Hacker News on Thursday, 9 November 2023

Omegle 2009-2023(omegle.com)

2387 points by liamcottle 3 years ago | 954 comments

Omegle's homepage replaced by founder Leif K-Brooks' farewell letter announcing the anonymous video chat site's shutdown after 14 years.

What I learned getting acquired by Google(shreyans.org)

947 points by shreyans 3 years ago | 578 comments

Personal essay by Shreyans about his 10-person startup Socratic being acquired by Google and lessons learned rebuilding the product inside Google.

Steam Deck OLED(store.steampowered.com)

870 points by robbiet480 3 years ago | 592 comments

Valve's Steam store page introducing the Steam Deck OLED handheld, highlighting its HDR screen, longer battery life, and faster downloads.

Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials(www-heise-de.translate.goog)

542 points by Fischgericht 3 years ago | 185 comments

Heise Online article (Google-translated from German) warning that the new Outlook app transfers users' IMAP/SMTP access credentials to Microsoft servers.

Monaspace(monaspace.githubnext.com)

480 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 148 comments

Landing page for Monaspace, GitHub Next's superfamily of monospaced fonts for code, with download and learn-more links.

Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke(bbc.co.uk)

432 points by sambeau 3 years ago | 117 comments

BBC News article reporting that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suffered a minor stroke.

Humane AI Pin(hu.ma.ne)

359 points by jen20 3 years ago | 327 comments

Product page for Humane's Ai Pin, a wearable AI device starting at $699 with US orders beginning November 16.

Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web(github.com)

349 points by wvoch235 3 years ago | 104 comments

GitHub repository for vimGPT, a project that uses GPT-4 Vision with the Vimium browser extension to navigate and browse the web autonomously.

You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim(propublica.org)

328 points by srameshc 3 years ago | 170 comments

ProPublica article reporting that some health insurers fail to hand over claim denial records to patients despite federal rules requiring them to do so.

Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died(washingtonpost.com)

311 points by NaOH 3 years ago | 120 comments

You Win or You Learn(threads.net)

299 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 192 comments

Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation(servo.org)

289 points by puzzlingcaptcha 3 years ago | 70 comments

Sony announces a9 III: first full-frame global shutter camera(dpreview.com)

211 points by ksec 3 years ago | 121 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

201 points by proberts 3 years ago | 270 comments

Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale(blog.mentat.ai)

197 points by ja3k 3 years ago | 95 comments

Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android(github.com)

194 points by thatha7777 3 years ago | 88 comments

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs(theregister.com)

191 points by Caboose8685 3 years ago | 112 comments

Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again(webdevlaw.uk)

186 points by Doches 3 years ago | 170 comments

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled(arstechnica.com)

178 points by deverton 3 years ago | 263 comments

Doctors complete first successful face and whole-eye transplant(scientificamerican.com)

173 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 53 comments

Researchers uncover the fastest semiconductor yet(spectrum.ieee.org)

148 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 87 comments

World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley(techcrunch.com)

137 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 133 comments

Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old trees in the Mediterranean(latimes.com)

133 points by aa_is_op 3 years ago | 136 comments

Sharing Screen with GPT 4 vision(loom.com)

131 points by Suneel478 3 years ago | 59 comments

Room Temperature Superconductor Paper Retracted by Journal Nature(wsj.com)

130 points by voisin 3 years ago | 24 comments

YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU(youtube.com)

129 points by mahmoudhossam 3 years ago | 59 comments

Reverse engineering the Intel 386 processor's register cell(righto.com)

128 points by picture 3 years ago | 22 comments

Illinois Senate approves plan to allow new nuclear reactors(apnews.com)

128 points by mattas 3 years ago | 35 comments

i386 Assembly Language trick for storing data in .text(ratfactor.com)

125 points by ingve 3 years ago | 77 comments

No Man's Sky just keeps getting better(polygon.com)

125 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 97 comments

Wyoming discovery could be America's first new source of rare-earths since 1952(wsj.com)

125 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 73 comments

System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop(wired.com)

124 points by pbui 3 years ago | 112 comments

Steve Wozniak hospitalized after fainting at an event in Mexico City(cnn.com)

122 points by huhtenberg 3 years ago | 17 comments

After a $1.8B verdict, the clock is ticking on the 6% realtor commission(cnn.com)

122 points by b20000 3 years ago | 125 comments

Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive in Windows without you explaining it(neowin.net)

118 points by doener 3 years ago | 67 comments

Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine(blog.jetbrains.com)

117 points by 3dsboy08 3 years ago | 91 comments

The Netwide Assembler (NASM)(nasm.us)

117 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 51 comments

Scandinavian spy drama: An intelligence chief who came under state surveillance(theguardian.com)

115 points by danielovichdk 3 years ago | 61 comments

Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages (2014)(arxiv.org)

115 points by lr0 3 years ago | 39 comments

Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4M loss; CFO quits(lasvegassun.com)

115 points by hubraumhugo 3 years ago | 125 comments

On medieval cats(going-medieval.com)

100 points by pepys 3 years ago | 58 comments

An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system(mbtaviz.github.io)

99 points by parksb 3 years ago | 18 comments

An implementation of Common Lisp targeting Lua(codeberg.org)

98 points by hollimolli 3 years ago | 14 comments

Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

95 points by msephton 3 years ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Nango – Open unified API for product integrations(nango.dev)

94 points by rguldener 3 years ago | 39 comments

Calculator Construction Set(folklore.org)

89 points by cyanf 3 years ago | 17 comments

Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health(cnn.com)

85 points by miguelazo 3 years ago | 42 comments

Implementing TCP in Rust(github.com)

84 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 17 comments

Restoring the Everglades to ensure South Florida's freshwater supply(news.fiu.edu)

82 points by DoreenMichele 3 years ago | 34 comments

A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open(zmescience.com)

81 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 59 comments

Why Rust in Production?(corrode.dev)

81 points by zaphodias 3 years ago | 24 comments

Copilot for Docs(githubnext.com)

77 points by irakeshpurohit 3 years ago | 45 comments

List of experts advising the EU in support of CSAM has been published(digitalcourage.social)

77 points by isodev 3 years ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: As a first-time solopreneur how would you go about hiring the first team

72 points by _448 3 years ago | 71 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to get "Your app was approved/rejected " alerts on Slack(statused.com)

71 points by rogerluan 3 years ago | 35 comments

Reducing patch postings to Linux-kernel(lwn.net)

68 points by dezgeg 3 years ago | 24 comments

Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal(linuximpact.com)

67 points by dddavid 3 years ago | 30 comments

Humane launches $699 Ai Pin(wired.com)

66 points by griffinli 3 years ago | 12 comments

Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit from a Sexual Abuse Survivor(wired.com)

65 points by spondylosaurus 3 years ago | 52 comments

Steve Wozniak Hospitalized in Mexico City(reuters.com)

64 points by draculero 3 years ago | 9 comments