Hacker News on Wednesday, 4 October 2023

An interactive intro to CRDTs(jakelazaroff.com)

843 points by jakelazaroff 3 years ago | 121 comments

Jake Lazaroff's blog post giving an interactive introduction to CRDTs, the first of a two-part series building toward a collaborative pixel art editor.

The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”(thebignewsletter.com)

637 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 569 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on the FTC and 17 states' antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Amazon over practices that stop merchants from discounting elsewhere.

Show HN: Classic Video Poker(lfgslots.com)

533 points by appstorelottery 3 years ago | 205 comments

A browser-based classic video poker game built in Godot, shared as a Show HN by a former Unity developer.

Pixel 8 Pro(store.google.com)

448 points by alphabetting 3 years ago | 755 comments

Google Store product page for the Pixel 8 Pro smartphone, offering pre-orders from $999 with trade-in and bundle promotions.

BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon(darnell.day)

370 points by cmrdporcupine 3 years ago | 211 comments

Blog post reporting that the BBC has abandoned Meta's Threads while continuing its presence on Mastodon.

Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API(blog.reyem.dev)

360 points by kristianp 3 years ago | 184 comments

Blog post describing using the ChatGPT API to extract book titles from Hacker News recommendation threads and listing the top 50 recommended books.

Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company(blog.vespa.ai)

325 points by bratao 3 years ago | 127 comments

Vespa blog post by CEO Jon Bratseth announcing that Vespa, the open big data serving engine, is spinning out of Yahoo as its own company.

Career Advice (2013)(moxie.org)

276 points by hypertexthero 3 years ago | 144 comments

Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on(svix.com)

270 points by tasn 3 years ago | 539 comments

Eliminating radio interference from Apple charger(oh8hub.substack.com)

259 points by oherrala 3 years ago | 154 comments

1.3B Worldcat scrape and data science mini-competition(annas-blog.org)

221 points by crtasm 3 years ago | 68 comments

Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates(theverge.com)

215 points by skilled 3 years ago | 239 comments

1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023(blog.cloudflare.com)

202 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 69 comments

OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation(lwn.net)

199 points by surteen 3 years ago | 41 comments

D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect(axios.com)

188 points by mariojv 3 years ago | 343 comments

MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive(minios.dev)

179 points by akagusu 3 years ago | 112 comments

How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments(lithub.com)

177 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 120 comments

Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux(blog.apnic.net)

166 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 146 comments

How the Baltic states became the hub of crypto money laundering and fraud(vsquare.org)

160 points by kledru 3 years ago | 140 comments

Show HN: Shuttle – Build and ship backends without writing infrastructure files(github.com)

158 points by dohman 3 years ago | 59 comments

Choosing vector database: a side-by-side comparison(benchmark.vectorview.ai)

157 points by emilfroberg 3 years ago | 100 comments

Issues with 1.1.1.1 public resolver and WARP(cloudflarestatus.com)

153 points by WayToDoor 3 years ago | 77 comments

"You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here"(twitter.com)

150 points by bundie 3 years ago | 171 comments

Ben Fry Resigns from the Processing Foundation(twitter.com)

147 points by eat_veggies 3 years ago | 76 comments

Ural Airlines is preparing to fly a stranded Airbus A320 out of a field(simpleflying.com)

144 points by stefan_ 3 years ago | 118 comments

Training language models with pause tokens(arxiv.org)

137 points by og_kalu 3 years ago | 40 comments

Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs(github.com)

137 points by benterix 3 years ago | 89 comments

RT-X: the largest open-source robot dataset(robotics-transformer-x.github.io)

135 points by Osiris30 3 years ago | 7 comments

Show HN: A nom parser for the Starcraft 2 Protocol Replay format(github.com)

134 points by sebosp 3 years ago | 51 comments

AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers(nature.com)

131 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 84 comments

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster(brettscott.substack.com)

129 points by Gigamouse 3 years ago | 136 comments

Intel to set its FPGA unit free to pursue its own path(nextplatform.com)

129 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 69 comments

Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April(theverge.com)

117 points by c_ris 3 years ago | 99 comments

Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes(bloomberg.com)

116 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 years ago | 89 comments

The Diorama Engine(dioragame.com)

115 points by grzm 3 years ago | 31 comments

Security weaknesses of Copilot generated code in GitHub(arxiv.org)

112 points by belter 3 years ago | 65 comments

Researchers tested AI watermarks and broke all of them(wired.com)

106 points by adg29 3 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Sqinn-Go is a Golang library for accessing SQLite databases in pure Go(github.com)

104 points by cvilsmeier 3 years ago | 48 comments

Language Models Represent Space and Time(arxiv.org)

103 points by birriel 3 years ago | 96 comments

Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics(grc.nasa.gov)

102 points by rnjailamba 3 years ago | 12 comments

Nobel Prize Chemistry 2023(nobelprize.org)

98 points by alberto_ol 3 years ago | 27 comments

Richard Stallman Talks Red Hat, AI and Ethical Software Licenses at GNU Birthday(fossforce.com)

96 points by mmphosis 3 years ago | 58 comments

Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust(nikolaivazquez.com)

95 points by nvzqz 3 years ago | 10 comments

FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4(fema.gov)

95 points by jshprentz 3 years ago | 96 comments

The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011)(lithub.com)

90 points by pallas_athena 3 years ago | 46 comments

Expressive text-to-image generation with rich text(rich-text-to-image.github.io)

81 points by plurby 3 years ago | 32 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

Show HN: Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust(ambient.run)

77 points by Philpax 3 years ago | 36 comments

Rust is not the language for you if you don't like traits(github.com)

75 points by shantnutiwari 3 years ago | 48 comments

Great Pyramid of Cholula(en.wikipedia.org)

74 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Algora – Open source coding bounties(console.algora.io)

69 points by irf1 3 years ago | 30 comments

Pure Remote Jobs from “HN: Who Is Hiring”(docs.google.com)

68 points by gj0 3 years ago | 24 comments

Pulsifer v. United States, a case that turns on a federal law’s use of “and”(motherjones.com)

63 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 74 comments

Wound healing research produces full thickness human bioprinted skin(newsroom.wakehealth.edu)

62 points by geox 3 years ago | 10 comments

Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)

57 points by jeswin 3 years ago | 38 comments

Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches

57 points by geuis 3 years ago | 8 comments

Changes to Hosting on Replit(blog.replit.com)

56 points by marjipan200 3 years ago | 38 comments

Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks Through Neural Developmental Programs(arxiv.org)

53 points by hardmaru 3 years ago | 9 comments

Sequoia Captials Puff piece on SBF just before FTX's collapse(web.archive.org)

51 points by chollida1 3 years ago | 14 comments

What is an “attosecond pulse”, and what can you use it for?(physics.stackexchange.com)

51 points by azeemba 3 years ago | 0 comments