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EVs for tax credit
A list of electric cars that get a big tax credit in the US
2023-03-31 cars • evs • globalwarming • taxes
ChatGPT for teachers
A simple explanation of how ChatGPT affects schools
2023-03-30 ai • chatgpt • school • students • teaching
Phoebus cartel
An agreement among lightbulb manufacturers in the 20s and 30s to make lightbulbs not last very long
2023-03-30 business • efficiency • lightbulb • oligarcy • scam
Waveform Lighting
High quality LED bulbs. Several Hacker News commenters said these were worth the price
2023-03-30 color • cri • led • lightbulbs • lighting
Amazon Sidewalk
Another low power ubiquitous data network for IoT devices
2023-03-29 amazon • bluetooth • internet • iot • networking • wifi
Field Papers
Reflections on Stamen and Mike Migurski's project that let people upload map data by drawing on paper
2023-03-29 hotosm • maps • openstreetmap • osm • paper
Data Transfer Initiative
Tech industry project for enabling users to move their data from one service to another
2023-03-28 apple • consumerrights • data • freedom • google • portability
Salesforce Park restaurant update
The NFT private club that sounded like a scam now looks like it is actually a scam, or at least a restaurant that is failing to be built
2023-03-28 cryptocurrency • nft • salesforcepark • sanfrancisco • scam • sho • shogroup
Beelink PCs
Small form factor PCs at low prices
2023-03-27 beelink • computers • hardware • intelnuc • linux • nuc
Darcelle XV
A half hour TV documentary about Portland's permanent drag show
2023-03-25 darcelle • drag • history • lgbt • portland
EV ranges
Electric cars ranked by maximum range
2023-03-25 battery • cars • evs • range
Rodney Brooks on GPT-*
AI professor reflects on the current AI trend
2023-03-24 ai • chatgpt • intelligence • mit • rodneybrooks
RIP Darcelle
Walter Cole, Portland's drag institution, has passed away at the age of 92
2023-03-24 darcelle • drag • lgbt • obituary • portland
Placemark Play
A free / no login version of Tom's amazing map editor
2023-03-23 editor • geojson • maps • placemark • tmcw
Twitter API Client
No need for API keys with this Python client
2023-03-22 api • code • python • scraping • twitter
Hurdy Gurdy / Kraftwerk
Amplified medieval drone string instrument shredding through Das Model
2023-03-22 foreveralone • funny • hurdygurdy • kraftwerk • music
ChatGPT shell suggestions
A little tool for creating little shell commands by using ChatGPT
2023-03-21 ai • chatgpt • programming • shell
Satellite balloon tracking
Planet's writeup of how they used their satellite imagery and AI to track the Chinese balloon
2023-03-21 aerial • balloon • imagery • planet • raic • satellite
PG&E vs new housing
Murderous power company is taking six months to install power, forcing new housing to stay empty
2023-03-21 california • corruption • electricity • pge • piggy
Starlink fake reviews
SpaceX is posting reviews which are the same text in different languages, attributed to different people
2023-03-20 falseadvertising • fraud • spacex • starlink
Automatic Chinese conversion
Wikipedia has one text for various versions of Chinese, including simplified vs. traditional. It translates between variants automatically based on user preferences
2023-03-20 chinese • language • translation • wikipedia • writing
DeSantis endorsing torture
Verified details of the Florida governor's time at Guantanamo, advising that force feeding is OK (it is not)
2023-03-20 desantis • florida • guantanamo • humanrights • politics • president • torture
Human Cell Atlas
A writeup of the ambitious global project to map every type of cell in the human body and what proteins they express
2023-03-19 biology • histology • humancellatlas • science
Broken EV chargers
Some data on the problem of broken public car charging infrastructure; something like 25% of chargers don't work
2023-03-19 charging • electriccar • electrifyamerica • ev • gasstation
Android old app deprecation
Google made a change end of January where old Android apps no longer will install even if they probably could run, claiming security concerns (Apple does this too)
2023-03-19 android • api • apps • compatibility • google
About Web Components
An overview of the latest HTML standard
2023-03-19 components • development • html • internet • javascript • react • web
aCropalypse
Android image editor doesn't correctly truncate the original file, which means in some cases the original image data can leak through
2023-03-18 android • badtech • crop • open • posix • security • truncate
Google / Samsung phone hack
Significant security hole; silent remote takeover of a phone based on a bug in the modems used by Google's flagship phones. There is no fix.
2023-03-17 badtech • google • googlepixel • hacking • phones • samsung • security
Fuxley
A bunch of image parodies of 60s-80s culture
2023-03-16 funny • fuxley • nostalgia • parody
Dennis Ritchie Thesis
The odd story of an important computer systems hacker and his finished-but-not-accepted doctoral thesis
2023-03-16 computing • dennisritchie • dmr • harvard • history • phd • unix
ntopng
A fancy network connection monitoring tool
2023-03-16 diagnostics • internet • linux • networking
Scene Optimizer
Samsung explains their tech for producing fake moon photos
2023-03-15 ai • astrophotography • moon • photography • photos • samsung
Modern Font Stacks
A quick reference for fonts you can use in CSS without downloading
2023-03-15 css • design • fonts • html • via:hackernews • web
Metaverse experience
Detailed, somewhat snarky summary of the social milieu of Facebook's virtual reality chat room
2023-03-15 facebook • games • meta • oculus • oculusquest • vr
GPT system card
Paper for the AI; appendices D, E, and F contain examples of the various offensive things it would say before it was trained not to say them
2023-03-15 ai • culture • ethics • gpt4 • hatespeech • machinelearning • openai
Abortion access in the US
Subtle visualization of the impact of healthcare availability if various states ban abortion
2023-03-14 abortion • civilrights • maps • politics • visualization
Kottke at 25
One of the most influential of the old school webloggers
2023-03-14 culture • internet • kottke • linkblogs • web • weblogs • writing
Kouri-Vini
The Louisiana Creole language, a lot of French mixed with West African language.
2023-03-14 creole • french • language • louisana • music • via:languagelog • zydeco
Boxy SVG Editor
Supposedly good at producing clean SVG
2023-03-13 editing • graphics • images • svg
Resenting Ke Huy Quan
Complex piece about Asian American representation in cinema
2023-03-13 asian • films • movies • racism • stereotypes
PG&E gift cards
Bizarre, badly handled.. gift? relief program? ... from PG&E, randomly giving $200 to anyone who asked
2023-03-13 nevadacounty • pge • piggy • politics • power
Samsung fake moon photos
Camera app is enhancing photos with a static image of the moon
2023-03-13 ai • astrophotography • camera • funny • moon • photos • samsung
Vehicle-to-Grid challenges
History and current state of the failed effort to let your car power your home
2023-03-12 battery • electricity • ev • grid • power • solar
Nevada County snowstorm
Long, detailed article about the second major snowstorm in a year
2023-03-11 california • nevadacounty • snow • weather
Unbreaking The Bank
2009 narrative of what it's like when the FDIC takes over a failed bank
2023-03-10 banking • economics • fdic • finance • svb • via:waldo
DeSantis at Guantánamo
Details of the Florida governors' years at America's torture detention facility
2023-03-09 desantis • florida • gitmo • guantanamo • politics • prison • torture
Priest harassment
Catholic hate group buys location data from gay dating apps (via ad networks) and uses it to try to destroy the lives of gay priests
2023-03-09 badtech • catholic • closet • gay • lgbt • location • priest • privacy
Silvergate shutdown
A regulated US bank doing cryptocurrency garbage shuts down, but at least appears to be able to give its customers their money back
2023-03-09 bank • crypto • cryptocurrency • scam • silvergate
Miss Bouvèé
Drag queen working in Fort Lauderdale, really fun performer
2023-03-05 drag • fortlauderdale • gay • lgbt • music • wiltonmanors
Golden Girls Take Manhattan DX
Geriatric sitcom turned into a retro JRPG
2023-03-04 funny • games • goldengirls • indie • jrpg • tv
Car as house backup power
The state of bidirectional charging, using an electric vehicle to power your home. It's nowhere near as real as you'd like.
2023-03-02 backup • battery • cars • ev • home • power • ups
Helping Tweetbot and Twitterrific
If you subscribe to those apps you can do a kindness to the developers whose businesses were just destroyed
2023-03-02 apps • clients • refunds • thirdparty • tweetbot • twitter • twitterrific
Ron DeSantis, torturer
Details from a torture victim at Guantanamo
2023-03-01 desantis • guantanamo • politics • torture