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Select * from cloud 604 by kiyanwang | 239 comments on Hacker News.

Why modern software is slow 599 by soheilpro | 739 comments on Hacker News.

Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 563 by firloop | 460 comments on Hacker News.

Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding 559 by simulo | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 691 by yewenjie | 207 comments on Hacker News.

Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text 705 by hardmaru | 328 comments on Hacker News.

Google is shutting down Stadia 848 by vyrotek | 877 comments on Hacker News.

ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to your butt 615 by qdot76367 | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime 583 by kentonv | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Someone is pretending to be me 663 by iBotPeaches | 135 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI 575 by Hadjimina | 270 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone, Let me introduce you to Quazel, where we want to enable people to talk their way to fluency. We have all tried various language learning apps and tools, however, one aspect of language learning current services are really bad at is conversational practice. You might get a chat-like interface, but in the end, the conversation partner will only respond with a predefined "if the users say X I say Y". With Quazel that's completely different. In completely dynamic and unscripted conversation you can talk about pretty much anything you want. For example, you can try ordering food at a restaurant and even hold a philosophical discussion with Socrates. Additionally, you can analyze the grammar of your responses or use hints to help you out when you get stuck. We want to change how languages are learned from a grammar-centric approach to a m

A CTO should be technical 554 by catapultis | 314 comments on Hacker News.

Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos 567 by duiker101 | 281 comments on Hacker News.

Dear Chess World 601 by shreyas-satish | 897 comments on Hacker News.

Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates 614 by ingve | 324 comments on Hacker News.

Turns are better than radians 578 by todsacerdoti | 398 comments on Hacker News.

3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror 579 by pilimi_anna | 489 comments on Hacker News.

Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used 573 by runxel | 217 comments on Hacker News.

Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar 569 by thunderbong | 437 comments on Hacker News.

Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring 549 by tonystubblebine | 565 comments on Hacker News.

Aging programmer 552 by nomdep | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers 602 by bj-rn | 190 comments on Hacker News.

A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements 570 by CharlesW | 277 comments on Hacker News.

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash 741 by kstrauser | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health 593 by giuliomagnifico | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B 602 by april_22 | 434 comments on Hacker News.

Software I’m thankful for (2021) 743 by yarapavan | 473 comments on Hacker News.

Avoiding homework with code and getting caught 672 by aabbccsmith | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Nightdrive 668 by GeorgeHahn | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? 633 by TurkishPoptart | 565 comments on Hacker News. It's buggy, and it crashes more often than any other app I use. God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call. And then if you try to just call back on your phone, and they want to share their screen, and you go back to your PC and try to join the call from your PC so you can see the screenshare (it's not going to work). Seriously, with all the money and resources thrown at this company and this app, you'd think it'd be a little more stable, faster, and reliable. I am literally forced to use this app at work...

Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI 712 by _just7_ | 233 comments on Hacker News.

React I love you, but you're bringing me down 553 by fzaninotto | 433 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about 545 by rexfuzzle | 151 comments on Hacker News. So a while ago I wrote about how 2FA was missing a key feature: https://ift.tt/P0xlAuB... Having not had any feedback on it in a while and the idea not taking off, today somebody messaged me to say that had implemented it in their product. 1. Obviously I think this is great and more secure 2. Tell people about things you do that they played a part it- it might just make their day.

Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with legal language 548 by rntn | 310 comments on Hacker News.

1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video] 751 by reimertz | 126 comments on Hacker News.

2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer 664 by CrankyBear | 223 comments on Hacker News.

Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair 632 by walterbell | 393 comments on Hacker News.

The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack 592 by acconrad | 488 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle 566 by drcode | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Plasma Bigscreen 607 by sudenmorsian | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers 558 by todsacerdoti | 452 comments on Hacker News.

Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business 837 by yaythefuture | 411 comments on Hacker News. Saw https://ift.tt/cvHdhQl from a couple weeks ago and figured I'd share my own story. 3 weeks ago, I woke up to a pissed off customer telling me her payments were broken. My startup uses Stripe Connect to accept payments on behalf of our clients, and when I looked into it, I found that Stripe had decided to deactivate her account. Reason listed: 'Other'. Great. I contact Stripe via chat, and I learn nothing. Frontline support says "we'll look into it." Days go by, still nothing. Meanwhile, this customer is losing a massive amount of business and suffering. After a few days, my team and I go at them from as many angles as possible. We're on the phone, we're on Twitter, we're reaching out to connections who work there / used to work there, and of course, we reach out to patio11. All of these support channels give us nothing except "we've got

The Ethereum merge is done 754 by mfiguiere | 979 comments on Hacker News.

Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B 784 by caoxuwen | 458 comments on Hacker News.

Patagonia founder gives away the company 721 by sharkweek | 334 comments on Hacker News.

The last person standing in the floppy disk business 656 by fortran77 | 330 comments on Hacker News.

Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch 617 by MForster | 300 comments on Hacker News.

FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts 620 by Erikun | 355 comments on Hacker News.

Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project 597 by eatonphil | 216 comments on Hacker News.

Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac 556 by divamgupta | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen? 464 by rasulkireev | 464 comments on Hacker News. This questions has been asked before [0][1][2], but I'm thinking that in the last 4 years something new and exciting has been created or discovered. If you could describe in a couple of words why you mentioned what you mentioned, that would be fantastic. [0]: https://ift.tt/NAygH1w [1]: https://ift.tt/sMFeb4L [2]: https://ift.tt/Fo8laBj

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font 443 by zdw | 143 comments on Hacker News.

Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team 443 by cpeterso | 490 comments on Hacker News.

San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics 603 by O__________O | 445 comments on Hacker News.

Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR” 694 by rrampage | 251 comments on Hacker News.

What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) 688 by antonyl | 584 comments on Hacker News.

Congress.gov API 648 by ElevenLathe | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit's favorite products in one place 588 by mooreds | 224 comments on Hacker News.

Queen Elizabeth II has died 685 by xd | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs 477 by irajdeep | 232 comments on Hacker News.

Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds 622 by yreg | 615 comments on Hacker News.

IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system 626 by susiecambria | 396 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent 579 by arcticfox | 164 comments on Hacker News. I occasionally use Otter.ai to transcribe when I'm multitasking. Recently they made an update, which I carefully opted out of, to automatically join every meeting through my Google Calendar and transcribe it. Screenshots prove I had the feature disabled. The bot proceeded to join two confidential meetings on my behalf and record the whole thing, then email every member an absurd, inaccurate "outline" after. I am not much of a privacy person but I feel completely abused in this situation. I have opened a support ticket with screenshots but there is no response, and according to Twitter they are essentially not reviewing tickets from free users at the moment. So just a heads-up to the HN community! Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend?

WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing 476 by xor99 | 263 comments on Hacker News.

Difftastic, the fantastic diff 589 by pcr910303 | 76 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch 560 by myownclone | 171 comments on Hacker News. I ported Quake 1 to the Apple Watch, building on top of existing ports for iOS and Mac. Some features: * uses Quake SW renderer + blitting to WatchKit surface (~60 fps, 640x480, larger res can run on lower framerate, tested up until 1024x768) * touch + gyro + digital crown controls * new AVFoundation audio backend (quake to Watchkit audio buffer copy logic), as Watchkit does not support CoreAudio * high pass audio filter to remove clicking on Watch speaker for some of the low frequency quake .wav samples * some smaller modifications and code updates to glue Quake 1 c code to Objective C and Watchkit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC2o262TfQ

TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML 524 by feross | 222 comments on Hacker News.

Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices 529 by sl-dolt | 276 comments on Hacker News.

Bitwarden raises $100M 530 by deanmoriarty | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes 447 by badindentation | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size 446 by casca | 406 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port) 509 by ahilss | 109 comments on Hacker News. I originally developed a WASM port of wxWidgets for https://dj.app/ . When it came time to open source wxWidgets-wasm, I decided to port another complex app as a test case, and Audacity seemed like the obvious choice. In the process, I also needed to write a new host API for PortAudio for playback and recording in the browser. https://ift.tt/H8LGJZi https://ift.tt/A65JteX https://ift.tt/eIzgOHE

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel 782 by carlesfe | 359 comments on Hacker News.

Blocking Kiwifarms 627 by deepdriver | 1119 comments on Hacker News.

Peter Eckersley has died 605 by dredmorbius | 43 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon 646 by theturtletalks | 189 comments on Hacker News. A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc. The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly. This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing marketplace. In 2019, I started building the first piece, Openship, an order management system that lets you source orders and fulfill them from anywhere. Now that that’s in stable release, next up is Openfront (an e-commerce platform for storefronts) and Opensupport (ticketing software for custo

Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU 583 by bfirsh | 229 comments on Hacker News.

US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia 538 by wmf | 428 comments on Hacker News.