Hacker News on Thursday, 20 July 2023

Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption(9to5mac.com)

1262 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 613 comments

9to5Mac article reporting Apple's statement that it would pull iMessage and FaceTime from the UK rather than weaken end-to-end encryption under proposed law.

FedNow Is Live(federalreserve.gov)

1137 points by lavp 3 years ago | 704 comments

Federal Reserve press release from July 20, 2023 announcing that its FedNow instant payments service is now live.

No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers(github.com)

954 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 245 comments

GitHub repository for no-more-secrets, a command line tool that recreates the data decryption effect from the 1992 movie Sneakers.

Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it(webcache.googleusercontent.com)

738 points by burnerbob 3 years ago | 398 comments

Google cache of a Fly.io community forum thread where a user reports a stopped machine under emergency maintenance that cannot be restarted, destroyed, or redeployed.

Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative(github.com)

526 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 173 comments

GitHub repository for DocuSeal, an open-source, self-hostable DocuSign alternative for creating, filling, and signing digital documents.

TypeChat(microsoft.github.io)

482 points by DanRosenwasser 3 years ago | 145 comments

Microsoft blog post introducing TypeChat, an experimental library that uses TypeScript type definitions to get type-safe structured responses from LLMs.

A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis(linyangchen.com)

453 points by _emacsomancer_ 3 years ago | 124 comments

Personal blog post by Lin Yangchen about typesetting a thesis in the 17th-century Fell Types font instead of uniform digital fonts like Caslon and Garamond.

Accidentally Load Bearing(jefftk.com)

386 points by jamessun 3 years ago | 165 comments

Jeff Kaufman blog post arguing that besides a thing's original purpose, you must check whether it has become accidentally load bearing, using a bathroom stud example.

The past is not true(sive.rs)

375 points by swah 3 years ago | 319 comments

Derek Sivers essay recounting how a car crash memory he carried for years turned out to be false, arguing our memories of the past are unreliable.

Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative(anytype.io)

356 points by TTTZ 3 years ago | 228 comments

Landing page for Anytype, a local-first, peer-to-peer "everything app" for notes and knowledge management positioned as a Notion alternative.

JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going(cloudinary.com)

350 points by ksec 3 years ago | 171 comments

Cloudinary blog post by Jon Sneyers recounting the history and current adoption status of the JPEG XL image format.

IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system(pbs.org)

304 points by DocFeind 3 years ago | 152 comments

Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it(addyosmani.com)

276 points by feross 3 years ago | 204 comments

Cool Retro Terminal(github.com)

274 points by qazpot 3 years ago | 84 comments

Oxide Computer: Docs(docs.oxide.computer)

267 points by avrong 3 years ago | 124 comments

Running Stable Diffusion in 260MB of RAM(github.com)

267 points by Robin89 3 years ago | 62 comments

Become Ungoogleable(joeyh.name)

260 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 175 comments

Python Cheatsheet(gto76.github.io)

253 points by zombiemama 3 years ago | 39 comments

Custom instructions for ChatGPT(openai.com)

245 points by magoghm 3 years ago | 110 comments

Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac(github.com)

223 points by jmorgan 3 years ago | 73 comments

MDN Playground(developer.mozilla.org)

214 points by weinzierl 3 years ago | 86 comments

What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?(dolphin-emu.org)

205 points by panic 3 years ago | 144 comments

An invitation to a secret society(experimental-history.com)

192 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 83 comments

Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)(99percentinvisible.org)

185 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 148 comments

Lit: Simple, fast web components(lit.dev)

176 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 128 comments

Project Aria 'Digital Twin' Dataset by Meta(projectaria.com)

166 points by socratic1 3 years ago | 85 comments

In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

156 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 243 comments

MSX-DOS(en.wikipedia.org)

153 points by pavlov 3 years ago | 48 comments

Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?(science.org)

141 points by andrewl 3 years ago | 348 comments

FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships(boardgamewire.com)

140 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 80 comments

Sidebery – A Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar(github.com)

133 points by BafS 3 years ago | 56 comments

The Crazily Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops(slate.com)

124 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 93 comments

Google tries internet air-gap for some staff PCs(theregister.com)

124 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 137 comments

Richard Rhodes wrote a classic book about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb(theatlantic.com)

121 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 61 comments

My Beautiful Friend(thepointmag.com)

114 points by jger15 3 years ago | 47 comments

Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988(arstechnica.com)

105 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 32 comments

In Memoriam: Hans Petter William Sirevåg Selasky(lists.freebsd.org)

98 points by stargrave 3 years ago | 6 comments

Shelter Protocol: End-to-end encrypted, federated, user-friendly web apps(shelterprotocol.net)

94 points by gslepak 3 years ago | 35 comments

Minigpt4 Inference on CPU(github.com)

88 points by maknee 3 years ago | 10 comments

Vacuum airship(en.wikipedia.org)

87 points by guerrilla 3 years ago | 56 comments

Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve(theguardian.com)

85 points by 8bitsrule 3 years ago | 29 comments

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video](youtube.com)

83 points by franzb 3 years ago | 7 comments

Fed Opens Service That Dramatically Speeds Up U.S. Payments(coindesk.com)

82 points by topherjaynes 3 years ago | 72 comments

Images in the mind’s eye are quick sketches that lack simple, real-world details(scientificamerican.com)

80 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 58 comments

AI That Teaches Other AI(viterbischool.usc.edu)

78 points by geox 3 years ago | 30 comments

Unshackle: A tool to bypass Windows and Linux password logins(github.com)

71 points by AdvDebug 3 years ago | 52 comments

Google tests A.I. tool that is able to write news articles(nytimes.com)

69 points by asnyder 3 years ago | 101 comments

Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

68 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 52 comments

Leaving the Web3 cult(dope.bearblog.dev)

66 points by ziggabond 3 years ago | 18 comments

Flame retardant found in US breast milk(theguardian.com)

64 points by geox 3 years ago | 48 comments

Why project-based learning fails (2018)(pathsensitive.com)

62 points by jger15 3 years ago | 61 comments

ChromiumOS Developer Guide, Programming languages and style(chromium.googlesource.com)

62 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 39 comments

Spy Kids(cia.gov)

61 points by ynac 3 years ago | 40 comments

How We Made MuseScore 4 [video](youtube.com)

61 points by maybevain 3 years ago | 21 comments

Azorius 0.1(flak.tedunangst.com)

60 points by hiena03 3 years ago | 16 comments

Wall Street Shrinks Headcount by 21,000 as Dealmaking and Trading Slump(bloomberg.com)

57 points by haltingproblem 3 years ago | 32 comments

Retro-Porting to OS/2 1.0(os2museum.com)

57 points by ingve 3 years ago | 1 comments

‘The best blueberry’: how a tiny North American fruit took over Australia (2022)(theguardian.com)

56 points by calf 3 years ago | 67 comments

Nixhub: Search Historical Versions of Nix Packages(jetpack.io)

53 points by clessg 3 years ago | 23 comments

Hearing aids may cut risk of cognitive decline by nearly half(washingtonpost.com)

52 points by maxutility 3 years ago | 25 comments