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  1. An Open Letter to Gitea

    posted on Fri Oct 28 15:18:09 UTC 2022 by d4a | view on HN

    The announcement of the for-profit company was not well received and this reflects poorly on the entire Gitea Community, who elected the company last year. We need to restore a positive image as quickly as possible: please provide us with your answer in the next few days so we can move forward again.

  2. The horror has a face – Nvidia’s hot 12VHPWR adapter

    posted on Fri Oct 28 16:34:50 UTC 2022 by elorant | view on HN

  3. How to communicate effectively as a developer

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:04:38 UTC 2022 by karls | view on HN

    The article discusses how writing effectively is a superpower and how, as a software engineer, one writes a lot for computers but also for businesses which consists of people. Many of us work remotely which puts higher demands on the quality of our writing. If a few years ago we were able to scoot a couple of meters in our office chair and talk to a co-worker about something, we now usually write to them. Sometimes we won't hear back until several hours later, maybe even days

  4. Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available

    posted on Fri Oct 28 11:46:27 UTC 2022 by ibobev | view on HN

    The article discusses the release of the game Factorio for Nintendo Switch, as well as how to report bugs and known issues with the game.

  5. Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:12:48 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN

    The article discusses the discovery of the BOAT--the brightest of all time gamma-ray burst--and its implications for understanding gamma-ray bursts and the cosmos more generally.

  6. Linux 6.1 on NanoPi R4S – On fixing SD-card support, Heisenbugs and Rabbit Holes

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:06:03 UTC 2022 by kohlschuetter | view on HN

    The article discusses the author's experience with trying to get an ARM-powered single board computer to work with a mainline Linux kernel. The author bought the FriendlyELEC NanoPi R4S, a tiny device powered by a Rockchip RK3399 CPU, and found that it wasn't fully supported by the "vanilla" Linux kernel. The author tried running OpenWRT, which provided some documentation and tips, but ultimately decided that they preferred to have critical systems be as

  7. The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:27:57 UTC 2022 by chmaynard | view on HN

    The article discusses the Great Firewall of Iran and how it affects the people of Iran.

  8. Push-based outbox pattern with Postgres logical replication

    posted on Fri Oct 28 12:43:03 UTC 2022 by GordonS | view on HN

    The Outbox Pattern is a way of storing messages in a temporary storage before sending them, in order to ensure that the message will not be lost if the application data is stored.

  9. Odroid-H3

    posted on Fri Oct 28 14:22:08 UTC 2022 by teekert | view on HN

    The ODROID-H3+ has the same form factor and similar power efficiency as their predecessor, the ODROID-H2+, but is more powerful and offers higher performance.

  10. I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020)

    posted on Fri Oct 28 05:48:16 UTC 2022 by godelmachine | view on HN

    The article is about the author's experience starting a manufacturing unit in India, which has been a long and difficult process.

  11. Museum of Failure

    posted on Fri Oct 28 11:19:36 UTC 2022 by j0hax | view on HN

    The Museum of Failure is a collection of failed products and services from around the world which aims to stimulate productive discussion about failure and inspire visitors to take meaningful risks.

  12. Victoria III – First Impressions

    posted on Fri Oct 28 12:09:26 UTC 2022 by BlueTemplar | view on HN

    Victoria III is a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive that is set during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  13. Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:41:19 UTC 2022 by Pooge | view on HN

  14. Spectral slices of overtone singing, animated

    posted on Wed Oct 26 11:40:58 UTC 2022 by KayEss | view on HN

    The article discusses an experiment where the author looked at a video of a woman singing and created an animation of the spectral slices from the audio of the clip.

  15. Reflections on Robert Pirsig and Quality

    posted on Tue Oct 25 11:28:52 UTC 2022 by satisfice | view on HN

    The author reflects on how a line from the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" has appeared in their writing multiple times, and how the book had a hypnotic effect on them when they first read it.

  16. All your old tech is haunted

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:05:44 UTC 2022 by HAARP | view on HN

    This article is about how many people believe in ghosts, and why.

  17. Bringing a dynamic environment to C: My linker project

    posted on Fri Oct 28 08:32:56 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The article is about a linker that allows for hot-reloading code in compiled languages, which the author believes will change how people think about the program and result in a better product.

  18. Pumpkin Plot

    posted on Thu Oct 27 06:54:11 UTC 2022 by rcarmo | view on HN

    This blog post is a step-by-step guide on how to build a 3D plot of a pumpkin in Racket.

  19. This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black

    posted on Fri Oct 28 11:18:08 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

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

  20. My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

    posted on Fri Oct 28 06:57:46 UTC 2022 by aliqot | view on HN

    The article is about a man's journey to build his first desktop machine in many years, and his decision to go with an amd64 system.

  21. Problem solving via Who not How

    posted on Tue Oct 25 10:37:05 UTC 2022 by paraschopra | view on HN

  22. How food powers the body's metabolism

    posted on Fri Oct 28 11:11:15 UTC 2022 by gautamsomani | view on HN

    The article is about how the author's body burns a lot of calories and how, in the past few years, they have started to experience growing horizontally.

  23. Transfinite game values in infinite chess

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:30:56 UTC 2022 by alexmolas | view on HN

    In the article, "Transfinite game values in infinite chess," C. D. A. Evans and J. D. Hamkins investigate the transfinite game values arising in infinite chess, providing both upper and lower bounds on the supremum of these values—the omega one of chess—denoted by $\omega_1^{\mathfrak{Ch}}$ in the context of finite positions and by $\omega_1^{\mathfrak{Ch}_{

  24. Flying the Unflyable Plane: The near crash of Air Astana flight 1388

    posted on Wed Oct 26 00:52:57 UTC 2022 by mhandley | view on HN

    The article is about how a plane that was having heavy maintenance in Portugal almost crashed due to design flaws, poor decisions, and procedural errors, but the pilots were able to land the plane safely.

  25. Why you can’t trust CPUID

    posted on Fri Oct 28 11:12:07 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN

    The article discusses how easy it is to fake Geekbench 5 results, and how this could impact the way we view AMD's new processors.

  26. Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring to build a better data science notebook (Europe)

    posted on Fri Oct 28 07:01:15 UTC 2022 by Equiet | view on HN

    The article discusses the need for better tools for data science, as the current ones do not inspire exploration, collaboration, or creativity. Deepnote is a notebook that is designed to be powerful and easy to use, with the goal of making data science fun again.

  27. I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

    posted on Fri Oct 28 10:24:59 UTC 2022 by rambambram | view on HN

    The article is about a person's experience using a Raspberry Pi 4 as their daily desktop computer for a year, and how they found Ubuntu Mate to be the best operating system for their needs.

  28. Duck DNS – About

    posted on Fri Oct 28 04:44:42 UTC 2022 by axiomdata316 | view on HN

  29. GraphQL RDF Bridge in TerminusDB Using Rust's Juniper Library

    posted on Fri Oct 28 13:31:11 UTC 2022 by ggleason | view on HN

    The article discusses how TerminusDB can read RDF files and how to get the value of TerminusDB by massaging the RDF to get it into an easily 'schemable' form.

  30. Clasp 2.0

    posted on Fri Oct 28 11:06:08 UTC 2022 by oumua_don17 | view on HN

    The article discusses the updates to the Clasp Lisp programming language, which now outputs Ninja build files, basic Debian packaging files, and dynamic variables.