Hacker News on Monday, 11 March 2024

Boeing whistleblower found dead in US(bbc.com)

895 points by neapolisbeach 2 years ago | 352 comments

BBC News article reporting that a Boeing whistleblower was found dead in the US.

JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data(jsoncanvas.org)

750 points by nickmain 2 years ago | 148 comments

Homepage for JSON Canvas, an open MIT-licensed file format for infinite canvas data originally created for Obsidian, with readme and version 1.0 spec.

Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate(esa.int)

633 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 327 comments

ESA article reporting that Webb observations confirm Hubble's measurements of the Universe's expansion rate, deepening the Hubble tension.

gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL(github.com)

427 points by freediver 2 years ago | 212 comments

Merged CPython pull request allowing the GIL to be disabled in free-threaded builds via PYTHON_GIL=0 or -X gil=0.

Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf](sdfo.org)

347 points by xNeil 2 years ago | 241 comments

A PDF copy of Daniel Keyes's science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon," about a man whose intelligence is surgically enhanced.

Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective(chenyang.co)

342 points by jxmorris12 2 years ago | 36 comments

A tutorial blog post by Chenyang Yuan explaining diffusion models from scratch through a new theoretical perspective.

Simpson's paradox(en.wikipedia.org)

296 points by tosh 2 years ago | 81 comments

GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE(grapheneos.social)

293 points by gaul 2 years ago | 173 comments

Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs(github.com)

272 points by AugusteLef 2 years ago | 167 comments

Building an Open Source Decentralized E-Book Search Engine(github.com)

254 points by j2qk3b 2 years ago | 33 comments

Kdenlive 24.02 open source video editor released(kdenlive.org)

250 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 51 comments

The later we meet someone in a sequence, the more negatively we describe them(suchscience.org)

242 points by amichail 2 years ago | 105 comments

Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras(theverge.com)

237 points by matbilodeau 2 years ago | 394 comments

Show HN: Teable – Open-Source No-Code Database Fusion of Postgres and Airtable(github.com)

225 points by bieberChen 2 years ago | 78 comments

Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography(bughunters.google.com)

216 points by yuedongze 2 years ago | 59 comments

Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies(nytimes.com)

213 points by xnx 2 years ago | 264 comments

Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application responsiveness(browserbench.org)

202 points by cpeterso 2 years ago | 140 comments

Show HN: Prompts as WASM Programs(github.com)

180 points by mmoskal 2 years ago | 34 comments

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)(web.stanford.edu)

176 points by yeesian 2 years ago | 28 comments

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)(norvig.com)

171 points by selvan 2 years ago | 72 comments

What Extropic is building(extropic.ai)

168 points by jonbraun 2 years ago | 133 comments

Fixing Gemma Bugs(unsloth.ai)

151 points by danielhanchen 2 years ago | 57 comments

OpenPlotter(openmarine.net)

143 points by slow_typist 2 years ago | 65 comments

How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds(toruzz.com)

135 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 18 comments

Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills(phys.org)

132 points by wglb 2 years ago | 86 comments

Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat(wired.com)

123 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 154 comments

Show HN: Pywebview 5(pywebview.flowrl.com)

122 points by kissaprofeetta 2 years ago | 31 comments

European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU(edps.europa.eu)

117 points by fermigier 2 years ago | 61 comments

How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane(honest-broker.com)

117 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: RE3 – Reversed Engineered GTA3 Source Code(github.com)

116 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 26 comments

AMD announces the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family(cnx-software.com)

111 points by chrsw 2 years ago | 75 comments

Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3(hacks.mozilla.org)

110 points by feross 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C(github.com)

107 points by rkaehn 2 years ago | 35 comments

Proof of the Singular Value Decomposition(gregorygundersen.com)

105 points by beckthompson 2 years ago | 20 comments

How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits(figma.com)

104 points by tomduncalf 2 years ago | 71 comments

Intel Gaudi2 chips outperform Nvidia H100 on diffusion transformers(stability.ai)

97 points by memossy 2 years ago | 39 comments

A ‘double brood’ of periodical cicadas will emerge in 2024(scientificamerican.com)

96 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 67 comments

Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, thought to be habitable, may be oxygen-starved(nytimes.com)

96 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 66 comments

The Secret Life of XY Monitors (2001)(jmargolin.com)

94 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 86 comments

European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU(edps.europa.eu)

93 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 32 comments

A TUI Git client inspired by Magit(github.com)

90 points by gearnode 2 years ago | 38 comments

Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected(claimdepot.com)

88 points by willyg123 2 years ago | 41 comments

Exploring Bauhaus: Revolutionary design school that shaped modern world(playforthoughts.com)

86 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 64 comments

Are We Watching the Internet Die?(wheresyoured.at)

86 points by cdme 2 years ago | 99 comments

Steve Wozniak and Stuart Brand Discuss Control of IP (1984) [video](gettyimages.in)

84 points by 1970-01-01 2 years ago | 35 comments

Did the whole pairdrop repo just vanish(github.com)

82 points by INTPenis 2 years ago | 12 comments

Maybe Functions(blog.benwinding.com)

81 points by gitgud 2 years ago | 86 comments

Rnote – An open-source vector-based drawing app(rnote.flxzt.net)

80 points by smoldesu 2 years ago | 8 comments

How engineers straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [video](youtube.com)

79 points by geox 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Goqite, a persistent message queue Go library built on SQLite(goqite.com)

78 points by markusw 2 years ago | 57 comments

Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production?

74 points by arthurdelerue 2 years ago | 29 comments

Among the A.I. doomsayers(newyorker.com)

71 points by preetamjinka 2 years ago | 204 comments

The complete story of Gödel incompleteness(billwadge.com)

65 points by herodotus 2 years ago | 26 comments

Latam Airlines SYD to AKL flight: 50 people treated after mid-air incident(rnz.co.nz)

65 points by kiwih 2 years ago | 105 comments

The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times (2006)(pubs.rsc.org)

61 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 16 comments

This week, xAI will open source Grok(twitter.com)

61 points by 0xedb 2 years ago | 18 comments

The Mad Stone, the One-Time 'Cure' for Rabies(atlasobscura.com)

58 points by drdee 2 years ago | 14 comments

See 'horned' comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky(space.com)

54 points by T-A 2 years ago | 1 comments

Show HN: I made Vinlo – Spinning artwork video for your music(vinlo.co)

52 points by wayoverthecloud 2 years ago | 29 comments

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping(theverge.com)

51 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 23 comments