Hacker News on Tuesday, 16 January 2024

US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission(macrumors.com)

796 points by virgildotcodes 2 years ago | 1140 comments

MacRumors article reporting Apple now lets US developers link to non-App Store purchasing options but will still collect a 12 to 27 percent commission.

On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney(catandgirl.com)

650 points by earthboundkid 2 years ago | 775 comments

A Cat and Girl webcomic in which the cartoonist reflects on being named in a court document listing artists whose work was used to train Midjourney.

6174(en.wikipedia.org)

443 points by gone35 2 years ago | 90 comments

Wikipedia article on 6174, Kaprekar's constant, the fixed point reached by repeatedly subtracting ascending from descending digit arrangements of four-digit numbers.

TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning(ikkaro.net)

349 points by Gedxx 2 years ago | 84 comments

An Ikkaro blog article explaining TinyML, covering model compression techniques like pruning, quantization and distillation, tools, and uses on low-power devices.

Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass(global.canon)

307 points by neilv 2 years ago | 100 comments

Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi(status.kagi.com)

300 points by leetrout 2 years ago | 152 comments

Modeless Vim(github.com)

298 points by soap- 2 years ago | 303 comments

Bluesky has launched RSS feeds(openrss.org)

296 points by kieto 2 years ago | 163 comments

Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge(stability.ai)

288 points by egnehots 2 years ago | 124 comments

How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives(cnn.com)

285 points by IronWolve 2 years ago | 245 comments

Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI(1a3orn.com)

278 points by sroussey 2 years ago | 202 comments

Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency(github.com)

272 points by sph 2 years ago | 53 comments

We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres(blog.ydb.tech)

239 points by magden 2 years ago | 207 comments

Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0(nashby.github.io)

225 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 67 comments

OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker(github.com)

223 points by 27theo 2 years ago | 58 comments

Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf](downloads.webis.de)

218 points by DanielleMolloy 2 years ago | 221 comments

Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues(3.14.by)

218 points by BarsMonster 2 years ago | 135 comments

OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon(semafor.com)

216 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 256 comments

Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome(developer.chrome.com)

186 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 41 comments

Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?

173 points by yonom 2 years ago | 52 comments

Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?

162 points by Dig1t 2 years ago | 321 comments

US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle(reuters.com)

159 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 161 comments

Passwordless: a different kind of hell?(jcarlosroldan.com)

159 points by juancroldan 2 years ago | 276 comments

Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))(1f6042.blogspot.com)

151 points by x1f604 2 years ago | 115 comments

Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult(davidben.net)

151 points by kingkilr 2 years ago | 51 comments

"Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans(bbc.com)

150 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 83 comments

Understanding x86_64 Paging(zolutal.github.io)

142 points by signa11 2 years ago | 22 comments

Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space(fil.org)

142 points by diggan 2 years ago | 156 comments

Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023(blog.ryujinx.org)

142 points by thepbone 2 years ago | 87 comments

Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products(qz.com)

131 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 144 comments

Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers(artificialanalysis.ai)

130 points by Gcam 2 years ago | 59 comments

Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality(oneusefulthing.org)

124 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 85 comments

Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)(museumcrush.org)

120 points by RyanShook 2 years ago | 54 comments

LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory(blog.trailofbits.com)

114 points by ks6g10 2 years ago | 30 comments

Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees(bloomberry.com)

112 points by altdataseller 2 years ago | 113 comments

Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)(greenrosechemistry.com)

111 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 42 comments

Open-Source Detector of CISA's Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities(github.com)

109 points by alaeddine001 2 years ago | 42 comments

The failure of self-checkout technology(bbc.com)

108 points by LaksiMati 2 years ago | 435 comments

Bug Thread(xkcd.com)

101 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 19 comments

Mad Scientists' Club: The Books(madscientistsclub.com)

99 points by JKCalhoun 2 years ago | 37 comments

Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base(github.com)

98 points by msk-lywenn 2 years ago | 53 comments

Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly(barkeywolf.consulting)

94 points by akbarnama 2 years ago | 25 comments

A Theory of Grift(thediff.co)

94 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 93 comments

A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms(old.reddit.com)

89 points by bleusink 2 years ago | 20 comments

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems(conversationswithtyler.com)

87 points by kulor 2 years ago | 57 comments

Why is everything an orchid?(worldsensorium.com)

86 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 46 comments

PID Controllers in Unity3D(vazgriz.com)

77 points by signa11 2 years ago | 32 comments

86-DOS Revisited(os2museum.com)

72 points by ingve 2 years ago | 11 comments

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002)(web.archive.org)

70 points by sph 2 years ago | 14 comments

What SoundCloud created can never die(wired.com)

64 points by higgins 2 years ago | 40 comments

Apple revises App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods(9to5mac.com)

60 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 15 comments

A link between low interest rates and low crime (2016)(thecrimereport.org)

60 points by ikekkdcjkfke 2 years ago | 80 comments

JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.unsafe for removal(openjdk.org)

59 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 42 comments

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results for Gaming Performance(phoronix.com)

58 points by electricant 2 years ago | 58 comments

Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission(caltech.edu)

58 points by geox 2 years ago | 101 comments

Show HN: Indiebackers – Back indie projects and earn rewards(indiebackers.dev)

58 points by fruktmix 2 years ago | 39 comments

Five cryptologic giants to be inducted into NSA's Cryptologic Hall of Honor(nsa.gov)

58 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 23 comments

The mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers(righto.com)

57 points by picture 2 years ago | 16 comments

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."(techslang.com)

57 points by doener 2 years ago | 76 comments

5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance(phoronix.com)

57 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 14 comments