Tuesday, August 30, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Spat at, abused and run off the road: why do some people hate cyclists so much?

Spat at, abused and run off the road: why do some people hate cyclists so much?
23 by pseudolus | 28 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America

The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America
20 by reidrac | 4 comments on Hacker News.


FOX NEWS: NJ Senate race rocks Garden State political landscape


NJ Senate race rocks Garden State political landscape



Fox News senior correspondent Laura Ingle reports on a Republican truck driver’s shocking win over the Democrat state Senate president.

Daniel Barenboim, Star Conductor, Withdraws from ‘Ring’ Cycle in Berlin


By BY JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/odqmDOI

New top story on Hacker News: A simple paint job can save birds from wind turbines

A simple paint job can save birds from wind turbines
13 by CharlesW | 6 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, August 29, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: The OK? Programming Language

The OK? Programming Language
43 by animal_spirits | 18 comments on Hacker News.


An Orlando Museum’s Disputed Basquiats Are Gone. Its Leadership Is, Too.


By BY BRETT SOKOL from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/O1nHRWr

New top story on Hacker News: On Tea and the Art of Doing Nothing

On Tea and the Art of Doing Nothing
7 by vitabenes | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Back at the U.S. Open, Leylah Fernandez Tries to Be ‘the Best Version of Myself’


By BY CINDY SHMERLER from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/bhH2dpz

F.T.C. sues over tracking data that could expose visits to abortion clinics.


By BY NATASHA SINGER from NYT Business https://ift.tt/rNsiwc2

New top story on Hacker News: What does it take to be a good programmer?

What does it take to be a good programmer?
11 by ingve | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, August 27, 2022

Friday, August 26, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: 13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment

13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment
51 by twunde | 31 comments on Hacker News.


Michigan G.O.P. Lining Up Behind Conspiracy Theorist for Attorney General


By BY ALEXANDRA BERZON AND NICK CORASANITI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/Co7ApFi

New top story on Hacker News: O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want

O&O App Buster removes Windows Apps you don’t want
19 by DerekBickerton | 6 comments on Hacker News.


Here Are the Challenges Ahead for California’s Ban on Gas Cars


By BY LISA FRIEDMAN AND BRAD PLUMER from NYT Climate https://ift.tt/y7DVnx2

New top story on Hacker News: NumWorks: An open-source graphing calculator (with Python and Rust support)

NumWorks: An open-source graphing calculator (with Python and Rust support)
18 by semenko | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, August 25, 2022

‘Seoul Vibe’ Review: Grinding Gears


By BY NICOLAS RAPOLD from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/DtK0IBq

The expansion averts mass Russian conscription.


By BY IVAN NECHEPURENKO AND ANTON TROIANOVSKI from NYT World https://ift.tt/XThyfFa

Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Divides Democrats


By BY MAGGIE ASTOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/Smgys8K

Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden’s Daughter’s Diary


By BY ADAM GOLDMAN AND MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/J2Sunh7

New top story on Hacker News: DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open

DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
87 by TangerineDream | 139 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: GitHub “allows” unauthorized users “merging” PRs, bypass write permission check

GitHub “allows” unauthorized users “merging” PRs, bypass write permission check
9 by sighingnow | 4 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, August 24, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
15 by tws | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Russian missile strike kills at least 15 people at a railway station on Ukraine’s Independence Day, Zelensky says.


By BY MARC SANTORA AND DAN BILEFSKY from NYT World https://ift.tt/K5zeqod

New top story on Hacker News: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
105 by nobodyCloak | 38 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Building a back end using only OpenAI Codex

Building a back end using only OpenAI Codex
20 by zegl | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I've published the sources for the code generation and the code that was generated on GitHub: https://ift.tt/hRBkNvV I've been experimenting with merging prompts together, with a goal to write the full backend in a single prompt. On the form: > 1. Setup a flask web server > 2. Add a /add endpoint It works reasonably well, but it seems like it's loosing some precision in the prompts... The person that coined the term "prompt engineering" was right, it's really important to learn what words to use to get the AI to do exactly what you want it to do.

Consumer Demand Has Been Key Driver of Inflation in the U.S.


By BY ANA SWANSON from NYT Business https://ift.tt/gAMU8vl

New top story on Hacker News: Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert

Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert
12 by Brajeshwar | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, August 22, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Reflections on my time in Y Combinator

Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
27 by chrisfrantz | 9 comments on Hacker News.


Fetty Wap Pleads Guilty to Conspiring With a Long Island Drug Gang


By BY COLIN MOYNIHAN from NYT New York https://ift.tt/rf6qRzx

Una duda se cierne sobre las elecciones de Brasil: ¿habrá golpe?


By BY JACK NICAS AND ANDRÉ SPIGARIOL from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/9EWf6z1

It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own


By BY SETH COLTER WALLS from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/a7N34xs

Estonia says Moscow has not asked for help with the Dugina investigation.


By BY ANDREW HIGGINS from NYT World https://ift.tt/TFmf0vJ

How Is Monkeypox Affecting You?


By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT New York https://ift.tt/52ACtNi

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech – NetBlocks

YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech – NetBlocks
6 by xbmcuser | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, August 21, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not

Got a rejection for mentioning Apple pre-release software, but I am not
174 by tosh | 66 comments on Hacker News.


Live Performance Is Back. But Audiences Have Been Slow to Return.


By BY MICHAEL PAULSON AND JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/m6sVUZN

New top story on Hacker News: Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says

Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says
107 by mikhael | 80 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq

Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq
14 by laqq3 | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Using Automation to Become a Better Public Speaker

Using Automation to Become a Better Public Speaker
6 by roberja90 | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, August 19, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Apple’s Use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS

Apple’s Use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS
58 by phenylene | 27 comments on Hacker News.


‘Bad Sisters’ Review: The Family That Kills Together (Maybe)


By BY MIKE HALE from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/yDz9cvM

New top story on Hacker News: A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux

A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
19 by Alupis | 3 comments on Hacker News.


FOX NEWS: Babylon Bee speaks out on why the ‘woke’ mob would cancel MLK, being flagged as disinformation


Babylon Bee speaks out on why the ‘woke’ mob would cancel MLK, being flagged as disinformation



Fox News Digital sits down with The Babylon Bee editors Kyle Mann and Joel Berry

‘I’m Carrying This Baby Just to Bury It’: The Struggle to Decode Abortion Laws


By BY AVA SASANI AND EMILY COCHRANE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/C6QTu0K

New top story on Hacker News: How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider

How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider
21 by vector_spaces | 10 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, August 17, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook for first time ever

Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook for first time ever
42 by jseliger | 5 comments on Hacker News.


Top Vatican Official Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct in Quebec


By BY IAN AUSTEN AND GAIA PIANIGIANI from NYT World https://ift.tt/Ufauk3z

How Much for That Bacon? Inflation Hits the British Breakfast Table.


By BY EUAN WARD from NYT World https://ift.tt/PaYXCi9

African Crater Adds an Asteroid Strike to the Late Dinosaur Era


By BY ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS from NYT Science https://ift.tt/cy4asiI

The Megalodon Was Bigger, Faster and Even Hungrier


By BY ASHER ELBEIN from NYT Science https://ift.tt/itWPay6

A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure


By BY MICHAEL BLANDING from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/HL2ep3c

New top story on Hacker News: Traps for the Unwary in Python’s Import System

Traps for the Unwary in Python’s Import System
10 by mmastrac | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, August 15, 2022

New top story on Hacker News: How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency

How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
42 by techinvalley | 0 comments on Hacker News.


HBO Max Lays Off About 70 People


By BY JOHN KOBLIN from NYT Business https://ift.tt/XZ3VsAc

New top story on Hacker News: Anonymous Search Engine

Anonymous Search Engine
6 by TomZero | 4 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier

Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
31 by alexzeitler | 6 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: How much gold has been found in the world?

How much gold has been found in the world?
18 by bookofjoe | 7 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Android 13

Android 13
62 by skiman10 | 43 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Preparedness Paradox

Preparedness Paradox
31 by thunderbong | 6 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, August 13, 2022

Sacramento to Pay $1.7 Million to Stephon Clark’s Parents


By BY AMANDA HOLPUCH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/WOlH0pg

New top story on Hacker News: WinterCG: Web-Interoperable Runtimes Community Group

WinterCG: Web-Interoperable Runtimes Community Group
8 by brianzelip | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to price a service that saves hundreds of engineering hours?

Ask HN: How to price a service that saves hundreds of engineering hours?
20 by punkpeye | 12 comments on Hacker News.
I've built a Cypress test runner that completes all tests (no matter how many you've got) in less than a minute. In contrast, based on my experience, a medium-size Cypress test suite takes about 15 minutes to complete. The only catch is that individual tests have to be under 30 seconds. The idea came out of frustration running Cypress in my previous company, where it was taking 10 minutes+ to run all Cypress tests while parallelizing across 30 VMs and costing us in excess of USD 2k/month. In order to achieve this, I have effectively built a new Cypress test runner from the ground up. It understands Cypress syntax, but otherwise have nothing in common with how Cypress works. The way it achieves this performance is by splitting each spec into individual tests and starting all of the tests at once, i.e. if you have 10 specs with 5 tests each, this program will start 50 VMs to run your tests. I have two companies trialing this at the moment and the feedback has been incredibly positive, saying that it is saving _hundreds_ of engineering hours. I am trying to establish how to price this. The challenge is that this model is profitable at scale, but losing money if there is not high density of clients. This is because it costs me USD ~0.15 to run a VM for 1 hour and I need to spin up enough VMs to complete all tests, and I am charged in increments of an hour. My thinking is to charge 2 cents per a test-minute, i.e. Using previous example of 10 specs with 5 tests each, it would cost USD 1 to run all tests once. If you run integration tests 100 times per day, that's USD 100/day. This may sound much. However, if prior to using this you were waiting 15 minutes to run all tests, that is 14 minutes saved. If avg. engineer in your company is earning USD 60/hour, you are saving USD 14 by having engineers get immediate results rather than waiting for them. If positioned that way, it doesn't sound expensive. I am currently targeting companies with 30-50 engineers (existing customers are series A and series B companies). At this size, they don't have crazy amount of tests, so I can deliver on the 1 minute promise, and they care a lot about moving fast. What sounds reasonable?

New top story on Hacker News: Quirky Computing Books

Quirky Computing Books
38 by llvm | 4 comments on Hacker News.


Survivors of Partition Seek Closure Through an Unlikely Source: YouTube


By BY SALMAN MASOOD AND MIKE IVES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2I4F6QC

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web

Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web
5 by crispisulcans | 2 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg

A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg
16 by ArdelleF | 8 comments on Hacker News.