top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-05

Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392676

3 years ago

OpenTF repository is now public

https://github.com/opentffoundation/opentf

3 years ago

Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

https://twitter.com/__silent_/status/1698345924840296801

3 years ago

Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs

https://github.com/EmNudge/watlings

3 years ago

Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

https://github.com/measuredco/puck

3 years ago

ZFS for Dummies

https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/homelab/zfs-for-dummies/

3 years ago

If you can use open source, you can build hardware

https://redeem-tomorrow.com/if-you-can-use-open-source-you-can-build-hardware

3 years ago

Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/android-14-breaks-system-certificate-installation/

3 years ago

A currently maintained fork of SSHFS

https://github.com/deadbeefsociety/sshfs

3 years ago

Learn Physics with Functional Programming

https://nostarch.com/learn-physics-functional-programming

3 years ago

Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety

https://recipeui.com/

3 years ago

The Federal Helium reserve is for sale

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/regions/region-7-greater-southwest/region-7-newsroom/greater-southwest-feature-stories-and-news-releases/gsa-announces-sale-of-federal-helium-system-assets-06222023

3 years ago

Meta's Segment Anything written with C++ / GGML

https://github.com/YavorGIvanov/sam.cpp

3 years ago

Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke

https://tryklack.com/

3 years ago

Amiga Systems Programming in 2023

https://www.markround.com/blog/2023/08/30/amiga-systems-programming-in-2023/

3 years ago

Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity

https://news.stanford.edu/2023/09/04/farming-food-biodiversity/

3 years ago

Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook

https://review.firstround.com/the-engineers-guide-to-career-growth-advice-from-my-time-at-stripe-and-facebook

3 years ago

When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler

https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/when-deployments-are-easy-code-becomes

3 years ago

Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998

https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/our-story/

3 years ago

deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.devstudio&hl=en_US

3 years ago

Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/04/poor-people-surviving-not-living-as-uk-social-contract-collapses-says-report

3 years ago

Show HN: Fully client-side GPT2 prediction visualizer

https://perplexity.vercel.app/

3 years ago

Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook

https://www.404media.co/buying-and-selling-hacked-government-emails-edrs-discord-snapchat-facebook-tiktok/

3 years ago

Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/05/australian-mps-to-lobby-us-to-drop-julian-assange-prosecution-or-risk-very-dangerous-precedent-for-russia-and-china

3 years ago

How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second

https://community.aws/posts/how-search-uses-chaos-engineering

3 years ago

GitHub was down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smdz34v7j8q0

3 years ago

Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/special-series/blacksmith-craig-kaviar-louisville.html

3 years ago

Some economists have been relying on bogus population data

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/we-do-not-know-the-population-of-every-country-in-the-world-for-the-past-two-thousand-years/D747DDC6E499C799B0471DBE33FEB0BB

3 years ago

Show HN: Bedframe – open-source Browser Extension Development framework

https://github.com/nyaggah/bedframe

3 years ago

Satlas: Open Geospatial Data Generated by AI

https://satlas.allen.ai/

3 years ago

The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-perpetual-truck-driver-shortage-is-not-real

3 years ago

ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard

https://www.zsa.io/voyager/

3 years ago

Deno KV Is in Open Beta

https://deno.com/blog/kv-open-beta

3 years ago

What OpenAI really wants

https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/

3 years ago

HashiCorp did it backwards

https://galenmarchetti.substack.com/p/hashicorp-did-it-backwards

3 years ago

Postmarks – A single-user, fediverse-enabled bookmarking website

https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/

3 years ago

‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/28/unspoken-grief-childless-men

3 years ago

Czech scientists confirm the existence of the π-hole in molecules

https://www.avcr.cz/en/news-archive/Czech-scientists-confirm-the-existence-of-the-hole-in-molecules-proving-a-decades-old-theory/

3 years ago

Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers

https://restofworld.org/2023/delivery-driver-bikes-stolen-brazil/

3 years ago

Mentra aims to match neurodivergent jobseekers with jobs

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/sam-altman-backed-startup-aims-to-match-neurodivergent-jobseekers-with-ideal-jobs/

3 years ago

Ford 021C Concept Car (1999)

https://marc-newson.com/ford-021c-concept-car/

3 years ago

Mastering curl: interactive text guide

https://antonz.org/mastering-curl/

3 years ago

All About USB-C: Example Circuits

https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/all-about-usb-c-example-circuits/

3 years ago

Diamond prices are in free fall in one key corner of the market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-03/lab-grown-gems-are-crashing-prices-for-one-key-type-of-diamond

3 years ago

Launch HN: Nullstone (YC W22) – An easier way to deploy and manage cloud apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37391272

3 years ago

HuggingFace Training Cluster as a Service

https://huggingface.co/training-cluster

3 years ago

Browse websites by fonts

https://maxibestof.one/typefaces

3 years ago

Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-dependency static site hosting service for hackers

https://pgs.sh

3 years ago

Show HN: Transform any website or eBook into a research paper (no LLM required)

https://github.com/jstrieb/paperify

3 years ago

Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it

https://theconversation.com/poverty-is-linked-to-poorer-brain-development-but-reading-can-help-counteract-it-208966

3 years ago

OWASP Top API Security Risks – 2023

https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/

3 years ago

Britain’s statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy

https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/09/04/britains-statisticians-fix-a-blunder-and-find-a-bigger-economy

3 years ago

The World’s First U2 Spy Plane Photo Shoot at the Edge of Space

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/05/at-70000-feet-in-a-u2-the-making-of-a-photo-shoot-at-the-edge-of-space/

3 years ago

What is a flop?

https://nhigham.com/2023/09/05/what-is-a-flop/

3 years ago

Go to Chrome://settings/adPrivacy to turn off the spyware that in Chrome

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1699021936573940154

3 years ago

Every aspiring writer should read terrible books (2022) [video]

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

3 years ago

Learn COBOL in a day

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/cobol

3 years ago

Wage transparency: Everyone’s happy except HR?

https://www.malaymail.com/news/opinion/2023/09/05/wage-transparency-everyones-happy-except-hr/89066

3 years ago

Why new furniture doesn’t last long

https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/09/05/new-furniture-quality-doesnt-last/

3 years ago

Finfluencers

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4428232

3 years ago

Crowdfunding a defense for scientific research

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23841742/francesca-gino-data-colada-lawsuit-gofundme-science-culture-transparency-academic-fraud-dishonesty

3 years ago

Steam-on-Ampere

https://github.com/AmpereComputing/Steam-on-Ampere

3 years ago

Searching for “notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=notepad&ia=web

3 years ago

My Presidential Platform

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-presidential-platform

3 years ago

The shrinking number of primary care physicians is reaching a tipping point

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/05/lack-primary-care-tipping-point/

3 years ago

Forming an Edge

https://www.scopeofwork.net/forming-an-edge/

3 years ago