Hacker News on Friday, 21 April 2023

The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos(eff.org)

1159 points by glitcher 3 years ago | 423 comments

EFF Deeplinks post from April 2023 warning that the reintroduced EARN IT bill would push online services to scan users' messages and photos, threatening encryption.

CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg(thedriven.io)

1023 points by rippercushions 3 years ago | 793 comments

The Driven news article reporting CATL's announcement of a new "condensed" battery with energy density of 500 Wh/kg.

Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

613 points by asim 3 years ago | 234 comments

A Tell HN post wishing readers Eid Mubarak, explaining Eid and Ramadan fasting, and recommending the practice for those interested in fasting and less consumerism.

GitHub Copilot emits GPL code(codeium.com)

465 points by fortenforge 3 years ago | 300 comments

Codeium blog post arguing that GitHub Copilot reproduces GPL-licensed code while Codeium excludes non-permissive code from its training data.

Windows on Btrfs(lilysthings.org)

456 points by susam 3 years ago | 206 comments

A personal blog post describing installing and booting Windows from a btrfs filesystem using the WinBtrfs driver and the open source Quibble bootloader.

The weird world of Windows file paths(fileside.app)

381 points by sharevari 3 years ago | 259 comments

A Fileside blog post explaining the many unusual formats and quirks of Windows file paths, such as drive letters, UNC paths, and device namespaces.

Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see(thedailybeast.com)

366 points by moose_man 3 years ago | 269 comments

Daily Beast opinion piece arguing that tech executives like Elon Musk are allowing authoritarian governments to censor content seen by Americans.

Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration(inkscape.org)

364 points by unglaublich 3 years ago | 167 comments

Inkscape news post announcing paid positions, including a senior C++ developer with gtkmm experience, to accelerate the project's migration to GTK4.

Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes(nationalinterest.org)

309 points by mdp2021 3 years ago | 331 comments

Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web(president.mn)

309 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 157 comments

There is no A.I.(newyorker.com)

295 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 394 comments

Four-Byte Burger [video](youtube.com)

293 points by DamnInteresting 3 years ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023(newgrounds.com)

230 points by rickdicker 3 years ago | 103 comments

Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf](static.sched.com)

221 points by ksec 3 years ago | 98 comments

Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed(github.com)

209 points by lukeasch21 3 years ago | 62 comments

Atari 800XL Remake(revive-machines.com)

186 points by gtirloni 3 years ago | 146 comments

Will boiling water ruin green tea?(myjapanesegreentea.com)

184 points by tmtvl 3 years ago | 192 comments

AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)(aolserver.github.io)

181 points by marcodiego 3 years ago | 90 comments

Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads(richg42.blogspot.com)

173 points by ingve 3 years ago | 247 comments

Telegram Web Apps for Bots(core.telegram.org)

167 points by soheilpro 3 years ago | 98 comments

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements(rootsofprogress.org)

162 points by feross 3 years ago | 97 comments

Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed(lxe.co)

157 points by lxe 3 years ago | 41 comments

AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students(restofworld.org)

150 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 141 comments

Simple Pathtracing (2012)(iquilezles.org)

145 points by luu 3 years ago | 4 comments

Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets(economist.com)

138 points by pama 3 years ago | 174 comments

'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found(phys.org)

137 points by gmays 3 years ago | 128 comments

Coinbase secures Bermuda licence(reuters.com)

137 points by overthrow 3 years ago | 227 comments

ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate(businessinsider.com)

131 points by elorant 3 years ago | 135 comments

US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011(reuters.com)

126 points by almog 3 years ago | 79 comments

Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist(atlasobscura.com)

126 points by pncnmnp 3 years ago | 74 comments

Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges(nature.com)

125 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 78 comments

AI is upending the freelance world(forbes.com)

125 points by geox 3 years ago | 136 comments

Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate(chronicle.com)

125 points by gautamcgoel 3 years ago | 211 comments

Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst(9to5mac.com)

120 points by soopurman 3 years ago | 134 comments

Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs(wsj.com)

120 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 134 comments

The Joy of an Empty Brain(wsj.com)

118 points by robg 3 years ago | 56 comments

Mathematician uncovers way to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data(phys.org)

118 points by wglb 3 years ago | 8 comments

Bard coding update with Colab exporting(blog.google)

114 points by alphabetting 3 years ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Automatic prompt optimizer for LLMs(promptperfect.jina.ai)

111 points by artex_xh 3 years ago | 52 comments

Mass editing memory in a transformer(memit.baulab.info)

111 points by rodoxcasta 3 years ago | 41 comments

Manipulative Consent Requests(wideangle.co)

110 points by openplatypus 3 years ago | 75 comments

Fire Mark Zuckerberg(ez.substack.com)

103 points by mandevil 3 years ago | 90 comments

The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database(science.org)

98 points by Metacelsus 3 years ago | 40 comments

SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues(giskard.ai)

95 points by Googleton 3 years ago | 68 comments

OpenBSD: Viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current(undeadly.org)

94 points by peter_hansteen 3 years ago | 19 comments

NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company(newsnotfound.com)

92 points by newsnotfound 3 years ago | 133 comments

The coming war on end-to-end encryption(community.qbix.com)

88 points by EGreg 3 years ago | 33 comments

Standardizing BPF(lwn.net)

82 points by signa11 3 years ago | 22 comments

xPrize Wildfire – $11M Prize Competition(xprize.org)

70 points by TheBlapse 3 years ago | 63 comments

How to become a “designer who codes” (2019)(publication.design.systems)

68 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 85 comments

Mass noun(en.wikipedia.org)

62 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 75 comments

America’s $800B climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem(economist.com)

61 points by lxm 3 years ago | 56 comments

Guess the Game(guessthe.game)

61 points by jboogie77 3 years ago | 20 comments

Peter Gabriel: AI competition statement(petergabriel.com)

59 points by bravogamma 3 years ago | 96 comments

What Happens When You Kill Your King(newyorker.com)

56 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 12 comments

Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?(joshuamo876.bearblog.dev)

53 points by stmblast 3 years ago | 90 comments

Looplets: A Language for Structured Coiteration(dl.acm.org)

50 points by matt_d 3 years ago | 21 comments

W3C invites applications to be our next CEO(candidates.perrettlaver.com)

49 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 14 comments

Hetzner’s New AX102 Dedicated Server with AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D(hetzner.com)

47 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Gsubpy, an interpreter for subset of Python, written in Go(github.com)

46 points by yi_xuan 3 years ago | 6 comments