top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-21

ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv-now-offers-papers-in-html-format/

2 years ago

Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725015

2 years ago

Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs

https://wingu.se/2023/11/30/only-apple-can-do-allow-apps-tracking-users-location-without-consensus.html

2 years ago

Beeper – Moving Forward

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-moving-forward

2 years ago

Fantasy Map Brushes

https://kmalexander.com/free-stuff/fantasy-map-brushes/

2 years ago

Google OAuth is broken (sort of)

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-oauth-is-broken-sort-of/

2 years ago

The right to use adblockers

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.sl.html

2 years ago

Find out who owns a nursing home with our Nursing Home Inspect tool

https://www.propublica.org/article/find-nursing-home-ownership-information

2 years ago

Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-two-pharmacists-figured-out-that-decongestants-dont-work/

2 years ago

SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide

https://sec-consult.com/blog/detail/smtp-smuggling-spoofing-e-mails-worldwide/

2 years ago

How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-privacy-sandbox-ad-tracking-and-why-you-should

2 years ago

U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-20/california-workers-say-herbicide-is-giving-them-parkinsons

2 years ago

Police get medical records without a warrant

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/cvs-rite-aid-walgreens-hand-out-medical-records-to-cops-without-warrants/

2 years ago

Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2023/12/apple-wants-ai-to-run-directly-on-its-hardware-instead-of-in-the-cloud/

2 years ago

New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids

https://www.llnl.gov/article/50716/new-nuclear-deflection-simulations-advance-planetary-defense-against-asteroid-threats

2 years ago

Rust to stabilize `async fn` and return-position `impl Trait` in traits

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/async-fn-rpit-in-traits.html

2 years ago

Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

https://tailwindui.com/templates/catalyst

2 years ago

PHOLED Will Transform Displays

https://spectrum.ieee.org/blue-pholed

2 years ago

Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Acer-Aspire-1-EC-Linux-Complete

2 years ago

New York’s attorney general says SiriusXM’s cancellation process is illegal

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24010975/siriusxm-lawsuit-new-york-tish-james-cancel

2 years ago

GitHub Snakes SVG

https://github.com/Platane/snk

2 years ago

Deep cloning objects in JavaScript

https://www.builder.io/blog/structured-clone

2 years ago

DocuSeal – Open-source Document Signing

https://www.docuseal.co/

2 years ago

Hyperloop One to shut down

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/hyperloop-one-to-shut-down-after-raising-millions-to-reinvent-transit

2 years ago

Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

https://github.com/evanhu1/talk2arxiv

2 years ago

7.1M miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo's safety data looks good

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/human-drivers-crash-a-lot-more-than-waymos-software-data-shows/

2 years ago

Many VCs have stopped investing this year

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/active-VC-investors-decline

2 years ago

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67663128

2 years ago

The great cousin decline

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/12/cousin-relationships-fertility-rate/676892/

2 years ago

Looking into the Stadia Controller Bluetooth Mode Website

https://garyodernichts.blogspot.com/2023/01/looking-into-stadia-controller.html

2 years ago

Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9tsvza8x5t93jtyh3ktmwsdkxpwarcwstadlr0fc0rcxfvn5umzqzyqthz7k56g8z5sjumg9zr9tzfg9y5u7y76t47943tyluslayduk4sr3946l

2 years ago

Wasmer JavaScript SDK

https://wasmer.io/posts/introducing-the-wasmer-js-sdk

2 years ago

Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/nvidia-ceo-we-bet-the-farm-on-ai-and-no-one-knew-it/

2 years ago

US homelessness up 12% from 2022, hits highest level since 2007

https://blobstreaming.org/us-homelessness-up-12-to-highest-reported-level-as-rents-soar-and-coronavirus-pandemic-aid-lapses/

2 years ago

Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction

https://szymanowiczs.github.io/splatter-image

2 years ago

Cisco to acquire Isovalent

https://isovalent.com/blog/post/cisco-acquires-isovalent/

2 years ago

New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT

https://grid.iamkate.com/

2 years ago

Intel plans spinoff of FPGA unit

https://www.networkworld.com/article/957338/intel-plans-spinoff-of-fpga-unit.html

2 years ago

eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection

https://who.ldelossa.is/posts/ebpf-networking-technique-packet-redirection/

2 years ago

Code Is Not Technical Debt

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/code-is-not-technical-debt/

2 years ago

What I wish someone had told me

https://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me

2 years ago

Tech's DEI backlash is here

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/21/techs-dei-backlash-is-here/

2 years ago

Stratechery Year in Review

https://stratechery.com/2023/the-2023-stratechery-year-in-review/

2 years ago

Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

https://mastodon.xyz/@johl/111618899554454932

2 years ago

Google Makes over $92B per Year by Owning Android

https://interestingcontent.substack.com/p/google-makes-over-92-billion-per

2 years ago

Do you really need foreign keys?

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2023/355/do-you-really-need-foreign-keys/

2 years ago

A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/murena-eos-fairphone-4/

2 years ago

It's not always DNS, unless it is

https://medium.com/adevinta-tech-blog/its-not-always-dns-unless-it-is-16858df17d3f

2 years ago

US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/19/us-healthcare-costs-government-covers-41-percent-of-total/

2 years ago

Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/467625/why-is-my-mac-trying-to-force-me-to-enroll-with-expedia-group-upon-installation

2 years ago

Software audio routers

https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/audio_routers.html

2 years ago

The Year in Computer Science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-discoveries-in-computer-science-in-2023-20231220/

2 years ago

OpenAI Begins Tackling ChatGPT Data Leak Vulnerability

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/openai-data-exfiltration-first-mitigations-implemented/

2 years ago

The personal, political art of board-game design

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-personal-political-art-of-board-game-design

2 years ago

Faster arXiv with Fastly

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/18/faster-arxiv-with-fastly/

2 years ago

Is Twitter/X Down

https://twitter.com/home

2 years ago

The mystery of the mimic plant (2022)

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/11/30/23473062/plant-mimicry-boquila-trifoliolata

2 years ago

Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38720369

2 years ago

Colliding Secure Hashes

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/colliding-secure-hashes.html

2 years ago

Llamafile: Bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer

https://future.mozilla.org/blog/introducing-llamafile/

2 years ago

Welcome to Apache OpenDAL

https://opendal.apache.org/docs/overview/

2 years ago

South Korea Will Police 'Shrinkflation' at the Supermarket

https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/this-country-will-police-shrinkflation-at-the-supermarket-aeeec892

2 years ago

Plastic is now a geological phenomenon

https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/geologists-say-plastic-rocks-are-now-a-thing/

2 years ago

Breaking free of plastic pollution

https://worldsensorium.com/breaking-free-of-plastic-pollution-one-of-the-biggest-threats-to-biodiversity/

2 years ago