top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-09

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

2 years ago

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

2 years ago

A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7

2 years ago

W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

https://w4games.com/2023/12/07/w4-games-raises-15m-to-drive-video-game-development-inflection-with-godot-engine/

2 years ago

Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#

https://github.com/isadorasophia/murder

2 years ago

OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault

https://github.com/openbao/openbao/tree/development

2 years ago

Make Apps for Linux

https://makealinux.app

2 years ago

Firefox Keeps Getting Faster

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/quick-as-a-fox-firefox-keeps-getting-faster/

2 years ago

PysimpleGUI

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI

2 years ago

Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo

https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for

https://osssoftware.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

https://github.com/SecureAI-Tools/SecureAI-Tools

2 years ago

Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2023-12-08/spain-expels-two-us-spies-for-infiltrating-secret-service.html

2 years ago

Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/business/air-traffic-controllers-safety.html

2 years ago

EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-08/eu-strikes-deal-to-regulate-chatgpt-other-ai-in-landmark-act

2 years ago

Vulnerabilities in TETRA radio networks

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/tetra/burst.htm

2 years ago

OpenBSD – pinning all system calls

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170205367232026&w=2

2 years ago

A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

https://slack.com/blog/news/the-surprising-connection-between-after-hours-work-and-decreased-productivity

2 years ago

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

2 years ago

NetworkX – Network Analysis in Python

https://networkx.org/

2 years ago

EPA orders packaging firm Inhance to stop making PFAS

https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/US-EPA-orders-packaging-firm/101/web/2023/12

2 years ago

HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/hashicorp_openbao_fork/

2 years ago

Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy

https://archive.org/details/Sneakers_Film_Promotional_Floppy

2 years ago

Amazon Has an Honesty Issue

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opinion/amazon-parcel-contents-get-stolen-and-then-amazon-tries-to-keep-payment.html

2 years ago

Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing

https://nebula.org/anonymous-seq/

2 years ago

Deadweight Loss as a Service

https://unoriginal.blog/introducing-dwlaas/

2 years ago

Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing

https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/fibonacci-hashing.html

2 years ago

Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)

https://kotaku.com/the-invisible-bunnies-that-power-world-of-warcraft-1791576630

2 years ago

Apple to move key iPad engineering resources to Vietnam

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Apple-to-move-key-iPad-engineering-resources-to-Vietnam

2 years ago

Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS

https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner

2 years ago

Single-Dose Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Clinical Trial

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2808950

2 years ago

French AI startup Mistral secures €2B valuation

https://www.ft.com/content/ea29ddf8-91cb-45e8-86a0-f501ab7ad9bb

2 years ago

Gaussian explosion

https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/12/08/Gaussian-explosion/

2 years ago

NeurIPS 2023 Posters Cluster Visualization

https://neurips2023.vizhub.ai/

2 years ago

Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/12/09/dynamic-music-and-sound-techniques-for-video-games/

2 years ago

'Greedflation' study finds many companies were lying to you about inflation

https://fortune.com/europe/2023/12/08/greedflation-study/

2 years ago

Inside OpenAI's crisis over the future of artificial intelligence

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/technology/openai-altman-inside-crisis.html

2 years ago

Clockhands: Rename-free instruction set architecture for out-of-order processors

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3613424.3614272

2 years ago

Light No Fire – A Fantasy Game from the Makers of No Man's Sky

https://lightnofire.com/

2 years ago

Introduction to Legion: life in the Roman army

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/introduction-legion-life-roman-army

2 years ago

Wine 9.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

https://www.winehq.org/announce/9.0-rc1

2 years ago

Show HN: Minimalist Calendars Generator

https://useminimal.com

2 years ago

Show HN: Fine-grained stylistic control of LLMs using model arithmetic

https://github.com/eth-sri/language-model-arithmetic

2 years ago

Is Grok Basically Just an OpenAI Wrapper?

https://twitter.com/JaxWinterbourne/status/1733360575252517001

2 years ago

Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585109

2 years ago

Arrows of Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/

2 years ago

New QuickJS Release

https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/commit/daa35bc1e5d43192098af9b51caeb4f18f73f9f9

2 years ago

Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-cybertrucks-stiff-structure-sharp-design-raise-safety-concerns-experts-2023-12-08/

2 years ago

A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

https://socketsupply.co/blog/build-cross-platform-apps-faster/

2 years ago

New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan

https://english.elpais.com/climate/2023-12-07/new-york-approves-the-first-congestion-toll-in-the-us-drivers-to-be-charged-15-to-enter-manhattan.html

2 years ago

Android adds ggml lib to AICore

https://twitter.com/tarantulae/status/1733263854312825220

2 years ago

Advent of Technical Writing: Style

https://jamesg.blog/2023/12/09/style/

2 years ago

Ext4 data corruption in 6.1 stable

https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20231205122122.dfhhoaswsfscuhc3@quack3/

2 years ago