top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-05

Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts

https://battleda.sh/blog/ea-account-takeover

2 years ago

AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/for-the-first-time-ever-amd-outsells-intel-in-the-datacenter-space

2 years ago

Hacker Fab

https://docs.hackerfab.org/hacker-fab-space

2 years ago

Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1vze09wwo

2 years ago

Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions

https://twitter.com/kakashiii111/status/1853433531260649532

2 years ago

New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working Saudi Vision 2030

https://www.archpaper.com/2024/10/documentary-reveals-21000-workers-killed-saudi-vision-2030-neom/

2 years ago

Zig's (.{}){} Syntax

https://www.openmymind.net/Zigs-weird-syntax/

2 years ago

Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

https://thenewstack.io/why-companies-are-ditching-the-cloud-the-rise-of-cloud-repatriation/

2 years ago

Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs

2 years ago

Failure analysis of the Arecibo 305 meter telescope collapse

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/26982/chapter/1

2 years ago

Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)

https://clagnut.com/blog/2426

2 years ago

State of Python 3.13 performance: Free-threading

https://codspeed.io/blog/state-of-python-3-13-performance-free-threading

2 years ago

Traceroute Isn't Real

https://gekk.info/articles/traceroute.htm

2 years ago

Unix Programmer's Manual Third Edition [pdf] (1973)

https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v3man/v3man.pdf

2 years ago

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

2 years ago

Tracking down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979

https://www.ncrabbithole.com/p/tony-hawk-fayetteville-nc-girl-skateboarder-1979

2 years ago

Show HN: I wrote an open-source browser alternative for Computer Use for any LLM

https://github.com/gregpr07/browser-use

2 years ago

U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nstc

2 years ago

What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like?

https://www.thonking.ai/p/what-shapes-do-matrix-multiplications

2 years ago

Study reveals blood sugar control is a key factor in slowing brain aging

https://www.bgu.ac.il/en/news-and-articles/blood-sugar-control-is-key-factor-in-slowing-brain-aging/

2 years ago

Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang

https://github.com/Dr-Nekoma/lyceum

2 years ago

Tencent Hunyuan-Large

https://github.com/Tencent/Tencent-Hunyuan-Large

2 years ago

Show HN: rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler

https://github.com/darwindarak/rallyup

2 years ago

Show HN: Whirlwind – Async concurrent hashmap for Rust

https://github.com/fortress-build/whirlwind

2 years ago

Revealing causal links in complex systems: New algorithm shows hidden influences

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-revealing-causal-links-complex-algorithm.html

2 years ago

Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program

https://www.torquenews.com/1084/fisker-evs-hired-it-spy-who-funneled-millions-north-koreas-missile-program-case-fbi

2 years ago

DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text

https://spectrum.ieee.org/watermark

2 years ago

Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder

https://www.imdb-sql.com/

2 years ago

Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast (2013)

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/boeing-wonderland-the-fake-cities-on-americas-west-coast/

2 years ago

Apple 'broke law' by pushing out labor-organizing dev

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/apple_labor_law_nlrb/

2 years ago

Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/meta-ai-military.html

2 years ago

Programmer in Berlin: Culture

https://wickedchicken.github.io/post/programmer-in-berlin-culture/

2 years ago

Wooden satellite heads to space in Mars exploration test

https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-heads-to-space-in-mars-exploration-test-13248719

2 years ago

PiML: Python Interpretable Machine Learning Toolbox

https://github.com/SelfExplainML/PiML-Toolbox

2 years ago

The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins and the Results Were Wild

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-navy-put-cameras-on-dolphins-and-the-results-were-wild

2 years ago

Why software only moves forward

https://swizec.com/blog/why-software-only-moves-forward/

2 years ago

Will plants grow on the moon?

https://worldsensorium.com/will-plants-grow-on-the-moon/

2 years ago

Polymarket paid US social media influencers for election content

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-05/polymarket-paid-us-social-media-influencers-for-election-content

2 years ago

Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

https://archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2024/features/let-the-games-begin/

2 years ago

The Argonaut Octopus Has Mastered the Free Ride

https://defector.com/the-argonaut-octopus-has-mastered-the-free-ride

2 years ago

The Eternal Mainframe (2013)

https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

2 years ago

Minnesota map to find out if your home's drinking water comes through lead pipe

https://www.startribune.com/check-this-minnesota-map-to-find-out-if-your-homes-drinking-water-comes-through-a-lead-pipe/601174459

2 years ago

The heist that made the Mona Lisa famous

https://www.history.com/news/the-heist-that-made-the-mona-lisa-famous

2 years ago

Study shows bats have acoustic cognitive maps

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-echolocating-acoustic-cognitive.html

2 years ago

Understanding privacy risk with k-anonymity and l-diversity

https://marcusolsson.dev/k-anonymity-and-l-diversity/

2 years ago

19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-19th-century-toy-book-used-science-to-prove-that-ghosts-were-simply-an-illusion-180985347/

2 years ago

What if they are all wrong? (2020)

https://igorpak.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/what-if-they-are-all-wrong/

2 years ago

Scientists decipher two-photon vision

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-scientists-decipher-photon-vision.html

2 years ago

The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/homebuyer-average-age-rises-to-56-amid-rising-homeownership-costs.html

2 years ago

Ternary Operators

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/a-list-of-ternary-operators/

2 years ago

Statistical challenges and misreadings of literature create unreplicable science [pdf]

https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/healing.pdf

2 years ago

Apple to Face First EU Fine Under Bloc's Digital Markets Act

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-05/apple-to-face-first-eu-fine-under-bloc-s-digital-markets-act

2 years ago

Soft matter mechanics of baseball's Rubbing Mud

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413514121

2 years ago

Netnews: The Origin Story [pdf]

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf

2 years ago

Vega's Puzzling Disk

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/11/05/vegas-puzzling-disk/

2 years ago

New OpenAI Feature: Predicted Outputs

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/4/predicted-outputs/

2 years ago

Pm-AMM: A Uniform Automated Market Maker for Prediction Markets

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/11/pm-amm

2 years ago

Boeing ends crippling strike as workers accept latest offer

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-05/boeing-ends-crippling-strike-after-workers-accept-latest-offer

2 years ago

We Shall Fight in the Buttery – Oxford's War 1939–1945

https://literaryreview.co.uk/we-shall-fight-in-the-buttery

2 years ago

The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669

https://lwn.net/Articles/997002/

2 years ago

Honeybee gene specifies collective behavior, research shows

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-honeybee-gene-behavior.html

2 years ago

Why shouldn't you give money to homeless people?

https://spiralprogress.com/2024/11/04/why-shouldnt-you-give-money-to-homeless-people/

2 years ago