top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-13

Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

2 years ago

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration

2 years ago

MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/06/13/web/mlow-metas-low-bitrate-audio-codec/

2 years ago

Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printed-rocket

2 years ago

AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amd-ceo-lisa-su-reminisces-on-helping-design-the-ps3s-infamous-cell-processor-at-ibm

2 years ago

Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative

https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool

2 years ago

Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mouth-based-touchpad-augmental-0605

2 years ago

U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-saudi-petrodollar-pact-ends-after-50-years

2 years ago

AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference

https://www.blog.tensorwave.com/amds-mi300x-outperforms-nvidias-h100-for-llm-inference/

2 years ago

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll

https://avherald.com/h?article=519ce679

2 years ago

IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/11/ikeas-boss-solved-swedish-retailers-global-unhappy-worker-crisis-raising-salaries-introducing-flexible-working-subsidized-childcare/

2 years ago

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize

https://lithub.com/ted-chiang-has-won-the-pen-faulkner-foundations-short-story-prize/

2 years ago

Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting

https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/watercolour-plots

2 years ago

Luma AI Dream Machine

https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine

2 years ago

Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed

https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-says-it-wants-all-snapdragon-x-elite-laptops-destroyed/

2 years ago

You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

2 years ago

Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad

https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1801253187602788424

2 years ago

Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280

2 years ago

Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/13/kids-no-iphone-screen-time

2 years ago

I bought an encyclopedia

https://www.optoutproject.net/what-is-true-on-the-internet/

2 years ago

New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos

https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/new-algorithm-discovers-language-just-watching-videos

2 years ago

OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board

https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-retired-us-army-general/

2 years ago

IntelliJ GitHub Plugin leaking credentials

https://blog.jetbrains.com/security/2024/06/updates-for-security-issue-affecting-intellij-based-ides-2023-1-and-github-plugin/

2 years ago

Satellite data show electromagnetic anomalies 19 days before Turkey earthquake

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-reveal-electromagnetic-anomalies-days.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668427

2 years ago

iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in

https://iterm2.com/downloads.html

2 years ago

Lamini Memory Tuning: 10x Fewer Hallucinations

https://www.lamini.ai/blog/lamini-memory-tuning

2 years ago

Study finds juvenile dolphins who play together are more successful as adults

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-juvenile-dolphins-play-successful-adults.html

2 years ago

Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code

https://yobibyte.github.io/notebooks.html

2 years ago

Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/the-rent-is-too-dang-high-in-cities-skylines-2-so-the-devs-nuked-the-landlords/

2 years ago

SSH agent extensions as an arbitrary RPC mechanism

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/69646.html

2 years ago

The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza

https://globalvoices.org/2024/06/13/the-ingenious-network-tree-defying-gazas-connectivity-blockade/

2 years ago

Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE

https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-17-streaming-io

2 years ago

Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world

https://electrek.co/2024/06/11/germany-automakers-ev-production/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Widespread Apathy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673039

2 years ago

What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08478

2 years ago

React 19 Breaks Async Composability

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/26380

2 years ago

VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team

https://ask.vrchat.com/t/an-email-from-our-ceo/25060

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668459

2 years ago

Enhancing Code Completion for Rust in Cody

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/enhancing-code-completion-for-rust-in-cody

2 years ago

Anticipatory Anxiety

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/william-davies/anticipatory-anxiety

2 years ago

Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/13/canada-imposes-5-tax-on-streaming-to-fund-local-news-diverse-content/

2 years ago

Why not just embed Neovim?

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-vim

2 years ago

Embedded Swift [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxbsADqDI4

2 years ago

Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album (Eventually)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/music/wu-tang-clan-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin.html

2 years ago

Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS

https://gizmodo.com/boeing-starliner-spacecraft-fifth-helium-leak-iss-nasa-1851534977

2 years ago

The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control

https://ykulbashian.medium.com/the-uncanny-is-the-experience-of-a-loss-of-control-06a3fb4dbcd1

2 years ago

Show HN: Pathway – Build Mission Critical ETL and RAG in Python (NATO, F1 Used)

https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway

2 years ago

Show HN: Paramount – Human Evals of AI Customer Support

https://github.com/ask-fini/paramount

2 years ago

From grep to SPLADE: a journey through semantic search

https://blog.elicit.com/semantic-search/

2 years ago

Taboos and self-censorship among U.S. psychology professors

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916241252085

2 years ago

NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of distressed astronauts

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-accidentally-broadcasts-simulation-distressed-astronauts-space-station-2024-06-13/

2 years ago

Whose CIDR is it anyway?

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cidr-allocations.html

2 years ago

Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck

https://github.com/morishin/XDeck

2 years ago

Apple to 'pay' OpenAI for ChatGPT through distribution, not cash

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/apple-to-pay-openai-for-chatgpt-through-distribution-not-cash-1.2084539

2 years ago

The Four Kinds of Research-and-Development Teams

http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2024/four-kinds-of-rd-teams.html

2 years ago

Chinese yuan becomes Russia's main foreign currency, replacing dollar and euro

https://unn.ua/en/news/the-chinese-yuan-officially-became-russias-main-foreign-currency-replacing-the-dollar-and-the-euro

2 years ago

Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?

https://sakana.ai/llm-squared/

2 years ago

Microsoft's Nadella is building an AI empire

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-nadella-openai-inflection-9727e77a

2 years ago

US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-backs-starbucks-over-fired-pro-union-workers-2024-06-13/

2 years ago