top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-07

NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

3 years ago

Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

3 years ago

Kagi Small Web

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

3 years ago

North Korean campaign targeting security researchers

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/active-north-korean-campaign-targeting-security-researchers/

3 years ago

Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web

https://tailscale.com/blog/mullvad-integration/

3 years ago

Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/

3 years ago

Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/9/7/tailscale-has-partnered-with-mullvad/

3 years ago

My favorite Erlang program (2013)

https://joearms.github.io/#2013-11-21%20My%20favorite%20Erlang%20Program

3 years ago

Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

https://hackyournews.com/

3 years ago

Gaussian splatting is pretty cool

https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pretty-cool/

3 years ago

How Query Engines Work

https://howqueryengineswork.com/

3 years ago

An Internet of PHP

https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/an-internet-of-php/

3 years ago

Mojo is available for local download

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-its-finally-here

3 years ago

Textual Web: TUIs for the Web

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/09/06/what-is-textual-web/

3 years ago

Chicago’s parking meter disaster

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-parking-meters-chicago-daley-20230430-fau3wymdevf7vknog5osrge5e4-story.html

3 years ago

John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/facts.txt

3 years ago

Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-07/grindr-loses-nearly-half-its-staff-to-strict-return-to-office-rule

3 years ago

Exa Is Deprecated

https://github.com/ogham/exa

3 years ago

Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1699791226780975439

3 years ago

Report says PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews

https://www.screengeek.net/2023/09/06/rotten-tomatoes-pr-firm-paying-critics-positive-reviews/

3 years ago

Retool AI

https://retool.com/products/ai

3 years ago

I rode with an ice road trucker to the Arctic Circle

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/i-rode-with-an-ice-road-trucker-to-the-arctic-circle-heres-what-it-was-like

3 years ago

Are any words the same in all languages?

https://blog.duolingo.com/words-shared-in-all-languages/

3 years ago

UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/uk_government_clause_online_safety_bill/

3 years ago

What's new in Emacs 29.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-29-1

3 years ago

China's ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of a centralized authority

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-ancient-pipe-networks-communal.html

3 years ago

Arduino raises $22M Series B round

https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/09/06/what-will-we-do-with-an-additional-22m/

3 years ago

Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password

https://reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/154goal/someone_keeps_trying_to_reset_my_facebook_password/

3 years ago

A BERT for laptops, from scratch

https://github.com/samvher/bert-for-laptops/blob/main/BERT_for_laptops.ipynb

3 years ago

Tell HN: JPMorgan Chase forcing arbitration agreement to log in

https://twitter.com/walid/status/1697611534074011700

3 years ago

Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/nishimura-comet-could-be-visible-to-naked-eye-this-weekend

3 years ago

New LoRa RF distance record

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/new-lora-world-record-1336-km-830-mi

3 years ago

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

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

3 years ago

My Node.js is a bit Rusty

https://gal.hagever.com/posts/my-node-js-is-a-bit-rusty

3 years ago

The thinking path

https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/what-would-a-wizard-read/#walking

3 years ago

Persimmon-8B

https://www.adept.ai/blog/persimmon-8b

3 years ago

JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension

https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/

3 years ago

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-finally-admits-what-everyone-already-knows-sls-is-unaffordable/

3 years ago

When URL parsers disagree

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/when-url-parsers-disagree-cve-2023-38633/

3 years ago

LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI

https://blog.lancedb.com/llms-rag-the-missing-storage-layer-for-ai-28ded35fa984

3 years ago

Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are

3 years ago

Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

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

3 years ago

DSPy: Framework for programming with foundation models

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy

3 years ago

London Street Trees

https://apps.london.gov.uk/street-trees/

3 years ago

Snake-fury – a challenge for Haskell beginners

https://github.com/lsmor/snake-fury

3 years ago

Searx is no longer maintained

https://github.com/searx/searx/commit/276ffd3f01cdd823f75676c51231fad4040059d3

3 years ago

Ask HN: YC company copied our product, what can we do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420669

3 years ago

25 Gbit/s at home, part 1

https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d

3 years ago

Every software project is a startup that will probably fail

https://muldoon.cloud/2023/09/06/software-keeps-failing.html

3 years ago

Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music Classical app

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/apple-fuels-classical-music-push-with-record-label-acquisition/

3 years ago

ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per Scanner

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asml-to-ship-first-high-na-euv-tool-this-year-dollar300-million-per-scanner

3 years ago

National Film Board of Canada

https://www.nfb.ca/

3 years ago

The Power of Food for People with Dementia

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-power-of-food-for-people-with-dementia

3 years ago

ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, cracks under pressure

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-ernie-chinas-chatgpt-cracks-under

3 years ago

God writes Haskell

https://hookrace.net/blog/god-writes-haskell/

3 years ago

The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera

https://i2-camera.polaroid.com

3 years ago

TEMU Is Cleverly Hidden Spyware That Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S.

https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudulent-company-and-its-shopping-app-temu-is-cleverly-hidden-spyware-that-poses-an-urgent-security-threat-to-u-s-national-interests/

3 years ago

Animations From First Principles (in 5 minutes)

https://mathspp.com/blog/animations-from-first-principles-in-5-minutes

3 years ago

Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2023-09-07/texas-just-got-closer-to-blackouts-than-it-has-since-2021-what-happened

3 years ago

Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/07/humanised-kidneys-grown-inside-pigs-for-the-first-time

3 years ago

My speed cubing page

http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html

3 years ago

Magnetism may have given life its molecular asymmetry

https://www.quantamagazine.org/magnetism-may-have-given-life-its-molecular-asymmetry-20230906/

3 years ago

What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230904-00/?p=108704

3 years ago

Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code

https://github.com/JuliaDebug/Cthulhu.jl

3 years ago

Bun v1

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0

3 years ago

iOS 16.6.1 fixes two vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213905

3 years ago

AtariAge and Atari

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354609-atariage-atari/

3 years ago

Video codecs: Adding AV1 stateless video decoder support to Linux

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/video-codecs-adding-av1-stateless-video-decoder-support-to-linux.html

3 years ago

Texas paid Bitcoin miner Riot $31.7M to shut down in August

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31point7-million-to-shut-down-in-august.html

3 years ago

Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (2010)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-life-asker-guesser

3 years ago

Square is down

https://www.issquareup.com

3 years ago

BMW drops controversial heated seats subscription

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alistaircharlton/2023/09/07/bmw-drops-controversial-heated-seats-subscription-to-refocus-on-software-services/

3 years ago

Unreal Engine 5.3

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-5-3-is-now-available

3 years ago

Semver violations are common, better tooling is the answer

https://predr.ag/blog/semver-violations-are-common-better-tooling-is-the-answer/

3 years ago

Turning a keyboard into a mouse with Libevdev

https://suricrasia.online/blog/turning-a-keyboard-into/

3 years ago

Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022)

https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2022-06-10-wayland-xorg/wayland-xorg.html?r

3 years ago