Hacker News on Thursday, 14 December 2023

Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth(cnn.com)

1188 points by my12parsecs 2 years ago | 580 comments

CNN news article reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped sending usable data to Earth due to a computer issue.

Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp(hashicorp.com)

640 points by manojlds 2 years ago | 175 comments

HashiCorp blog post in which co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto writes a goodbye letter reflecting on his 11+ years as he leaves the company.

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find(arstechnica.com)

608 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 211 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that hackers found a train manufacturer's firmware made trains break down after third-party repairs; the manufacturer called it slander.

Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android(blog.mozilla.org)

472 points by rebelwebmaster 2 years ago | 184 comments

Mozilla blog post announcing expanded availability of browser extensions on Firefox for Android, dated December 14, 2023.

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)(ezali.substack.com)

402 points by MoBarouma 2 years ago | 120 comments

A Substack post interviewing the author's mother about her career as a mainframe COBOL programmer.

Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad(davidkcaudill.medium.com)

358 points by nlavezzo 2 years ago | 226 comments

A Medium essay by David K. Caudill arguing that companies eliminating dedicated QA teams may have harmed software quality.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip(bsc.es)

343 points by pimterry 2 years ago | 138 comments

Barcelona Supercomputing Center news release announcing Sargantana, a new generation of its open-source RISC-V chips designed in Spain.

FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs(deepmind.google)

341 points by reqo 2 years ago | 79 comments

Google DeepMind blog post introducing FunSearch, a method that uses large language models to make new discoveries in mathematical sciences.

Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'(tomshardware.com)

275 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 308 comments

Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead(arstechnica.com)

262 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 529 comments

The AI Trust Crisis(simonwillison.net)

256 points by simonw 2 years ago | 212 comments

Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine(community.ui.com)

251 points by amaccuish 2 years ago | 220 comments

Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

248 points by atomicnature 2 years ago | 97 comments

Lessons from building GitHub code search [video](youtube.com)

245 points by costco 2 years ago | 92 comments

Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers(scifiinterfaces.com)

243 points by rx_tx 2 years ago | 128 comments

Show HN: Airdraw(airdraw.io)

231 points by arflikedog 2 years ago | 42 comments

Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half(reuters.com)

223 points by boiler_up800 2 years ago | 74 comments

Ledger's NPM account has been hacked(github.com)

213 points by meehow 2 years ago | 100 comments

First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot(paulrobichaux.com)

210 points by gbacon 2 years ago | 151 comments

Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner(ubicloud.com)

194 points by padmanabhank 2 years ago | 79 comments

JWST Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star(smithsonianmag.com)

184 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 60 comments

Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law(michaelgeist.ca)

181 points by llm_nerd 2 years ago | 177 comments

Windows AI Studio Preview(github.com)

177 points by Jayakumark 2 years ago | 57 comments

Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)(janezhang.ca)

171 points by skadamat 2 years ago | 87 comments

Reverse Engineering an LCD Display(sudhir.nl)

164 points by erik 2 years ago | 16 comments

Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU(deno.com)

156 points by oritsnile 2 years ago | 45 comments

Police have undermined the promise of body cameras(propublica.org)

152 points by panic 2 years ago | 113 comments

LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud(cnbc.com)

151 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 213 comments

Intel launches Core Ultra processors(techradar.com)

140 points by talboren 2 years ago | 227 comments

Weak-to-Strong Generalization(openai.com)

138 points by vagabund 2 years ago | 185 comments

Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

133 points by SeenNotHeard 2 years ago | 128 comments

Should you add screenshots to documentation?(thisisimportant.net)

128 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 99 comments

Do black holes have singularities?(arxiv.org)

127 points by wrycoder 2 years ago | 143 comments

Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)(arxiv.org)

124 points by ekiauhce 2 years ago | 58 comments

Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving(today.tamu.edu)

123 points by geox 2 years ago | 144 comments

The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud (2018)(vox.com)

119 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 69 comments

Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager(glasskube.eu)

117 points by louis_w_gk 2 years ago | 137 comments

What's Going on with Language Rankings?(redmonk.com)

117 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 80 comments

Link's Awakening DX HD(linksawakeningdxhd.itch.io)

114 points by Ivoah 2 years ago | 42 comments

Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic(montyanderson.net)

107 points by montyanderson 2 years ago | 30 comments

Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability(bughunters.google.com)

105 points by iseappsec 2 years ago | 74 comments

The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'(theatlantic.com)

105 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 128 comments

Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors(spectrum.ieee.org)

103 points by lutrinus 2 years ago | 19 comments

'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission(nature.com)

102 points by kevinmchugh 2 years ago | 14 comments

Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs(techcrunch.com)

98 points by plasticchris 2 years ago | 117 comments

The Journal of Universal Rejection(universalrejection.org)

90 points by ubj 2 years ago | 12 comments

Programs are games, programming is a game(blog.charliemeyer.co)

90 points by csmeyer 2 years ago | 60 comments

Ruby's private keyword is weird(blog.jez.io)

87 points by jez 2 years ago | 28 comments

OnnxStream: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Base on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2(github.com)

87 points by Robin89 2 years ago | 46 comments

How to clean chemistry glassware(chem.rochester.edu)

84 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 91 comments

Turing Awardees Republished Key Methods and Ideas Without Credit(people.idsia.ch)

83 points by Luc 2 years ago | 57 comments

In Indonesia, humanity's oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?(nature.com)

82 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 19 comments

QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices(github.com)

80 points by stormed 2 years ago | 55 comments

Postfix 25 years old today(marc.info)

78 points by sillystuff 2 years ago | 19 comments

Font Sizes from 4px to 99.9px(tobylam.xyz)

77 points by thehorseofdoom 2 years ago | 19 comments

The UX of delivering parcels(builtformars.com)

75 points by tomhazledine 2 years ago | 40 comments

Unattractive funds managers outperform funds with attractive managers by over 2%(papers.ssrn.com)

74 points by donsupreme 2 years ago | 53 comments

After getting $824M in state aid, GM to cut 900 jobs at Orion Assembly(michigancapitolconfidential.com)

71 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 17 comments

Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults(popular.info)

70 points by latchkey 2 years ago | 61 comments

Show HN: Octopus – a directed acyclic graph for app development(github.com)

69 points by bbsimonbb 2 years ago | 30 comments