Hacker News on Monday, 13 November 2023

Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony(apnews.com)

604 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 382 comments

AP News article reporting that Nepal's government has banned TikTok, saying the app disrupts social harmony.

Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB(matthew.science)

603 points by sodality2 2 years ago | 198 comments

Blog post describing how the author built a campus occupancy sensor using a $5 ESP32 counting Bluetooth devices and a serverless database.

Placemark is going open source and shutting down(macwright.com)

546 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 128 comments

Tom MacWright's blog post announcing that Placemark, his bootstrapped mapping/GIS startup, is shutting down and releasing its code as open source.

HTML Web Components(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

417 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 222 comments

Jim Nielsen blog post arguing web components work differently from React components and are best used to progressively enhance existing HTML.

Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video](youtube.com)

411 points by 541 2 years ago | 184 comments

YouTube video of a 44-minute documentary about the history of the Ruby on Rails web framework.

Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration(embracethered.com)

396 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 143 comments

Blog post describing how indirect prompt injection via Google Bard Extensions can be used to exfiltrate user data from Drive, Docs and Gmail.

Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)(web.williams.edu)

315 points by itronitron 2 years ago | 232 comments

Ship Shape(canva.dev)

308 points by SerCe 2 years ago | 79 comments

Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge(secondstate.io)

282 points by 3Sophons 2 years ago | 86 comments

Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths(cdm.link)

263 points by glitcher 2 years ago | 55 comments

Beg Bounties (2021)(troyhunt.com)

253 points by eiiot 2 years ago | 130 comments

Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said(virtuallyfun.com)

246 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 103 comments

Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner paid $4M to skip the line(fortune.com)

223 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 225 comments

Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Funding the Government(eff.org)

214 points by panarky 2 years ago | 45 comments

The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)(greekreporter.com)

212 points by rmason 2 years ago | 117 comments

Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs(loro.dev)

210 points by czx111331 2 years ago | 32 comments

Smarter summaries with finetuning GPT-3.5 and chain of density(jxnl.github.io)

209 points by ivanleomk 2 years ago | 32 comments

Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari(bloomberg.com)

204 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 200 comments

Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal(github.com)

203 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 77 comments

Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256(peergos.org)

202 points by ementally 2 years ago | 111 comments

Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code(blog.vero.site)

199 points by polyrand 2 years ago | 63 comments

Low current around roots boosts plant growth(nature.com)

193 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 77 comments

Discouraging the use of web application firewalls(macchaffee.com)

187 points by b8 2 years ago | 109 comments

To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again(spectrum.ieee.org)

186 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 128 comments

Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death(health.ucdavis.edu)

171 points by DocFeind 2 years ago | 62 comments

Maxar's Open Satellite Feed(tech.marksblogg.com)

167 points by ingve 2 years ago | 19 comments

Diamonds Suck(diamondssuck.com)

164 points by nsomaru 2 years ago | 98 comments

The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge(bloomberg.com)

162 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 388 comments

Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD(nexttv.com)

142 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 240 comments

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal(arstechnica.com)

142 points by madars 2 years ago | 71 comments

Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims(arstechnica.com)

138 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 93 comments

Tragedy of return to hostile offices(benjiweber.co.uk)

133 points by benjiweber 2 years ago | 205 comments

The NYPD is using drones 3 times more than it did last year(gothamist.com)

130 points by jbegley 2 years ago | 150 comments

Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice(vox.com)

125 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 90 comments

We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack(macchaffee.com)

124 points by dvfjsdhgfv 2 years ago | 73 comments

Firmware Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) Proposal(uefi.org)

119 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 54 comments

Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)(techemails.com)

116 points by chopsuey5540 2 years ago | 56 comments

Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds(blog.normalcomputing.ai)

108 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 14 comments

Slow-Scan Television(en.wikipedia.org)

105 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 21 comments

$1 Unistroke Recognizer(depts.washington.edu)

104 points by tosh 2 years ago | 25 comments

Algorithms (2019)(jeffe.cs.illinois.edu)

102 points by davikr 2 years ago | 19 comments

Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks(phys.org)

101 points by wglb 2 years ago | 60 comments

MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind(spectrum.ieee.org)

96 points by vissidarte_choi 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: SirixDB – Bitemporal binary JSON database system and event store(github.com)

94 points by lichtenberger 2 years ago | 10 comments

NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month(nanowrimo.org)

87 points by rfreytag 2 years ago | 53 comments

Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses(gamesindustry.biz)

85 points by myth_drannon 2 years ago | 81 comments

Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI(arxiv.org)

82 points by olalonde 2 years ago | 56 comments

Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU(nvidia.com)

80 points by treesciencebot 2 years ago | 70 comments

Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans(inteltechniques.com)

76 points by mikece 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Easily Visualize Your SQLAlchemy Data Models in a Nice SVG Diagram(github.com)

72 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 18 comments

YouTube May Face Criminal Complaints in EU for Using Ad-Block Detection Scripts(tomshardware.com)

69 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 31 comments

Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 GB Die(anandtech.com)

68 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 33 comments

Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3(tuxedocomputers.com)

68 points by rreyes1979 2 years ago | 75 comments

From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020)(journals.sagepub.com)

67 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 71 comments

Learn PostScript by Doing (2005) [pdf](staff.science.uva.nl)

61 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 9 comments

Vela incident (1979)(en.wikipedia.org)

61 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 38 comments

String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard [video](youtube.com)

60 points by damiankennedy 2 years ago | 37 comments

Principles are products of practice, not the reverse(alsado.ca)

60 points by majdalsado 2 years ago | 33 comments

Inequalities, convergence, and continuity as "special deals"(terrytao.wordpress.com)

59 points by bdr 2 years ago | 6 comments

Cosmological galaxy formation simulation software(tng-project.org)

58 points by krpl 2 years ago | 8 comments