Hacker News on Thursday, 3 August 2023

Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For(techdirt.com)

887 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 296 comments

Techdirt opinion piece by Mike Masnick criticizing Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal as DRM for the web and a betrayal of its open-web values.

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features(electrek.co)

760 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 677 comments

Electrek article reporting that hackers found a way to unlock Tesla's paid software-locked vehicle features worth up to $15,000.

Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase(taylor.town)

683 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 462 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.

Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery

444 points by scythe 3 years ago | 166 comments

A Tell HN post arguing that Toyota's touted solid-state battery is likely a vanadium–titanium cathode described in a Nature Materials paper by the LIBTEC consortium.

Elixir for cynical curmudgeons(wiki.alopex.li)

412 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 208 comments

A wiki page introducing the Elixir language for skeptical programmers; it loaded as a Happstack internal server error.

AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses(aws.amazon.com)

410 points by realshadow 3 years ago | 335 comments

AWS blog post announcing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses and a Public IP Insights feature; the captured page rendered blank.

Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)(bloodknife.com)

370 points by dogleash 3 years ago | 514 comments

A 2021 Blood Knife essay arguing that modern action and superhero films showcase idealized, muscular bodies while stripping them of sexuality.

Netscape Meteors(erynwells.me)

369 points by ingve 3 years ago | 108 comments

A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.

Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers(arstechnica.com)

368 points by Sporktacular 3 years ago | 296 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Linux has overtaken macOS in Steam's hardware survey share, driven largely by the Steam Deck handheld.

FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls(techcrunch.com)

288 points by rntn 3 years ago | 180 comments

Color-Diffusion: using diffusion models to colorize black and white images(github.com)

284 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 128 comments

IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face(newsroom.ibm.com)

270 points by drkommy 3 years ago | 62 comments

A New Mode of Cancer Treatment(science.org)

261 points by atomroflbomber 3 years ago | 166 comments

Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres(hydra-so.notion.site)

241 points by coatue 3 years ago | 65 comments

Nuked-MD-FPGA – Emulating Sega Mega Drive chipset using decapped chips photos(github.com)

231 points by retro_guy 3 years ago | 72 comments

Pegasus Mail(pmail.com)

228 points by danielovichdk 3 years ago | 81 comments

Don't be clever(stitcher.io)

224 points by brentroose 3 years ago | 202 comments

SMS traffic pumping fraud(support.twilio.com)

216 points by badrabbit 3 years ago | 167 comments

Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language(destroyallsoftware.com)

214 points by yla92 3 years ago | 25 comments

Do something, so we can change it(allenpike.com)

211 points by ingve 3 years ago | 71 comments

Brave Search launches own image and video search(brave.com)

206 points by gripfx 3 years ago | 109 comments

Why early modern books are so beautiful(resobscura.substack.com)

203 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 58 comments

Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed(arstechnica.com)

195 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 24 comments

Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation(guochengqian.github.io)

187 points by GaggiX 3 years ago | 37 comments

The Cartel That Controls the US Food System(statecraft.beehiiv.com)

180 points by armanhq 3 years ago | 122 comments

Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic(cofense.com)

177 points by skilled 3 years ago | 60 comments

Launch HN: Sweep (YC S23) – A bot to create simple PRs in your codebase(github.com)

173 points by williamzeng0 3 years ago | 100 comments

Cognitive AI for ADHD(comigo.ai)

171 points by jasoncurry 3 years ago | 195 comments

Disables WebEnvironmentIntegrity feature and origin trials(github.com)

168 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 94 comments

GNU Units(gnu.org)

161 points by makeworld 3 years ago | 95 comments

The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?(wired.com)

160 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 117 comments

Polars: Company Formation Announcement(pola.rs)

158 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 36 comments

Briefcase: Convert a Python project into a standalone native application(briefcase.readthedocs.io)

153 points by generichuman 3 years ago | 42 comments

“1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”(twitter.com)

153 points by jiripospisil 3 years ago | 115 comments

Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)(find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)

148 points by nojs 3 years ago | 59 comments

Chrultrabook – Modify a Chromebook to Run Windows/Linux/macOS(chrultrabook.github.io)

142 points by fragmede 3 years ago | 65 comments

Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU(techradar.com)

140 points by mikece 3 years ago | 191 comments

As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future(e360.yale.edu)

138 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 110 comments

System settings that aren’t in System Settings(eclecticlight.co)

133 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 91 comments

Commercial quantum computer identifies molecular candidate for better solar cell(ornl.gov)

129 points by gmays 3 years ago | 49 comments

Vicuna v1.5 series, featuring 4K and 16K context, based on Llama 2(twitter.com)

127 points by tosh 3 years ago | 38 comments

What does the “pipe” value mean in the output of “ping”? (2009)(web.archive.org)

121 points by luu 3 years ago | 22 comments

Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure(overtone.github.io)

118 points by elamje 3 years ago | 12 comments

Unicorn – A full-stack web framework for Django(django-unicorn.com)

116 points by siavash 3 years ago | 77 comments

Why ISO was retired (2021)(bkhome.org)

115 points by worez 3 years ago | 69 comments

Royal Mail to Issue “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” Stamps(file770.com)

110 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 37 comments

Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot (2022)(rafa.ee)

106 points by dulvui 3 years ago | 25 comments

Apple reports third quarter results(apple.com)

106 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 200 comments

Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says(arstechnica.com)

103 points by loaph 3 years ago | 86 comments

Canonical LXD forked by former project leader stgraber(github.com)

100 points by loloquwowndueo 3 years ago | 35 comments

200k Compromised OpenAI Credentials Available for Purchase on the Dark Web(cpomagazine.com)

96 points by sherlockxu 3 years ago | 59 comments

Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results(theregister.com)

84 points by rntn 3 years ago | 10 comments

A supercapacitor made from cement(spectrum.ieee.org)

81 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 26 comments

I don't use Bayes factors in my research (2019)(datacolada.org)

79 points by jasonhansel 3 years ago | 50 comments

How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered(youtube.com)

76 points by robinhouston 3 years ago | 51 comments

On the link between Lyme disease and bioweapons (2019)(lithub.com)

75 points by johntfella 3 years ago | 57 comments

Who are the worlds biggest landowners(madisontrust.com)

73 points by greedo 3 years ago | 65 comments

Goto in Bash (2012)(bobcopeland.com)

72 points by davidcollantes 3 years ago | 52 comments

Taming the Flame of Aging: Key Pathway for Chronic Inflammation Revealed(neurosciencenews.com)

70 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 41 comments