top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-01

My favourite Git commit (2019)

https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit

2 years ago

Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

https://blog.cloudflare.com/thanksgiving-2023-security-incident

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217310

2 years ago

Damn Small Linux 2024

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

2 years ago

Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/01/sorry-appin-were-not-taking-down-our-article-about-your-attempts-to-silence-reporters/

2 years ago

Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/mlkem768/

2 years ago

Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

https://github.com/riverscuomo

2 years ago

The VAE Used for Stable Diffusion Is Flawed

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1ag5h5s/the_vae_used_for_stable_diffusion_1x2x_and_other/

2 years ago

The web just gets better with Interop 2024

https://webkit.org/blog/14955/the-web-just-gets-better-with-interop/

2 years ago

Origami Simulator

https://origamisimulator.org/

2 years ago

Markov Chains are the Original Language Models

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models

2 years ago

We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres

https://tembo.io/blog/tembo-data-warehouse

2 years ago

Bard's latest updates: Access Gemini Pro globally and generate images

https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-gemini-pro-image-generation/

2 years ago

The Undercover Generalist

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/the-undercover-generalist/

2 years ago

How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-01-31/Disinformation_report

2 years ago

A startup allegedly 'hacked the world', then came censorship, and now backlash

https://www.wired.com/story/appin-training-centers-lawsuits-censorship/

2 years ago

Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/31/check-out-these-amazing-self-soldering-sleeves-from-world-war-ii/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217308

2 years ago

CyberChef from GCHQ: Cyber Swiss Army Knife

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

2 years ago

Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace (2015)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marlon-brando-was-a-secret-tech-geek-and-photoshop-124061824672.html

2 years ago

Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265

https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-vulkan-video-av1-decode-extension-vulkan-sdk-now-supports-h.264-h.265-encode

2 years ago

Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

2 years ago

Solving SAT via Positive Supercompilation

https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/sat-supercompilation.html

2 years ago

Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust

https://github.com/n7space/aerugo

2 years ago

FreeBSD 4 Bug may be present in Playstation 4/5

https://wololo.net/2024/02/01/is-an-18-year-old-vulnerability-the-key-to-the-next-ps5-ps4-jailbreak/

2 years ago

A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-man-who-invented-vr-goggles-50-years-too-soon

2 years ago

Show HN: Lockbox: forward proxy for making third party API calls

https://github.com/mkjt2/lockbox

2 years ago

Show HN: An open source performance monitoring tool

https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/3cc29388f99716833055d1aaa4a53d938d9e786e/README.md

2 years ago

The curious case of the disappearing Polish Åš (2015)

https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4df

2 years ago

Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990

https://and0uille.net/misc/debug90.html

2 years ago

Artificial Intelligence and Peace

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/20231208-messaggio-57giornatamondiale-pace2024.html

2 years ago

240-Gbit/s sub-THz wireless communications using ultra-low phase noise receiver

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/elex/advpub/0/advpub_20.20230584/_article

2 years ago

EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/eu-chip-goal-totally-unrealistic-2024-01/

2 years ago

Apprise: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, Push Notifications

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

2 years ago

Compiling a Lisp (2020)

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-0/

2 years ago

'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-29/i-should-not-have-written-a-clockwork-orange-how-anthony-burgess-came-to-disown-his-own-novel.html

2 years ago

Stanchion: Column-oriented tables in SQLite

https://github.com/dgllghr/stanchion

2 years ago

Show HN: ML Blocks – Deploy multimodal AI workflows without code

https://www.mlblocks.com/

2 years ago

Gary Bowser and gaming's most infamous piracy case

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/01/the-man-who-owes-nintendo-14m-gary-bowser-and-gamings-most-infamous-piracy-case

2 years ago

SI Units for Request Rate

https://two-wrongs.com/si-units-for-request-rate

2 years ago

Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)00125-1

2 years ago

Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2023-Results-Initiates-Quarterly-Dividend/default.aspx

2 years ago

CISA directs federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti products by Friday midnight

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/supplemental-direction-v1-ed-24-01-mitigate-ivanti-connect-secure-and-ivanti-policy-secure

2 years ago

Nassim Taleb says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt

https://fortune.com/2024/01/31/nassim-nicholas-taleb-black-swan-author-national-debt-death-spiral/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215779

2 years ago

Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They're Also Listening to Trains

https://www.wired.com/story/fiber-optics-bring-you-internet-now-theyre-also-listening-to-trains/

2 years ago

Nasopharyngeal Lymphatics Found to Be Crucial for Cerebrospinal Fluid Outflow

https://www.ibs.re.kr/cop/bbs/BBSMSTR_000000000738/selectBoardArticle.do?nttId=24483&pageIndex=1&searchCnd=&searchWrd=

2 years ago

Farscape and Henson’s Lasting Legacy (2011)

https://reactormag.com/weird-amazing-psychotic-life-in-technicolor-farscape-and-hensons-lasting-legacy/

2 years ago

Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32

https://pdx.su/blog/2024-01-19-fixing-a-broken-smart-cat-feeder-with-esp32/

2 years ago

Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to

https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following

2 years ago

Matryoshka Representation Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13147

2 years ago

Ask HN: Guide for Implementing Common Lisp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39213261

2 years ago

The End of My Childhood

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/31/end.html

2 years ago

Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says New Mexico AG

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/31/meta-worlds-single-largest-marketplace-for-paedophiles-new-mexico-attorney-general-facebook-instagram

2 years ago

The Thundering Herd Problem

https://encore.dev/blog/thundering-herd-problem

2 years ago

Pivotal Mental States (2020)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269881120959637

2 years ago

Pooled number of deaths by age group in EU

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

2 years ago

Security Program Is Shit

https://crankysec.com/blog/shite/

2 years ago

Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional SSM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09417

2 years ago

A little closer to finding what became Moses Schönfinkel (2021)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/a-little-closer-to-finding-what-became-of-moses-schonfinkel-inventor-of-combinators/

2 years ago

The FCC wants to make robocalls that use AI-generated voices illegal

https://www.engadget.com/the-fcc-wants-to-make-robocalls-that-use-ai-generated-voices-illegal-105628839.html

2 years ago

Computer and Network Security

https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/compsec/

2 years ago

Campfire

https://once.com/campfire

2 years ago

Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming-42-million-gb-of-data-per-day

2 years ago

Analysts estimate Nvidia owns 98% of the data center GPU market

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/analysts-estimate-nvidia-owns-98-of-the-data-center-gpu-market

2 years ago

Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-neanderthals-humans-side-northern-europe.html

2 years ago

Tesla sued for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste in California for years

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/31/tesla-hazardous-waste-lawsuit-california-counties/

2 years ago

Chromecast Google TV now has full-screen auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/chromecast-with-google-tv-full-screen-auto-playing-ads-3409326/

2 years ago

US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/01/us_china_military_collaborators/

2 years ago

When the Mac Was a Munition

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-the-mac-was-a-munition

2 years ago

Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-declares-last-macbook-pro-with-an-optical-drive-obsolete/

2 years ago

Two Mindsets That Can Create Rude or Polite Coworkers

https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2022.0069.summary

2 years ago

Apple reports first quarter results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/02/apple-reports-first-quarter-results/

2 years ago

RFC: Rust Has Provenance

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3559

2 years ago

Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217231

2 years ago

Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-four-day-workweek-amid-labor-shortage/a-68125506

2 years ago