Hacker News on Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted(techdirt.com)

805 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 490 comments

Techdirt article by Mike Masnick on Google cancelling an unlimited cloud storage plan and giving a journalist too little time to move his archive before deletion.

SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields(smerf-3d.github.io)

573 points by duckworthd 2 years ago | 136 comments

Project page for SMERF, a Google research method that distills large NeRFs into streamable representations for real-time exploration in web browsers, with paper, video, and demos.

Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company(404media.co)

344 points by NKosmatos 2 years ago | 95 comments

404 Media article about Polish hackers who repaired trains artificially bricked by manufacturer Newag's DRM, and the train company now threatening them.

Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX(owehrens.com)

307 points by interpol_p 2 years ago | 132 comments

Reclaiming the web with a personal reader(olano.dev)

305 points by stanislavb 2 years ago | 73 comments

Australia to ban engineered stone(abc.net.au)

299 points by bobnamob 2 years ago | 464 comments

US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink(reuters.com)

292 points by adolph 2 years ago | 623 comments

Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine(searchagora.com)

271 points by pencildiver 2 years ago | 212 comments

You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal(cookingonabootstrap.com)

268 points by Breadmaker 2 years ago | 155 comments

Bash one-liners for LLMs(justine.lol)

265 points by severine 2 years ago | 54 comments

Adfree Cities(adfreecities.org.uk)

260 points by edward 2 years ago | 189 comments

Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year(plane.so)

257 points by emreb 2 years ago | 140 comments

Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox(twitter.com)

243 points by tosh 2 years ago | 132 comments

Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects(github.com)

240 points by Rochus 2 years ago | 122 comments

Tesla FSD Timeline(motherfrunker.ca)

239 points by cromulent 2 years ago | 273 comments

Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

237 points by fuzztester 2 years ago | 533 comments

Cortex A57, Nintendo Switch's CPU(chipsandcheese.com)

217 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 94 comments

Google Imagen 2(cloud.google.com)

199 points by geox 2 years ago | 149 comments

Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data(reuters.com)

195 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 103 comments

I benchmarked six Go SQLite drivers(github.com)

164 points by cvilsmeier 2 years ago | 49 comments

Welcome to the ad-free internet(economist.com)

160 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 244 comments

Can a transformer represent a Kalman filter?(arxiv.org)

160 points by bluish29 2 years ago | 55 comments

Biscuit authorization(biscuitsec.org)

159 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 89 comments

The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) [pdf](people.ece.ubc.ca)

157 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 53 comments

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will enable frame pointers by default(ubuntu.com)

155 points by jonseager 2 years ago | 87 comments

Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince(fortune.com)

152 points by rezonant 2 years ago | 94 comments

Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio(ai.google.dev)

149 points by sam1234apter 2 years ago | 79 comments

Remembering things that haven't happened yet(bessstillman.substack.com)

149 points by LaurenSerino 2 years ago | 24 comments

Tell HN: Netflix doing mass layoffs today

148 points by localghost3000 2 years ago | 119 comments

My doomed career as a North Korean novelist(theguardian.com)

144 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 76 comments

Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff(cnbc.com)

141 points by Podgajski 2 years ago | 93 comments

GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe(jalopnik.com)

130 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 317 comments

It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult(quinnkeast.com)

126 points by qkeast 2 years ago | 91 comments

Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws(bloomberg.com)

117 points by gitgud 2 years ago | 140 comments

Q&A With Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502(spectrum.ieee.org)

111 points by systems_glitch 2 years ago | 29 comments

Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue(nytimes.com)

104 points by rgbrgb 2 years ago | 98 comments

Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts(theverge.com)

103 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 38 comments

Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way(bbc.com)

101 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 59 comments

FCC upholds denial of Starlink's $900M rural broadband subsidies(spacenews.com)

97 points by belter 2 years ago | 67 comments

US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit(reuters.com)

96 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 114 comments

New insights into neural end-of-life(neurosciencenews.com)

94 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 26 comments

Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment(arstechnica.com)

93 points by thg 2 years ago | 80 comments

Rare half female, half male bird spotted by University of Otago zoologist(otago.ac.nz)

92 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 53 comments

OpenCola(github.com)

91 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 83 comments

The Long Shadow of Checks(bitsaboutmoney.com)

90 points by zepton 2 years ago | 78 comments

Stop Hiding the Sharp Knives: The WebAssembly Linux Interface(arxiv.org)

89 points by yurivish 2 years ago | 43 comments

Show HN: PyApp – runtime installer for Python applications(github.com)

89 points by ofek 2 years ago | 31 comments

Origin of mysterious green 'ghosts' in the sky has been discovered(english.elpais.com)

87 points by belter 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)(jawj.github.io)

87 points by gmac 2 years ago | 43 comments

Artificial intelligence systems found to excel at imitation, but not innovation(techxplore.com)

86 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 78 comments

Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions(theverge.com)

85 points by moneil971 2 years ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Django Ninja CRUD – Rethinking CRUD Operations in Django(github.com)

84 points by hichambakri 2 years ago | 39 comments

A read through the original WorldWideWeb proposal(andrewhuth.substack.com)

83 points by ahuth 2 years ago | 24 comments

Vertical farming company raised $500M, and then it all but disappeared(sifted.eu)

82 points by doener 2 years ago | 111 comments

A triplet tree forms one of the most beautiful structures in math(quantamagazine.org)

82 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 10 comments

Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them(newyorker.com)

82 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 33 comments

Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond(allthingsdistributed.com)

77 points by sharjeelsayed 2 years ago | 81 comments

Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3(twitter.com)

75 points by tosh 2 years ago | 48 comments

E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance(fastcompany.com)

69 points by the-mitr 2 years ago | 44 comments

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers(theregister.com)

68 points by heavyset_go 2 years ago | 49 comments