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  1. Sound

    posted on Tue Oct 18 15:48:16 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The article discusses how sound is created and propagated.

  2. I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems

    posted on Tue Oct 18 15:07:29 UTC 2022 by redbar0n | view on HN

    The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.

  3. iPad 10.9

    posted on Tue Oct 18 15:22:12 UTC 2022 by nowherebeen | view on HN

    The iPad comes with powerful and capable apps that can help you with anything you need to do.

  4. Syntax Design

    posted on Tue Oct 18 13:50:53 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN

    The article discusses different ways that the syntax of a language can be represented, including S-expressions, XML style, indentation, curly braces, terminating keywords, and postfix style.

  5. Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing

    posted on Tue Oct 18 14:38:43 UTC 2022 by kaboro | view on HN

    The government of Sri Lanka launched a mass mangrove planting program around its shores to help prevent a repeat of the disastrous loss of life there during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but the program has turned out to be an abysmal failure.

  6. New iPad Pro with M2

    posted on Tue Oct 18 15:02:47 UTC 2022 by omnibrain | view on HN

    The M2 chip is the next generation of Apple silicon, with an 8‑core CPU that delivers up to 15 percent faster performance and a 10‑core GPU that provides up to 35 percent faster graphics performance.

  7. CDE 2.5.1

    posted on Tue Oct 18 15:04:47 UTC 2022 by marcodiego | view on HN

    The article discusses the Common Desktop Environment, a classic UNIX desktop.

  8. Libcamera v0.0.1

    posted on Tue Oct 18 10:52:02 UTC 2022 by hasheddan | view on HN

    The article discusses the release procedures for a project, which include incrementing the patch version number and the soname.

  9. Show HN: Filesystem Watcher

    posted on Tue Oct 18 13:54:09 UTC 2022 by e-dant | view on HN

    Call `on_event` for each event. Stream the events as JSON. Print every 16ms. */ const auto is_watch_ok = watch< 16 >( argc > 1 ? argv[ 1 ] : " . " , []( const event& this_event) { cout << this_event << ' , ' << endl; }); cout << ' } ' <<

  10. Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown

    posted on Tue Oct 18 09:14:56 UTC 2022 by __Joker | view on HN

    The article discusses how the chip industry is struggling due to a combination of over-production and decreased demand.

  11. Microsoft Full Circle

    posted on Tue Oct 18 12:36:41 UTC 2022 by simonpure | view on HN

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes that the company should make its application experiences available on all platforms in order to be successful in the future.

  12. Crazy crypto mining story from 2013

    posted on Tue Oct 18 12:08:28 UTC 2022 by lemonking | view on HN

  13. No 37C3 in 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and CCC Camp 2023

    posted on Tue Oct 18 10:33:32 UTC 2022 by hacka22 | view on HN

    The article discusses the possibility of the Chaos Communication Congress happening in December, but ultimately decides that it will not happen because it does not meet the standards for the event.

  14. MinTOTP – Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python

    posted on Tue Oct 18 11:28:50 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN

    MinTOTP is a minimal TOTP generator written in Python that is a thin wrapper around the HOTP algorithm.

  15. Abuse Prevention Is Tradecraft. Content Moderation Is Not Infosec

    posted on Tue Oct 18 08:47:47 UTC 2022 by ColinHayhurst | view on HN

    The author of the article is critical of Cory Doctorow's blog post about content moderation and argues that it is full of incorrect impressions.

  16. Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring #3 Founding Engineer in London

    posted on Tue Oct 18 12:00:21 UTC 2022 by Gabriel_h | view on HN

  17. Alien Truth

    posted on Tue Oct 18 11:20:13 UTC 2022 by pyb | view on HN

    The article is discussing the idea of alien truth and how it relates to the idea of God's book.

  18. The initial proposal for a C++ Ecosystem International Standard

    posted on Mon Oct 17 08:05:51 UTC 2022 by pjmlp | view on HN

    The article discusses the importance of vendor interoperability in the software development ecosystem.

  19. Researchers’ tests of lab-made version of Covid virus draw scrutiny

    posted on Tue Oct 18 12:47:42 UTC 2022 by russfink | view on HN

    The article is about a research done at Boston University involving a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how the research team did not clear the work with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

  20. TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch

    posted on Tue Oct 18 05:50:57 UTC 2022 by emreb | view on HN

    The article discusses a new replacement logic board for the Casio F-91W that is powered by an ARM Cortex M0+ and can be programmed to do various things such as generate two-factor authentication codes for websites.

  21. Product vs. Engineering

    posted on Mon Oct 17 05:53:35 UTC 2022 by kiyanwang | view on HN

    The article discusses how companies should break apart their products and services into multiple value streams, align these value streams with how the company creates value, and create teams of cross-functional leaders for each value stream.

  22. DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public

    posted on Tue Oct 18 12:26:08 UTC 2022 by messyjoes | view on HN

    DuckDuckGo for Mac (version 0.30) is available now at duckduckgo.com/mac; new users can import bookmarks and passwords from other browsers and password managers. DuckDuckGo for Windows is in friends and family beta, with a public waitlist beta expected in the coming months.

  23. Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

    posted on Tue Oct 18 13:12:57 UTC 2022 by Amorymeltzer | view on HN

    This sentence summarizes the article: Firefox is releasing new features that include an updated Private Browsing mode, a new Firefox View, and new Colorways and wallpapers.

  24. The search is on for banana ancestors

    posted on Tue Oct 18 14:24:09 UTC 2022 by Hooke | view on HN

    The article discusses how scientists are using genetic markers to trace the ancestry of bananas and how they have found three ancestors that they cannot account for.

  25. Capturing robot data so we can debug it later

    posted on Tue Oct 18 16:04:18 UTC 2022 by davidtarazi | view on HN

    The article discusses a problem that occurred with a robot and how it was fixed, but the root cause of the problem was not found. The article also talks about how to effectively capture data from events like the one that occurred.

  26. The FreeBSD/Firecracker Platform

    posted on Tue Oct 18 06:06:54 UTC 2022 by cperciva | view on HN

    The article discusses the development of the Virtual Machine Monitor at Amazon Web Services and how it is different from other VM monitors.

  27. iPad Pro M2

    posted on Tue Oct 18 14:56:12 UTC 2022 by doerig | view on HN

    Apple introduces the new iPad Pro with the M2 chip, delivering the ultimate combination of portability, versatility, and unbelievable performance.

  28. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

    posted on Mon Oct 17 22:30:08 UTC 2022 by john-doe | view on HN

    The article is discussing how Microsoft's new AI-assisted coding tool, Copilot, is not friendly to open-source developers and how this is a problem.

  29. Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job

    posted on Tue Oct 18 13:32:06 UTC 2022 by throwarayes | view on HN

  30. Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub

    posted on Tue Oct 18 15:36:45 UTC 2022 by tarebyte | view on HN

    The article is about how to start a free trial for GitHub Enterprise for 30 days, and how much it costs per user after the trial expires.