Zenbleed(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
1160 points by loeg | 327 comments
Tavis Ormandy's writeup of Zenbleed, an AMD Zen 2 CPU vulnerability that leaks data from vector registers, covering exploitation, discovery, and mitigation.
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Attention Is Off By One(evanmiller.org)
959 points by elbasti | 307 comments
Evan Miller's blog post arguing that the softmax in the transformer attention formula has an off-by-one flaw and proposing a modified softmax.
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web(arstechnica.com)
891 points by jakobdabo | 359 comments
Ars Technica article on Google's proposed Web Integrity API, being prototyped in Chrome, which critics say would act as a DRM-style gatekeeper for the web.
40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight(damninteresting.com)
703 points by bookofjoe | 277 comments
Damn Interesting article recounting the Gimli Glider, Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel mid-flight in 1983 and glided to a landing.
Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator(projectionlab.com)
671 points by scubakid | 229 comments
Landing page for ProjectionLab, a personal finance planning tool for simulating financial futures and building retirement plans.
The Fall of Stack Overflow(observablehq.com)
620 points by ayhanfuat | 703 comments
An Observable notebook charting Stack Overflow's roughly 50% decline in traffic, questions, answers, and votes over the past year and a half.
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’(techcrunch.com)
619 points by pallas_athena | 1459 comments
TechCrunch news article reporting that Twitter officially replaced its bird logo with an 'X' as part of its rebrand.
Have attention spans been declining?(slimemoldtimemold.com)
595 points by janandonly | 435 comments
A Slime Mold Time Mold blog post, a reader-submitted finalist in its Mysteries Contest, examining whether human attention spans have actually been declining.
Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)(compart.com)
369 points by t0m44c | 264 comments
Compart reference page for the Unicode character 𝕏 (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X), showing its glyph and details.
Inkscape 1.3(inkscape.org)
360 points by Reventlov | 57 comments
Inkscape news post announcing the release of version 1.3, which focuses on features for organizing work efficiently.
When did people stop being drunk all the time?(lefineder.substack.com)
333 points by prismatic | 583 comments
A Substack essay tracing trends in alcohol consumption from the Middle Ages to the modern world and why heavy everyday drinking declined.
Debian riscv64(blog.aurel32.net)
294 points by pabs3 | 112 comments
Mark Watson's Lisp books(github.com)
223 points by KRAKRISMOTT | 40 comments
Elixir is still safe(paraxial.io)
216 points by manusachi | 34 comments
Bruce Lee and Me(kareem.substack.com)
182 points by yla92 | 53 comments
![Screenshot of algorithmicbotany.org: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/7/24/1dffbf25-92e0-4d9d-986b-3dcc89db6589.jpg)
Emotions: A Code Book(tidyfirst.substack.com)
119 points by KentBeck | 42 comments
Wasm_of_OCaml(github.com)
114 points by eriangazag | 41 comments
X, the moonshot factory(x.company)
102 points by rgovostes | 129 comments
NAT Types(roxlu.com)
98 points by signa11 | 46 comments
Cash Amnesia(gsb.stanford.edu)
70 points by giuliomagnifico | 136 comments
