Hacker News on Sunday, 15 October 2023

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data(eff.org)

533 points by gslin 3 years ago | 206 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Hayley Tsukayama arguing that Mastercard should stop selling cardholders' transaction data.

"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming(blog.jgc.org)

366 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 117 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post announcing Two Stop Bits, a Hacker News-style link site for retro computing and gaming built on modified Arc HN source code.

Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive(dawn.fi)

332 points by miohtama 3 years ago | 57 comments

Finnish news article reporting that Finland's parliament has taken a position against the EU CSAM regulation, criticized as mass surveillance and an encryption ban.

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

296 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 43 comments

Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder(telegraph.co.uk)

289 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 287 comments

Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple(signtime.apple)

265 points by popcalc 3 years ago | 91 comments

SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing(github.com)

265 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 44 comments

Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App(omnivore.app)

233 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 46 comments

Organizing multiple Git identities(garrit.xyz)

233 points by bshanks 3 years ago | 83 comments

Mark Twain at Stormfield (1909) [video](youtube.com)

229 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 103 comments

MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems(arxiv.org)

203 points by belter 3 years ago | 105 comments

Causal inference as a blind spot of data scientists(dzidas.com)

197 points by Dzidas 3 years ago | 91 comments

Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea(blog.zarfhome.com)

182 points by sjackso 3 years ago | 117 comments

Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees(infoq.com)

177 points by NicoJuicy 3 years ago | 132 comments

BeagleV-Ahead open-source RISC-V single board computer(beagleboard.org)

171 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 101 comments

GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers(github.com)

169 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 58 comments

Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform(github.com)

169 points by bdcravens 3 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: "Interactive" Italian Poetry for English Speakers(italianpoetry.it)

164 points by ItalianPoetry 3 years ago | 38 comments

Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens(journals.sagepub.com)

152 points by anjel 3 years ago | 87 comments

Visualizing American inflation across eight categories(perthirtysix.com)

148 points by gmays 3 years ago | 248 comments

State of the Map EU 2023(stateofthemap.eu)

136 points by raybb 3 years ago | 22 comments

Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions(github.com)

135 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 76 comments

The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts(economist.com)

135 points by lxm 3 years ago | 117 comments

Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality(gameworldobserver.com)

133 points by stevefan1999 3 years ago | 94 comments

Canada ends official time signal(hackaday.com)

132 points by reaperducer 3 years ago | 64 comments

Decline in independent activity as a cause of decline in child mental health(cdn2.psychologytoday.com)

130 points by the_bookmaker 3 years ago | 65 comments

Qaul – Internet independent wireless mesh communication app(qaul.net)

128 points by kristianpaul 3 years ago | 30 comments

Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)(sciphijournal.org)

128 points by ljosifov 3 years ago | 145 comments

You can use lightguns on LCDs sometimes(nicole.express)

128 points by zdw 3 years ago | 29 comments

Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc)(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

126 points by classichasclass 3 years ago | 51 comments

Being picky about a CSS reset for fun(chriscoyier.net)

125 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 67 comments

USB Made Simple (2008)(usbmadesimple.co.uk)

107 points by userbinator 3 years ago | 24 comments

Show HN: 3D Binpacking Algorithm Visualized(skusavvy.com)

104 points by m3m3tic 3 years ago | 12 comments

Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth(jupe.com)

104 points by pr337h4m 3 years ago | 101 comments

Ask HN: What is your experience with Nano-Hydroxyapatite toothpaste?

101 points by speedylight 3 years ago | 87 comments

On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't(residentcontrarian.com)

101 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 69 comments

Why Async Rust?(without.boats)

95 points by withoutboats3 3 years ago | 52 comments

Background job queues and priorities may be the wrong path(alexis.bernard.io)

94 points by a12b 3 years ago | 41 comments

One (1) new Wii U console was sold in the U.S. during September 2023(mynintendonews.com)

90 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 34 comments

WordStar: Arrogant, Difficult, Powerful (2022)(abortretry.fail)

84 points by elvis70 3 years ago | 58 comments

FBI warns against using public USB charging ports(abcnews.go.com)

82 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 66 comments

Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make(0x1.pt)

76 points by vmsp 3 years ago | 91 comments

Vercel employee used customer information to pursue a personal trademark matter(twitter.com)

76 points by StanAngeloff 3 years ago | 19 comments

'Terminating Internet Access over Piracy Claims Is Drastic and Overbroad'(torrentfreak.com)

75 points by gslin 3 years ago | 66 comments

The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)(thecritic.co.uk)

75 points by rahimnathwani 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB(thedrive.com)

73 points by ourmandave 3 years ago | 109 comments

OpenEarable: A new, open-source, Arduino-based platform for ear-based sensing(open-earable.teco.edu)

73 points by petemir 3 years ago | 16 comments

Margaret Atwood Reviews a Margaret Atwood Story by AI(thewalrus.ca)

72 points by goldenskye 3 years ago | 58 comments

Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Commerce(thebignewsletter.com)

72 points by simonpure 3 years ago | 96 comments

Transactions and Concurrency in PostgreSQL(doadm-notes.blogspot.com)

71 points by ivanleoncz 3 years ago | 13 comments

Hyphens in man pages(lists.debian.org)

70 points by edward 3 years ago | 25 comments

MfsBSD: ISO file that create a working minimal installation of FreeBSD(github.com)

68 points by ksec 3 years ago | 7 comments

FFmpeg-online: ffpmeg running on the browser(ffmpeg-online.vercel.app)

66 points by bvaldivielso 3 years ago | 21 comments

The official website of Charles Atlas(charlesatlas.com)

66 points by gregalbritton 3 years ago | 23 comments

Why Card Catalogs Matter (2017)(smithsonianmag.com)

65 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 18 comments

The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (2018)(pharr.org)

65 points by pavlov 3 years ago | 11 comments

MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure(theregister.com)

65 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 51 comments

Werner Herzog on beer, yoga and what he would ask God(theguardian.com)

64 points by mindracer 3 years ago | 44 comments

My Google Play Developer account has been terminated(medium.com)

60 points by raft75 3 years ago | 30 comments

NASA's Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid(nasa.gov)

59 points by layer8 3 years ago | 28 comments