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Catch up on all the best stories and discussion on Hacker New each week. Hosted by Colin (a YC-backed founder and typescript fanatic) and Kenny (a human-computer interaction whiz who just wants software to be fast).
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We discuss touchscreens in cars, text to speech, and gail.com. A rant about cross platform libraries is included free of charge.
Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements
Building an internet-scale meme search engine
Text to Speech: VALLE
Text to Speech: Apple Books
Text to Speech: This voice does not exist
Gail dot com
September 15, 2022
Patreon lays off 17% of Staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826610
Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802
Don’t be spooky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32863175
Increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828669
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467
Uber investigating breach of its computer systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728
Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804832
Gen Z never learned to read cursive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884213
Dark Sky shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817555
Queen Elizabeth has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834
dang's "royalist" comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925
The rise of workplace surveillance [audio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603565
An HN profile worth perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kennethfriedman
AirPods Pro 2nd Gen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754440
Globalstar SEC filing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963
I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761930
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746922
Steve Jobs emails himself (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761060
Links covered:
Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
Removal of Heroku free product plans
Google Timer is back
Design the next iPhone
Shazam turns 20
Fakery: An odd discovery on Spotify
Fakery: Fake IMDB credits
Fakery: More content by people, for people in Search
Fakery: The coming tsunami of fakery
Engineering Festivus
Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
Is there a spiritual successor to delicious
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Logistics
American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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Articles covered:
Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real
Dalle-2 Prompt Book
Part of my code makes Copilot crash
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
Spotify table of songs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092
Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618746
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
Coinbase “Update on hiring plans” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505
1x Engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568895
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258
Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630148
We discuss whether the metaverse is bullshit, is the internet, or is minecraft. What's Sam Altman up to today? And how much money can you lose from automating home sales?
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Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
The metaverse is bullshit
The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet
The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline
Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
Backblaze S-1 IPO
The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
HashiCorp – S1 IPO
Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
Keith Rabois's Twitter
Helion
This Word Does Not Exist
macOS Monterey
Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Edward Snowden on Sam Altman's Worldcoin
Greatest single trade of all time
Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
Facebook Renames to Meta
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Building an ULTRA-BRIGHT water-cooled TV
Willingness to look stupid
Beyond Smart
Facebook chooses profits over people
Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder
Reddit.com weighs 1.39MB. Here’s what that costs around the globe
Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study
US companies hit by 'colossal' cyberattack
Copilot regurgitating quake code including sweary comments
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright
Music for programming
No more movies
How to Work Hard
GitHub Copilot
Simple solar-powered desalination
John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus YouTube Video
John McAfee Fled to Belize, But He Couldn't Escape Himself (2012)
JavaScript Is Weird
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
Reflecting on 100 episodes.
Google executives see cracks in their company's success
Brave Search beta
What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
Disney will send you a copyright strike if you look like Loki
HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
Why I no longer contribute to Racket
Apology
What it’s like to be cancelled
Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
Rethining TripleByte
Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring an ML Lead in Cambridge, MA
Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
"Please don’t add any of my stuff to this project"
Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room
'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale
Stripe Identity
Paul Graham’s Hype Cycle
Opinion: The secret gag orders must stop
HN “Why Not Simply”
“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead