Hacker News on Tuesday, 26 September 2023

FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power(ftc.gov)

1079 points by marcopolis 3 years ago | 797 comments

FTC press release announcing its lawsuit against Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct.

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity(rachelbythebay.com)

738 points by picture 3 years ago | 574 comments

A blog post by Rachel by the Bay criticizing recent changes in the Philips Hue smart lighting ecosystem.

Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM(raverie-us.github.io)

608 points by TrevorSundberg 3 years ago | 135 comments

Loading screen of the Raverie Engine, a Unity-like game engine and editor compiled to pure WebAssembly that runs in the browser.

EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals(appleinsider.com)

481 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 1023 comments

AppleInsider news article reporting that the EU is requiring Apple to open its platforms and features to rival companies.

macOS Containers v0.0.1(macoscontainers.org)

460 points by CiTyBear 3 years ago | 297 comments

Announcement page for the initial 0.0.1 release of macOS native containers, letting users run macOS inside macOS and build images with Docker.

Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies(etymonline.com)

412 points by hprotagonist 3 years ago | 140 comments

An Online Etymology Dictionary column arguing that Google Ngram Viewer n-gram data is unreliable and misleading for word history research.

macOS Sonoma is available today(apple.com)

394 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 561 comments

Apple Newsroom announcement from September 26, 2023 that macOS Sonoma is now available as a free software update for Mac.

Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer(twitter.com)

304 points by mrpatiwi 3 years ago | 166 comments

Firefox 118(mozilla.org)

296 points by N19PEDL2 3 years ago | 126 comments

Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating(theguardian.com)

280 points by miohtama 3 years ago | 123 comments

Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure(github.com)

279 points by klaussilveira 3 years ago | 81 comments

FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality after us Democrats gain control of panel(bloomberg.com)

266 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 201 comments

ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says(eetimes.com)

259 points by mindcrime 3 years ago | 127 comments

Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose(major.io)

257 points by mhutter 3 years ago | 174 comments

Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyond(pytorch.org)

248 points by saeedesmaili 3 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Magentic – Use LLMs as simple Python functions(github.com)

246 points by jackmpcollins 3 years ago | 51 comments

Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“(power-technology.com)

242 points by hammock 3 years ago | 114 comments

Exploring Linux command-line space time(fabiensanglard.net)

234 points by bertman 3 years ago | 34 comments

9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who rape traveler(papersplease.org)

222 points by rolph 3 years ago | 125 comments

Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens(github.com)

221 points by SergeAx 3 years ago | 72 comments

Rethinking the Luddites(newyorker.com)

207 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 425 comments

Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score(stackdiary.com)

203 points by skilled 3 years ago | 142 comments

Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children(economist.com)

196 points by hampelm 3 years ago | 173 comments

Why don’t Americans eat mutton?(modernfarmer.com)

194 points by elorant 3 years ago | 446 comments

GPU.zip: side channel attack that exposes visual data processed on the GPU(hertzbleed.com)

188 points by amarshall 3 years ago | 25 comments

Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29(cbsnews.com)

183 points by lxm 3 years ago | 174 comments

AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’(techcrunch.com)

178 points by skilled 3 years ago | 138 comments

Control Center on macOS is always re-rendering its SwiftUI causing 1% CPU load(twitter.com)

177 points by atomlib 3 years ago | 94 comments

Sidechannel pixel-stealing attack works in Chromium on all modern GPUs(arstechnica.com)

171 points by anfilt 3 years ago | 58 comments

Yet another E-Ink weather display – but with Rust(harrystern.net)

162 points by boustrophedon 3 years ago | 59 comments

Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?

150 points by solo_prono 3 years ago | 61 comments

Radar Maps Platform(radar.com)

145 points by aleyan 3 years ago | 76 comments

Warren Spector – 40 years and I'm still here(gamedeveloper.com)

144 points by writeslowly 3 years ago | 31 comments

China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation(economist.com)

143 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3 years ago | 97 comments

DuckDB 0.9.0(duckdb.org)

136 points by nnx 3 years ago | 30 comments

Newly discovered deep-sea enzyme breaks down PET plastic(phys.org)

133 points by hanniabu 3 years ago | 55 comments

Ollama for Linux – Run LLMs on Linux with GPU Acceleration(github.com)

132 points by jmorgan 3 years ago | 42 comments

NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats(cisa.gov)

132 points by snagg 3 years ago | 136 comments

Freelancers aren’t happy with Japan’s new invoice system(japantimes.co.jp)

130 points by mikhael 3 years ago | 124 comments

Deconstructing Go Type Parameters(go.dev)

127 points by psxuaw 3 years ago | 53 comments

Apple exec Eddy Cue set to testify in Google trial about $19B search deal(cnbc.com)

121 points by sherlockxu 3 years ago | 90 comments

Vizro – toolkit for creating modular data visualization applications(github.com)

120 points by joelschw 3 years ago | 16 comments

Nickel Hydrogen Batteries by NASA(spectrum.ieee.org)

118 points by el_snark 3 years ago | 59 comments

Causality for Machine Learning (2020)(ff13.fastforwardlabs.com)

117 points by tplrbv 3 years ago | 24 comments

Show HN: The Tomb of Ramesses I in the Valley of the Kings(mused.org)

111 points by lukehollis 3 years ago | 42 comments

Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator(github.com)

107 points by nanna 3 years ago | 31 comments

Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024(techcrunch.com)

105 points by FabianBeiner 3 years ago | 98 comments

Merlin's Wisdom Project(github.com)

100 points by thecosas 3 years ago | 50 comments

Harvard: Student Use Cases for AI(hbsp.harvard.edu)

100 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 82 comments

Why we bootstrap(flagsmith.com)

98 points by annared 3 years ago | 70 comments

Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness(techcrunch.com)

96 points by qwytw 3 years ago | 92 comments

My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards(jackevansevo.github.io)

95 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 337 comments

Introduction to sysclean(8)(kapouay.eu.org)

91 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 26 comments

The X220 ThinkPad(bt.ht)

90 points by bradley_taunt 3 years ago | 71 comments

iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown(ifixit.com)

89 points by SerCe 3 years ago | 72 comments

JEP 457: Class-File API for Parsing, generating, transforming Java classfiles(openjdk.org)

88 points by carimura 3 years ago | 22 comments

Amazon PillPack – Your medication, sorted and delivered(pillpack.com)

79 points by mhb 3 years ago | 80 comments

Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs?

71 points by dirtybirdnj 3 years ago | 69 comments

Mozilla.ai(mozilla.ai)

69 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 44 comments

Forrest Mims and RadioShack (2017)(hackaday.com)

68 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 19 comments