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  1. Low Earth Orbit Visualization

    posted on Fri Oct 14 16:22:21 UTC 2022 by aseidl | view on HN

  2. Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go

    posted on Fri Oct 14 15:59:57 UTC 2022 by kdunglas | view on HN

    The article discusses the features of Easy deploy FrankenPHP, a Cloud Native application that can be shipped as a ready-to-use single Docker image.

  3. On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage

    posted on Fri Oct 14 12:41:28 UTC 2022 by brandrick | view on HN

    The author's style of travel is focused on understanding how other people live, rather than seeing tourist attractions.

  4. Financial Institution Letters: Vacation Policies (1995)

    posted on Fri Oct 14 13:46:27 UTC 2022 by mooreds | view on HN

    The FDIC endorses the concept of a vacation policy that allows active officers and employees to be absent from their duties for an uninterrupted period of no less than two weeks in order to prevent fraud and improve employee wellbeing.

  5. Unlaunching the 12GB 4080

    posted on Fri Oct 14 16:28:19 UTC 2022 by haunter | view on HN

    The article discusses the features of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs.

  6. Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest

    posted on Fri Oct 14 13:41:55 UTC 2022 by kiwicopple | view on HN

    Postgres is one of the best F/OSS databases partly because of its immense feature-set, one of which is Full Text Search (FTS).

  7. Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’

    posted on Fri Oct 14 14:00:30 UTC 2022 by laurex | view on HN

    The article discusses how AI tools that are marketed as an answer to lack of diversity in the workforce are actually ineffective and may even do more harm than good.

  8. A Minimalist Guide To Program Synthesis

    posted on Fri Oct 14 14:29:45 UTC 2022 by optimalsolver | view on HN

    The article discusses how large language models can be used to write programs for different domains.

  9. Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption Insecure Mode of Operation

    posted on Fri Oct 14 13:28:44 UTC 2022 by Sami_Lehtinen | view on HN

    The article discusses how an attacker with a large database of messages may be able to decrypt encrypted messages by analyzing the relative locations of repeated sections of the intercepted messages.

  10. Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week

    posted on Fri Oct 14 12:44:57 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN

    The article is about the FP IDE and how it is a good IDE for coding in Pascal.

  11. Cooling the Earth with a sunshade near the inner Lagrange point (2006)

    posted on Fri Oct 14 14:45:50 UTC 2022 by gl-prod | view on HN

  12. Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published

    posted on Fri Oct 14 10:14:37 UTC 2022 by standfest | view on HN

    The article discusses a dataset of 42,207 apartments in 3,093 buildings, which includes detailed data on the apartments' geometries, room typology, visual, acoustical, topological, and daylight characteristics.

  13. Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project

    posted on Fri Oct 14 14:53:56 UTC 2022 by hardwaresofton | view on HN

    The article is about how to sign up for a free GitHub account.

  14. Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)

    posted on Fri Oct 14 10:02:55 UTC 2022 by artogahr | view on HN

    The article is about the author's decision to not use Netscape because it is obsolete and refuses to work.

  15. Some remotely exploitable Linux kernel WiFi vulnerabilities

    posted on Fri Oct 14 06:13:08 UTC 2022 by gundamdoubleO | view on HN

    The article discusses a bug that the author found in MacOS years ago that caused the device to get into a reboot loop and how Apple security stonewalled him.

  16. Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp

    posted on Fri Oct 14 09:25:07 UTC 2022 by contrapunctus | view on HN

    An implementation written entirely in the language it implements has some engineering benefits, including that a programmer does not need to know any other language, in order to modify any part of their implementation.

  17. The Real War 1939-1945 (1989)

    posted on Wed Oct 12 21:54:13 UTC 2022 by secondary | view on HN

    The article discusses how the troops during the Second World War were constantly using verbal subversion and contempt due to the lack of recognition for their efforts.

  18. Researchers Develop Transistor-Free Compute-in-Memory Architecture

    posted on Wed Oct 12 10:35:01 UTC 2022 by giuliomagnifico | view on HN

  19. TikTok has an open computational chemistry position

    posted on Fri Oct 14 13:40:44 UTC 2022 by ISL | view on HN

  20. Guthib

    posted on Fri Oct 14 13:54:32 UTC 2022 by sabas_ge | view on HN

  21. Retrowin32, a Win32 emulator

    posted on Fri Oct 14 06:14:47 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN

    The article looks at the archaeology of how Windows works and how it has accumulated cruft over the years.

  22. Hello World Under the Microscope

    posted on Fri Oct 14 10:48:08 UTC 2022 by nicopappl | view on HN

    This article is about the process of a "Hello World" program in Python, from the high-level print function to the display of the corresponding pixels on the screen.

  23. Beacown (Linux WiFi Exploit)

    posted on Fri Oct 14 09:48:32 UTC 2022 by pdenton | view on HN

  24. Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) – plain text human readable typed storage format

    posted on Fri Oct 14 12:23:06 UTC 2022 by begoon | view on HN

    The Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) is a plain text human readable optionally typed storage format that supports custom types.

  25. Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro

    posted on Fri Oct 14 03:33:35 UTC 2022 by bane | view on HN

    This person made a computer graphic for a demo party.

  26. Lufthansa awkwardly abandons AirTag ban after baffling face plant

    posted on Fri Oct 14 13:37:39 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN

    The German airline Lufthansa is banning people from tracking their checked luggage with AirTags, due to a misinterpretation of an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regulation.

  27. Ex Police Officer Used Law Enforcement Tech to Hack Women’s Explicit Photos

    posted on Fri Oct 14 14:00:08 UTC 2022 by SamoyedFurFluff | view on HN

    A former Louisville Metro Police Department officer used law enforcement technology to hack the Snapchat accounts of young women and extort them for sexually explicit photos and videos.

  28. Shein owner fined $1.9M for failing to notify 39M users of data breach

    posted on Fri Oct 14 15:53:04 UTC 2022 by pseudolus | view on HN

    The data breach from 2018 is putting Shein under the spotlight as the ultra-fast fashion e-commerce platform continues to conquer Gen Z markets across the world.

  29. JEP 431: Sequenced Collections

    posted on Wed Oct 12 08:15:05 UTC 2022 by ludovicianul | view on HN

    The article discusses the lack of a uniform set of operations for collections with a defined encounter order, and the difficulties this poses for developers.

  30. Ask HN: WebAuthn – Replace Password or Second Factor?

    posted on Fri Oct 14 14:29:51 UTC 2022 by taf2 | view on HN