Hacker News on Friday, 12 January 2024

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of amazon.com: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy (amazon.com)

1198 points by edward 2 years ago | 669 comments

An Amazon product listing whose title was an AI refusal message, now showing Amazon's 404 'Sorry, we couldn't find that page' error.

chatgpt openai amazon ai-generated-content

Screenshot of mfkl.github.io: Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC

Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

969 points by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 2 years ago | 327 comments

Blog post by VideoLAN developer Martin Finkel arguing Unity applied a double standard in banning the open-source VLC for Unity integration from its Asset Store.

vlc unity libvlc videolan

Screenshot of on.ft.com: US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes

US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes (on.ft.com)

596 points by ryanisnan 2 years ago | 283 comments

Financial Times article, behind a paywall, reporting that the FAA is considering stripping Boeing employees of authority to inspect its own planes.

boeing faa aviation-safety aircraft-inspection

Screenshot of tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com: Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf]

Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf](tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com)

484 points by jide_tracc 2 years ago | 99 comments

A PDF document providing a technical primer on vector databases, shown in a browser PDF viewer that had not yet rendered content.

vector-databases embeddings similarity-search pdf

Screenshot of bbc.co.uk: Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower

Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower (bbc.co.uk)

449 points by johndunne 2 years ago | 252 comments

BBC News article reporting that the UK Post Office lied to and threatened the BBC over a Fujitsu Horizon system whistleblower.

post-office-scandal horizon fujitsu whistleblower

Screenshot of johnstawinski.com: A supply chain attack on PyTorch

A supply chain attack on PyTorch (johnstawinski.com)

444 points by roblabla 2 years ago | 92 comments

Blog post by John Stawinski describing how his team executed a critical supply chain attack on PyTorch via its GitHub Actions CI infrastructure.

supply-chain-attack pytorch github-actions self-hosted-runners

Screenshot of penrose.cs.cmu.edu: Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text (penrose.cs.cmu.edu)

441 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 108 comments

Homepage of Penrose, a CMU project for creating mathematical diagrams by writing plain-text notation, with examples, tutorial, and online editor.

penrose diagramming domain-specific-language visualization

Screenshot of economist.com: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling (economist.com)

406 points by livueta 2 years ago | 328 comments

Economist science article reporting that wind turbines harm bird populations less than oil-and-gas drilling, contrary to wind farm opponents' fears.

wind-power birds oil-and-gas renewable-energy

DevDocs (devdocs.io)

388 points by jakogut 2 years ago | 103 comments

DevDocs is a web app that combines multiple API documentations into a fast, organized, searchable interface with fuzzy search.

devdocs api-documentation developer-tools documentation-browser

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python

Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python (github.com)

364 points by akshayka 2 years ago | 91 comments

GitHub repository for marimo, an open-source reactive Python notebook that is reproducible, stored as Python files, runnable as scripts, and deployable as web apps.

python notebooks marimo reactive-programming