top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-24

PyPI Was Subpoenaed

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-24-pypi-was-subpoenaed/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36056299

3 years ago

The tiny corp raised $5.1M

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.html

3 years ago

The brand new Thunderbird logo

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/introducing-the-brand-new-thunderbird-logo/

3 years ago

Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106553/

3 years ago

The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives

https://github.com/Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery/blob/main/info/INTRO.MD

3 years ago

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

3 years ago

Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

https://youdontneedamodalwindow.dev/

3 years ago

Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

https://pixian.ai/remove-image-backgrounds

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36057997

3 years ago

UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2023/may/dissertation-award-2022

3 years ago

Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5

3 years ago

Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub

https://github.com/patte/fly-tailscale-exit

3 years ago

QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314

3 years ago

Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood

https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/hypersonic-missiles-are-just-misunderstood-1a35c8ae3dd0

3 years ago

A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress

https://www.publicbooks.org/a-novel-the-cia-spent-a-fortune-to-suppress/

3 years ago

Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/venus-is-not-earth-s-closest-neighbor

3 years ago

Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Scalable Model Architecture

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/meta-ai-unleashes-megabyte-a-revolutionary-scalable-model-architecture

3 years ago

Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/why-the-original-transformer-figure

3 years ago

The teens behind the Mirai botnet

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mirai-botnet

3 years ago

Tina Turner has died

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tina-turner-dies-illness-b2345195.html

3 years ago

Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/meta-dinov2-vision/

3 years ago

Rio: Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust

https://github.com/raphamorim/rio

3 years ago

DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices

https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone switched from a professional job to a more manual one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36057665

3 years ago

SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-challenge-to-warrantless-pole-camera-surveillance

3 years ago

Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/Ice_loss_from_Greenland_and_Antarctica_hits_new_record

3 years ago

Kenny Log-Ins

https://www.kennylog-in.com

3 years ago

Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tape-storage-trundles-on-increases-yearly-volume-to-128-exabytes

3 years ago

A guide to closures in Rust

https://hashrust.com/blog/a-guide-to-closures-in-rust/

3 years ago

Neeva acquired by Snowflake

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai/

3 years ago

Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/meta-layoffs-latest-round-of-cuts-focuses-on-business-groups.html

3 years ago

World of Goo Remastered

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.WorldofGooHD&hl=en_US

3 years ago

I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)

https://www.owlfolio.org/research/i-didnt-learn-unix-by-reading-all-the-manpages/

3 years ago

SFPD obtained live access to business camera network in anticipation of protest

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/sfpd-obtained-live-access-business-camera-network-anticipation-tyre-nichols

3 years ago

Nirvana fallacy

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

3 years ago

Minix development has been abandoned?

https://git.minix3.org/index.cgi?p=minix.git;a=summary

3 years ago

Fish Folk – open-source Bevy game

https://github.com/fishfolk/jumpy

3 years ago

Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061344

3 years ago

Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36060891

3 years ago

Let's Build a Compiler (1988)

https://xmonader.github.io/letsbuildacompiler-pretty/tutor01_introduction.html

3 years ago

OpenAI Outage

https://status.openai.com/incidents/jbt079x532bg

3 years ago

AMD has a one-liner to help speed up Linux system resume time

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-One-Liner-System-Resume

3 years ago

PicoGUS: Emulate ISA Sound Cards (GUS, Adlib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS) with a Pico

https://github.com/polpo/picogus

3 years ago

European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe

https://torrentfreak.com/european-commission-calls-for-pirate-site-blocking-around-the-globe-230524/

3 years ago

ChainForge: An open-source visual programming environment for testing prompts

https://github.com/ianarawjo/ChainForge

3 years ago

M.U.L.E. 40th Anniversary Special

https://www.carpeludum.com/m-u-l-e-40th-anniversary-special/

3 years ago

Win32 App Isolation

https://github.com/microsoft/win32-app-isolation

3 years ago

“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf]

https://goto.ucsd.edu/~rjhala/hotos-ffi.pdf

3 years ago

Building a Raspberry Pi based ultrasound imaging development platform

https://kelu124.gitbooks.io/echomods/content/RPI.html

3 years ago

SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0

https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/sqlite-wasi-support/

3 years ago

Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site

https://helphub.commandbar.com

3 years ago

Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/24/lenovo_q4_2023_profit_sales_crash/

3 years ago

Tracing Python

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/03/14/tracing-python.html

3 years ago

Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/call-states-sue-telecom-company-billions-robocalls-99553597

3 years ago

Math That Goes on Forever but Never Repeats

https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-that-goes-on-forever-but-never-repeats-20230523/

3 years ago

NASA has funded a bunch of early stage technologies

https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2023-05-24-Issue-219/

3 years ago

A college student reached $64k/mo in 6 months by being an AI first mover

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-a-college-student-reached-64-000-mo-in-6-months-by-being-an-ai-first-mover-ba7981f6e1

3 years ago

‘The Last of Us,’ fruit fly edition

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/04/how-a-mind-controlling-fungal-parasite-turns-insects-into-zombies/

3 years ago

Finland's average electricity price slips into negative territory

https://yle.fi/a/74-20033326

3 years ago

Pump the brakes on your police’s use of Flock (YC17)’s mass surveillance

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers

3 years ago

Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/share-of-americans-skipping-medical-care-due-to-money-woes-jumps-significantly/

3 years ago

The hypergamy hypothesis: much more than you wanted to know

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/hypergamy-much-more-than-you-wanted

3 years ago

Peloton CEO quit after laying off 2,800. A lesson about how not to lead (2022)

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/pelotons-ceo-john-foley-quit-q2-2022-earnings-laying-off-2800-people.html

3 years ago

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [pdf]

https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/Stanford/CS477/papers/Kuhn-SSR-2ndEd.pdf

3 years ago

Technical issues plague Ron DeSantis’s campaign announcement on Twitter

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/24/ron-desantis-elon-musk-twitter-spaces-crashed/

3 years ago

Will deep understanding still be valuable?

https://ericsink.com/entries/depth.html

3 years ago

Ordering Photocopies from Japan's National Library

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/05/24/ordering-photocopies-from-japans-national-library/

3 years ago

New Xen updates on RISC-V

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2023/05/23/new-xen-updates-on-risc-v/

3 years ago

Native AOT Overview

https://ericsink.com/native_aot/overview.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Mount Unix system into Common Lisp image

https://github.com/PuellaeMagicae/unix-in-lisp

3 years ago

Breaking SHA256: length extension attacks in practice

https://kerkour.com/sha256-length-extension-attacks

3 years ago