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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 • taxes • globalwarming
ChatGPT for teachers
A simple explanation of how ChatGPT affects schools
2023-03-30 chatgpt • teaching • school • students • ai
Phoebus cartel
An agreement among lightbulb manufacturers in the 20s and 30s to make lightbulbs not last very long
2023-03-30 scam • business • oligarcy • lightbulb • efficiency
Waveform Lighting
High quality LED bulbs. Several Hacker News commenters said these were worth the price
2023-03-30 led • lighting • cri • color • lightbulbs
Amazon Sidewalk
Another low power ubiquitous data network for IoT devices
2023-03-29 amazon • networking • bluetooth • wifi • internet • iot
Field Papers
Reflections on Stamen and Mike Migurski's project that let people upload map data by drawing on paper
2023-03-29 maps • paper • hotosm • osm • openstreetmap
Data Transfer Initiative
Tech industry project for enabling users to move their data from one service to another
2023-03-28 data • freedom • consumerrights • apple • 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 sanfrancisco • salesforcepark • nft • scam • cryptocurrency • sho • shogroup
Beelink PCs
Small form factor PCs at low prices
2023-03-27 hardware • computers • beelink • linux • intelnuc • nuc
Darcelle XV
A half hour TV documentary about Portland's permanent drag show
2023-03-25 drag • darcelle • portland • history • lgbt
EV ranges
Electric cars ranked by maximum range
2023-03-25 cars • evs • range • battery
Rodney Brooks on GPT-*
AI professor reflects on the current AI trend
2023-03-24 ai • intelligence • mit • rodneybrooks • chatgpt
RIP Darcelle
Walter Cole, Portland's drag institution, has passed away at the age of 92
2023-03-24 obituary • darcelle • portland • drag • lgbt
Placemark Play
A free / no login version of Tom's amazing map editor
2023-03-23 maps • placemark • tmcw • editor • geojson
Twitter API Client
No need for API keys with this Python client
2023-03-22 twitter • python • scraping • api • code
Hurdy Gurdy / Kraftwerk
Amplified medieval drone string instrument shredding through Das Model
2023-03-22 funny • music • hurdygurdy • kraftwerk • foreveralone
ChatGPT shell suggestions
A little tool for creating little shell commands by using ChatGPT
2023-03-21 chatgpt • ai • 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 raic • planet • satellite • aerial • imagery • balloon
PG&E vs new housing
Murderous power company is taking six months to install power, forcing new housing to stay empty
2023-03-21 pge • piggy • electricity • california • corruption
Starlink fake reviews
SpaceX is posting reviews which are the same text in different languages, attributed to different people
2023-03-20 starlink • fraud • falseadvertising • spacex
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 language • chinese • wikipedia • translation • 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 torture • politics • desantis • florida • president • guantanamo • humanrights
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 science • biology • humancellatlas • histology
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 ev • electriccar • charging • electrifyamerica • 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 google • android • compatibility • apps • api
About Web Components
An overview of the latest HTML standard
2023-03-19 development • web • internet • react • javascript • components • html
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 badtech • security • crop • truncate • posix • open • android
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 security • badtech • hacking • phones • googlepixel • google • samsung
Fuxley
A bunch of image parodies of 60s-80s culture
2023-03-16 funny • parody • fuxley • nostalgia
Dennis Ritchie Thesis
The odd story of an important computer systems hacker and his finished-but-not-accepted doctoral thesis
2023-03-16 history • computing • unix • dmr • dennisritchie • harvard • phd
ntopng
A fancy network connection monitoring tool
2023-03-16 diagnostics • networking • linux • internet
Scene Optimizer
Samsung explains their tech for producing fake moon photos
2023-03-15 photos • photography • ai • samsung • moon • astrophotography
Modern Font Stacks
A quick reference for fonts you can use in CSS without downloading
2023-03-15 fonts • css • via:hackernews • design • web • html
Metaverse experience
Detailed, somewhat snarky summary of the social milieu of Facebook's virtual reality chat room
2023-03-15 vr • meta • facebook • oculus • oculusquest • games
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 • hatespeech • machinelearning • culture • ethics • openai • gpt4
Abortion access in the US
Subtle visualization of the impact of healthcare availability if various states ban abortion
2023-03-14 abortion • politics • visualization • maps • civilrights
Kottke at 25
One of the most influential of the old school webloggers
2023-03-14 weblogs • kottke • linkblogs • writing • web • internet • culture
Kouri-Vini
The Louisiana Creole language, a lot of French mixed with West African language.
2023-03-14 language • louisana • creole • french • music • zydeco • via:languagelog
Boxy SVG Editor
Supposedly good at producing clean SVG
2023-03-13 svg • editing • images • graphics
Resenting Ke Huy Quan
Complex piece about Asian American representation in cinema
2023-03-13 movies • films • racism • asian • stereotypes
PG&E gift cards
Bizarre, badly handled.. gift? relief program? ... from PG&E, randomly giving $200 to anyone who asked
2023-03-13 pge • piggy • nevadacounty • power • politics
Samsung fake moon photos
Camera app is enhancing photos with a static image of the moon
2023-03-13 samsung • photos • camera • moon • funny • astrophotography • ai
Vehicle-to-Grid challenges
History and current state of the failed effort to let your car power your home
2023-03-12 power • electricity • ev • battery • grid • solar
Nevada County snowstorm
Long, detailed article about the second major snowstorm in a year
2023-03-11 nevadacounty • snow • weather • california
Unbreaking The Bank
2009 narrative of what it's like when the FDIC takes over a failed bank
2023-03-10 via:waldo • banking • economics • finance • fdic • svb
DeSantis at Guantánamo
Details of the Florida governors' years at America's torture detention facility
2023-03-09 torture • guantanamo • gitmo • desantis • florida • politics • prison
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 gay • lgbt • privacy • location • catholic • priest • closet • badtech
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 cryptocurrency • scam • bank • silvergate • crypto
Miss Bouvèé
Drag queen working in Fort Lauderdale, really fun performer
2023-03-05 drag • gay • lgbt • wiltonmanors • fortlauderdale • music
Golden Girls Take Manhattan DX
Geriatric sitcom turned into a retro JRPG
2023-03-04 games • goldengirls • tv • jrpg • funny • indie
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 cars • ev • home • power • backup • battery • 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 twitter • thirdparty • apps • clients • refunds • tweetbot • twitterrific
Ron DeSantis, torturer
Details from a torture victim at Guantanamo
2023-03-01 politics • desantis • torture • guantanamo