Dave Mills has died(elists.isoc.org)
635 points by todsacerdoti | 62 comments
Vint Cerf's post to the ISOC Internet-history mailing list announcing that Dave Mills, creator of NTP and the Fuzzball routers, died on January 17, 2024.
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Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators(nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)
556 points by ink404 | 635 comments
University of Chicago project page explaining Nightshade, a tool that poisons artists' images so unauthorized use in AI model training degrades the models, plus its limitations.
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"(arstechnica.com)
460 points by MBCook | 227 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that bugs in Fujitsu's Horizon system, which led to wrongful prosecutions of UK Post Office workers, were known from the start.
Culture Change at Google(social.clawhammer.net)
436 points by kfogel | 363 comments
Personal blog essay by Ben Collins-Sussman reflecting on how Google's internal culture changed over his 18 years working there.
Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium(malaymail.com)
429 points by amarant | 252 comments
Malay Mail news article reporting that Thailand has discovered nearly 15 million tonnes of lithium deposits.
Surf the web like it's 1999(billsworld.neocities.org)
393 points by throwup238 | 155 comments
A Neocities site that simulates browsing the 1999 web inside a Netscape Navigator window on a CRT monitor, showing a retro personal homepage.
Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
392 points by sschueller | 239 comments
Google Workspace Updates post announcing that from September 30, 2024, third-party apps using only passwords to access Google Accounts and Google Sync will no longer be supported.
Mourning Google(tbray.org)
387 points by cdme | 317 comments
Tim Bray's blog post reflecting on joining Google in 2010 and lamenting how the joy has left the company amid 2024 layoffs.
Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s(ceph.io)
366 points by davidmr | 185 comments
Ceph blog post by Mark Nelson describing the effort to tune a Ceph cluster to reach 1 TiB/s of storage throughput.
Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel(wsj.com)
352 points by hhs | 567 comments
Wall Street Journal article about Americans spending billions on subscriptions such as streaming services that they forget to cancel.
Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip(spectrum.ieee.org)
341 points by Brajeshwar | 115 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on researchers claiming the first functioning graphene-based semiconductor chip, which beats silicon alternatives on electron mobility.
Platform Tilt(mozilla.github.io)
324 points by SethMLarson | 73 comments
Mozilla dashboard tracking technical issues in major platforms like Apple's that disadvantage Firefox versus first-party browsers, with proposed fixes.
Building a USB SNES Controller(blog.chybby.com)
289 points by chybby | 93 comments
Sourcehut network outage post-mortem(sourcehut.org)
258 points by ggpsv | 79 comments
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LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders(loadership.com)
169 points by marban | 54 comments
Shots: Create Mockups(shots.so)
107 points by stefankuehnel | 49 comments
Four Magic Words(fortressofdoors.com)
94 points by archagon | 40 comments
A 2024 Plea for Lean Software(berthub.eu)
94 points by Teckla | 64 comments
The 37signals Employee Handbook(basecamp.com)
89 points by Garbage | 58 comments
Self-Rewarding Language Models(arxiv.org)
56 points by jph00 | 49 comments
