Hacker News on Tuesday, 23 January 2024

FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising(cnn.com)

774 points by fairytalemtg 2 years ago | 218 comments

CNN Business article reporting that the FTC banned Intuit's TurboTax from advertising services as 'free', calling the ads deceptive.

Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6

480 points by p1mrx 2 years ago | 256 comments

A Tell HN post noting that news.ycombinator.com now resolves to an IPv6 address alongside its IPv4 address, with DNS and ASN details.

Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"(viewfromthewing.com)

428 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 313 comments

View from the Wing blog post relaying a whistleblower comment claiming Boeing's MAX 9 production line has many defects and door plug bolts weren't installed.

Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear(nytimes.com)

426 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 211 comments

New York Times article about a gene therapy that enabled an 11-year-old boy with congenital deafness to hear for the first time.

Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?(arxiv.org)

416 points by harscoat 2 years ago | 347 comments

arXiv paper by Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli arguing that the emergence of life is an expected phase transition, using autocatalytic sets and the theory of the adjacent possible.

Why are we templating YAML? (2019)(leebriggs.co.uk)

385 points by olestr 2 years ago | 534 comments

Lee Briggs' 2019 blog post arguing against templating YAML for Kubernetes configuration and advocating data-structure tools like Jsonnet and kr8.

Framework Laptop 16 Review(phoronix.com)

382 points by mikece 2 years ago | 327 comments

Phoronix review of the Framework Laptop 16, covering its Linux support, performance, and modular customizability.

Waterway Map(waterwaymap.org)

377 points by wcedmisten 2 years ago | 135 comments

WaterwayMap is an interactive map showing how waterways and canals are connected in OpenStreetMap data, with randomly colored connected river networks.

Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch(rawrlab.com)

366 points by ekianjo 2 years ago | 192 comments

Announcement of a free Godot Engine port for authorised Nintendo Switch developers, supporting projects made with Godot 3.5.x and 4.1.x.

Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment(reason.com)

358 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 152 comments

Reason article reporting that a federal appeals court ruled the FBI's seizure of safe-deposit boxes violated the Fourth Amendment.

ML Engineering Online Book(github.com)

304 points by tim_sw 2 years ago | 22 comments

scrapscript.py(bernsteinbear.com)

285 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 74 comments

Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives(blog.mozilla.org)

276 points by mfsch 2 years ago | 117 comments

Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028(bloomberg.com)

273 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 524 comments

Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory(nytimes.com)

268 points by gumby 2 years ago | 123 comments

Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models(crowsonkb.github.io)

261 points by stefanbaumann 2 years ago | 47 comments

Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)(ai.stanford.edu)

250 points by jxmorris12 2 years ago | 126 comments

The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot(atlasobscura.com)

232 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 207 comments

Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England(smithsonianmag.com)

226 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 318 comments

From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story(sourcegraph.com)

226 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 97 comments

2023 Letter(danwang.co)

225 points by admp 2 years ago | 103 comments

The NSA Furby Documents(404media.co)

210 points by gumby 2 years ago | 100 comments

Dana-Farberications at Harvard University(forbetterscience.com)

203 points by RadixDLT 2 years ago | 112 comments

Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds(arstechnica.com)

200 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 194 comments

Responses to unicycling(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

190 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 266 comments

Loro's rich text CRDT(loro.dev)

179 points by czx111331 2 years ago | 35 comments

Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches(cybernews.com)

176 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 118 comments

Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the internet(retriever.corgea.io)

176 points by asadeddin 2 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries(github.com)

168 points by purple_wow 2 years ago | 50 comments

United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing(apnews.com)

153 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 161 comments

Mr. Rogers' music was intricate (2020) [video](youtube.com)

137 points by CaliforniaKarl 2 years ago | 76 comments

Spotting LLMs with Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text(arxiv.org)

137 points by victormustar 2 years ago | 85 comments

Open Infrastructure Map(openinframap.org)

136 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: Atlas – GIS and interactive maps in the browser(atlas.co)

135 points by vloewe 2 years ago | 45 comments

SimSIMD: Hardware-accelerated similarity metrics and distance functions(github.com)

130 points by sroussey 2 years ago | 36 comments

The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions(zverok.substack.com)

124 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 54 comments

Hair Sample That Put a Man in Prison Turned Out to Be Dog Hair(reason.com)

123 points by rossant 2 years ago | 16 comments

Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling(phys.org)

121 points by wglb 2 years ago | 87 comments

SaberVM(ryanbrewer.dev)

120 points by hoping1 2 years ago | 11 comments

Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round(qdrant.tech)

118 points by francoismassot 2 years ago | 142 comments

The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands(hawaiiseaglider.org)

115 points by lisper 2 years ago | 98 comments

A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

113 points by smitop 2 years ago | 79 comments

Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

108 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 23 comments

Trello leaked 15M email addresses(haveibeenpwned.com)

105 points by rglullis 2 years ago | 80 comments

Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify(everynoise.com)

104 points by sr-latch 2 years ago | 52 comments

The Beirut Port Explosion Forensic Investigation(forensic-architecture.org)

102 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 12 comments

Unbloating the buffers(dgroshev.com)

99 points by dgroshev 2 years ago | 20 comments

Oh My Zsh(ohmyz.sh)

97 points by praash 2 years ago | 88 comments

Is offline-first not enough? Do we need "serverfree"?(subzero.cloud)

93 points by runningamok 2 years ago | 104 comments

Show HN: Bernard – a link checker for your website(bernard.app)

91 points by sph 2 years ago | 55 comments

Self-contained Linux applications with lone Lisp(matheusmoreira.com)

91 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 16 comments

Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: Nicholas Saunders and "Alternative London"(theguardian.com)

89 points by fuzztester 2 years ago | 22 comments

Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go(go.dev)

87 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 50 comments

Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers(nyckel.com)

86 points by jxmorris12 2 years ago | 65 comments

Chrome experimental AI features(blog.google)

83 points by mleroy 2 years ago | 92 comments

Brex Layoffs(brex.com)

82 points by bpc84 2 years ago | 76 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

79 points by program247365 2 years ago | 54 comments

Samsung expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US(9to5google.com)

77 points by mikece 2 years ago | 53 comments

Ode to Internet – V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra (1996) [video](youtube.com)

75 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 20 comments

Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off(leehamnews.com)

75 points by jslezak 2 years ago | 15 comments