Hacker News on Tuesday, 29 August 2023

ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is(eff.org)

1322 points by mantiq 3 years ago | 970 comments

EFF Deeplinks post from August 2023 arguing that internet service providers should not police or block online speech, even when it is awful.

Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)(undeadly.org)

556 points by zdw 3 years ago | 239 comments

OpenBSD Journal post announcing Damien Miller's commit adding keystroke timing obfuscation with chaff keystrokes to OpenSSH's ssh client.

Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics(servethehome.com)

441 points by NavinF 3 years ago | 172 comments

ServeTheHome news article on Intel's experimental 8-core, 528-thread processor that uses silicon photonics for interconnect.

Ask HN: Why did Python win?

398 points by MatthiasPortzel 3 years ago | 649 comments

An Ask HN thread asking why Python grew into a dominant programming language while Ruby, once similarly popular, stalled.

Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure(juxt.pro)

363 points by coder94 3 years ago | 172 comments

A JUXT blog case study on Griffin, a UK-regulated API-driven banking-as-a-service platform built with Clojure.

Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs(paraxial.io)

321 points by lemper 3 years ago | 317 comments

Paraxial.io blog post by Michael Lubas describing how Pinterest's adoption of Elixir saved about $2 million a year in server costs.

Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)(wildbit.com)

293 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 97 comments

Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video(co-tracker.github.io)

269 points by crakenzak 3 years ago | 69 comments

Grave flaws in BGP Error handling(blog.benjojo.co.uk)

261 points by greyface- 3 years ago | 102 comments

Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader(github.com)

243 points by microflash 3 years ago | 136 comments

Gallery – Making Molecules(makingmolecules.com)

241 points by HaoZeke 3 years ago | 36 comments

iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine(404media.co)

239 points by jmsflknr 3 years ago | 165 comments

Abandoned and little-known airfields(airfields-freeman.com)

234 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 105 comments

MagicEdit: High-fidelity temporally coherent video editing(magic-edit.github.io)

231 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 77 comments

DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes(devblogs.microsoft.com)

224 points by zdw 3 years ago | 79 comments

How far can you jump from a swing?(alexmolas.com)

218 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 88 comments

New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour(sustainableplastics.com)

217 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 256 comments

FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure(fbi.gov)

209 points by mvdwoord 3 years ago | 160 comments

Visualization of Common Algorithms(visualgo.net)

201 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 10 comments

Starlink's User Terminal Firmware(blog.quarkslab.com)

187 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 30 comments

Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thanks to the Steam Deck(pcgamer.com)

173 points by neverminder 3 years ago | 60 comments

AI Crap(drewdevault.com)

168 points by Jiejeing 3 years ago | 124 comments

Whistleblower alleges Booz Allen was overcharging U.S. taxpayers for losses(nbcnews.com)

168 points by agomez314 3 years ago | 97 comments

Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)(electronics.stackexchange.com)

167 points by dilawar 3 years ago | 616 comments

Analysis of Obfuscation Techniques Found in Apple FairPlay(nicolo.dev)

167 points by univr 3 years ago | 48 comments

A cheap radio hack disrupted Poland's railway system(wired.com)

151 points by xrayarx 3 years ago | 87 comments

A note to young folks: download the things you love(birchtree.me)

149 points by ingve 3 years ago | 57 comments

Automatic Generation of Visualizations and Infographics with LLMs(microsoft.github.io)

147 points by monkeydust 3 years ago | 46 comments

C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)(bhavana.org.in)

142 points by akbarnama 3 years ago | 12 comments

Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

132 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 83 comments

Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness(fractalfir.github.io)

131 points by tbillington 3 years ago | 24 comments

Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available(workspace.google.com)

126 points by meetpateltech 3 years ago | 59 comments

Hacking GTA V RP Servers Using Web Exploitation Techniques(nullpt.rs)

125 points by hazebooth 3 years ago | 28 comments

MapReduce, TensorFlow, Vertex: Google's bet to avoid repeating history in AI(supervised.news)

125 points by coloneltcb 3 years ago | 81 comments

I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)(codewithjason.com)

124 points by Akronymus 3 years ago | 261 comments

Announcing the Pollen API(cloud.google.com)

123 points by ohmyblock 3 years ago | 77 comments

Baby's first WASM compiler(scattered-thoughts.net)

120 points by luu 3 years ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Langfuse – Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps(github.com)

119 points by marcklingen 3 years ago | 28 comments

Neutrons prove ‘Bond villain’ did not cause Arecibo telescope collapse(ornl.gov)

118 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 62 comments

Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements(webstudio.is)

112 points by pistoriusp 3 years ago | 53 comments

Inertial HSMs thwart advanced physical attacks(tches.iacr.org)

107 points by luu 3 years ago | 39 comments

Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021)(technologyreview.com)

106 points by marcodiego 3 years ago | 34 comments

Installing Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii [video](youtube.com)

105 points by gslin 3 years ago | 31 comments

I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop(wimpysworld.com)

103 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 91 comments

Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)(play.elevatorsaga.com)

98 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 32 comments

The case for Nushell(jntrnr.com)

96 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 25 comments

We always end up with waterfall(amazingcto.com)

96 points by KingOfCoders 3 years ago | 95 comments

How Correlated Are You?(allendowney.com)

94 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Heart of W. Edwards Deming(hagakure.substack.com)

91 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 14 comments

The brain connections between our hands and tongues(quantamagazine.org)

91 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 23 comments

StarCitizen Server Meshing Architecture(sc-server-meshing.info)

90 points by password-234 3 years ago | 97 comments

Amazon CEO tells staff to work in office 3 days a week or look for another job(theguardian.com)

90 points by nickcotter 3 years ago | 71 comments

Film Review: BlackBerry(anarchonomicon.substack.com)

88 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 60 comments

Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot(ntietz.com)

86 points by imadj 3 years ago | 71 comments

Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD(github.com)

84 points by signa11 3 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Query your database using plain English on premise(vizly.fyi)

82 points by alishobeiri 3 years ago | 37 comments

Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation(cam.ac.uk)

79 points by hhs 3 years ago | 17 comments

Lesser Known Postgres Features (2021)(hakibenita.com)

78 points by skadamat 3 years ago | 12 comments

Random Load Balancing Is Unevenly Distributed(evanjones.ca)

78 points by zdw 3 years ago | 47 comments

Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos(jkatz05.com)

78 points by samaysharma 3 years ago | 5 comments