top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-18

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/stop-chat-control

2 years ago

KidPix

https://kidpix.app

2 years ago

Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/themen/digitale-grundrechte/chatkontrolle

2 years ago

Cyber Scarecrow

https://www.cyberscarecrow.com/

2 years ago

A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723302

2 years ago

Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta

https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/rice-farming-gets-an-ai-upgrade/

2 years ago

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

https://www.radius.to

2 years ago

Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/nature-retracts-highly-cited-2002-paper-that-claimed-adult-stem-cells-could-become-any-type-of-cell/

2 years ago

Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space

https://billard.medusis.com/

2 years ago

3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo

https://ubc-vision.github.io/3dgs-mcmc/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app

https://github.com/niedev/RTranslator

2 years ago

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR

https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fair-research-new-releases/

2 years ago

Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/18/amazon-fine-labor-law-california/

2 years ago

Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/06/18/off-path-tcp-hijacking-in-nat-enabled-wi-fi-networks/

2 years ago

Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717

2 years ago

Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03057-9

2 years ago

Satellites Spotting Ships

https://tech.marksblogg.com/yolo-umbra-sar-satellites-ship-detection.html

2 years ago

Carabiner Collection

https://www.carabinercollection.com/

2 years ago

TikTag: Breaking ARM's memory tagging extension with speculative execution

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08719

2 years ago

Loop: Open-source macOS window manager

https://github.com/MrKai77/Loop

2 years ago

Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs

https://www.boundaryml.com/blog/structured-output-from-llms

2 years ago

The short, happy reign of CD-ROM

https://www.fastcompany.com/91128052/history-of-cd-roms-encarta-myst

2 years ago

What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? (2023)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

2 years ago

IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison

https://3tilley.github.io/posts/simple-ipc-ping-pong/

2 years ago

Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping

https://www.tylermw.com/posts/rayverse/displacement-mapping.html

2 years ago

Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

https://spectrum.ieee.org/vannevar-bush

2 years ago

Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl

https://blog.christianperone.com/2023/06/appreciating-llms-data-pipelines/

2 years ago

Code Models

https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/code-models

2 years ago

Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/spur-risc-iv-the-lisp-multiprocessor

2 years ago

YaFSDP: a sharded data parallelism framework, faster for pre-training LLMs

https://github.com/yandex/YaFSDP

2 years ago

Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-02011-6/index.html

2 years ago

The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/06/17/go-iterator-design/

2 years ago

When are SSDs slow?

https://cedardb.com/blog/ssd_latency/

2 years ago

Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

https://fortune.com/2024/06/16/electricity-prices-france-negative-renewable-energy-supply-solar-power-wind-turbines/

2 years ago

Noam Chomsky has not passed away

https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1803142677174911102

2 years ago

What happens to latency if service time is cut in half (2022)

https://pveentjer.github.io/misc/2022/04/18/service-time-cut-in-half.html

2 years ago

The Public Interest Internet

https://berjon.com/public-interest-internet/

2 years ago

The misunderstood Kessler Syndrome

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/understanding-the-misunderstood-kessler-syndrome/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719253

2 years ago

The shape of information

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-information

2 years ago

Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720121

2 years ago

Maryland pardons 175,000 people of cannabis convictions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx99kpgkg4wo

2 years ago

Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/18/gavin-newsom-wants-to-take-smart-phones-out-of-schools-00163852

2 years ago

Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/

2 years ago

Booking.com ignores twofactor, lets everyone email-login without a password

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720674

2 years ago

Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git (2021)

https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/freecad-and-git/

2 years ago

Stellarium Web Online Star Map

https://stellarium-web.org/

2 years ago

The Eggcorn Database

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net

2 years ago

Malaysia to Join BRICS

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/18/malaysias-anwar-flags-brics-membership-praises-xi-as-outstanding-leader

2 years ago

The ChatGPT Linux System

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/chatgpt-linux.html

2 years ago

Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash

https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniques-automating-complex-tasks-with-bash/

2 years ago

Translate Datadog Metrics into OTLP

https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/18/translate-datadog-metrics-into-otlp-with-the-opentelemetry-collector-and-grafana-alloy/

2 years ago

Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

https://www.noemamag.com/social-media-messed-up-our-kids-now-it-is-making-us-ungovernable/

2 years ago

Show HN: Ritt – Tag-centric file manager

https://ritt.app/

2 years ago

ControlNet Game of Life

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/diffusion-gol/

2 years ago

Social-Media Influencers Aren't Getting Rich–They're Barely Getting By

https://www.wsj.com/tech/social-media-influencers-arent-getting-richtheyre-barely-getting-by-71e0aad3

2 years ago

The difference between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718498

2 years ago

A Hollywood star lobbies the EU for more surveillance (2022)

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance/

2 years ago

Revolutionizing solar plant prospection with automated viewshed analysis

https://www.go-inicio.com/blog/a-new-look-revolutionizing-solar-plant-prospection-with-automated-viewshed-analysis

2 years ago

Teachers: Inclusion is the worst thing to have happened to education

https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1dhx1vm/inclusion_is_the_worst_thing_to_have_happened_to/

2 years ago

Framework: A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing

https://frame.work/fr/en/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

2 years ago

Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/18/apple-suspends-work-on-vision-pro-2/

2 years ago

U.S..D.A. Suspends Avocado Inspections in Mexico, Citing Security Concerns

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/world/americas/mexico-avocado-inspections-suspended.html

2 years ago