top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-06

Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security

https://securityonline.info/intel-oem-private-key-leak-a-blow-to-uefi-secure-boot-security/

3 years ago

658 upvotes – 373 comments

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

https://github.com/ellie/atuin

3 years ago

551 upvotes – 194 comments

Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

3 years ago

526 upvotes – 138 comments

Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of

3 years ago

437 upvotes – 707 comments

Open source Background Remover: Remove Background from images and video using AI

https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover

3 years ago

393 upvotes – 95 comments

I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Wyoming-TerraPower

3 years ago

302 upvotes – 233 comments

I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/

3 years ago

300 upvotes – 272 comments

AI’s biggest risk is the corporations that control them

https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

3 years ago

296 upvotes – 288 comments

Shap-E: Generate 3D objects conditioned on text or images

https://github.com/openai/shap-e

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 55 comments

EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

3 years ago

288 upvotes – 87 comments

FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-finalizes-historic-rule-enabling-access-over-counter-hearing-aids-millions-americans

3 years ago

278 upvotes – 140 comments

It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out

https://community.openai.com/t/it-looks-like-gpt-4-32k-is-rolling-out/194615

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 188 comments

Using ChatGPT to generate a GPT project end-to-end

https://github.com/ixaxaar/VardaGPT/blob/master/STORY.md

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 215 comments

Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/05/ocean-surface-temperatures-are-breaking-records

3 years ago

233 upvotes – 125 comments

Nvidia's Crazy New Neural Engine Is Redefining Realism in Graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWbCuDhC3c

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 74 comments

ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel

https://awards.acm.org/software-system

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 63 comments

Language Learning with Netflix

https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 103 comments

Discord’s username change is causing discord

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/6/23711332/discord-username-changes-community-backlash-handles

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 208 comments

Transcending My Father's Abuse

https://valspals.substack.com/p/transcending-my-fathers-abuse

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 180 comments

Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/05/05/dot/

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 124 comments

Unix Koans

https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans.html

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 42 comments

How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance practical exam?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=108122

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 193 comments

Tunnel of Eupalinos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_of_Eupalinos

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 32 comments

Desulfovibrio bacteria are probable causes of Parkinson's disease: study

https://yle.fi/a/74-20030498

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 82 comments

How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?

https://blog.bassemdy.com/2023/05/06/content-creation/youtube/experience/growth/monetization/income/revenue/how-much-you-really-make-creating-content.html

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 149 comments

FaaS in Go with WASM, WASI and Rust

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/faas-in-go-with-wasm-wasi-and-rust/

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 49 comments

Upwork removing 5% commission bracket and moving everyone to 10% bracket

https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211062538-Freelancer-Service-Fees

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 109 comments

New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-70-of-type-2-diabetes-cases-linked-to-food-choices/

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 171 comments

The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/electric-cars-charging-habits

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 347 comments

Life After Language

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2023/05/04/life-after-language/

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 99 comments

Progress on running Haiku OS on VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/progress-on-running-haiku-on-visionfive-2/13369?page=2

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 20 comments

If a PR Says “Artificial Intelligence,” There’s a Good Chance It’s Meaningless

https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/artificial-intelligence-hype-ibm-ftc-twitter-threadbois.html

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 71 comments

Click (2016)

https://clickclickclick.click/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 35 comments

How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846386

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 119 comments

Sony PlayStation 2 Development Kit (2020)

https://www.retroreversing.com/playstation-2-development-hardware

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Implementing Value Speculation in OCaml

https://www.lortex.org/articles/value-speculation-ocaml/

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 12 comments

Linearly interpolating pixels that are in a gamma encoded color space

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1654528504724062217

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 41 comments

Windows 11: TPMs and Digital Sovereignty

https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 63 comments

TikTok tracked users who watched gay content, prompting employee complaints

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-tracked-users-who-watched-gay-content-prompting-employee-complaints-5966a5f5

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 90 comments

Bruce Schneier’s Plan to Reinvent Democracy

https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2023/05/bruce-schneiers-plan-to-reinvent-democracy.html

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 123 comments

A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak/status/1654577231937544192/photo/1

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 213 comments

Solid, a spec that lets people store their data securely in decentralized Pods

https://solidproject.org/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 33 comments

Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission in myMail

https://mailbox.org/en/post/mailbox-org-discovers-unencrypted-password-transmission-in-mymail

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

JPL Horizons Sending Too Many Emails

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/53617/jpl-horizons-sending-too-many-emails

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Vaonis Hyperia: $45k digital telescope

https://vaonis.com/hyperia/en/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 72 comments

Classic Sesame Street – Computer Trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCHKIdup5Lo

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Outcomes after surgery performed by associate clinicians vs doctors (2021)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774739

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

KDE Developers in Germany Planning for Plasma 6.0

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Sprint-Germany

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

Modern Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people found to have Pictish ancestry

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-modern-day-scottish-welsh-northern-irish.html

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments
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