top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-13

Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

https://apnews.com/article/nepal-tiktok-ban-social-media-854846a42ef566fa296ddaacd0099447

2 years ago

Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB

https://matthew.science/posts/occupancy/

2 years ago

Placemark is going open source and shutting down

https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark

2 years ago

Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

2 years ago

HTML Web Components

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/html-web-components/

2 years ago

Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/google-bard-data-exfiltration/

2 years ago

Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf

2 years ago

Ship Shape

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/ship-shape/

2 years ago

Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge

https://www.secondstate.io/articles/fast-llm-inference/

2 years ago

Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths

https://cdm.link/2023/11/black-goo-ferrofluid-synths/

2 years ago

Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/12/dont-waste-money-on-a-math-coprocessor-they-said/

2 years ago

Beg Bounties (2021)

https://www.troyhunt.com/beg-bounties/

2 years ago

Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner paid $4M to skip the line

https://fortune.com/2023/11/08/panama-canal-congestion-record-4-million-skip-line/

2 years ago

Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/reauthorizing-mass-surveillance-shouldnt-be-tied-funding-government

2 years ago

Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-13/apple-gets-36-of-google-revenue-from-search-deal-witness-says

2 years ago

Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs

https://www.loro.dev/blog/loro-now-open-source

2 years ago

Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code

https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith

2 years ago

Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256

https://peergos.org/posts/blake3

2 years ago

The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)

https://greekreporter.com/2023/11/09/best-timed-shot-tv-history/

2 years ago

Smarter summaries with finetuning GPT-3.5 and chain of density

https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/blog/2023/11/05/chain-of-density/

2 years ago

Diamonds Suck

https://diamondssuck.com/

2 years ago

Discouraging the use of web application firewalls

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/wafs/

2 years ago

Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal

https://github.com/DeadlyRedCube/Cathode-Retro

2 years ago

Low current around roots boosts plant growth

https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-023-00162-5

2 years ago

The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-11/diamond-prices-miners-take-radical-steps-to-support-the-market

2 years ago

Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD

https://www.nexttv.com/news/achtung-baby-netflix-loses-patent-dispute-to-broadcom-in-germany-told-to-stop-using-hevc-to-stream-4k

2 years ago

To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again

https://spectrum.ieee.org/baltic-power-grid

2 years ago

Maxar's Open Satellite Feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/maxar-open-data-free-satellite-imagery.html

2 years ago

Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/researchers-identify-switch-to-activate-cancer-cell-death/2023/10

2 years ago

Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/zelle-finally-caves-after-years-of-refusing-to-refund-scam-victims/

2 years ago

Tragedy of return to hostile offices

https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2023/11/12/tragedy-of-return-to-hostile-offices/

2 years ago

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-accidentally-blurts-out-that-apple-gets-36-cut-of-safari-deal/

2 years ago

Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds

https://blog.normalcomputing.ai/posts/2023-09-12-supersizing-transformers/supersizing-transformers.html

2 years ago

We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/solarwinds-hack-lessons-learned/

2 years ago

The NYPD is using drones 3 times more than it did last year

https://gothamist.com/news/the-nypd-is-using-drones-3-times-more-than-it-did-last-year

2 years ago

Algorithms (2019)

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

2 years ago

My favorite coding question to give candidates

https://carloarg02.medium.com/my-favorite-coding-question-to-give-candidates-17ea4758880c

2 years ago

Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)

https://www.techemails.com/p/barry-diller-emails-google-exec

2 years ago

Bangladesh saved lives by getting lead out of turmeric spice

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/20/23881981/bangladesh-tumeric-lead-poisoning-contamination-public-health

2 years ago

Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/h200/

2 years ago

Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-announces-layoffs-despite-increased-revenue-and-reduced-losses

2 years ago

Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forests-multiple-tree-species-effective.html

2 years ago

Firmware Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) Proposal

https://uefi.org/blog/firmware-sbom-proposal

2 years ago

$1 Unistroke Recognizer

https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/index.html

2 years ago

Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans

https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2023/11/12/ubuntu-pro-shenanigans/

2 years ago

Slow-Scan Television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television

2 years ago

It's true. Your devices are listening to you

https://www.cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg-active-listening

2 years ago

Show HN: SirixDB – Bitemporal binary JSON database system and event store

https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix

2 years ago

MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind

https://spectrum.ieee.org/generative-ai-training

2 years ago

Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-news-crew-czech-robbery-city-lights-18488613.php

2 years ago

Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 GB Die

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21129/micron-introduces-128-gb-ddr58000-rdimms-with-monolithic-32-gb-dice

2 years ago

NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

https://nanowrimo.org/

2 years ago

10k Bounty for Rewriting Prettier in Rust

https://twitter.com/Vjeux/status/1722733472522142022

2 years ago

Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462

2 years ago

Vela incident (1979)

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

2 years ago

YouTube may face criminal complaints in EU for using ad-block detection scripts

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-may-face-criminal-complaint-for-adblock-detecting

2 years ago

Technofeudalism

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/technofeudalism-9781847927286

2 years ago

Show HN: Easily Visualize Your SQLAlchemy Data Models in a Nice SVG Diagram

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/sqlalchemy_data_model_visualizer

2 years ago

Principles are products of practice, not the reverse

https://alsado.ca/posts/principles-are-products-of-practice/

2 years ago

Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Pulse-14-Gen3.tuxedo

2 years ago

PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3

https://stablediffusionweb.com/PixArt-alpha#ai-art-generator

2 years ago

Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it

https://theconversation.com/is-capitalism-dead-yanis-varoufakis-thinks-it-is-and-he-knows-who-killed-it-213992

2 years ago

URL Explained – The Fundamentals

https://ittavern.com/url-explained-the-fundamentals/

2 years ago

String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

2 years ago

Google pulls Fitbit from almost 30 markets

https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/11/10/google-pulls-fitbit-29-markets-canada-safe/

2 years ago

Learn PostScript by Doing (2005) [pdf]

https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse2005/tutorial.pdf

2 years ago

From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122420912941

2 years ago

Calif. tech investor's wedding trashed base of world-renowned landmark

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/chen-waldron-wedding-utah-trash-18484326.php

2 years ago

You need a mental model of LLMs to build or use a LLM-based product

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/llm-mental-models

2 years ago

Pistachio billionaires accused of artwashing California's water crisis

https://hyperallergic.com/855658/pistachio-billionaires-lynda-stewart-resnick-accused-of-artwashing-california-water-crisis/

2 years ago

Show HN: Interactive AI Resume/LinkedIn for better networking/job hunting

https://www.protoconstruct.com/chat/652af6c4238991f5e5f2eb57

2 years ago

Tell HN: LinkedIn has one of the worst dark patterns I have seen on the web

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252628

2 years ago