Hacker News on Tuesday, 31 October 2023

German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals(stackdiary.com)

1110 points by isodev 3 years ago | 513 comments

Press release from Germany's Federation of Consumer Organisations (vzbv) on a Berlin court ruling barring LinkedIn from ignoring Do-Not-Track signals and other privacy violations.

Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max(apple.com)

997 points by ehPReth 3 years ago | 1053 comments

Apple press release announcing the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, its first 3-nanometer chips for personal computers, with a new GPU architecture and faster CPU and Neural Engine.

Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context(phind.com)

793 points by rushingcreek 3 years ago | 316 comments

Phind announces its own coding-focused LLM, built on CodeLlama-34B fine-tunes, claiming GPT-4-level coding answers at 5x speed with 16k context.

macOS Sonoma Boot Failures(github.com)

609 points by ColoursofOSINT 3 years ago | 252 comments

Asahi Linux wiki page explaining macOS Sonoma and Ventura 13.6 bugs that can leave dual-boot Apple Silicon Macs stuck at a black screen requiring DFU recovery.

Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI(twitter.com)

572 points by hackerbeat 3 years ago | 281 comments

An X post by Javi Lopez describing how he built an Angry Birds clone, "Angry Pumpkins," using GPT-4 for code and Midjourney/DALL-E for graphics.

I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map(darkhotels.co)

545 points by louison11 3 years ago | 204 comments

Dark Hotels is an interactive map overlaying hotel stays on satellite light pollution data so travelers can find accommodations with dark skies.

Firefox got faster for real users in 2023(hacks.mozilla.org)

502 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 218 comments

Mozilla Hacks blog post describing how Firefox performance improved for real users during 2023, based on field metrics.

Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education(washingtonpost.com)

460 points by cs702 3 years ago | 1149 comments

Washington Post interactive article analyzing district-level data on the rapid growth of home schooling in the US.

Grist is a modern, relational spreadsheet(github.com)

451 points by protontypes 3 years ago | 158 comments

GitHub repository for grist-core, Grist Labs' open-source relational spreadsheet combining spreadsheet and database features.

Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU(datatilsynet.no)

385 points by aleksanb 3 years ago | 197 comments

Norwegian Data Protection Authority news release saying the EDPB made Norway's ban on Meta's behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram permanent and extended it EU/EEA-wide.

Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready(opensource.googleblog.com)

309 points by tormeh 3 years ago | 123 comments

AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support(fullystacked.net)

301 points by llcooliovice 3 years ago | 181 comments

Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand(people.ischool.berkeley.edu)

283 points by kelseyfrog 3 years ago | 232 comments

A Grand Theft Auto III Re-Implementation(openrw.org)

279 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 116 comments

Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"(nme.com)

245 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 280 comments

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages(wsj.com)

240 points by nerdo 3 years ago | 182 comments

Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel(phoronix.com)

229 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 85 comments

California employers must reimburse remote workers for all necessary expenses(nolo.com)

194 points by jacobkg 3 years ago | 344 comments

Show HN: Light implementation of Event Sourcing using PostgreSQL as event store(github.com)

193 points by eugene-khyst 3 years ago | 37 comments

.io considered harmful(beep.blog)

188 points by pantalaimon 3 years ago | 147 comments

Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die(righto.com)

187 points by zdw 3 years ago | 32 comments

Two hackers one keyboard two ways(flak.tedunangst.com)

186 points by zdw 3 years ago | 76 comments

Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack(github.com)

178 points by cozis 3 years ago | 41 comments

Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform(linaro.org)

167 points by fsflover 3 years ago | 85 comments

M51: A Feast for the Eyes(esawebb.org)

167 points by ughitsaaron 3 years ago | 29 comments

Rules of schema growth (2017)(blog.datomic.com)

164 points by iamwil 3 years ago | 88 comments

Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says(reuters.com)

158 points by Beggers1960 3 years ago | 176 comments

Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips(apple.com)

157 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 358 comments

Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)(youtube.com)

154 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 102 comments

The beauty of finished software(josem.co)

146 points by josem 3 years ago | 109 comments

Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac(apple.com)

142 points by ayoreis 3 years ago | 89 comments

$95 AMD CPU Becomes 16GB GPU to Run AI Software(tomshardware.com)

141 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig(github.com)

136 points by matthiasnannt 3 years ago | 30 comments

Black 4.0(culturehustleusa.com)

134 points by frob 3 years ago | 66 comments

WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says(reuters.com)

125 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: Streamdal – an open-source tail -f for your data(github.com)

125 points by dsies 3 years ago | 32 comments

Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching(blog.maximeheckel.com)

112 points by drux 3 years ago | 10 comments

Boot legacy PCs from NVMe storage(github.com)

103 points by wmlive 3 years ago | 20 comments

NASA can't open its asteroid capsule(tortoisemedia.com)

101 points by adolph 3 years ago | 51 comments

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats(techspot.com)

99 points by cainxinth 3 years ago | 67 comments

Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward(dpag.ox.ac.uk)

94 points by gmays 3 years ago | 25 comments

A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue(science.org)

94 points by Vagantem 3 years ago | 69 comments

Vendor lock-in in the observability space(keephq.dev)

89 points by talboren 3 years ago | 28 comments

.US harbors prolific malicious link shortening service(krebsonsecurity.com)

83 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 36 comments

Moonbase Alpha Travel Tube Details(catacombs.space1999.net)

75 points by zeristor 3 years ago | 54 comments

Mars Cyclers(planetocracy.substack.com)

72 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 54 comments

Compare how GPT-2, 3, 3.5 and 4 answer the same questions(theaidigest.org)

68 points by jellyberg 3 years ago | 22 comments

Bootstrapping GCC in RISC-V: Milestone: MesCC builds TinyCC and fun C errors(ekaitz.elenq.tech)

68 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 15 comments

ROScribe: An LLM-based robotic platform(discourse.ros.org)

64 points by RoboticTech 3 years ago | 9 comments

Israel was removed from Baidu Maps earlier today(twitter.com)

62 points by doener 3 years ago | 65 comments

Engineers develop a process to make formate fuel from CO2(news.mit.edu)

62 points by westurner 3 years ago | 34 comments

Ohm: A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.(github.com)

60 points by yeesian 3 years ago | 15 comments

Genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health(sciencedaily.com)

57 points by Podgajski 3 years ago | 48 comments

Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur(eater.com)

55 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 62 comments

Contributing to Rust as a Novice(filtra.io)

53 points by wofo 3 years ago | 10 comments

WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week(wsj.com)

53 points by tempsy 3 years ago | 21 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall(theverge.com)

51 points by nth_degree 3 years ago | 31 comments

MacBook Pro M3(apple.com)

50 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 53 comments

Should you use a Lambda Monolith, a.k.a. Lambdalith, for your API?(rehanvdm.com)

50 points by e2e4 3 years ago | 82 comments

Southern California Beyond the Freeway(nytimes.com)

50 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 39 comments