top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-20

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

https://twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/status/1792679435701014908

2 years ago

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html

2 years ago

3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

2 years ago

Enlightenmentware

https://mmapped.blog/posts/28-enlightenmentware.html

2 years ago

Introducing Copilot+ PCs

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/

2 years ago

City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

https://frankforce.com/city-in-a-bottle-a-256-byte-raycasting-system/

2 years ago

pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL

https://tembo.io/blog/pg-timeseries

2 years ago

Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore

https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-ledgerstore/

2 years ago

How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input (2021)

https://kevroletin.github.io/terminal/2021/12/11/how-terminal-works-in.html

2 years ago

Rethinking Text Resizing on Web

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rethinking-text-resizing-on-web-1047b12d2881

2 years ago

Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415646

2 years ago

How a 64k intro is made (2017)

https://www.lofibucket.com/articles/64k_intro.html

2 years ago

CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js

https://codeanlabs.com/blog/research/cve-2024-4367-arbitrary-js-execution-in-pdf-js/

2 years ago

Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/google-cuts-mystery-check-us-bid-sidestep-jury-trial-2024-05-20/

2 years ago

Grothendieck’s use of equality

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10387

2 years ago

How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

2 years ago

Using Postgres for Everything

https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-to-collapse-your-stack-using-postgresql-for-everything/

2 years ago

Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy

https://www.anthropic.com/news/reflections-on-our-responsible-scaling-policy

2 years ago

OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/openai-to-pull-johansson-soundalike-sky-s-voice-from-chatgpt

2 years ago

What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3I3kAg2J7w

2 years ago

The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12361440/

2 years ago

The People Deliberately Killing Facebook

https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/

2 years ago

26× Faster Inference with Layer-Condensed KV Cache for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10637

2 years ago

British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/tech/arup-deepfake-scam-loss-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

2 years ago

Lumina's legal threats and my about-face

https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/luminas-legal-threats-and-my-about

2 years ago

On the trail of my identity thief

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/an-identity-thief-stole-5000-from-me-i-spent-two-years-tracking-down-how/ar-BB1mqh0b

2 years ago

Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202311546

2 years ago

Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death (2016)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26992108/

2 years ago

Paying freelancers in equity and dividends

https://sahillavingia.com/dividends

2 years ago

Linux 6.10 Will Print the Number of Populated Memory Slots at Boot Time

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Prints-Memory-Slots

2 years ago

Counted B-Trees (2017)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/cbtree.html

2 years ago

Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin and Faked Evidence, Judge Rules

https://www.wired.com/story/craig-wright-lied-faked-evidence-bitcoin-judge-says/

2 years ago

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

2 years ago

2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/2023-was-the-hottest-summer-in-two-thousand-years

2 years ago

Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-austin-san-francisco/

2 years ago

A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240517-the-intrepid-new-jersey-couple-that-survived-the-alaskan-wilderness-on-a-homestead

2 years ago

Cognitive reflection, intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289621000982

2 years ago

Konrad Zuse's Homepage

https://web.archive.org/web/20090214083953/http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse/index.html

2 years ago

(Tesla) has twice attempted to drive directly into a train while in FSD mode

https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1792059155324494219/

2 years ago

Dieter Rams turns 92 – Stream "Rams" for free May 20 and 21

https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/rams

2 years ago

Truth Social losses $300M on Q1

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/trump-truth-social-media-q1-2024-revenue-net-loss-1236010937/

2 years ago

Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/11/eco-brutalism-when-angular-concrete-meets-the-wonder-of-nature-in-pictures

2 years ago

Ask HN: Hacker News-like forum, specific to game development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419289

2 years ago

Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release

https://www.erlang.org/news/170

2 years ago

High performers job hop when they can't find a high performance culture

https://thedailydeveloper.substack.com/p/high-performers-job-hop-when-they

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why do you all think that Htmx is such a recent development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418885

2 years ago

Install Alpine Linux on FreeBSD Jail

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/01/18/installing-alpine-linux-on-a-freebsd-jail/

2 years ago

Don't use pixelation for redacting text (2022)

https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-tool-never-pixelation

2 years ago

Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-verdict-crypto-industry

2 years ago

SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit

https://twitter.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1792672666316665198

2 years ago

Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-bug-resurfaced-fix-icloud/

2 years ago

The President of Iran has died

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1792387709140402299

2 years ago