top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-19

Dave Mills has died

https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009265.html

2 years ago

Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

2 years ago

Culture Change at Google

https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/

2 years ago

Mourning Google

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

2 years ago

Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fujitsu-bugs-that-sent-innocent-people-to-prison-were-known-from-the-start/

2 years ago

Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium

https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2024/01/19/thailand-discovers-nearly-15-million-tonnes-of-lithium/113414

2 years ago

Surf the web like it's 1999

https://billsworld.neocities.org/

2 years ago

Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/winding-down-google-sync-and-less-secure-apps-support.html

2 years ago

Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s

https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2024/ceph-a-journey-to-1tibps/

2 years ago

Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel

https://www.wsj.com/business/cancel-subscriptions-save-money-streaming-peacock-da7e6123

2 years ago

Platform Tilt

https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/

2 years ago

Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-semiconductor

2 years ago

Building a USB SNES Controller

https://blog.chybby.com/posts/building-a-usb-snes-controller

2 years ago

Sourcehut network outage post-mortem

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/

2 years ago

Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-triangle-of-e-commerce-fraud/

2 years ago

Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard/

2 years ago

Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yBlZplnKQ

2 years ago

Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39057219

2 years ago

Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework

https://tart.run/

2 years ago

French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/french-cheese-under-threat

2 years ago

Memory leak proof every C program

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/memory-leak-proof-every-C-program

2 years ago

Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-01-19/yann-lecun-chief-ai-scientist-at-meta-human-level-artificial-intelligence-is-going-to-take-a-long-time.html

2 years ago

LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

https://www.loadership.com/

2 years ago

US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar

https://electrek.co/2024/01/18/us-govt-opens-22-million-acres-federal-lands-solar/

2 years ago

The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust

https://nullderef.com/blog/rust-async-sync/

2 years ago

Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/18/instagram-facebook-child-sexual-harassment

2 years ago

Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Backprop/

2 years ago

Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them

https://fernandovillalba.substack.com/p/devops-dont-destroy-silos-transform

2 years ago

Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type

https://orthic.shorthand.fun/

2 years ago

SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1225191541/spacex-nasa-axiom-space-ax-3-international-space-station-iss

2 years ago

Four Magic Words

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/

2 years ago

Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/surveillance-by-design-in-proposed-amendments-to-the-u.k.-investigatory-powers-act

2 years ago

First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval

https://digialps.com/the-first-ai-medical-device-that-can-detect-all-major-skin-cancers-just-received-fda-approval/

2 years ago

Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-vision/apple-vision-pro

2 years ago

New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again

https://flowingdata.com/2024/01/10/nyt-flash-based-visualizations-work-again/

2 years ago

Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/haier-threatens-legal-action-against-home-assistant-plugin-developer/

2 years ago

Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/driver-hack-lets-you-run-linux-after-windows-bsods-no-reboot-required

2 years ago

Shots: Create Mockups

https://shots.so/

2 years ago

A 2024 Plea for Lean Software

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/

2 years ago

Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant

https://gitlab.com/literally-useful/voxos

2 years ago

The 37signals Employee Handbook

https://basecamp.com/handbook

2 years ago

Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons

https://scholar.social/@researchfairy/111778617625312456

2 years ago

HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/

2 years ago

Lamport's Bakery algorithm, demonstrated in Python

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/bakery_algorithm

2 years ago

Some U.S. cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/make-america-rake-again-leaf-blower-bans/

2 years ago

Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels

https://www.statista.com/chart/2502/apples-r-and-d-expenditure/

2 years ago

Self-Rewarding Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10020

2 years ago

Gleam's New Interactive Language Tour

https://gleam.run/news/gleams-new-interactive-language-tour/

2 years ago

Comparing the 1970's Cray-1 supercomputer against the Raspberry Pi

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/17/comparing-the-1970s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-raspberrypi-hacksterio/

2 years ago

Why holes at the bottom of the ocean disappear and reappear

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ocean-floor-holes-purposes-eels

2 years ago

System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-threadripper-2024

2 years ago

Wayfair CEO tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/19/wayfair-layoffs-2024/72280132007/

2 years ago

HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces

https://www.freethink.com/ar-vr/we-tested-the-most-advanced-haptic-gloves-in-the-world

2 years ago

How much memory bandwidth do large Amazon instances offer?

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/01/18/how-much-memory-bandwidth-do-large-amazon-instances-offer/

2 years ago

Mistral looks set to challenge AI frontrunners Google and OpenAI

https://www.ft.com/content/bc4cd6ff-446d-4a47-9382-bb622460a681

2 years ago

Knockoff Iranian drone sold on Alibaba was meant for war, documents show

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akeqk/knockoff-iranian-drone-sold-on-alibaba-was-meant-for-war-documents-show

2 years ago

Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

2 years ago

Hans Reiser on ReiserFS Deprecation

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

2 years ago

Curl is now a CVE Numbering Authority

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/16/curl-is-a-cna/

2 years ago

Roadmap for the Xilem back end in 2024

https://linebender.org/blog/xilem-backend-roadmap/

2 years ago

Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles

https://insideevs.com/news/705279/tesla-cybertruck-10k-mile-owner-review-range-problems/

2 years ago