top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-22

Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

2 years ago

1454 upvotes – 735 comments

FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ftcs-rule-banning-fake-online-reviews-effect-115009298

2 years ago

613 upvotes – 342 comments

The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/

2 years ago

503 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: Rust Web Framework

https://github.com/levkk/rwf

2 years ago

488 upvotes – 258 comments

Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game

https://github.com/solcloud/Counter-Strike

2 years ago

420 upvotes – 168 comments

A new JSON data type for ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-for-clickhouse

2 years ago

382 upvotes – 122 comments

USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/unlocking-arkansas-hidden-treasure-usgs-uses-machine-learning-show-large

2 years ago

337 upvotes – 222 comments

A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/tech-coup-new-book-shows-how-unchecked-power-companies-destabilizing-governance

2 years ago

333 upvotes – 344 comments

Learning to Learn

https://kevin.the.li/posts/learning-to-learn/

2 years ago

320 upvotes – 139 comments

MQTT turns 25

https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/10/22/mqtt-turns-25-heres-how-it-has-endured/

2 years ago

289 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

https://www.theverge.com/24275178/apple-airpods-pro-hearing-aid-test-protection-preview

2 years ago

282 upvotes – 211 comments

Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-22/meta-bans-accounts-tracking-private-jets-for-zuckerberg-musk

2 years ago

269 upvotes – 250 comments

Tog's Paradox

https://www.votito.com/methods/togs-paradox/

2 years ago

260 upvotes – 100 comments

Against /tmp

https://dotat.at/@/2024-10-22-tmp.html

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 159 comments

LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

https://github.com/SysSec-KAIST/LTESniffer

2 years ago

256 upvotes – 49 comments

Pygfx

https://docs.pygfx.org/stable/index.html

2 years ago

253 upvotes – 54 comments

Don't Publish with IEEE (2005)

http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 92 comments

'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain

https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/22/visual-clutter-alters-information-flow-brain

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 102 comments

The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022)

https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2022/03/ikigai_japanese_secret_to_a_joyful_life.html

2 years ago

202 upvotes – 116 comments

Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 263 comments

Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/science/norman-coins-most-valuable-find-britain-intl-scli/index.html

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 82 comments

Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13296

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 16 comments

I got dysentery so you don’t have to

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/10/21/i-got-dysentery-so-you-dont-have-to/

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-performance-outperforms/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 44 comments

Understanding Gaussians

https://gestalt.ink/gaussians

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 34 comments

Simone Giertz talks about invention

https://spectrum.ieee.org/simone-giertz

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 45 comments

How DRAM changed the world

https://www.micron.com/about/blog/memory/dram/how-dram-changed-the-world

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 117 comments

Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia

https://mothership.sg/2024/10/ema-conditional-approval-sun-cable/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 148 comments

The PlanetScale vectors public beta

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-vectors-public-beta

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 35 comments

The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987a (2017)

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/the-dawn-of-a-new-era-for-supernova-1987a/

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 180 comments

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018)

http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Streaming joins are hard

https://estuary.dev/streaming-joins-are-hard/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 57 comments

Wired's Attack on Privacy

https://simplex.chat/blog/20241016-wired-attack-on-privacy.html

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 72 comments

One Plus One Equals Two (2006)

https://blog.plover.com/math/PM.html

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 61 comments

Parks on the Air

https://parksontheair.com/index.html

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 57 comments

Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox

https://github.com/Sohimaster/Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 90 comments

Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning

https://ambulate.app

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 57 comments

TSMC told US of chip in Huawei product after TechInsights finding, source says

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-told-us-chip-huawei-device-after-techinsights-finding-source-says-2024-10-22/

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 69 comments

SEC charges four companies with misleading cyber disclosures

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-174

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing

https://quansight.com/post/my-numpy-year-creating-a-dtype-for-the-next-generation-of-scientific-computing/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/stabilityai-releases-stable-diffusion-3-5-a-step-up-in-realism

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: Steiner – An open-source reasoning model inspired by OpenAI o1

https://medium.com/@peakji/a-small-step-towards-reproducing-openai-o1-b9a756a00855

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/28/a-controversial-rare-book-dealer-tries-to-rewrite-his-own-ending

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)

https://www.techtarget.com/searchhrsoftware/news/365531979/Nearly-40-of-software-engineers-will-only-work-remotely

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 131 comments

IBM's new SWE agents for developers

https://research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-swe-agents

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments

Ataraxia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataraxia

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Svelte 5

https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-5-is-alive

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile

https://riscv.org/announcements/2024/10/risc-v-announces-ratification-of-the-rva23-profile-standard/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 55 comments

Marketing the Odin programming language is weird

http://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/09/08/odin-weird-to-market/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 101 comments

Species in Pieces

http://species-in-pieces.com

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

How I Defeated an MMO Game Hack Author

https://thecodist.com/how-i-defeated-an-mmo-game-hack-author/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Order and orient the keys on your keychain

https://practicalbetterments.com/order-and-orient-the-keys-on-your-keychain/

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 76 comments

How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide

https://www.kkyri.com/p/how-to-secure-your-new-vps-a-step-by-step-guide

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 39 comments

How fast is quantum entanglement? Scientists investigate it at attosecond scale

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-fast-quantum-entanglement-scientists-attosecond.html

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 54 comments

Vampire Number

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/VampireNumber.html

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Defender Sound Studio

https://www.zapspace.net/defender_sound/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: How to Learn 'To Think'?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41909855

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 53 comments

Seeing faces in things: A model and dataset for pareidolia

https://mhamilton.net/facesinthings

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Tesla delays Cybertruck's range extender, reduces its range

https://electrek.co/2024/10/21/tesla-delays-cybertrucks-range-extender-reduces-its-range/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: I made a tool for curating and sharing links as lists

https://snack.xyz/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments
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