Hacker News on Thursday, 19 October 2023

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas(lerner.co.il)

602 points by reuven 3 years ago | 392 comments

Blog post by Python and Pandas instructor Reuven Lerner describing how Meta banned him for life from advertising, apparently over ads for his Python courses.

Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off(404media.co)

520 points by mstep 3 years ago | 412 comments

404 Media news article reporting that Bandcamp's entire union bargaining team was laid off after Songtradr acquired Bandcamp from Epic Games.

Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative(github.com)

513 points by meatjuice 3 years ago | 210 comments

GitHub repository for LocalSend, an open source cross-platform app for sharing files over a local network as an alternative to AirDrop.

ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades(news.cornell.edu)

509 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 136 comments

Cornell Chronicle article announcing that arXiv received over $10 million from the Simons Foundation and NSF to fund upgrades.

Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years(smithsonianmag.com)

389 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 215 comments

Smithsonian Magazine news article on research finding seaweed and aquatic plant biomarkers in ancient European dental plaque, showing millennia of seaweed eating.

Build your own BitTorrent(app.codecrafters.io)

386 points by romac 3 years ago | 107 comments

CodeCrafters course overview for a challenge to build a BitTorrent client that parses .torrent files, talks to trackers, and downloads from peers.

Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine(arstechnica.com)

334 points by bovem 3 years ago | 173 comments

Ars Technica article on a Google-hosted malicious ad leading to a convincing fake KeePass download site with a look-alike URL and valid TLS certificate.

Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer(bloomberg.com)

321 points by infrawhispers 3 years ago | 541 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Bezos-backed digital freight startup Convoy has shut down operations after failing to find a buyer.

Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts(autotab.com)

313 points by jonasnelle 3 years ago | 101 comments

Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17(blog.timac.org)

311 points by ingve 3 years ago | 181 comments

DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)(libraryjournal.com)

276 points by meristohm 3 years ago | 208 comments

I, Voyager: Open-Source Software Planetarium(ivoyager.dev)

244 points by Breadmaker 3 years ago | 17 comments

Just paying Figma because nothing else works(fasterthanli.me)

210 points by ingve 3 years ago | 166 comments

Ozone hole goes large again(esa.int)

209 points by geox 3 years ago | 84 comments

Toyota adopts the North American charging standard(pressroom.toyota.com)

208 points by beefman 3 years ago | 232 comments

Please Pay for a Year of Nothing(joe-steel.com)

207 points by cdme 3 years ago | 169 comments

13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep firms dropped the ball(theverge.com)

207 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 142 comments

Engineering Management Checklist (2021)(pnewman.org)

205 points by luu 3 years ago | 47 comments

LocalPilot: Open-source GitHub Copilot on your MacBook(github.com)

203 points by charlieirish 3 years ago | 47 comments

Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14k-year-old tree rings(phys.org)

193 points by wglb 3 years ago | 136 comments

Libre Silicon – Free semiconductors for everyone(libresilicon.com)

192 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 41 comments

Anna's Archive – LLM Training Data from Shadow Libraries(annas-archive.org)

187 points by all2 3 years ago | 16 comments

Accounting for computer scientists (2011)(martin.kleppmann.com)

170 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 34 comments

Mojo is now available on Mac(modular.com)

163 points by tosh 3 years ago | 129 comments

Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations(404media.co)

159 points by pulisse 3 years ago | 94 comments

Linux runtime security agent powered by eBPF(github.com)

158 points by ExeinTech 3 years ago | 60 comments

Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope(med.stanford.edu)

155 points by cpncrunch 3 years ago | 192 comments

There's a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses(arstechnica.com)

152 points by vo2maxer 3 years ago | 73 comments

Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December(youtube.com)

150 points by c420 3 years ago | 99 comments

FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote(arstechnica.com)

149 points by NetBeck 3 years ago | 128 comments

Banging errors in Go(flak.tedunangst.com)

145 points by ingve 3 years ago | 245 comments

Peter Thiel was an FBI informant(businessinsider.com)

143 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 75 comments

Clearview doesn't let Europeans delete themselves anymore(twitter.com)

135 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 81 comments

Using Prolog as the AST(marcellerusu.com)

127 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 57 comments

AtomVM: Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices(atomvm.net)

125 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 19 comments

Vectorpea: Online Tool for Vector Graphics(vectorpea.com)

122 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 25 comments

Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur(github.com)

118 points by wannacboatmovie 3 years ago | 56 comments

The origins of the Idle Scan(antirez.com)

117 points by antirez 3 years ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Modern Moodle learning platform open-source alternative(learnhouse.app)

116 points by sweave 3 years ago | 51 comments

How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie(theregister.com)

116 points by DougEiffel 3 years ago | 90 comments

Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service(noreplit.com)

114 points by hackermondev 3 years ago | 79 comments

AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/Pro 7000 WX(ir.amd.com)

113 points by diggan 3 years ago | 92 comments

Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages(prefix.dev)

113 points by droelf 3 years ago | 17 comments

Improving image generation with better captions [pdf](cdn.openai.com)

109 points by alievk 3 years ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Generate Stable Diffusion scenes around 3D models(github.com)

105 points by neilxm 3 years ago | 50 comments

"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle"(guestbook.goodenough.us)

101 points by kome 3 years ago | 101 comments

Show HN: Open-source background removal in Node.js(npmjs.com)

93 points by buss_jan 3 years ago | 7 comments

Even a laptop can run RAM externally thanks to CXL(techradar.com)

89 points by ashvardanian 3 years ago | 64 comments

The Geometry of Truth: Do LLM's Know True and False(saprmarks.github.io)

87 points by sebg 3 years ago | 45 comments

Consortium launched to build the largest open LLM(utu.fi)

87 points by outrun86 3 years ago | 42 comments

Alzheimer's microbiota induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis(academic.oup.com)

86 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 40 comments

30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000(cnbc.com)

83 points by throwoutway 3 years ago | 76 comments

Blaze: Fast query execution engine for Apache Spark(github.com)

83 points by sbt567 3 years ago | 11 comments

The 1924 Mikiphone: The first pocket record player(rarehistoricalphotos.com)

83 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 22 comments

Google's 21-year deal with Apple is the "heart" of monopoly case, judge says(arstechnica.com)

81 points by rntn 3 years ago | 84 comments

Ruvy: creating Wasm modules from Ruby code(shopify.engineering)

81 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 64 comments

Bumble bees drop to shake off Asian hornets(phys.org)

79 points by wglb 3 years ago | 16 comments

Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case(brimdata.io)

79 points by jameskerr 3 years ago | 36 comments

Requiem for a stringref(wingolog.org)

78 points by ingve 3 years ago | 80 comments

United Airlines plans to board passengers with window seats first(cbsnews.com)

76 points by lxm 3 years ago | 147 comments