top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-28

Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign

https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign

2 years ago

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-agrees-invest-up-2-bln-openai-rival-anthropic-wsj-2023-10-27/

2 years ago

The fun factor of the video game Uplink

https://vertette.github.io/post/funfactoruplink

2 years ago

FCC wants to bolster amateur radio

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/fcc-wants-to-bolster-amateur-radio

2 years ago

MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer

https://ephtracy.github.io/

2 years ago

Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way

https://iliana.fyi/blog/ios-wallet-library-card/

2 years ago

Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

https://blog.ornx.net/post/bluetooth-volume-fix/

2 years ago

Nitrogen electroreduction with almost 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency (2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05108-y

2 years ago

Ertdfgcvb

https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/?mode=screensaver

2 years ago

Arena Allocation in SBCL

https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals-notes/arena-allocation.txt

2 years ago

When gradient descent is a kernel method

https://cgad.ski/blog/when-gradient-descent-is-a-kernel-method.html

2 years ago

Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln4rsxWq3WM

2 years ago

React use C

https://github.com/elnardu/react-use-c

2 years ago

Cortex X2: ARM aims high

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/10/27/cortex-x2-arm-aims-high/

2 years ago

A small warning about UDP based protocols

https://boston.conman.org/2023/10/25.1

2 years ago

Elixir and Phoenix can do it all

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/elixir-and-phoenix-can-do-it-all/

2 years ago

Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom

https://www.ch3ngl0rd.com/staring-at-a-wall/

2 years ago

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

https://www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/the-cruel-fantasies-of-well-fed-people/

2 years ago

The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete

https://www.wired.com/story/gaza-internet-blackout-israel/

2 years ago

New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/26/new-study-in-the-journal-of-pediatrics-says-maybe-its-not-social-media-but-helicopter-parenting-thats-making-kids-depressed/

2 years ago

WinterJS

https://wasmer.io/posts/announcing-winterjs-service-workers

2 years ago

The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law

https://www.wired.com/story/the-uks-controversial-online-safety-act-is-now-law/

2 years ago

Show HN: Demystifying Advanced RAG Pipelines

https://github.com/pchunduri6/rag-demystified

2 years ago

Actual is going open-source (2022)

https://actualbudget.com/open-source

2 years ago

How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/10/how-to-think-computationally-about-ai-the-universe-and-everything/

2 years ago

McDonalds is giving free French fries in return for waiving the right to sue

https://www.mashed.com/1432093/mcdonalds-new-app-terms-conditions-reactions/

2 years ago

Assyrian Women of Letters

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/530-2311/features/11800-kanesh-assyrian-letters

2 years ago

Is the Intel N100 a better option than high-end ARM RK3588 boards at the moment?

https://bret.dk/intel-n100-a-challenge-to-arm/

2 years ago

Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British persecution

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/27/taez-o27.html

2 years ago

Anti-ChatGPT

https://github.com/devxpy/anti-chatgpt

2 years ago

WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

2 years ago

Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode

https://gitlab.com/spudlyo/orgdemo2

2 years ago

Watch this guy work and you'll finally understand the TikTok era

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-talent-factory-ursus-magana-creator-economy/

2 years ago

Pope tempted by Python. Signs off on coding scheme for kids

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/28/pope_software_python/

2 years ago

Did the entire media industry misquote a Hamas spokesperson?

https://www.silentlunch.net/p/did-the-entire-media-industry-misquote

2 years ago

Charter Houses (2022)

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/17/charter-houses/

2 years ago

XRDP with H.264 codec brings immense performance boost

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17het7f/xrdp_with_h264_codec_brings_immense_performance/

2 years ago

Why is a second equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 of radiations? (2016)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/243144/why-is-a-second-equal-to-the-duration-of-exactly-9-192-631-770-periods-of-radiat

2 years ago

LAPD YouTube Channel Suspended for Posting Violent Content

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-youtube-channel-suspended-for-posting-violent-content/

2 years ago

Magnetically Modelling MagSafe

https://kavi.sblmnl.co.za/magnetically-modelling-magsafe/

2 years ago

ESP32 Wemos D1 Mini – Sprinkler Controller Open Source

https://github.com/fellowgeek/esp32-relay-board

2 years ago

I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back

https://mattrighetti.com/2023/10/25/i-rewrote-my-cv-in-typst

2 years ago

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/26/privacy_advocate_challenges_youtube/

2 years ago

Killing Windows 10 in 2025 could turn PCs into eWaste

https://liliputing.com/lilbits-killing-windows-10-in-2025-could-turn-millions-of-pcs-into-ewaste-or-at-least-compromise-their-security/

2 years ago

Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08632

2 years ago

People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours,bringing 2013's Her closer to reality

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/people-are-speaking-with-chatgpt-for-hours-bringing-2013s-her-closer-to-reality/

2 years ago

Webb discovers new feature in Jupiter's atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-webb-feature-jupiter-atmosphere.html

2 years ago

Show HN: BetterOCR combines and corrects multiple OCR engines with an LLM

https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR

2 years ago

Minecraft (2009)

https://jvm-gaming.org/t/minecraft/33567

2 years ago

"Is Zero a Number?": Interviews with a Whole Class of Kindergartners

https://jennalaib.wordpress.com/2023/09/19/is-zero-a-number-interviews-with-a-whole-class-of-kindergartners/

2 years ago

One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54%

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/musk-twitter-x-acquisition-one-year-user-revenue-decline-1235770297/

2 years ago

Show HN: Is It Toxic To? – Check if a plant is toxic to your pets

https://iitt.chester.how/

2 years ago

Six Great Features with the Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Great-Features

2 years ago

As Digital Nomads Flock to Lisbon, Portugal's Youth Are Leaving in Droves

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-28/companies-wanting-numeracy-tech-hires-struggle-to-fill-jobs-in-lisbon-portugal

2 years ago

PHP 8.1.25

https://www.php.net/archive/2023.php

2 years ago

Dev sets up "goatse" trap for sites that steal his free web game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/dev-sets-up-goatse-trap-for-sites-that-steal-his-free-web-game/

2 years ago

Wise is deactivating Business cards in the US on Oct. 31st

https://wise.com/help/articles/1Rygn0gaetjmjGcOvyjRZm/were-temporarily-deactivating-wise-business-cards-in-the-us

2 years ago

How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/10/5.html

2 years ago