Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
Link: electric-sql.com/blog/2024/12/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Electric sync engine is now in BETA. If you haven't checked out Electric recently, it's a great time to take another look.electric-sql.com
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
Link: windowsreport.com/mozilla-fire…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Firefox is removing the Do Not Track setting from version 135 onwards. Mozilla recommends using Global Privacy Control setting as alternative,Venkat (WindowsReport)
How God Plays Chess (2018)
Link: en.chessbase.com/post/how-god-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
In the early 1980s Ken Thompson, working at the Bell Laboratories, generated one of the world’s first chess endgame databases — king and queen vs king and rook.Frederic Friedel (ChessBase)
Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
Link: turso.tech/blog/introducing-li…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?Pekka Enberg (turso.tech)
AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack
Link: arstechnica.com/information-te…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Attack bypasses AMD protection promising security, even when a server is compromised.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
OpenAI Releases Canvas
Link: openai.com/12-days/?day=4
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Google Willow Thing
Link: scottaaronson.blog/?p=8525
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…Shtetl-Optimized
One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107
Link: economist.com/obituary/2024/12…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
From where I left
Link: antirez.com/news/144
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism
Link: opb.org/article/2024/12/09/art…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelligence.Ryan Haas (OPB)
AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware
Link: surrey.ac.uk/news/surrey-annou…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Colour in the Middle Ages
Link: medievalists.net/2024/06/colou…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Here are seven vivid facts about colour in the Middle AgesMedievalists.net
Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS
Link: supabase.com/blog/durable-work…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Technical deep dive into the new DBOS integration for SupabaseSupabase
Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Large language models (LLMs) are restricted to reason in the "language space", where they typically express the reasoning process with a chain-of-thought (CoT) to solve a complex reasoning problem.arXiv.org
Neuroplasticity in F16 fighter jet pilots
Link: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Exposure to altered g-levels causes unusual sensorimotor demands that must be dealt with by the brain. This study aimed to investigate whether fighter pilots, who are exposed to frequent g-level transitions and high g-levels, show differential ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Link: courtlistener.com/docket/69221…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
U.S. math scores drop on major international test
Link: chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/timss…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Test results from the TIMSS assessment show that fourth graders in more than a dozen countries improved their math scores. But not in the United States.Erica Meltzer (Chalkbeat)
Luigi Mangione shouted his message to waiting reporters as police pushed him inside.Gregory Walton (NZ Herald)
Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
Link: sibervepunk.com/digital-consum…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
Link: cnbc.com/2024/12/10/gm-halts-f…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
General Motors will no longer fund its Cruise division's robotaxi development, effectively pulling out of the market.Lora Kolodny (CNBC)
The Depths of Wikipedians
Link: asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.asteriskmag.com
Show HN: HackerNews-new-jobs – insights into fresh and recurring job ads
Link: github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-job…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Insights into HackerNews "Who's Hiring" thread. Contribute to nemanjam/hn-new-jobs development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Devin is now generally available
Link: cognition.ai/blog/devin-genera…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.www.cognition.ai
Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast
Link: phys.org/news/2024-12-google-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new artificial intelligence-based weather model can deliver 15-day forecasts with unrivaled accuracy and speed, a Google lab said, with potentially life-saving applications as climate change ramps up.Science X (Phys.org)
BareMetal OS
Link: github.com/ReturnInfinity/Bare…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Build script for BareMetal OS and its related utilities - ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-OSGitHub
Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74
Link: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86w9n…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Laysan albatross Wisdom was spotted with her new partner and egg at a Pacific Ocean refuge.Robert Greenall (BBC News)
The dead are still raging in 28 Years Later’s first trailer - Sony
It feels like we only just heard that Danny B... - theverge.com/2024/12/10/243177…
28 Years Later — out June 20th, 2025 — introduces a new generation of mutants infected with the rage virus in first trailer.Charles Pulliam-Moore (The Verge)
The Vergecast Vergecast, part two - Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge
Every once in a whi... - theverge.com/2024/12/10/243178…
A week after our subscription launch, we talk about the future of media, ads, news, podcasts, and everything else, on this meta episode of The VergecastDavid Pierce (The Verge)
Fortnite FTC refunds are starting to show up - Image: Epic Games
Fortnite players have finally st... - theverge.com/2024/12/10/243177…
The Federal Trade Commission has started sending refunds to Fortnite players as part of a 2022 settlement it reached with Epic Games over its alleged use of dark patterns.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Solos challenges Meta’s Ray-Bans with $299 ChatGPT smart glasses - Image: Solos
Solos’ camera-equipped smart glasses ... - theverge.com/2024/12/10/243178…
Solos’ camera-equipped AirGo Vision smart glasses have arrived to provide some much-needed competition against Meta’s Ray-Bans.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Common misconceptions about compilers
Link: sbaziotis.com/compilers/common…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A curated list of misconceptions about mainstream compilers.sbaziotis.com
Show HN: Ternary Computer System
Link: ternary-computing.com/history/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
[11:46] Brazil's Lula recovering after brain surgery
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was taken to Sao Paulo overnight for emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his brain linked to a fall in October, a medical note published by the government said.
Yelp’s new AI-powered review filters will show more of what you want to know - Image: Yelp
Yelp is introducing some new AI featur... - theverge.com/2024/12/10/243177…
Yelp is introducing some new AI features that aim to help users discover new establishments and narrow down customer reviews.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease
Link: frontiersin.org/journals/publi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
IntroductionThe adverse health effects of sugar-sweetened beverage intake are well-established, but the implications of overall added sugar intake remain unc...Frontiers
Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen
Link: old.reddit.com/r/neovim/commen…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Posted in r/neovim by u/iBhagwan • 2,783 points and 173 commentsreddit
Source: libsoftiktok
TikToker claims that Jordan Neely was a "beautiful human being and an artist" who "didn't hurt anyone" before Daniel Penny confronted him.
Newsflash: Neely was previously arrested 42 times including for assault and threatened people on the subway.
This is what happens when you only consume leftist media.
Don’t be like this TikTok. Get your news from X. X has the most reliable news coverage.
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TikToker claims that Jordan Neely was a "beautiful human being and an artist" who "didn't hurt anyone" before Daniel Penny confronted him. Newsflash: Neely was previously arrested 42 times including for assault and threatened people on the subway.Nitter
Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Battery storage systems are becoming an integral part of the energy transition, as they offer the possibility of bridging time windows in which self-generated rpapers.ssrn.com
Smartphone Runs Home Server
It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carriers …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2024/12/09/smartp…
It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carri…Hackaday
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Tree Calculus
Link: treecalcul.us/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Debanking (and Debunking?)
Link: bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/deb…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (Bits about Money)
Musicians Rally Behind Internet Archive in $621M Music Label Battle
Link: savethearchive.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Save Music, Save the Archive! Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to realign their actions with the interests of working …Fight for the Future
LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens
Link: wattenberger.com/thoughts/fish…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit
Link: newatlas.com/technology/starli…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
SpaceX has just launched 20 of its Starlink satellites up into Earth's orbit, enabling direct-to-cellphone connectivity anywhere on the planet.Abhimanyu Ghoshal (New Atlas)
A simple way to scale pixel art games
Link: 30fps.net/pages/pixelart-scali…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux
Link: gitlab.com/d4rcm4rc/MagiskSSH
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader
Link: swarm.ptsecurity.com/new-dog-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact… same ******* thing… over and over again expecting… **** to change… That. Is. Crazy.PT SWARM
Bazel 8.0
Link: github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/re…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Bazel 8.0 is a major LTS release. It contains new features and backwards incompatible changes. Highlights Many rules that were bundled with Bazel are now split into their own repositories, as part...GitHub
Itch.io: "This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"
Link: twitter.com/itchio/status/1866…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Software developer arrested in connection with murder of healthcare executive
Link: bbc.com/news/articles/cp9nxee2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Police said they arrested a 26-year-old on firearms charges in connection to the New York killing.Madeline Halpert & Mike Wendling (BBC News)
Task-Specific LLM Evals That Do and Don't Work
Link: eugeneyan.com/writing/evals/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.eugeneyan.com
Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
Link: trellis3d.github.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Alice finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
Link: home.cern/news/news/physics/al…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Illustration of the production of antihyperhelium-4 (a bound state of two antiprotons, an antineutron and an antilambda) in lead–lead collisions.CERN
The U.S., and Texas Instruments, are struggling to crack down on slippery Russian-bound shipments.Aaron Klotz (Tom's Hardware)
The Hard Times just posted:
Altoona McDonald’s 1-Star Reviews Shift From Complaints About Food to Complaints About Employees Being Class Traitors
ALTOONA, Pa. — A wave of 1-star Google reviews flooded a local McDonald’s location after an employee ratted out the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO…
thehardtimes.net/music/altoona…
A wave of 1-star Google reviews flooded a local McDonald's location after an employee ratted out the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier today.The Hard Times Staff (The Hard Times)
Starlark Programming Language
Link: starlark-lang.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Starlark is a simple, thread-safe, Python-like language designed to be embedded in another application.starlark-lang.org
OpenAI: Sora
Link: sora.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)
Link: msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Link: blog.google/technology/researc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.Hartmut Neven (Google)
Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails
Link: github.com/pimalaya/himalaya
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
CLI to manage emails. Contribute to pimalaya/himalaya development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Derivative at a Discontinuity
Link: alok.github.io/2024/09/28/disc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
TikTok tried to save itself with the First Amendment — and failed - Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images
... - theverge.com/2024/12/9/2431694…
An appeals court rejected First Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and other arguments against a law requiring TikTok to be divested from ByteDance or banned.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
Efficient Track Anything
Link: yformer.github.io/efficient-tr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project
Link: lellep.xyz/blog/failed-data-sc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I dedicated over 1,600 days to a data science project, only to see it fail. In this article, I share a new checklist I developed to help prevent similar setbacks in the future.lellep.xyz
"Hetzner has decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers."
Link: mastodon.social/@kiwix/1136220…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Attached: 1 image So last week (on Sunday 1 December at 00:00), our server host canceled its service without warning. TL;DR: we do not recommend using @Hetzner_Online@social.cologne 's service Everyone else: a short 🧵Mastodon
CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop
Link: lumafield.com/article/new-vs-u…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Industrial CT reveals how SawStop’s brake cartridge prevents serious table saw injuries. Learn about its key components and the CPSC’s proposed safety mandates.Lumafield
Y2K
Link: y2k.movie/
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Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
Link: bsky.app/profile/itch.io/post/…
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JSON parsers that can accept comments
Link: douglascrockfordisnotyourdad.t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Black Hat Rust
Link: github.com/skerkour/black-hat-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Applied offensive security with Rust - https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust - skerkour/black-hat-rustGitHub
Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
Link: androidauthority.com/phone-pc-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I've been using this year's fastest smartphones but I'm yet to find a use case that requires all this extra performance.Robert Triggs (Android Authority)
Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4
Link: hackerone.com/reports/2887487
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
*Curl is a software that I love and is an important tool for the world. * *If my report doesn't align, I apologize for that.* The `Curl_inet_ntop` function is designed to convert IP addresses from...HackerOne
Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain
Link: flatt.tech/research/posts/comp…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK (@ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. A few days ago, I was upgrading my home lab network, and I decided to upgrade the OpenWrt on my router.flatt.tech
Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's
Link: blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This is the 3rd post in the My journey with Home Assistant focus series. I’m the happy owner of a couple of Philips Hue connected lights for a some years. Some of them are colored, some of them regular.A Java geek
Show HN: A portable hash map in C
Link: github.com/e-dant/salmagundi
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A small, portable, linear probing hash map. Contribute to e-dant/salmagundi development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
Link: bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
By all accounts, Pat Gelsinger is affable, technically sharp, hard-working, and decent. Those who have worked for him praise him as a singularly good manager.The Observation Deck
Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out
Link: spectrum.ieee.org/chuck-e-chee…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Charles “Entertainment” Cheese and friends will soon sing their last songAllison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)
Libcom: **A Discussion Paper on Local Councils in Syria**
" Syrian Anarchist Omar Aziz's short text on the formations of councils in Syria during the uprising against Assad's regime. Author Omar Aziz Submitted by Reddebrek on December 8, 2024 Copied to clipboard Introduction: The Period of Power and the Period of Revolution A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. A revolu…"
Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser
Link: github.com/qutebrowser/qutebro…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. - qutebrowser/qutebrowserGitHub
JSON5 – JSON for Humans
Link: json5.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?
Link: gizmodo.com/how-much-do-i-need…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A hat and sunglasses may not be enough to fool the most sophisticated facial recognition algorithms.Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)
Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011)
Link: dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/19…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
Link: france24.com/en/live-news/2024…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The UK government is banning daytime TV adverts for sugary foods like granola and muffins in its battle against child obesity, branding such popular items as junk food.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
