top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-14

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user

3 years ago

Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/automatic-update-extension-chromebook/

3 years ago

PostgreSQL 16

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-released-2715/

3 years ago

Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea

https://github.com/google/project-gameface/issues/1

3 years ago

How mobile apps illegally share personal data

https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data

3 years ago

How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?

https://ipapi.is/geolocation.html

3 years ago

Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/calif-passes-strongest-right-to-repair-bill-yet-requiring-7-years-of-parts/

3 years ago

Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

https://tails.net/

3 years ago

In a Git repository, where do your files live?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/09/14/in-a-git-repository--where-do-your-files-live-/

3 years ago

iNaturalist strikes out on its own

https://baynature.org/2023/09/12/inaturalist-strikes-out-on-its-own/

3 years ago

Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

https://nuejs.org

3 years ago

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

3 years ago

Googlers told to avoid words like ‘share’ and ‘bundle,’ US says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-14/googlers-told-to-avoid-words-like-share-and-bundle-us-says-lmj27bhl

3 years ago

So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

https://impromptugames.com/movingtounreal.html

3 years ago

Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8

3 years ago

Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dutch-art-detective-recovers-a-van-gogh-stolen-in-2020-180982896/

3 years ago

Arm IPO to kick off today

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/14/arm_ipo/

3 years ago

Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

3 years ago

A clever “perpetual motion” device [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_LG8FDt51U

3 years ago

Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics

https://github.com/barracuda-fsh/pyobd

3 years ago

Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security

https://www.whonix.org

3 years ago

MenuetOS

https://menuetos.net

3 years ago

A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications

https://github.com/ray-project/llm-applications/blob/main/notebooks/rag.ipynb

3 years ago

Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/09/14/analyzing-starfields-performance-on-nvidias-4090-and-amds-7900-xtx/

3 years ago

The end of tweeted articles

https://www.houseofstrauss.com/p/this-post-will-not-go-viral

3 years ago

Show HN: Improved freemusicdemixer – AI music demixing in the browser

https://freemusicdemixer.com/

3 years ago

I paid for Sublime Text

https://github.com/kapitanluffy/i-shamefully-paid-for-sublime-text

3 years ago

Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001268

3 years ago

Game Development Post-Unity

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unity

3 years ago

Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte

https://workerorganizing.org/tech-workers-deserve-a-union-6904/

3 years ago

Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay

https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/

3 years ago

An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2023/04/how-to-set-up-a-yubikey/

3 years ago

Can I take ducks home from the park?

https://dynomight.net/ducks/

3 years ago

How I stay reasonably anonymous online (2022)

https://tmp.bearblog.dev/how-i-stay-reasonably-anonymous-online/

3 years ago

Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-more-than-100-ancient-drawings-in-spanish-cave-180982898/

3 years ago

Johnny Decimal: A System to Organize Projects (2015)

https://johnnydecimal.com

3 years ago

Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/public-exposure-to-bisphenol-a

3 years ago

Painting with math: A gentle study of raymarching

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/painting-with-math-a-gentle-study-of-raymarching/

3 years ago

Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/bacteria-generate-electricity-from-wastewater/

3 years ago

Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/06/utah-great-salt-lake-lawsuit-collapse-environment

3 years ago

How far back in time can I take my website's design?

https://ajxs.me/blog/How_Far_Back_in_Time_Can_I_Take_My_Websites_Design.html

3 years ago

Arm jumps 18% in market debut to notch $60B valuation

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/softbanks-arm-set-debut-nasdaq-after-blockbuster-ipo-2023-09-14/

3 years ago

Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website

https://community.adobe.com/t5/type-typography-discussions/client-being-harassed-by-the-type-founders-for-using-proxima-nova-font-on-website/td-p/13992446

3 years ago

Unity's actions are unacceptable, I cannot keep endorsing this

https://twitter.com/KenneyNL/status/1702238644671512666

3 years ago

An easy way to concurrency and parallelism with Python stdlib

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/the-easy-way-to-concurrency-and-parallelism

3 years ago

Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180

3 years ago

Webhook Failure Scenarios

https://hermanradtke.com/webhook-failure-scenarios/

3 years ago

HTTP Status Dogs (2011)

https://httpstatusdogs.com/

3 years ago

The inside story of Threads

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/

3 years ago

Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times for the industry

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unitys-pricing-is-a-symptom-not-the-cause-of-tougher-times-ahead-for-the-games-industry-opinion

3 years ago

Google hid evidence by training workers to avoid words monopolists use, DOJ says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-hid-evidence-by-training-workers-to-avoid-words-monopolists-use-doj-says/

3 years ago

3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230914075444

3 years ago

Stride, a C#-based, open-source game engine

https://www.stride3d.net/blog/embracing-open-source-stride-as-an-alternative-to-unity/

3 years ago

Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)

https://www.trisul.org/blog/detecting-ssh-tunnels/

3 years ago

Diamonds are losing their allure

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/09/13/why-diamonds-are-losing-their-allure

3 years ago

Apple's A17 Pro Within 10% of i9-13900K, 7950X in Single-Core Performance

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apples-a17-pro-challenges-core-i9-13900k-ryzen-7950x-in-single-core-performance

3 years ago

Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/

3 years ago

Why has a useless cold medication been allowed on shelves for years?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/09/cold-medicine-decongestant-phenylephrine-ineffective/675303/

3 years ago

v0: Generate UI with simple text prompts

https://v0.dev

3 years ago