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New best story on Hacker News: 1 week of Stable Diffusion

1 week of Stable Diffusion 435 by victormustar | 154 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years

Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years 513 by alin23 | 214 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Don’t think to write, write to think

Don’t think to write, write to think 488 by herbertl | 137 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs 555 by iCutMoon | 94 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Time Till Open Source Alternative

Time Till Open Source Alternative 496 by feross | 330 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything

4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything 680 by andy_xor_andrew | 166 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Big [Censored] Theory

The Big [Censored] Theory 655 by feross | 335 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

Welcome Home, Garry Tan 563 by todsacerdoti | 173 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants

One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants 501 by donbox | 257 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus 462 by williamstein | 484 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute

Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute 449 by fjarlq | 108 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers

Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers 429 by robrich | 170 comments on Hacker News. Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application. In practice, Devbox works similar to a package manager like yarn – except the packages it manages are at the operating-system level (the sort of thing you would normally install with brew or apt-get). See it in action: https://youtu.be/WMBaXQZmDoA

New best story on Hacker News: Removal of Heroku free product plans

Removal of Heroku free product plans 844 by countspongebob | 541 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The coming tsunami of fakery

The coming tsunami of fakery 440 by finetuner | 397 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Rust – A hard decision pays off

Rust – A hard decision pays off 449 by muizelaar | 354 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Mainnet Merge Announcement

Mainnet Merge Announcement 537 by bowsamic | 577 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Things people blamed on bicycles

Things people blamed on bicycles 751 by the-archivist | 809 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay 829 by mattkrisiloff | 171 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page

A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page 771 by DitheringIdiot | 312 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit

Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit 771 by arduinomancer | 185 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Design the next iPhone

Design the next iPhone 764 by mkeeter | 213 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies

Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies 731 by razin | 422 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: An odd discovery on Spotify

An odd discovery on Spotify 703 by breathenow | 265 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Stable Diffusion Public Release

Stable Diffusion Public Release 655 by flimsythoughts | 370 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Nobody wants to teach anymore

Nobody wants to teach anymore 640 by grej | 955 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday 625 by 7tech | 265 comments on Hacker News. TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production. Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had. Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday. All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills. Never use GCP for production. ---- Edit: full story by request, long read: ---- Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://ift.tt/3mU9wNH) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra. Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspen...

New best story on Hacker News: There’s no speed limit (2009)

There’s no speed limit (2009) 626 by melling | 263 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A dad took photos of his naked child for a doctor; Google reported him to police

A dad took photos of his naked child for a doctor; Google reported him to police 605 by dklsf | 352 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser 566 by krausefx | 244 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Learn to sew your own outdoor gear

Learn to sew your own outdoor gear 541 by almog | 114 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard 797 by aemerson_ | 532 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, During lockdown I took up the keyboard hobby but I couldn't find anything I liked the aesthetic of. So I set out to design my own keyboard from scratch that shunned the gamer look in favour of a more minimal, serious design. I've built several prototypes but I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.

New best story on Hacker News: Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook

Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook 526 by jseliger | 493 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: It wasn't for nothing

It wasn't for nothing 543 by mbakke | 126 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: SSH tips and tricks

SSH tips and tricks 545 by feross | 151 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Accounting For Developers, Part I

Accounting For Developers, Part I 549 by qin | 171 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser

Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser 559 by samwillis | 146 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds 696 by eriksdh | 477 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD

RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD 512 by behnamoh | 222 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?

Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning? 482 by newsoul | 187 comments on Hacker News. By getting into machine or deep learning I mean building upto a stage to do ML/DL research. Applied research or core theory of ML/DL research. Ofcourse, the path to both will quite different. Standing in 2022, what are the best resources for a CS student/decent programmer to get into the field of ML and DL on their own. Resources can be both books or public courses. The target ability: 1. To understand the theory behind the algorithms 2. To implement an algorithm on a dataset of choice. (Data cleaning and management should also be learned) 3. Read research publications and try to implement them.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination 506 by gunvantsr | 468 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout

A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout 485 by rajnathani | 349 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason

MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason 474 by lewisl9029 | 541 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Second-Order Thinking

Second-Order Thinking 459 by irsagent | 242 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency

How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency 484 by techinvalley | 196 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know

Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know 469 by input_sh | 379 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150

Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150 464 by M0r13n | 249 comments on Hacker News. I use my own domain to host a simple homepage. I also use it as a custom mail domain. Initially, I bought the domain on godaddy.com when I was getting into the realms of software engineering. I always found the user interface hard to get used to, but it never bothered me enough for me to transfer my domain. Especially because I run the DNS through Cloudlfare and, therefore, I have fairly little contact with the interface of godaddy. Today Proton (my mail provider of choice) surprised me with a warning that there were problems with the setup of my domain. A quick research revealed that godaddy had cancelled my domain. It showed up in the Redemption Grace Period. This status code indicates that godaddy has asked the registry to delete my domain. After 30 calendar days + 5 days following the end of the redemption period, my domain is purged from the registry databa...

New best story on Hacker News: It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet

It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet 500 by nabla9 | 423 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?

Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical? 463 by newbie578 | 715 comments on Hacker News. I am reading more and more about startups which are focusing on investments in real estate [1]. Doesn't anyone feel uneasy about it, that more and more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head? Aren't startups like this just adding oil to the fire which is the real estate market? I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls. [1] - https://ift.tt/kAg56wT

New best story on Hacker News: Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer

Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer 417 by pseudolus | 384 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash 437 by langitbiru | 762 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

Goat Rental – Hire Goats 415 by deanstag | 257 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Is this the end of social networking?

Is this the end of social networking? 553 by ZacnyLos | 462 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image 453 by pat-jay | 149 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I hacked my car

I hacked my car 582 by ytpete | 112 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS

The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS 561 by neodypsis | 336 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor

A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor 558 by evo_9 | 233 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Mindustry – Open-Source Game

Mindustry – Open-Source Game 529 by gigel82 | 105 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm 445 by quaffapint | 704 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser 538 by the_mitsuhiko | 233 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes 480 by carride | 191 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Story of Mel (1983)

The Story of Mel (1983) 406 by thunderbong | 153 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about? 403 by ScottStevenson | 1079 comments on Hacker News. Blockchain & AI don't count, because they're being talked about plenty!

New best story on Hacker News: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” 418 by Fabricio20 | 560 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter 434 by WaitWaitWha | 278 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case 396 by olalonde | 376 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Open AirPlay 2 Receiver

Open AirPlay 2 Receiver 388 by azalemeth | 108 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 366 by dsmmcken | 207 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: No More “Insight Porn”

No More “Insight Porn” 506 by jakobgreenfeld | 269 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Mysterious holes on the seafloor

Mysterious holes on the seafloor 367 by smartmic | 132 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game 387 by sumul | 107 comments on Hacker News. Hello, HN! Figure is a little side project I’ve been working on. Someone described it as Bejeweled meets Wordle. I built the puzzle interface and website in Next.js and React, which was a first for me and overall a great learning experience. The daily puzzle data is queued up in a PostgreSQL table. Another table stores anonymous solve stats. Once a day, a cron job hits a serverless API that promotes the next puzzle as “live” and prompts Next.js to update the prebaked static site with the new data. The game state is managed with Redux and your stats are persisted to localStorage. Framer Motion for animations. Styling is mostly Tailwind CSS. I use Figma for design and Logic Pro to make the sounds. I get a lot of questions about how the puzzles are generated. It’s not super sexy. I generate random grids of tiles and then run them through a brute force solver (sounds rough but the puzzles don’t feel...

New best story on Hacker News: Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) 385 by truth_seeker | 360 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways

To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways 494 by Hard_Space | 186 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Fake IMDB credits

Fake IMDB credits 483 by HelenePhisher | 206 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: “Code” 2nd Edition Now Available

“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available 442 by ingve | 134 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source

DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source 425 by mroche | 106 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B 468 by mrkramer | 460 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones 513 by nycpig | 93 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: GraphQL kinda sucks

GraphQL kinda sucks 488 by randytandy | 319 comments on Hacker News. Graphql is great, but is totally over hyped. This is probably more of a rant or a frustrated dev outburst. but beginner to mid level developers are lead down the path of USE GRAPHQL especially on youtube... and this is just unfair and wrong. The good: - It makes working with describing the data you want easy - It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more - It makes documentation for data consumers easy - It can make subscription easier for you to use - Can let you federate API calls The bad - It is actually a pain to use, depending on the backend you are using you'll have to manage two or more type systems if there are no code first generates in your language - It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries. This is actually huge. I get that there might be some pattern where you don't want to allow this but for the majority of situations working with json api's you'll end up with a {[...

New best story on Hacker News: Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot

Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot 472 by hassanahmad | 444 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government 451 by trulyrandom | 132 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED

Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED 434 by lnyan | 423 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story 422 by danielmichaelyc | 639 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: We're improving search results when you use quotes

We're improving search results when you use quotes 421 by Kortaggio | 322 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died

Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died 402 by loveudad | 107 comments on Hacker News. My dad got really sick a few months ago. I was shocked but also panicked about the idea of him dying without me knowing him well. He was a great dad but didn't talk much. Fortunately, he got better for a short time. I seized the opportunity to ask him as much as he could answer and film him. Of course, his memory wasn't perfect but I got the big picture. Now that he passed away, I'm both devastated and glad that I got to know him more and kept a record so I can see his face and listen to his voice for more than the usual family video. I wish I had done it sooner though. I've heard multiple people tell me they don't know their parents' or grandparents' life, or they've heard it but they've eventually forgotten so I thought I'd share. I hope this will help some of you. Thank you blood donors Thank you dad

New best story on Hacker News: Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform

Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform 398 by jdthedisciple | 134 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot

FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot 411 by fniephaus | 74 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework

Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework 413 by willm | 192 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Productivity porn

Productivity porn 552 by triplechill | 305 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: MIT invents $4 solar desalination device

MIT invents $4 solar desalination device 439 by serverlessmom | 217 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I still love PHP and JavaScript

I still love PHP and JavaScript 401 by larve | 376 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf] 425 by tomduncalf | 137 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? 421 by leeny | 598 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? 630 by ColinWright | 286 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Robinhood lays off 23% of staff

Robinhood lays off 23% of staff 580 by tempsy | 516 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo 568 by cube2222 | 238 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Use one big server

Use one big server 651 by pclmulqdq | 268 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Understanding Jane Street

Understanding Jane Street 547 by mxtihvb | 288 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: How I regained concentration and focus

How I regained concentration and focus 538 by aiobe | 329 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Librarian's Letter to Google Security

Librarian's Letter to Google Security 599 by 2352500 | 170 comments on Hacker News.