Hacker News on Thursday, 16 November 2023

I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video](youtube.com)

1169 points by anonymfus 2 years ago | 407 comments

YouTube video by Simone Giertz explaining why she spent three years designing and developing a coat hanger product.

Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive(signal.org)

988 points by mikece 2 years ago | 757 comments

Signal blog post by Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund explaining the costs of running Signal as a nonprofit messaging service.

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year(9to5mac.com)

718 points by dm 2 years ago | 629 comments

9to5Mac news article reporting Apple's announcement that RCS messaging support will come to the iPhone in 2024.

I think I need to go lie down(twitter.com)

684 points by mfbx9da4 2 years ago | 428 comments

A post on X by Kevin Cannon (@multikev) saying "I think I need to go lie down," with attached media that had not loaded.

The real realtime preemption end game(lwn.net)

440 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 248 comments

LWN article by Jonathan Corbet on Thomas Gleixner's 2023 Linux Plumbers talk about the last remaining problem before realtime preemption lands in mainline Linux.

From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)(martinvigo.com)

281 points by Luc 2 years ago | 111 comments

Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs(reuters.com)

256 points by nixass 2 years ago | 302 comments

Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)(github.com)

255 points by abi 2 years ago | 77 comments

Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo(flightradar24.com)

247 points by camtarn 2 years ago | 172 comments

Justice Dept Says Collusion Suit Against Apartment Owners Should Move Forward(wsj.com)

241 points by tempsy 2 years ago | 151 comments

Migrating to OpenTelemetry(airplane.dev)

230 points by kkoppenhaver 2 years ago | 60 comments

DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support(dosdeck.com)

229 points by wsc981 2 years ago | 44 comments

Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making(bps.org.uk)

220 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 196 comments

Tell HN: How you changed my life trajectory

215 points by scubakid 2 years ago | 48 comments

You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience(zknill.io)

205 points by zknill 2 years ago | 51 comments

Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year(blog.oneuptime.com)

199 points by devneelpatel 2 years ago | 224 comments

Last Post, Please Read(zandarvts.blogspot.com)

190 points by rayval 2 years ago | 82 comments

Printed robots with bones, ligaments, and tendons(ethz.ch)

188 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 40 comments

Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones(ai.meta.com)

183 points by ot 2 years ago | 40 comments

A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons(mazzzystar.github.io)

181 points by mazzystar 2 years ago | 287 comments

Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments(deepmind.google)

178 points by kmisiunas 2 years ago | 308 comments

OpenSubtitles is not open anymore(blog.opensubtitles.com)

154 points by aresende 2 years ago | 136 comments

Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year(techradar.com)

141 points by ashton314 2 years ago | 93 comments

SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy OFT-2 Launch Authorized(faa.gov)

139 points by trothamel 2 years ago | 70 comments

More people should write (2012)(jsomers.net)

133 points by jsomers 2 years ago | 74 comments

Why thinking hard makes us feel tired(nature.com)

130 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 110 comments

Hackers know everything is securities fraud(bloomberg.com)

124 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 56 comments

Anomalous propagation and the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva(journals.ametsoc.org)

123 points by mkoster 2 years ago | 25 comments

Zimbra 0-day used to steal email data from government organizations(blog.google)

123 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 20 comments

Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint over Victim's Failure Disclose Data Breach(securityweek.com)

123 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 46 comments

Pointer Pointer(pointerpointer.com)

114 points by KolmogorovComp 2 years ago | 13 comments

The push to save the Itanium architecture in Linux(lwn.net)

106 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks(tinyllms.vercel.app)

105 points by bilater 2 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: I made a really silly personal landing page(davidadler.pages.dev)

100 points by mfbx9da4 2 years ago | 19 comments

How to build trust as a new engineering manager(becomingaleader.substack.com)

92 points by jiovanniro 2 years ago | 27 comments

Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator(acko.net)

91 points by cgadski 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Beta test Execute Program's interactive "Python for Programmers" course(executeprogram.com)

86 points by gary_bernhardt 2 years ago | 10 comments

Bad bots account for most internet traffic? Analysis(securityweek.com)

86 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 54 comments

std::source_location doesn't work if you need strings to be types(elbeno.com)

84 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 59 comments

LLMs by Hallucination Rate(github.com)

83 points by vincent_s 2 years ago | 97 comments

Flathub – The Linux App Store(flathub.org)

82 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 54 comments

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year(wired.com)

80 points by jbegley 2 years ago | 63 comments

Ohio commission approves fracking in state parks and wildlife areas(apnews.com)

79 points by geox 2 years ago | 45 comments

Rolls-royce confirms all of its current engines can run on 100 percent SAF(flyingmag.com)

79 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 107 comments

Types of Conversations with Generative AI(nngroup.com)

74 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 10 comments

Federated finetuning of Whisper on Raspberry Pi 5(flower.dev)

74 points by danieljanes 2 years ago | 18 comments

Oink's Pink Palace(en.wikipedia.org)

73 points by dvektor 2 years ago | 54 comments

OCapN, Interoperable Capabilities over the Network(spritely.institute)

72 points by davexunit 2 years ago | 15 comments

Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai(theverge.com)

72 points by LordAtlas 2 years ago | 68 comments

U.S. states sue Instagram owner for making social media addictive to kids(cbc.ca)

72 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 52 comments

What if money expired?(noemamag.com)

68 points by rlnorthcutt 2 years ago | 125 comments

Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions(developer.chrome.com)

62 points by ghostwords 2 years ago | 33 comments

AI-Exploits: Repo of multiple unauthenticated RCEs in AI tools(github.com)

62 points by DanMcInerney 2 years ago | 18 comments

WordPress plugins are a little sad?(chriscoyier.net)

61 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 43 comments

Serverless development experience for embedded computer vision(github.com)

55 points by migmartri 2 years ago | 8 comments

Dutch gov't wants to ban officials from using AI software(nltimes.nl)

55 points by jruohonen 2 years ago | 28 comments

Microsoft support 'cracks' Windows for customer after activation fails(bleepingcomputer.com)

53 points by layer8 2 years ago | 38 comments

The CWEB System of Structured Documentation(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

53 points by weeber 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Near-realtime cloud maps for weather visualisation, 3D models and more(github.com)

52 points by matteason 2 years ago | 8 comments

Investigating the impact of cold plunges on brain activity(neurofusionresearchinc.notion.site)

51 points by ogundipeore 2 years ago | 43 comments