top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-12-11

Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/

2 months ago

1015 upvotes – 490 comments

FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-408129A1.txt

2 months ago

728 upvotes – 295 comments

Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/business/media/the-onion-infowars-alex-jones.html

2 months ago

584 upvotes – 935 comments

2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-408083A1.txt

2 months ago

518 upvotes – 309 comments

Review of Mullvad VPN

https://x41-dsec.de/news/2024/12/11/mullvad/

2 months ago

476 upvotes – 203 comments

Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/new-jersey-drone-sightings-state-of-emergency

2 months ago

458 upvotes – 874 comments

PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention

https://joinpeertube.org/news/peertube-app

2 months ago

458 upvotes – 156 comments

Dear OAuth Providers

https://pilcrowonpaper.com/blog/dear-oauth-providers/

2 months ago

439 upvotes – 143 comments

OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs

https://www.wired.com/story/onlyfans-models-are-using-ai-impersonators-to-keep-up-with-their-dms/

2 months ago

368 upvotes – 615 comments

Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/being-overweight-overtakes-tobacco-smoking-as-the-leading-disease-risk-factor-in-2024

2 months ago

317 upvotes – 347 comments

Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release

https://electric-sql.com/blog/2024/12/10/electric-beta-release

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 68 comments

Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust

https://dioxuslabs.com/blog/release-060/

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 137 comments

Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website)

https://pgroll.com/

2 months ago

262 upvotes – 52 comments

QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

https://gist.github.com/peppergrayxyz/fdc9042760273d137dddd3e97034385f

2 months ago

239 upvotes – 50 comments

Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/11/making-memcpynull-null-0-well-defined

2 months ago

234 upvotes – 251 comments

Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/12/02/strava-art-run-toronto-mccabe/

2 months ago

224 upvotes – 68 comments

AI Guesses Your Accent

https://start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser

2 months ago

222 upvotes – 262 comments

The GPU is not always faster

https://cowfreedom.de/#dot_product/introduction/

2 months ago

219 upvotes – 101 comments

The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/113606898880486330

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 51 comments

Don't Get Distracted (2017)

https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted

2 months ago

206 upvotes – 159 comments
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