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  1. Saudi woman jailed for 45 years for social media posts

    posted on Sat Oct 29 16:31:32 UTC 2022 by RadixDLT | view on HN

    The US-based group, Dawn, only learned of Qahtani's case after being passed court documents by a judicial source, and is continuing to investigate.

  2. Rust Web Framework Comparison

    posted on Sat Oct 29 15:54:07 UTC 2022 by neverminder | view on HN

    The article compares various web frameworks written in Rust.

  3. Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or underfunded OSS projects

    posted on Sat Oct 29 13:43:02 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN

    The article discusses how OSS maintainers sometimes cause problems for the larger software ecosystem, and how this can be mitigated with more funding.

  4. Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed

    posted on Sat Oct 29 12:17:49 UTC 2022 by FrankyHollywood | view on HN

    TNO has spent the last two years experimenting with the sALD technology and has proven that it works in the lab, but they need to continue developing it to improve its lifespan, efficiency, and their capacity to produce it at scale.

  5. MGL – OpenGL 4.6 on Metal

    posted on Sat Oct 29 11:27:56 UTC 2022 by coffeeaddict1 | view on HN

    TexImage2D (target, level, internalformat, width, height, border, format, type, pixels); } This is a start for porting OpenGL 4.6 on top of Metal, most of it is functional and has been tested.

  6. Exploring the richness and variety of letters sent to the East India Company

    posted on Wed Oct 26 22:37:49 UTC 2022 by Petiver | view on HN

  7. Taking Lichess to the next level

    posted on Sat Oct 29 05:39:09 UTC 2022 by akbarnama | view on HN

    Lichess is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2010 to promote and encourage the teaching and practice of the game of chess and its variants.

  8. Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org

    posted on Sat Oct 29 14:20:45 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

    The article is about a person who clicked on a Google ad for GIMP and was taken to a malicious website.

  9. Ask HN: What mindset change made the biggest positive change for you?

    posted on Sat Oct 29 16:50:18 UTC 2022 by ChildOfChaos | view on HN

  10. WireGuard in FreeBSD

    posted on Sat Oct 29 07:50:37 UTC 2022 by nixcraft | view on HN

    The article describes how to load the WireGuard driver as a module at boot time, how the WireGuard interface works, and how to create WireGuard interfaces at runtime.

  11. Addiction to Ideas (2017)

    posted on Thu Oct 27 09:27:59 UTC 2022 by yamrzou | view on HN

    The article is about a professor who is addicted to ideas and has learned that the best way to tell if an idea is any good is by looking at how much traction it has.

  12. Why is D's garbage collection slower than Go's?

    posted on Sat Oct 29 05:35:06 UTC 2022 by systems | view on HN

  13. Om is a novel, maximally-simple concatenative language

    posted on Sat Oct 29 09:21:23 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN

    The article discusses a novel, maximally-simple concatenative, homoiconic programming and algorithm notation language with minimal syntax, comprised of only three elements.

  14. Tree rings offer insight into radiation storms

    posted on Thu Oct 27 01:28:59 UTC 2022 by wglb | view on HN

    A University of Queensland study has found that radiation "storms" called Miyake Events are not correlated with sunspot activity, and some actually last one or two years, rather than being a single instantaneous explosion or flare.

  15. Why does the US allow a controversial weedkiller banned across the world?

    posted on Sat Oct 29 14:38:17 UTC 2022 by elorant | view on HN

    The article discusses how the EPA has determined that, despite scientific studies linking the chemical paraquat to Parkinson's disease, the benefits of the chemical outweigh the risks.

  16. Svix, the Enterprise Ready Webhook Service (YC W21) Is Hiring (Remote)

    posted on Sat Oct 29 12:00:06 UTC 2022 by tasn | view on HN

    The company is looking for individuals that are smart, high-energy, and fast learning that enjoy having developers as users and share the company's values.

  17. Texas solar and wind resources saved consumers nearly $28B over 12 years

    posted on Sat Oct 29 11:54:17 UTC 2022 by doener | view on HN

    Solar and wind energy have saved Texas residents nearly $28 billion over the past 12 years, according to a study by IdeaSmiths.

  18. Mitmproxy 9: WireGuard Mode

    posted on Sat Oct 29 10:57:17 UTC 2022 by mhils | view on HN

    The article discusses the release of mitmproxy 9, which includes support for raw UDP and DTLS, a new WireGuard proxy mode, and major usability improvements.

  19. BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library

    posted on Sat Oct 29 07:44:28 UTC 2022 by snvzz | view on HN

    BearSSL is an implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol (RFC 5246) written in C that is designed to be correct and secure while also being small and portable.

  20. What Is a Service Mesh?

    posted on Thu Oct 27 12:11:30 UTC 2022 by riadsila | view on HN

    A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that manages traffic, also known as communication, between services in applications composed of containerized microservices.

  21. The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory

    posted on Sat Oct 29 07:24:35 UTC 2022 by hlandau | view on HN

    The article discusses the Talos II and Blackbird systems by Raptor Computing Systems and how they are the first contemporary IBM POWER CPUs that are accessible to a wider audience.

  22. Kathleen Booth has died

    posted on Sat Oct 29 14:07:02 UTC 2022 by sohkamyung | view on HN

  23. Katamari Hack (2011)

    posted on Sat Oct 29 05:50:09 UTC 2022 by xk3 | view on HN

  24. Ask HN: Can one be self-employed fixing bugs?

    posted on Sat Oct 29 11:33:09 UTC 2022 by 0xf005ba11 | view on HN

  25. Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

    posted on Sat Oct 29 02:45:23 UTC 2022 by bjoko | view on HN

    A critical vulnerability has been discovered in current versions of OpenSSL and will need to be patched immediately. The OpenSSL Project will release version 3.0.7 on Tuesday, November 1st, 2022.

  26. Turn your Google Sheets into a webhook without code

    posted on Sat Oct 29 13:48:28 UTC 2022 by wayneshng | view on HN

  27. The SAFe Delusion

    posted on Sat Oct 29 14:56:59 UTC 2022 by clockworksoul | view on HN

    Volvo Cars is a Swedish car company founded in 1927 that is now employing a more Agile approach to software development.

  28. Bcachefs Status Update

    posted on Sat Oct 29 08:22:14 UTC 2022 by pantalaimon | view on HN

  29. Ask HN: Learning about fundraising as first-time tech founders

    posted on Thu Oct 27 08:37:48 UTC 2022 by MasterScrat | view on HN

  30. asdf banned_commands

    posted on Sat Oct 29 13:47:18 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

    The article is discussing how creating a branch with a name that is already being used as a tag could cause problems.