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 years ago

FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

Review of Mullvad VPN

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

2 years ago

PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

Dear OAuth Providers

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release

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

2 years ago

Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust

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

2 years ago

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

https://pgroll.com/

2 years ago

QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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 years ago

AI Guesses Your Accent

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

2 years ago

The GPU is not always faster

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

2 years ago

The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered

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

2 years ago

Don't Get Distracted (2017)

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

2 years ago