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Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable 520 by zillionize | 467 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present 465 by tmm1 | 146 comments on Hacker News. I wanted to share a simple web app I created recently, which lets you estimate income taxes owed in the US: https://taxsim.app All the calculations occur directly in the browser, and are powered by a Fortran program that has been converted to WASM using emscripten. This calculator was originally developed in the 1970s [1] by the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER has been maintaining this F77 codebase for the last 50 years, and uses it primarily for academic research on tax policy. The Fortran source code itself is over 1MB of text, because it codifies both federal and all 50 states' tax laws for each of the last 62 years. I first learned about NBER TAXSIM [2] a few months ago via an interesting paper they published "Automatic Tax Filing: Simulating a Pre-Populated Form 1040" [3]. The Fortran code itself is not open-source, but is available ...

FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns 526 by breitling | 482 comments on Hacker News.

The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges 416 by fortran77 | 125 comments on Hacker News.

TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021) 458 by thesecretceo | 309 comments on Hacker News.

Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn 450 by notnice | 495 comments on Hacker News.

Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly 565 by quackduck | 123 comments on Hacker News.

Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno 483 by maeln | 224 comments on Hacker News.

Thunderbird 102 705 by moojacob | 384 comments on Hacker News.

Things to know about databases 704 by grech | 240 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC World Drug Report 2022 highlights trends on cannabis post-legalization, environmental impacts of illicit drugs, and drug use among women and youth Published June 27, 2022 at 08:21PM Read more at unodc.org

Life is not short 633 by dbrereton | 372 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? 616 by BoppreH | 287 comments on Hacker News. Alternatively: What's the current status of Personally Identifying Information and language models? I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search carefully, but in today's hostile internet I see this kind of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect to have it respected. When playing around in GPT-3 I tried making sentences with my username. Imagine my surprise when I see it spitting out my (globally unique, unusual) full name! Looking around, I found a paper that says language models spitting out personal information is a problem[1], a Google blog post that says there's not much that can be done[2], and an article that says OpenAI might automatically replace phone numbers in the future but other types of PII are harder to remove[3]. But nothing on what is actually being done. If I had f...

Enclave: An Unpickable Lock 582 by lisper | 256 comments on Hacker News.

SMS phishing is way too easy 496 by ricardbejarano | 251 comments on Hacker News.

What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis? 472 by summoned | 518 comments on Hacker News.

Goodbye Zachtronics 492 by danso | 102 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia 444 by bbarnett | 258 comments on Hacker News. I recently bought a Brother colour laser printer, with the understanding that OEM toner was not chip-locked. Wanting to update the firmware, and being on Linux, I started to look at ways to do it manually. After finding a few guides to do so manually: https://ift.tt/E7uPIQR https://ift.tt/se1u0dg I decided to poll my printer. I then noticed an OSS/python project to just handle it via a package. However, I noticed this issue: https://ift.tt/TC2E0Oo Startled, I Googled... and the printer listed is an inkjet. For a second I was relieved, but then started to search for other issues, and found this: https://ift.tt/9Ot2PwA Not only is the above, post-sale firwmware update a change of what I understood to be Brother's historical policy, the method is beyond evil. Brother seems to be apparently accepting the ink, but then purposefully making the print quality poorer. I literall...

Crafting Interpreters: A Review 438 by chidiw | 149 comments on Hacker News.

Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics 612 by giuliomagnifico | 354 comments on Hacker News.

YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters 651 by f311a | 525 comments on Hacker News.

Copilot sells code other people wrote 576 by joemanaco | 668 comments on Hacker News.

Tailscale SSH 727 by ignoramous | 293 comments on Hacker News.

OBS – Open Broadcaster Software 657 by axiomdata316 | 230 comments on Hacker News.

Deno raises $21M 601 by 0xedb | 374 comments on Hacker News.

One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite 726 by jdblair | 120 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022 701 by jgrahamc | 225 comments on Hacker News.

One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding 575 by revorad | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare had a partial outage 719 by rkwasny | 420 comments on Hacker News.

The Grug Brained Developer 822 by huimang | 294 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub Copilot is generally available 790 by sammorrowdrums | 672 comments on Hacker News.

Writing one sentence per line 782 by Tomte | 288 comments on Hacker News.

I fucking hate Jira 748 by yakshaving_jgt | 424 comments on Hacker News.

Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier 788 by Ariarule | 405 comments on Hacker News.

We are removing the option to create new subscriptions 681 by mritzmann | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Webcams aren't good enough 661 by 6581 | 552 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model 629 by BenoitEssiambre | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Redbean 2.0 turned into more than a hobby project 593 by jart | 138 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent? 551 by teraflop | 99 comments on Hacker News. Triplebyte (YC S15) is a tech recruiting company that operates by getting developers to take skill tests, and then using the results to match them with employers. Back in 2020, they got in a lot of hot water by suddenly announcing that user profiles -- which had been collected with assurances that the data wouldn't be shared without consent -- would be made public, unless you opted out within a week[1]. This provoked a lot of backlash, especially since the CEO seemed totally oblivious to the privacy concerns[2]. After a lot of angry comments, he publicly apologized and reversed course[3]. Then in 2021, some users started once again being notified that their profiles were automatically being made public[4]. This time, it was explained away as an "oversight" related to the fact that previously, opt-outs weren't permanent but had a hidden expir...

Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform 547 by exyi | 457 comments on Hacker News.

Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust 594 by Uninen | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam 519 by silent_speech | 158 comments on Hacker News. It made the news recently that Wickr (Amazon owned E2EE chat app) is full of illegal imagery. I read about this on my LinkedIn feed then decided to search for "Wickr" there to see who else was talking about this. The search returned dozens of spam messages offering drugs in Asia and the US with information to contact on Wickr for price. I reported these drug spam posts to LinkedIn - which is supposedly an anonymous report. Next day I got a flood of reports on my own comments (nothing to do with that topic), so many I didn't bother to appeal as I had other things to do. Few hours later my account was down. Seems that for retaliation the drug network decided to find me out and use their accounts to subvert LinkedIn's policy and ensure I can't stop their spam. They have new spam up now while my account is gone. No good deed goes unpunished I guess.

Roundtable discussion and global launch of the 2022 World Drug Report Published June 16, 2022 at 10:33PM Read more at unodc.org

Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees 582 by kripy | 956 comments on Hacker News.

Stanford’s war on social life 482 by barry-cotter | 359 comments on Hacker News.

Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite 529 by ac2022 | 212 comments on Hacker News. I posted this a few months ago: https://ift.tt/7e5Z0S3 I thought I hated programming and was ready to quit or even divorce my wife. I was not able to have a normal conversation with anyone. I was burned out but I thought I was having midlife crisis. My wife wanted to buy a big house and I kept blaming her for the stress. My job was easy and I had a lot of control over my time, work location, etc. I didn't think it could be the job that was causing me feel depressed. What I didn't realize while my work gave me freedom on work schedule, it didn't give me any real freedom to make important decisions. We were checkmark driven company. I was forced to do a lot of compliance and security related tasks which added zero benefit to our service. After my post, I decided that I either move into management at my last company or get a new job. I worked longer hours an...

Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance 524 by tosh | 496 comments on Hacker News.

Hertzbleed Attack 682 by arkadiyt | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users 565 by BoumTAC | 234 comments on Hacker News.

Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs 603 by npalli | 488 comments on Hacker News.

The Floppotron 3.0 611 by perakojotgenije | 58 comments on Hacker News.

Our plans for Thunderbird on Android 508 by HieronymusBosch | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Fresh – Next-gen web framework 704 by exists | 359 comments on Hacker News.

US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software 513 by heavyset_go | 582 comments on Hacker News.

A Trail Tale 519 by royalroad | 53 comments on Hacker News.

uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results 531 by sanketpatrikar | 308 comments on Hacker News.

Coinbase employees petition to remove execs 506 by shh-shhh | 447 comments on Hacker News.

DNS Toys 713 by edent | 74 comments on Hacker News.

MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips 668 by markus_zhang | 166 comments on Hacker News.

If OpenSSL were a GUI 644 by soheilpro | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft Announces It Will Include Pay Ranges in All U.S. Job Postings 600 by blue_box | 288 comments on Hacker News.

“Code” 2nd Edition 617 by emme | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Find a good available .com domain 573 by Tomte | 244 comments on Hacker News.

Welcome to the M1 Windows project 574 by giuliomagnifico | 246 comments on Hacker News.

I've locked myself out of my digital life 702 by edent | 480 comments on Hacker News.

EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices 574 by geox | 955 comments on Hacker News.

Deepfake Offensive Toolkit (real-time deepfakes for virtual cameras) 530 by draugadrotten | 316 comments on Hacker News.

Tools for Better Thinking 778 by andsoitis | 67 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Unveils M2 588 by yottabyte47 | 740 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Passkey 759 by samwillis | 358 comments on Hacker News.

What rr does 697 by mmarq | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Dear Spotify, can we just get table of songs? 688 by neilpanchal | 335 comments on Hacker News.

VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code 674 by pabs3 | 404 comments on Hacker News.

Installing a payphone in my house 658 by itsjloh | 169 comments on Hacker News.

Google cancelled a talk on caste bias 656 by devnonymous | 743 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down 727 by RBBronson123 | 138 comments on Hacker News. So it’s with deep professional and personal sadness that I must announce my plans to shut down 70 Million Resources, Inc., the parent company of 70 Million Jobs (the 1st national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records) and Commissary Club (the first mobile social network for this population). When I launched 70MR in 2016, I was motivated to build a company that could short circuit the pernicious cycles of recidivism in this country--cycles that destroy lives, tear apart families and decimate communities. I sought to disrupt the sleepy reentry industry by applying technology, focusing on data, employing an aggressive, accountable team, and moving with some urgency. And for the first time, approaching the challenge as a national, for-profit venture. This approach, which I named “RaaS,” (Reentry as a Service), turned out to be wildly effective, and by the beginni...

Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data 607 by danso | 353 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released 636 by iliketrains | 177 comments on Hacker News. I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam: https://ift.tt/1reJjlB... I am still not sure if this was a good decision financially, but unlike in a corporate environment, I am so much happier working on a product that I can put my love into and see people enjoy it, see my direct impact, and be able to make big decision...

DALL-E 2 has a secret language 581 by smarx | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? 569 by dontwordle | 198 comments on Hacker News.