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  1. EmacsConf 2022

    posted on Sat Dec 03 14:27:09 UTC 2022 by hprotagonist | view on HN

    EmacsConf is a conference about the joy of Emacs and Emacs Lisp that will be held as an online conference on December 3 and 4, 2022.

  2. Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:08:26 UTC 2022 by yamrzou | view on HN

  3. Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:07:44 UTC 2022 by mawaldne | view on HN

    The article discusses the pros and cons of using Rust in a startup setting, and how it can impact productivity.

  4. An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT

    posted on Sat Dec 03 16:20:27 UTC 2022 by heeton | view on HN

  5. Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 Networks

    posted on Sat Dec 03 12:59:43 UTC 2022 by punnerud | view on HN

    Bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible, and portable framework written in Go which aims to offer security researchers, red teamers, and reverse engineers an easy to use, all-in-one solution with all the features they might possibly need for performing reconnaissance and attacking WiFi networks, Bluetooth Low Energy devices, wireless HID devices, and Ethernet networks.

  6. Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:24:14 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN

    The article is about the author's experience with a company's ads product and how they fixed a problem with it.

  7. The Impotence of Being Clever

    posted on Sat Dec 03 11:21:44 UTC 2022 by vitabenes | view on HN

    The article discusses how cleverness is often associated with being an outsider and how this has become more prevalent in society.

  8. Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform

    posted on Sat Dec 03 12:35:18 UTC 2022 by tsujp | view on HN

  9. The Effects of Uber and Lyft in U.S. Cities

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:18:29 UTC 2022 by giuliomagnifico | view on HN

    The article discusses a new policy brief series that delves into the implications and opportunities that transportation network companies (TNCs) present.

  10. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (2021)

    posted on Fri Dec 02 06:18:26 UTC 2022 by colinprince | view on HN

    The article is about a software engineer reflecting on his career and sharing six pieces of advice that he has learned.

  11. The best leaders are great individual contributors, not professional managers

    posted on Sat Dec 03 13:03:03 UTC 2022 by wslh | view on HN

  12. Instagram Is Over

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:45:29 UTC 2022 by dailo10 | view on HN

    The article discusses how Instagram is becoming less popular among young people because it is full of sponsored posts and recommended Reels from people they don't follow.

  13. Complete working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS6502 microprocessor

    posted on Sat Dec 03 08:49:00 UTC 2022 by adrian_mrd | view on HN

    The article is about the MOnSter 6502, a play on the original manufacturer and device name (MOS 6502) as well as acknowledging its large size, which is a four layer circuit board, 12 × 15 inches, 0.1 inches thick, with surface mount components on both sides. In total, there are 4769 components on the board, including 3218 transistors and 1019 resistors that comprise the "functional" part of the 6502, as well

  14. Amazon’s Quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ of Robotics

    posted on Sat Dec 03 13:38:18 UTC 2022 by wallflower | view on HN

    The article discusses how automating some warehouse functions could help Walmart save money on its workforce.

  15. The First Geely Was a Fake Mercedes-Benz E-Class Based on a Real Audi 100

    posted on Sat Dec 03 13:56:07 UTC 2022 by krn | view on HN

    The article is about how Geely founder Li Shufu wanted to build a “Chinese Benz” and how the company's first car was based on a Hongqi.

  16. The Oldschool PC Font Pack (v2.2)

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:16:14 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN

    The article discusses how difficult it is to determine the correct size for a pixel-outline font, due to the way most operating systems measure text size in points rather than pixels.

  17. Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

    posted on Sat Dec 03 10:32:31 UTC 2022 by ailef | view on HN

    The article is about a tool that allows users to see a summary of the most active organizations and most edited pages on the English Wikipedia.

  18. Dissonance – A Journey Through Musical Possibility Space

    posted on Fri Dec 02 11:58:44 UTC 2022 by Nitrolo | view on HN

    The article discusses how to derive musical scales and chords by analyzing the spectrum of a sound.

  19. Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?

    posted on Sat Dec 03 11:52:42 UTC 2022 by sfusato | view on HN

    The Online Safety Bill could end up with Britain having one of the most draconian regimes in the free world for censorship, which would be decided by bots that make mistakes all the time, but the public would never know.

  20. ChatGPT produces made-up nonexistent references

    posted on Sat Dec 03 08:03:30 UTC 2022 by msravi | view on HN

  21. Technology Shocks Sharks to Save Them

    posted on Fri Dec 02 11:26:40 UTC 2022 by helsinkiandrew | view on HN

    The article discusses how the author's computer network was detected as being unusual activity.

  22. Puter

    posted on Fri Dec 02 23:05:09 UTC 2022 by 6581 | view on HN

  23. People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

    posted on Fri Dec 02 16:08:13 UTC 2022 by isp | view on HN

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

  24. I’m thrilled to announce that nothing is going on with me

    posted on Sat Dec 03 13:55:14 UTC 2022 by mrzool | view on HN

    The person speaking has not done anything new since the last time they saw the person they are speaking to, two years ago.

  25. Ask HN: Consultants, what tax software do you use?

    posted on Sat Dec 03 14:44:26 UTC 2022 by Eumenes | view on HN

  26. Call of Duty players flock to buy “all-black” DLC skin, hide in dark corners

    posted on Sat Dec 03 12:37:41 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN

    The LA Thieves CDL home variant for Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 is a skin that is almost entirely black, with a small red "LA" logo on the chest, left arm, and back. This skin is becoming popular for its potential to make players harder to spot in darker parts of maps.

  27. AI solves Advent of Code 2022

    posted on Sat Dec 03 12:16:32 UTC 2022 by waitforit | view on HN

    GPT chat was used to try and answer two Advent of Code challenges. It was successful in correctly answering one challenge and provided a suggested refactor to remove the bug in the other challenge.

  28. How to post to Mastodon automatically from an RSS Feed

    posted on Sat Dec 03 15:02:09 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN

  29. Show HN: A nice C string API

    posted on Sat Dec 03 12:31:35 UTC 2022 by mickjc750 | view on HN

    The str.h and strbuf.h files provide a convenient and intuitive approach to string handling, described in a talk by Luca Sas, which separates the ownership of a string (which can modify/build strings) from the access or view of strings (navigating/splitting/trimming).

  30. Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

    posted on Fri Dec 02 17:43:10 UTC 2022 by tpetry | view on HN

    The article discusses how the author's book is designed to help developers learn essential features of modern databases in a short amount of time, so they can improve their applications.