Hacker News on Monday, 30 October 2023

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars(ludic.mataroa.blog)

851 points by softskunk 3 years ago | 375 comments

Blog post from Ludicity describing how the author saved their company half a million dollars in minutes by changing a configuration setting, and criticizing industry dysfunction.

Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders(blog.google)

538 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 381 comments

Google Keyword blog post announcing that starting in 2024 Gmail will require bulk senders to authenticate email, support easy unsubscribe, and stay under a spam threshold.

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation(youglish.com)

491 points by vikrum 3 years ago | 295 comments

YouGlish homepage, a search tool that finds YouTube video clips showing how English words and phrases are pronounced in context.

The Grug Brained Developer (2022)(grugbrain.dev)

431 points by simonsarris 3 years ago | 159 comments

A humorous essay written in caveman-speak offering software development advice, especially about avoiding complexity, from the perspective of a 'grug brained' developer.

The costs of microservices (2020)(robertovitillo.com)

381 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 347 comments

Blog post by Roberto Vitillo examining the trade-offs and costs of splitting a monolithic backend into microservices.

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy(theatlantic.com)

359 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 401 comments

An Atlantic Ideas essay by Rogé Karma arguing private equity now controls about one-fifth of the U.S. market, largely invisible to investors, media, and regulators.

World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review(news.artnet.com)

352 points by throw0101a 3 years ago | 153 comments

Artnet News opinion piece by Ben Davis on being targeted by painter Devon Rodriguez's followers after a critical review, and on 'parasocial aesthetics'.

Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger(afr.com)

321 points by emptysongglass 3 years ago | 330 comments

News article reporting Google Brain cofounder Andrew Ng's claim that big tech firms exaggerate AI extinction risks to push regulation that entrenches their market dominance.

Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA(bloomberg.com)

306 points by htrp 3 years ago | 379 comments

AI.gov(ai.gov)

295 points by KoftaBob 3 years ago | 216 comments

Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding(raspberrypi.com)

292 points by InsomniacL 3 years ago | 201 comments

Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs(quic.video)

250 points by kixelated 3 years ago | 70 comments

Global CO2 Levels(co2levels.org)

238 points by kloch 3 years ago | 225 comments

People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds(sciencedaily.com)

228 points by Podgajski 3 years ago | 296 comments

Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5(taktech.org)

227 points by __anon-2023__ 3 years ago | 43 comments

SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures(sec.gov)

220 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 75 comments

RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs(together.ai)

213 points by programd 3 years ago | 51 comments

Razor 1911(en.wikipedia.org)

203 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 105 comments

New York Times tech workers to strike this afternoon(bloomberg.com)

197 points by bwestergard 3 years ago | 157 comments

Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads(businesswire.com)

189 points by ortusdux 3 years ago | 144 comments

eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation(odigos.io)

183 points by edenfed 3 years ago | 54 comments

How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis(nature.com)

180 points by vapemaster 3 years ago | 153 comments

Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence(whitehouse.gov)

177 points by Mandelmus 3 years ago | 301 comments

Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages(jacobbartlett.substack.com)

176 points by jakey_bakey 3 years ago | 109 comments

Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)(robkhenderson.com)

168 points by peanutcrisis 3 years ago | 187 comments

Nvidia Trains LLM on Chip Design(eetimes.com)

164 points by gumby 3 years ago | 112 comments

Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI(reuters.com)

152 points by starshadowx2 3 years ago | 304 comments

Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe(nytimes.com)

145 points by pretext 3 years ago | 157 comments

Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers Are Down?

145 points by cristaloleg 3 years ago | 73 comments

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)(zilliz.com)

133 points by fzliu 3 years ago | 33 comments

The death of a public intellectual(thmsmlr.com)

126 points by judiisis 3 years ago | 293 comments

My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py(gregoryszorc.com)

124 points by markdog12 3 years ago | 57 comments

Spy satellites reveal undiscovered Roman forts(phys.org)

123 points by wglb 3 years ago | 8 comments

Kart: DVC for geospatial and tabular data. Git for GIS(kartproject.org)

122 points by starkparker 3 years ago | 32 comments

The History of Microsoft Encarta(abortretry.fail)

118 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 35 comments

How to Move Your Google Photos(auckland.ac.nz)

116 points by Leftium 3 years ago | 74 comments

Finding services companies via their TXT records(abenezerbelachew.com)

109 points by abenezerb 3 years ago | 62 comments

Biden to issue first regulations on artificial intelligence systems(nytimes.com)

106 points by cebert 3 years ago | 123 comments

Internal slides on the work of the Google "Ads Quality" team(twitter.com)

105 points by choppaface 3 years ago | 46 comments

Recursive Drawing(recursivedrawing.com)

101 points by andrewla 3 years ago | 10 comments

Autism and responding to authority (2019)(neuroclastic.com)

98 points by verisimi 3 years ago | 210 comments

Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?(knowingmachines.org)

96 points by randomlogin 3 years ago | 89 comments

Automating Dead Code Cleanup(engineering.fb.com)

94 points by dangoldin 3 years ago | 19 comments

Patterns for personal web sites (2003)(rdrop.com)

90 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 16 comments

Bakhshali manuscript(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by talonx 3 years ago | 22 comments

Why can't you multiply vectors? [video](youtube.com)

85 points by BenoitP 3 years ago | 63 comments

A new view of the Manchester Computer(rylandscollections.com)

83 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 10 comments

DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore(nature.com)

80 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 24 comments

Show HN: Unlogged – open-source record and replay for Java

78 points by shardullavekar 3 years ago | 9 comments

SiFive: The road ahead (post layoffs)(sifive.com)

76 points by fork-bomber 3 years ago | 78 comments

A Tiny Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Turbine Can Power 10k Homes(cleantechnica.com)

70 points by thelastgallon 3 years ago | 25 comments

Speeding up Cython with SIMD(pythonspeed.com)

63 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 16 comments

What's missing with American CEOs?(albertcory50.substack.com)

63 points by AlbertCory 3 years ago | 48 comments

Western Digital to spin off flash business(theverge.com)

63 points by dm_me_dogs 3 years ago | 30 comments

Xbox's new policy – say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November(windowscentral.com)

62 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 39 comments

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What's to Come(anandtech.com)

62 points by ksec 3 years ago | 29 comments

Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks: Impressive gains over M2 and desktop CPUs(notebookcheck.net)

62 points by magnio 3 years ago | 17 comments

Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted for Linux 6.7(phoronix.com)

62 points by treesciencebot 3 years ago | 31 comments

New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor(greyb.com)

61 points by scientific_ass 3 years ago | 40 comments

Introduction to CURP Protocol(datenlord.github.io)

57 points by SandmanDZ 3 years ago | 13 comments