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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
posted on Mon Oct 03 16:24:28 UTC 2022 by elashri | view on HN
Apple is set to make more money from ads as a result of its anti-tracking feature, which has caused Facebook's ad revenue to decrease.
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:25:58 UTC 2022 by kiwicopple | view on HN
The article discusses how the team at Snaplet created an open source version of a PostgreSQL server that runs inside a browser.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
posted on Mon Oct 03 15:00:29 UTC 2022 by whoishiring | view on HN
Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:30:09 UTC 2022 by tipsee | view on HN
Javalin is a Java and Kotlin web framework which focuses on simplicity and Java/Kotlin interoperability.
Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at Risks
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:55:58 UTC 2022 by tomohawk | view on HN
The article discusses how the shrinking Mississippi River is causing problems for American farmers who are trying to export crops.
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:54:27 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN
The article is about the difficulties of communication and social interaction for people with mental illness.
Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
posted on Sat Oct 01 09:58:41 UTC 2022 by marban | view on HN
The article discusses how Zhukov's trial established the trade in fake clicks and how it works.
The next generation of Materialize
posted on Mon Oct 03 13:39:42 UTC 2022 by mmedellin | view on HN
This article is about the new features of Materialize, which is a persistent, scalable, cloud-native Materialize.
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:55:04 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN
The author is trying to figure out why they are not productive and comes to the conclusion that it is because they do not have a set routine.
“Britain should be viewed as a canary in the coal mine”
posted on Mon Oct 03 15:12:01 UTC 2022 by whoooooo123 | view on HN
The article discusses how Britain's new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, announced her budget and how it caused British bond markets to go haywire and the pound sterling to plummet. It also discusses how half of Britons think Truss should step down and how her budget was misguided.
With So Few Farmers, Why Are Video Games About Farming So Popular?
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:52:20 UTC 2022 by CapitalistCartr | view on HN
The article is about how people who are not farmers find farming simulations entertaining, and how the popularity of the game reveals something about the deep history of farming.
Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
posted on Mon Oct 03 12:15:19 UTC 2022 by vincent_s | view on HN
The article discusses how the number of results Google serves for a particular search is often different than what is stated below the search bar, and that the number of results served is often much lower than what is stated.
Deepcake – Al solutions for video production
posted on Fri Sep 30 21:07:52 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
This company has a success rate in completing tasks because they have an individual approach to every client, which is game-changingly low in terms of fees.
mod_wasm: Run WebAssembly with Apache
posted on Mon Oct 03 15:34:27 UTC 2022 by ereslibre | view on HN
The article discusses the new Apache module, mod_wasm, which allows for WebAssembly modules to be run on the server.
posted on Mon Oct 03 12:56:28 UTC 2022 by mxschumacher | view on HN
The article discusses the complicated history of the author and publication of the poem "The Chaos."
BuildZoom (YC W13) Is hiring a Principal Engineer
posted on Mon Oct 03 12:01:45 UTC 2022 by the_economist | view on HN
posted on Mon Oct 03 09:43:08 UTC 2022 by mihau | view on HN
The PS5 has been jailbroken, allowing for custom packages to be installed, developer options to be enabled, and even hidden dev tools to be used while running games.
Cool HTML elements nobody uses
posted on Mon Oct 03 15:09:36 UTC 2022 by nateb2022 | view on HN
This article is about different HTML elements that can be used for different purposes.
ASML's Secret: A view from inside the global semiconductor giant [video]
posted on Mon Oct 03 12:20:16 UTC 2022 by timgluz | view on HN
Cloning a Rare ISA Card to Use a Rare CD Drive [video]
posted on Sat Oct 01 03:14:29 UTC 2022 by fortran77 | view on HN
Magma, a new storage engine for Couchbase
posted on Sat Oct 01 17:53:10 UTC 2022 by hodgesrm | view on HN
Couchbase has a new storage engine named Magma which is an example of the index+log index structure.
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:38:24 UTC 2022 by d4a | view on HN
The article is about the author's experience with Privacy.com and how they were not happy with how their information was being used.
Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize for studies of extinct human ancestors
posted on Mon Oct 03 09:47:08 UTC 2022 by shantanu_sharma | view on HN
The article discusses how Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in studying the DNA of extinct humans and human ancestors.
Moderna funded report shows Vx efficacy turns negative 150 days after mRNA-1273
posted on Mon Oct 03 16:47:15 UTC 2022 by Jimmc414 | view on HN
The study found that the mRNA-1273 vaccine is effective against infection and hospitalization with SARS-CoV-2 subvariants, but that the effectiveness wanes rapidly for some subvariants.
New DNA analysis shows how cats spread around the world (2016)
posted on Fri Sep 30 23:58:25 UTC 2022 by jelliclesfarm | view on HN
The article discusses the findings of a study on the history of domesticated cats, which reveals that they spread in two waves: the first when agriculture first appeared in the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, and the second several thousand years later when cats with a mitochondrial lineage from Egypt began appearing in Bulgaria, Turkey and sub-Saharan Africa.
UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada
posted on Mon Oct 03 14:20:02 UTC 2022 by tommoor | view on HN
The article is about a program that filmed a truck on a 120-mile round trip from a plant, to a forest that had been cut down by a logging company, and then back to the plant.
Why aren’t you using pretrained models?
posted on Mon Oct 03 13:15:14 UTC 2022 by gk1 | view on HN
The article discusses how simple it is to build a semantic search function using a pretrained neural network, and how this could be of use for anyone tasked with writing (English) text.
Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic
posted on Mon Oct 03 12:37:34 UTC 2022 by haunter | view on HN
Fandom has acquired a portfolio of entertainment and gaming brands from Red Ventures, which will extend its strategic mission to be the fan’s first choice for community and experience.
Aristotle influenced the computer (2017)
posted on Sat Oct 01 01:04:00 UTC 2022 by conanxin | view on HN
The article discusses how the history of computer science is often told as a history of objects, when it is actually better understood as a history of ideas that emerged from mathematical logic.
How a razor blade can be damaged as it cuts human hair (2020)
posted on Mon Oct 03 03:31:46 UTC 2022 by raphar | view on HN
The article is discussing how a single strand of hair can cause the edge of a blade to chip under specific conditions and why blades become useless when they interact with much softer material.