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  1. Cyberattacks Reported at US Airports

    posted on Mon Oct 10 16:00:07 UTC 2022 by SevenNation | view on HN

    The article is about a series of cyberattacks on airport websites by the group "Killnet" which began around 3 a.m. ET.

  2. Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

    posted on Mon Oct 10 15:19:20 UTC 2022 by Amorymeltzer | view on HN

    The article discusses how the responsiveness of Firefox has improved in version 103, and how this was achieved via a small change in how locking is implemented within Firefox’s memory allocator.

  3. Ray Tracing in Notepad.exe at 30 FPS (2020)

    posted on Mon Oct 10 13:51:30 UTC 2022 by madmax108 | view on HN

    The author describes how they made a game that uses an open source clone of Notepad to handle all its input and rendering, and how they learned about DLL Injection, API Hooking and Memory Scanning along the way.

  4. The 4th Year of SerenityOS

    posted on Mon Oct 10 14:12:20 UTC 2022 by crecker | view on HN

    The article discusses the new systems language Jakt that was introduced in May and how it is written in Rust.

  5. We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not Economic Productivity

    posted on Mon Oct 10 14:39:29 UTC 2022 by nickt | view on HN

    The article argues that measuring economic productivity is largely voodoo because the way productivity is measured is not very meaningful.

  6. Show HN: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion

    posted on Mon Oct 10 13:38:46 UTC 2022 by albertgt | view on HN

  7. Website Showing How Much People Lost with Celsius Now Live

    posted on Mon Oct 10 15:23:11 UTC 2022 by max_ | view on HN

  8. The Google plasma globe affair of 2012

    posted on Mon Oct 10 15:48:00 UTC 2022 by true_squirrel | view on HN

    The article discusses how the author was able to optimize a USB keyboard to have a response time of 100 ms.

  9. An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets

    posted on Mon Oct 10 14:21:39 UTC 2022 by nitin-pai | view on HN

    The article discusses the negative effects of an "everything app" on liberal democracies and free markets, using WeChat as an example.

  10. Starting a food co-op: Year 1

    posted on Mon Oct 10 12:45:55 UTC 2022 by qrush | view on HN

    The local, family owned grocery store Russo's, announced they were closing on Instagram and 200 employees were laid off.

  11. Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers

    posted on Fri Oct 07 16:53:39 UTC 2022 by EntICOnc | view on HN

    The article is about a list of 50 things that Mike Acton, a games industry veteran, expects from developers he works with.

  12. Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

    posted on Mon Oct 10 11:30:21 UTC 2022 by NomadicDaggy | view on HN

  13. Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software

    posted on Mon Oct 10 16:09:41 UTC 2022 by demindiro | view on HN

    The article is about how to set up and manage Agreper, a forum board that is easy to set up and manage.

  14. I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

    posted on Mon Oct 10 11:58:18 UTC 2022 by zduny | view on HN

  15. Against Effective Altruism

    posted on Mon Oct 10 15:54:33 UTC 2022 by jeffreyrogers | view on HN

    The article argues that people who believe in moral facts are just as gullible as people who believe in a god, because they can't explain where moral facts come from.

  16. Archaeologists Dig Up 1,400-Year-Old Native American Canal in Alabama

    posted on Mon Oct 10 12:00:30 UTC 2022 by samizdis | view on HN

    The article discusses the history of a canal in Gulf Shores, Alabama that was built by Native Americans 1,400 years ago.

  17. iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally

    posted on Mon Oct 10 11:04:02 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN

    The article discusses the author's love for the Dvorak keyboard layout and how they never moved to it properly because devices never had a proper keyboard for it - but they recently learned that Apple shipped the Dvorak layout with iOS 16.

  18. Show HN: We built a tool that automatically generates your API Tests

    posted on Mon Oct 10 13:57:50 UTC 2022 by Wissmueller | view on HN

    The article discusses the results of a study on the benefits of running workflow.

  19. Did JFK Eat the World’s Largest Tamale?

    posted on Sat Oct 08 17:10:55 UTC 2022 by samclemens | view on HN

    In 1961, a 17-pound tamale made of "pork, pimentos, garlic and other spices" surrounded by masa and wrapped in cellophane was sent from San Antonio, Texas to the White House as a birthday gift for President John F. Kennedy, but it went missing en route.

  20. Back to Android (For the Time Being)

    posted on Mon Oct 10 12:13:32 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The PinePhone camera is not good for low light or motion.

  21. Calculus with types

    posted on Fri Oct 07 22:25:41 UTC 2022 by isomorph | view on HN

    Dependent type theory is a class of theories with dependent types which have immediate representations of expressions.

  22. Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust

    posted on Mon Oct 10 02:45:25 UTC 2022 by behnamoh | view on HN

    The article is about Helix, a terminal-based editor inspired by Kakoune/Neovim.

  23. In a Way, 3D Scanning Is over a Century Old

    posted on Fri Oct 07 16:52:57 UTC 2022 by helsinkiandrew | view on HN

    In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a circle around the subject, and in a matter of days obtain a photosculpture.

  24. Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring for an Ops Exec and Product Engineers

    posted on Mon Oct 10 08:08:14 UTC 2022 by skellystudios | view on HN

    The article is about a company called Stacker that makes software for organizations to use.

  25. Swiss Post Design System

    posted on Mon Oct 10 09:42:38 UTC 2022 by denysvitali | view on HN

  26. Live Captioning FAQ

    posted on Mon Oct 10 14:48:56 UTC 2022 by mooreds | view on HN

    The article discusses the pros and cons of onsite versus remote captioning, with the conclusion that the best result is usually obtained when the captioners are onsite.

  27. Effect of Colonoscopy Screening on Risks of Colorectal Cancer and Related Death

    posted on Mon Oct 10 04:08:07 UTC 2022 by benchtobedside | view on HN

    The study found that colonoscopies only cut colon cancer risk by roughly a fifth, far below past estimates of the test’s efficacy, and didn’t provide any significant reduction in colon cancer mortality.

  28. Wireless ISPs embrace fiber as they face do or die moment

    posted on Mon Oct 10 15:38:55 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN

  29. Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

    posted on Mon Oct 10 12:38:45 UTC 2022 by stardenburden | view on HN

    The Department of Defense has added more than a dozen Chinese companies to a blacklist of firms with alleged ties to the Chinese military, clearing the way for restrictions on their business.

  30. Who Thought Putting a Casino in Everyone’s Pocket Was a Good Idea?

    posted on Mon Oct 10 14:49:18 UTC 2022 by mooreds | view on HN

    Since the Supreme Court struck down a law preventing sports wagering beyond Nevada four years ago, more than half of all states have permitted betting on sports, with 21 making it legal to wager online.