top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-25

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm

https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker

3 years ago

Transformers from Scratch (2021)

https://e2eml.school/transformers.html

3 years ago

The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537

3 years ago

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy

3 years ago

Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/25/use-of-antibiotics-in-farming-endangering-human-immune-system

3 years ago

People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/25/1072148/meet-the-people-using-notion-to-plan-their-whole-lives/

3 years ago

A non-technical explanation of deep learning

https://www.parand.com/a-completely-non-technical-explanation-of-ai.html

3 years ago

Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work

https://commoncog.com/deming-paradox-operational-rigour/

3 years ago

NitroKey disappoints me

https://blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissapoints-me/

3 years ago

Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-24/shell-admits-1-5c-climate-goal-means-immediate-end-to-fossil-fuel-growth/

3 years ago

Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/call-on-the-irs-to-provide-libre-tax-filing-software

3 years ago

LTESniffer: An open-source LTE downlink/uplink eavesdropper [pdf]

https://syssec.kaist.ac.kr/pub/2023/wisec2023_tuan.pdf

3 years ago

Learn WebGPU

https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine

https://kevzettler.com/2023/04/25/multiplayer-voxel-game-engine/

3 years ago

Deep Neural Networks from Scratch in Zig

https://monadmonkey.com/dnns-from-scratch-in-zig

3 years ago

Harry Belafonte has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies-actor-singer-activist

3 years ago

Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/world/lunar-lander-japan-uae-hakuto-r-scn/index.html

3 years ago

Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting

3 years ago

First up-close images of Mars’s little-known moon Deimos

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01422-1

3 years ago

The Nature of Code (2012)

https://natureofcode.com/

3 years ago

Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets

https://github.com/elkowar/eww

3 years ago

Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/business/bed-bath-beyond-bankruptcy.html

3 years ago

IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ikea-furniture-inflation-billy-c2f835bc

3 years ago

My thoughts on OCaml

https://osa1.net/posts/2023-04-24-ocaml-thoughts.html

3 years ago

A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12210

3 years ago

We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates

https://www.mux.com/blog/how-content-moderation-rescued-750k-in-unpaid-invoices-from-soccer-pirates

3 years ago

QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B

https://github.com/modal-labs/quillman

3 years ago

Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI

https://fedscoop.com/congress-gets-40-chatgpt-plus-licenses/

3 years ago

AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7000-burning-out-root-cause-identified-expo-and-soc-voltages-to-blame

3 years ago

GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs

https://rust-gcc.github.io/2023/04/24/gccrs-and-gcc13-release.html

3 years ago

What Rosalind Franklin contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

3 years ago

Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port

https://github.com/jkfran/killport

3 years ago

Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/debugging-mixed-python-and-c-language-stack/

3 years ago

Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

https://www.cambus.net/fun-with-kermit-and-zmodem-over-ssh/

3 years ago

Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2023Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

3 years ago

Use Gröbner bases to solve polynomial equations

https://jingnanshi.com/blog/groebner_basis.html

3 years ago

Tuql: Automatically create a GraphQL server from a SQLite database

https://github.com/bradleyboy/tuql

3 years ago

Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-patents-5b52cda0

3 years ago

It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/05/it-doesnt-take-much-to-make-machine-learning-algorithms-go-awry

3 years ago

The Old (2018)

https://neocha.com/magazine/the-old/

3 years ago

The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)

https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web

3 years ago

Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-pays-long-road-to-paying-off-is-getting-shorter-7a179c75

3 years ago

A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it

https://petapixel.com/2023/04/24/a-i-imagery-may-destroy-history-as-we-know-it/

3 years ago

Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

3 years ago

Permutation Group Visualizer

https://permutation-groups.glitch.me/

3 years ago

In PostgreSQL, powerful Full Text Search is available out of the box

https://admcpr.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-better-than-part1/

3 years ago

It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN

https://hn.curiosity.ai/#/trends?terms=AI;ChatGPT

3 years ago

HuggingChat

https://huggingface.co/chat/

3 years ago

The Vowel Space [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdldD0-kEcc

3 years ago

Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies

http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/energy-from-space-department-of.html

3 years ago

Web LLM

https://mlc.ai/web-llm/

3 years ago

ResearchGPT: Automated Data Analysis and Interpretation

https://phasellm.com/researchgpt

3 years ago

ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history

https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt

3 years ago

Distractions Cause Bad Code (2018)

https://ntietz.com/blog/distractions-cause-bad-code/

3 years ago

Introduction to HTTP Multipart

https://blog.adamchalmers.com/multipart/

3 years ago

The UK will spend £100M to develop its own 'sovereign' AI

https://www.engadget.com/the-uk-is-creating-a-100-million-ai-taskforce-143507868.html

3 years ago

Redump Milestone – 100k Discs

http://redump.org/

3 years ago

Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10743

3 years ago

Microsoft Announces Q3 Earnings

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q3/press-release-webcast

3 years ago

Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity

https://nadia.xyz/top-talent

3 years ago

Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/04/disney-is-shrinking-fivethirtyeight-and-nate-silver-and-his-models-are-leaving/

3 years ago

Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/IPv6OurPassiveExposure

3 years ago

Reflections on Migrating My SaaS to SvelteKit

http://sveltekitsaas.com/articles/migrate-saas-to-sveltekit/

3 years ago

Xhtml Friends Network (2003)

http://gmpg.org/xfn/

3 years ago

Moving away from algorithmic curation

https://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2023-04-24/moving-away-from-algorithmic-curation

3 years ago

The layoffs are here for those who chose to ‘learn to code’

https://www.businessinsider.com/software-engineer-coding-jobs-face-layoffs-this-year-2023-4

3 years ago