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Tailscale changes its Android app to support the open source Headscale server
posted on Mon Aug 15 11:45:07 UTC 2022 by hooooonk | view on HN
The article is about how the author is disappointed that there is not an option to specify the URL for a self-hosted control plane in the pre-auth UI.
Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
posted on Mon Aug 15 14:21:15 UTC 2022 by M0r13n | view on HN
How to Create a Blog Post Title Optimizer with GPT-3 and Hacker News Data
posted on Mon Aug 15 15:49:51 UTC 2022 by minimaxir | view on HN
This article discusses how the author used GPT-3 to create an AI classifier that can tell if a blog post title is good, in order to help the author write better titles for their blog posts.
Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card
posted on Mon Aug 15 15:49:22 UTC 2022 by hardmaru | view on HN
Stable Diffusion is an open-source rival for OpenAI's DALL-E that runs on your graphics card.
On a Road with a Free Software Phone
posted on Sat Aug 13 07:46:00 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN
This person attended Debconf 22 using a Librem 5, and found that it was a good experience overall.
Best Papers – Usenix Security 2022
posted on Mon Aug 15 14:56:35 UTC 2022 by a785236 | view on HN
The article discusses a study that found that people are more likely to click on phishing emails when they are under stress.
Show HN: Japanese Complete Book 1 Released
posted on Mon Aug 15 13:41:21 UTC 2022 by sova | view on HN
posted on Mon Aug 15 12:06:13 UTC 2022 by 0xedb | view on HN
The article discusses the recent survey done on Deno users, the feedback across the community, how Deno is addressing this feedback, and the features to expect from Deno in the coming months.
Attacking Titan M with Only One Byte
posted on Mon Aug 15 12:51:14 UTC 2022 by ZeroCool2u | view on HN
The article discusses a method for bypassing memory protections in order to leak secrets from the Titan M chip.
Why is solar more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries?
posted on Mon Aug 15 14:49:57 UTC 2022 by jseliger | view on HN
The cost of solar in the US has dropped significantly in the last five years, but still remains higher than in other countries like Australia.
Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
posted on Mon Aug 15 15:07:34 UTC 2022 by sbf501 | view on HN
Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform
posted on Mon Aug 15 07:26:52 UTC 2022 by irsagent | view on HN
The article discusses how second-order thinking, or thinking about the consequences of our actions, is a powerful tool that can help us make better decisions.
Blitz.js – The Missing Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js
posted on Mon Aug 15 13:40:58 UTC 2022 by davidbarker | view on HN
The article discusses the Blitz server, which is designed for server-intensive tasks like sending emails, cron jobs, background processing, and generating PDFs.
Show HN: Quaternions: A Practical Guide
posted on Sun Aug 14 06:14:41 UTC 2022 by the__alchemist | view on HN
The article outlines several operations between quaternions and vectors, and describes how to perform them.
New Evidence Suggests Giant Asteroid Impacts Created Earth’s Continents
posted on Mon Aug 15 13:52:00 UTC 2022 by cheinyeanlim | view on HN
The article discusses the idea that continents were formed by giant meteorites crashing into Earth’s crust long ago and provides evidence to support this theory.
Foreign Affairs at 100: A Look Back at the First Issue
posted on Mon Aug 15 14:40:38 UTC 2022 by wannabebarista | view on HN
The article discusses the idea that as democracy increases, so will public participation in international relations, which the author refers to as popular diplomacy.
A Review of the Art of the Metaobject Protocol (2010) [pdf]
posted on Mon Aug 15 11:46:07 UTC 2022 by Tomte | view on HN
Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking
posted on Mon Aug 15 12:18:21 UTC 2022 by mooreds | view on HN
The article discusses the idea of consumer consent when it comes to companies' commercial surveillance and data security practices. It asks to what extent consumer consent is effective in these cases, and how the Commission should evaluate its effectiveness.
Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record
posted on Mon Aug 15 15:24:47 UTC 2022 by gmays | view on HN
The article discusses the findings of the National Centers for Environmental Information's latest monthly global climate report, which showed that July 2022 was the sixth-hottest July on record and that the average global land and ocean-surface temperature was the sixth-warmest year to date on record.
posted on Mon Aug 15 11:41:15 UTC 2022 by mooreds | view on HN
The article discusses the reasons why many leaders treat email and messaging tools as synchronous communication channels, which increases their interruptions and destroys their productivity.
Stack Computers: the new wave (1989)
posted on Sun Aug 14 06:41:39 UTC 2022 by JoachimS | view on HN
The article is about the first book to explore the new breed of stack computers led by the introduction of the Novix NC4016 chip.
Why does Neon use Paxos instead of Raft, and what's the difference?
posted on Mon Aug 15 10:32:17 UTC 2022 by munchor | view on HN
The article discusses how Neon separates storage and compute, substituting the PostgreSQL persistency layer with a custom-made distributed storage written in rust in order to improve upon the standard way of providing high availability and failover in Postgres.
Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring to build a better data science notebook (Europe)
posted on Mon Aug 15 08:37:35 UTC 2022 by Equiet | view on HN
The article discusses the need for better tools for data science, and Deepnote's mission to create such tools.
The Last Oyster Tongers of Apalachicola
posted on Mon Aug 15 13:25:09 UTC 2022 by WuTangCFO | view on HN
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission plans to deposit shells or other materials to create beds for oysters to grow on, but not until later this year.
More Energy on Less Land: The Drive to Shrink Solar’s Footprint
posted on Mon Aug 15 11:52:24 UTC 2022 by RickJWagner | view on HN
The article discusses how agrivoltaics, or the combination of agriculture and solar energy, has been growing in recent years. While the practice is still fairly limited, it has been expanding in Europe and the U.S., with some notable projects including a solar vineyard in France and a 13-megawatt plant that houses bees in Oregon.
Horizon Linux: arm64 Linux patched to run programs for the Nintendo Switch
posted on Mon Aug 15 01:39:43 UTC 2022 by jdright | view on HN
Ask HN: Bluetooth kinda sucks. Why don't we have something better?
posted on Mon Aug 15 14:18:08 UTC 2022 by zachallaun | view on HN
The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)
posted on Fri Aug 12 08:56:53 UTC 2022 by PikelEmi | view on HN
The article discusses Nassim Nicholas Taleb's concept of the "antilibrary", which is a collection of unread books that challenges our self-estimation by providing a constant, niggling reminder of all we don’t know.
Best Practices for Form Design (2008) [pdf]
posted on Fri Aug 12 10:25:09 UTC 2022 by Akcium | view on HN
posted on Mon Aug 15 10:06:44 UTC 2022 by giuliomagnifico | view on HN
The article discusses a person's experience upgrading their home network and router, and includes final photos of the setup.