Hacker News on Tuesday, 8 August 2023

Downfall Attacks(downfall.page)

1207 points by WalterSobchak 3 years ago | 306 comments

Website describing Downfall, a CPU vulnerability affecting billions of modern processors, with attack details, demo, FAQ, and vendor advisories.

Uninstall the NightOwl app(robins.one)

920 points by txr 3 years ago | 196 comments

Blog post warning macOS users to uninstall NightOwl, a dark-mode switcher bought by TPE.FYI LLC that enrolls devices in a market-research botnet.

TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe(pr.tsmc.com)

807 points by king_phil 3 years ago | 472 comments

TSMC press release announcing a joint venture with Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build an advanced semiconductor fab in Europe, issued August 8, 2023.

What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?(chat.openai.com)

628 points by hersko 3 years ago | 256 comments

A shared ChatGPT conversation in which a user asks how many sunflower plants are needed to make one liter of sunflower oil.

Blocked by Cloudflare(jrhawley.ca)

560 points by jrhawley 3 years ago | 384 comments

A personal blog post by James Hawley describing being locked out of a work-related website by Cloudflare's bot protection and secure connection loop.

Your computer should say what you tell it to say(eff.org)

523 points by skilled 3 years ago | 177 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Cory Doctorow and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews arguing computers should obey their users, critiquing remote attestation schemes like Google's Web Environment Integrity.

Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels(noclip.website)

463 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 91 comments

Noclip.website is a browser-based viewer for exploring 3D levels from video games such as Wii and GameCube titles.

LCD, Please(dukope.itch.io)

442 points by abra0 3 years ago | 89 comments

Itch.io page for LCD, Please, a pocket LCD-style passport control game by Lucas and Keiko Pope, playable in the browser.

Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features(security.googleblog.com)

379 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 151 comments

Google Security Blog post announcing Android 14's new cellular connectivity security features, such as options to disable 2G and null-cipher connections.

Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing(vice.com)

334 points by rntn 3 years ago | 347 comments

Motherboard (Vice) article reporting that Amazon, which says it doesn't employ its delivery drivers, hired firms to prevent those drivers from unionizing.

Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples(arxiv.org)

317 points by platz 3 years ago | 276 comments

arXiv preprint reporting that LK-99-like samples show half levitation due to soft ferromagnetism, with no evidence of superconductivity.

Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)(adriancooney.ie)

313 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 104 comments

Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust(github.com)

306 points by osanseviero 3 years ago | 153 comments

Go 1.21 Released(go.dev)

249 points by Mawr 3 years ago | 67 comments

StableCode(stability.ai)

247 points by kpozin 3 years ago | 80 comments

Run Firefox on ChromeOS(support.mozilla.org)

232 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 66 comments

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim(arstechnica.com)

223 points by nixgeek 3 years ago | 18 comments

Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module(linuxgizmos.com)

223 points by ofrzeta 3 years ago | 74 comments

Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp(cnbc.com)

209 points by ikue 3 years ago | 199 comments

Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)(bruces.medium.com)

201 points by cubefox 3 years ago | 58 comments

Bye, Gemini(makeworld.space)

200 points by saclark11 3 years ago | 131 comments

The Last 1%(jaredramsey.com)

193 points by jram930 3 years ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Chat with your data using LangChain, Pinecone, and Airbyte(airbyte.com)

189 points by mtricot 3 years ago | 52 comments

mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites(mcaptcha.org)

188 points by notpushkin 3 years ago | 118 comments

Testing Intel’s Arc A770 GPU for Deep Learning(christianjmills.com)

183 points by T-A 3 years ago | 67 comments

Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data(magicearth.com)

177 points by executesorder66 3 years ago | 112 comments

Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids(nytimes.com)

170 points by mhb 3 years ago | 207 comments

GPT-4 can't reason(preprints.org)

166 points by BruceEel 3 years ago | 249 comments

PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management(packaging-con.org)

163 points by droelf 3 years ago | 129 comments

How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?(economist.com)

160 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 195 comments

Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster(blog.aquasec.com)

157 points by consumer451 3 years ago | 112 comments

Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time(iflscience.com)

150 points by geox 3 years ago | 48 comments

ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console(chimeraos.org)

145 points by kosasbest 3 years ago | 83 comments

LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis(drive.google.com)

144 points by carabiner 3 years ago | 128 comments

Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org(archive.org)

140 points by getwiththeprog 3 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative(easyful.com)

139 points by jhartist 3 years ago | 64 comments

The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression(qoaformat.org)

129 points by smlckz 3 years ago | 62 comments

Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions(arxiv.org)

126 points by spekcular 3 years ago | 55 comments

Graceful behavior at capacity(blog.nelhage.com)

125 points by ingve 3 years ago | 35 comments

Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (2015)(jroweboy.github.io)

121 points by japrozs 3 years ago | 48 comments

FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression(fda.gov)

120 points by gmays 3 years ago | 218 comments

Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB(ory.dev)

119 points by oporquinho94 3 years ago | 28 comments

A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf](download.clojure.org)

118 points by ndr 3 years ago | 37 comments

Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia

117 points by edreichua 3 years ago | 132 comments

Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework (2022)(evilsocket.net)

113 points by wslh 3 years ago | 26 comments

Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow(comsec.ethz.ch)

113 points by ndesaulniers 3 years ago | 16 comments

Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation(milksad.info)

104 points by dgrove 3 years ago | 98 comments

PyPI Requires 2FA for New User Registrations(blog.pypi.org)

104 points by miketheman 3 years ago | 47 comments

Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company(washingtonpost.com)

103 points by lando2319 3 years ago | 135 comments

Braille Is Alive, Well, and Ever-Evolving(themillions.com)

99 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 31 comments

Unity Weta Tools(unity.com)

99 points by Chazprime 3 years ago | 58 comments

Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit(utcc.utoronto.ca)

97 points by signa11 3 years ago | 77 comments

Jailer, a unique open-source database tool(github.com)

87 points by jailertool2 3 years ago | 24 comments

Panama Canal draught restrictions spark liner surcharges(gcaptain.com)

86 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 87 comments

Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China(dallasfed.org)

86 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 83 comments

Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August(theguardian.com)

83 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 64 comments

R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (2007)(losingfight.com)

81 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 70 comments

Rising ill-health and economic inactivity from long-term sickness: 2019 to 2023(ons.gov.uk)

80 points by luu 3 years ago | 76 comments

Ancient Earth globe(dinosaurpictures.org)

80 points by hendler 3 years ago | 44 comments

Nextflow: Data-Driven Computational Pipelines(nextflow.io)

73 points by brianzelip 3 years ago | 27 comments