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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 ~~~~~~~~~ Leave a Review @colinhacks @futurekennysf

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? Links 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

A Project of One’s Own iOS 15 Humane United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines Stripe Tax

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021 Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras

Beef Ransomware Followup Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B Kinda a big announcement Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop Apple asks staff to return to office 3 day a week Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed America Has a Drinking Problem One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack GQless: A GraphQL client built for rapid iteration W3.org cert expired

youtude-dl can no longer download age restricted videos Twitter confirms Twitter Blue Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate? Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs The media's lab leak fiasco Paul Graham Article-Edit Tweet Second-guessing the modern web (2020) Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

OpenAI announces funding for startups MDN Plus Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? Collusion rings threaten the integrity of CS research

Launch HN: Fig - Autocomplete for the terminal Stripe Payment Links Upheaval at freenode One week at Libera Chat Amazon acquires MGM for $8.45B Hosted by @colinhacks and @futurekennysf

Airbnb announces a big new update focused on flexibility Sublime Text 4 Why I prefer making useless stuff Gotta Serve Somebody

The Return of Fancy Tools The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos A URL Lengthener I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack TikTok Remix Culture

Vaccinated Americans can go without masks in most places, the CDC says Tesla no longer accepting Bitcoin due to climate impact $365B wiped off crypto markets after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin Midair collision over Denver Notion API in public beta To understand Amazon, we must understand Jeff Bezos

NTSB: Crashed Tesla couldn't have been using Autopilot Can I Email? Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

Elon Musk Monologue - SNL The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to Crazy New Ideas Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access

Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time Andy Matuschak notetaking app Apple deletes Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash" Netflix's "Love is Blind" want unpaid photographer for five weddings LiveLeak shuts down

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org) Berkshire Hathaway stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers Facebook's "Trump ban" "upheld" by "Oversight Board" Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt New book contends that Catch Me If You Can was mostly made up

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today” What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video] Internal Combustion Engine The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits

An Update on the UMN Affair Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views Yayagram

Apple reports second quarter results Mighty makes Google Chrome faster (round 2) Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data Truly unified inbox—Blackberry got it right GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages Dan Kaminsky has died Michael Collins has died

An HNTLDR deep dive: Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers Changes at Basecamp Nobody cares about your clean code

Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything Red and blue functions are a good thing What color is your function? Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken

The USPS is running a covert program to monitor Americans' social media posts Convicted UK Post Office workers have names cleared Stranded sailor allowed to leave ship after 4 years "Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me" EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd The real reason to end the death penalty Wildtype: Sushi grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells

We cover the Apple event from Tuesday and the 34th most upvoted HN story of all time: "They introduces kernel bugs on purpose". Apple introduces the AirTag M1 iMac M1 iPad Pro "They introduce kernel bugs on purpose" Linux bans University of Minnesota Unicode proposal for Textile Care symbols List of pending emoji requests

Additional details on Tesla crash The Hotdog web browser How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow? A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors

Patriots' Day Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating? Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern

Actually it's a DPO but who's counting. Show HN: Lofi Cafe SQLite is the only database you will ever need in most cases Coinbase from YC to IPO Yamauchi No.10 family office The value of downvoting, or how Hacker News gets it wrong Higher quality audio makes you sound smarter My simple GitHub project went viral awesome-selfhosted

US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine Marbles (2016) My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable Update on beta testing payments in Signal Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

How People Get Rich Now Just Be Rich Facebook takes down official page for French town of Bitche CEO: Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment RMS addresses the free software community

Technologies I thought my son would never use Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance Microsoft buys Nuance Clubhouse data leak Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago

Prince Philip has died How Prince Philip created the Computer Misuse Act W3C slaps down Google's "same-party cookies" proposal Monkey MindPong You don't need a GUI