top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-29

Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/gnu40/rms-gnu40.webm

2 years ago

Draggable objects

https://www.redblobgames.com/making-of/draggable/

2 years ago

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981

2 years ago

Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned

https://posthog.com/blog/dev-marketing-paid-ads

2 years ago

RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models

https://realfill.github.io/

2 years ago

Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

https://punkx.org/overflow/

2 years ago

Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it

https://proton.me/blog/google-lobbying

2 years ago

Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/

2 years ago

Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips

https://techhub.social/@kirbstr/111148950526108155

2 years ago

Meta in Myanmar

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup

2 years ago

50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?

http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2023/09/50-years-later-is-two-phase-locking.html

2 years ago

JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU

https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/quickstart.html

2 years ago

I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

https://www.404media.co/i-tested-an-hdmi-adapter-that-demands-your-location-browsing-data-photos-and-spams-you-with-ads/

2 years ago

Visual Node Graph with ImGui

https://gboisse.github.io/posts/node-graph/

2 years ago

How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/how-a-4-day-workweek-actually-works-from-the-companies-pulling-it-off-1a5c0e2a

2 years ago

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/norway_facebook_behavioral_ads/

2 years ago

Making a music library without a SPA

https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music

2 years ago

Encrypted Client Hello

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-encrypted-client-hello/

2 years ago

MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve

https://prdeving.wordpress.com/2023/09/29/mmo-architecture-source-of-truth-dataflows-i-o-bottlenecks-and-how-to-solve-them/

2 years ago

OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer

2 years ago

★ 3.1k C# Apache-2.0

Mozilla.social mastodon waitlist

https://mozilla.social

2 years ago

Trains on another level

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-378

2 years ago

Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

2 years ago

Costco gold bars are selling out within hours

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/costco-is-selling-gold-bars-and-they-are-selling-out-within-a-few-hours.html

2 years ago

Eye comfort a priority for all-in-one desktop PC with color E Ink display

https://newatlas.com/computers/bigme-b251-all-in-one-computer-color-eink/

2 years ago

Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVCS99Zep9w

2 years ago

Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-forced-rto-tracking-employee-office-attendance-2023-9

2 years ago

$5k Google Jamboard dies in 2024–cloud-based apps will stop working, too

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/5000-google-jamboard-dies-in-2024-cloud-based-apps-will-stop-working-too/

2 years ago

Publishing my first game using PICO-8

https://boyter.org/posts/publishing-a-pico8-game/

2 years ago

Show HN: PDF Debugger – Inspect Structure of PDF Files

https://pdf.hyzyla.dev/

2 years ago

Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/29/three-arrows-capital-co-founder-zhu-arrested-in-singapore-airport-sentenced-four-months-in-prison/

2 years ago

Linux interop is maturing fast thanks to a games console

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/osseu_steam_os_3/

2 years ago

A new era for Arecibo

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03021-6

2 years ago

iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/29/iphone-15-users-of-pro-and-pro-max-models-complain-of-overheating-issues

2 years ago

Dianne Feinstein has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-dead-senate.html

2 years ago

Llama 2 Long

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16039

2 years ago

US Senate’s email system melts down in face of security test and reply-all chaos

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-8-2023/senate-reply-all-mess/

2 years ago

Low-Code Programming Models

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/10/276633-low-code-programming-models/fulltext

2 years ago

Motocompacto from Honda, 3.7 inch wide Briefcase-form Electric Scooter

https://motocompacto.honda.com/

2 years ago

Weird things you can buy online

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/weird-things-you-can-buy/

2 years ago

A scientific curiosity that happened to me

https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/16v8g6e/a_scientific_curiosity_that_happened_to_me/

2 years ago

Nvidia Offices Raided by French Law Enforcement

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-offices-raided-french-law-enforcement-over-suspected-anticompetitive-practices/

2 years ago

Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS)

https://www.gps.gov/

2 years ago

Rimac unveils SineStack, battery energy storage system

https://www.energy-storage.news/rimac-unveils-most-technically-advanced-bess-in-the-world-sinestack/

2 years ago

Who invented the alphabet?

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/08/who-invented-alphabet/

2 years ago

Students made Oxford murder capital of late medieval England, research suggests

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-oxford-capital-late-medieval.html

2 years ago

Draculark: Mudlarking and vampire hunting game in APL for the Commodore SuperPET

https://medium.com/@solarbreeze69/draculark-a-mudlarking-vampire-hunting-game-bbf40361bf1a

2 years ago

SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16509

2 years ago

LeoLM: German-Language LLM Research

https://laion.ai/blog/leo-lm/

2 years ago

A peek into Argentina’s video game scene

https://buenosairesherald.com/culture-ideas/videogames/satanism-star-trek-and-an-army-of-gauchos-a-peek-into-argentinas-video-game-scene

2 years ago

The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kakhovka-dam-chaika-cossack-archaeology

2 years ago

Loadsharers: Funding the Load Bearing Internet People (2020)

https://esr.gitlab.io/loadsharers/

2 years ago

Localtunnel – Easily share a web service on your local development machine

https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/

2 years ago

My elderly parents can't resist answering the phone

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=413383

2 years ago

Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/unity_install_fee_tycoon/

2 years ago

Discovery Steering Committee re Google Antitrust Litigation [pdf]

https://ia804605.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.631.0.pdf

2 years ago

Node.js – v20.8.0

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v20.8.0

2 years ago

Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/fine-sounding-language

2 years ago

SIMH – Old Computer Emulator

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

2 years ago

High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas

https://kottke.org/23/09/stunning-high-resolution-lidar-images-of-rivers-deltas

2 years ago

Linux Kernel Hardening Checker

https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/kernel-hardening-checker

2 years ago

When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (2005)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/when-ceos-are-paid-bad-performance

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702845

2 years ago

Obscura: A VPN that can't track your activity

https://obscuravpn.io/

2 years ago

Senator Dianne Feinstein has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66963341

2 years ago

You can't control your data in the cloud

https://karl-voit.at/cloud/

2 years ago

New York City declares state of emergency amid flash floods

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/weather/new-york-city-northeast-rain-flood-forecast-climate-friday/index.html

2 years ago

Tim Sweeney on Layoffs at Epic

https://www.epicgames.com/site/de/news/layoffs-at-epic

2 years ago

Show HN: SapientML – Generative AutoML for Tabular Data

https://github.com/sapientml/sapientml

2 years ago

UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/utm_apple_hypervisor_foss_fest/

2 years ago

My Postgres Story: Internationalization

https://obartunov.livejournal.com/211100.html

2 years ago

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394144-waste-plastic-can-be-recycled-into-hydrogen-fuel-and-graphene/

2 years ago

The Forbidden Topics

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

2 years ago

Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022)

https://www.propelauth.com/post/generating-chess-puzzles-with-genetic-algorithms

2 years ago

Simple math moves the needle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-simple-math-moves-the-needle-20230929/

2 years ago

Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

2 years ago

Using ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS

https://chat.openai.com/share/af5551c3-0a54-4cee-a7db-be689deb2f70

2 years ago

Netflix Ships Last DVD

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/thanks-for-watching

2 years ago

There were no humans at all in New Zealand until about 1250AD

https://teara.govt.nz/en/history/page-1

2 years ago