top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-13

HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/hp-printers-computers-ink-cartridges-rivals/

3 years ago

662 upvotes – 446 comments

TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-lawsuit-alleges-tiktok-owner-let-ccp-access-user-data-2023-5

3 years ago

569 upvotes – 397 comments

Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explained/

3 years ago

508 upvotes – 175 comments

Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/

3 years ago

471 upvotes – 85 comments

How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-hack-hacker-news-and-consistently-hit-the-front-page-56b4a04e12

3 years ago

414 upvotes – 126 comments

Monte Carlo methods

https://easylang.dev/apps/tutorial_mcarlo.html

3 years ago

312 upvotes – 48 comments

Intel One Mono Typeface

https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono

3 years ago

295 upvotes – 220 comments

RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-hidden-rna-mechanism-humans.html

3 years ago

287 upvotes – 78 comments

Asus UK PR believes it is ‘legal to buy positive reviews’

https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/asus-uk-pr-believes-it-is-legal-to-buy-positive-reviews/

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 133 comments

GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/12/github-copilot-chat-leaked-prompt/

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 4 comments

Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fonts-hell-no.html

3 years ago

251 upvotes – 191 comments

Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929112

3 years ago

250 upvotes – 169 comments

Rails Cheat Sheet

https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/welcome-to-rails-cheat-sheet/

3 years ago

240 upvotes – 133 comments

MGL: Common Lisp machine learning library

https://github.com/melisgl/mgl

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 6 comments

Idle DR-DOS

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/idle-dr-dos/

3 years ago

211 upvotes – 29 comments

How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows

https://mihai.fm/how-to-lose-your-work-using-undo-copy-in-windows/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 105 comments

First Rust code in the Windows 11 kernel

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/282995/first-rust-code-shows-up-in-the-windows-11-kernel

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 165 comments

This time, it feels different

https://nadh.in/blog/this-time-it-feels-different/

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 230 comments

IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/13/kyndryl_ibm_sued_discrimination/

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 148 comments

The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 109 comments

Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-a3-supercomputer-h100-googleio

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 176 comments

Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 99 comments

Large language models generate functional protein sequences across families

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 33 comments

Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC

https://hails.org/@hailey/110360791283096989

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 105 comments

Microsoft Small Basic

https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 99 comments

DIY Git in Python

https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 23 comments

The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/05/the-new-zip-tld-is-going-to-cause-some-problems/

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 79 comments

The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (2019)

https://hackaday.io/page/6176-why-is-there-no-open-source-firmware-for-laser-or-inkjet-printers

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 73 comments

The Rails Doctrine

https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 55 comments

Vimcasts – Free screencasts about the text editor Vim

http://vimcasts.org/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea

https://nautil.us/why-conscious-ai-is-a-bad-bad-idea-302937/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 293 comments

Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON

https://rome.tools/blog/2023/05/10/rome12_1/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 130 comments

A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf]

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 47 comments

TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-feeds-teens-a-diet-of-darkness-8f350507

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 173 comments

Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-tax-worker-ceo-pay-1.6813968

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 168 comments

Revolut CFO quits after auditor BDO warning

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/revolut-cfo-quits-after-auditor-bdo-warning-over-accountsmikko-salovaara-b1080447.html

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 76 comments

TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/introducing-deopt-explorer/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 41 comments

Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise

https://bkamins.github.io/julialang/2023/05/12/julia190.html

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 96 comments

I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables

https://glean.io/blog-posts/why-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-denormalized-tables

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 98 comments

Twitter succumbs to Erdoğan’s pressure, silences key voices on election eve

https://www.turkishminute.com/2023/05/13/twitter-succumbs-to-erdogan-pressure-silences-key-voices-in-turkey-on-election-eve/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Researchers use genomes of 241 species to redefine mammalian tree of life

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-genomes-species-redefine-mammalian-tree.html

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Agrivoltaics: A Sustainable Synergy Between Agriculture and Solar Energy

https://mercurialtrends.com/agrivoltaics-a-sustainable-synergy-between-agriculture-and-solar-energy/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

New TLDs: Not Bad

https://textslashplain.com/2023/05/13/new-tlds-not-bad-actually/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 117 comments

Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (1981)

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-09

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

How an obscure OTC-traded derivative from the 80s took over crypto

https://blog.everstrike.io/how-an-obscure-otc-traded-derivative-took-over-crypto/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

Donkeycar: A Python self driving library

https://github.com/autorope/donkeycar

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 9 comments

Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-patches-secure-boot-flaw-but-wont-enable-fix-by-default-until-early-2024/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison

https://blog.theapricot.io/posts/chatgpt-vs-bard/

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 65 comments

Ocean Temperature

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

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven (2013)

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-smackdown-from.html

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-12/erdogan-promises-to-transfer-power-peacefully-if-he-loses-ballot

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 94 comments

Cybernetic Culture Research Unit

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

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

GPS Independence: Japan plans expansion of QZSS network to 11 satellites

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Japan-plans-expansion-of-homegrown-GPS-network-to-11-satellites

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Saturn's rings are far younger than once thought

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/05/12/how-old-are-saturns-rings-far-younger-once-thought-according-new-study

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Ranking by Engagement

http://tecunningham.github.io/2023-04-28-ranking-by-engagement.html

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Microsoft employees are hooked on the company’s training videos?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-employees-are-hooked-on-the-companys-training-videos-c8684a1

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

Logarithmically-Spaced Snapshots (2022)

https://madebyevan.com/algos/log-spaced-snapshots/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments
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