top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-08

Downfall Attacks

https://downfall.page/

3 years ago

1328 upvotes – 336 comments

Uninstall the NightOwl app

https://robins.one/notes/uninstall-the-nightowl-app-now.html

3 years ago

1017 upvotes – 219 comments

TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe

https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/3049

3 years ago

855 upvotes – 500 comments

What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

https://chat.openai.com/share/f5341665-7f08-4fca-9639-04201363506e

3 years ago

710 upvotes – 287 comments

Your computer should say what you tell it to say

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1

3 years ago

689 upvotes – 254 comments

Blocked by Cloudflare

https://jrhawley.ca/2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare

3 years ago

632 upvotes – 455 comments

Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels

https://noclip.website

3 years ago

531 upvotes – 96 comments

LCD, Please

https://dukope.itch.io/lcd-please

3 years ago

476 upvotes – 97 comments

Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/android-14-introduces-first-of-its-kind.html

3 years ago

413 upvotes – 173 comments

Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv3yp/amazon-says-it-doesnt-employ-drivers-but-records-show-it-hired-firms-to-prevent-them-from-unionizing

3 years ago

381 upvotes – 410 comments

Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust

https://github.com/huggingface/candle

3 years ago

365 upvotes – 182 comments

Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)

https://www.adriancooney.ie/blog/web-scraping-via-javascript-heap-snapshots

3 years ago

362 upvotes – 112 comments

Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110

3 years ago

339 upvotes – 314 comments

Go 1.21 Released

https://go.dev/doc/go1.21

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 168 comments

StableCode

https://stability.ai/blog/stablecode-llm-generative-ai-coding

3 years ago

305 upvotes – 107 comments

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/bram-moolenaar-creator-of-the-beloved-vim-text-editor-has-passed-away/

3 years ago

296 upvotes – 28 comments

Run Firefox on ChromeOS

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/run-firefox-chromeos

3 years ago

262 upvotes – 88 comments

Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/regulators-hit-wall-street-banks-with-549-million-in-penalties-for-record-keeping-failures-.html

3 years ago

253 upvotes – 238 comments

Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module

https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-smartwatch-powered-by-esp32-s3-module/

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 80 comments

GPT-4 can't reason

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202308.0148/v1

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 376 comments

Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)

https://bruces.medium.com/homo-sapiens-declared-extinct-by-bruce-sterling-1999-cc8b0f94b195

3 years ago

227 upvotes – 62 comments

Bye, Gemini

https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 159 comments

Show HN: Chat with your data using LangChain, Pinecone, and Airbyte

https://airbyte.com/tutorials/chat-with-your-data-using-openai-pinecone-airbyte-and-langchain

3 years ago

220 upvotes – 59 comments

The Last 1%

https://jaredramsey.com/blog/20230808.html

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 90 comments

mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites

https://mcaptcha.org/

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 145 comments

Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data

https://www.magicearth.com/crowd-sourced-traffic/

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 123 comments

How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/08/07/how-real-is-americas-chipmaking-renaissance

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 244 comments

PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management

https://packaging-con.org

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 155 comments

Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realestate/microgrid-solar-power-energy.html

3 years ago

187 upvotes – 243 comments

Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/01/news-avoid-depressing/

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 240 comments

Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster

https://blog.aquasec.com/kubernetes-exposed-one-yaml-away-from-disaster

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 148 comments

ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console

https://chimeraos.org/

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 95 comments

Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time

https://www.iflscience.com/life-has-been-found-beneath-hydrothermal-vents-for-the-first-time-70178

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 57 comments

LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ekD2KVV_SUid2wH__o1ODS3hTl1GUFb5/view

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 152 comments

Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org

https://archive.org/search?query=Richard+Scarry&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Richard+Scarry%22

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

https://www.easyful.com/

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 89 comments

Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03544

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 75 comments

Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB

https://www.ory.dev/global-identity-and-access-management-multi-region/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 33 comments

The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression

https://qoaformat.org/

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 63 comments

FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-oral-treatment-postpartum-depression

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 265 comments

Graceful behavior at capacity

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-at-capacity/

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Milk Sad Disclosure

https://milksad.info/

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 125 comments

A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]

https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pdf

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 42 comments

Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/italy-approves-40-windfall-tax-on-banks-for-2023-as-profits-soar

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 187 comments

Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048758

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 152 comments

Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (2015)

http://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 55 comments

Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework (2022)

https://www.evilsocket.net/2022/10/20/Reverse-Engineering-the-Apple-MultiPeer-Connectivity-Framework/

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LogMonitoringTarpit

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 116 comments

Homebrew Is Awesome

https://danthesalmon.com/homebrew-is-awesome/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 55 comments

Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2023/0711

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 144 comments

PyPI Requires 2FA for New User Registrations

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-08-08-2fa-enforcement-for-new-users/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 73 comments

Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/07/norway-meta-fine-user-privacy-breach-targeted-ads

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 135 comments

Braille Is Alive, Well, and Ever-Evolving

https://themillions.com/2023/07/braille-is-alive-well-and-ever-evolving.html

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Ancient Earth globe

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 64 comments

Unity Weta Tools

https://unity.com/solutions/unity-weta-tools

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

Panama Canal draught restrictions spark liner surcharges

https://gcaptain.com/panama-canal-draught-restrictions-spark-liner-surcharges/

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 104 comments

Millions of UK voters’ data accessible in cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/08/uk-electoral-commission-registers-targeted-by-hostile-hackers

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

Svelte 5 is going to be radical

https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1688581184018583558

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

Nextflow: Data-Driven Computational Pipelines

https://nextflow.io/

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 40 comments

Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development

https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/08/introducing-project-idx-experiment-to-improve-full-stack-multiplatform-app-development.html

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 63 comments

R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (2007)

https://losingfight.com/blog/2007/05/17/rip-freehand/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 87 comments

My Lifetime Reading Plan

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-lifetime-reading-plan

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 82 comments

Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299536/

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 112 comments

Terminal Support for Emoji

https://darrenburns.net/posts/emoji-in-the-terminal/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Travel site made with Midjourney, GPT4 and Svelte

https://meoweler.com

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

$5B Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves closer to trial

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/7/23823878/google-privacy-tracking-incognito-mode-lawsuit-summary-judgment-denied

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

All that glitters is not gold – emulating luxury in the ancient Greek world

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/all-glitters-not-gold-emulating-luxury-ancient-greek-world

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/139222780/new-features-and-updates-for-youtube-viewers?hl=en

3 years ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments

Since v4.20, Moq is harvesting email addresses

https://github.com/moq/moq/pull/1363/

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Navy in Middle-Earth

https://warfantasy.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/navy-in-middle-earth/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 78 comments

The PhD Octopus (1903)

https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEEJamesOctopusTable.pdf

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

WeWork Raises ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying in Business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/wework-raises-substantial-doubt-about-staying-in-business

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

An interactive story that takes you on a journey of self-exploration

https://www.betwixt.life

3 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments
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