Hacker News on Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero(saveflipper.ca)

1389 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 805 comments

SaveFlipper.ca, a campaign site by security professionals opposing Canada's proposed ban on the Flipper Zero, arguing insecure vehicles should be regulated instead.

Gemma: New Open Models(blog.google)

1075 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 476 comments

Google blog post announcing Gemma, a family of open AI models built from the same research and technology as Gemini.

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input(simonwillison.net)

1074 points by simonw 2 years ago | 444 comments

Simon Willison's blog post on Google's Gemini Pro 1.5, arguing its standout feature is video input, demonstrated by uploading a bookshelf video via Google AI Studio.

iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol(security.apple.com)

515 points by galad87 2 years ago | 247 comments

Apple Security Research blog post introducing PQ3, a post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage end-to-end encryption.

If architects had to work like programmers (1995)(gksoft.com)

436 points by cebert 2 years ago | 171 comments

A humorous 1995 letter from a client asking an architect to build a house with shifting, contradictory requirements, satirizing how programmers are treated.

Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again(finance.yahoo.com)

401 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 211 comments

Bloomberg article syndicated on Yahoo Finance about Japan spending $67 billion in subsidies to rebuild its semiconductor industry.

ChatGPT went berserk(garymarcus.substack.com)

350 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 365 comments

Gary Marcus Substack post from Feb 2024 describing user reports of ChatGPT producing bizarre, nonsensical output and framing it as a warning.

AI behavior guardrails should be public(twitter.com)

329 points by sotasota 2 years ago | 263 comments

A post by John Carmack on X arguing that AI behavior guardrails set via prompt engineering and filtering should be made public.

Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

305 points by yanyan_evie 2 years ago | 157 comments

Stop postponing things by embracing the mess(deprocrastination.co)

295 points by vitabenes 2 years ago | 137 comments

Atuin – Magical shell history(atuin.sh)

290 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 90 comments

Useful Uses of cat(two-wrongs.com)

251 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 162 comments

Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system(pijul.org)

241 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 158 comments

Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up(wired.com)

223 points by gavman 2 years ago | 116 comments

Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough(newatlas.com)

215 points by geox 2 years ago | 158 comments

Things I don't know about AI(blog.eladgil.com)

210 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 71 comments

Neural Network Diffusion(arxiv.org)

199 points by vagabund 2 years ago | 74 comments

Go run(breadchris.com)

185 points by breadchris 2 years ago | 136 comments

XL: An Extensible Programming Language(xlr.sourceforge.io)

164 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 68 comments

Data will not tell you what to do(mikkeldengsoe.substack.com)

164 points by mikkelenzo 2 years ago | 70 comments

An introduction to the theory and practice of poker (2020)(hopkinspokercourse.com)

155 points by Igor_Wiwi 2 years ago | 88 comments

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)(pmichaud.com)

154 points by Keegs 2 years ago | 71 comments

Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer(github.com)

147 points by lsferreira42 2 years ago | 67 comments

APL at Volvo(dyalog.com)

141 points by tosh 2 years ago | 52 comments

GaussianObject: Just Taking Four Images to Get a High-Quality 3D Object(gaussianobject.github.io)

140 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)(smallest.app)

134 points by rexec 2 years ago | 27 comments

Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget(blog.peerdb.io)

130 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 58 comments

LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking(ejmastnak.com)

127 points by vesselpiper 2 years ago | 49 comments

The code worked differently when the moon was full (2021)(hanselman.com)

125 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 27 comments

Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits(cbarrick.dev)

123 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 79 comments

Graphic Presentation (1939)(archive.org)

119 points by stared 2 years ago | 19 comments

Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age(interconnected.org)

114 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 106 comments

Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance(sahanjournal.com)

114 points by danso 2 years ago | 97 comments

The funding frenzy at Anthropic(nytimes.com)

106 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 82 comments

A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)(chosenplaintext.ca)

104 points by histories 2 years ago | 53 comments

Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)(tratt.net)

102 points by contr-error 2 years ago | 65 comments

Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data(arstechnica.com)

101 points by jameslk 2 years ago | 87 comments

U.S. to invest billions to replace China-made cranes at nation's ports(wsj.com)

100 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 90 comments

Algebraic effects, ownership, and borrowing(antelang.org)

99 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 19 comments

Remix Vite Is Now Stable(remix.run)

97 points by 0xblinq 2 years ago | 59 comments

John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990(thechipletter.substack.com)

92 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 57 comments

Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?(raypatrick.xyz)

90 points by Fred34 2 years ago | 79 comments

Game Programming Patterns (2014)(gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

89 points by vmoore 2 years ago | 49 comments

BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel(ianvisits.co.uk)

88 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 71 comments

How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)(pixelbeat.org)

87 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 14 comments

AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling(junzhan2000.github.io)

87 points by tkgally 2 years ago | 19 comments

Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on tips sent to teachers(9to5mac.com)

85 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 41 comments

100kHz to 6GHz 2 port USB based VNA(github.com)

84 points by sleepingreset 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert(therubyonrailspodcast.com)

81 points by unripe_syntax 2 years ago | 21 comments

The lifespan of large appliances is shrinking(wsj.com)

81 points by mcone 2 years ago | 103 comments

HuggingChat: Chat with Open Source Models(huggingface.co)

80 points by victormustar 2 years ago | 27 comments

So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS (2022)(becca.ooo)

76 points by freetonik 2 years ago | 68 comments

Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video](youtube.com)

75 points by armansu 2 years ago | 150 comments

Boeing ousts 737 MAX chief(seattletimes.com)

73 points by asn0 2 years ago | 62 comments

Scientists Developed a Tool to Reveal Who's at Risk of Burnout, and It's Free(sciencealert.com)

73 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 48 comments

Get unstuck from a creative rut(holloway.com)

68 points by andrewsavikas 2 years ago | 18 comments

Use of decimal point is 1.5 centuries older than historians thought(phys.org)

65 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 26 comments

What is going on in Argentina?(memoirsandrambles.substack.com)

65 points by yakkomajuri 2 years ago | 82 comments

How smart do you have to be to get a degree?(cremieux.xyz)

58 points by noch 2 years ago | 65 comments

From Fill Prefix to TRAMP(susam.net)

57 points by susam 2 years ago | 4 comments