top 50% 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

Martha Gellhorn, the only woman to report on the D-Day landings from the ground

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/martha-gellhorn-was-the-only-woman-to-report-on-the-d-day-landings-from-the-ground-180984456/

8 months ago

167 upvotes – 62 comments

HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/HP-Probook-BIOS-Upgrade-1-17-failed/td-p/9081096/page/3

8 months ago

164 upvotes – 117 comments

FBI has obtained 7k Lockbit ransomware decryption keys

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/fbi-cyber-assistant-director-bryan-vorndran-s-remarks-at-the-2024-boston-conference-on-cyber-security

8 months ago

155 upvotes – 41 comments

Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-06-04/uganda-yoweri-museveni-s-critics-targeted-via-biometric-id-system

8 months ago

154 upvotes – 205 comments

Make your program slower with threads (2014)

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/12/06/random.html

8 months ago

152 upvotes – 104 comments

PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/psa-if-youre-a-fan-of-atmega-try

8 months ago

150 upvotes – 117 comments

Dragonfly: A large vision-language model with multi-resolution zoom

https://www.together.ai/blog/dragonfly-v1

8 months ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

Let rand = main as usize (2022)

https://codeandbitters.com/main-as-usize/

8 months ago

141 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: XPipe, a brand-new type of remote file browser and shell connection hub

https://xpipe.io

8 months ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

https://gist.github.com/velzie/053ffedeaecea1a801a2769ab86ab376

8 months ago

133 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Synthesize TikZ Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches

https://github.com/potamides/DeTikZify

8 months ago

132 upvotes – 12 comments

Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4

8 months ago

132 upvotes – 132 comments

3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development (2011)

https://gamemath.com/

8 months ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus

https://thequietus.com/interviews/lola-de-la-mata-oceans-on-azimuth-tinnitus-interview/

8 months ago

119 upvotes – 103 comments

Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off

https://gizmodo.com/watch-boeing-starliner-dock-iss-astronauts-1851521917

8 months ago

118 upvotes – 81 comments

Stallman Was Right

https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1798728673698443638

8 months ago

114 upvotes – 69 comments

SpaceX's Starship rocket completes test flight, successfully splashes down

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/spacex-starship-fourth-test-spaceflight.html

8 months ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

The problem with lying is keeping track of all the lies

https://materialize.com/blog/engineering/keeping-track-lies/

8 months ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever landing burn

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798715759193096245

8 months ago

102 upvotes – 2 comments

AI-generated thumbnails used to promote 12 Angry Men on Amazon Prime

https://twitter.com/ultrabrilliant/status/1798470587230171369

8 months ago

101 upvotes – 64 comments

Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace

https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/coralogix-and-opentelemetry-on-checkly/

8 months ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba

https://github.com/idoh/mamba.np

8 months ago

100 upvotes – 35 comments

Paris Closed 100 Streets to Cars for Good. Now, the City Is a Cyclists' Paradise

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a46651907/paris-closed-100-streets-to-cars-for-good/

8 months ago

90 upvotes – 68 comments

Shu Ha Ri (2014)

https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.html

8 months ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Concrete Faith: The creation of the Bahá’í house of worship (2023)

https://design.newcity.com/2023/11/01/concrete-faith-how-the-creation-of-the-bahai-house-of-worship-changed-the-course-of-architecture-cab-2023/

8 months ago

84 upvotes – 38 comments

Costco is building out an ad business using its shoppers' data

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/06/06/costco-is-building-out-an-ad-business-using-shopper-data

8 months ago

84 upvotes – 76 comments

Hetzner lowers pricing of Intel cloud servers

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

8 months ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Microsoft Issues New Warning for 70% of All Windows Users

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/06/05/new-microsoft-warning-for-windows-10-windows-11-free-upgrade/

8 months ago

79 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: I created this land use visualisation for the Netherlands

https://koenvangilst.nl/labs/ons-land

8 months ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game

https://barretts.club/posts/rust-for-the-engine/

8 months ago

75 upvotes – 65 comments

The Lost Art of the Negative

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/arts/film-photography-negatives.html

8 months ago

75 upvotes – 66 comments

Bali's stone sarcophagi included global goods

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bali-stone-sarcophagus-artifacts

8 months ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep their work out of Meta's AI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/06/instagram-meta-ai-training-cara/

8 months ago

69 upvotes – 71 comments

'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-4995105

8 months ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

https://gist.github.com/timothyham/dd003dbad5614b425a8325ec820fd785

8 months ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

GameStop stock influencer Roaring Kitty may lose access to E-Trade, report says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/gamestop-stock-influencer-roaring-kitty-may-lose-access-to-e-trade-report-says/

8 months ago

65 upvotes – 88 comments

A web server running on an old, broken phone

https://compost.party/

8 months ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/dire-decks-wildcard-clone/

8 months ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

Tesla Cybertruck Loses to Model X in Towing Range Test – Again

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-loses-to-model-x-in-towing-range-test-again

8 months ago

63 upvotes – 45 comments
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