Hacker News on Wednesday, 27 December 2023

DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching(github.com)

1196 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 259 comments

GitHub repository for DeskHop, an open-source Pico-based device for quickly switching keyboard and mouse between two computers.

First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation(eia.gov)

949 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 998 comments

U.S. EIA Today in Energy article reporting that Vogtle Unit 3, the first new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016, has entered commercial operation.

3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js(satoshi7190.github.io)

798 points by brw 2 years ago | 181 comments

Interactive Three.js demo rendering a 3D wireframe indoor map of Shinjuku Station by floor, built from Japan MLIT open indoor map data.

The curse of the goitre in Switzerland(lrb.co.uk)

537 points by _ihaque 2 years ago | 237 comments

London Review of Books essay by Jonah Goodman on the history of endemic goitre in Switzerland and the campaign against it.

Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)(github.com)

488 points by jasonjmcghee 2 years ago | 171 comments

GitHub repository for Rem, an open source macOS app that locally records everything you view on an Apple Silicon computer so you can search it later.

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement(theverge.com)

466 points by ssgodderidge 2 years ago | 594 comments

The Verge news article reporting that The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging millions of its articles were copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot models.

Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)(forrestheller.com)

453 points by raimue 2 years ago | 178 comments

A comparison table of the CPUs in modern USB-C wall chargers versus the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer, covering clock speed, RAM, storage, and instruction sets.

Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers(securelist.com)

422 points by ruik 2 years ago | 354 comments

Kaspersky Securelist research post analyzing the Operation Triangulation iPhone attack chain and the undocumented hardware feature exploited via CVE-2023-38606.

Things software developers should learn about learning(cacm.acm.org)

400 points by jarmitage 2 years ago | 133 comments

Communications of the ACM research article by Brown, Hermans, and Margulieux on ten findings about learning that software developers should know.

Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation(valetudo.cloud)

395 points by philo23 2 years ago | 110 comments

Homepage of Valetudo, open-source software that replaces the cloud backend of robot vacuums so they can operate locally without cloud connectivity.

4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit(arstechnica.com)

386 points by airstrike 2 years ago | 222 comments

Ars Technica article on Operation Triangulation, a four-year campaign that backdoored iPhones of Kaspersky employees using an exploit abusing a secret hardware feature.

Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29(theverge.com)

319 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 224 comments

The Verge news article reporting that Amazon Prime Video will begin showing ads on January 29th, 2024, unless subscribers pay an extra monthly fee.

Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video](streaming.media.ccc.de)

319 points by p_l 2 years ago | 37 comments

37C3 Relive video recording page for the talk "Breaking DRM in Polish trains", an unprocessed stream dump hosted by the Chaos Computer Club.

No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability(joshua.hu)

308 points by akyuu 2 years ago | 182 comments

How we turned the tide in the roach wars(theatlantic.com)

298 points by tptacek 2 years ago | 217 comments

Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video](youtube.com)

281 points by DamnInteresting 2 years ago | 180 comments

Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits(minimaxir.com)

267 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 85 comments

PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements(patrick.engineering)

226 points by ppati000 2 years ago | 50 comments

Donald Knuth’s 2023 Christmas Lecture: Making the Cells Dance(thenewstack.io)

224 points by howrude 2 years ago | 17 comments

2nd City Zoning(secondcityzoning.org)

211 points by michaefe 2 years ago | 94 comments

Will scaling work?(dwarkeshpatel.com)

208 points by saliagato 2 years ago | 238 comments

2023: Focusing on a single product pays off(maxrozen.com)

203 points by rozenmd 2 years ago | 74 comments

High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan(wired.com)

199 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 150 comments

Operation Snow White(en.wikipedia.org)

197 points by lionkor 2 years ago | 49 comments

CSS Is Fun Again(pdx.su)

170 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 118 comments

What's up Python? Epic CPython commit, Django 5 and 2FA for PyPI(bitecode.dev)

167 points by BiteCode_dev 2 years ago | 92 comments

The surprising genius of sewing machines [video](youtube.com)

163 points by gumby 2 years ago | 54 comments

Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI(euronews.com)

146 points by taubek 2 years ago | 73 comments

HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons(zenorogue.blogspot.com)

140 points by zenorogue 2 years ago | 22 comments

Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language(github.com)

138 points by nairboon 2 years ago | 66 comments

Light-induced whole-molecule vibration can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane(news.rice.edu)

138 points by leothekim 2 years ago | 38 comments

37c3 Live Streams(streaming.media.ccc.de)

137 points by fs111 2 years ago | 10 comments

Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act(lwn.net)

137 points by diyftw 2 years ago | 85 comments

Julia 1.10(docs.julialang.org)

136 points by CoreyFieldens 2 years ago | 74 comments

Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously(smithsonianmag.com)

133 points by gmays 2 years ago | 56 comments

How to (and how not to) fix color banding(blog.frost.kiwi)

131 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 23 comments

Open Source Game Clones(osgameclones.com)

117 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 20 comments

What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it(theregister.com)

111 points by gnufx 2 years ago | 126 comments

Web Development History – Internet history for the technically curious(webdevelopmenthistory.com)

110 points by ptx 2 years ago | 14 comments

Comedian Tom Smothers has died(apnews.com)

108 points by h2odragon 2 years ago | 60 comments

Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect(pluto-lang.org)

107 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Thanks to Don Bateman, airplanes don't crash into mountains anymore (2016)(bloomberg.com)

107 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 61 comments

Rep and Ren: A new approach to CLI find, replace, and renaming(blog.robenkleene.com)

106 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 19 comments

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (2009)(codersatwork.com)

100 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 29 comments

Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court(reuters.com)

100 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 77 comments

Laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote(maya.land)

98 points by panic 2 years ago | 80 comments

Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files(suggestions.ink)

92 points by dash2 2 years ago | 40 comments

Poor Man's Web(zserge.com)

92 points by Looky1173 2 years ago | 55 comments

A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic(allegralaboratory.net)

87 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 21 comments

History-making SpaceX booster mostly destroyed in post-flight topple(collectspace.com)

83 points by PLenz 2 years ago | 39 comments

TU Berlin Scientists Hack Tesla Autopilot and Discover Secret Elon-Mode(t3n.de)

82 points by thenaturalist 2 years ago | 28 comments

A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet(hakaimagazine.com)

82 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 14 comments

Public Facing Dog(sarahendren.com)

81 points by blueridge 2 years ago | 23 comments

Bread, How Did They Make It? (2020)(acoup.blog)

77 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 13 comments

Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf](harmful.cat-v.org)

71 points by davikr 2 years ago | 99 comments

Show HN: Scan QR codes to check-in guests registered via Google Forms™(workspace.google.com)

66 points by komlan 2 years ago | 39 comments

Remote controlling an HP 1670G logic analyzer with a Linux PC X server(tomverbeure.github.io)

66 points by zdw 2 years ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?

65 points by hnu0847 2 years ago | 37 comments

Scratch in the Browser(squeak.js.org)

65 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 13 comments

Seventy versus One Hundred(solipsys.co.uk)

63 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 39 comments