Hacker News on Sunday, 9 July 2023

Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company(eidel.io)

505 points by olieidel 3 years ago | 287 comments

Oliver Eidel's blog post arguing that first-time founders misunderstand venture capital and that taking VC funding can harm their company.

PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news(blog.mithrilsecurity.io)

369 points by DanyWin 3 years ago | 184 comments

Mithril Security blog post demonstrating how they surgically modified an LLM to spread false facts and uploaded it to Hugging Face to show supply chain poisoning risks.

How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?(blog.washi.dev)

366 points by susam 3 years ago | 182 comments

Blog post by Washi exploring how to minimize a .NET executable to the fewest bytes that still prints "Hello, World!" via the CLR.

InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion(community.influxdata.com)

358 points by PaulAA 3 years ago | 192 comments

InfluxData community forum thread where a user reports missing data on hosted InfluxDB in GCP europe-west1 after the region was discontinued without notice.

3M reaches $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination of water systems(npr.org)

321 points by Jimmc414 3 years ago | 254 comments

NPR news article reporting that 3M agreed to a $10.3 billion settlement over PFAS contamination of US public water systems.

Using Lidar to map tree shadows(tedpiotrowski.svbtle.com)

304 points by tppiotrowski 3 years ago | 40 comments

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement(theverge.com)

302 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 390 comments

Defecting from North Korea is now harder(nytimes.com)

250 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 142 comments

Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery(adamsinger.substack.com)

231 points by jger15 3 years ago | 171 comments

Engineers should focus on writing(yieldcode.blog)

217 points by skwee357 3 years ago | 180 comments

The 90s Developer Starter Pack(retrocoding.net)

214 points by ingve 3 years ago | 167 comments

The Development of the C Language (1993)(bell-labs.com)

212 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 282 comments

US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it(wired.com)

211 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 80 comments

'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds(ijpr.org)

202 points by Jimmc414 3 years ago | 45 comments

An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma(furbo.org)

198 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 115 comments

Deputy US Marshal pleads guilty to obtaining cell phone location unlawfully [pdf](oig.justice.gov)

189 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 86 comments

Fairphone 4 is coming to the US(arstechnica.com)

188 points by raybb 3 years ago | 123 comments

Wayland on OpenBSD(xenocara.org)

186 points by type0 3 years ago | 154 comments

Clojure Plays Mario(blog.phronemophobic.com)

185 points by hotcrossbunny 3 years ago | 37 comments

PinePhone Modem SDK(github.com)

183 points by csdvrx 3 years ago | 46 comments

Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar(eieio.games)

178 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 14 comments

Introduction to ActivityPub (2021)(socialhub.activitypub.rocks)

132 points by srameshc 3 years ago | 49 comments

It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom(davidgomes.com)

131 points by munchor 3 years ago | 161 comments

Building cross-platform Rust for Web, Android and iOS – a minimal example(artificialworlds.net)

129 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 14 comments

Google's Privacy Policy Now Admits to Collecting All Your Data for AI Training(pcgamer.com)

128 points by sizzle 3 years ago | 17 comments

Petalisp: Elegant High Performance Computing(github.com)

128 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: An index of all monthly dividend stocks(thedividendlist.com)

122 points by mystertea 3 years ago | 80 comments

The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (2006)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

116 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 25 comments

Fractal Vise(airgraver.com)

112 points by mattlondon 3 years ago | 86 comments

Let the internet be grimy(tedium.co)

104 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 104 comments

Story Behind Hackathon Photo(frantic.im)

98 points by imadj 3 years ago | 41 comments

KDE for Travelers(kde.org)

95 points by COGlory 3 years ago | 26 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux(phoronix.com)

92 points by nedsma 3 years ago | 58 comments

The lost saga of Fossil Cycad National Monument (2017)(atlasobscura.com)

91 points by robg 3 years ago | 65 comments

Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust(bevyengine.org)

87 points by _cart 3 years ago | 21 comments

Color appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors theory(cell.com)

86 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 34 comments

Sarah Silverman sues Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringement(reuters.com)

80 points by sndean 3 years ago | 41 comments

New York City’s AI hiring law takes effect(qz.com)

77 points by donohoe 3 years ago | 98 comments

The HTTP status code for a web server's default “hello” front page(utcc.utoronto.ca)

74 points by ingve 3 years ago | 79 comments

PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator(github.com)

70 points by gattilorenz 3 years ago | 23 comments

The Lucretius Problem: How History Blinds Us(fs.blog)

68 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 32 comments

Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?

67 points by olvy0 3 years ago | 53 comments

Engineering Intensity(ruiper.es)

65 points by RPeres 3 years ago | 11 comments

Difference Between Implicit and Explicit Animations in SwiftUI(holyswift.app)

65 points by leopug 3 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Digger – Open Source Terraform automation and collaboration tool(github.com)

63 points by ujnproduct 3 years ago | 17 comments

A mathematically correct way to tie your shoes(bigthink.com)

62 points by redbell 3 years ago | 31 comments

Test Against Reality(borretti.me)

62 points by susam 3 years ago | 60 comments

The Undecidability of BB(748): Understanding Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems [pdf](ingo-blechschmidt.eu)

61 points by pizza 3 years ago | 12 comments

Dublin Airport airbrige collapsed, damaging American Airlines Boeing 787(aviationa2z.com)

61 points by mikequinlan 3 years ago | 36 comments

A quick look back at when Microsoft made an interactive Barney toy(neowin.net)

61 points by cududa 3 years ago | 29 comments

A new method for packing objects inside a rigid container(techxplore.com)

60 points by macleginn 3 years ago | 7 comments

The Web Assembly Shaper(github.com)

56 points by panic 3 years ago | 13 comments

Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System(linuxliteos.com)

52 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 62 comments

How to Pick a Mate (1946)(gutenberg.org)

51 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 55 comments

Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe(sfgate.com)

51 points by mywacaday 3 years ago | 43 comments

Mozilla ending support for Windows 7(blog.mozilla.org)

49 points by rebelwebmaster 3 years ago | 34 comments

The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge(nytimes.com)

48 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 82 comments

Specular Holography: How (2010)(zintaglio.com)

44 points by matthberg 3 years ago | 11 comments

What Unix Cost Us (2020) [video](youtube.com)

42 points by zdw 3 years ago | 21 comments

Bypassing Readout Protection in Nordic Semiconductor Microcontrollers(emproof.com)

42 points by serhack_ 3 years ago | 16 comments