Best of Hacker News — November 2022

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   Kite is saying farewell

   Kite is saying farewell from 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working on Kite, and are no longer supporting the Kite software.

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   FFmpeg - Ultimate Guide

   FFmpeg can do large chunks of the basic functionalities of a modern Non-linear (NLE) video editors, e.g., Davinci Resolve Studio or Premiere Pro. It does not have a graphical interface in that sense as those behemoths do, and unarguably it is way less friendly.

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   Mark Zuckerberg’s Message to Meta Employees

   Mark Zuckerberg's message to Meta employees: I'm sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history. We’re cutting the size of our team by about 13% and let more than 11,000 of our talented employees go. This will give us the ability to control our cost structure in a continued economic downturn.

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   Smart Move, Google

   Yesterday I was asked to allow the usage of location services for Google Maps seemingly out of nowhere. After all, I just wanted to check a route to a local business and I was in a hurry.

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   What’s so great about functional programming anyway?

   The new book, "A skeptic’s guide to functional programming with JavaScript, is due for release soon. The book is a sample chapter from the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

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   Stable Diffusion 2.0 Release — Stability.Ai

   The Stable Diffusion 2.0 release includes robust text-to-image models trained using a brand new text encoder (OpenCLIP), developed by LAION with support from Stability AI, which greatly improves the quality of the generated images compared to earlier V1 releases.

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   Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass

   The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-20465 and it might affect other Android vendors as well. The bug just got fixed in the November 5, 2022 security update. It allowed an attacker with physical access to bypass the lock screen protections (fingerprint, PIN, etc.)

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   Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature

   A common use of git notes is tacking metadata onto commits. It's impossible to amend a commit message buried deep in a repo’s log1. But git notes are continually rediscovered by engineers trying to stash metadata inside git.

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   terrastruct/d2: D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

   D2 is built to be hackable -- the language has an API built on top of it to make edits programmatically. Themes D2 includes a variety of official themes to style your diagrams beautifully right out of the box. D2 can also be used to produce diagrams from Go programs.

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    Tales of the M1 GPU

    Alyssa Rosenzweig started working on reverse engineering the M1 GPU in April. She started writing an M1 driver for Mesa, the Linux userspace graphics stack, and just a few months later she was already passing 75% of the GL2 conformance 2 conformance. Earlier this year, her work was so far ahead.

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    'FTX Has Been Hacked': Crypto Disaster Worsens as Exchange Sees Mysterious Outflows Exceeding $600M

    More than $600 million was siphoned from FTX's crypto wallets late Friday. The collapse of FTX, already one of the most spectacular disasters in financial history, worsened as hundreds of millions of dollars were drained from the cryptocurrency exchange hours after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S.

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    Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

    PUT/POST ntfy (pronounce: notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer. Publishing messages can be done via PUT or POST. Topics are created on the fly by subscribing or publishing to them.

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