Hacker News on Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of devpod.sh: Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated

Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated (devpod.sh)

620 points by el_hacker 3 years ago | 135 comments

Landing page for DevPod, an open-source, client-only tool for creating reproducible dev environments as an alternative to GitHub Codespaces.

devpod dev-containers codespaces remote-development

Screenshot of redsymbol.net: “Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)

“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)(redsymbol.net)

540 points by ekiauhce 3 years ago | 136 comments

Aaron Maxwell's article explaining how to use bash's EXIT pseudo-signal with trap to ensure cleanup code runs whenever a script exits.

bash shell-scripting exit-traps unix

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)

479 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 795 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the OceanGate Titan submersible missing near the Titanic wreck was steered with a $30 Logitech F710 gamepad.

oceangate-titan submarine logitech-f710 gamepad

Screenshot of pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: Loneliness is stronger when not alone

Loneliness is stronger when not alone (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

452 points by hirundo 3 years ago | 381 comments

PubMed abstract page for a 2023 Journal of Happiness Studies paper examining whether social contact is associated with less loneliness in everyday life.

loneliness psychology social-contact mental-health

Screenshot of sub.rehab: Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated

Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated (sub.rehab)

403 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 242 comments

Sub.rehab is a directory listing alternative platform instances (Lemmy, kbin, Discord, Matrix) for subreddits that went private during the Reddit API protest.

reddit reddit-api-protest lemmy kbin

Screenshot of darekkay.com: Style your RSS feed

Style your RSS feed (darekkay.com)

396 points by captn3m0 3 years ago | 131 comments

Blog post by Darek Kay explaining how to style RSS/Atom feeds so browsers render them as readable pages instead of raw XML.

rss xslt xml atom-feeds

Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it

339 points by grose 3 years ago | 126 comments

Tell HN post by the inter.tube founder saying Stripe banned his music locker service under its restricted business policy, and that he is open sourcing the code.

stripe payment-processing music-locker inter-tube

Screenshot of ev-edition.com: Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs

Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs (ev-edition.com)

336 points by belltaco 3 years ago | 570 comments

EV Edition article reporting that Rivian will adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard for its electric vehicles.

rivian tesla nacs ev-charging

Screenshot of bbc.com: A daytime nap is good for the brain

A daytime nap is good for the brain (bbc.com)

323 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 170 comments

BBC News health article reporting research suggesting that regular daytime naps are associated with better brain health.

napping sleep brain-health neuroscience

Screenshot of twitter.com: Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'

Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'(twitter.com)

320 points by legrande 3 years ago | 393 comments

A tweet by former SEC Internet Enforcement chief John Reed Stark urging people to exit crypto trading platforms amid a growing US regulatory crackdown.

crypto-regulation sec crypto-exchanges law-enforcement

Screenshot of linen.dev: Building a Slack/Discord alternative with Tauri/Rust