Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Satellite imagery shows possible damage to a Russian surveillance plane in Belarus.


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New top story on Hacker News: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
14 by colinprince | 4 comments on Hacker News.


Third Top FTX Executive Pleads Guilty in Fraud Investigation


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New top story on Hacker News: A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
20 by rrampage | 7 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API

Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API
19 by portInit | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, we’re Carl and Nic, the creators of crul ( https://www.crul.com ), and we’ve been hard at work for the last year and a half building our dream of turning the web into a dataset. In a nutshell crul is a tool for querying and building web and api data feeds from anywhere to anywhere. With crul you can crawl and transform web pages into csv tables, explore and dynamically query APIs, filter and organize data, and push data sets to third party data lakes and analytics tools. Here’s a demo video, we’ve been told Nic sounds like John Mayer (lol) ( https://ift.tt/tbhg5Yw ) We’ve personally struggled wrangling data from the web using puppeteer/playwright/selenium, jq or cobbling together python scripts, client libraries, and schedulers to consume APIs. The reality is that shit is hard, doesn’t scale (classic blocking for-loop or async saturation), and comes with thorny maintenance/security issues. The tools we love to hate. Crul’s value prop is simple: Query any Webpage or API for free. At its core, crul is based on the foundational linked nature of Web/API content. It consists of a purpose built map/expand/reduce engine for hierarchical Web/API content (kind of like postman but with a membership to Gold's Gym) with a familiar parser expression grammar that naturally gets the job done (and layered caching to make it quick to fix when it doesn’t on the first try). There’s a boatload of other features like domain policies, scheduler, checkpoints, templates, REST API, Web UI, vault, OAuth for third parties and 20+ stores to send your data to. Our goal is to open source crul as time and resources permit. At the end of the day it’s just the two of us trying to figure things out as we go! We’re just getting started. Crul is one bad mother#^@%*& and the web is finally yours! Download crul for free as a Mac OS desktop application or as a Docker image ( https://www.crul.com ) and let us know if you love it or hate it. ( https://ift.tt/NfpV7wc ) And come say hello to us on our slack channel - we’re a friendly bunch! ( https://ift.tt/NZUTovz ) Nic and Carl ( https://ift.tt/37trgPk )

Monday, February 27, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled

How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled
48 by tysone | 14 comments on Hacker News.


Biden Could Face Veto Test Over Contentious D.C. Crime Bill


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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt)

Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt)
14 by OddMerlin | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hey folks, Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want. Example: $gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin I haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.

New top story on Hacker News: An MPGuino Fuel-Economy Computer with a Retro Look

An MPGuino Fuel-Economy Computer with a Retro Look
5 by danbr | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor


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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Storm With Gusts Up to 110 M.P.H. Forecast to Hit Oklahoma


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New top story on Hacker News: Britain’s biggest skills problem is that many firms don’t value them

Britain’s biggest skills problem is that many firms don’t value them
15 by mfiguiere | 2 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: The Vanilla JavaScript Toolkit

The Vanilla JavaScript Toolkit
28 by favourable | 11 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Canada starts investigating TikTok over data collection from young users

Canada starts investigating TikTok over data collection from young users
24 by elorant | 4 comments on Hacker News.


Will More Sex Help Cure Loneliness?


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West Bank Attack Kills 2 Israelis as Middle East Officials Meet in Jordan


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New top story on Hacker News: Nino Rota’s I due timidi – an opera for radio transmission (2022)

Nino Rota’s I due timidi – an opera for radio transmission (2022)
4 by tintinnabula | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, February 25, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Ancient Nautilus, Uncertain Future (2022)

Ancient Nautilus, Uncertain Future (2022)
6 by jelliclesfarm | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Shinta Ratri, Fighter for Transgender Rights in Indonesia, Dies at 60


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New top story on Hacker News: The Greenblatt chess program (1967) [pdf]

The Greenblatt chess program (1967) [pdf]
8 by pncnmnp | 0 comments on Hacker News.


China to Welcome Belarusian Leader, Raising Concerns Over Ukraine


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New top story on Hacker News: mruby 3.2.0

mruby 3.2.0
12 by shaicoleman | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Online Lens/Optics Simulator

Online Lens/Optics Simulator
14 by herodotus | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, February 24, 2023

Friday’s fiercest questioning has focused on Alex Murdaugh’s whereabouts. Here are takeaways.


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New top story on Hacker News: UK supermarkets run out of turnips

UK supermarkets run out of turnips
21 by jjgreen | 20 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups

Hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups
29 by ushakov | 8 comments on Hacker News.


G7 leaders say their solidarity with Ukraine will ‘never waver.’


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New top story on Hacker News: Training Deep Networks with Data Parallelism in Jax

Training Deep Networks with Data Parallelism in Jax
4 by sebg | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Moochacha, quantum-safe file encryption (analyzed by Frama-C)

Show HN: Moochacha, quantum-safe file encryption (analyzed by Frama-C)
10 by markdascher | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, February 22, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: What I did not learn about writing in school

What I did not learn about writing in school
29 by saeedesmaili | 7 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Multi-policy-based annealer to solving real combinatorial optimization problems

Multi-policy-based annealer to solving real combinatorial optimization problems
16 by wglb | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Hope Mirrlees and her curious masterpiece

Hope Mirrlees and her curious masterpiece
2 by Caiero | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Strong Democratic Showing in Wisconsin Court Race Sets Up a Frenzied Finish


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Ukraine prepares itself for the possibility of Russian aggression via Moldova and Belarus.


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New top story on Hacker News: NASA's planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid

NASA's planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid
4 by wglb | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, February 20, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Low-Level Software Security for Compiler Developers

Low-Level Software Security for Compiler Developers
15 by signa11 | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Here is the latest on Monday’s earthquake in Turkey.


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New top story on Hacker News: Four Ways to Build Web Apps

Four Ways to Build Web Apps
6 by tphummel | 0 comments on Hacker News.


James O’Keefe Is Removed as Project Veritas’ Leader


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One local official says some buildings have collapsed, but the quake’s true toll is still unclear.


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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone

Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
79 by nas1throway | 28 comments on Hacker News.
Laid off 6 months ago. Was on an H1-B visa. Moved to spouse’s dependent visa. I have just around year left on my H1-B and my previous employer was mid way through the PERM process when they laid me off. Most companies don’t want to hire me because of the delays in the processing of PERM these days since I have just a year left. And I just recently switched careers from construction to data. Feeling really hopeless and alone. My spouse has a good job, but this stress of not getting any work has been devastating to me. It took me around 8 months of job searching to find a role as a career switcher and now I’m back to square one in a bad market. I don’t have anybody I can talk to and just want to talk about my problems. I’m parked outside a Burger King parking lot in the car by myself and don’t have a clue on what I should do. Feeling hopeless.

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A Divide Over New Inclusive Language, Even Among Liberals


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New top story on Hacker News: What if mass storage were free? (1980)

What if mass storage were free? (1980)
14 by dwenzek | 9 comments on Hacker News.


Displaced by an earthquake, and nowhere to go.


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Justice Dept. Is Said to Decline to Bring Charges Against Gaetz in Sex-Trafficking Inquiry


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New top story on Hacker News: Rerun Is Open Source

Rerun Is Open Source
58 by fdb | 4 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction

Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction
13 by teleforce | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, February 12, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: The fundamental thermodynamic costs of communication

The fundamental thermodynamic costs of communication
9 by g0xA52A2A | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: HN Pop-Up – Hover on HN Username to See Their Profile

Show HN: HN Pop-Up – Hover on HN Username to See Their Profile
8 by TimCTRL | 3 comments on Hacker News.


What to Cook This Week


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New top story on Hacker News: Airspace over Lake Michigan restricted due to national defense

Airspace over Lake Michigan restricted due to national defense
34 by cebert | 24 comments on Hacker News.


Across Paris, an Invader Unleashes His Art


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New top story on Hacker News: Acte Gratuit (2022)

Acte Gratuit (2022)
3 by NaOH | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, February 11, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation

I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation
30 by 7moritz7 | 20 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship

Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship
23 by wglb | 4 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Which is the best method for deep cloning in JavaScript?

Which is the best method for deep cloning in JavaScript?
12 by tiagobertolo | 14 comments on Hacker News.


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El veredicto del juicio a García Luna podría afectar a funcionarios mexicanos y agentes de EE. UU.


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New top story on Hacker News: My review of the C standard library in practice

My review of the C standard library in practice
11 by djoldman | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, February 10, 2023

Kenji López-Alt’s Family Loves This Soup. Here’s How He Made It Easier.


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The Best of Late Night This Week


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New top story on Hacker News: The Retreat of the Amateur Investors

The Retreat of the Amateur Investors
21 by lxm | 13 comments on Hacker News.


Oil prices rise after a Kremlin official says Russia will cut production to counter sanctions.


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Mourning ‘Compassionate Conservatism’ Along With Its Author


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New top story on Hacker News: Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong

Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong
51 by bilsbie | 20 comments on Hacker News.