HNminus

Thursday, 05 August 2021

• Beware of 'Shrinkflation,' Inflation's Devious Cousin
  (npr.org) Discuss

• Object Wake-Up: 3-D Object Reconstruction, Animation from a Single Image
  (arxiv.org) Discuss

• Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier–and smarter
  (sciencemag.org) Discuss

• The WWW is 30 years old today
  (history.com) Discuss

• NYU Researchers Studying Disinformation on Facebook Cut Off
  (npr.org) Discuss

• Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast
  (blog.noredink.com) Discuss

• LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
  (lovr.org) Discuss

• Stanford AIMI releases free open-source repository of medical datasets
  (hai.stanford.edu) Discuss

• Show HN: NightCafe Creator – Create art from a text prompt using VQGAN+CLIP
  (creator.nightcafe.studio) Discuss

• NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be a New Dark Matter Sensor
  (nist.gov) Discuss

• A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
  (1729.com) Discuss

• HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse
  (portswigger.net) Discuss

• Oatly loses trademark battle against British farm over oat milk
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• TUG (TeX Users Group) 2021 online conference – Program
  (tug.org) Discuss

• Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
  (eff.org) Discuss

• Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]
  (i.blackhat.com) Discuss

• Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
  (doi.org) Discuss

• Firefox: Performance in Progress
  (blog.mozilla.org) Discuss

• Apple will scan local storage photos on iPhones for child abuse images
  (msn.com) Discuss

• Build your own SPARC workstation
  (learn.adafruit.com) Discuss

• Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps
  (notes.eatonphil.com) Discuss

• Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring to build the software layer for the physical world
  (kraftful.com) Discuss

• The Origins of Covid-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology [pdf]
  (gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov) Discuss

• How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
  (blog.timescale.com) Discuss

• Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles
  (gamasutra.com) Discuss

• EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
  (emacsconf.org) Discuss

• In Praise of PostgreSQL
  (drewdevault.com) Discuss

• Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
  (ft.com) Discuss

• Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
  (marketwatch.com) Discuss

• Affinity 1.10
  (affinity.serif.com) Discuss

• Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today
  (theconversation.com) Discuss

• Developers Complain as App Store Feature Promotes Rip-Off Apps
  (forums.macrumors.com) Discuss

• Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill
  (theblockcrypto.com) Discuss

• Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
  (washingtonpost.com) Discuss

• Second Hottest July in Europe on Record, Third Warmest July on Record Globally
  (climate.copernicus.eu) Discuss

• Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border
  (ndtv.com) Discuss

• Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
  (kidpix.app) Discuss

• The insides of pro bowling balls
  (popsci.com) Discuss

• Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
  (foundation.mozilla.org) Discuss

• Declined invitations go over more graciously when lack of money is cited
  (theconversation.com) Discuss

• Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
  (axios.com) Discuss

• Bill Gates says it was a "huge mistake" to spend time with Epstein
  (axios.com) Discuss

• Whatnot (YC W20) Is Hiring Engineers (Generalist, iOS, Android, DevOps)
  (whatnot.com) Discuss

• A Bit Overcomplicated
  (thedailywtf.com) Discuss

• Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report
  (nypost.com) Discuss

• America is plummeting down the global vaccination league table
  (economist.com) Discuss

• Radio was the original overhyped technology
  (blog.racket.com) Discuss

• Firefox Lost Almost 50M Users: Here’s Why It Is Concerning
  (news.itsfoss.com) Discuss

• Tesla Owner Billed over $14,000 for Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase
  (thedrive.com) Discuss

• Contemporary COBOL: Developers' Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location
  (arxiv.org) Discuss

• Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps
  (theregister.com) Discuss

• The world of cats: what our feline friends do when we’re not looking
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
  (grcdi.nl) Discuss

• On Time, Money and Health
  (todaypurpose.com) Discuss

• Lowkey (YC S18) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer who likes games
  (notion.so) Discuss

Wednesday, 04 August 2021

• Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Arcology: The city in the image of man (1969)
  (organism.earth) Discuss

• Show HN: Makeai.art – Create Art from a Description
  (makeai.art) Discuss

• The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
  (aalto.fi) Discuss

• Does the Tuskegee experiment explain black vaccination rates?
  (mattbruenig.com) Discuss

• Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity
  (gameworldobserver.com) Discuss

• The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005)
  (ranum.com) Discuss

• A list of tech companies with 4 day work weeks
  (4dayweek.io) Discuss

• 2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Preparedness for Pandemic
  (ghsindex.org) Discuss

• Airyx OS
  (airyx.org) Discuss

• Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
  (blog.mozilla.org) Discuss

• One simple design fix for the Olympic medal tally
  (djrobstep.com) Discuss

• Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
  (engineering.backtrace.io) Discuss

• 1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders
  (insideevs.com) Discuss

• Elizabeth Holmes fails to keep customer complaints, test results out of trial
  (yahoo.com) Discuss

• Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing
  (bike-lab.org) Discuss

• How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)
  (npr.org) Discuss

• If you’re vaccinated, risk from the Delta variant is probably long-haul Covid
  (mattbell.us) Discuss

• AtoB (YC S20) is hiring to build Stripe for Transportation
  (careers.atob.com) Discuss

• Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk
  (latimes.com) Discuss

• Unleashing Radical Creativity (2020)
  (blog.x.company) Discuss

• China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor
  (spectrum.ieee.org) Discuss

• Parsing Excel XLSX Using Tcl Parser Tools (2011)
  (wiki.tcl-lang.org) Discuss

• Mario Paint Masterpiece
  (charlieharrington.com) Discuss

• Tesla Model S garage fire follows pattern prompting warnings
  (washingtonpost.com) Discuss

• SAML Is Insecure by Design
  (joonas.fi) Discuss

• Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download
  (developer.nvidia.com) Discuss

• Interesting – Starbucks Paper Cups Not Recyclable
  (sealawards.com) Discuss

• The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (2019)
  (undark.org) Discuss

• Steam Is Down
  (steamstat.us) Discuss

• Kanye West’s Quest for Perfection
  (frieze.com) Discuss

• Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads
  (dailydot.com) Discuss

• Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
  (domainlanguage.com) Discuss

• Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks
  (hookdeck.com?ref=hn) Discuss

• Finary (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers and a Product Designer
  (about.finary.io) Discuss

• Launch HN: Keyri (YC S21) – Secure smartphone-based passwordless authentication
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
  (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl) Discuss

• Radioactive Lenses and Everything About Them
  (lenslegend.com) Discuss

• Julian Assange: peering through the murk
  (lawgazette.co.uk) Discuss

• Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet
  (theguardian.com) Discuss

• Gitly: A light and fast GitHub/GitLab alternative written in V lang (pre-alpha)
  (gitly.org) Discuss

• Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• The STEM Crisis Is a Myth
  (spectrum.ieee.org) Discuss

• Facebook reportedly researching ways to use encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads
  (macrumors.com) Discuss

• Uptime Lab's CM4 Blade Adds NVMe, TPM 2.0 to Raspberry Pi
  (jeffgeerling.com) Discuss

• Mobile phones on aircraft
  (en.wikipedia.org) Discuss

• Is there any place for monoliths in 2021?
  (fjrevoredo.me) Discuss

• Use Phoenix Channels
  (info.codecast.io) Discuss

• Early Retirement (2006)
  (philip.greenspun.com) Discuss

• Longer days on early Earth may have set stage for complex life
  (sciencemag.org) Discuss

• Barbie launches six new dolls celebrating female scientists
  (abc.net.au) Discuss

• Leaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse
  (vice.com) Discuss

• PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
  (reddit.com) Discuss

• Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups?
  (news.ycombinator.com) Discuss

• Coming soon: America’s own social credit system
  (thehill.com) Discuss

• AMD Radeon Pro W6000X for Mac Pro
  (amd.com) Discuss

• How to Build Resilient JavaScript UIs
  (smashingmagazine.com) Discuss

• Eight Sleep (YC S15) Is Hiring a Data Scientist
  (ycombinator.com) Discuss

• UK Politician wants AI 'nudifying' tool DeepSukebe banned
  (bbc.co.uk) Discuss

• Are our immune systems out of practice?
  (dw.com) Discuss

• Machine Learning with Julia on AWS SageMaker
  (beta.datachef.co) Discuss

• GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs
  (unite.ai) Discuss

• Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
  (gkogan.co) Discuss

• The surreal experience of my first developer job
  (bennuttall.com) Discuss

• Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials
  (quantamagazine.org) Discuss

• Pitfalls of Data Anonymization
  (palant.info) Discuss

• Jupiter (YC S19) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers, Mobile, QA (Remote/SF)
  (jupiter.co) Discuss

Tuesday, 03 August 2021

• Blush, illustrations for your product page
  (blush.design) Discuss

• Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video
  (notebookcheck.net) Discuss

• 17th-century botanists filled their gardens with plants from around the world
  (laphamsquarterly.org) Discuss

• Elm-Pages 2.0
  (elm-pages.com) Discuss

• Why you should learn SQL
  (executeprogram.com) Discuss

• Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003)
  (artima.com) Discuss

• Philosophers Should Care about Computational Complexity [pdf]
  (scottaaronson.com) Discuss

• $28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices
  (eyeoftheflyer.com) Discuss

• Where Do Models Go Wrong? Parameter-Space Saliency Maps for Explainability
  (arxiv.org) Discuss

• Almost-Billionaires (2014)
  (lackingambition.com) Discuss