top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-23

Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished

https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

2 years ago

Vice website is shutting down

https://writing.exchange/@ernie/111977450241144169

2 years ago

Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

https://ok-robot.github.io/

2 years ago

Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/

2 years ago

Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models

https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp

2 years ago

Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures

https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm

2 years ago

Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out

https://intrinsic-lora.github.io/

2 years ago

A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/23/24081249/slack-slackbot-gizmodo-tom-mckay

2 years ago

Meta's new LLM-based test generator

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/metas-new-llm-based-test-generator

2 years ago

Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14083

2 years ago

Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/facial-recognition-error-message-on-vending-machine-sparks-concern-at-university-of-waterloo-1.6779835

2 years ago

I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic

https://every.to/chain-of-thought/i-spent-a-week-with-gemini-pro-1-5-it-s-fantastic

2 years ago

Mamba: The Easy Way

https://jackcook.com/2024/02/23/mamba.html

2 years ago

German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2024/kw08-de-cannabis-990684

2 years ago

Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dog-language-geniuses-are-rare-but-apparently-real/

2 years ago

Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

http://lembransation.blogspot.com/2022/01/ten-years-of-remembering-every-day-that.html

2 years ago

Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform

https://scuttlebutt.nz/

2 years ago

Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39485259

2 years ago

High Interest Savings Leaderboard

https://www.highinterest.io/

2 years ago

After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult

https://www.piglei.com/articles/en-programming-is-still-hard-after-14-years/

2 years ago

US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-nears-attempt-first-moon-landing-half-century-with-private-robot-spacecraft-2024-02-22/

2 years ago

The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-fed-is-behind-the-capital-onediscover

2 years ago

Form to DB

https://www.formtodb.com/

2 years ago

Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA, x86

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jim-keller-criticizes-nvidias-cuda-and-x86-cudas-a-swamp-not-a-moat-x86-was-a-swamp-too

2 years ago

A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/columns-scam-guide-books-con-artists

2 years ago

I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows

https://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2024/02/23/i-dont-think-the-cheapest-apc-back-ups-units-can-be-monitored-except-in-windows/

2 years ago

Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/

2 years ago

Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple

http://shoesrb.com/

2 years ago

Kagi Small Web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/

2 years ago

Show HN: Refractify – Optical software against myopia

https://refractify.io/

2 years ago

Building a deep learning rig

https://samsja.github.io/blogs/rig/part_1/

2 years ago

Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices

https://go.dev/blog/generic-slice-functions

2 years ago

A Distributed File System in Go Cut Average Metadata Memory Usage to 100 Bytes

https://juicefs.com/en/blog/engineering/reduce-metadata-memory-usage

2 years ago

Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street

https://www.reuters.com/technology/global-markets-marketcap-pix-2024-02-23/

2 years ago

Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China's Hackers for Hire

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/business/china-leaked-files.html

2 years ago

Tauri 2.0 tries to make mobile apps crossplatform

https://beta.tauri.app/guides/

2 years ago

RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/rto-doesnt-improve-company-value-but-does-make-employees-miserable-study/

2 years ago

Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive

https://brave.com/leo-docsupport/

2 years ago

Tacit programming

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

2 years ago

Apple Vision Pro users reporting cracked outer surfaces

https://old.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1axj5sp/comment/kror2jt/

2 years ago

AMD ROCm Software Blogs

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/

2 years ago

PGlite – Postgres in WASM

https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite

2 years ago

Avast fined $16.5M for 'privacy' software that sold users' browsing data

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting

2 years ago

Show HN: Little Fixes – a spatial forum to improve your city

https://littlefixes.xyz/

2 years ago

Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/privacy-isnt-dead-far-it

2 years ago

Show HN: GPU Prices on eBay

https://gpupricecompare.com

2 years ago

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/tyler-perry-ai-alarm-1235833276/

2 years ago

FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk

https://blog.mlich.cz/2024/02/fosdem-2024/

2 years ago

Lisp Programming with Vim (2019)

https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html

2 years ago

Hidden GitHub commits and how to reveal them

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/github_secrets/

2 years ago

Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-wrong-with-google-drive-dropbox-and-onedrive-more-than-you-think/

2 years ago

Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper

https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=cryptography%40metzdowd.com&q=subject%3A%22Bitcoin+P2P+e%5C-cash+paper%22&o=oldest&f=1&ref=blog.lopp.net

2 years ago

Lessons from my third year running a SaaS

https://maxrozen.com/lessons-from-my-third-year-running-a-saas

2 years ago

Speed of Rust vs. C

https://kornel.ski/rust-c-speed

2 years ago

Gemma, Ollama and LangChainGo

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/gemma-ollama-and-langchaingo/

2 years ago

Emergence of stone-tool use behavior in a population of common macaques

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38012960/

2 years ago

Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI"

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1760859214875132161

2 years ago

Open Source Motion Capture for Autonomous Drones (2023)

https://joshuabird.com/blog/post/mocap-drones

2 years ago

Incident report for February 21st, 2024

https://resend.com/blog/incident-report-for-february-21-2024

2 years ago

Beautiful Probability

https://www.readthesequences.com/Beautiful-Probability

2 years ago

Unlocking NetWare 2.0a

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/unlocking-netware-2-0a/

2 years ago

Three interpretations of matrix products

https://www.linearalgebraforprogrammers.com/blog/matmul_animations

2 years ago

Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave

https://gizmodo.com/tinder-owner-signs-chatgpt-deal-enjoy-the-ai-dating-ti-1851275100

2 years ago