top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-15

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/mastercard-should-stop-selling-our-data

2 years ago

Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2023/10/14/eu-csam-suomi-eduskunta-kanta

2 years ago

"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/10/hacker-news-for-retro-computing-and.html

2 years ago

Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/14/google-internet-spiral-of-decline-deepmind-mustafa-suleyman/

2 years ago

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

2 years ago

Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App

https://omnivore.app/

2 years ago

SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing

https://github.com/jtesta/ssh-audit

2 years ago

Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple

https://www.signtime.apple/applecare/us-EN/asl

2 years ago

Organizing multiple Git identities

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-10-13-organizing-multiple-git-identities

2 years ago

Mark Twain at Stormfield (1909) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leYj--P4CgQ

2 years ago

Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

https://blog.cloudflare.com/sippy-incremental-migration-s3-r2/

2 years ago

Causal inference as a blind spot of data scientists

https://dzidas.com/ml/2023/10/15/blind-spot-ds/

2 years ago

MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08560

2 years ago

Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform

https://github.com/omnigres/omnigres

2 years ago

Why Async Rust?

https://without.boats/blog/why-async-rust/

2 years ago

Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/microsoft-consumes-activision

2 years ago

Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)

https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/

2 years ago

BeagleV-Ahead open-source RISC-V single board computer

https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-ahead

2 years ago

Decline in independent activity as a cause of decline in child mental health

https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/assets/2023-02/Children%27s%20Independence%20IN%20PRESS%20.pdf

2 years ago

Vercel employee used customer information to pursue a personal trademark matter

https://twitter.com/vercel_support/status/1713295474998772215

2 years ago

Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

https://fortune.com/2023/10/14/nvidia-skips-return-to-office-sticks-to-remote-work-among-hottest-tech-companies/

2 years ago

Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers

https://italianpoetry.it/

2 years ago

Recursive Recipes

https://recursiverecipes.schollz.com/

2 years ago

Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality

https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/10/09/generalists-vs-specialists-gamedev-tool-quality-tim-cain

2 years ago

GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers

https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios

2 years ago

Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570

2 years ago

'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'

https://torrentfreak.com/terminating-internet-access-over-piracy-claims-is-drastic-and-overbroad-231014/

2 years ago

On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-being-poor-ish

2 years ago

State of the Map EU 2023

https://stateofthemap.eu/

2 years ago

Canada ends official time signal

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/13/canada-abruptly-ends-official-time-signal/

2 years ago

Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

https://github.com/navorite/sessionic

2 years ago

You can use lightguns on LCDs sometimes

https://nicole.express/2023/bang-bang-youre-dead.html

2 years ago

Being picky about a CSS reset for fun

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/10/03/being-picky-about-a-css-reset-for-fun-pleasure/

2 years ago

The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2023/10/04/the-sycamore-gap-tree-held-a-particularly-deep-place-in-peoples-hearts

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is your experience with Nano-Hydroxyapatite toothpaste?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888728

2 years ago

Qaul – Internet independent wireless mesh communication app

https://qaul.net/

2 years ago

Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc)

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/10/teaching-apple-cyberdog-10-new-tricks.html

2 years ago

FBI warns against using public USB charging ports

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-warns-public-charging-stations/story?id=98503419

2 years ago

USB Made Simple (2008)

https://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/

2 years ago

Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth

https://www.jupe.com/get-jupe

2 years ago

Show HN: 3D Binpacking Algorithm Visualized

https://skusavvy.com/bin-packing-preview

2 years ago

The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-fascist-state-of-paw-patrol/

2 years ago

Hyphens in man pages

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/10/msg00083.html

2 years ago

Background job queues and priorities may be the wrong path

https://alexis.bernard.io/blog/2023-10-15-background-job-queues-and-priorities-may-be-the-wrong-path.html

2 years ago

Werner Herzog on beer, yoga and what he would ask God

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/15/werner-herzog-documentary-film-memoir-every-man-for-himself-interview

2 years ago

One (1) new Wii U console was sold in the U.S. during September 2023

https://mynintendonews.com/2023/10/14/us-a-single-brand-new-wii-u-console-was-sold-during-september-2023/

2 years ago

American Big Tech Has Enslaved Us [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VatYrw0uqjU

2 years ago

FFmpeg-online: ffpmeg running on the browser

https://ffmpeg-online.vercel.app/?inputOptions=-i&output=output.mp4&outputOptions=

2 years ago

Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Commerce

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ending-junk-fees-the-most-annoying

2 years ago

The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship

https://www.wired.com/story/united-nations-igf-saudi-arabia-russia/

2 years ago

The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-average-new-ev-costs-14000-less-than-it-did-a-year-ago

2 years ago

Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI

https://thewalrus.ca/margaret-atwood-ai/

2 years ago

MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/13/mariadb_restructure/

2 years ago

Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make

https://0x1.pt/2023/10/15/trying-out-c++20s-modules-with-clang-and-make/

2 years ago

My Google Play Developer account has been terminated

https://medium.com/@raffaelet/my-seven-years-old-google-play-developer-account-has-been-terminated-ed321754cd51

2 years ago

WordStar: Arrogant, Difficult, Powerful (2022)

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/arrogant-difficult-powerful

2 years ago

Transactions and Concurrency in PostgreSQL

https://doadm-notes.blogspot.com/2023/10/transactions-and-concurrency-in.html

2 years ago

OpenEarable: A new, open-source, Arduino-based platform for ear-based sensing

https://open-earable.teco.edu/

2 years ago

The official website of Charles Atlas

https://www.charlesatlas.com/index.html

2 years ago

Navidrome: Open-Source Software to enjoy your music collection from anywhere

https://www.navidrome.org

2 years ago

Steve's Explanation of the Viterbi Algorithm (2003)

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sengels/tutorials/viterbi.html

2 years ago

MfsBSD: ISO file that create a working minimal installation of FreeBSD

https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd

2 years ago

The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (2018)

https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins

2 years ago

Show HN: Deep Chat – AI chat component

https://github.com/OvidijusParsiunas/deep-chat

2 years ago

Old Pinball Machines Are Amazingly Complex [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg

2 years ago

Why Card Catalogs Matter (2017)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/librarian-congress-weighs-why-card-catalogs-matter-180963371/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Videos explaining math intuively for children 6 to 10

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888414

2 years ago

Breakelse: When Compiler Developers Get Bored

https://neat-lang.github.io/breakelse.html?

2 years ago

NASA's Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-optical-comms-demo-en-route-to-asteroid/

2 years ago