top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-12

I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

https://www.amazon.com/fulfill-request-respectful-information-users-Brown/dp/B0CM82FJL2

2 years ago

Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC

https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

2 years ago

US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes

https://on.ft.com/4aV0CQ7

2 years ago

Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]

https://tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/Vector%20Databases%20-%20A%20Technical%20Primer.pdf

2 years ago

Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67884743

2 years ago

Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/01/10/wind-turbines-are-friendlier-to-birds-than-oil-and-gas-drilling

2 years ago

A supply chain attack on PyTorch

https://johnstawinski.com/2024/01/11/playing-with-fire-how-we-executed-a-critical-supply-chain-attack-on-pytorch/

2 years ago

DevDocs

https://devdocs.io

2 years ago

Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/

2 years ago

Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python

https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo

2 years ago

Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]

https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanypeachhh/video/7322301313134415134?_r=1&_t=8ix9BpBqady

2 years ago

OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/

2 years ago

Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage

https://outage.sr.ht/

2 years ago

On Sleeper Agent LLMs

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1745921205020799433

2 years ago

Cloudflare lays off new hires

https://i.imgur.com/9A3LZIB.png

2 years ago

We need technology that is less immersive, not more

https://filiph.net/text/we-need-technology-that-is-less-immersive,-not-more.html

2 years ago

We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

https://blog.sentry.io/we-removed-advertising-cookies-heres-what-happened/

2 years ago

What I learned selling my company

https://www.harryglaser.com/what-i-learned-selling-my-company/

2 years ago

Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

https://kevinchen.co/blog/autonomous-trucking-harder-than-rideshare/

2 years ago

IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1745567200600076531

2 years ago

Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/airbus-shatters-record-for-jet-orders-as-demand-soars-a9f75750

2 years ago

Fly through your shell history

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

2 years ago

I built an offline smart home

https://www.androidauthority.com/offline-smart-home-3398608/

2 years ago

Asus Zenbook Duo 2024

https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/zenbook/asus-zenbook-duo-2024-ux8406/

2 years ago

Changes we're making to Google Assistant

https://blog.google/products/assistant/google-assistant-update-january-2024/

2 years ago

Citigroup Plans to Cut 20k Jobs

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/citigroup-plans-to-cut-20-000-jobs-KCIfucmQx18qn9TfDESs

2 years ago

Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/

2 years ago

Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered

https://dmicz.github.io/machine-learning/openai-changes/

2 years ago

OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/01/12/openwrt-one-ap-24-xy-router-board-openwrt-banana-pi/

2 years ago

CLI user experience case study

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-10-05-cli-ux-in-topiary/

2 years ago

Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land bridge for Oceania cargo

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/11/panama-canal-drought-moves-maersk-to-start-using-land-bridge-for-cargo.html

2 years ago

Trilinear point splatting for real-time radiance field rendering

https://lfranke.github.io/trips/

2 years ago

Show HN: Run Stable Diffusion Directly on iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amazing-ai/id1660147028?platform=iphone

2 years ago

The current state of OpenTelemetry

https://signoz.io/blog/opentelemetry-roundup-2023/

2 years ago

Smart binoculars can identify 9k birds

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/worlds-first-ever-smart-binoculars-can-identify-up-to-9000-birds-thanks-built-in-ai

2 years ago

The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors

https://www.ft.com/content/ef42e78f-e578-450b-9e43-36fbd1e20d01

2 years ago

Decompilation of Paper Mario for N64

https://papermar.io/

2 years ago

Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/autophage-rocket-engine-consumes-plastic-fuselage-for-fuel

2 years ago

Psst: Paper-Based Secret Sharing Technique

https://github.com/Sjlver/psst

2 years ago

Apple knew AirDrop users could be identified and tracked as early as 2019

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/12/tech/china-apple-airdrop-user-encryption-vulnerability-hnk-intl/index.html

2 years ago

Ancient City Found in the Amazon

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671

2 years ago

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

2 years ago

There has never been a better time to game on Linux

https://tildes.net/~games/1dcj/there_has_never_been_a_better_time_to_game_on_linux

2 years ago

Coral Dev Board Micro

https://coral.ai/products/dev-board-micro

2 years ago

Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)

https://www.khanna.law/blog/carta-83b-oversight

2 years ago

Show HN: RemoteStorage – sync localStorage across devices and browsers

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/remote-storage

2 years ago

QMK and Keyboards

https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/index.html

2 years ago

'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in Modern Language [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hLZCuh8yM

2 years ago

Is Fortran “A Dead Language”? (2022)

https://cpufun.substack.com/p/is-fortran-a-dead-language

2 years ago

A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/a-vision-for-the-alleviation-of-water-scarcity-in-the-us-southwest-and-the-revitalization-of-the-salton-sea/

2 years ago

revng translates (i386, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, AArch64, s390x) binaries to LLVM IR

https://github.com/revng/revng

2 years ago

Doing First Grade Math in Rust's Type System

https://fprasx.github.io/articles/type-system-arithmetic/

2 years ago

Smalltalk simplicity and consistency vs. other languages (2022) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFZqilshyL4

2 years ago

Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-12/margaret-mead-wanted-to-save-the-world-through-lsd-the-government-had-other-ideas

2 years ago

Inner Speech

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/inner-speech/

2 years ago

Features and Benefits of Bluetooth Mesh 1.1 for Wireless Mesh Networking

https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-resources/features-benefits-bluetooth-mesh/

2 years ago

Xbox Multiplayer Analysis Tool

https://github.com/microsoft/xbox-multiplayer-analysis-tool

2 years ago

En Route: A Magazine About Trains in Japan [pdf]

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/En_Route_2023.pdf

2 years ago

Keycloak open redirect: wildcard redirect URIs can be exploited to steal tokens

https://securityblog.omegapoint.se/en/writeup-keycloak-cve-2023-6027/

2 years ago

ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-C61_SoC

2 years ago

The Wolfram Prompt Repository (2023)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/06/prompts-for-work-play-launching-the-wolfram-prompt-repository/

2 years ago

Atomics and Concurrency

https://redixhumayun.github.io/systems/2024/01/03/atomics-and-concurrency.html

2 years ago

Linux Gains an Open File Server for Tractors and Agriculture Machinery

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-ISOBUS-File-Server

2 years ago

Ask HN: How can I get out of tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974330

2 years ago

Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

2 years ago

Bare Bones Software – BBEdit 15 is here

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit15.html

2 years ago

Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/04/fracking-eyeballs

2 years ago

Principality of Hutt River

http://www.principality-hutt-river.com/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38967494

2 years ago

Phi-2: Self-Extend Boosts Performance, Extends Context to 8k Without Training

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/194mmki/selfextend_works_for_phi2_now_looks_good

2 years ago

Mysticism and Empiricism

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/04/mysticism-empiricism

2 years ago

High-Throughput, Formal-Methods-Assisted Fuzzing for LLVM [pdf]

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/cgo24.pdf

2 years ago

Instagram's co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036539/artifact-shutting-down-kevin-systrom

2 years ago

Recovering a dm-crypt Encryption Key with drgn

https://drgn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/case_studies/dm_crypt_key.html

2 years ago

HashLife – A memoized algorithm for Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata

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

2 years ago

Kagi.com is unstable for all regions

https://status.kagi.com/issues/2024-01-12-kagi-down-on-some-regions/

2 years ago

Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com

https://cap.octolane.com

2 years ago