/offline-realtime-embedding-search.html

3 years ago

Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-classic.html

3 years ago

Lidl Product Recall [pdf]

https://www.lidl.co.uk/static/assets/Paw_Patrol_Public_Recall_poster-500790.pdf

3 years ago

Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components

https://www.mux.com/blog/what-are-react-server-components

3 years ago

ChangeDetection, monitor any website change

https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

3 years ago

Linear algebra for programmers

https://coffeemug.github.io/spakhm.com/posts/01-lingalg-p1/linalg-p1.html

3 years ago

A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet

https://electricui.com/blog/spe-sensor-node

3 years ago

ARM wrestles assembly language guru's domains away, citing trademark issues

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/31/a_star_star_domains/

3 years ago

Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

3 years ago

Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?

https://reason.com/2023/07/11/police-seized-innocent-peoples-property-and-kept-it-for-years-what-will-the-supreme-court-do/

3 years ago

Shining a light on the digital dark age

https://longnow.org/ideas/shining-a-light-on-the-digital-dark-age/

3 years ago

Why I’m betting on Nostr

https://hivemind.vc/nostr/

3 years ago

Explaining the Postgres iceberg

https://avestura.dev/blog/explaining-the-postgres-meme

3 years ago

Becoming a contractor

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/becoming-a-contractor/

3 years ago

Mashing Enter to bypass full disk encryption with TPM, Clevis dracut and systemd

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/tpm-luks-bypass

3 years ago

Thousands of octopuses gather off California to brood eggs at a warm spot

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195028955/heres-why-6-000-octopuses-like-to-be-under-the-sea-at-an-octopus-garden

3 years ago

Philosophy of Coroutines

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/coroutines-philosophy/

3 years ago

From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in Popular Art Movements

https://www.archdaily.com/1005570/from-art-nouveau-to-the-bauhaus-how-home-interiors-looked-in-popular-art-movements

3 years ago

Learning For Mastery (1968) [pdf]

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED053419.pdf

3 years ago

Some flying robot behavior improvements

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-374

3 years ago

Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't

https://vitonsky.net/blog/2023/09/01/malware-in-browser-extensions/

3 years ago

Mushroom pickers urged: Avoid Amazon foraging books, appear to be written by AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai

3 years ago

California Forever

https://californiaforever.com/

3 years ago

Writing a bare-metal RISC-V application in D

https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/1-d-baremetal/

3 years ago

A Gentle Introduction to Liquid Types

https://goto.ucsd.edu/~ucsdpl-blog/liquidtypes/2015/09/19/liquid-types/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351665

3 years ago

A Duodecade of Numberphile

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10724117.2023.2224682

3 years ago

Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-testing-new-apple-maps-inspired-map-style

3 years ago

The problem of creeping commercial surveillance (2022)

https://elnion.com/2022/02/07/the-problem-of-creeping-commercial-surveillance/

3 years ago

AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are

http://marble.onl/posts/model_censorship.html

3 years ago

Internals of async / await in JavaScript

https://akashhamirwasia.com/blog/internals-of-async-await-in-javascript/

3 years ago

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com

3 years ago

Patterns with Rust Types

https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2022/07/28/patterns-with-rust-types

3 years ago

Singapore in Colour

https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2023/08/singapore-in-colour/

3 years ago

The Glitch Gallery

https://glitchgallery.org/

3 years ago

Taking dietary supplements full of antioxidants could help cancerous tumors grow

https://studyfinds.org/dietary-supplements-help-tumors/

3 years ago

BoTorch – Bayesian Optimization in PyTorch

https://botorch.org/

3 years ago

The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandTechnicalMeritsIrrelevant

3 years ago

Total Commander

https://www.ghisler.com/

3 years ago

Court rules in Pornhub’s favor: Age-verification law violates First Amendment

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/pornhubs-texas-age-verification-law-violates-first-amendment-ruling-1235709902/

3 years ago

A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/fabled-palaces-ancient-medina-journey-through-spain-islamic-history-180982699/

3 years ago

Space travel via tether between asteroids

https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/toutatis/

3 years ago

Amateur astronomers spot new impact on Jupiter

https://www.space.com/amateur-astronomers-jupiter-cosmic-collision

3 years ago

Show HN: Merge – Connect Google Wear OS to Apple iOS

https://www.merge.watch

3 years ago

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351666

3 years ago

Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/09/a-4-link-tax-why-the-governments-draft-bill-c-18-regulations-just-increased-the-chances-of-no-news-on-meta-and-google-in-canada/

3 years ago

Why Is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/09/why-is-us-being-used-to-phish-so-many-of-us/

3 years ago

The Practical Effects Wizardry of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/practical-effects-wizardry-of-dungeons-and-dragons-honor-among-thieves-legacy-effects-behind-the-scenes

3 years ago

Optimizing Postgres's autovacuum for high-churn tables

https://tembo.io/blog/optimizing-postgres-auto-vacuum/

3 years ago

Indian Influences on Rastafarianism

https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/28443

3 years ago

NYPD will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend

https://apnews.com/article/drones-labor-day-eric-adams-nypd-jouvert-c2787e87bcad8fa87aa8d34b454ee6cf

3 years ago

Can programming languages boost each other via instruction tuning?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16824

3 years ago

U.S. Air Force selects fast microreactor for nuclear power pilot

https://www.powermag.com/u-s-air-force-selects-fast-microreactor-for-nuclear-power-pilot/

3 years ago

The Janus System: Multi-Paradigm Programming in Prolog and Python

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15893

3 years ago

Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/intel_graph_analytics_chip/

3 years ago

U.S. Department of Defense Launches All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Website

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3513171/the-department-of-defense-launches-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-web/

3 years ago

Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations

https://github.com/mimseyedi/pysentation

3 years ago

Currying in Kotlin

https://towardsdev.com/currying-in-kotlin-9be88bcc930d

3 years ago

Geometry

https://mathpages.com/home/igeometr.htm

3 years ago

An introduction to the impact of native planting

https://marisamorby.com/native-planting-intro/

3 years ago

So You're an American?

https://www.state.gov/courses/answeringdifficultquestions/html/app.htm?p=module1_p1.htm

3 years ago

Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37356695

3 years ago

Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce CVD Risk

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33477824/

3 years ago

Robinhood to buy back Bankman-Fried’s stake for $605M from U.S. government

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/01/robinhood-to-buy-back-bankman-frieds-stake-for-605point7-mln-from-us-govt.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Any LAN alternatives other than PowerLine or MOCA?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37352983

3 years ago

Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture [pdf]

https://people.engr.tamu.edu/djimenez/pdfs/exynos_isca2020.pdf

3 years ago

An algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/algorithm-school-system-italy/

3 years ago

Alien v4.0 (Simulation)

https://alien-project.org/

3 years ago