Hacker News on Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm(nitrokey.com)

954 points by h1x 3 years ago | 262 comments

Nitrokey blog post reporting that smartphones with Qualcomm chips secretly transmit private user data to Qualcomm.

Transformers from Scratch (2021)(e2eml.school)

594 points by jasim 3 years ago | 46 comments

A long-form tutorial explaining how transformer neural networks work from the ground up, covering matrix multiplication, attention, and backpropagation.

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing(theverge.com)

354 points by sphars 3 years ago | 239 comments

The Verge article reporting that Microsoft Edge's follow creator feature sends URLs of visited sites to Bing, advising users to disable it.

The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)(gizmodo.com)

353 points by grecy 3 years ago | 75 comments

Gizmodo news article reporting that the European Commission withheld a 300-page study finding no evidence that online piracy harms sales of copyrighted content.

Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’(theguardian.com)

344 points by mdp2021 3 years ago | 218 comments

Guardian news article reporting a study suggesting an antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth may be harming the human immune system.

Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)(3blue1brown.com)

331 points by nivethan 3 years ago | 88 comments

A 3Blue1Brown lesson page with an embedded video explaining why plotting prime numbers in polar coordinates produces spiral patterns.

People who use Notion to plan their whole lives(technologyreview.com)

303 points by FinnKuhn 3 years ago | 353 comments

A non-technical explanation of deep learning(parand.com)

264 points by tworats 3 years ago | 107 comments

LTESniffer: An open-source LTE downlink/uplink eavesdropper [pdf](syssec.kaist.ac.kr)

237 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 41 comments

NitroKey disappoints me(blog.brixit.nl)

225 points by cunidev 3 years ago | 54 comments

Learn WebGPU(eliemichel.github.io)

213 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 71 comments

Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt(cnn.com)

211 points by belter 3 years ago | 153 comments

Deep Neural Networks from Scratch in Zig(monadmonkey.com)

208 points by nyberg 3 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine(kevzettler.com)

202 points by Vekz 3 years ago | 59 comments

Harry Belafonte has died(theguardian.com)

195 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 40 comments

First up-close images of Mars’s little-known moon Deimos(nature.com)

193 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 82 comments

Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?(constructionphysics.substack.com)

191 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 141 comments

Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth(resilience.org)

189 points by kitkat_new 3 years ago | 218 comments

Show HN: Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework(neat.joeldare.com)

186 points by codazoda 3 years ago | 72 comments

Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets(github.com)

186 points by e4e5 3 years ago | 32 comments

FSF Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software(fsf.org)

181 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 83 comments

The Nature of Code (2012)(natureofcode.com)

176 points by pelasaco 3 years ago | 16 comments

My thoughts on OCaml(osa1.net)

164 points by ghuntley 3 years ago | 186 comments

A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning(arxiv.org)

160 points by ZunarJ5 3 years ago | 12 comments

Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy(nytimes.com)

160 points by lxm 3 years ago | 275 comments

IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers(wsj.com)

159 points by jbredeche 3 years ago | 348 comments

We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates(mux.com)

157 points by dylanjha 3 years ago | 197 comments

AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors(tomshardware.com)

154 points by nitinreddy88 3 years ago | 120 comments

QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B(github.com)

153 points by pierremenard 3 years ago | 58 comments

GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs(rust-gcc.github.io)

141 points by jmillikin 3 years ago | 65 comments

Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH(cambus.net)

141 points by fcambus 3 years ago | 100 comments

Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack(developer.nvidia.com)

140 points by quasiben 3 years ago | 18 comments

What Rosalind Franklin contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure(nature.com)

140 points by Feuilles_Mortes 3 years ago | 111 comments

Tuql: Automatically create a GraphQL server from a SQLite database(github.com)

125 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 27 comments

Use Gröbner bases to solve polynomial equations(jingnanshi.com)

125 points by ransac9000 3 years ago | 43 comments

You could have invented futexes(tavianator.com)

120 points by dmarto 3 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port(github.com)

117 points by jkfran 3 years ago | 119 comments

Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf](abc.xyz)

110 points by samspenc 3 years ago | 106 comments

The Old (2018)(neocha.com)

108 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 46 comments

Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI(fedscoop.com)

100 points by occamschainsaw 3 years ago | 86 comments

Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas(wsj.com)

98 points by SirLJ 3 years ago | 76 comments

It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry(economist.com)

97 points by escot 3 years ago | 101 comments

Permutation Group Visualizer(permutation-groups.glitch.me)

95 points by mathgenius 3 years ago | 12 comments

CardStock(github.com)

91 points by RodgerTheGreat 3 years ago | 12 comments

The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)(maggieappleton.com)

88 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 47 comments

Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies(spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com)

83 points by valeg 3 years ago | 111 comments

Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter(wsj.com)

82 points by lxm 3 years ago | 296 comments

A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it(petapixel.com)

82 points by dxs 3 years ago | 128 comments

The Vowel Space [video](youtube.com)

80 points by gus_massa 3 years ago | 28 comments

It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN(hn.curiosity.ai)

77 points by theolivenbaum 3 years ago | 82 comments

Redump Milestone – 100k Discs(redump.org)

74 points by midzer 3 years ago | 13 comments

Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders(arxiv.org)

73 points by bmc7505 3 years ago | 13 comments

Introduction to HTTP Multipart(blog.adamchalmers.com)

67 points by adamch 3 years ago | 15 comments

Web LLM(mlc.ai)

63 points by synergy20 3 years ago | 11 comments

Xhtml Friends Network (2003)(gmpg.org)

63 points by tiborsaas 3 years ago | 26 comments

Distractions Cause Bad Code (2018)(ntietz.com)

62 points by greenSunglass 3 years ago | 24 comments

ResearchGPT: Automated Data Analysis and Interpretation(phasellm.com)

60 points by wyem 3 years ago | 13 comments

Moving away from algorithmic curation(boredzo.org)

58 points by ingve 3 years ago | 36 comments

Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues(utcc.utoronto.ca)

58 points by jesprenj 3 years ago | 119 comments

Reflections on Migrating My SaaS to SvelteKit(sveltekitsaas.com)

53 points by Glench 3 years ago | 29 comments