Hacker News on Thursday, 7 September 2023

NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild(citizenlab.ca)

1375 points by ericzawo 3 years ago | 766 comments

Citizen Lab report on BLASTPASS, an NSO Group zero-click, zero-day iPhone exploit chain found in the wild, prompting Apple security updates.

Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers(arstechnica.com)

738 points by edvinbesic 3 years ago | 437 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Google launched its Privacy Sandbox ad platform in Chrome, which tracks browsing and shares a list of interest topics with advertisers.

Kagi Small Web(blog.kagi.com)

573 points by u2077 3 years ago | 152 comments

Kagi blog post from September 2023 announcing Kagi Small Web, a feature surfacing non-commercial personal websites and blogs.

North Korean campaign targeting security researchers(blog.google)

544 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 267 comments

Google Threat Analysis Group blog post from September 2023 describing an active North Korean campaign targeting security researchers.

Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web(tailscale.com)

527 points by xd1936 3 years ago | 109 comments

Tailscale blog post announcing a partnership with Mullvad that lets Tailscale users route traffic through Mullvad VPN servers as exit nodes.

Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot(blogs.microsoft.com)

470 points by wgx 3 years ago | 328 comments

Microsoft blog post announcing the Copilot Copyright Commitment, under which Microsoft assumes legal liability for copyright claims against customers using Copilot outputs.

Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad(mullvad.net)

423 points by jacopoj 3 years ago | 105 comments

Mullvad blog post announcing a partnership letting Tailscale users route traffic through Mullvad WireGuard VPN servers as exit nodes.

My favorite Erlang program (2013)(joearms.github.io)

307 points by vector_spaces 3 years ago | 115 comments

An Internet of PHP(timotijhof.net)

267 points by edent 3 years ago | 268 comments

Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories(hackyournews.com)

262 points by ukuina 3 years ago | 138 comments

Gaussian splatting is pretty cool(aras-p.info)

262 points by signa11 3 years ago | 82 comments

How Query Engines Work(howqueryengineswork.com)

256 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 43 comments

Exa Is Deprecated(github.com)

248 points by f4n4tiX 3 years ago | 193 comments

Mojo is available for local download(modular.com)

248 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 160 comments

Textual Web: TUIs for the Web(textual.textualize.io)

243 points by advik123 3 years ago | 88 comments

Chicago’s parking meter disaster(chicagotribune.com)

237 points by scarface_74 3 years ago | 339 comments

John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs(www-formal.stanford.edu)

235 points by chrchr 3 years ago | 70 comments

Report says PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews(screengeek.net)

233 points by mc32 3 years ago | 139 comments

UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible'(theregister.com)

230 points by jjgreen 3 years ago | 148 comments

Retool AI(retool.com)

216 points by donjh 3 years ago | 59 comments

Are any words the same in all languages?(blog.duolingo.com)

212 points by spansoa 3 years ago | 422 comments

China's ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of a centralized authority(phys.org)

210 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 140 comments

Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra(twitter.com)

209 points by tbruckner 3 years ago | 109 comments

Arduino raises $22M Series B round(blog.arduino.cc)

204 points by marc__1 3 years ago | 176 comments

I rode with an ice road trucker to the Arctic Circle(freightwaves.com)

203 points by jjslocum3 3 years ago | 119 comments

What's new in Emacs 29.1(masteringemacs.org)

203 points by User23 3 years ago | 114 comments

A BERT for laptops, from scratch(github.com)

185 points by samvher 3 years ago | 40 comments

Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement(bloomberg.com)

181 points by toomuchtodo 3 years ago | 169 comments

California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics(latimes.com)

164 points by voisin 3 years ago | 160 comments

New LoRa RF distance record(thethingsnetwork.org)

156 points by wienke 3 years ago | 120 comments

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo(en.wikipedia.org)

156 points by screamingninja 3 years ago | 79 comments

My Node.js is a bit Rusty(gal.hagever.com)

156 points by qsantos 3 years ago | 132 comments

The thinking path(robinsloan.com)

153 points by footest 3 years ago | 37 comments

Persimmon-8B(adept.ai)

152 points by jgershen 3 years ago | 51 comments

Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password(reddit.com)

141 points by babuskov 3 years ago | 153 comments

JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension(railsatscale.com)

138 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 79 comments

LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI(blog.lancedb.com)

134 points by yurisagalov 3 years ago | 51 comments

Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V(tomshardware.com)

134 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 78 comments

When URL parsers disagree(canva.dev)

131 points by hannob 3 years ago | 42 comments

London Street Trees(apps.london.gov.uk)

130 points by buro9 3 years ago | 70 comments

Snake-fury – a challenge for Haskell beginners(github.com)

129 points by bmacho 3 years ago | 47 comments

DSPy: Framework for programming with foundation models(github.com)

123 points by okhat 3 years ago | 48 comments

Every software project is a startup that will probably fail(muldoon.cloud)

112 points by pimterry 3 years ago | 52 comments

The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera(i2-camera.polaroid.com)

106 points by manuelmagic 3 years ago | 106 comments

We built an AI-powered Magic the Gathering card generator(txt.cohere.com)

105 points by MWil 3 years ago | 69 comments

The Power of Food for People with Dementia(newyorker.com)

102 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 28 comments

25 Gbit/s at home, part 1(boredengineer.medium.com)

98 points by pavel_odintsov 3 years ago | 92 comments

Searx is no longer maintained(github.com)

96 points by Jefrodey 3 years ago | 34 comments

ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per Scanner(tomshardware.com)

96 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 64 comments

TEMU Is Cleverly Hidden Spyware That Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S.(grizzlyreports.com)

95 points by loganfrederick 3 years ago | 47 comments

Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time(theguardian.com)

93 points by c420 3 years ago | 66 comments

My speed cubing page(ws.binghamton.edu)

93 points by weinzierl 3 years ago | 45 comments

Ernie, China's ChatGPT, Cracks Under Pressure(chinatalk.media)

92 points by johncole 3 years ago | 71 comments

Animations From First Principles (in 5 minutes)(mathspp.com)

92 points by RojerGS 3 years ago | 15 comments

What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

90 points by signa11 3 years ago | 58 comments

Apple buys 50-year-old record label to grow Apple Music Classical app(arstechnica.com)

86 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 76 comments

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable(arstechnica.com)

86 points by mpsprd 3 years ago | 90 comments

Magnetism may have given life its molecular asymmetry(quantamagazine.org)

84 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 14 comments

Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code(github.com)

81 points by xgdgsc 3 years ago | 22 comments

Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?(kut.org)

81 points by _JamesA_ 3 years ago | 100 comments