top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-30

Flexbox Froggy

https://flexboxfroggy.com/

2 years ago

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/29/23896151/onewheel-cpsc-recall-future-motion-crash-death

2 years ago

Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency

https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/

2 years ago

How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)

https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photographers/

2 years ago

Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/lazarus-luring-employees-trojanized-coding-challenges-case-spanish-aerospace-company/

2 years ago

A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations

https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-messing-with-climate-calculations/

2 years ago

ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

https://d3.harvard.edu/navigating-the-jagged-technological-frontier/

2 years ago

Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring

https://news.uthscsa.edu/drinking-diet-sodas-and-aspartame-sweetened-beverages-daily-during-pregnancy-linked-to-autism-in-male-offspring/

2 years ago

PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/19/1

2 years ago

The presumption that computers are working correctly

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/computer-says-guilty-an-introduction

2 years ago

Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-30/how-many-people-are-there-in-the-world-don-t-worry-about-it

2 years ago

The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)

https://undervaluedjapan.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-tron-project-how-japan-almost-ruled.html

2 years ago

Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets

https://mitchellh.com/writing/github-changesets

2 years ago

Europol sought unlimited data access in online child sexual abuse regulation

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/

2 years ago

They studied dishonesty – Was their work a lie?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie

2 years ago

Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-federal-court-of-appeal-opens-door-to-the-right-to-be-forgotten-in-a/

2 years ago

What Is the Future of the DAW?

https://djmag.com/features/what-future-daw

2 years ago

NIR: Nim Intermediate Representation

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/22777

2 years ago

PruningRadixTrie – Faster Radix trie for prefix search and auto-complete

https://github.com/wolfgarbe/PruningRadixTrie

2 years ago

Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent

https://www.404media.co/260-million-ai-company-releases-chatbot-that-gives-detailed-instructions-on-murder-ethnic-cleansing/

2 years ago

54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840

2 years ago

CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/09/29/css-solves-auto-expanding-textareas-probably-eventually/

2 years ago

The missing middle in game development

https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/09/28/the-missing-middle-in-game-development/

2 years ago

White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/29/kosovo-serbian-troops-buildup-us-uk

2 years ago

Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-database-for-mariadb-will-be-retired-on-19-september-2025-migrate-to-azure-database-for-mysql-flexible-server/

2 years ago

The Ingenious Cardboard Bed

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/ingenious-cardboard-bed/

2 years ago

How flip-flops are implemented in the Intel 8086 processor

http://www.righto.com/2023/09/8086-flip-flops.html

2 years ago

Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)

https://liliputing.com/firefox-118-brings-browser-based-website-translation-no-cloud-servers-required-for-a-handful-of-supported-languages/

2 years ago

An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30/

2 years ago

A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-couple-of-messages-about-changes-to-ianvisits-66081/

2 years ago

Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/cloudflare-launches-new-ai-tools-to-help-customers-deploy-and-run-models/

2 years ago

Rust on Espressif chips

https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-29-09-2023/

2 years ago

-Werror Is not your friend (2017)

https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2017/05/22/werror-is-not-your-friend/

2 years ago

DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-exec-said-users-get-hooked-on-search-engine-like-cigarettes-or-drugs/

2 years ago

Alleged AMD Zen 5 Specs Leak: Twice the Cores, 15% Increased IPC over Ryzen 7000

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/alleged-amd-zen-5-specs-leak-twice-the-cores-15-increased-ipc-over-ryzen-7000

2 years ago

Adding runtime benchmarks to the Rust compiler benchmark suite

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2023/09/23/rustc-runtime-benchmarks.html

2 years ago

AdaCore Announces Gnat Pro for Rust

https://www.adacore.com/press/adacore-announces-gnat-pro-for-rust

2 years ago

Is consciousness part of the fabric of the universe?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-consciousness-part-of-the-fabric-of-the-universe/

2 years ago

Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair

https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/pharmacokinetics-drug-developments

2 years ago

Tesla sued for severe harassment of black workers at California plant

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/29/tesla-lawsuit-harassment-racism-black-employees-california

2 years ago

My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)

https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey

2 years ago

Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories

https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-announce-drumless-edition-of-random-access-memories/

2 years ago

Building Processors from the Ground Up

https://howcpuworks.com/blogs/processsorbook/building-processors-from-the-ground-up

2 years ago

Shell employees urge CEO to rethink shift from renewables in rare letter

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/09/28/deep-concern-shell-employees-urge-ceo-to-rethink-shift-from-renewables-in-rare-letter

2 years ago

European legislation could create liability for free-software developers

https://lwn.net/Articles/944300/

2 years ago

Running BeOS 5 in QEMU (i386) (2022)

https://john-millikin.com/running-beos-5-in-qemu-i386

2 years ago

Show HN: A C++ dump func. that can print multi-D vectors, maps, tuples, and all

https://github.com/philip82148/cpp-dump

2 years ago

Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/29/bedbug-crisis-political-row-paris-insect-scourge-continues

2 years ago

South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/27/asia/south-korea-child-abuse-ai-sentenced-intl-hnk/index.html

2 years ago

Case study: Rapid recovery from autism after treatment of aspergillus (2020)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33132781/

2 years ago

Publisher: $2.5k for Academics to Post Their Own Manuscript to Their Own Repos

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/29/publisher-wants-2500-to-allow-academics-to-post-their-own-manuscript-to-their-own-repository/

2 years ago

Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/09/30/enshrinement.html

2 years ago

Plastic bag found at the bottom of world’s deepest ocean trench

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/plastic-bag-found-bottom-worlds-deepest-ocean-trench/

2 years ago

How BlackBerry failed to respond to the iPhone

https://rubenerd.com/how-blackberry-failed-to-respond-to-the-iphone/

2 years ago

Dating the Arrival of Modern Humans in Asia

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/human-migration-asia/

2 years ago

Apple puts a hidden QR code on iPhone screens

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/29/iphone-microscopic-qr-code-screen/

2 years ago

How to Use Monadic Operations for `std:optional` in C++23

https://www.cppstories.com/2023/monadic-optional-ops-cpp23/

2 years ago

Training repayment agreements trap employees in their jobs

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/business/training-repayment-agreement-debt.html

2 years ago

Optical Circuit Switching for ML Systems

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603269.3604836

2 years ago