top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-30

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/

2 years ago

Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders

https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/

2 years ago

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

https://youglish.com/

2 years ago

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

https://grugbrain.dev/

2 years ago

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/private-equity-publicly-traded-companies/675788/

2 years ago

The costs of microservices (2020)

https://robertovitillo.com/costs-of-microservices/

2 years ago

World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-rodriguez-parasocial-aesthetics-2380960

2 years ago

Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger

https://www.afr.com/technology/google-brain-founder-says-big-tech-is-lying-about-ai-human-extinction-danger-20231027-p5efnz

2 years ago

Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data

2 years ago

AI.gov

https://ai.gov/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/#comment-1594055

2 years ago

Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs

https://quic.video/blog/replacing-webrtc/

2 years ago

Global CO2 Levels

https://www.co2levels.org/

2 years ago

People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231026131628.htm

2 years ago

Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5

https://www.taktech.org/takm/WebFMSynth/

2 years ago

SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-227

2 years ago

Razor 1911

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_1911

2 years ago

Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

2 years ago

New York Times tech workers to strike this afternoon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/new-york-times-tech-union-to-strike-over-office-return-contract-delays

2 years ago

RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs

https://together.ai/blog/redpajama-data-v2

2 years ago

Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231030082004/en/Threads-Software-Limited-Gives-Meta%E2%80%99s-Instagram-30-Days-to-Desist-from-Using-the-Service-Name-Threads

2 years ago

Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for

2 years ago

How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-023-00756-z

2 years ago

eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation

https://odigos.io/blog/ebpf-instrumentation-faster-than-manual

2 years ago

Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/through-the-ages-apple-cpu-architecture

2 years ago

Nvidia Trains LLM on Chip Design

https://www.eetimes.com/nvidia-trains-llm-on-chip-design/

2 years ago

Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-pares-down-artists-ai-copyright-lawsuit-against-midjourney-stability-ai-2023-10-30/

2 years ago

Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/technology/facebook-meta-subscription-europe.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers are down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38074906

2 years ago

My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2023/10/30/my-user-experience-porting-off-setup.py/

2 years ago

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)

https://zilliz.com/learn/approximate-nearest-neighbor-oh-yeah-ANNOY

2 years ago

The History of Microsoft Encarta

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-microsoft-encarta

2 years ago

The death of a public intellectual

https://thmsmlr.com/public-intellectuals

2 years ago

How to Move Your Google Photos

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/my-tools/googlechanges/Move-your-google-photos.html

2 years ago

Kart: DVC for geospatial and tabular data. Git for GIS

https://kartproject.org/

2 years ago

Autism and responding to authority (2019)

https://neuroclastic.com/autism-and-responding-to-authority/

2 years ago

Spy satellites reveal undiscovered Roman forts

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-spy-satellites-reveal-hundreds-undiscovered.html

2 years ago

Finding services companies via their TXT records

https://www.abenezerbelachew.com/blog/services-companies-use-txt-records

2 years ago

Biden to issue first regulations on artificial intelligence systems

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/biden-artificial-intelligence.html

2 years ago

Internal slides on the work of the Google "Ads Quality" team

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1718830641016414657

2 years ago

Recursive Drawing

http://recursivedrawing.com/

2 years ago

Why can't you multiply vectors? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI

2 years ago

Ask HN: Do you know what is going on at Wise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38069117

2 years ago

Automating Dead Code Cleanup

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/10/24/data-infrastructure/automating-dead-code-cleanup/

2 years ago

Patterns for personal web sites (2003)

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html

2 years ago

Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks: Impressive gains over M2 and desktop CPUs

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-Snapdragon-X-Elite-benchmarks-Impressive-gains-over-M2-Max-Ryzen-9-7940HS-Intel-13th-gen-H-and-14th-gen-desktop-CPUs.763149.0.html

2 years ago

Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted for Linux 6.7

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Tries-For-Linux-6.7

2 years ago

Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?

https://knowingmachines.org/knowing-legal-machines/legal-explainer/questions/can-i-remove-my-personal-data-from-genai-training-datasets

2 years ago

A new view of the Manchester Computer

https://rylandscollections.com/2023/06/21/a-new-view-of-the-manchester-computer/

2 years ago

Bakhshali manuscript

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

2 years ago

A tiny supercritical carbon dioxide turbine can power 10k homes

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/30/a-tiny-supercritical-carbon-dioxide-turbine-can-power-10000-homes/

2 years ago

Show HN: Unlogged – open-source record and replay for Java

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38071552

2 years ago

Western Digital to spin off flash business

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938334/western-digital-separating-hard-drive-flash-business

2 years ago

DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01527-8

2 years ago

Web Scraping: Data for Everyone

https://omarkama.li/blog/web-scraping-data-for-everyone

2 years ago

Child labor in chocolate industry: 'It is worse than you may realize'

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/oct/30/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-chocolate-industry-child-labor

2 years ago

Xbox's new policy – say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-new-policy-say-goodbye-to-unofficial-accessories-after-november

2 years ago

SCOTUS to decide if public officials can block critics online

https://www.thefire.org/news/does-first-amendment-allow-public-officials-block-their-critics-online-supreme-court-will-soon

2 years ago

SiFive: The road ahead (post layoffs)

https://www.sifive.com/blog/the-road-ahead--

2 years ago

The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank

https://www.politico.eu/article/future-warfare-400-army-strike-drone-unit-2m-tank/

2 years ago

8BitDo Micro

https://www.8bitdo.com/micro/

2 years ago

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What's to Come

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21112/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-performance-preview-a-first-look-at-whats-to-come

2 years ago

Speeding up Cython with SIMD

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-cython-simd/

2 years ago

Apple's Safari browser is still vulnerable to Spectre attacks

https://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2023-10-26-security-gap-apples-safari-browser-still-vulnerable-spectre-attacks

2 years ago

Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/

2 years ago

New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

https://www.greyb.com/blog/new-steve-jobs-patents/

2 years ago

What's missing with American CEOs?

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/whats-missing-with-american-ceos

2 years ago

Ask HN: What companies have blown you away with their customer support?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38073881

2 years ago