Hacker News on Saturday, 10 June 2023

Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid(thetimes.co.uk)

590 points by ricksunny 3 years ago | 624 comments

The Times Insight investigation into what happened inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the weeks before the Covid-19 outbreak.

Ted Kaczynski has died(nytimes.com)

587 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 279 comments

New York Times article reporting the death of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, in June 2023; the page shows an account/login gate.

Debian 12 “Bookworm”(debian.org)

433 points by Chatting 3 years ago | 146 comments

Official Debian announcement of the release of Debian 12 "bookworm", the new stable version, including a new non-free-firmware archive area.

Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California(theregister.com)

398 points by belter 3 years ago | 599 comments

The Register article reporting that Mercedes-Benz received California approval to sell or lease cars with its Level 3 DRIVE PILOT automated driving system, ahead of Tesla.

OBS merges WebRTC support(github.com)

397 points by Sean-Der 3 years ago | 127 comments

GitHub commit in the OBS Studio repository adding a WebRTC WHIP output and associated streaming service.

MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation(ai.honu.io)

393 points by og_kalu 3 years ago | 282 comments

Project page for MusicGen, Meta's single-stage transformer language model for text- and melody-conditioned music generation, with abstract and samples.

Barracuda urges replacing, not patching, its email security gateways(krebsonsecurity.com)

339 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 104 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article reporting that Barracuda is telling customers to physically replace, rather than patch, Email Security Gateway appliances hit by a zero-day.

New York City will charge drivers going downtown(cnn.com)

332 points by rntn 3 years ago | 512 comments

CNN Business article reporting that New York City will charge drivers a congestion fee for entering downtown Manhattan.

Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin(old.reddit.com)

273 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 94 comments

Emoji Kitchen(emojikitchen.dev)

253 points by smollett 3 years ago | 54 comments

GCP automatically lowered our quota, caused an incident, and refused to upgrade(twitter.com)

209 points by teej 3 years ago | 122 comments

Executable Examples in Go(bitfieldconsulting.com)

205 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 67 comments

Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash(bbc.com)

197 points by sjcsjc 3 years ago | 44 comments

FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans(theregister.com)

195 points by rntn 3 years ago | 66 comments

Zig language server and cancellation(matklad.github.io)

188 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 57 comments

Gren – an Elm fork(gren-lang.org)

185 points by jgilias 3 years ago | 107 comments

From Stacks to Trees: A new aliasing model for Rust(ralfj.de)

182 points by obl 3 years ago | 39 comments

Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs(wccftech.com)

182 points by jacooper 3 years ago | 315 comments

Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

180 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 136 comments

Tiny Awards for Small Websites(tinyawards.net)

176 points by noflag 3 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: RISC-V core written in 600 lines of C89(github.com)

174 points by mnurzia 3 years ago | 67 comments

Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud(techdows.com)

152 points by fernvenue 3 years ago | 98 comments

Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video(nature.com)

144 points by geox 3 years ago | 96 comments

The case for the decentralization of online forums(viksit.com)

142 points by viksit 3 years ago | 126 comments

The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security(sfgate.com)

139 points by wallflower 3 years ago | 75 comments

Peanut Butter Jellyfin Time(gebir.ge)

132 points by makrelmad 3 years ago | 5 comments

LLM.int8(): 8-Bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale (2022)(arxiv.org)

125 points by tosh 3 years ago | 15 comments

Arrested for using Linux and encryption in France [video](youtube.com)

122 points by xqcgrek2 3 years ago | 35 comments

A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)(github.com)

120 points by Twirrim 3 years ago | 39 comments

Django Views – The Right Way(spookylukey.github.io)

115 points by sgt 3 years ago | 39 comments

Convex Optimization (2004) [pdf](web.stanford.edu)

112 points by newsoul 3 years ago | 52 comments

The Accidental HFT Firm (2018)(web.archive.org)

106 points by Twixes 3 years ago | 65 comments

Turn dumb tweets into cuneiform tablets(dumbcuneiform.com)

101 points by cainxinth 3 years ago | 42 comments

A Case of the MUMPS (2007)(thedailywtf.com)

99 points by ahiknsr 3 years ago | 90 comments

GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations(theregister.com)

95 points by belter 3 years ago | 76 comments

Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (2013)(jacquesmattheij.com)

91 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 27 comments

UK hobbyist stuns math world with 'amazing' new shapes(phys.org)

91 points by mojomark 3 years ago | 32 comments

French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)(theguardian.com)

82 points by amelius 3 years ago | 127 comments

DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube(github.com)

80 points by tech234a 3 years ago | 29 comments

UTF-21, a toy character encoding(evanhahn.com)

80 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 88 comments

Palantir CEO Rejects Calls to Pause AI Development(newsnotfound.com)

78 points by newsnotfound 3 years ago | 123 comments

Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available(cloud.google.com)

70 points by blitz 3 years ago | 24 comments

WebObjects Overview (2001) [pdf](developer.apple.com)

70 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 years ago | 22 comments

Wind-to-hydrogen production reaches deep water(spectrum.ieee.org)

66 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 74 comments

The Ritual of Capitalization (2021)(economicsfromthetopdown.com)

63 points by benaadams 3 years ago | 52 comments

Fluent – A localization system for natural-sounding translations(projectfluent.org)

60 points by croes 3 years ago | 28 comments

Ted Kaczynski Has Died(sfgate.com)

60 points by seo-speedwagon 3 years ago | 9 comments

Buying an entire Egghead Software store (2005)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

60 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 years ago | 17 comments

Handoff Waste and Taylorism(two-wrongs.com)

59 points by zdw 3 years ago | 16 comments

Total recall: the people who never forget (2017)(theguardian.com)

55 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 60 comments

At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?(meta.mathoverflow.net)

54 points by evah 3 years ago | 6 comments

Desktop Linux is insecure(bjornpagen.com)

48 points by bjornpagen 3 years ago | 38 comments

Farming technologies tackle climate-change threats(wsj.com)

43 points by lxm 3 years ago | 36 comments

The curse of scalable technology(lukeplant.me.uk)

42 points by luu 3 years ago | 15 comments

What Should You Build?(exponentially.substack.com)

41 points by jamiegreen 3 years ago | 21 comments

Messing with the Beepberry(jeffgeerling.com)

40 points by mikece 3 years ago | 14 comments

Why I'm Leaving Elm (2020)(lukeplant.me.uk)

40 points by bluewalt 3 years ago | 36 comments

A comment about Christian Queinnec's book Lisp in Small Pieces (1996)(pages.lip6.fr)

39 points by vector_spaces 3 years ago | 9 comments

International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory(icao.int)

38 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 years ago | 9 comments

DDoS Protection(docs.digitalocean.com)

37 points by okozzie 3 years ago | 39 comments