Hacker News on Sunday, 23 July 2023

Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node(lowendbox.com)

735 points by h0ek 3 years ago | 489 comments

LowEndBox blog post recounting the case of William Weber, convicted of child pornography charges in Austria after running a Tor exit node.

All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free(themessenger.com)

661 points by pessimizer 3 years ago | 507 comments

News article reporting that California's budget under Gov. Newsom covers tuition, room and board for foster youth at any state university or community college.

Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C(github.com)

659 points by anjneymidha 3 years ago | 158 comments

GitHub repository by Andrej Karpathy for llama2.c, a minimal implementation for running Llama 2 model inference in a single file of pure C.

U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption(therecord.media)

447 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 316 comments

The Record news article on a U.S. Senate bill developed with the DEA that would require tech companies to report drug activity, threatening end-to-end encryption.

Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable(iconbuddy.app)

387 points by mddanishyusuf 3 years ago | 42 comments

Iconbuddy is a web app for searching, customizing, and downloading over 100,000 open source SVG icons from 156 icon collections.

Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database(cc.dev)

274 points by kashnote 3 years ago | 95 comments

Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi(topspeed.com)

268 points by achow 3 years ago | 526 comments

I found an IT job thanks to this blog(giuliomagnifico.blog)

253 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations(butwhatfor.beehiiv.com)

210 points by stanrivers 3 years ago | 85 comments

ldd arbitrary code execution (2009)(catonmat.net)

209 points by xk3 3 years ago | 72 comments

A Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery(thehustle.co)

199 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself(apps.apple.com)

188 points by nckh 3 years ago | 132 comments

The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (2016)(loudersound.com)

171 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 40 comments

Why Host Datacenter in Kosovo?(basehost.eu)

163 points by asadm 3 years ago | 57 comments

What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD (2021)(nxdomain.no)

160 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 122 comments

Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences(phoenixonrails.com)

157 points by arrowsmith 3 years ago | 56 comments

Young people are flocking to astrology(washingtonpost.com)

157 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 636 comments

Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction(blog.myscale.com)

155 points by jinqueeny 3 years ago | 120 comments

SICP in JavaScript(sourceacademy.org)

152 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 113 comments

Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)(efinancialcareers.co.uk)

151 points by Cwizard 3 years ago | 114 comments

Threads and Goroutines(shane.ai)

147 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 27 comments

Government URLs that don't end in .gov(github.com)

136 points by notmysql_ 3 years ago | 146 comments

VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared(web.archive.org)

130 points by trashburger 3 years ago | 121 comments

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)(gutenberg.org)

123 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 44 comments

Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’(science.org)

119 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 110 comments

Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)(chcollins.com)

117 points by theospears 3 years ago | 32 comments

An invariant from category theory solves a problem in mathematical ecology [pdf](maths.ed.ac.uk)

111 points by peanutcrisis 3 years ago | 26 comments

A call center worker’s battle with A.I.(nytimes.com)

109 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 125 comments

Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)(scientificamerican.com)

104 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 300 comments

OpenBSD: AMD processor microcode support added to -current(undeadly.org)

101 points by peter_hansteen 3 years ago | 16 comments

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid(theguardian.com)

97 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 22 comments

South Pole Signage(brr.fyi)

91 points by tarf 3 years ago | 14 comments

What my musical instruments have taught me(newyorker.com)

89 points by jvandonsel 3 years ago | 31 comments

Fossil shows mammal sinking teeth into dinosaur(theguardian.com)

88 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 47 comments

Remote Work to Wipe Out $800B from Office Values, McKinsey Says(bnnbloomberg.ca)

87 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 108 comments

LeCun: Qualcomm working with Meta to run Llama-2 on mobile devices(twitter.com)

85 points by birriel 3 years ago | 50 comments

riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture (rebootstrap in progress)(lists.debian.org)

79 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 22 comments

Stable Diffusion and ControlNet: “Hidden” Text (see thumbnail vs. full image)(old.reddit.com)

77 points by b0ner_t0ner 3 years ago | 22 comments

Drugmakers Are ‘Throwing the Kitchen Sink’ to Halt Medicare Price Negotiations(nytimes.com)

75 points by SeanBoocock 3 years ago | 46 comments

Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

73 points by sangel 3 years ago | 14 comments

Mixing Swift and C++(swift.org)

72 points by oumua_don17 3 years ago | 46 comments

Interfaces all the way down(jjain.substack.com)

71 points by jinay 3 years ago | 54 comments

Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk (2019)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

69 points by ImpressiveWebs 3 years ago | 18 comments

I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)(blog.jonstodle.com)

68 points by Capricorn2481 3 years ago | 108 comments

PLJS – JavaScript Language Plugin for PostreSQL(github.com)

67 points by alonp99 3 years ago | 16 comments

Valgrind recieves a development microgrant from FUTO(fosstodon.org)

67 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 15 comments

Can you understand bird? Test your recognition of calls and songs(nytimes.com)

66 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 34 comments

EasyGraph: A Comprehensive Tool for Graph Analysis and Social Computing(github.com)

64 points by DinoPeppa 3 years ago | 11 comments

The economics of the Birkin bag (2016)(economist.com)

64 points by gsatic 3 years ago | 56 comments

The Bear Market Has Nearly Been Erased, Fewer Than 20 Months After It Began(finance.yahoo.com)

61 points by testrun 3 years ago | 49 comments

Gustave Moreau's mystical paintings(thecollector.com)

56 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 5 comments

American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate(economist.com)

55 points by martincmartin 3 years ago | 73 comments

MOVEit body count closes in on 400 orgs, 20M+ individuals(theregister.com)

51 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: High school transcript generator for homeschoolers(greatbookshomeschool.com)

51 points by jkurnia 3 years ago | 13 comments

Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents(hackaday.com)

48 points by jklinger410 3 years ago | 2 comments

Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos(bloomberg.com)

47 points by Michelangelo11 3 years ago | 48 comments

Want fewer car accidents? Remove traffic signals and road signs (2017)(bigthink.com)

45 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 45 comments

The genetic architecture and evolution of the human skeletal form(science.org)

43 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 1 comments

50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre(arstechnica.com)

38 points by KnuthIsGod 3 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: Why do web sites not place the cursor for input?

32 points by backendanon 3 years ago | 37 comments