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 Google agrees to reform its data terms after German antitrust intervention
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/google-data-terms-fco/
#ycombinator 
 Grug on Diet Soda and Autism
https://dynomight.net/grug/
#ycombinator 
 OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]
https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OpenAI_RFC-84-FR-58141.pdf
#ycombinator 
 Active Prompting: A Comprehensive Guide for the Future of Prompt Engineering
https://www.thepromptengineer.org/exploring-active-prompting-a-comprehensive-guide-for-the-future-of-prompt-engineering/
#ycombinator 
 Singapore: Right to own a car costs $76,000. And that doesn't include the car
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/asia/singapore-most-expensive-car-license-intl-hnk/index.html
#ycombinator #asia #continents_and_regions #singapore #southeast_asia 
 Introducing “Database Performance at Scale”: A Free, Open Source Book
https://www.scylladb.com/2023/10/02/introducing-database-performance-at-scale-a-free-open-source-book/
#ycombinator 
 Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/lenovo_pc_boss_4_in/
#ycombinator 
 Where does my computer get the time from?
https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html
#ycombinator 
 School shooting hoaxes have terrorized kids across U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/04/school-swatting-hoax-active-shooter/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Mine does
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777897
#ycombinator 
 Whalesync (YC S21) is hiring remote full-stack software engineers
https://jobs.polymer.co/whalesync/28574
#ycombinator #jobs #hiring #position #work #application #resume 
 US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/02/fcc-space-debris-fine-dish-network-satellite
#ycombinator 
 Krita fund has 0 corporate support
https://fund.krita.org/
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Use your familiar Markdown editor to create and publish web pages
https://amarkdown.com/
#ycombinator #amarkdown_editor #amarkdown #markdown #MDX #editor #lowcode #vscode #online_editor 
 Should you buy or build tools for your business?
https://www.appsmith.com/blog/build-vs-buy-when-choosing-internal-tools
#ycombinator 
 Can You Customize My Startup's Login Page?
https://ph-uhl.com/can-you-customize-my-startup-s-login-page/
#ycombinator 
 Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports
https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952
#ycombinator 
 Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11
https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026
#ycombinator 
 US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/25/us-startup-begins-producing-40-efficient-thermophotovoltaic-cells/
#ycombinator 
 How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis-monkey-photos-videos-secret/
#ycombinator #ethics #bioethics #medicine #government #animals #transparency 
 Celestial Reference Frame Department
https://crf.usno.navy.mil/home
#ycombinator 
 Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01230-7
#ycombinator 
 Ray Kurzweil and Mitch Kapor’s “Long Bet” on the Turing Test
https://twitter.com/denizen_kane/status/1709800563485946156
#ycombinator 
 An updated Node-WebRTC that works with Node Stable
https://github.com/WonderInventions/node-webrtc
#ycombinator 
 Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jt.2009.16
#ycombinator 
 Pythagorean Theorem Found on Clay Tablet 1k Years Older Than Pythagoras
https://www.iflscience.com/pythagorean-theorem-found-on-clay-tablet-1000-years-older-than-pythagoras-70934
#ycombinator 
 Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust
https://nikolaivazquez.com/blog/divan/
#ycombinator 
 Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37772829
#ycombinator 
 AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02920-y
#ycombinator 
 The climate model approximation that could fundamentally change climate movement
https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/carbon-warming-water-cooling
#ycombinator 
 Directional dominance on stature and cognition in human populations (2015)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14618
#ycombinator 
 How Bad Is Your Resume? – Get Your Resume Roasted by AI
https://roastmyresu.me/
#ycombinator 
 Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/10/03/1-5-degrees-celcius-un-climate-change-report-barbara-moran
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Sqinn-Go is a Golang library for accessing SQLite databases in pure Go
https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Rust nom parsing Starcraft2 Replays into Arrow for Polars data analysis
https://github.com/sebosp/s2protocol-rs
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Algora – Open source coding bounties
https://console.algora.io/hacktoberfest
#ycombinator 
 MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive
https://minios.dev
#ycombinator 
 Eliminating Radio Interference from Apple Charger
https://oh8hub.substack.com/p/eliminating-radio-interference-from
#ycombinator 
 Figma added OpenAI to a list of subprocessor companies
https://www.figma.com/sub-processors/
#ycombinator 
 How the Baltic states became the hub of crypto money laundering and fraud
https://vsquare.org/tales-from-the-crypto-money-laundering-fraud-sanctions-estonia-lithuania-russia/
#ycombinator 
 Meta starts rolling out generative AI tools for all advertisers
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-starts-rolling-out-generative-ai-tools-all-advertisers-2023-10-04/
#ycombinator #EF_TECHNOLOGY_DISRUPTED #ADVMK #ARTI #BACT #BIZ #BLR #CCOS #CMPNY #CPROD #CYCS #CYCS08 #DLI #ENT #GEN #ITEC #ITSE #ITSE08 #LIF #MDIA #MDIA08 #NETSV #PUB #PUBL #SCI #SMED #SOCI #SOCMED #SWIT #TECH #TECH08 #TMT #WWW #AMERS #NAMER #FIN 
 Intel to Set Its FPGA Unit Free to Pursue Its Own Path – The Next Platform
https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/04/intel-to-set-its-fpga-unit-free-to-pursue-its-own-path/
#ycombinator 
 Man ‘forced to drive electric car into police van’ in Scotland after brakes fail
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/04/man-forced-to-drive-electric-car-into-police-van-in-scotland-after-brakes-fail
#ycombinator 
 Rust is not the language for you if you don't like traits
https://github.com/marshallpierce/rust-base64/issues/213
#ycombinator 
 Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23902615/wii-u-nintendo-3ds-online-shut-down
#ycombinator 
 OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation
https://lwn.net/Articles/946497/
#ycombinator 
 Most of Us Are Blissfully Ignorant About How Much Rancid Olive Oil We Use (2016)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-of-us-are-blissfully-ignorant-about-how-much-rancid-olive-oil-we-use/
#ycombinator 
 1.3B Worldcat scrape and data science mini-competition
https://annas-blog.org/worldcat-scrape.html
#ycombinator 
 Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
https://www.svix.com/blog/strong-typing-hill-to-die-on/
#ycombinator 
 Emerge (YC W21) is hiring a Senior Android Engineer (remote, small team)
https://www.emergetools.com/careers/jobs/senior-android-engineer
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Shuttle – Build Back Ends Fast
https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle
#ycombinator 
 Richard Stallman Talks Red Hat, AI and Ethical Software Licenses at GNU Birthday
https://fossforce.com/2023/10/richard-stallman-talks-red-hat-ai-and-ethical-software-licenses-at-gnu-birthday-event/
#ycombinator 
 Apple declares its $17,000 solid-gold watch officially obsolete
https://www.techspot.com/news/100360-apple-declares-17000-solid-gold-watch-officially-obsolete.html
#ycombinator 
 How to Promote Your Business for Free on HN, Apparently
https://twitter.com/natiakourdadze/status/1709249655047905399
#ycombinator 
 Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS resolving issues
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/j3h00yhjyw6p
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Classic Video Poker (Godot is awesome!)
https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/
#ycombinator 
 What Ghosting Says About Society (and Why It Hurts So Much)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-ghosting-says-about-society-and-why-it-hurts-so-much/
#ycombinator 
 Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs
https://github.com/kata-containers/
#ycombinator 
 The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011)
https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publisher-inserted-a-soup-ad-into-his-novel/
#ycombinator 
 The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel
https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publisher-inserted-a-soup-ad-into-his-novel/
#ycombinator 
 Extracting Hacker News Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API
https://blog.reyem.dev/post/extracting_hn_book_recommendations_with_chatgpt_api/
#ycombinator 
 Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37761045
#ycombinator 
 Social media traffic to top news sites craters
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/03/social-media-traffic-news-sites-decrease
#ycombinator 
 They say I make $45K/month just by pure luck and just by posting my MRR on X
https://twitter.com/tdinh_me/status/1709116250520265164
#ycombinator 
 Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation
https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1709400641456501020
#ycombinator 
 BBC Gives Up on Threads (By Instagram), Sticks with Mastodon
https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759759
#ycombinator 
 OpenCore Legacy Patcher project brings macOS Sonoma support to 16-year-old Macs
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/opencore-legacy-patcher-project-brings-macos-sonoma-support-to-16-year-old-macs/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Has meetup.org been replaced by anything?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757952
#ycombinator 
 U2 at Sphere is the nightmare future of music
https://mattruby.substack.com/p/u2-at-sphere-is-the-nightmare-future
#ycombinator 
 Most Americans comfortable with solar panels, turbines in their communities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/10/03/solar-panels-wind-turbines-nimby/
#ycombinator 
 GCVR (YC W22, Top Rated on Quest) Hiring Lead Back End Engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gym-class-by-irl-studios/jobs/ADcM4ZV-lead-backend-engineering
#ycombinator 
 Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base
https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
#ycombinator 
 Update: Lumber Prices Down 11% YoY
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2023/10/update-lumber-prices-down-11-yoy.html
#ycombinator #Calculated_Risk #economics #real_estate #house_prices #GDP #employment #unemployment #investment #finance #PCE #residential_investment #FDIC #bank_failure #CRE #auto_sales 
 Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html
#ycombinator 
 Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik
https://georgek.github.io/blog/posts/multiple-web-projects-traefik/
#ycombinator #programming #networking #web #development #traefik #docker #docker_compose 
 Show HN: Bookmark in Public – Curate and Share Collections of Links Easily
https://linkcollect.io
#ycombinator 
 Google removes Reviews widget when you add the word 'sucks' to a company search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756634
#ycombinator 
 Gun-related deaths and suicides among American children soar to all-time high
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12585743/Gun-deaths-suicides-children-time-high.html
#ycombinator #dailymail #news #Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention_CDC #Cancer #Coronavirus 
 Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit by a Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug
#ycombinator #Phoronix #Linux_Hardware_Reviews #Linux_hardware_benchmarks #Linux_server_benchmarks #Linux_benchmarking #Desktop_Linux #Linux_performance #Open_Source_graphics #Linux_How_To #Ubuntu_benchmarks #Ubuntu_hardware #Phoronix_Test_Suite