top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-18

Why wordfreq will not be updated

https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

2 years ago

Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC

https://timculpan.substack.com/p/apple-mobile-processors-are-now-made

2 years ago

Is Tor still safe to use?

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

2 years ago

Comic Mono

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

2 years ago

LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool

https://twitter.com/RachelTobac/status/1836471586624540705

2 years ago

HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/http-ftp-and-dict/

2 years ago

Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

https://github.com/zlwaterfield/scramble

2 years ago

Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue

https://github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi

2 years ago

GPU Puzzles

https://github.com/srush/GPU-Puzzles

2 years ago

Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting

https://knhash.in/gentle-guide-to-self-hosting/

2 years ago

Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/open_source_maintainers_underpaid/

2 years ago

Llama 3.1 Omni Model

https://github.com/ictnlp/LLaMA-Omni

2 years ago

Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/

2 years ago

CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)

http://pscbc.blogspot.com/2013/03/cuny-first-computer-system-to-aid.html

2 years ago

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ban-strawberry-reasoning

2 years ago

0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced

https://www.districtcon.org/junkyard

2 years ago

RabbitMQ 4.0

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases/tag/v4.0.1

2 years ago

A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM

https://github.com/exaloop/codon

2 years ago

PeerTube 6.3

https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-6.3

2 years ago

AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ai-health-care-1.7322671

2 years ago

Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/sep/18/fable-at-20-a-uniquely-british-video-game-with-a-complex-legacy

2 years ago

Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/09/17/data-infrastructure/inside-bento-jupyter-notebooks-at-meta/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail

https://www.crowdwave.com

2 years ago

Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"

https://twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/1834633042339741961

2 years ago

Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls

2 years ago

Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System

https://github.com/denys-olleik/accounting

2 years ago

Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/8121#note_1237201726

2 years ago

26-Year-Old EY Employee Succumbs to 'Work Stress' Four Months After Joining

https://old.reddit.com/r/CharteredAccountants/comments/1fj08v9/ey_employee_died_of_work_pressure

2 years ago

Hezbollah hand-held radios explode, killing three, one day after pager blasts

https://www.reuters.com/world/hezbollah-pager-explosions-live-2024-09-17/

2 years ago

Lichess: Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/post-mortem-of-our-longest-downtime/XAgG7jbd

2 years ago

GM electric vehicles can now access Tesla Superchargers

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247122/gm-ev-tesla-supercharger-access-adapter-price

2 years ago

Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2823787

2 years ago

Things I've learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/18/board-of-the-python-software-foundation/

2 years ago

Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/

2 years ago

Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks

https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/ruby-saml-pwned-by-xml-signature-wrapping-attacks/

2 years ago

20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel

https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux-makes-it-to-the-kernel-really/

2 years ago

Tiny Tapeout VGA Playground

https://tinytapeout.github.io/vga-playground/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579134

2 years ago

Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/8.0.0

2 years ago

Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API

https://omarshehata.substack.com/p/twitter-shut-off-api-access-users

2 years ago

Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)

https://olivergrimsley.com/2022/03/04/please-stop-putting-cookie-pop-ups-on-your-website/

2 years ago

Knowledge graphs using Ollama and Embeddings to answer and visualizing queries

https://github.com/punnerud/Local_Knowledge_Graph

2 years ago

iOS 18 breaks IMAPS self-signed certs

https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/756626

2 years ago

Show HN: Parse your Postgres queries into a fully-typed AST in TypeScript

https://github.com/pg-nano/pg-parser

2 years ago

Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/18/iphone-16-restored-wirelessly-another-iphone/

2 years ago

J2ME-Loader: J2ME emulator for Android devices

https://github.com/nikita36078/J2ME-Loader

2 years ago

Large Text Compression Benchmark

http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

2 years ago

Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-researchers-fossil-trove-1.7325926

2 years ago

Show HN: Selectable – mobile-friendly Postgres client

https://getselectable.com/

2 years ago

The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry

https://soatok.blog/2024/09/18/the-continued-trajectory-of-idiocy-in-the-tech-industry/

2 years ago

Crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/how-crypto-bros-wrested-flappy-bird-from-its-creator/

2 years ago

Compile and Run C in JavaScript

https://bun.sh/blog/compile-and-run-c-in-js

2 years ago

The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame

https://www.gq.com/story/the-miraculous-resurrection-of-notre-dame

2 years ago

IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/ibm_job_cuts/

2 years ago

iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount

https://qz.com/apple-iphone-16-pre-orders-sales-intelligence-ai-1851651638

2 years ago

Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks

https://github.com/nteract/papermill

2 years ago

Asgard launches world's first DDR5-9600 DIMMs

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/asgard-launches-worlds-first-ddr5-9600-cudimms-promising-ddr5-10000-modules-are-on-the-way

2 years ago

Restish: CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features

https://rest.sh/

2 years ago

Fed Cuts Rates by a Half Percentage Point

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20240918a.htm

2 years ago

A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1710/a-message-from-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-to-employees

2 years ago