top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-19

Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1703959863796158678

3 years ago

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

3 years ago

Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview

3 years ago

I digitalized Berlin's registration form

https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/anmeldung-form-filler

3 years ago

We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score

https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en

3 years ago

YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/arts/russell-brand-youtube.html

3 years ago

Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers

https://lichess.org/ads

3 years ago

The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-230919/

3 years ago

Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

https://pressprogress.ca/facebook-is-blocking-canadians-posts-about-the-assassination-of-a-bc-sikh-leader-their-posts-were-targeted-by-indias-government/

3 years ago

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement

https://www.fsf.org/news/forty-years-of-gnu-and-the-free-software-movement

3 years ago

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)

https://eranstiller.com/rabbitmq-vs-kafka-an-architects-dilemma-part-1

3 years ago

Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

3 years ago

How many medical studies are faked or flawed?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230718112821/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w

3 years ago

VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III

https://vcmi.eu

3 years ago

OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps

https://twitter.com/OSSInsight/status/1703087927763542305

3 years ago

Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

https://fx.wtf/

3 years ago

JDK 21 Release Notes

https://jdk.java.net/21/release-notes

3 years ago

64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-09-19-64-bit-bank-balances-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/

3 years ago

Circles do not exist

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/09/circles-do-not-exist.html

3 years ago

GraalVM for JDK 21

https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk-21-is-here-ee01177dd12d

3 years ago

UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66854618

3 years ago

Java 21 Released

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2023-September/008267.html

3 years ago

Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services

https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-new-features-update-sept-2023/

3 years ago

Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits

https://cleanenergyrevolution.co/2023/09/18/musk-wanted-to-spy-on-drivers-to-defend-tesla-from-lawsuits/

3 years ago

U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme

https://www.science.org/content/article/uk-finally-rejoins-horizon-europe-research-funding-scheme

3 years ago

Headsets Delayed into 2024

https://simulavr.com/blog/headsets-delayed/

3 years ago

Show HN: Cheq UPI – India's first UPI payments app for foreigners

https://www.chequpi.com/

3 years ago

A small community of unofficial Apple technicians in Cuba

https://restofworld.org/2023/underground-apple-techs-cuba/

3 years ago

Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570929

3 years ago

A basic guide to using Asian names

https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/features/a-guide-to-using-asian-names/

3 years ago

How to evaluate a product roadmap, for engineers

https://stephen.fm/how-to-evaluate-a-product-roadmap/

3 years ago

My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/09/19/trip-to-communication-laptop-museum/

3 years ago

Improving your online privacy: An update

https://blog.ovalerio.net/archives/2615

3 years ago

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/historical-maps-probably-helped-cause

3 years ago

NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust

https://about.xethub.com/blog/nfs-fuse-why-we-built-nfs-server-rust

3 years ago

Getting into Pinball

https://tynan.com/pinball/

3 years ago

MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/analyst-mgm-losing-4-2m-8-4m-a-day-because-of-cyberattack-2906379/

3 years ago

Graph Neural Networks use graphs when they shouldn't

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04332

3 years ago

Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880275/google-search-ads-competition-auction-prices-doj-trial-antitrust

3 years ago

Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres

https://www.hydra.so/blog-posts/hydra-1-generally-available

3 years ago

A closer look at BookCorpus, a key dataset in machine learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/dirty-secrets-of-bookcorpus-a-key-dataset-in-machine-learning-6ee2927e8650

3 years ago

Programming is hard

https://myme.no/posts/2023-09-19-programming-is-hard.html

3 years ago

Seeking help to preserve WWII database on Windows 98

https://twitter.com/mtruslowstorey/status/1703781076689121556?s=46&t=E3U2EI7EXIhlBQmxg6oZ2g

3 years ago

The Maintainer of the Nvidia Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns

3 years ago

Intel Xeon Max 9480 Deep-Dive 64GB HBM2e Onboard Like a GPU or AI Accelerator

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-max-9480-deep-dive-intel-has-64gb-hbm2e-onboard-like-a-gpu-or-ai-accelerator/

3 years ago

Web apps are better than no apps

https://molodtsov.me/2023/08/web-apps-are-better-than-no-apps/

3 years ago

Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions

https://portswigger.net/research/smashing-the-state-machine

3 years ago

Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C

https://github.com/phillbush/jvm

3 years ago

GCC Preparing to Introduce “-Fhardened” Security Hardening Option

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-fhardened-Hardening-Option

3 years ago

Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products

https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10009444

3 years ago

The physical process that powers a new type of generative AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-physics-inspired-generative-ai-exceeds-expectations-20230919/

3 years ago

Lies my calculator and computer told me (1987) [pdf]

https://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/default/upfiles/LiesCalcAndCompTold.pdf

3 years ago

Apache Pinot 1.0

https://pinot.apache.org/blog/2023/09/19/Annoucing-Apache-Pinot-1-0/

3 years ago

The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08732

3 years ago

Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

3 years ago

One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-18/one-in-10-japanese-aged-over-80-population-report-shows-on-respect-for-aged-day

3 years ago

Always Bump Downwards (2019)

https://fitzgeraldnick.com/2019/11/01/always-bump-downwards.html

3 years ago

Georgism

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

3 years ago

Evidence mounts on toxic pollution from tires

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemicals

3 years ago

Gitlab Critical Security Release: 16.3.4 and 16.2.7

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2023/09/18/security-release-gitlab-16-3-4-released/

3 years ago

Show HN: Whiz – A copilot for your terminal

https://github.com/searchableguy/whiz

3 years ago

Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence

https://www.symphony.run/

3 years ago

Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics

https://pcmaffey.com/counting-ghosts

3 years ago

Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567298

3 years ago

Agentscript: Agent Based Modeling in the Browser

https://agentscript.org/

3 years ago

Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page”

https://twitter.com/BigTechOnTrial/status/1704149922554016116

3 years ago

Official guide for organizing Go projects and modules

https://go.dev/doc/modules/layout

3 years ago

Is the end of AIDS in sight?

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/09/17/is-the-end-of-aids-in-sight

3 years ago

Announcement regarding possible offer

https://investors.mariadb.com/news/news-details/2023/Announcement-Regarding-Possible-Offer/default.aspx

3 years ago

A Line at a Time: The Atari 2600, Now with S-Video

https://nicole.express/2023/have-you-read-atari-today.html

3 years ago

Tackling the curse of dimensionality with physics-informed neural networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12306

3 years ago

Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66847139

3 years ago

Webring Technology

https://brisray.com/web/webring-tech.htm

3 years ago

X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions in unprecedented detail

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02874-1

3 years ago

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/2.0.0

3 years ago

Pink diamonds erupted to Earth’s surface after early supercontinent’s breakup

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pink-diamonds-erupted-to-earths-surface-after-early-supercontinents-breakup/

3 years ago

iOS 17

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-17/

3 years ago

We Can't Compete with AI Girlfriends

https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/we-cant-compete-with-ai-girlfriends

3 years ago

Plug and socket types around the world

https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/

3 years ago