Hacker News on Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Kevin Mitnick has died(dignitymemorial.com)

3604 points by thirtyseven 3 years ago | 589 comments

Dignity Memorial obituary page for Kevin David Mitnick, the famed hacker and security consultant, who lived from August 6, 1963 to July 16, 2023.

Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers(stanforddaily.com)

1408 points by dralley 3 years ago | 730 comments

Stanford Daily news article reporting that Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned over manipulated research and will retract at least three papers.

Advanced Python Mastery(github.com)

650 points by a_bonobo 3 years ago | 130 comments

GitHub repository for David Beazley's Advanced Python Mastery course, with exercises, solutions, data files, and the course PDF.

Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt(triblive.com)

565 points by Geekette 3 years ago | 692 comments

TribLive news article reporting that Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh have ended admissions preferences for children and relatives of alumni.

ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products(intel.com)

519 points by mepian 3 years ago | 304 comments

Intel newsroom press release announcing a term sheet under which ASUS will manufacture, sell and support 10th–13th Gen NUC systems and develop future NUC designs.

Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM

384 points by iFelix 3 years ago | 297 comments

Launch HN post introducing Twenty, an AGPL-licensed open-source CRM built with TypeScript, React, NestJS and GraphQL as a Salesforce alternative.

A glitch in the SEO matrix(izzy.co)

302 points by bbischof 3 years ago | 204 comments

‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders(theguardian.com)

301 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 377 comments

Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)(web.archive.org)

300 points by damethos 3 years ago | 270 comments

Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books(joinbookwyrm.com)

297 points by susanthenerd 3 years ago | 159 comments

Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock(wsj.com)

289 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 139 comments

What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works(themer.dev)

270 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 197 comments

GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better(twitter.com)

242 points by taytus 3 years ago | 199 comments

Remote code execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded SSH-agent(blog.qualys.com)

233 points by vitplister 3 years ago | 140 comments

Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022)(commoncog.com)

229 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 149 comments

Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection(tech.target.com)

228 points by ericras 3 years ago | 121 comments

How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?(arxiv.org)

218 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 138 comments

Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands(github.com)

215 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 62 comments

FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures(github.com)

211 points by Lwrless 3 years ago | 127 comments

Local async executors and why they should be the default(maciej.codes)

203 points by rklaehn 3 years ago | 220 comments

Beyond introvert vs. extrovert(vipshek.com)

197 points by vipshek 3 years ago | 161 comments

Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365(windowscentral.com)

193 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 229 comments

Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between(businessinsider.com)

191 points by wallflower 3 years ago | 203 comments

The Danger of Popcorn Polymer: Incident at the TPC Group Chemical Plant [video](youtube.com)

174 points by oatmeal1 3 years ago | 66 comments

Confronting failure as a core life skill(buildinghealthier.substack.com)

171 points by blh75 3 years ago | 73 comments

Asynchronous Rust on Cortex-M microcontrollers(interrupt.memfault.com)

167 points by picture 3 years ago | 57 comments

LinkedIn adopts protocol buffers and reduces latency up to 60%(infoq.com)

164 points by ijidak 3 years ago | 135 comments

Geothermal Ahead of Schedule(twitter.com)

153 points by ChuckMcM 3 years ago | 81 comments

Paper airplane ideas and tips(foldnfly.com)

153 points by mottiden 3 years ago | 22 comments

Mini – The Minimal Language(minilanguage.com)

152 points by aethertap 3 years ago | 69 comments

Iosevka typeface for code, from code(github.com)

149 points by kuschkufan 3 years ago | 62 comments

SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations(fablestudio.github.io)

148 points by boffbowsh 3 years ago | 42 comments

The open source learning curve for AI researchers(supervised.news)

143 points by bobvanluijt 3 years ago | 27 comments

Kangaroo tendons could rebuild human knees better, stronger(lighthouse.mq.edu.au)

136 points by geox 3 years ago | 134 comments

Use pytorch2+cu118 with ADA hardware for 50%+ speedup(gpux.ai)

134 points by vans554 3 years ago | 33 comments

Simply Parse in C(pencil.toast.cafe)

130 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 91 comments

Zig: Upcoming release postponed two more weeks and lacks async functions(ziglang.org)

129 points by manaskarekar 3 years ago | 38 comments

A framework to securely use LLMs in companies – Part 1: Overview of Risks(boringappsec.substack.com)

121 points by sys42590 3 years ago | 19 comments

A Decade of Rust, and Announcing Ferrocene(ferrous-systems.com)

118 points by sbt567 3 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Infisical – open-source secret management platform(infisical.com)

116 points by vmatsiiako 3 years ago | 50 comments

Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App(proton.me)

114 points by fvgs 3 years ago | 74 comments

NeetoCal, a calendly alternative, is a commodity and is priced accordingly(blog.neeto.com)

111 points by jasim 3 years ago | 63 comments

Jazz Comping (2021)(jazz-library.com)

108 points by RickHull 3 years ago | 71 comments

JetBrains Mono Typeface(jetbrains.com)

103 points by matricaria 3 years ago | 77 comments

A full episode of South Park generated by AI(fablestudio.github.io)

99 points by gdcohen 3 years ago | 42 comments

Bfs 3.0: The Fastest Find Yet(tavianator.com)

97 points by rurban 3 years ago | 40 comments

Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen (2016)(vox.com)

96 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 67 comments

Comic Code: Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface(tosche.net)

95 points by orphea 3 years ago | 47 comments

What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)(sbnation.com)

95 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 101 comments

Cold restart whole system after total outage(evalapply.org)

93 points by dmazin 3 years ago | 76 comments

Pressure and vacuum marination does not work (2016)(genuineideas.com)

91 points by OJFord 3 years ago | 59 comments

A stationary jet stream is fueling intense heat worldwide(e360.yale.edu)

88 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 111 comments

The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved (2022)(nbdev.fast.ai)

88 points by skadamat 3 years ago | 35 comments

Save Open Source /-/ the Impending Tragedy of the Cyber Resilience Act(news.apache.org)

73 points by pseudotrash 3 years ago | 11 comments

A Checklist for Choosing Type(fonts.google.com)

71 points by Paul-Craft 3 years ago | 20 comments

Full-text search engine with PostgreSQL (part 2): Postgres vs. Elasticsearch(xata.io)

71 points by rw-access 3 years ago | 8 comments

Delts Don’t Lie(daily.jstor.org)

70 points by fnubbly 3 years ago | 50 comments

Revisiting the “Cansole”, because my TV doesn't have the right connectors(blog.jgc.org)

68 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 9 comments

Postman acquires Akita for automated API observability(blog.postman.com)

67 points by captn3m0 3 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Gemini web client in 100 lines of C(github.com)

65 points by ir3k 3 years ago | 33 comments