top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-06

Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?

https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/122232/is-this-duplo-train-track-under-too-much-tension

3 years ago

1392 upvotes – 237 comments

UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging

https://www.ft.com/content/770e58b1-a299-4b7b-a129-bded8649a43b

3 years ago

743 upvotes – 302 comments

Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416

3 years ago

638 upvotes – 638 comments

Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

https://smolsite.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

3 years ago

602 upvotes – 181 comments

Linux network performance parameters

https://github.com/leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters

3 years ago

458 upvotes – 107 comments

How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?

https://latin.stackexchange.com/a/21492

3 years ago

438 upvotes – 302 comments

jq 1.7

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7

3 years ago

434 upvotes – 205 comments

Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

3 years ago

388 upvotes – 192 comments

Molly Holzschlag has died

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/tucsons-molly-holzschlag-known-as-the-fairy-godmother-web-dead-60/

3 years ago

344 upvotes – 93 comments

I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 371 comments

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food

https://www.science.org/content/article/beetle-grows-termite-back-steal-food

3 years ago

279 upvotes – 180 comments

On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations

https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/06/on-10th-anniversary-of-snowden.html

3 years ago

273 upvotes – 219 comments

Why Socialism? (1949)

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

3 years ago

270 upvotes – 645 comments

Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/google_privacy_popup_chrome/

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 154 comments

37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time

https://once.com/

3 years ago

254 upvotes – 210 comments

This page exists only if someone is looking at it

http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b6e368d27514fe305ca7dcecc32c0134838

3 years ago

240 upvotes – 67 comments

Falcon 180B

https://huggingface.co/blog/falcon-180b

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 208 comments

Bletchley Park codebreaker Margaret Betts has died

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/she-played-it-down-bletchley-park-codebreaker-dies-at-99

3 years ago

217 upvotes – 32 comments

MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (2014)

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 102 comments

The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.vulture.com/article/rotten-tomatoes-movie-rating.html

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 515 comments

Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)

https://electrek.co/2022/05/17/norway-rolls-back-ev-incentives-while-boosting-walking-and-cycling/

3 years ago

197 upvotes – 129 comments

Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/06/toyota-blames-factory-shutdown-in-japan-on-insufficient-disk-space

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 212 comments

Flexport CEO resigns a year after joining logistics company

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/former-amazon-exec-dave-clark-resigns-as-flexport-ceo-a-year-after-joining-logistics-company/

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 155 comments

Exploring EXIF

https://hturan.com/writing/exploring-exif

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 33 comments

US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/big-isps-will-dominate-42b-grant-fund-if-rules-arent-changed-advocates-say/

3 years ago

188 upvotes – 40 comments

‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861047/car-user-privacy-report-mozilla-foundation-data-collection

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 21 comments

Remembering Doug Lenat and his quest to capture the world with logic

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug-lenat-1950-2023-and-his-quest-to-capture-the-world-with-logic/

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 75 comments

The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of movies into effective propaganda

https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 164 comments

Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE

https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/now-postgresqls-turn-bogus-cve

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 94 comments

AOL pretends to be the internet

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/aol-pretends-to-be-the-internet/

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 267 comments

It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 27 comments

Norway court rules against Facebook owner Meta in privacy case

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-data-regulator-fine-meta-over-privacy-breaches-2023-08-07/

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 73 comments

Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

Effectiveness of physical activity for improving depression, anxiety, distress

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/11/bjsports-2022-106195

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 165 comments

Amazon Andy Jassy shouldn’t make RTO decisions in echo chamber of CEOs feelings

https://fortune.com/2023/09/05/amazon-andy-jassy-return-to-office-decisions-echo-chamber-ceo-feelings-work-gleb-tsipursky/

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 239 comments

Run ChatGPT-like LLMs on your laptop in 3 lines of code

https://github.com/amaiya/onprem

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Nix Snapshotter – Native understanding of Nix packages for containerd

https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 34 comments

ZX Origins 8x8 bitmap fonts

https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 46 comments

Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp (2021)

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-programs/

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 66 comments

Bit by bit microplastics from tyres are polluting our waterways

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2023/09/06/bit-by-bit-microplastics-from-tyres-are-polluting-our-waterways/

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 94 comments

Remove TypeScript

https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 121 comments

Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

https://news.mit.edu/2023/devices-offers-battery-free-underwater-communication-0906

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 54 comments

Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript

https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-70165c01

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 83 comments

Human embryo models grown from stem cells

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/human-embryo-models-grown-stem-cells

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 73 comments

Ten million a year die from air pollution (2021)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/david-wallace-wells/ten-million-a-year

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 19 comments

China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work

https://stocks.apple.com/A01gybx6UQReBj5eQUppe8g

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 146 comments

Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23859537/microsoft-windows-11-default-browser-links-eu-eea-changes

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 77 comments

Northern summer was hottest on record by a significant margin

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/world/hottest-summer-record-climate-intl/index.html

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 106 comments

Making sense of React Server Components

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/server-components/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 164 comments

Chemists develop new way to split water

https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=13436

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 48 comments

Double Commander – Changes in version 1.1.0

https://github.com/doublecmd/doublecmd/wiki/Changes-in-version-1.1.0

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 66 comments

Tamagotchi Connection

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

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 76 comments

Wikimedia DNS

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DNS

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Does Instagram suspend accounts just to get their phone numbers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37407464

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 74 comments

Playing with genetic algorithms in Python

https://joseprupi.github.io/misc/2023/08/19/playing_with_genetic_algorithms_in_python.html

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: A better way to read blogs

https://boredreading.com/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped

https://puri.sm/posts/all-librem-5-smartphones-have-shipped/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 127 comments

Show HN: Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring

https://github.com/ddosify/alaz

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer

https://bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000049

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 100 comments

Disco Elysium and the need for collective action

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/disco-elysium-intellectual-property-video-game-industry-creative-workers-collective-action

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_4328

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 118 comments

The era-defining aesthetic of “In the Mood for Love”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/touchstones/wong-kar-wais-in-the-mood-for-love

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Proofs based on diagonalization help reveal the limits of algorithms

https://www.quantamagazine.org/alan-turing-and-the-power-of-negative-thinking-20230905/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 69 comments

Buzzy AI startup for generating 3D models used cheap human labor

https://www.404media.co/kaedim-ai-startup-2d-to-3d-used-cheap-human-labor/

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

“Waterfall” doesn't mean what you think it means

https://changelog.com/posts/waterfall-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Is there a data loss bug lurking in MS365 backup solutions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408794

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-ai-magnetic-materials-critical-elements.html

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments
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