top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-25

Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools

2 years ago

iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

https://ileakage.com/

2 years ago

How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?

https://manas.tech/blog/2023/10/25/approaching-unconventional-problems/

2 years ago

Was Rust Worth It?

https://jsoverson.medium.com/was-rust-worth-it-f43d171fb1b3

2 years ago

Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-10-25-2%5E18-dollars-to-open-source.html

2 years ago

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103122001615

2 years ago

Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38010992

2 years ago

First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-malaria-vaccine-slashes-early-childhood-deaths

2 years ago

Internet Artifact Museum

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

2 years ago

Web components will outlive JavaScript frameworks

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/web-components-will-outlive-your-javascript-framework/

2 years ago

Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust

https://flawless.dev/

2 years ago

Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air

https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/adding-crushed-rock-farmland-pulls-carbon-out-air

2 years ago

EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/

2 years ago

I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)

https://nandovillalba.medium.com/why-i-think-gcp-is-better-than-aws-ea78f9975bda

2 years ago

Brisk 22-minute walk could offset harmful effects of sitting, study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/24/brisk-minute-walk-offset-harmful-effects-sitting-study

2 years ago

Wait, what's a bookmarklet?

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/wait-whats-a-bookmarklet/

2 years ago

Oh-Auth – Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts

https://salt.security/blog/oh-auth-abusing-oauth-to-take-over-millions-of-accounts

2 years ago

Judas goat

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

2 years ago

An aborted experiment with server Swift

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/an-aborted-experiment-with-server-swift

2 years ago

AI 'breakthrough': neural net has human-like ability to generalize language

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03272-3

2 years ago

Keyboard Maestro 11

https://www.stairways.com/press/2023-10-24

2 years ago

Safety benefits of roundabouts

https://theconversation.com/what-are-roundabouts-a-transportation-engineer-explains-the-safety-benefits-of-these-circular-intersections-215412

2 years ago

The Case of a Curious SQL Query

https://buttondown.email/jaffray/archive/the-case-of-a-curious-sql-query/

2 years ago

SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site

https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship

2 years ago

Unpacking Elixir: Observability

https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-observability.html

2 years ago

Why every microwave sucks these days

https://moth.monster/blog/microwaves/

2 years ago

Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS

https://www.thenile.dev/blog/introducing-nile

2 years ago

Not knowing the /proc file system

https://admccartney.mur.at/programming/idkproc/

2 years ago

Show HN: ArtistAssistApp – a web app to paint better with ease

https://artistassistapp.com/

2 years ago

The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-10-25/the-human-body-has-18-trillion-cells-dedicated-to-defending-it.html

2 years ago

The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)

https://a16z.com/the-cost-of-cloud-a-trillion-dollar-paradox/

2 years ago

Sergey Brin's airship gets FAA clearance

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lta-airship-faa-clearance

2 years ago

MAME 0.260

https://www.mamedev.org/?p=530

2 years ago

Helix 23.10 Highlights

https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-10-highlights/

2 years ago

Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

https://www.theverge.com/23930960/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-poll-why-try-another-browser

2 years ago

Microsoft now demands to know why you won't use Edge when you download Chrome

https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/microsoft-now-demands-to-know-why-you-just-wont-use-edge-when-you-inevitably-download-chrome-using-it

2 years ago

Cloudflare API, dashboard, tunnels down

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/s1hkh315y9s9

2 years ago

ReactAgent: LLM Agent for React Coding

https://reactagent.io/

2 years ago

Show HN: A note-keeping system on top of Fossil SCM

https://github.com/rguiscard/fossil-notebook-demo

2 years ago

Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/30/cli-tools-python/

2 years ago

Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/venture-capital-backed-startup-founder-confessions.html

2 years ago

I Won't Use Next.js

https://www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-use-nextjs

2 years ago

Advice to a novice programmer

https://blog.plover.com/prog/katara-advice.html

2 years ago

Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore

https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-survival-mode-on-macos

2 years ago

Heslington Brain

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

2 years ago

What Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/its-crazy-how-much-transport-for

2 years ago

LAPD releases video of officers who ignored robbery to play Pokémon Go

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-07/lapd-releases-video-of-officers-who-ignored-robbery-to-play-pokemon-go

2 years ago

Porting Linux Pledge to Go

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/porting-linux-pledge-to-go

2 years ago

Segmind Stable Diffusion – A smaller version of Stable Diffusion XL

https://huggingface.co/segmind/SSD-1B

2 years ago

2023 Hugo Awards

https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/

2 years ago

Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/books/review/thurston-moore-sonic-life.html

2 years ago

PEP 703 Accepted: Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-making-the-global-interpreter-lock-optional-in-cpython-acceptance/37075

2 years ago

Show HN: Orbital – Dynamically unifying APIs and data with no glue code

https://github.com/orbitalapi/orbital

2 years ago

Otis: Tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in 24h

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2023/ep18/ep182023.discus.012.shtml

2 years ago

Show HN: JellyBox – Jellyfin Desktop Client

https://testflight.apple.com/join/LVj8KwAq

2 years ago

Book Review: Going Infinite

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/book-review-going-infinite

2 years ago

Meta Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Third-Quarter-2023-Results/default.aspx

2 years ago

Nightshade, a tool allowing artists to 'poison' AI models

https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-nightshade-the-new-tool-allowing-artists-to-poison-ai-models-with-corrupted-training-data/

2 years ago

Lichee Console 4A: Mini Laptop with a RISC-V Processor and 7 inch display

https://liliputing.com/lichee-console-4a-is-a-mini-laptop-with-a-risc-v-processor-and-7-inch-display/

2 years ago

William Blake's Printing Process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGiVMj5Vm2g

2 years ago

On Keeping a Logbook (2010)

https://austinkleon.com/2010/01/31/logbook/

2 years ago

Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/critically-acclaimed-horror-film-of-the-2010s-or-your-phd-program

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best way to become an independent software developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008323

2 years ago

Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication

https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/living-papers/

2 years ago

We should promote more personal indexing, rather than algorithmic indexing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013796

2 years ago

Desert Island Tourism

https://thehustle.co/the-wild-business-of-desert-island-tourism/

2 years ago

Heated yoga may reduce depression in adults

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/heated-yoga-may-reduce-depression-in-adults/

2 years ago

Curl from Start to End

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/10/24/curl-from-start-to-end/

2 years ago

Sunflower (Mathematics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_(mathematics)

2 years ago