Hacker News on Saturday, 13 May 2023

HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals(telegraph.co.uk)

571 points by jeremylevy 3 years ago | 407 comments

Telegraph article reporting that HP firmware updates disable printers using third-party ink cartridges, angering customers.

TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges(businessinsider.com)

502 points by consumer451 3 years ago | 347 comments

Business Insider article on a lawsuit alleging TikTok owner ByteDance maintained a backdoor allowing Chinese Communist Party access to US user data.

Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript(simonwillison.net)

463 points by sebg 3 years ago | 164 comments

Simon Willison's blog post with video, slides, and transcript of his webinar talk explaining prompt injection and why proposed defenses fall short.

Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects(anvaka.github.io)

375 points by anvaka 3 years ago | 75 comments

An interactive map by anvaka that clusters GitHub projects into themed 'countries' based on shared stargazers, with a project search box.

RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans(phys.org)

273 points by wglb 3 years ago | 71 comments

Monte Carlo methods(easylang.dev)

263 points by redbell 3 years ago | 41 comments

Intel One Mono Typeface(github.com)

254 points by tehnub 3 years ago | 179 comments

Rails Cheat Sheet(fly.io)

215 points by joemasilotti 3 years ago | 107 comments

How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page(indiehackers.com)

213 points by muchtest 3 years ago | 91 comments

Asus UK PR believes it is ‘legal to buy positive reviews’(kitguru.net)

206 points by dangle1 3 years ago | 106 comments

MGL: Common Lisp machine learning library(github.com)

201 points by oumua_don17 3 years ago | 6 comments

Idle DR-DOS(os2museum.com)

188 points by ingve 3 years ago | 21 comments

Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no(practicaltypography.com)

184 points by johnchristopher 3 years ago | 147 comments

How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows(mihai.fm)

178 points by mihaifm 3 years ago | 80 comments

IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director(theregister.com)

177 points by belter 3 years ago | 124 comments

Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs(tomshardware.com)

172 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 148 comments

The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection(simonwillison.net)

164 points by simonw 3 years ago | 83 comments

This time, it feels different(nadh.in)

157 points by mad2021 3 years ago | 155 comments

Large language models generate functional protein sequences across families(nature.com)

157 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 28 comments

DIY Git in Python(leshenko.net)

152 points by auraham 3 years ago | 20 comments

Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common(science.org)

151 points by tyjen 3 years ago | 85 comments

Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC(hails.org)

144 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 85 comments

Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?

138 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 84 comments

Microsoft Small Basic(smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net)

138 points by livinglist 3 years ago | 76 comments

The Wrong Abstraction (2016)(sandimetz.com)

137 points by signa11 3 years ago | 59 comments

Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON(rome.tools)

124 points by conaclos 3 years ago | 113 comments

A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf](maa.org)

117 points by lisper 3 years ago | 36 comments

The Rails Doctrine(rubyonrails.org)

117 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 32 comments

The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems(shkspr.mobi)

116 points by edent 3 years ago | 53 comments

Vimcasts – Free screencasts about the text editor Vim(vimcasts.org)

107 points by manaskarekar 3 years ago | 17 comments

TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness(wsj.com)

103 points by Jimmc414 3 years ago | 99 comments

Agrivoltaics: A Sustainable Synergy Between Agriculture and Solar Energy(mercurialtrends.com)

97 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 62 comments

Researchers use genomes of 241 species to redefine mammalian tree of life(phys.org)

97 points by wglb 3 years ago | 17 comments

Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (2019)(hackaday.io)

94 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 42 comments

New TLDs: Not Bad(textslashplain.com)

87 points by NavinF 3 years ago | 91 comments

Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea(nautil.us)

86 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 157 comments

Revolut CFO quits after auditor BDO warning(standard.co.uk)

86 points by haasted 3 years ago | 42 comments

Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise(bkamins.github.io)

84 points by leephillips 3 years ago | 56 comments

Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (1981)(archive.org)

79 points by belter 3 years ago | 30 comments

Donkeycar: A Python self driving library(github.com)

79 points by tildef 3 years ago | 7 comments

Metal-filtering sponge removes lead from water(news.northwestern.edu)

77 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 5 comments

Ocean Temperature(en.wikipedia.org)

77 points by luu 3 years ago | 45 comments

TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning(devblogs.microsoft.com)

76 points by aabbcc1241 3 years ago | 28 comments

The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven (2013)(tofspot.blogspot.com)

74 points by telotortium 3 years ago | 37 comments

Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap(cbc.ca)

74 points by nithinj 3 years ago | 84 comments

Ranking by Engagement(tecunningham.github.io)

71 points by entrican 3 years ago | 12 comments

Cybernetic Culture Research Unit(en.wikipedia.org)

70 points by doener 3 years ago | 33 comments

Saturn's rings are far younger than once thought(colorado.edu)

67 points by geox 3 years ago | 30 comments

Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot(bloomberg.com)

67 points by solar_warehouse 3 years ago | 57 comments

How an obscure OTC-traded derivative from the 80s took over crypto(blog.everstrike.io)

66 points by julianhul 3 years ago | 44 comments

Logarithmically-Spaced Snapshots(madebyevan.com)

62 points by luu 3 years ago | 10 comments

Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug(arstechnica.com)

60 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 16 comments

1980 Terminal with Linux – TeleVideo 950(youtube.com)

57 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 20 comments

Micro.blog Reclaiming Usernames Policy(manton.org)

55 points by ingve 3 years ago | 36 comments

GPS Independence: Japan plans expansion of QZSS network to 11 satellites(asia.nikkei.com)

53 points by throw0101b 3 years ago | 13 comments

Arthropod head problem(en.wikipedia.org)

53 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 22 comments

Attention Viz(attentionviz.com)

53 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 11 comments

Palantir seeing 'unprecedented' demand for its military AI(fortune.com)

51 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 52 comments

TypeScript is 'not worth it' Svelte switches to JavaScript and JSDoc(devclass.com)

48 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 13 comments

Microsoft employees are hooked on the company’s training videos?(wsj.com)

47 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 29 comments