top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-09

PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights

https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/

2 years ago

917 upvotes – 419 comments

Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com

https://twitter.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018

2 years ago

895 upvotes – 368 comments

Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience

https://rye.astral.sh/

2 years ago

527 upvotes – 317 comments

Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers

https://stackdiary.com/linksys-velop-routers-send-wi-fi-passwords-in-plaintext-to-us-servers/

2 years ago

498 upvotes – 219 comments

Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/08/github_copilot_dmca/

2 years ago

381 upvotes – 445 comments

Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/turbopuffer

2 years ago

379 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust

https://github.com/bitwhip/bitwhip

2 years ago

353 upvotes – 69 comments

Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery

https://ai-murder-mystery.onrender.com/

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 128 comments

So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide

https://www.photoroom.com/inside-photoroom/so-you-want-to-rent-an-nvidia-h100-cluster-2024-consumer-guide?slug=inside-photoroom/so-you-want-to-rent-an-nvidia-h100-cluster-2024-consumer-guide&_storyblok_published=511470179&

2 years ago

297 upvotes – 139 comments

MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use

https://github.com/facebookresearch/MobileLLM

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library

https://crawlee.dev/python/

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 57 comments

The zombie misconception of theoretical computer science

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8106

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 216 comments

Ask HN: How do browsers isolate internal audio from microphone input?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918152

2 years ago

238 upvotes – 99 comments

Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing (2011)

http://www.rossbencina.com/code/real-time-audio-programming-101-time-waits-for-nothing

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 121 comments

How CD pregaps gained their hidden track superpowers

https://tedium.co/2024/07/06/compact-disc-pregap-history/

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 134 comments

State of Text Rendering 2024

https://behdad.org/text2024/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 66 comments

Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%

https://noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-grants-gdpr-rights-rate-0

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 102 comments

Student uses black soldier flies to grow pea plants in simulated Martian soil

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-aerospace-student-black-soldier-flies.html

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 53 comments

Circos – Circular Visualization

https://circos.ca/

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 28 comments

Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jul/08/tokyos-oldest-train-line-jr-yamanote-in-pictures

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

Scoped Propagators

https://www.orionreed.com/posts/scoped-propagators

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear

https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 128 comments

You Want to Fix Boeing? Prosecute Its Executives

https://www.thefp.com/p/fix-boeing-prosecute-executives-joe-nocera

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 54 comments

The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)

https://blog.westerndigital.com/race-to-seal-helium/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 127 comments

Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/aquaculture/report-nearly-2-million-metric-tons-of-wild-fish-used-to-feed-norwegian-farmed-salmon-annually

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 247 comments

Evolve Bank and Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6M people's data

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/evolve_lockbit_attack/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 74 comments

Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response

https://warandpeas.com/2024/07/09/another-ai-company-wrote-us-and-heres-our-response/

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 196 comments

Dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly

https://thiscontext.com/2023/07/26/dynamic-translation-of-smalltalk-to-webassembly/

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 23 comments

Knowledge Graphs in RAG: Hype vs. Ragas Analysis

https://aiencoder.substack.com/p/graphrag-analysis-part-1-how-indexing

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 21 comments

CVE-2024-6409: OpenSSH: Possible remote code execution in privsep child

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/2

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 56 comments

HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/hp-discontinues-online-only-laserjet-printers-in-response-to-backlash

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 130 comments

Sljit: Platform independent low-level JIT compiler

https://github.com/zherczeg/sljit

2 years ago

139 upvotes – 21 comments

How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards

https://flyingcarcomputer.com/posts/how-to-validate-market-with-development-board/

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 115 comments

End-to-end congestion control cannot avoid latency spikes (2022)

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/01/26/beyond-bufferbloat-end-to-end-congestion-control-cannot-avoid-latency-spikes/

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 51 comments

Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11254

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 127 comments

Don't use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]

https://harold.thimbleby.net/cv/files/seven-segment.pdf

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 130 comments

New insights into transcription factors and chromatin remodeling

https://longevity.technology/news/master-controller-of-aging-and-development-uncovered/

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 68 comments

Docs as code (2017)

https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 99 comments

Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a61532276/mandatory-speed-limiters-europe-cars/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 388 comments

A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel

https://invinciblethegame.com/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/johns-hopkins-bloomberg-donation

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 58 comments

Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive: A laptop webcam with smartphone technology

https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-13-deep-dive---a-laptop-webcam-with-smartphone-technology

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 29 comments

Pulitzer winning reporter faces jail for protecting funding scandal sources

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/anna-wolfe-pulitzer-mississippi-welfare-scandal-phil-bryant-rcna159936

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

OneFileLinux: A 20MB Alpine metadistro that fits into the ESP

https://hub.zhovner.com/geek/one-file-linux/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Just Use Postgres for Everything

https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

LightRAG: The PyTorch Library for Large Language Model Applications

https://github.com/SylphAI-Inc/LightRAG

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Daylight eInk Computer

https://daylightcomputer.com

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 63 comments

Russia Leverages AI-enhanced "Meliorator" software for foreign malign influence

https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/news-events/russian-state-sponsored-media-organization-leverages-ai-enhanced-meliorator-software-foreign-malign-influence-activity

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Maelstrom – A Hermetic, Clustered Test Runner for Python and Rust

https://github.com/maelstrom-software/maelstrom

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Full AMD Ryzen PC in a Folding Mini Keyboard

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/ryzen-mini-pc-gets-wedged-into-a-folding-keyboard-form-factor-battery-included-all-you-need-is-a-display

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Parallel DOM – Upgrade your DOM to be multithreaded

https://www.pdom.dev/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 78 comments

Surprising gender biases in GPT

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/mp27q

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 140 comments

Show HN: Create Music with R

https://github.com/flujoo/gm

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

FAA orders inspection of 2,600 Boeing 737s over oxygen mask issue

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-orders-inspections-2600-boeing-737-airplanes-over-oxygen-mask-issue-2024-07-08/

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes

https://www.alanagoyal.com/how-this-works

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

"Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero (2021)

https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n1i336p03/release/2

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

Ariane 6 first flight (Official broadcast)[video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oFpOJaIYc

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Unreal Engine 5 in WebGPU

https://twitter.com/AlexStLouis10/status/1810514325632659742

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Metal thieves in America's cities

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/us/copper-theft-heavy-metal.html

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 189 comments

The Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Attention Is a Proof of Love

https://papanotes.com/attention-is-a-proof-of-love

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

the US government's brilliantly boring websites

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/26/1093656/us-government-website-design-accessibility/

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

What Happens When Your Bank Isn't a Bank and Your Money Disappears?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/business/synapse-bankruptcy-fintech-fdic-insurance.html

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/new-blast-radius-attack-breaks-30-year-old-protocol-used-in-networks-everywhere/

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

OpenFeature: Standardizing Feature Flagging

https://openfeature.dev/

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Another Silicon Valley institution died spring of 2019: Halted/HSC

http://halted.com

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/07/01/microsofts-weather-app-now-displays-more-ads/

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 77 comments
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