top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-15

Database Fundamentals

https://tontinton.com/posts/database-fundementals/

2 years ago

I bricked my Christmas lights

https://www.whizzy.org/2023-12-14-bricked-xmas/

2 years ago

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/

2 years ago

More product, fewer product managers

https://kitemaker.co/blog/more_product_fewer_pms

2 years ago

How Lego builds a new Lego set

https://www.theverge.com/c/23991049/lego-ideas-polaroid-onestep-behind-the-scenes-price

2 years ago

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

https://retool.com/pipes

2 years ago

Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust

https://oxc-project.github.io/blog/2023-12-12-announcing-oxlint.html

2 years ago

Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-on-fly-by-supabase

2 years ago

Google Groups ending support for Usenet

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

2 years ago

WebP is so great except it's not (2021)

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/2021/10/webp-is-so-great-except-its-not/

2 years ago

Prompt engineering

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering

2 years ago

Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth

https://mitxela.com/projects/smsc

2 years ago

Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/delta-dental-says-data-breach-exposed-info-of-7-million-people/

2 years ago

Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/simple-software-engineering-habits

2 years ago

Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection

https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-writercom

2 years ago

Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite-bench

2 years ago

Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652736

2 years ago

An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012)

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

2 years ago

Open source rules engine for Magic: The Gathering

https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/wiki

2 years ago

Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cambridge-photographer-daily-photo-challenge-13-years-180983428/

2 years ago

Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

2 years ago

McDonald's ice cream machine hackers say they found 'smoking gun'

https://www.wired.com/story/kytch-taylor-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-smoking-gun/

2 years ago

What happens in the brain while daydreaming?

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/what-happens-brain-while-daydreaming

2 years ago

Let it snow in your terminal

https://github.com/sontek/snowmachine

2 years ago

Fastmail Employees Form a Union

https://union.place/@fastmailunited/111563614375789166

2 years ago

AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amd-mi300

2 years ago

Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser

https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-in-scheme-on-wasm-in-the-browser.html

2 years ago

ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux

https://www.binwang.me/2023-12-14-ZFS-Profiling-on-Arch-Linux.html

2 years ago

Swift was always going to be part of the OS (2022)

https://belkadan.com/blog/2022/10/Swift-in-the-OS/

2 years ago

Do large language models need all those layers?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/do-large-language-models-really-need-all-those-layers

2 years ago

Jurassic Systems

https://www.jurassicsystems.com/

2 years ago

WWII code breaker Mary Ratcliffe has died

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12867531/code-breaker-Alan-Turing-Nazi-secrets-dies-aged-98.html

2 years ago

Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge

https://godotengine.org/article/collaboration-with-google-forge-2023/

2 years ago

Risk management is not project management

https://mattrucker.com/risk-management-is-not-project-management/

2 years ago

Windows Protected Print Mode

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/a-new-modern-and-secure-print-experience-from-windows/ba-p/4002645

2 years ago

September 11th That You Have Never Seen

https://medium.com/@jeremiahjw/31-photos-from-september-11th-that-you-have-never-seen-9514aaac2d54

2 years ago

New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers

https://blog.zulip.com/2023/12/15/new-plans-for-self-hosted-customers/

2 years ago

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/linkedin_abandons_migration_to_microsoft/

2 years ago

Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/12/14/prompt/

2 years ago

Double-mirror illusion

https://journalofillusion.net/index.php/joi/article/view/9839/16407

2 years ago

Threestudio – Framework for 3D content generation

https://github.com/threestudio-project/threestudio

2 years ago

Breakthrough in 'detonating' hypersonic propulsion

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ges-breakthrough-in-detonating-hypersonic-propulsion-is-a-big-deal

2 years ago

EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-want-media-law-carve-out-to-spy-on-reporters/

2 years ago

Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinking

https://www.leadingsapiens.com/cognitive-distortions-leaders/

2 years ago

First look at asteroid dust brought to Earth offers surprises

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03978-4

2 years ago

Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-defends-edges-predatory-practices-with-cringe-and-audacious-reply-on-x/

2 years ago

The emergence of full-body Gaussian Splat deepfake humans

https://blog.metaphysic.ai/the-emergence-of-full-body-gaussian-splat-deepfake-humans/

2 years ago

'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods

https://e360.yale.edu/features/green-roads

2 years ago

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to avoid Red Sea after surge in missile and drone attacks

https://www.tradewindsnews.com/containers/maersk-and-hapag-lloyd-to-avoid-red-sea-after-surge-in-attacks/2-1-1572369?zephr_sso_ott=4vVG4P

2 years ago

Calculation before we went digital [pdf]

https://www.nicolamarras.it/Was-There-Life-Before-Computer-en.pdf

2 years ago

How to Lose a Library

https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-a-library/

2 years ago

Secureblue: Hardened Immutable Fedora Images

https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue

2 years ago

Merriam-Webster's 404 Page

https://www.merriam-webster.com/notfound

2 years ago

Cautionary tale about letting big companies on federated communication protocols

https://cloudisland.nz/@fincham/111581381415456989

2 years ago

A close look at a spinlock (2021)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2173

2 years ago

Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house

https://clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/india-street/housetour.html

2 years ago

Ubiquiti users report having access to others' UniFi routers, cameras

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubiquiti-users-report-having-access-to-others-unifi-routers-cameras/

2 years ago

Pop _OS Cosmic Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor and Multi-Window Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-December-2023

2 years ago

Tortured conference series thriving in computer science

https://hal.science/hal-04311585v1

2 years ago

Adblock Plus is showing a fake progress bar after updating

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1735718771908628724

2 years ago