top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-18

Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

3 years ago

Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by-microsoft-ai-researchers

3 years ago

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

https://www.openra.net/

3 years ago

Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/apple-tv/

3 years ago

What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)

https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html

3 years ago

Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/replanting-logged-forests-with-diverse-mixtures-of-seedlings-accelerates-restoration-378916

3 years ago

Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/15/striking-uaw-auto-workers-want-a-40percent-pay-increase-how-much-they-make-now.html

3 years ago

Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-12-intro-to-immutable-os.html

3 years ago

NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

3 years ago

The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721420917687

3 years ago

Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

https://alic.dev/blog/dense-enums

3 years ago

FTC warns pharma companies about sham patent listings designed to delay generics

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/18/ftc-warns-pharma-companies-that-it-may-go-after-them-for-sham-patent-listings-designed-to-delay-generic-competitors/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37554736

3 years ago

How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)

https://blog.the-pans.com/notes-on-the-foundationdb-paper/

3 years ago

Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/

3 years ago

Tracing: Structured logging, but better

https://andydote.co.uk/2023/09/19/tracing-is-better/

3 years ago

Some new snippets from the Snowden documents

https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from-snowden-documents.html

3 years ago

F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-cant-be-found-after-pilot-ejected

3 years ago

US Military asks for help locating missing F-35

https://time.com/6315261/missing-military-f35-jet/

3 years ago

Exploring the Halo 1 System Link Protocol

https://hllmn.net/blog/2023-09-18_h1x-net/

3 years ago

Update on KDP Title Creation Limits

https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Update-on-KDP-Title-Creation-Limits?language=en_US&forum=KDP%20Forum

3 years ago

The anatomy of a Godot API call

https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/

3 years ago

Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/09/18/paint-app-update-adding-support-for-layers-and-transparency-begins-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

3 years ago

Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

https://mwmbl.org/

3 years ago

Plants can detect sound

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/09/06/plants-dont-have-ears-but-they-can-still-detect-sound

3 years ago

What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?

https://vishnumenon.com/lightrail/2023/09/17/AI-Interfaces.html

3 years ago

Problems with homemade billing systems

https://www.getlago.com/blog/the-4-biggest-problems-with-homemade-billing-systems

3 years ago

Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/UnixShellsNoMoreAccessControl

3 years ago

Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021)

https://ai.meta.com/blog/self-supervised-learning-the-dark-matter-of-intelligence/

3 years ago

iOS 17 is available today

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/ios-17-is-available-today/

3 years ago

The joys of maintenance programming (2011)

https://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-programming

3 years ago

Leveraging Rust in our Java database

https://questdb.io/blog/leveraging-rust-in-our-high-performance-java-database/

3 years ago

Why and when the Sahara Desert was green: new research

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-reveals-sahara-green.html

3 years ago

Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/stories/all-stories/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-van-goghs-self-portraits

3 years ago

Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37558372

3 years ago

Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator

https://akuity.io/blog/introducing-kargo/

3 years ago

How much garden you would need to survive on

https://lifehacker.com/how-much-garden-you-would-need-to-100-survive-on-1848829190

3 years ago

California's Delete Act will make erasing consumers' data easier

https://www.techspot.com/news/100180-california-delete-act-make-erasing-consumers-data-easier.html

3 years ago

How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets

3 years ago

Interpretation and analysis of songs written or performed by Pet Shop Boys

http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm

3 years ago

iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/09/iphone-15-pro-facts-and-estimates/

3 years ago

Making IIIF Official at the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/18/making-iiif-official-at-the-internet-archive/

3 years ago

Derek Siver's shell script for tech independence

https://sive.rs/ti.sh

3 years ago

'Atomic Energy' Book Signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Enola Gay Crew

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/347934706696090-manhattan-project-atomic-bomb-signed-book-with-einstein-oppenheimer-bohr-enola-gay-crew-nobel-prize-winners-and-nuclear-researchers

3 years ago

The male loneliness epidemic and how it affects fathers

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/health/male-loneliness-epidemic-wellness/index.html

3 years ago

Tests find many popular omega 3 supplements are rancid

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-popular-omega-supplements-rancid.html

3 years ago

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/

3 years ago

Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low

https://bigthink.com/health/us-dietary-protein-recommendations-too-low/

3 years ago

Ron Cobb – Filmography

https://roncobb.net/film.html

3 years ago

How Jeff Geerling almost broke MrBeast's 1-100 video [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsV_C9cMf8A

3 years ago

How hard is it to adapt a memory allocator to CHERI?

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/how_hard_is_it_to_adapt_a_memory_allocator_to_cheri.html

3 years ago

A bus driver killed a man, the city blamed tech

https://www.theindustry.pw/p/cruise-sf-fire-chief

3 years ago

We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy caused

https://twitter.com/unity/status/1703547752205218265?s=20

3 years ago

UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to receive £600k each

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/18/post-office-horizon-scandal-victims-compensation

3 years ago

Seeking comments on the Data Catalog (DCAT) US standard v3.0

https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us

3 years ago

Two-parent households should be a policy goal

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/marriage-two-parent-households-socioeconomic-consequences/675333/

3 years ago

SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains for the Steam Deck

https://www.phoronix.com/review/steamos-35-benchmarks

3 years ago

Create non-game apps with Godot Engine

https://simondalvai.org/blog/godot-apps/

3 years ago

Project Unifree – migrate Unity projects to other game engines

https://github.com/ProjectUnifree/unifree

3 years ago

Fidonet Rules (2014)

https://wiki.c2.com/?FidonetRules

3 years ago

TSMC tells vendors to delay chip equipment deliveries

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-tells-vendors-delay-chip-equipment-deliveries-sources-2023-09-15/

3 years ago

Ozempic Can Cause Major Loss of Muscle Mass and Reduce Bone Density

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ozempic-muscle-mass-loss

3 years ago

Tell HN: AWS outage in us-west-2 AND us-east-1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37559879

3 years ago

Slums in Delhi were flattened before the G20 summit

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/G20-SUMMIT/SLUM/zdpxrxoaypx/

3 years ago

Follow up to “Changing the rules of Rust”

https://without.boats/blog/follow-up-to-changing-the-rules-of-rust/

3 years ago

The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype?

https://daily.jstor.org/the-daguerreotypes-famous-why-not-the-calotype/

3 years ago

To build ships that break ice, U.S. must relearn to cut steel

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/to-build-ships-that-break-ice-u-s-must-relearn-to-cut-steel-da8c797f

3 years ago

Pollution in 1/8 (2010)

https://labs.ripe.net/author/franz/pollution-in-18/

3 years ago

Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summer

https://tiblur.com/post/462038779695576304265368

3 years ago