Hacker News on Sunday, 6 August 2023

Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out(explore.zoom.us)

1395 points by isodev 3 years ago | 438 comments

Zoom's Terms of Service page, effective July 27, 2023, governing use of Zoom services, including provisions on user content and arbitration.

Water(oimo.io)

1105 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 126 comments

An interactive browser-based water simulation demo by oimo that responds to device motion, with selectable quality levels.

Postgres Language Server(github.com)

899 points by kiwicopple 3 years ago | 112 comments

GitHub repository for Supabase's Postgres Language Server, an LSP implementation that uses the real Postgres parser via libpg_query for IDE features.

I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (2022)(rd.com)

734 points by mgh2 3 years ago | 477 comments

A Reader's Digest article recounting a reporter's visits to 50 dentists who gave widely varying diagnoses and treatment recommendations.

The Sad Bastard Cookbook(traumbooks.itch.io)

567 points by throwaway154 3 years ago | 387 comments

An itch.io download page for The Sad Bastard Cookbook, a free cookbook of simple recipes for people with very low energy, with a link to buy a print edition.

Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)(blog.everydayscientist.com)

537 points by dongping 3 years ago | 320 comments

A 2021 Everyday Scientist blog post arguing that traditional peer review should be replaced by "peer replication," where independent labs reproduce published findings.

We are all animals at night(hazlitt.net)

476 points by casca 3 years ago | 210 comments

A Hazlitt personal essay by Lana Hall about working night shifts and the humanity and community she found during them.

Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2000)(pages.cs.wisc.edu)

423 points by crummy 3 years ago | 71 comments

A satirical undergraduate physics lab report ranting about a failed experiment measuring the temperature dependence of resistivity in germanium.

Meta blocking news links in Canada(michaelgeist.ca)

376 points by mmphosis 3 years ago | 360 comments

Michael Geist blog post on Meta blocking news links in Canada in response to the Online News Act (Bill C-18).

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info(sheldonbrown.com)

298 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 103 comments

The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September(thebignewsletter.com)

290 points by gcheong 3 years ago | 315 comments

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K(forbes.com)

281 points by redbell 3 years ago | 228 comments

In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black(businessinsider.com)

270 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 164 comments

Barco: Linux Containers from Scratch in C(github.com)

256 points by lcvln 3 years ago | 63 comments

Jupyter AI(jupyter-ai.readthedocs.io)

242 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 33 comments

Cloth Simulation(oimo.io)

232 points by notmytempo 3 years ago | 34 comments

Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64(dottedmag.net)

223 points by andreyvit 3 years ago | 53 comments

This code smells of desperation(os2museum.com)

211 points by EamonnMR 3 years ago | 66 comments

Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed(filiph.net)

200 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 82 comments

People who've received a black bar on Hacker News(bear.willmeyers.net)

178 points by willmeyers 3 years ago | 81 comments

Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano(whipsaw.com)

154 points by anjel 3 years ago | 78 comments

Sync for Lemmy(play.google.com)

151 points by sbt567 3 years ago | 44 comments

The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent(businessinsider.com)

149 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 145 comments

Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work(nypost.com)

148 points by sh_tomer 3 years ago | 113 comments

What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally(agi-sphere.com)

147 points by andrewon 3 years ago | 66 comments

Error Handling in Zig(aolium.com)

139 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 73 comments

Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates(fastcompany.com)

136 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 73 comments

Compiler Development: Rust or OCaml?(hirrolot.github.io)

135 points by bshanks 3 years ago | 90 comments

Types of Garden Hoe(easydigging.com)

131 points by lukas099 3 years ago | 21 comments

Lisp in Space(corecursive.com)

121 points by dargscisyhp 3 years ago | 63 comments

An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it(cnn.com)

115 points by rntn 3 years ago | 102 comments

China's Zombie Economy(newleftreview.org)

112 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 95 comments

Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer(downtowndougbrown.com)

106 points by zdw 3 years ago | 14 comments

Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol(gizmodo.com)

102 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 63 comments

Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)(timonoko.github.io)

97 points by mwenge 3 years ago | 47 comments

The way out of burnout (2016)(economist.com)

96 points by yla92 3 years ago | 62 comments

Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)(news.harvard.edu)

86 points by throw0101a 3 years ago | 108 comments

Show HN: Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code(archsense.dev)

85 points by bolshchikov 3 years ago | 36 comments

Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built Them All on This River(boredpanda.com)

83 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 57 comments

Java’s floating-point hurts everyone everywhere (1998) [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

83 points by agomez314 3 years ago | 103 comments

An unconventional LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case(dotat.at)

82 points by fanf2 3 years ago | 21 comments

Nvidia Launches a 100kb text-to-image model called Perfusion(research.nvidia.com)

81 points by enamya 3 years ago | 13 comments

Write Elixir NIFs in Rust(docs.rs)

80 points by 1letterunixname 3 years ago | 23 comments

New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online(blog.google)

79 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 46 comments

How to enjoy SF(zhayitong.com)

76 points by sapsan 3 years ago | 47 comments

Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match(nytimes.com)

75 points by rmason 3 years ago | 53 comments

ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016)(altexxanet.org)

75 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 34 comments

Critique of Lazy Sequences in Clojure(clojure-goes-fast.com)

74 points by robto 3 years ago | 37 comments

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)(yosefk.com)

70 points by sph 3 years ago | 68 comments

Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped(theverge.com)

70 points by joak 3 years ago | 68 comments

If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose(slate.com)

63 points by lamontcg 3 years ago | 51 comments

We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C(github.com)

62 points by MrVandemar 3 years ago | 20 comments

The Optics Library(markelz.physics.buffalo.edu)

58 points by gone35 3 years ago | 5 comments

RISC-V Origins and Architecture, Part 1(thechipletter.substack.com)

54 points by ChuckMcM 3 years ago | 12 comments

Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees(discord.com)

53 points by tjwds 3 years ago | 45 comments

Area 51 FBI Raid (2023)(area51fbiraid.com)

52 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 44 comments

Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman(developers.redhat.com)

51 points by richardpetersen 3 years ago | 51 comments

Internet Standard #80: ASCII Format for Network Interchange (1969)(ietf.org)

48 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 years ago | 26 comments

SymmetricDS: Open-Source, cross platform database replication software(symmetricds.org)

48 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 6 comments

The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile [video](media.ccc.de)

47 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 37 comments