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“In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be wiped” 552 by terom | 292 comments on Hacker News.

California cities to lose all zoning powers in 2 days 556 by yboris | 663 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen? 493 by cauliflower99 | 214 comments on Hacker News. It could be tech related or otherwise. What made it so special?

Automerge 2.0 442 by llimllib | 62 comments on Hacker News.

SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic 387 by RobinL | 236 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining? 445 by maerF0x0 | 769 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It's like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What's the solution? A bunch of things I've noticed: * Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1] * People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months thi...

The window trick of Las Vegas hotels 529 by edent | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Chronophoto 526 by jmduke | 81 comments on Hacker News.

Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders 431 by thesephist | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal 420 by fathyb | 47 comments on Hacker News.

I almost bought a scanner 431 by leejo | 317 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety 505 by lukko | 175 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A ( https://www.pi-a.io ) which developed Lungy ( https://www.lungy.app ). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU. My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and they are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have wea...

Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked 562 by coolspot | 318 comments on Hacker News. Someone just published 40Gb+ of leaked Yandex GIT repository. Won’t provide magnet here, but it is top google result for “yandex leak” when filtered by last 24h. Affected services: aapi.tar.bz2 admins.tar.bz2 ads.tar.bz2 alice.tar.bz2 analytics.tar.bz2 antiadblock.tar.bz2 antirobot.tar.bz2 autocheck.tar.bz2 balancer.tar.bz2 billing.tar.bz2 bindings.tar.bz2 captcha.tar.bz2 cdn.tar.bz2 certs.tar.bz2 ci.tar.bz2 classifieds.tar.bz2 client_analytics.tar.bz2 client_method.tar.bz2 cloud.tar.bz2 commerce.tar.bz2 connect.tar.bz2 crm.tar.bz2 crypta.tar.bz2 customer_service.tar.bz2 datacloud.tar.bz2 delivery.tar.bz2 direct.tar.bz2 disk.tar.bz2 docs.tar.bz2 drive.tar.bz2 extsearch.tar.bz2 fuzzing.tar.bz2 gencfg.tar.bz2 groups.tar.bz2 helpdesk.tar.bz2 infra.tar.bz2 intranet.tar.bz2 investors.tar.bz2 it-office.tar.bz2 jupytercloud.tar.bz2 kernel.tar.bz2 library.tar.bz2 load.tar.bz2 mail.tar.bz2 maps.tar.bz2...

Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate 605 by faebi | 152 comments on Hacker News.

Realistic computer-generated handwriting 570 by carl_dr | 172 comments on Hacker News.

OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source 466 by walterbell | 86 comments on Hacker News.

Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts 461 by kvh | 186 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel 460 by anakic | 111 comments on Hacker News.

LastPass breach gets worse – reddit.com/r/sysadmin 466 by sunbum | 218 comments on Hacker News.

Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You 500 by rkachowski | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud 447 by toomuchtodo | 144 comments on Hacker News.

Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021) 425 by pantalaimon | 270 comments on Hacker News.

Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure 427 by nateb2022 | 239 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership 442 by hmate9 | 283 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell 406 by mbrain | 429 comments on Hacker News. Previously asked on: 2022 → https://ift.tt/agb8w2o 2021 → https://ift.tt/KigtxnE 2020 → https://ift.tt/EvZlhJf

Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos 423 by todsacerdoti | 165 comments on Hacker News.

Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes 464 by subliminalpanda | 913 comments on Hacker News.

WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans 399 by bubblehack3r | 142 comments on Hacker News.

I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year 550 by memorable | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions 737 by bryced | 166 comments on Hacker News. This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered. Here are some examples of transformations it can make: Golden gate bridge: https://ift.tt/eMyrZtj... Girl with a pearl earring: https://ift.tt/eMyrZtj... I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.

Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment 729 by jaden | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave 685 by Goleniewski | 200 comments on Hacker News. I was in two minds about writing this but in the end the thought of preventing someone going through what I went through is enough to tip the scales. As per title, sometimes in life you don't realise how toxic something can be until you leave it behind, no matter that be a bad habit, a relationship or even work. Sometimes it can be so toxic that you'd consider ending it all (as i did) because there is no visible way out and keeping the money flowing in at the same time when people depend on you. I am here to say thats not the case. Good stuff can happen. Under another name on here I wrote about my previous job and I felt stuck because if I left I walked away on a large chunk of stock options. That and my age made me feel really depressed and unwanted. I was driven to actively contemplate suicide due to my boss and his shitty attitudes and issues but...

Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 649 by davidbarker | 347 comments on Hacker News.

Google to reduce workforce by 12k 674 by colesantiago | 737 comments on Hacker News.

How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way 611 by half-kh-hacker | 329 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes 594 by gravitronic | 307 comments on Hacker News. I would like to inform the HN community, if your plan to recover your Google account in the event of losing your phone is to use a 2FA backup code, or SMS recovery, to remove the old 2FA setup and set up a new 2FA code, that that may not be possible. My situation: I had 2FA set up with my Google Account through Google Authenticator. I lost my Google Authenticator settings when I broke my phone. I have 2FA backup codes. These successfully log me into my Google Account. In order to disable 2FA, or generate new 2FA backup codes, I need to access the 2FA settings page under the Security tab. When I try to load the Two-factor authentication page, I am forced to re-authenticate with Google. When re-authenticating to access the 2FA page, there is no option to enter a 2FA backup code or SMS verification to pass the 2FA challenge. The only option under "Choose a way to ve...

Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater 567 by subharmonicon | 122 comments on Hacker News.

What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) 539 by blegh | 264 comments on Hacker News.

Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records 520 by mkaic | 297 comments on Hacker News.

Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] 520 by georgehill | 47 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft to lay off 11k employees 486 by georgehill | 341 comments on Hacker News.

Four thousand weeks 508 by jparise | 247 comments on Hacker News.

MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max 636 by ValentineC | 641 comments on Hacker News.

Wobbly clock 551 by ColinWright | 120 comments on Hacker News.

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget 600 by fileeditview | 58 comments on Hacker News.

The Shit Show 487 by chazeon | 198 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube Addiction 436 by ingve | 331 comments on Hacker News.

This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI 432 by goleary | 258 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart? 482 by throwitawaaay | 460 comments on Hacker News. There are a couple of engineers on my current team that I can only describe as being a little too smart for their own good, and I'm struggling a bit with how to work with them. I've worked with this sort of engineer on previous teams as well, and they all share a few traits: - They're brilliant, I mean very smart people (in an almost academic way?) - They have a big appetite for adding complexity to systems - They also have a big appetite for adding work to their own plates - Their code has no consistent style I work in embedded systems, so I'm generally writing C for resource-constrained systems. This sort of environment is rife with footguns, and I spend most of my time just trying to avoid those. A big part of that is keeping the things that my team controls as simple as possible, and while we are resource constrained, it's a balance. The tensi...

Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming? 551 by throwwwwaway | 511 comments on Hacker News. I have come to a realization that I don't really enjoy Software Engineering(& the processes that it comes with) but I do love programming & solving problems. Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. Hacking on new projects is a lot of fun. Writing unit tests is fun too. Refactoring, rewriting, sprint, agile, rearchitecting things etc aren't that fun. I like a few languages and I am not too keen on learning new paradigms or languages unless I have to. I'd rather get to value now by making something that just works(and is adequately tested) than engineer something thats future proof but takes longer to get out. What are some good jobs for a person like this?

A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal 506 by damir | 103 comments on Hacker News.

The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies 492 by cainxinth | 355 comments on Hacker News.

Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022) 456 by _Microft | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden 432 by daaayum | 275 comments on Hacker News.

The Yaml document from hell 419 by ruuda | 268 comments on Hacker News.

What happens when a CPU starts 437 by nowandlater | 129 comments on Hacker News.

NYC Slice 465 by mbil | 393 comments on Hacker News.

Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT 517 by GeorgeDewar | 278 comments on Hacker News.

England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes 436 by lbres | 322 comments on Hacker News.

Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine 584 by whoisburbansky | 118 comments on Hacker News.

NanoGPT 650 by trekhleb | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies 521 by bwestergard | 339 comments on Hacker News.

Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API 472 by calebegg | 82 comments on Hacker News.

Taking over a Dead IoT Company 491 by pulisse | 127 comments on Hacker News.

VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model 511 by cbeach | 438 comments on Hacker News.

How to store your app's entire state in the url 544 by escot | 347 comments on Hacker News.

Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment 522 by impish9208 | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Gail.com FAQ 505 by weatherlight | 113 comments on Hacker News.

CDC File Transfer 505 by cglong | 100 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 479 by Dicey84 | 1486 comments on Hacker News. Curious to know what thing / product / service improved your 2022? For me it was an Elgato stream deck. Initially bought it on a whim (probably more as a gimmick) but now find myself using multiple times a day in the office (sales) environment.

Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast 487 by trishume | 293 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made 478 by manaskarekar | 234 comments on Hacker News. `:x` leaves the modification time of files untouched if nothing was changed. :help :x Like ":wq", but write only when changes have been made.

Why was Roman concrete so durable? 443 by geox | 197 comments on Hacker News.

G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering 472 by AlbertoGP | 43 comments on Hacker News.

Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address 616 by cdme | 235 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts 579 by yoelo | 388 comments on Hacker News.

FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers 565 by mfiguiere | 176 comments on Hacker News.

How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014) 538 by _Microft | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Infinite AI Array 566 by adrianh | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years 595 by matt1 | 174 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing 596 by mfiguiere | 498 comments on Hacker News.

Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses 540 by xiaodai | 87 comments on Hacker News.

Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs 512 by cocacola1 | 334 comments on Hacker News.

How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? 551 by crecker | 402 comments on Hacker News.

My Youtube earnings 621 by tpmx | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style 547 by antman | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Airbnb removed my negative review 554 by luminaobscura | 324 comments on Hacker News. I recently had a bad airbnb experience. During check in the host requested a cash deposit. this wasn't explained in the listing or prior to arrival. i couldn't check in and went elsewhere. Then i posted a review* giving these details. Airbnb removed my below review because "The review didn’t have enough relevant information to help the Airbnb community make informed booking or hosting decisions." The rating of the place went back up after removal. The host still have "superhost" status. Needless to say, i no longer trust airbnb reviews. *my full review was: I wasn't able to check in because [Host] requested 300 USD security deposit during check in. I told her - I don't have that much cash on me. - That is against AirBnB rules. - This should have been explained in airbnb listing. She can't just surprise guests with this at the last minute. She didn't liste...

Why Not Mars 493 by maxerickson | 613 comments on Hacker News.

Conversation skills essentials 475 by lylejantzi3rd | 195 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them? 463 by luuuzeta | 680 comments on Hacker News. I'm reading Petzold's Code [1], and it dawned on me that I didn't understand logic gates intuitively until now. I took a Computer Architecture course back in college, and I understood what logic gates meant in boolean algebra but not empirically. Petzold clarified this for me by going from the empirical to the theoretical using a lightbulb, a battery, wires, and relays (which he introduces when he talks about the telegraph as a way to amplify a signal). Another concept is the relationship between current, voltage, and resistance. For example, I always failed to understand why longer wires mean more resistance while thicker wires mean less resistance. [1]: https://ift.tt/2VF69Hf

Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone 415 by eatonphil | 422 comments on Hacker News.