top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-10

Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inside-wuhan-lab-covid-pandemic-china-america-qhjwwwvm0

3 years ago

Ted Kaczynski has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-dead.html

3 years ago

Debian 12 “Bookworm”

https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610

3 years ago

Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/mercedes_california_tesla/

3 years ago

OBS merges WebRTC support

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/commit/851a8c216e14617fb523951839f3bdb240e85141

3 years ago

MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation

https://ai.honu.io/papers/musicgen/

3 years ago

Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin

https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration

3 years ago

New York City will charge drivers going downtown

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/10/business/congestion-pricing-new-york-city-transportation/index.html

3 years ago

Barracuda urges replacing, not patching, its email security gateways

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/barracuda-urges-replacing-not-patching-its-email-security-gateways/

3 years ago

Emoji Kitchen

https://emojikitchen.dev/

3 years ago

GCP automatically lowered our quota, caused an incident, and refused to upgrade

https://twitter.com/JustJake/status/1667478906591666176

3 years ago

Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs

https://wccftech.com/apple-m2-ultra-soc-isnt-faster-than-amd-intel-last-year-desktop-cpus-50-slower-than-nvidia-rtx-4080/

3 years ago

Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65864158

3 years ago

Executable Examples in Go

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/examples

3 years ago

FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/fbi_fisa_section_702_absolutely/

3 years ago

Tiny Awards for Small Websites

https://tinyawards.net/

3 years ago

Zig language server and cancellation

https://matklad.github.io/2023/05/06/zig-language-server-and-cancellation.html

3 years ago

Gren – an Elm fork

https://gren-lang.org/

3 years ago

Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/licensing-is-neither-feasible-nor

3 years ago

From Stacks to Trees: A new aliasing model for Rust

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2023/06/02/tree-borrows.html

3 years ago

Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud

https://techdows.com/2023/06/microsoft-edge-removes-reset-sync.html

3 years ago

Show HN: RISC-V core written in 600 lines of C89

https://github.com/mnurzia/rv

3 years ago

The case for the decentralization of online forums

https://viksit.com/blog/case-for-decentralization-online-forums

3 years ago

Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01546-4

3 years ago

Arrested for using Linux and encryption in France [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyFL7KJGcC0

3 years ago

The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-german-bar-iphone-security-breach-18130468.php

3 years ago

Peanut Butter Jellyfin Time

https://gebir.ge/blog/peanut-butter-jellyfin-time/

3 years ago

UK hobbyist stuns math world with 'amazing' new shapes

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-uk-hobbyist-stuns-math-world.html

3 years ago

LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07339

3 years ago

Django Views – The Right Way

https://spookylukey.github.io/django-views-the-right-way/index.html

3 years ago

Turn dumb tweets into cuneiform tablets

https://dumbcuneiform.com/

3 years ago

A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)

https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/writeup/intel_avx512/text.md

3 years ago

The Accidental HFT Firm (2018)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210205014443/https://meanderful.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-accidental-hft-firm.html

3 years ago

GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/github_copilot_lawsuit/

3 years ago

Convex Optimization (2004) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf

3 years ago

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bill

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google

3 years ago

French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/french-tax-officials-use-ai-to-spot-20000-undeclared-pools

3 years ago

A Case of the MUMPS (2007)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS

3 years ago

Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (2013)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/domain-knowledge-or-a-lack-thereof/

3 years ago

DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube

https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow

3 years ago

Palantir CEO Rejects Calls to Pause AI Development

https://newsnotfound.com/palantir-ceo-rejects-calls-to-pause-ai-development-amid-global-debate/

3 years ago

UTF-21, a toy character encoding

https://evanhahn.com/utf-21/

3 years ago

All Those Naked Greeks

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-men-seemingly-always-naked-in-ancient-greek-art

3 years ago

Ted Kaczynski Has Died

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/alert-bureau-of-prisons-tells-ap-that-ted-18145818.php

3 years ago

Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/generative-ai-support-on-vertexai

3 years ago

Wind-to-hydrogen production reaches deep water

https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-hydrogen-offshore-wind

3 years ago

At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?

https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/5669/at-what-point-should-mo-recognise-it-needs-to-leave-stack-exchange-inc

3 years ago

Children 13, 9, 4, and 1 found alive in jungle 40 days after plane crash

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/09/colombia-missing-children-found-plane-crash/

3 years ago

WebObjects Overview (2001) [pdf]

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LegacyTechnologies/WebObjects/WebObjects_5/WebObjectsOverview/WebObjectsOverview.pdf

3 years ago

Buying an entire Egghead Software store (2005)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34463

3 years ago

Desktop Linux is insecure

https://bjornpagen.com/en_US/desktop%20linux%20is%20insecure

3 years ago

The Ritual of Capitalization (2021)

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/06/02/the-ritual-of-capitalization/

3 years ago

Handoff Waste and Taylorism

https://two-wrongs.com/handoff-waste-and-taylorism.html

3 years ago

What should you build?

https://exponentially.substack.com/p/what-should-you-build

3 years ago

Messing with the Beepberry

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/messing-beepberry

3 years ago

Total recall: the people who never forget (2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/08/total-recall-the-people-who-never-forget

3 years ago