top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-06-06

Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards

https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-privacy

8 months ago

913 upvotes – 380 comments

Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798701489097183286

8 months ago

818 upvotes – 867 comments

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

https://edw.is/learning-vulkan/

8 months ago

625 upvotes – 260 comments

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

8 months ago

524 upvotes – 168 comments

Roman Roads (2017)

https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-original/

8 months ago

480 upvotes – 157 comments

Extracting concepts from GPT-4

https://openai.com/index/extracting-concepts-from-gpt-4/

8 months ago

414 upvotes – 143 comments

Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

https://geospatial.netlify.app/posts/gds-2024-04-20-cathedrals/

8 months ago

372 upvotes – 251 comments

lsix: Like "ls", but for images

https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix

8 months ago

350 upvotes – 135 comments

Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s

https://soranews24.com/2024/05/28/mitsubishi-develops-robot-that-solves-rubiks-cube-style-puzzle-in-0-305-seconds%e3%80%90video%e3%80%91/

8 months ago

308 upvotes – 203 comments

Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/most-life-on-earth-is-dormant-after-pulling-an-emergency-brake-20240605/

8 months ago

300 upvotes – 244 comments

U.S. clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/nvidia-microsoft-openai-antitrust-doj-ftc.html

8 months ago

285 upvotes – 196 comments

The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-023-00616-9

8 months ago

277 upvotes – 212 comments

Qwen2 LLM Released

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2/

8 months ago

261 upvotes – 130 comments

Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC

https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc

8 months ago

259 upvotes – 126 comments

AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead

https://research.google/blog/ai-in-software-engineering-at-google-progress-and-the-path-ahead/

8 months ago

253 upvotes – 227 comments

Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-brain-overgrowth-dictates-autism-severity.html

8 months ago

250 upvotes – 343 comments

Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)

https://save.tf/

8 months ago

205 upvotes – 121 comments

Zero Tolerance for Bias

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3664645

8 months ago

190 upvotes – 89 comments

TPM GPIO fail: How bad OEM firmware ruins Intel TPM security

https://mkukri.xyz/2024/06/01/tpm-gpio-fail.html

8 months ago

189 upvotes – 132 comments

Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)

https://www.qemu.org/2018/02/09/understanding-qemu-devices/

8 months ago

180 upvotes – 58 comments
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