top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-11

Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

3 years ago

80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/80percent-of-bosses-say-they-regret-earlier-return-to-office-plans.html

3 years ago

Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2023/08/11/squeeze-the-hell-out-of-the-system-you-have/#like-2777

3 years ago

Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/judge-to-revoke-bail-for-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-over-witness-tampering.html

3 years ago

Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5322229/01_23

3 years ago

YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-site-goes-offline-as-hosting-provider-enforces-court-ordered-ban-230809/

3 years ago

We need scientific dissidents

https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-need-scientific-dissidents-now-more-than-ever

3 years ago

Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

https://narrowlink.com/docs/comparisons/tailscale

3 years ago

Every phone should be able to run personal websites

https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/every-phone-should-be-able-to-run-personal-website/

3 years ago

Fastest branchless binary search

https://mhdm.dev/posts/sb_lower_bound/

3 years ago

I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2565077/i-m-ok--the-bull-is-dead.html

3 years ago

Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models

https://www.anyscale.com/blog/fine-tuning-llama-2-a-comprehensive-case-study-for-tailoring-models-to-unique-applications

3 years ago

RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9446.html

3 years ago

Infisical – open-source HashiCorp Vault alternative

https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

3 years ago

Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction

https://cis.temple.edu/~pwang/AGI-Intro.html

3 years ago

An Introduction to Graph Theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04512

3 years ago

Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

3 years ago

Zero Motorcycles makes its service manuals free

https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/zero-motorcycles-steps-up-and-makes-its-service-manuals-free/

3 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary of Ex-Lover

https://themessenger.com/business/sbf-thrown-in-jail-for-tampering-with-star-witness-in-upcoming-fraud-trial

3 years ago

Shamir Secret Sharing

https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing-its-3am-paul-the-head-of

3 years ago

Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work

https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/web-environment-integrity-has-no-standing-at-w3c/

3 years ago

What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers

https://spacelift.io/blog/hashicorps-license-change

3 years ago

Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of a state machine

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551900v2

3 years ago

Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (2021)

https://theconversation.com/feral-desert-donkeys-are-digging-wells-giving-water-to-parched-wildlife-159909

3 years ago

Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MpdZkGj5AI

3 years ago

Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno

https://github.com/denosaurs/deno_python

3 years ago

Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models

https://venturebeat.com/ai/legions-of-defcon-hackers-will-attack-generative-ai-models/

3 years ago

Reading Ancient Scrolls

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/reading-ancient-scrolls/

3 years ago

The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-crash-of-air-france-flight-447-8a7678c37982

3 years ago

I fixed a bug the other day

https://www.javiergonzalez.io/blog/i-fixed-a-bug/

3 years ago

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html

3 years ago

Mpire: A Python package for easier and faster multiprocessing

https://github.com/sybrenjansen/mpire

3 years ago

There is no hard takeoff

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/08/10/there-is-no-hard-takeoff.html

3 years ago

Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088087

3 years ago

Sorting in Emacs

https://susam.net/blog/sorting-in-emacs.html

3 years ago

GSMA considers giving away mobile device locations through API

https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/gsma-open-gateway-api-descriptions/

3 years ago

OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change

https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform

3 years ago

Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowsersAndHTTPStatusCodes

3 years ago

Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/satellite_hacking_black_hat/

3 years ago

Show HN: Pykoi – a Python library for LLM data collection and fine tuning

https://www.cambioml.com/pykoi/

3 years ago

Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution

https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-petitions-u-s-and-argentina-to-cease-illegal-criminal-prosecution-230811/

3 years ago

ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/machine-learning-is-useful-for-many

3 years ago

HyperUI: Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components

https://www.hyperui.dev/

3 years ago

Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations?

https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/187/why-is-division-so-much-more-complex-than-other-arithmetic-operations

3 years ago

How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors

https://acoup.blog/2023/08/11/collections-how-to-roman-republic-101-part-iiia-starting-down-the-path-of-honors/

3 years ago

The inability to simultaneously verify sentience, location, and identity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02202

3 years ago

Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02532-6

3 years ago

The life of a lawyer in the late Roman republic

https://www.thecollector.com/life-lawyer-late-roman-republic/

3 years ago

What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]

https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/files/pdfs/MUS105handouts.pdf

3 years ago

Inactive Google Account Policy

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

3 years ago

SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds-are-still-wiping-data-after-firmware-fix-users-say/

3 years ago

ARM’s Cortex A710: Winning by Default

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/08/11/arms-cortex-a710-winning-by-default/

3 years ago

The Downsides of C++ Coroutines

https://reductor.dev/cpp/2023/08/10/the-downsides-of-coroutines.html

3 years ago

Objective-C Internals

https://alwaysprocessing.blog/series/objc-internals

3 years ago

Websites and APIs on Render are unavailable due to Cloudflare network errors

https://status.render.com/incidents/cshql6qwnldj

3 years ago

256TB SSD from Samsung

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/news-events/tech-blog/samsung-announces-innovations-to-enhance-memory-customer-experience-in-data-centric-era-at-fms-2023/

3 years ago

Extracellular communication between brain cells through transfer of Cre mRNA

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.29.525937v1

3 years ago

Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1690011798643056640

3 years ago

Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/11/amazon-starting-to-track-and-penalize-workers-who-work-from-home-too-much

3 years ago

The many issues plaguing Nix

https://github.com/CuBeRJAN/nix-problems

3 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/technology/sam-bankman-fried-to-be-sent-to-jail-after-judge-revokes-bail.html

3 years ago

Dramatic rise in cancer in people under 50

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/researchers-report-dramatic-rise-in-early-onset-cancers/

3 years ago

Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/

3 years ago

A gentle introduction to information geometry

https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~lsgs/posts/2019-09-27-info-geom.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you handle tech use with your kids?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37091223

3 years ago

Half-Edge Data Structures (2019)

https://jerryyin.info/geometry-processing-algorithms/half-edge/

3 years ago

Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/30-signs-you-are-living-in-an-information

3 years ago

Israeli startups are moving jobs and money out of the country

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/middleeast/israel-political-crisis-startups-mime-intl/index.html

3 years ago

Virtualizing Uxn

https://eighty-twenty.org/2023/08/11/virtualizing-uxn

3 years ago

Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/08/release-0.17.0.html

3 years ago

Functional Programming in Modern C++: The Imperatives Must Go [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE71NqRpvTQ

3 years ago

Perils of not being attractive or athletic in middle school

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/perils-middle-school-study.php

3 years ago

Apple TV's MLS Season Pass subscriptions doubled since Messi's arrival in US

https://www.engadget.com/apple-tvs-mls-season-pass-subscriptions-have-doubled-since-messis-arrival-in-the-us-150221673.html

3 years ago