Hacker News on Thursday, 28 March 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison(cnn.com)

1142 points by misiti3780 2 years ago | 1267 comments

CNN Business live news coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing, in which the FTX founder received 25 years in prison.

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane(prospect.org)

735 points by doom2 2 years ago | 446 comments

American Prospect article by Maureen Tkacik on how Boeing's management drove out experienced engineers and workers who knew how to build planes.

The race to replace Redis(lwn.net)

644 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 436 comments

LWN article by Joe Brockmeier on Redis moving to source-available licenses and the open source alternatives competing to replace it, including KeyDB and Valkey.

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy(arstechnica.com)

439 points by edsimpson 2 years ago | 169 comments

Ars Technica article on a lawsuit alleging Facebook gave Netflix access to user DMs and wound down Facebook Watch streaming to keep Netflix's ad spending.

Doom Captcha (2021)(vivirenremoto.github.io)

437 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 124 comments

A demo of Doom Captcha, a joke captcha widget where the user must kill four enemies in a Doom-style game to verify they are human.

NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++(github.com)

427 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 263 comments

GitHub repository for NotepadNext, a GPL-licensed cross-platform reimplementation of the Notepad++ text editor built with Qt.

You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it(seancoates.com)

403 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 137 comments

Sean Coates's blog post on the origin of the startup Matter, where he is VP of Technology, and its privacy-focused approach of not holding user data.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Jamba: Production-grade Mamba-based AI model(maginative.com)

324 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 78 comments

News article announcing AI21 Labs' Jamba, a hybrid SSM-Transformer language model billed as the first production-grade Mamba-based model.

Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models(mobiusml.github.io)

305 points by homarp 2 years ago | 145 comments

Blue Ball Machine(blueballfixed.ytmnd.com)

305 points by pubby 2 years ago | 112 comments

Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?

284 points by aflip 2 years ago | 63 comments

UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet(spectrum.ieee.org)

283 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 161 comments

Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust(dioxuslabs.com)

273 points by jkelleyrtp 2 years ago | 100 comments

I scraped all of OpenAI's Community Forum(julep-ai.github.io)

272 points by alt-glitch 2 years ago | 50 comments

Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?(vitalik.eth.limo)

235 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 351 comments

Deep Learning in JavaScript(github.com)

231 points by eduardoleao052 2 years ago | 71 comments

Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks(techcrunch.com)

215 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 57 comments

Edgar, build a Dyson swarm(playedgar.netlify.app)

199 points by whb101 2 years ago | 111 comments

Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car(nippon.com)

197 points by gascoigne 2 years ago | 258 comments

ST-DOS(sininenankka.dy.fi)

184 points by snvzz 2 years ago | 43 comments

Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it(nature.com)

177 points by birriel 2 years ago | 70 comments

Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?(commondreams.org)

172 points by robtherobber 2 years ago | 190 comments

Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?(thisismoney.co.uk)

167 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 165 comments

Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners(github.com)

148 points by fastily 2 years ago | 58 comments

Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated(bootlin.com)

148 points by rrampage 2 years ago | 56 comments

Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf](sheldrake.org)

139 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 250 comments

Show HN: Spice.ai – materialize, accelerate, and query SQL data from any source(github.com)

137 points by lukekim 2 years ago | 35 comments

Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom(spectrum.ieee.org)

132 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 101 comments

Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content(fandom.ink)

124 points by gcr 2 years ago | 106 comments

Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel itineraries(tripgeeks.app)

112 points by onounoko 2 years ago | 54 comments

The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source(modular.com)

108 points by melodyogonna 2 years ago | 17 comments

A step beyond Rust's pattern matching(radiki.dev)

91 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 26 comments

Linux Text Manipulation(yusuf.fyi)

87 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 29 comments

Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters

86 points by samplank2 2 years ago | 45 comments

How fuzz testing was invented (2008)(pages.cs.wisc.edu)

85 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 14 comments

What is DECT-2020 New Radio (NR), and how big a deal is it? (2021)(blog.nordicsemi.com)

83 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Lord of the Rings Family Tree(lotrproject.com)

82 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 22 comments

Digital signs in Brookline are collecting data from your phone as you walk by(brookline.news)

82 points by internetter 2 years ago | 60 comments

Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?

80 points by typeofhuman 2 years ago | 89 comments

EpiPen For Heart Attacks? Idorsia Launches Phase III Study Of Selatogrel (2021)(scrip.citeline.com)

78 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 53 comments

What do you do if a hacker takes control of your ship? (2023)(maritime-executive.com)

75 points by transpute 2 years ago | 98 comments

Influencers: Japan's secret weapon to promote niche tourism spots(japantimes.co.jp)

73 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 50 comments

Why Scientists Are Calling for the Moon to Be Better Protected from Development(smithsonianmag.com)

70 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 103 comments

Share Openly(werd.io)

70 points by benwerd 2 years ago | 14 comments

Secret papers reveal Post Office knew its court defence was false(bbc.co.uk)

69 points by chrisjj 2 years ago | 8 comments

New open source GPU is free to all(tomshardware.com)

69 points by elorant 2 years ago | 8 comments

Go Enums Still Suck(zarl.dev)

68 points by el_hacker 2 years ago | 76 comments

Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data

67 points by ellenfkh 2 years ago | 31 comments

Property-based testing in practice [pdf](harrisongoldste.in)

64 points by Smaug123 2 years ago | 36 comments

Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)(forbes.com)

59 points by list 2 years ago | 110 comments

Show HN: I taught ChatGPT to find cool domain names – with availability check(huehive.co)

58 points by kamalkishor1991 2 years ago | 33 comments

A near 100pct renewable grid for Australia is feasible and affordable(reneweconomy.com.au)

51 points by hackerlight 2 years ago | 67 comments

Hellandizing (1998)(multicians.org)

51 points by redeemed 2 years ago | 6 comments

Babylon 7.0 Is Out(babylonjs.medium.com)

49 points by deltakosh 2 years ago | 8 comments

Cloud host Vultr rips user data ownership clause from ToS after web outrage(theregister.com)

49 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 11 comments

The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward(arstechnica.com)

48 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 27 comments

Traffic jams, AirTags and GPS darts are ways NY, NJ are trying to stop car theft(gothamist.com)

46 points by DamnInteresting 2 years ago | 39 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years(bbc.co.uk)

44 points by TecoAndJix 2 years ago | 6 comments

Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3 Within the Enterprise(nist.gov)

43 points by belter 2 years ago | 37 comments