Hacker News on Thursday, 22 June 2023

French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists(laquadrature.net)

652 points by Bright_Machine 3 years ago | 413 comments

La Quadrature du Net article on the French "8 December" case, where use of encrypted communications and privacy tools was cited as evidence of terrorist behavior.

Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?(jeffgeerling.com)

514 points by thepbone 3 years ago | 301 comments

Jeff Geerling's blog post criticizing Red Hat's decision to lock RHEL source code behind a subscription and its impact on open source developers.

How to do the thing you've been avoiding(jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com)

469 points by duck 3 years ago | 201 comments

A One Thing Better newsletter post by Jason Feifer on how to tackle tasks or ideas you've been avoiding, questioning whether there's a good reason to avoid them.

Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business(tinyempires.substack.com)

464 points by Jthink 3 years ago | 159 comments

A Tiny Empires Substack post outlining four mistakes to avoid when choosing markets and building a one-person business.

Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers(bbc.com)

375 points by etimberg 3 years ago | 1047 comments

A US Coast Guard Northeast tweet reporting an ROV found a debris field near the Titanic during the search for the missing Titan submersible.

Svelte 4(svelte.dev)

345 points by Allezxandre 3 years ago | 85 comments

Svelte team blog post announcing the stable release of Svelte 4, a maintenance release with performance, developer experience, and site updates.

Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative(revolt.chat)

334 points by hyperific 3 years ago | 151 comments

Homepage of Revolt, a free and open-source chat platform positioned as an alternative to Discord, with a link to open its web app.

Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)(uclahealth.org)

300 points by SomaticPirate 3 years ago | 339 comments

People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI(technologyreview.com)

297 points by kungfudoi 3 years ago | 194 comments

Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits(toot.cat)

294 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 170 comments

Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Enclosure(frame.work)

290 points by crthpl 3 years ago | 197 comments

Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later(claudioholanda.ch)

283 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 159 comments

EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel(eveonline.com)

262 points by zdw 3 years ago | 127 comments

Video Chess disassembled and commented(nanochess.org)

244 points by nanochess 3 years ago | 58 comments

Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? (2015)(computers-are-fast.github.io)

231 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 126 comments

Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study(bigthink.com)

220 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 158 comments

My ranking of every Shakespeare play(nullprogram.com)

216 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 151 comments

DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube(dearrow.ajay.app)

213 points by zikohh 3 years ago | 137 comments

FDA approves first gene therapy treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy(fda.gov)

212 points by WaitWaitWha 3 years ago | 67 comments

Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL(cybertec-postgresql.com)

210 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 168 comments

Last week's Let's Encrypt downtime(agwa.name)

200 points by agwa 3 years ago | 40 comments

SMS phishers harvested phone numbers, shipment data from UPS tracking tool(krebsonsecurity.com)

200 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 72 comments

Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use: study(reuters.com)

193 points by lxm 3 years ago | 317 comments

LexisNexis is selling personal data to ICE so it can try to predict crimes(theintercept.com)

184 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 69 comments

How VSCode made bracket pair colorization faster (2021)(code.visualstudio.com)

181 points by s3arch 3 years ago | 202 comments

Coroutines make robot code easy(bvisness.me)

181 points by bvisness 3 years ago | 100 comments

So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)(cmyr.net)

178 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 99 comments

Discord monetization: microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'(pcgamer.com)

167 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 273 comments

Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Usage Metering

154 points by hekike 3 years ago | 41 comments

VisionOS developer docs and Vision Pro SDK(developer.apple.com)

150 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 135 comments

Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle(reuters.com)

149 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 29 comments

Clojure is a product design tool (2015)(precursorapp.com)

143 points by dustingetz 3 years ago | 51 comments

The Mellotron, an electronic keyboard of recorded samples, changed pop music(daily.jstor.org)

140 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 62 comments

Loops Across Space(gregegan.net)

136 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 61 comments

RSS Autodiscovery (2006)(rssboard.org)

135 points by mawise 3 years ago | 38 comments

Stability AI Launches Stable Diffusion XL 0.9(stability.ai)

133 points by seydor 3 years ago | 72 comments

Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune(phaazon.net)

128 points by cosmojg 3 years ago | 80 comments

Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?(wideangle.co)

123 points by openplatypus 3 years ago | 172 comments

Future ultra-precise timing links to geosynchronous satellites(nist.gov)

116 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 35 comments

The hustle never ends and I'm so over it(pratik.is)

114 points by news_hacker 3 years ago | 71 comments

OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. To Water Down AI Regulation(time.com)

113 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 42 comments

San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks(latimes.com)

105 points by tafda 3 years ago | 99 comments

Aeon: A unified framework for machine learning with time series(github.com)

104 points by megalodon 3 years ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?

103 points by irishloop 3 years ago | 34 comments

Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movies on a Plane(kguttag.com)

92 points by FrojoS 3 years ago | 230 comments

Analyzing New Unique Identifier Formats (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8) (2022)(blog.devgenius.io)

90 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 23 comments

The hottest new perk in tech is freedom(vox.com)

88 points by SirLJ 3 years ago | 71 comments

eBPF Verification Is Untenable(twitter.com)

86 points by williamallthing 3 years ago | 88 comments

A bejeweled prayer book has been identified as belonging to Thomas Cromwell(news.artnet.com)

83 points by pepys 3 years ago | 66 comments

FIFO can be Better than LRU [pdf](jasony.me)

82 points by 1a1a11a 3 years ago | 17 comments

Mathematicians Have Found a Shape with a Pattern That Never Repeats(smithsonianmag.com)

78 points by rfreytag 3 years ago | 36 comments

Science and Statistics (1976) [pdf](www-sop.inria.fr)

77 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 4 comments

Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”(twitter.com)

76 points by areoform 3 years ago | 63 comments

“WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030”(changelog.com)

73 points by ingve 3 years ago | 70 comments

GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct(phoronix.com)

71 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 197 comments

Titan Submersible Suffered Catastrophic Failure: Debris Field Confirmed as Titan(independent.co.uk)

64 points by methodical 3 years ago | 61 comments

'Incredibly noticeable': alcohol ban cut family violence, crime in Alice Springs(theguardian.com)

63 points by hugh-avherald 3 years ago | 75 comments

Googling 'abortion clinic near me'? The top result often an anti-abortion clinic(npr.org)

62 points by activiation 3 years ago | 35 comments

New record anomaly for North Atlantic sea surface temperatures(twitter.com)

62 points by itsreallyhot 3 years ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: How to Break into AI Engineering

61 points by dragonmouse 3 years ago | 42 comments