top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-21

Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10

3 years ago

Cisco Acquires Splunk

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html

3 years ago

UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users

3 years ago

Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/09/matrix-2-0/

3 years ago

Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/09/21/companies/nippon-tv-ghibli-acquisition/

3 years ago

Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-banks-mileage-programs/675374/

3 years ago

It's okay to make something nobody wants

https://zhangluyao.com/blog/make-something-nobody-wants/

3 years ago

Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-poisoning-death-iq-loss-thought.html

3 years ago

Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam

https://www.esper.io/blog/android-14-adds-support-for-using-your-smartphone-as-a-webcam

3 years ago

The WebP 0day

https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/

3 years ago

NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-113

3 years ago

Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives

https://lemm.ee/post/8670706

3 years ago

Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1704870849831125446

3 years ago

Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck

https://hardfault.life/p/organic-maps-review

3 years ago

Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

https://christitus.com/install-windows-the-arch-linux-way/

3 years ago

LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cnlabelcontactrelationyoungercousinmotherssiblingsdaughterorfatherssistersdaughter

3 years ago

Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account

https://defcon.social/@mysk/111097362983335713

3 years ago

Show HN: My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/automatic_log_collector_and_analyzer

3 years ago

Terry Tao's generals (2012)

https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence

3 years ago

Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)

https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21

3 years ago

How Equifax Was Breached in 2017

https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-equifax-was-breached-in-2017/

3 years ago

OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230921073556

3 years ago

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-6/

3 years ago

Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released

https://erlangforums.com/t/erlang-otp-26-1-released/2886

3 years ago

A customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed SSH

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/21/hurricane/

3 years ago

India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/21/india_cybercrime_trends_report/

3 years ago

Strong arrows: a new approach to gradual typing

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradual-typing/

3 years ago

Open source AI will win

https://varunshenoy.substack.com/p/why-open-source-ai-will-win

3 years ago

Most UI applications are broken real-time applications

https://thelig.ht/ui-apps-are-broken/

3 years ago

USPS In-Person Identity Proofing

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/USPS-In-Person-Identity-Proofing

3 years ago

Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/21/calls-to-shut-down-bristol-schools-use-of-think-family-education-app-pupils-and-families

3 years ago

The SEC cracks down on greenwashing

https://www.semafor.com/article/09/21/2023/the-sec-cracks-down-on-greenwashing

3 years ago

Show HN: Odin – the integration of LLMs with Obsidian note taking

https://github.com/memgraph/odin

3 years ago

Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power

https://browsercompany.substack.com/cp/137231709

3 years ago

Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants

https://gizmodo.com/michael-bloomberg-500-million-shut-down-coal-plants-1850861082

3 years ago

Launch HN: Loops (YC W22) – Email for SaaS Companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596253

3 years ago

RAG is more than just embedding search

https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/blog/2023/09/17/rag-is-more-than-just-embedding-search/

3 years ago

The urgent need for memory safety in software products

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/urgent-need-memory-safety-software-products

3 years ago

Why Kakoune

https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-09-20-why-kakoune/

3 years ago

Google sued for negligence after man died following map directions

https://apnews.com/article/google-maps-lawsuit-north-carolina-death-f4707247ee3295bf51bbcb37bd0eb6c8

3 years ago

Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

https://www.paypal-status.com/incident/production

3 years ago

An INI Critique of TOML (2021)

https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique-of-TOML

3 years ago

India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66851964

3 years ago

Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt

https://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/sunken-civilizations/heracleion/

3 years ago

Ship of Fools

https://successfulsoftware.net/2023/09/19/ship-of-fools/

3 years ago

Compiling ML models to C for fun

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-ml-models/

3 years ago

“Stop Making Sense” is having a theatrical rerelease

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/stop-making-sense-and-the-transformative-power-of-collaboration

3 years ago

Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-modem-chip-failure-6fe33d19

3 years ago

We're the Researchers who looked into the privacy of 25 of the top car brands

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/16oi17v/were_the_researchers_who_looked_into_the_privacy/

3 years ago

Volvo to cease production of diesel cars in a few months

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volvo-end-diesel-car-production-by-early-2024-2023-09-19/

3 years ago

Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/oh-gitness-harness-launches-gitness-an-open-source-github-competitor/

3 years ago

Ancient tools thought to be made by humans were made by monkeys: archaeologists

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-tools-monkeys-2237820

3 years ago

Atlassian cripples’ Jira automation for all but enterprise customers

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Introducing-our-new-packaging-model-for-Jira-Cloud-Automation/ba-p/2446099

3 years ago

Haskell WebAssembly in the Browser

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Haskell_webassembly_in_the_browser/

3 years ago

Designing content for people who struggle with numbers

https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/numbers-measurements-dates-time

3 years ago

Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-easier-to-optimize-than-c-for-heavy-calculations

3 years ago

Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/19/intel_pcs_nvidia/

3 years ago

Telemetry

https://storybook.js.org/docs/react/configure/telemetry/

3 years ago

Total cholesterol and mortality by sex and age:study of 12.8M adults

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38461-y

3 years ago

Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37599982

3 years ago

Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/mexico-cartels-fifth-largest-employer-study

3 years ago

The NSA Invented Bitcoin?

https://twitter.com/danroberts0101/status/1702440110002729356

3 years ago

GNU Turns 40

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/20/gnu_turns_40/

3 years ago

Some reasons to avoid Cython

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/cython-limitations/

3 years ago

How do databases execute expressions?

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023-09-21-how-do-databases-execute-expressions.html

3 years ago