Hacker News on Friday, 11 August 2023

Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release(blog.mozilla.org)

726 points by rc00 3 years ago | 367 comments

Mozilla Add-ons blog post advising developers to prepare Firefox desktop extensions for the upcoming open extension support on Firefox for Android.

Squeeze the hell out of the system you have(blog.danslimmon.com)

602 points by sbmsr 3 years ago | 289 comments

Blog post by SRE Dan Slimmon arguing teams should optimize and get the most out of their existing system rather than rushing to replace it.

Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering(cnbc.com)

538 points by coloneltcb 3 years ago | 302 comments

CNBC news article reporting that a U.S. judge revoked FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's bail and sent him to jail over witness tampering.

80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans(cnbc.com)

536 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 441 comments

CNBC Make It article reporting a survey finding 80% of executives regret their earlier return-to-office plans.

Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes(ipp.mpg.de)

477 points by greesil 3 years ago | 258 comments

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics press release reporting that the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator sustained a plasma with gigajoule energy turnover for eight minutes.

YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban(torrentfreak.com)

380 points by marban 3 years ago | 190 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that hosting provider Uberspace took down the youtube-dl website after a German court ruling in a copyright lawsuit by major record labels.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

Tailscale vs. Narrowlink(narrowlink.com)

323 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 133 comments

Narrowlink documentation page comparing its open source remote access tool with Tailscale's WireGuard-based mesh VPN in architecture, features and use cases.

Fastest branchless binary search(mhdm.dev)

299 points by jorangreef 3 years ago | 135 comments

Every phone should be able to run personal websites(rohanrd.xyz)

298 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 331 comments

I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)(computerworld.com)

280 points by g4zj 3 years ago | 164 comments

Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models(anyscale.com)

268 points by robertnishihara 3 years ago | 54 comments

RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations(rfc-editor.org)

255 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 182 comments

Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction(cis.temple.edu)

253 points by lorepieri 3 years ago | 164 comments

Infisical – open-source HashiCorp Vault alternative(github.com)

249 points by vmatsiiako 3 years ago | 89 comments

Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git(github.com)

230 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 139 comments

An Introduction to Graph Theory(arxiv.org)

222 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 20 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary of Ex-Lover(themessenger.com)

214 points by nova22033 3 years ago | 137 comments

Zero Motorcycles makes its service manuals free(hagerty.com)

208 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 183 comments

Shamir Secret Sharing(max.levch.in)

207 points by yankcrime 3 years ago | 38 comments

Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work(w3.org)

200 points by TangerineDream 3 years ago | 107 comments

Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of a state machine(biorxiv.org)

193 points by sebg 3 years ago | 31 comments

What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers(spacelift.io)

191 points by cube2222 3 years ago | 197 comments

Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models(venturebeat.com)

180 points by sebg 3 years ago | 83 comments

Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno(github.com)

179 points by eliassjogreen 3 years ago | 39 comments

Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git [video](youtube.com)

178 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 128 comments

Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (2021)(theconversation.com)

168 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 83 comments

Reading Ancient Scrolls(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

160 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 17 comments

Mpire: A Python package for easier and faster multiprocessing(github.com)

141 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 44 comments

The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

138 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 150 comments

I fixed a bug the other day(javiergonzalez.io)

136 points by javier123454321 3 years ago | 67 comments

GSMA considers giving away mobile device locations through API(gsma.com)

134 points by louismerlin 3 years ago | 51 comments

Sorting in Emacs(susam.net)

134 points by susam 3 years ago | 41 comments

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)(marktarver.com)

134 points by sph 3 years ago | 100 comments

Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily

130 points by diminikolaou 3 years ago | 102 comments

Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with(utcc.utoronto.ca)

123 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 159 comments

Show HN: liteLLM Proxy Server: 50+ LLM Models, Error Handling, Caching(github.com)

114 points by ij23 3 years ago | 27 comments

ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability(aisnakeoil.com)

106 points by randomwalker 3 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Pykoi – a Python library for LLM data collection and fine tuning(cambioml.com)

101 points by jaredwilber 3 years ago | 2 comments

How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors(acoup.blog)

101 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 41 comments

If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots(economist.com)

101 points by nopinsight 3 years ago | 79 comments

George Hotz: There is no hard takeoff(geohot.github.io)

100 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 100 comments

OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change(github.com)

95 points by igorzij 3 years ago | 65 comments

The inability to simultaneously verify sentience, location, and identity(arxiv.org)

95 points by DemiGuru 3 years ago | 50 comments

The life of a lawyer in the late Roman republic(thecollector.com)

92 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 68 comments

Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy(theregister.com)

91 points by DamonHD 3 years ago | 30 comments

What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf](dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu)

88 points by lopespm 3 years ago | 43 comments

The Downsides of C++ Coroutines(reductor.dev)

88 points by msz-g-w 3 years ago | 37 comments

Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result(nature.com)

85 points by gmays 3 years ago | 98 comments

Websites and APIs on Render are unavailable due to Cloudflare network errors(status.render.com)

84 points by bgoldste 3 years ago | 38 comments

Extracellular communication between brain cells through transfer of Cre mRNA(biorxiv.org)

83 points by arto 3 years ago | 15 comments

HyperUI: Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components(hyperui.dev)

79 points by DerekBickerton 3 years ago | 16 comments

ARM’s Cortex A710: Winning by Default(chipsandcheese.com)

78 points by ingve 3 years ago | 59 comments

Objective-C Internals(alwaysprocessing.blog)

78 points by ingve 3 years ago | 45 comments

Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations?(scicomp.stackexchange.com)

76 points by rongenre 3 years ago | 59 comments

Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution(torrentfreak.com)

75 points by gslin 3 years ago | 30 comments

Inactive Google Account Policy(support.google.com)

69 points by geostyx 3 years ago | 49 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail(nytimes.com)

69 points by jrpelkonen 3 years ago | 4 comments

Dramatic rise in cancer in people under 50(news.harvard.edu)

63 points by hochmartinez 3 years ago | 63 comments

Functional Programming in Modern C++: The Imperatives Must Go [video](youtube.com)

62 points by olvy0 3 years ago | 24 comments