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/

a year ago

1076 upvotes – 460 comments

Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders

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

a year ago

588 upvotes – 411 comments

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

https://youglish.com/

a year ago

548 upvotes – 331 comments

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

https://grugbrain.dev/

a year ago

490 upvotes – 192 comments

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

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

a year ago

455 upvotes – 496 comments

The costs of microservices (2020)

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

a year ago

426 upvotes – 396 comments

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

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

a year ago

424 upvotes – 209 comments

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

a year ago

417 upvotes – 426 comments

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

a year ago

400 upvotes – 443 comments

AI.gov

https://ai.gov/

a year ago

339 upvotes – 250 comments

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

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

a year ago

325 upvotes – 261 comments

Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs

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

a year ago

301 upvotes – 77 comments

Global CO2 Levels

https://www.co2levels.org/

a year ago

286 upvotes – 304 comments

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

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

a year ago

263 upvotes – 374 comments

Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5

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

a year ago

260 upvotes – 48 comments

SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures

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

a year ago

248 upvotes – 98 comments

Razor 1911

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

a year ago

242 upvotes – 118 comments

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/

a year ago

241 upvotes – 334 comments

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

a year ago

237 upvotes – 218 comments

RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs

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

a year ago

236 upvotes – 60 comments

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

a year ago

235 upvotes – 207 comments

Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)

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

a year ago

227 upvotes – 377 comments

eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation

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

a year ago

202 upvotes – 59 comments

How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis

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

a year ago

202 upvotes – 178 comments

Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages

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

a year ago

194 upvotes – 125 comments

Nvidia Trains LLM on Chip Design

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

a year ago

191 upvotes – 148 comments

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/

a year ago

190 upvotes – 417 comments

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

a year ago

174 upvotes – 200 comments

Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers are down?

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

a year ago

157 upvotes – 79 comments

My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py

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

a year ago

150 upvotes – 89 comments

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)

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

a year ago

146 upvotes – 35 comments

The History of Microsoft Encarta

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

a year ago

145 upvotes – 55 comments

The death of a public intellectual

https://thmsmlr.com/public-intellectuals

a year ago

140 upvotes – 351 comments

How to Move Your Google Photos

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

a year ago

136 upvotes – 94 comments

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

https://kartproject.org/

a year ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

Autism and responding to authority (2019)

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

a year ago

130 upvotes – 291 comments

Spy satellites reveal undiscovered Roman forts

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

a year ago

129 upvotes – 9 comments

Finding services companies via their TXT records

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

a year ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

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

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

a year ago

125 upvotes – 63 comments

Biden to issue first regulations on artificial intelligence systems

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

a year ago

125 upvotes – 3 comments

Recursive Drawing

http://recursivedrawing.com/

a year ago

124 upvotes – 12 comments

Why can't you multiply vectors? [video]

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

a year ago

115 upvotes – 87 comments

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

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

a year ago

113 upvotes – 52 comments

Patterns for personal web sites (2003)

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

a year ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

Automating Dead Code Cleanup

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

a year ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

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

a year ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

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

a year ago

103 upvotes – 117 comments

Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted for Linux 6.7

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

a year ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

A new view of the Manchester Computer

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

a year ago

96 upvotes – 13 comments

Bakhshali manuscript

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

a year ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

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/

a year ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

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

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

a year ago

90 upvotes – 11 comments

Western Digital to spin off flash business

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

a year ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore

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

a year ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Web Scraping: Data for Everyone

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

a year ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

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

a year ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments

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

a year ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

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

a year ago

81 upvotes – 120 comments
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