top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-08

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-minis-access-after-launch-of-service-that-brought-imessage-to-android/

2 years ago

The pro-Israel information war

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information

2 years ago

Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking

https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/

2 years ago

You are never taught how to build quality software

https://www.florianbellmann.com/blog/never-taught-qa

2 years ago

Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]

https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/1733150512395038967

2 years ago

FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/08/fda-approves-casgevy-crispr-based-medicine-for-treatment-of-sickle-cell-disease/

2 years ago

Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

https://kagi.com/changelog

2 years ago

Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/

2 years ago

Goodbye, clean code (2020)

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/

2 years ago

JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

2 years ago

Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/08/judge-allows-major-right-to-repair-lawsuit-against-john-deere-to-move-forward/

2 years ago

The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-worlds-richest-families/

2 years ago

Flatpack field hospitals that can be airdropped to disaster zones

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/08/india-aarogya-maitri-aid-cube-flatpack-field-hospital-for-remote-disaster-zones

2 years ago

Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B

https://www.together.ai/blog/stripedhyena-7b

2 years ago

World of Goo 2

https://worldofgoo2.com/

2 years ago

Just Your Handyman

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/just-your-handyman

2 years ago

QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs

https://cornell-relaxml.github.io/quip-sharp/

2 years ago

TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees

https://tacf.org/darling-58/

2 years ago

We investigated France's mass profiling machine

https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/how-we-investigated-frances-mass-profiling-machine/

2 years ago

Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)

https://sts10.github.io/2022/12/14/antix-on-2008-macbook-5-1.html

2 years ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/arts/game-awards-winners-list.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS

http://www.sol-1.org/index.php

2 years ago

Spoofing DNS records by abusing DHCP DNS dynamic updates

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/spoofing-dns-by-abusing-dhcp

2 years ago

X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?

https://nerology.substack.com/p/xcom-is-twitter-but-what-are-a-zcom

2 years ago

Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via Dynamic Gaussians

https://yuelangx.github.io/gaussianheadavatar/

2 years ago

IA Writer in Paper

https://ia.net/topics/ia-writer-in-paper

2 years ago

Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-language-server-implementing-parser

2 years ago

Show HN: WarpBuild – x86-64 and arm GitHub Action runners for 30% faster builds

https://www.warpbuild.com/

2 years ago

TXR Lisp

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-lisp.html

2 years ago

The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary

https://suzukimusic-global.com/products_single.php?parent_cate_cd=3&products_cate_cd=34&products_cd=315

2 years ago

Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (2011)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/

2 years ago

Paul Graham's Twitter account targeted by IDF

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1733146138226614465

2 years ago

5Ghoul: Unleashing Chaos on 5G Edge Devices

https://asset-group.github.io/disclosures/5ghoul/

2 years ago

Ancient stars made extraordinarily heavy elements, researchers find

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-ancient-stars-extraordinarily-heavy-elements.html

2 years ago

Tesla loses legal action in Sweden as dispute with Nordic unions escalates

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/07/tesla-loses-legal-action-sweden-nordic-unions-licence-plates-collective-bargaining

2 years ago

Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a35kp/scientists-have-reported-a-breakthrough-in-understanding-whale-language

2 years ago

Shader Park Is Kinda Neat

https://untested.sonnet.io/Shader+Park+is+Kinda+Neat

2 years ago

Nikon makes firmware for astronauts to block cosmic rays in photos

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/06/nikon-makes-special-firmware-for-astronauts-to-block-galactic-cosmic-rays-in-photos/

2 years ago

Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's ouster

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/08/open-ai-sam-altman-complaints/

2 years ago

Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed

https://archlinux.org/news/bugtracker-migration-to-gitlab-completed/

2 years ago

Double Standards

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/double-standards/

2 years ago

Problems on the Galaxy Store

https://forum.developer.samsung.com/t/test-confirmation-rejected-too-expensive/28238

2 years ago

The Onyx Programming Language

https://onyxlang.io/

2 years ago

ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors

https://reconfusion.github.io/

2 years ago

Apple and Google Monitor Notifications. We Need Push Notification Alternatives

https://tuta.com/blog/open-source-email-fdroid

2 years ago

Homes need to be built for better internet

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23991092/homes-need-to-be-built-for-better-internet

2 years ago

Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads

https://www.amsterdam.nl/en/news/speed-limit-30km/

2 years ago

Practical ways to increase product velocity

https://staysaasy.com/management/2023/12/07/accelerating-product-velocity.html

2 years ago

Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-ancient-balkan-genomes-fall-roman.html

2 years ago

E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmark New Law

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/technology/eu-ai-act-regulation.html

2 years ago

Average distance to a supermarket in Amsterdam is 400 meter or 1300 feet

https://www.oozo.nl/nabije-voorzieningen/amsterdam

2 years ago

Ava PLS: open-source application for running language models locally

https://avapls.com/

2 years ago

London trains see power cut as thousands stranded in dark for hours

https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/08/thousands-stranded-cold-dark-london-trains-hours-power-cut-19944985/

2 years ago

How did Christianity change the Roman Empire?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-did-christianity-change-roman-empire

2 years ago

Using FIDO keys

https://777.tf/blog/2023/12/08/using-fido-keys/

2 years ago

Google shares sink following reports that some of their AI demo was faked

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/12/08/google-shares-sink-following-reports-that-some-of-their-ai-demo-was-faked.html

2 years ago

World's deepest, largest underground lab operational

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202312/07/WS65712c17a31090682a5f1ebc.html

2 years ago

GPS-Gaussian: Generalizable Pixel-wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Human Synthesis

https://shunyuanzheng.github.io/GPS-Gaussian

2 years ago

Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/google-podcasts-dies-april-2024-youtube-music-migration-tool-goes-live/

2 years ago

EVE Online – Down the Rabbit Hole [video]

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

2 years ago

Google's best Gemini demo was faked

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-was-faked/

2 years ago

Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38568896

2 years ago

Google launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn't real

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992737/google-gemini-misrepresentation-ai-accusation

2 years ago