top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-26

FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power

3 years ago

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/26/hue/

3 years ago

Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

https://raverie-us.github.io/raverie-engine/

3 years ago

EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/26/eu-tells-apple-to-open-everything-up-to-its-rivals

3 years ago

macOS Containers v0.0.1

https://macoscontainers.org/

3 years ago

Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies

https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/who-lusts-for-certainty-lusts-for-lies

3 years ago

macOS Sonoma is available today

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/

3 years ago

Firefox 118

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

3 years ago

Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer

https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780

3 years ago

FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality after us Democrats gain control of panel

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/fcc-aims-to-reinstate-net-neutrality-rules-as-us-democrats-gain-control-of-panel

3 years ago

Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/spain-closes-pegasus-investigation-over-lack-of-cooperation-from-israel

3 years ago

Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

https://www.power-technology.com/news/report-majority-carbon-offsets-junk-or-useless/

3 years ago

Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure

https://github.com/facebook/prophet

3 years ago

ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says

https://www.eetimes.com/rocm-is-amds-no-1-priority-exec-says/

3 years ago

Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyond

https://pytorch.org/blog/inside-the-matrix/

3 years ago

Show HN: Magentic – Use LLMs as simple Python functions

https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic

3 years ago

Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose

https://major.io/p/quadlets-replace-docker-compose/

3 years ago

Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens

https://github.com/datalens-tech

3 years ago

Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/google-podcasts-to-shut-down-in-2024-with-listeners-migrated-to-youtube-music/

3 years ago

Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score

https://stackdiary.com/heap-buffer-overflow-in-libwebp-cve-2023-5129/

3 years ago

Exploring Linux command-line space time

https://fabiensanglard.net/st/index.html

3 years ago

9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who rape traveler

https://papersplease.org/wp/2023/06/26/9th-circuit-rejects-tsa-claim-of-impunity-for-checkpoint-staff-who-rape-travelers/

3 years ago

Rethinking the Luddites

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai

3 years ago

Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/digging-in-mutton/

3 years ago

AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology/

3 years ago

Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/09/20/how-common-infections-can-spark-psychiatric-illnesses-in-children

3 years ago

Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37662937

3 years ago

Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load

https://twitter.com/praeclarum/status/1706356007348343064

3 years ago

Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-virtual-medical-checkups-for-29/

3 years ago

GPU.zip: side channel attack that exposes visual data processed on the GPU

https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/

3 years ago

Sidechannel pixel-stealing attack works in Chromium on all modern GPUs

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/gpus-from-all-major-suppliers-are-vulnerable-to-new-pixel-stealing-attack/

3 years ago

Yet another E-Ink weather display – but with Rust

https://harrystern.net/halldisplay.html

3 years ago

Newly discovered deep-sea enzyme breaks down PET plastic

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-newly-deep-sea-enzyme-pet-plastic.html

3 years ago

DuckDB 0.9

https://duckdb.org/2023/09/26/announcing-duckdb-090.html

3 years ago

Ollama for Linux – Run LLMs on Linux with GPU Acceleration

https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.0

3 years ago

Warren Spector – 40 years and I'm still here

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/my-40-years-in-the-game-industry

3 years ago

NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats

3 years ago

Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules

https://www.airgradient.com/blog/most-aq-monitors-use-same-pm-modules/

3 years ago

Radar Maps Platform

https://radar.com/blog/introducing-radar-maps-platform

3 years ago

Freelancers aren’t happy with Japan’s new invoice system

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2023/09/25/how-tos/freelancer-tax-system/

3 years ago

Nickel Hydrogen Batteries by NASA

https://spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-battery-storage-nickel-hydrogen

3 years ago

Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/22/unity-u-turns-on-controversial-runtime-fee-and-begs-forgiveness/

3 years ago

The X220 ThinkPad

https://bt.ht/x220/

3 years ago

Causality for Machine Learning (2020)

https://ff13.fastforwardlabs.com/

3 years ago

Vizro – toolkit for creating modular data visualization applications

https://github.com/mckinsey/vizro

3 years ago

Apple exec Eddy Cue set to testify in Google trial about $19B search deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/apple-exec-eddy-cue-testify-google-trial-about-19-billion-search-deal.html

3 years ago

It's Stanislav Petrov day —40yrs ago he saved world by suppressing a tech glitch

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

3 years ago

iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/82867/iphone-15-teardown-reveals-software-lockdown

3 years ago

Why we bootstrap

https://www.flagsmith.com/blog/why-we-bootstrap

3 years ago

Show HN: The Tomb of Ramesses I in the Valley of the Kings

https://mused.org/en/tours/730/the-tomb-of-ramesses-i

3 years ago

Harvard: Student Use Cases for AI

https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/student-use-cases-for-ai

3 years ago

macOS 14 Sonoma firewall bug fixed

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/9/22/macos-14-sonoma-firewall-bug-fixed/

3 years ago

Merlin's Wisdom Project

https://github.com/merlinmann/wisdom/blob/master/wisdom.md

3 years ago

Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator

https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret

3 years ago

My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards

https://jackevansevo.github.io/my-unhealthy-relationship-with-keyboards.html

3 years ago

How (not) to apply for a software job

https://benhoyt.com/writings/how-to-apply/

3 years ago

Batch size one billion: SQLite insert speedups, from the useful to the absurd

https://voidstar.tech/sqlite_insert_speed/

3 years ago

Introduction to sysclean(8)

https://kapouay.eu.org/notes/sysclean-intro/

3 years ago

JEP 457: Class-File API for Parsing, generating, transforming Java classfiles

https://openjdk.org/jeps/457

3 years ago

Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37658410

3 years ago

Amazon PillPack – Your medication, sorted and delivered

https://www.pillpack.com

3 years ago

Forrest Mims and RadioShack (2017)

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and-the-notebooks-that-launched-a-thousand-careers/

3 years ago

Google Podcasts is going away

https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/236590252/today%E2%80%99s-news-about-google-podcasts?hl=en

3 years ago

Target to close 9 stores across four states because of theft and organized crime

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-store-closures/index.html

3 years ago

Mozilla.ai

https://mozilla.ai/about/

3 years ago

How to make history with LLMs and other generative models

https://leighmariebraswell.substack.com/p/how-to-make-history-with-llms-and

3 years ago

Incorrect casual assumptions

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/21/incorrect-casual-assumptions/

3 years ago