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Archives for 20 Dec 2022
  1. Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
    (396 points | Comments)

  2. LoRa: Field Testing Antennas
    (113 points | Comments)

  3. AI's Jurassic Park Moment
    (195 points | Comments)

  4. Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
    (283 points | Comments)

  5. People took some potassium and lost some weight
    (142 points | Comments)

  6. An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)
    (310 points | Comments)

  7. Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece
    (114 points | Comments)

  8. Ruby delights built into the language
    (240 points | Comments)

  9. January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all
    (756 points | Comments)

  10. Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
    (168 points | Comments)

  11. Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane?
    (113 points | Comments)

  12. MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger
    (191 points | Comments)

  13. There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge
    (553 points | Comments)

  14. A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
    (369 points | Comments)

  15. Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn
    (151 points | Comments)

  16. Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe
    (301 points | Comments)

  17. Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
    (470 points | Comments)

  18. Show HN: Death by AI
    (160 points | Comments)

  19. WordPress to support SQLite back end
    (164 points | Comments)

  20. OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4B fraud
    (167 points | Comments)

  21. Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
    (367 points | Comments)

  22. NY Governor stalls right-to-repair bill; has until Dec 28 to avoid “pocket veto”
    (177 points | Comments)

  23. Show HN: Create a paid link to anything
    (316 points | Comments)

  24. Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
    (715 points | Comments)

  25. Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
    (1380 points | Comments)

  26. An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1
    (161 points | Comments)

  27. The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the contact era
    (115 points | Comments)

  28. Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?
    (135 points | Comments)

  29. D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML
    (214 points | Comments)

  30. The topologist’s world map (2020)
    (245 points | Comments)

  31. The “Wavefunction Collapse” generation algorithm explained clearly (2018)
    (169 points | Comments)

  32. The APL Source Code (2012)
    (106 points | Comments)

  33. Point-E: Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis
    (222 points | Comments)

  34. Why we picked Java
    (104 points | Comments)

  35. UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown
    (139 points | Comments)

  36. Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel
    (132 points | Comments)

  37. Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session
    (108 points | Comments)

  38. Amiga Forever
    (177 points | Comments)

  39. Apple is struggling to build Mac Pro based on its own silicon
    (207 points | Comments)

  40. Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
    (154 points | Comments)

  41. The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
    (243 points | Comments)

  42. In praise of MIDI
    (247 points | Comments)

  43. Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
    (131 points | Comments)

  44. More than 100 new designs discovered in Peru’s ancient Nazca plain
    (115 points | Comments)

  45. Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
    (214 points | Comments)

  46. Boring Python: Code quality
    (228 points | Comments)

  47. “Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)
    (265 points | Comments)

  48. Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable
    (230 points | Comments)

  49. The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in beta
    (195 points | Comments)