Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout Link: https://www.bcg.com/press/11june2024-half-of-workers-around-the-world-struggling-with-burnout Discussion:

Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/style/nofx-farewell-tour.html Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40784778

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow Link:

Patrick Breyer

Council to greenlight Chat Control - Take action now!

[Update: Vote has been postponed to Thursday, keep up the pressure!] The Belgian EU Council presidency seems set to have bulk Chat Control searc...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

NumPy 2.0 Link:

NumPy 2.0.0 Release Notes — NumPy v2.6.dev0 Manual

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699470

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download Link:

social.coop

jonny (@jonny@social.coop)

Attached: 1 image More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631370

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm' Link:

theregister

Crooks threaten to leak 2.9B records of personal info

Turns out opting out actually works?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566938

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

If English was written like Chinese (1999) Link:

Yingzi

Discussion:

If English was written like Chinese (1999) | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago Link:

Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago * TorrentFreak

A quarter-century ago, Napster was the talk of the town, triggering a global piracy frenzy that never disappeared.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40545436

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process Link:

Ars Technica

Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

Spotify to brick hardware it released to general public in 2022 this December.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534665

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Writing a Unix clone in about a month Link:

Writing a Unix clone in about a month

Discussion:

Writing a Unix clone in about a month | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel Link:

TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM

Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel

Check out three new functions that use Regular Expressions to help parse text more easily: REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, and REGEXREPLACE!

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426720

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography Link:

Google

Advancing Our Amazing Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography

Google and many other organizations, such as NIST, IETF, and NSA, believe that migrating to post-quantum cryptography is important due to the large...

Discussion:

Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense Link:

csharprepl — a command-line C# REPL

Explore C# and .NET interactively, from the terminal. Prototype code, pull in NuGet packages, jump to source, and inspect running processes.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460296

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

ICQ will stop working from June 26 Link:

ICQ

You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic Link:

Voxel Displacement Renderer — Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic

This is the first of two posts about a renderer I have been developing, focusing on what I've built and how it works. The second post discusses why...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464558

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange Discussion:

Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died Link:

IGN

Kabosu, the Dog Behind the ‘Doge’ Meme, Has Died - IGN

Kabosu, the dog behind the ‘doge’ meme, has died at the age of 18, according to her owner.

Discussion:

Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution Link:

What is a collision? — On Error Resume Next

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463764

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative Link:

GitHub

GitHub - ItzCrazyKns/Vane: Vane is an AI-powered answering engine.

Vane is an AI-powered answering engine. Contribute to ItzCrazyKns/Vane development by creating an account on GitHub.

Discussion:

Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011) Link: https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458686