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New best story on Hacker News: Inkbase: Programmable Ink

Inkbase: Programmable Ink
501 by infinite8s | 62 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident

FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident
529 by mcone | 315 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s

A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s
478 by jakobdabo | 148 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud

Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud
636 by PaulKeeble | 140 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays

Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
551 by jonahss | 187 comments on Hacker News.
I made a thing! In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself: "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves" I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays. Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10. In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion. HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts

Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
623 by costco | 506 comments on Hacker News.
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/po5s3qI Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
553 by janober | 307 comments on Hacker News.
Last week we at n8n ran into problems getting a new database from Azure. After contacting support, it turns out that we can’t add instances to our k8s cluster either. Azure has told they'll have more capacity in April 2023(!) — but we’ll have to stop accepting new users in ~35 days if we don't get any more. These problems seem only in the German region, but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us. We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?

New best story on Hacker News: Stable Diffusion 2.0

Stable Diffusion 2.0
613 by hardmaru | 190 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game

Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
519 by trizoza | 149 comments on Hacker News.
I had the concept in my head for some time and firstly just prototyped it using only HTML & CSS. Sent it to a few friends and they liked it so I made it into its own website and added few 'competitive' features like click counter and share button.

New best story on Hacker News: An interactive guide to Flexbox

An interactive guide to Flexbox
526 by brandrick | 69 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ooh.directory

Ooh.directory
559 by adrianhon | 116 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees

Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
526 by CHB0403085482 | 155 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically

Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically
511 by hr0m | 101 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world

Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world
507 by loa_in_ | 138 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: High-documentation, low-meeting work culture

High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
531 by seltzerboys | 368 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source
487 by alixanderwang | 117 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation

Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
437 by TangerineDream | 243 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?

Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
542 by cpeth | 474 comments on Hacker News.
No form of transport requires less energy than telecommuting. Why aren't there Zoom/MS Teams/Slack bill-boards on 101 and 880? Where is everyone's outrage at needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices and the congestsion, waste, and environmental damage it causes?

New best story on Hacker News: Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging

Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
413 by matthewmorgan | 136 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE

Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
583 by mtejo | 579 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
462 by curious16 | 323 comments on Hacker News.
Sometimes it takes a book or a course (or explanation from a mentor) for a topic to finally click for you that you were struggling with for a long time. For me, it was Stanford's EE261 course that made Fourier Transform click for me. Here is the link: https://ift.tt/XpDPbZH Similarly for deep learning it was fast.ai courses. For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org. Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS.

New best story on Hacker News: Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG

Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
442 by fathyb | 92 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

Building an e-ink weather display for our home
452 by jorde | 95 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp

Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp
441 by aleixrodriala | 123 comments on Hacker News.
Side project tunneling a TCP port through WhatsApp, can be useful on airplanes or any WiFi/carrier that has unlimited social network data limits. Appreciate feedback :)

New best story on Hacker News: Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image

Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image
459 by badorg | 134 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Resolving the great undo-redo quandary

Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
482 by kerblang | 232 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
504 by tonypham | 353 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, Over the past two years, I've been building Upbase, an all-in-one PM tool. I've tried so many project management tools over the years (Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Teamwork, Wrike, Monday, etc.) but they've all fallen short. Most of them are overly complicated and painful to use. Some others, like Trello, are too limited for my needs. Most importantly, most of these tools tend to be focused on team collaboration and completely ignore personal productivity. They are useful for organizing my work, but not great at helping me stay focused to get things done. That's why I decided to build Upbase. I try to make it clean and simple, without all the bells and whistles. Apart from team collaboration, I added many personal productivity features, including Weekly/Daily planner, Time blocking, Pomodoro Timer, Daily Journal, etc. so I don't need another to-do list app. Now I can use Upbase to collaborate with my team AND manage your personal stuff at the same time, without all the bloat. If these resonate with you, then give Upbase a try. It has a Free Forever plan though. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!

New best story on Hacker News: Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang

Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang
782 by gavagai691 | 231 comments on Hacker News.
Yitang Zhang, the mathematician behind the 2013 breakthrough on bounded gaps in primes, posted to the arxiv today a result which (if correct) comes close to proving the nonexistence of Landau--Siegel zeros: https://ift.tt/tYPhXAw . To give a sense of the scale of this claim: If correct, Zhang's work is the most significant progress towards the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis in a century. Moreover, I think this result would not only be a more significant advance than Zhang's previous breakthrough, but also constitute a larger leap for number theory than Wiles' 1994 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (which was, in my opinion, the greatest single achievement by an individual mathematician in the 20th century). Some discussion / explanation of Siegel zeros and Zhang's claim can be found here: https://ift.tt/mlDXh1r... https://ift.tt/hkQWDbc... An account of Zhang's remarkable story (and his previous breakthrough) can be found here. Famously, prior to his breakthrough, he worked at Subway and lived in his car: https://ift.tt/WgdLpQc

New best story on Hacker News: The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015

The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015
742 by sgk284 | 318 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls

Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
685 by Andrew_Russell | 222 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
606 by mckirk | 310 comments on Hacker News.
Hello stranger. It has occurred to me that one of the crucial elements of the early internet was the feeling that there was somebody out there, _somewhere_ on the globe, that was actually responding to that particular thing you were putting out there. It was a special feeling, because it was a sense of connection. Just being online and being part of the few select communities that existed back then was a commitment, and I believe that's in part what made it feel special. With all the world gaining access to the internet, I think we've gained a lot, but lost this sense of wonder: Since online interactions have now become commonplace to the point of para-social meaninglessness, any single post or message doesn't really feel all that _real_. HN is still the closest thing I know to that primordial kind of internet, and so I'm putting this post out there. It might get buried instantly, or it might survive, and on the off chance that it does: I encourage you to comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment, however niche it might be. It might let you find some likeminded people and maybe recapture a bit of the best aspects of the internet in those early days. In any case, I sincerely wish you a great day, from one surprisingly-real-but-currently-text-based being to another :)

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving

Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
641 by michaeltimo | 62 comments on Hacker News.
It's been a month that Jadi (real name: Amir Emad Mirmirani), an Iranian geek, has been imprisoned in Iran's most notorious prison called Evin in Tehran. In Iran, he is one of the most famous people active in the field of programming and computer education. In his personal blog[0], he has been writing about technology and society for years. He has also a YouTube channel[1][2] to teach and encourage Iranians to programming and Linux, and a podcast[3] that has been explaining technology and science news along with his comments for several years. All this in a country with a dictatorial government where standing in the right place has a heavy price. His arrest occurred on October 5, a few days after the recent nationwide protests[4] began in Iran. Arrest at home with beating. The reason for this is not yet clear, but it is probably due to his efforts to increase awareness of the society about Iran's internet censorship system, and his positions against a company called ArvanCloud. Many claim this company help the government of Iran in implementing the internet censorship's system (something like Great Firewall of China). In Jadi's own words, this company has made it possible for the government to turn the Internet into an intranet at any moment and block people's access to international services. Something that happens in every demonstration in Iran including right now. The reason I am writing here is to raise awareness about him, which may lead to his release. All this may be nothing more than a false hope, but it is what I can do. From the news he covered in his podcast, it could be guessed that he is one of the regular readers of Hacker News. Perhaps hearing your support here will boost his morale behind bars in Evin. The prison which is also known as Evin University due to the number of educated political prisoners [5]. [0](Persian) https://jadi.net/ [1](Persian) https://www.youtube.com/jadimirmirani [2](English) https://www.youtube.com/geekingjadi [3](Persian) https://ift.tt/DUTbtz0 [4] https://ift.tt/warqZ6M [5] https://ift.tt/0bEQrDW