Hacker News on Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Show HN: I automated half of my typing(github.com)

731 points by eschluntz 3 years ago | 296 comments

GitHub repository for a tool that analyzes a user's message history to generate keyboard text-expansion shortcuts for frequently typed phrases.

My Caste(cs.toronto.edu)

473 points by bsnnkv 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal essay by a University of Toronto computer science academic about belonging to India's Other Backward Classes (OBC) caste category and his path into academia.

A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care(nature.com)

446 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 160 comments

A Nature news feature from August 2023 about DIY 'bionic pancreas' closed-loop insulin systems built by people with diabetes and what comes next.

Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules(lwn.net)

348 points by segfaultbuserr 3 years ago | 315 comments

Article on Linux 6.6 module infrastructure changes that block proprietary drivers like NVIDIA's from using GPL-only kernel symbols.

Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust(github.com)

347 points by sbt567 3 years ago | 115 comments

GitHub repository for Fomos, an experimental operating system written in Rust with apps like a console, cursor, and C app support.

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome(theverge.com)

323 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 204 comments

The Verge article criticizing Microsoft for using malware-like Windows 11 pop-ups to push users away from Google Chrome and toward Bing.

Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe(blogs.windows.com)

322 points by pjerem 3 years ago | 295 comments

Microsoft Windows Blogs post announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 for the Dev Channel, including changes like system components opening links in the default browser in the EEA.

Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN(ohchr.org)

321 points by layer8 3 years ago | 173 comments

UN Human Rights Office press release (Aug 2023) on a report finding hundreds of thousands of people trafficked into forced online scam operations in Southeast Asia.

Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID(gist.github.com)

296 points by kj800x 3 years ago | 127 comments

Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants(a16z.com)

287 points by rajko_rad 3 years ago | 102 comments

High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers(news.uzh.ch)

263 points by geox 3 years ago | 160 comments

Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor(figma.com)

249 points by imslavko 3 years ago | 70 comments

FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee(arstechnica.com)

242 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 165 comments

New Map APIs from Google(cloud.google.com)

219 points by nicolodev 3 years ago | 103 comments

Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)(leifgehrmann.com)

211 points by tildef 3 years ago | 36 comments

Authentication on meet.jit.si(jitsi.org)

201 points by muxator 3 years ago | 168 comments

Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf](lweb.cfa.harvard.edu)

188 points by djdetf 3 years ago | 154 comments

Weight-based motor vehicle tax(skatteetaten.no)

182 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 300 comments

2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map(windscribe.com)

176 points by askura 3 years ago | 74 comments

How to get transactions between almost any data stores(petereliaskraft.net)

174 points by KraftyOne 3 years ago | 71 comments

The End of the Googleverse(theverge.com)

173 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 212 comments

DevTools Tips(devtoolstips.org)

171 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 34 comments

Fairphone 5(shop.fairphone.com)

168 points by lars_francke 3 years ago | 150 comments

iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines(theverge.com)

164 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 63 comments

Bad Apple Font(blog.erk.dev)

162 points by notmysql_ 3 years ago | 55 comments

I wrote, “Scrum is a cancer,” and the Internet had thoughts about it(twitter.com)

159 points by adrianmsmith 3 years ago | 138 comments

Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies(petapixel.com)

153 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 127 comments

Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months(arstechnica.com)

137 points by stalfosknight 3 years ago | 96 comments

Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

135 points by rasbt 3 years ago | 25 comments

The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself(noahpinion.blog)

134 points by jszymborski 3 years ago | 160 comments

Why do shared hospital rooms not violate HIPAA?(law.stackexchange.com)

130 points by oatmeal1 3 years ago | 90 comments

Keisan Casio is shutting down(keisan.casio.com)

128 points by thazework 3 years ago | 40 comments

DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app(github.com)

127 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 56 comments

File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images(xata.io)

120 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 80 comments

Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification(theguardian.com)

119 points by duringmath 3 years ago | 68 comments

ChatLZMA – text generation from data compression(pepijndevos.nl)

109 points by bschne 3 years ago | 18 comments

N guilty men (1997)(www2.law.ucla.edu)

109 points by emmelaich 3 years ago | 74 comments

Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD(buildkite.com)

108 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 46 comments

At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed(reuters.com)

108 points by striking 3 years ago | 53 comments

Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability(samiramly.com)

97 points by jxmorris12 3 years ago | 49 comments

Developing 120-year-old photos found in a time capsule [video](youtube.com)

91 points by hammock 3 years ago | 35 comments

OpenAI shatters revenue expectations, predicted to generate over $1B(the-decoder.com)

90 points by marban 3 years ago | 93 comments

When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?(ottertune.com)

86 points by angry__panda 3 years ago | 47 comments

The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance (2020)(hakibenita.com)

77 points by skadamat 3 years ago | 27 comments

OSM River Basins(amandasaurus.github.io)

74 points by gregsadetsky 3 years ago | 21 comments

A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration(slowboring.com)

72 points by btilly 3 years ago | 141 comments

How might life migrate through the universe?(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

68 points by axiomdata316 3 years ago | 76 comments

How South Korea’s Birth Rate Dropped Below Japan’s(nippon.com)

67 points by neom 3 years ago | 90 comments

Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges(insurancejournal.com)

67 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 129 comments

Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access(about.sourcegraph.com)

66 points by 0xedb 3 years ago | 17 comments

Population.io(mobile.population.io)

63 points by tnsengimana 3 years ago | 38 comments

Multiplix, operating system kernel for RISC-V and AArch64 SBCs(github.com)

62 points by yawniek 3 years ago | 17 comments

Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links(torrentfreak.com)

61 points by gslin 3 years ago | 16 comments

Pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress (2017)(vox.com)

59 points by hammock 3 years ago | 25 comments

ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May(sparktoro.com)

59 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 54 comments

Housing Is a Labor Issue: Land owners are taking all the wage gains(hamiltonnolan.com)

56 points by vwoolf 3 years ago | 48 comments

Designing Deep Networks to Process Other Deep Networks(developer.nvidia.com)

55 points by weird_science 3 years ago | 9 comments

Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries(thedrive.com)

54 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 61 comments

Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux(linuxjedi.co.uk)

54 points by doener 3 years ago | 9 comments

Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax(thefp.com)

53 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 29 comments