top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-02

Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time

https://brute.fail/

3 years ago

California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working

https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-homeless-population-oakland-wood-street-encampment-78d42cc3

3 years ago

Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

https://kotaku.com/reddit-third-party-3rd-apps-pricing-crush-ios-android-1850493992

3 years ago

How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/06/01/geocoding-routing-openstreetmap-r/

3 years ago

Radiation-hardened Quine (2014)

https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

3 years ago

He made linear algebra fun

https://news.mit.edu/2023/gilbert-strang-made-linear-algebra-fun-0531

3 years ago

27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)

https://mcgst.com/2020/12/01/27-years-later-and-the-psion-3a-is-still-wonderful/

3 years ago

Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation”

https://github.com/KasperskyLab/triangle_check

3 years ago

It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)

https://hsivonen.fi/string-length/

3 years ago

System76's coreboot open firmware manages to disable Intel ME for Raptor Lake

https://blog.system76.com/post/major-updates-for-system76-open-firmware-june-2023

3 years ago

The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer

https://the-analog-thing.org/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36160198

3 years ago

Parachute use to prevent death, trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018) [pdf]

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/363/bmj.k5094.full.pdf

3 years ago

Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/05/31/lisa-su-saved-amd-now-she-wants-nvidias-ai-crown/

3 years ago

My approach to building large technical projects

https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-projects

3 years ago

Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years

https://ukragroconsult.com/en/news/brazil-develops-tropical-wheat-and-predicts-self-sufficiency-in-5-years/

3 years ago

Speed running Monkey Island

https://www.grumpygamer.com/speed_running_mi

3 years ago

North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories

https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/

3 years ago

Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan

https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/triangulation-attack-on-ios/28444/

3 years ago

Render a neural network into CUDA/HIP code

https://github.com/facebookincubator/AITemplate

3 years ago

A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022)

https://www.wired.com/story/web-deanonymization-side-channel-attack-njit/

3 years ago

Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/01/global-fertility-has-collapsed-with-profound-economic-consequences

3 years ago

Witch – macOS window switcher replacement

https://manytricks.com/witch/

3 years ago

Netflix Shareholders Vote to Reject Executive Pay Packages

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/business/media/netflix-executive-compensation-vote.html

3 years ago

In vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00666-w

3 years ago

Supreme Court sides with Slack, putting direct listings in jeopardy

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/02/supreme-court-sides-with-slack-putting-direct-listings-in-jeopardy

3 years ago

The explosive legacy of the hand sanitizer boom

https://www.wired.com/story/the-explosive-legacy-of-the-pandemic-hand-sanitizer-boom/

3 years ago

Keyd: Linux Key Remapper

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

3 years ago

Skybox AI: Use AI to generate 3D worlds

https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/

3 years ago

Using Google’s code history to write more code

https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/05/large-sequence-models-for-software.html

3 years ago

Undetectable Watermarks for Language Models

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/763

3 years ago

Show HN: Mercury – Convert Jupyter notebooks to web apps

https://RunMercury.com

3 years ago

PostgreSQL and SQL:2023

http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-sql-2023

3 years ago

StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content

https://openletter.mousetail.nl/

3 years ago

Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/tech/reddit-outrage-data-access-charge/index.html

3 years ago

Effect of repeated low-level red light on myopia prevention

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2804215

3 years ago

Speeduino – Arduino based engine management

https://github.com/noisymime/speeduino

3 years ago

Neverflow: C macros that guard against buffer overflows

https://github.com/skullchap/neverflow

3 years ago

US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4030026-us-military-has-been-observing-metallic-orbs-making-extraordinary-maneuvers/

3 years ago

Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits

https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/06/02/calling-time-on-dnssec/

3 years ago

M.U.L.E. Online

https://puzzud.itch.io/mule-online

3 years ago

Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust

https://eventhelix.com/rust/

3 years ago

Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct the Notre Dame

https://www.popsci.com/technology/notre-dame-reconstruction-medieval-tools/

3 years ago

Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it

https://gist.github.com/yzdbg/bee9031fcaa918abf6442c2691866dda

3 years ago

Woman with untreated TB finally in custody – held in “negative pressure” room

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/06/woman-with-untreated-tb-finally-in-custody-held-in-negative-pressure-room/

3 years ago

Deep-brain stimulation during sleep strengthens memory: study

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/deep-brain-stimulation-during-sleep-strengthens-memory

3 years ago

Kenneth Anger has died

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/kenneth_anger_rip_the_magus_of_american_cinema_dead_at_96

3 years ago

Profit-Price Spiral: Excess Profits Fuelling Inflation, Not Wages

https://futurework.org.au/post/profit-price-spiral-excess-profits-fuelling-inflation-interest-rates-not-wages/

3 years ago

Update 3: Reddit effectively kills off third party apps

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/13ylk42/update_3_reddit_effectively_kills_off_third_party/

3 years ago

Health System in Minnesota Cuts Off Patients with Medical Debt

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/business/allina-health-hospital-debt.html

3 years ago

SiFive Gives Its WorldGuard Security Model to the RISC-V Community

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/sifive-gives-its-worldguard-security-model-to-the-risc-v-community/

3 years ago

Solid state active cooling on a Mini PC

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/01/frore_systems_airjet_cooling/

3 years ago

Sketch of a Post-ORM

https://borretti.me/article/sketch-post-orm

3 years ago

Modern C (2019)

https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

3 years ago

Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-02/amazon-talking-with-verizon-dish-t-mobile-to-offer-mobile-with-prime

3 years ago

How Malicious extensions hide running arbitrary code

https://palant.info/2023/06/02/how-malicious-extensions-hide-running-arbitrary-code/

3 years ago

Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia

https://lukemerrick.com/posts/intro_to_julox.html

3 years ago

AI to Assist Mathematical Reasoning: A Workshop

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/06/02/ai-to-assist-mathematical-reasoning-a-workshop/

3 years ago

US military drone controlled by AI "killed" its operator during simulated test

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test

3 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone else feel like their whole career will just be tech debt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36165520

3 years ago

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana (2021)

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management/leadership-and-management/managing/systems-explained-humberto-maturana

3 years ago

Falcon 40B (potentially the most capable open-source LLM) is now open-source

https://www.tii.ae/news/uaes-falcon-40b-now-royalty-free

3 years ago

React Server Component from Scratch

https://github.com/reactwg/server-components/discussions/5

3 years ago

VGA driver using PIO and DMA on the RP2040

https://vanhunteradams.com/Pico/VGA/VGA.html

3 years ago

Turing Trains

http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/trains/tt0_int.html

3 years ago

When markets melt down, these traders cash in

https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-swan-debt-ceiling-mark-spitznagel-nassim-nicholas-taleb-18bb38f1

3 years ago

Infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01801-8

3 years ago

Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230602-arizona-limits-building-as-groundwater-dries-up

3 years ago

Presence of nicotine and antidepressants detected in Antarctic waters

https://www.bionity.com/en/news/1180593/presence-of-nicotine-and-antidepressants-detected-in-antarctic-waters.html

3 years ago

Damped Springs (2012)

https://www.ryanjuckett.com/damped-springs/

3 years ago

Show HN: Local implementation of text-to-3D using Shap-E

https://github.com/kedzkiest/shap-e-local

3 years ago

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/

3 years ago

Proven (Dot Lol)

https://omglol.news/2023/04/14/introducing-proven-dot-lol

3 years ago

Allstate joins State Farm, stops issuing new homeowners insurance policies in CA

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/insurance-allstate-fires-18130622.php

3 years ago

The newest college admissions ploy: paying to make your teen “peer-reviewed”

https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications

3 years ago

CEO: Raspberry Pi stock to hit 1M units monthly, starting in July

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/ceo-raspberry-pi-inventory-to-hit-1m-units-monthly-starting-in-july/

3 years ago

Facebook to block news for some users in Canada

https://www.ft.com/content/65ae7aef-7dce-4e61-bf6d-f498bd298527

3 years ago

When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transformer Statues

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/style/when-the-neighbors-dont-share-your-vision-and-that-vision-involves-transformers-statues.html

3 years ago

Oracle Cloud is having a major outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36169992

3 years ago

Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/eventually-everything-will-evaporate-not-only-black-holes

3 years ago