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

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

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

a year ago

722 upvotes – 163 comments

Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

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

a year ago

721 upvotes – 226 comments

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

https://www.openra.net/

a year ago

610 upvotes – 169 comments

Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

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

a year ago

478 upvotes – 149 comments

What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)

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

a year ago

445 upvotes – 293 comments

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

a year ago

378 upvotes – 143 comments

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

a year ago

370 upvotes – 589 comments

Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

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

a year ago

362 upvotes – 160 comments

NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)

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

a year ago

344 upvotes – 168 comments

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

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

a year ago

324 upvotes – 169 comments

Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

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

a year ago

322 upvotes – 239 comments

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/

a year ago

292 upvotes – 90 comments

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

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

a year ago

280 upvotes – 208 comments

How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)

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

a year ago

272 upvotes – 105 comments

Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)

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

a year ago

267 upvotes – 359 comments

Tracing: Structured logging, but better

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

a year ago

263 upvotes – 129 comments

Some new snippets from the Snowden documents

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

a year ago

260 upvotes – 111 comments

F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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

a year ago

254 upvotes – 662 comments

US Military asks for help locating missing F-35

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

a year ago

246 upvotes – 5 comments

Exploring the Halo 1 System Link Protocol

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

a year ago

220 upvotes – 64 comments

Update on KDP Title Creation Limits

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

a year ago

219 upvotes – 231 comments

The anatomy of a Godot API call

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

a year ago

219 upvotes – 185 comments

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/

a year ago

215 upvotes – 171 comments

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

https://mwmbl.org/

a year ago

209 upvotes – 122 comments

Plants can detect sound

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

a year ago

205 upvotes – 111 comments

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

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

a year ago

193 upvotes – 208 comments

Problems with homemade billing systems

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

a year ago

179 upvotes – 100 comments

Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more

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

a year ago

174 upvotes – 141 comments

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

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

a year ago

164 upvotes – 18 comments

iOS 17 is available today

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

a year ago

162 upvotes – 376 comments

The joys of maintenance programming (2011)

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

a year ago

159 upvotes – 71 comments

Leveraging Rust in our Java database

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

a year ago

151 upvotes – 88 comments

Why and when the Sahara Desert was green: new research

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

a year ago

150 upvotes – 94 comments

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

a year ago

146 upvotes – 45 comments

Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail

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

a year ago

139 upvotes – 111 comments

Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator

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

a year ago

130 upvotes – 75 comments

How much garden you would need to survive on

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

a year ago

118 upvotes – 137 comments

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

a year ago

111 upvotes – 3 comments

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

a year ago

110 upvotes – 74 comments

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

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

a year ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

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

a year ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

Making IIIF Official at the Internet Archive

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

a year ago

107 upvotes – 20 comments

Derek Siver's shell script for tech independence

https://sive.rs/ti.sh

a year ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

'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

a year ago

101 upvotes – 111 comments

The male loneliness epidemic and how it affects fathers

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

a year ago

100 upvotes – 199 comments

Tests find many popular omega 3 supplements are rancid

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

a year ago

97 upvotes – 82 comments

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

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

a year ago

96 upvotes – 130 comments

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

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

a year ago

93 upvotes – 161 comments

Ron Cobb – Filmography

https://roncobb.net/film.html

a year ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

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

a year ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

A bus driver killed a man, the city blamed tech

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

a year ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

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

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

a year ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

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

a year ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

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

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

a year ago

89 upvotes – 69 comments

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

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

a year ago

88 upvotes – 19 comments

Two-parent households should be a policy goal

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

a year ago

88 upvotes – 275 comments

SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains for the Steam Deck

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

a year ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Create non-game apps with Godot Engine

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

a year ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Project Unifree – migrate Unity projects to other game engines

https://github.com/ProjectUnifree/unifree

a year ago

84 upvotes – 0 comments

Fidonet Rules (2014)

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

a year ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

TSMC tells vendors to delay chip equipment deliveries

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

a year ago

84 upvotes – 53 comments

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

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

a year ago

83 upvotes – 74 comments

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

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

a year ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments
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