top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-24

California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/california-suspends-gm-cruises-driverless-autonomous-vehicle-permits-2023-10-24/

2 years ago

Animated AI

https://animatedai.github.io/

2 years ago

SumatraPDF Reader

https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf

2 years ago

NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away

https://bgr.com/science/nasa-just-sent-a-software-update-to-a-spacecraft-12-billion-miles-away/

2 years ago

Halfsies

https://brilliant.org/challenges/halfsies/

2 years ago

I face investigation for terrorism

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/10/incredibly-i-face-investigation-for-terrorism-defence-funds-appeal/

2 years ago

The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/the-risk-of-risc-v-whats-going-on

2 years ago

Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-24/meta-sued-by-california-states-over-harmful-youth-marketing

2 years ago

1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/1password-detects-suspicious-activity-in-its-internal-okta-account/

2 years ago

The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)

https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html

2 years ago

Europe's CSAM-scanning plan is tipping point for democratic rights, experts warn

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/eu-csam-scanning-edps-seminar/

2 years ago

Unified versus Split Diff

https://matklad.github.io/2023/10/23/unified-vs-split-diff.html

2 years ago

EU plan to scan private messages for child abuse meets fresh scandal

https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/

2 years ago

Why we don’t generate elliptic curves every day

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/parameters/

2 years ago

Covid's damage lingers in the heart

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/covids-damage-lingers-heart

2 years ago

Sharp Color E-Paper Display EPoster 25.3in

https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001008041534/

2 years ago

Writerside – a new technical writing environment from JetBrains

https://www.jetbrains.com/writerside/

2 years ago

Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us/oregon-psychedelic-mushrooms.html

2 years ago

System Design 101

https://github.com/ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101

2 years ago

Tell HN: Twillio immediately closes accounts with the word Palestine in them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003544

2 years ago

BioNTech presents positive phase 1/2 data for CAR-T cell therapy candidate

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-presents-positive-phase-12-data-update-car-t-cell/

2 years ago

Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp

https://www.figma.com/blog/server-side-sandboxing-containers-and-seccomp/#j1WRe

2 years ago

Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-mysteries-bill-watterson-book-review

2 years ago

Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/googles-waymo-safety-study-on-driverless-cars/3311188/

2 years ago

Goodbye, Node.js Buffer

https://sindresorhus.com/blog/goodbye-nodejs-buffer

2 years ago

Scammers posing as customer service agents on X as companies leave platform

https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/24/scammers-posing-customer-service-agents-x-companies-leave-platform

2 years ago

The Ideation Flywheel: A mental model for deciding which startup ideas to pursue

https://www.stackfix.com/blog/the-ideation-flywheel

2 years ago

Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

https://restaurants.rip/

2 years ago

Thunderbird 115.4.0

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.4.0/releasenotes/

2 years ago

Elephants are scared around bees

https://nautil.us/elephants-are-total-scaredy-cats-around-bees-423763/

2 years ago

Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

https://github.com/revertinc/revert

2 years ago

Show HN: Fediverser Portal – Bring your subreddits to Lemmy

https://portal.alien.top

2 years ago

California DMV suspends Cruise's driverless testing permit effective immediately

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-statement-on-cruise-llc-suspension/

2 years ago

CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/cvs-ditches-useless-cold-meds-but-not-bogus-homeopathic-products/

2 years ago

Reconciliation is a knapsack problem

https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/reconciliation-is-a-knapsack-problem

2 years ago

A similarity between the CAP theorem and our heart

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1716585205400756514

2 years ago

Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook/mail-amp-calendar-apps-will-be-replaced-with-new-outlook-for/td-p/3850309

2 years ago

Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-mobile-windows-phone

2 years ago

We Just Gave $500k to Open Source Maintainers

https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-500-000-dollars-to-open-source-maintainers/

2 years ago

Good times create weak men (2019)

https://tonsky.me/blog/good-times-weak-men/

2 years ago

The killer features of the Steam Deck

https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2023/10/24/the_killer_features_of_the_steam_deck/

2 years ago

LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20231023

2 years ago

OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-receives-full-access-to-internet-1850936811

2 years ago

Retro Arcade Game Ads

https://buzzbloq.com/retro-arcade-game-ads-a-nostalgic-look-at-marketing-of-the-past/

2 years ago

Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-drought-brazil-amazon-reveals-ancient.html

2 years ago

No federal privacy law? After the 23andMe hack, it's time to take action

https://technical.ly/civic-news/federal-privacy-laws-23andme-hack-cybersecurity/

2 years ago

Gittuf – a security layer for Git

https://gittuf.github.io/

2 years ago

Writing games: A blog dedicated to text-based gaming

https://writing-games.com/

2 years ago

Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-24/germany-to-pass-japan-as-3rd-largest-economy-helped-by-weak-yen

2 years ago

Show HN: Dlt – Python library to automate the creation of datasets

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1DhaKW0tiSTHDCVmPjM-eoyL47BJ30xmP

2 years ago

Show HN: Paclear – A Fun Twist on the 'Clear' Command with Pac-Man Animation

https://github.com/orangekame3/paclear

2 years ago

When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/google_privacy_button/

2 years ago

41 states sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/24/meta-lawsuit-facebook-instagram-children-mental-health/

2 years ago

Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation in O(nlog(n)) (2020)

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/85638

2 years ago

Apple to make tools and parts to fix phones, computers available nationwide

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-make-tools-parts-fix-phones-computers-available-nationwide-white-house-2023-10-24/

2 years ago

I Hate NestJS

https://ethang.dev/blog/i-hate-nest-js/

2 years ago

There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/there-should-be-more-cash-prizes

2 years ago

NASA wants the Voyagers to age gracefully, so it's time for a software patch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/nasa-wants-the-voyagers-to-age-gracefully-so-its-time-for-a-software-patch/

2 years ago

Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New Dedicated Police Unit

https://torrentfreak.com/sky-asked-govt-to-target-pirate-iptv-resellers-via-new-dedicated-police-unit-231023/

2 years ago

The OSI Deprogrammer

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iL0fYmMmariFoSvLd9U5nPVH1uFKC7bvVasUcYq78So/edit

2 years ago

Nokia to cut up to 14,000 jobs as US demand shrinks, growth uncertain

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nokia-sales-drop-slowing-5g-gear-demand-2023-10-19/

2 years ago

Making TV Useful For My 94-yr-old Aunt

https://www.techenhancedlife.com/articles/making-tv-useful-my-94-yr-old-aunt

2 years ago

The HP Printer USB Sticker Trick Also Works for Thermaltake PSUs

https://full.pr0gramm.com/2023/10/24/fa4df047de2f8c6f.jpg

2 years ago

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity

https://leaddev.com/process/what-mckinsey-got-wrong-about-developer-productivity

2 years ago

Why 10B snow crabs starved to death in the Bering Sea

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-billion-crabs-starved-death-bering.html

2 years ago

Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23928685/automattic-texts-acquisition-universal-messaging

2 years ago

My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't Dead Yet

https://cult.honeypot.io/reads/why-ruby-on-rails-is-not-dead/

2 years ago

'When I tried to play, my hand spasmed and shook': why musicians get the yips

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/17/focal-dystonia-my-hand-spasmed-and-shook-why-musicians-get-the-yips

2 years ago

Amazon's Fallout TV series gets a 2024 release date

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/amazons-fallout-tv-series-gets-a-2024-release-date/

2 years ago

Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-americans-confidence-in-technology-firms-has-dropped-evidence-from-the-second-wave-of-the-american-institutional-confidence-poll/

2 years ago

Matryoshka Diffusion Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15111

2 years ago

What being rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, and 2000 AD

https://bigthink.com/the-past/china-wealth/

2 years ago

Samsung announces 'Shinebolt' HBM3E memory

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21104/samsung-announces-shinebolt-hbm3e-memory-hbm-hits-36gb-stacks-at-98-gbps

2 years ago

Snapdragon Oryon, faster than Apple's M2 chip at 30% less power

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1716902706621866487

2 years ago

They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235M in Bitcoin

https://www.wired.com/story/unciphered-ironkey-password-cracking-bitcoin/

2 years ago

Deconstructing the Mastodon Client

http://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2023/10/09/deconstructing-the-mastodon-client/

2 years ago