top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-28

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.html

2 years ago

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

2 years ago

The race to replace Redis

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/6bf2063136effa1e/

2 years ago

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

2 years ago

NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

2 years ago

Doom Captcha (2021)

https://vivirenremoto.github.io/doomcaptcha/

2 years ago

You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it

https://seancoates.com/blogs/matter-and-privacy

2 years ago

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge

https://news.mit.edu/2024/large-language-models-use-surprisingly-simple-mechanism-retrieve-stored-knowledge-0325

2 years ago

Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847

2 years ago

Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models

https://mobiusml.github.io/1bit_blog/

2 years ago

Jamba: Production-grade Mamba-based AI model

https://www.maginative.com/article/ai21-labs-unveils-jamba-the-first-production-grade-mamba-based-ai-model/

2 years ago

UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quansheng-uv-k5-hacking

2 years ago

Blue Ball Machine

https://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

2 years ago

Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust

https://dioxuslabs.com/blog/release-050/

2 years ago

I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum

https://julep-ai.github.io/

2 years ago

Deep Learning in JavaScript

https://github.com/eduardoleao052/js-torch

2 years ago

Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/28/blobs.html

2 years ago

Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/amazon-dark-pattern-design-fine/

2 years ago

Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback

2 years ago

Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car

https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00956/

2 years ago

Edgar, build a Dyson swarm

https://playedgar.netlify.app/

2 years ago

Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00930-y

2 years ago

ST-DOS

http://sininenankka.dy.fi/~sami/fdshell/doskernel.php

2 years ago

Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

https://fandom.ink/@Rozzychan/112161902225538242

2 years ago

Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners

https://github.com/shizunge/endlessh-go

2 years ago

Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-13244469/Why-people-hit-5-fines-counterfeit-stamps.html

2 years ago

Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]

https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Conscious.pdf

2 years ago

Show HN: Spice.ai – materialize, accelerate, and query SQL data from any source

https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai

2 years ago

Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated

https://bootlin.com/blog/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated/

2 years ago

The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-next-big-step-in-mojo-open-source

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel itineraries

https://tripgeeks.app/community

2 years ago

Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trillion-transistor-gpu

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851136

2 years ago

The Lord of the Rings Family Tree

http://lotrproject.com/

2 years ago

New open source GPU is free to all

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/new-open-source-gpu-is-free-to-all-supports-modern-windows-software-stack-runs-on-an-fpga-with-custom-pcb

2 years ago

Linux Text Manipulation

https://yusuf.fyi/posts/linux-text-manipulation

2 years ago

A step beyond Rust's pattern matching

https://radiki.dev/posts/match-and-bind-patterns/

2 years ago

Secret papers reveal Post Office knew its court defence was false

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68663750

2 years ago

Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-reasons-quantum-entanglement-doesnt-allow-faster-than-light-communication/

2 years ago

Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

2 years ago

Digital signs in Brookline are collecting data from your phone as you walk by

https://brookline.news/digital-signs-around-brookline-are-collecting-data-from-your-phone-as-you-walk-by/

2 years ago

What is DECT-2020 New Radio (NR), and how big a deal is it? (2021)

https://blog.nordicsemi.com/getconnected/what-is-dect-2020-new-radio-nr-and-how-big-a-deal-is-it

2 years ago

EpiPen For Heart Attacks? Idorsia Launches Phase III Study Of Selatogrel (2021)

https://scrip.citeline.com:443/SC144926/An-EpiPen-For-Heart-Attacks-Idorsia-Launches-Phase-III-Study-Of-Selatogrel

2 years ago

How fuzz testing was invented (2008)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html

2 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68656415

2 years ago

Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39853474

2 years ago

Share Openly

https://werd.io/2024/share-openly

2 years ago

Influencers: Japan's secret weapon to promote niche tourism spots

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/03/28/japan-tourism-influencers/

2 years ago

What do you do if a hacker takes control of your ship? (2023)

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/what-do-you-do-if-a-hacker-takes-control-of-your-ship

2 years ago

Cloud host Vultr rips user data ownership clause from ToS after web outrage

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/vultr_content_controversy/

2 years ago

Go Enums Still Suck

https://www.zarl.dev/articles/enums-take-two

2 years ago

Why Scientists Are Calling for the Moon to Be Better Protected from Development

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-scientists-are-calling-for-the-moon-to-be-better-protected-from-development-180984026/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854921

2 years ago

New Redis Clone, Valkey, Has Linux Foundation Support

https://fossforce.com/2024/03/revolt-of-the-redis-maintainers-new-redis-clone-valkey-has-linux-foundation-support/

2 years ago

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/facebook-secretly-spied-on-snapchat-usage-to-confuse-advertisers-court-docs-say/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856254

2 years ago

Property-based testing in practice [pdf]

https://harrisongoldste.in/papers/icse24-pbt-in-practice.pdf

2 years ago

Traffic jams, AirTags and GPS darts are ways NY, NJ are trying to stop car theft

https://gothamist.com/news/traffic-jams-airtags-and-gps-darts-are-all-ways-ny-nj-police-are-trying-to-stop-car-theft

2 years ago

Show HN: I taught ChatGPT to find cool domain names – with availability check

https://huehive.co/tools/domain_search

2 years ago