Hacker News on Sunday, 1 October 2023

Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics(thedrive.com)

598 points by geox 3 years ago | 487 comments

The Drive news article reporting a study finding that tire dust accounts for the majority of microplastics in the ocean.

Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak(twitter.com)

392 points by tomduncalf 3 years ago | 193 comments

A tweet showing Bing Chat refusing to read a captcha image, then transcribing it when the captcha is placed in a locket and framed as a deceased grandmother's love code.

Learn and Test DMARC(learndmarc.com)

332 points by timsneath 3 years ago | 52 comments

Learn and Test DMARC is an interactive site that walks users through how DMARC, SPF and DKIM email authentication work by sending a test email.

12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed(arkeonews.net)

327 points by khole 3 years ago | 196 comments

Arkeonews article on new finds at Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, including a roughly 12,000-year-old human statue with a realistic facial expression.

Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy(natesilver.net)

261 points by sieste 3 years ago | 222 comments

Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust(old.reddit.com)

261 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 119 comments

Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor(theregister.com)

238 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 216 comments

Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds(nbcnews.com)

231 points by canthandle 3 years ago | 335 comments

Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter(bigthink.com)

222 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 113 comments

DKIM: Rotate and publish your keys(diziet.dreamwidth.org)

213 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 130 comments

DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing(bing.com)

211 points by ohadron 3 years ago | 129 comments

India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia(aljazeera.com)

195 points by nkurz 3 years ago | 87 comments

LK-99 research continues, paper says superconductivity could be possible(tomshardware.com)

185 points by nsoonhui 3 years ago | 37 comments

Never say no, but rarely say yes (2011)(longform.asmartbear.com)

184 points by jger15 3 years ago | 64 comments

The Irish Logarithm(blog.plover.com)

171 points by 082349872349872 3 years ago | 25 comments

The Curse of Dialup World(allenpike.com)

156 points by tyoma 3 years ago | 58 comments

Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?(old.reddit.com)

155 points by opengears 3 years ago | 179 comments

Focused Ultrasound(twitter.com)

152 points by birriel 3 years ago | 43 comments

Choose Boring Technology (2018)(boringtechnology.club)

152 points by signa11 3 years ago | 102 comments

MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones(dezeen.com)

152 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 105 comments

Intimacy does not scale (2021)(archive.ph)

150 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 123 comments

Celebrity Flights(celebrityflight.com)

141 points by __natty__ 3 years ago | 93 comments

FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences(adept.ai)

140 points by kristianp 3 years ago | 8 comments

CISA, NSA, FBI Release Advisory Warning of BlackTech, PRC-Linked Cyber Activity(cisa.gov)

136 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 82 comments

This is financial advice [video](youtube.com)

133 points by latexr 3 years ago | 32 comments

WFH significantly increased workforce participation from those with disabilities(thehill.com)

133 points by TheIronYuppie 3 years ago | 27 comments

MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)(stereophile.com)

120 points by thefilmore 3 years ago | 310 comments

Varoufakis: Capitalism is dead, long live Technofeudalism(unherd.com)

118 points by cornholio 3 years ago | 42 comments

Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco(washingtonpost.com)

116 points by felixbraun 3 years ago | 102 comments

How many microbes does it take to make you sick?(quantamagazine.org)

115 points by meany 3 years ago | 90 comments

In Digital Ocean, S3-like space keys can access all your buckets(ideas.digitalocean.com)

115 points by sergioisidoro 3 years ago | 89 comments

LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

105 points by willmadden 3 years ago | 58 comments

Unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin(theguardian.com)

98 points by robaato 3 years ago | 60 comments

More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit(cnn.com)

91 points by hnuser0000 3 years ago | 33 comments

Using Emacs as $EDITOR(magnus.therning.org)

87 points by signa11 3 years ago | 62 comments

2023 DevOps Is Terrible(abidmoon.hashnode.dev)

84 points by moonabid786 3 years ago | 60 comments

'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'(merriam-webster.com)

83 points by cardamomo 3 years ago | 158 comments

Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn(newscientist.com)

83 points by zdw 3 years ago | 21 comments

Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?

78 points by boringg 3 years ago | 107 comments

Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016)(businessinsider.com)

76 points by moat 3 years ago | 78 comments

Decentralized Artificial Intelligence(chaos-engineering.dev)

76 points by liqudity 3 years ago | 33 comments

Meta case brought to the European level(datatilsynet.no)

73 points by skilled 3 years ago | 3 comments

Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery(beekeeperstudio.io)

71 points by rathboma 3 years ago | 23 comments

Pillows to help workers snooze at desk(mainichi.jp)

71 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 69 comments

Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry(sciencedirect.com)

71 points by Luc 3 years ago | 5 comments

FBI warns “phantom” hacker scams are emptying financial accounts(tomsguide.com)

70 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 56 comments

Error correction and concealment in the Compact Disc system (1982) [pdf](pearl-hifi.com)

69 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 48 comments

Hermit 'scribblings' of Alexander Grothendieck made available to researchers(phys.org)

62 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 13 comments

Does anybody remember Google People(qntm.org)

61 points by prakhar897 3 years ago | 44 comments

The Quiet Revolution of the Sabbath(newyorker.com)

59 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 67 comments

America does not have a good food culture(walkingtheworld.substack.com)

59 points by resolutebat 3 years ago | 89 comments

4chan Turns 20(4chan.org)

58 points by zppln 3 years ago | 32 comments

We don't have Senior Engineers anymore(sibelius.substack.com)

55 points by gosenx 3 years ago | 65 comments

My Dearest Data East: Why? Gate of Doom/Dark Seal(nicole.express)

52 points by zdw 3 years ago | 7 comments

Tom Hanks says that’s not him selling dental insurance in Instagram ads(avclub.com)

52 points by c420 3 years ago | 40 comments

How companies like Amazon and JPMorgan spy on their staff(businessinsider.com)

50 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 39 comments

Where's My Bike Dave?(road.cc)

49 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 36 comments

Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it(mashable.com)

49 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 31 comments

Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer(social.treehouse.systems)

49 points by mesebrec 3 years ago | 11 comments

Representing Heterogeneous Data(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

48 points by grep_it 3 years ago | 11 comments