Hacker News on Wednesday, 14 February 2024

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

Screenshot of eureporter.co: European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption (eureporter.co)

1553 points by robtherobber 2 years ago | 234 comments

EU Reporter article on a European Court of Human Rights ruling against weakening end-to-end encryption and its implications for the EU's chat control (CSAR) plans.

end-to-end-encryption echr chat-control csar

Screenshot of mailman.nginx.org: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork (mailman.nginx.org)

893 points by bkallus 2 years ago | 354 comments

Mailing list post by core nginx developer Maxim Dounin announcing freenginx, a fork of nginx, after disagreements with F5 management over security policy.

nginx freenginx f5 software-fork

Screenshot of twitter.com: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday (twitter.com)

675 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 373 comments

A post on X by Andrej Karpathy confirming he left OpenAI, saying nothing specific prompted it and that he plans to work on personal projects.

andrej-karpathy openai career-move twitter

Screenshot of nytimes.com: Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died

Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died (nytimes.com)

554 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 273 comments

New York Times obituary of Bob Moore, the former gas station owner who founded the Bob's Red Mill whole-grain food company, who died at 94.

bobs-red-mill bob-moore obituary employee-ownership

Screenshot of quantamagazine.org: Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’(quantamagazine.org)

540 points by MetallicCloud 2 years ago | 456 comments

A Quanta Magazine multimedia feature explaining the proton's internal structure and how its appearance changes depending on how it is probed.

particle-physics proton quarks quantum-chromodynamics

Screenshot of ycombinator.com: YC: Requests for Startups

YC: Requests for Startups (ycombinator.com)

457 points by sarimkhalid 2 years ago | 483 comments

Y Combinator's Requests for Startups page listing idea categories YC wants founders to work on, such as ML for robotics, defense, manufacturing, and space.

y-combinator requests-for-startups startup-ideas robotics

Screenshot of rosenzweig.io: Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 (rosenzweig.io)

448 points by patadune 2 years ago | 98 comments

Blog post announcing conformant OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2 open source Linux drivers for Apple M1/M2 GPUs, available via Fedora Asahi.

asahi-linux opengl apple-m1 gpu-drivers

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally (github.com)

341 points by samlhuillier 2 years ago | 83 comments

GitHub repository for Reor, an open-source desktop note-taking app that runs local LLMs and vector search for semantic linking and RAG Q&A over markdown notes.

reor note-taking local-llm rag

Screenshot of spectrum.ieee.org: 100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born