top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-02

Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/02/business/sam-bankman-fried-trial

2 years ago

Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-and-demis-hassabis-just-want-to-control-ai-2023-10

2 years ago

EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-owner-faces-eu-ban-targeted-advertising-norway-says-2023-11-01/

2 years ago

In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)

https://www.openculture.com/2019/06/the-us-government-commissioned-7500-watercolor-paintings.html

2 years ago

Confusing Git Terminology

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/01/confusing-git-terminology/

2 years ago

Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

2 years ago

Talk-Llama

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/examples/talk-llama

2 years ago

Light can make water evaporate without heat

https://news.mit.edu/2023/surprising-finding-light-makes-water-evaporate-without-heat-1031

2 years ago

Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388

2 years ago

Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/14-big-landlords-used-software-to-collude-on-rent-prices-dc-lawsuit-says/

2 years ago

An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/increasing-trust-for-embedded-media.html

2 years ago

One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/11/one-sleepless-night-can-rapidly-reverse-depression-for-several-days/

2 years ago

Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm

https://newsroom.arm.com/news/raspberry-pi-investment

2 years ago

Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-11-01-tracking-sqlite-database-changes-in-git

2 years ago

4th edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available online

https://pbr-book.org/4ed/contents

2 years ago

Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun

https://www.fastcompany.com/90965361/why-did-the-metaverse-die-silicon-valley-doesnt-understand-fun

2 years ago

Home Assistant 2023.11

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/01/release-202311/

2 years ago

Cloudflare API Down

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hm7491k53ppg

2 years ago

How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video]

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/KF-how-to-not-get-screwed-over-as-a-software-engineer

2 years ago

From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

https://dansdatathoughts.substack.com/p/from-s3-to-r2-an-economic-opportunity

2 years ago

Window-swap – open a new window somewhere in the world

https://www.window-swap.com/

2 years ago

Who invented file extensions in file names?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27926/who-invented-file-extensions-in-file-names

2 years ago

Immanuel Kant – What can we know?

https://ralphammer.com/immanuel-kant-what-can-we-know/

2 years ago

Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness

https://open.mozilla.org/letter/

2 years ago

Sally Ignore Previous Instructions

https://www.haihai.ai/pen15/

2 years ago

Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IA-64-Removed-Linux-6.7

2 years ago

Course using F#: Write your own tiny programming system(s)

https://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/nprg077/

2 years ago

As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit the workforce

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/child-care-costs-us-families-exit-workforce/

2 years ago

Uber, Lyft pay $328M for "cheating drivers" out of earnings, NY says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/uber-lyft-pay-328-million-for-cheating-drivers-out-of-earnings-ny-says/

2 years ago

Biohacking Lite (2020)

http://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/

2 years ago

Amazon execs intentionally made site shittier to rake in more profit – Lawsuit

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zxja/amazon-execs-intentionally-made-site-shittier-to-rake-in-more-profit-new-quotes-from-ftc-lawsuit-show

2 years ago

Current thoughts on social media

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-social-media.html

2 years ago

Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby

https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql

2 years ago

RegEx Crossword (2013)

https://jimbly.github.io/regex-crossword/

2 years ago

How big data carried graph theory into new dimensions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-big-data-carried-graph-theory-into-new-dimensions-20210819/

2 years ago

Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages

https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/

2 years ago

Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23943254/mint-intuit-shutting-down-credit-karma

2 years ago

WasmGC – Run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/wasmgc/

2 years ago

Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers

https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/

2 years ago

Louis Armstrong's Last Word

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/louis-armstrong-archive/

2 years ago

High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE

2 years ago

Show HN: Tailspin – A Log File Highlighter

https://github.com/bensadeh/tailspin

2 years ago

Lahaina Noon

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

2 years ago

Free Speech Is in Trouble

https://www.natesilver.net/p/free-speech-is-in-trouble

2 years ago

Morris worm

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

2 years ago

Bibi-binary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary

2 years ago

Apple Patent Shows GPU Dynamic Caching Has Been in Development for Years

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/macos/apple-patent-shows-gpu-dynamic-caching-has-been-in-development-for-years

2 years ago

Styling with Classy CSS (2006)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Styling_With_Classy_CSS

2 years ago

Where do our atoms come from?

https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/future-people/

2 years ago

NASA+: Our New Streaming Service

https://www.nasa.gov/plus/

2 years ago

Subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231025-the-surprisingly-subtle-ways-microsoft-word-has-changed-the-way-we-use-language

2 years ago

Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy

https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-executives-coming-clean-evs-arent-working-2023-10

2 years ago

The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2725

2 years ago

ML Experiments Management with Git

https://github.com/iterative/dvc

2 years ago

Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components

https://github.com/bufferhead-code/nextjs-use-php

2 years ago

Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1720098480037773658

2 years ago

Earth's blobs are remnants of an ancient planetary collision

https://news.asu.edu/20231101-asu-researchers-discover-earths-blobs-are-remnants-ancient-planetary-collision

2 years ago

EU Digital Identity framework (eIDAS) another kind of chat control?

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/11/2/eu-digital-identity-framework-eidas-another-kind-of-chat-control/

2 years ago

Russian Reshipping Service 'Swat USA Drop' Exposed

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/russian-reshipping-service-swat-usa-drop-exposed/

2 years ago

App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids

https://github.com/lizmat/App-Rak

2 years ago

I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?

https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2023/11/02/i_designed_my_own_keyboard_layout_was_it_worth_it/

2 years ago

Fdupes: Identify or delete duplicate files

https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes

2 years ago

U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-votes-end-us-embargo-cuba-us-israel-oppose-2023-11-02/

2 years ago

Electric mountain: Power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/02/beauty-of-infrastructure-electric-mountain-dinorwig-power-station-north-wales

2 years ago

Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/toyota-recalls-nearly-1point9-million-rav4s-to-fix-batteries-that-can-move-during-hard-turns-and-cause-a-fire.html

2 years ago

Kotlin multiplatform is stable and production-ready

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2023/11/kotlin-multiplatform-stable/

2 years ago

Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology

https://www.streamtvinsider.com/video/nokia-sues-amazon-hp-over-video-compression-technology

2 years ago

Everything We Know About 1970s Mainframe RPGs We Can No Longer Play

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2021/06/brief-everything-we-know-about-1970s.html

2 years ago

M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark Results

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/01/m3-max-chip-benchmark-results/

2 years ago

Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-lay-offs-voice-assistant-bard-roles-contractors-2023-11

2 years ago

Starlink plans to launch texting service in 2024, voice/data in 2025

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914081/spacex-starlink-direct-to-cell-satellite-internet-lte-connectivity

2 years ago