913
380
Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-privacy
2 years ago
818
869
Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798701489097183286
625
260
I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
https://edw.is/learning-vulkan/
524
168
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
480
157
Roman Roads (2017)
https://sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roman-roads-original/
414
143
Extracting concepts from GPT-4
https://openai.com/index/extracting-concepts-from-gpt-4/
372
251
Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
https://geospatial.netlify.app/posts/gds-2024-04-20-cathedrals/
350
135
lsix: Like "ls", but for images
https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix
308
203
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/
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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/
285
196
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
277
212
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
261
130
Qwen2 LLM Released
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2/
259
126
Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc
253
227
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/
250
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Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-brain-overgrowth-dictates-autism-severity.html
205
121
Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
https://save.tf/
190
89
Zero Tolerance for Bias
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3664645
189
132
TPM GPIO fail: How bad OEM firmware ruins Intel TPM security
https://mkukri.xyz/2024/06/01/tpm-gpio-fail.html
180
58
Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)
https://www.qemu.org/2018/02/09/understanding-qemu-devices/
167
62
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/
164
117
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
155
41
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
154
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
152
104
Make your program slower with threads (2014)
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/12/06/random.html
150
PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/psa-if-youre-a-fan-of-atmega-try
36
Dragonfly: A large vision-language model with multi-resolution zoom
https://www.together.ai/blog/dragonfly-v1
141
45
Let rand = main as usize (2022)
https://codeandbitters.com/main-as-usize/
136
66
Show HN: XPipe, a brand-new type of remote file browser and shell connection hub
https://xpipe.io
133
92
PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
https://gist.github.com/velzie/053ffedeaecea1a801a2769ab86ab376
12
Show HN: Synthesize TikZ Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches
https://github.com/potamides/DeTikZify
Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4
131
44
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development (2011)
https://gamemath.com/
119
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An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
https://thequietus.com/interviews/lola-de-la-mata-oceans-on-azimuth-tinnitus-interview/
118
81
Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off
https://gizmodo.com/watch-boeing-starliner-dock-iss-astronauts-1851521917
114
69
Stallman Was Right
https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1798728673698443638
112
2
SpaceX's Starship rocket completes test flight, successfully splashes down
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/spacex-starship-fourth-test-spaceflight.html
106
53
The problem with lying is keeping track of all the lies
https://materialize.com/blog/engineering/keeping-track-lies/
102
Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever landing burn
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798715759193096245
101
64
AI-generated thumbnails used to promote 12 Angry Men on Amazon Prime
https://twitter.com/ultrabrilliant/status/1798470587230171369
Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/coralogix-and-opentelemetry-on-checkly/
100
35
A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba
https://github.com/idoh/mamba.np
90
68
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/
29
Shu Ha Ri (2014)
https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.html
84
38
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/
76
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
31
Hetzner lowers pricing of Intel cloud servers
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
79
122
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/
78
27
Show HN: I created this land use visualisation for the Netherlands
https://koenvangilst.nl/labs/ons-land
75
The Lost Art of the Negative
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/arts/film-photography-negatives.html
65
Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game
https://barretts.club/posts/rust-for-the-engine/
70
21
Bali's stone sarcophagi included global goods
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bali-stone-sarcophagus-artifacts
28
'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-4995105
Show HN: A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins
https://gist.github.com/timothyham/dd003dbad5614b425a8325ec820fd785
71
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/
88
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/
63
9
A web server running on an old, broken phone
https://compost.party/
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
5
Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/dire-decks-wildcard-clone/
61
49
Le vieux Paris n'est plus
https://davidabell.substack.com/p/le-vieux-paris-nest-plus
39
Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language? (2010)
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4201/is-there-a-bnf-grammar-of-the-tex-language
59
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US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/06/2024/us-government-doj-antitrust-nvidia-semiconductor-chips-artificial-intelligence
57
Extreme Climate Impacts from Collapse of AMOC Could Be Worse Than Expected
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/climate-impacts-from-collapse-of-atlantic-meridional-overturning-current-could-be-worse-than-expected/
30
Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight
https://spacenews.com/starship-survives-reentry-during-fourth-test-flight/
54
Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More
https://telegram.org/blog/telegram-stars
56
43
Study Finds 268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/06/06/022253/study-finds-268-higher-failure-rates-for-agile-software-projects
48
Show HN: Interviews Chat – Never bomb another job interview with this AI copilot
https://www.interviews.chat