top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-03

'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

2 years ago

Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners

https://gijn.org/stories/tracking-shell-companies-secret-owners/

2 years ago

Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

https://github.com/nilsherzig/LLocalSearch

2 years ago

7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=16.34123,-246.42334&extent=28.51697,-223.43994

2 years ago

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240401-00/?p=109599

2 years ago

Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/04/03/improvements-static-analysis-gcc-14-compiler

2 years ago

Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas

https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/terraform-makes-carbon-neutral-natural-gas/

2 years ago

Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli-new-jpeg-coding-library.html

2 years ago

PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU

https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm

2 years ago

Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

2 years ago

LiveView Is Best with Svelte

https://blog.sequin.io/liveview-is-best-with-svelte/

2 years ago

Reflections on Distrusting xz

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/reflections_on_distrusting_xz/

2 years ago

New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go

https://eos.org/articles/new-seafloor-map-only-25-done-with-6-years-to-go

2 years ago

MOnSter 6502: a working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502

https://monster6502.com/

2 years ago

White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68722032

2 years ago

Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-discloses-financials-foundry-business-2024-04-02/

2 years ago

Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/04/02/autoconf/

2 years ago

'Mini liver' will grow in person's own lymph node in bold new trial

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00975-z

2 years ago

Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available

https://redict.io/posts/2024-04-03-redict-7.3.0-released/

2 years ago

Jon Stewart Says Apple Told Him Not to Interview FTC's Lina Khan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/jon-stewart-says-apple-told-him-not-to-interview-ftc-s-lina-khan

2 years ago

No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/ftc_boss_apple_daily_show/

2 years ago

Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

https://github.com/amalshaji/portr

2 years ago

The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy

2 years ago

Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser

https://strudel.cc

2 years ago

Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier

https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-events-gcs-migration-infrequent-access

2 years ago

Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice

https://daily.jstor.org/saffron-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-spice/

2 years ago

Every Dunder Method in Python

https://www.pythonmorsels.com/every-dunder-method/

2 years ago

JPMorgan to sell customer transaction data to advertisers

https://media.chase.com/news/chase-launches-chase-media-solutions

2 years ago

Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

2 years ago

HP Disables Printer Functionality Until You Install the HP Smart App

https://twitter.com/Schappi/status/1775384892970533208/photo/1

2 years ago

Henry Darger

https://www.moma.org/artists/28600

2 years ago

Google Is Killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites

https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/

2 years ago

A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores

https://www.theverge.com/24100979/altstore-europe-app-marketplace-price-games

2 years ago

Legendre transform, better explained (2017)

https://blog.jessriedel.com/2017/06/28/legendre-transform/

2 years ago

Choose your weapon: Survival strategies for depressed AI academics

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2304.06035

2 years ago

Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC

https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/logik

2 years ago

Growth is a mind cancer

https://manuelmoreale.com/growth-is-a-mind-cancer

2 years ago

America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/americas-great-poet-of-darkness

2 years ago

Making old orchards new again

https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/making-old-orchards-new-again/

2 years ago

The Quintic, the Icosahedron, and Elliptic Curves [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202404/rnoti-p444.pdf

2 years ago

Full EU chat control proposal attack on digital privacy and encryption

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/full-chat-control-proposal-leaked-attack-on-digital-privacy-of-correspondence-and-secure-encryption/

2 years ago

Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M

https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/news/matter-petition-grace-ocean-private-limited-et-al-exoneration-or-limitation-liability-2024-04

2 years ago

Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models

https://press.opera.com/2024/04/03/ai-feature-drops-local-llms/

2 years ago

macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/macos-finder-still-bad-network-file-copies

2 years ago

The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/windows-onto-history/

2 years ago

Show HN: Burr – A framework for building and debugging GenAI apps faster

https://github.com/DAGWorks-Inc/burr

2 years ago

Land use policies make urban childcare expensive and rare

https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/who-cares-about-childcare

2 years ago

Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED?

https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/issues/3896

2 years ago

Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/rickroll_meme_asic/

2 years ago

GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art for Visualizing Buffer Overflows

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-fanalyzer-Enhancements

2 years ago

Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its cloud GPU bills

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/

2 years ago

Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01744

2 years ago

WhatsApp Outage

https://downdetector.in/status/whatsapp/

2 years ago

All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/03/all-billionaires-under-30-have-inherited-their-wealth-research-finds

2 years ago

AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Hardware Documentation

https://wccftech.com/amd-rocm-going-open-source-will-include-software-stack-hardware-documentation/

2 years ago

Easy video transcription and subtitling with Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python

https://www.editframe.com/guides/easy-video-transcription-and-subtitling-with-whisper-ffmpeg-and-python

2 years ago

Microsoft offered FFmpeg small one-time payment instead of support contract

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178805704888726

2 years ago

Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/financial-crisis

2 years ago

The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17350

2 years ago

A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages

https://blog.brycekerley.net/2024/04/01/p-langs.html

2 years ago

'The Manipulaters' improve phishing, still fail at opsec

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/the-manipulaters-improve-phishing-still-fail-at-opsec/

2 years ago

'HR is not your friend': why frustrated workers are hiring reps of their own

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/03/human-resources-hr-departments-us-workers

2 years ago

Feds decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes phone networks

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/fcc_ss7_security/

2 years ago

When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-will-the-genai-bubble-burst

2 years ago

Long-term nuclear waste warning messages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

2 years ago

Understanding Linear Feedback Shift Registers in FPGAs

https://www.adiuvoengineering.com/post/microzed-chronicles-linear-feedback-shift-register

2 years ago

YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/ycs-winter-2024-demo-day-confirms-that-we-are-indeed-in-an-ai-bubble/

2 years ago

Show HN: Goralim - a rate limiting pkg for Go to handle distributed workloads

https://github.com/0verread/goralim

2 years ago

Pitcairn Island Immigration

https://www.immigration.pn

2 years ago

John Barth has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/john-barth-dead.html

2 years ago

Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars

https://money.com/states-banning-gas-powered-cars/

2 years ago

NASA, Lockheed Martin Working to Resolve Artemis II Orion Issues

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/04/resolving-artemis-ii-issues/

2 years ago

The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/texas-triangle-rising-megaregion-unlike-all-others

2 years ago