Hacker News on Thursday, 13 June 2024

Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says(propublica.org)

565 points by tyleroconnell 2 years ago | 269 comments

ProPublica investigation reporting a whistleblower's claim that Microsoft ignored a Golden SAML security flaw later exploited in the SolarWinds hack, prioritizing profit.

MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec(engineering.fb.com)

551 points by mikece 2 years ago | 188 comments

Engineering at Meta blog post introducing MLow, Meta's low bitrate audio codec for real-time calling.

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration(huggingface.co)

450 points by mizzao 2 years ago | 228 comments

Hugging Face community blog post by Maxime Labonne explaining abliteration, a technique to remove refusal behavior from LLMs without retraining.

Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours(spectrum.ieee.org)

408 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 231 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article on Indian startup Agnikul, which 3D prints a rocket engine in 72 hours and completed a successful launch toward on-demand rocket launches.

AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor(tomshardware.com)

313 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 208 comments

Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

312 points by larsiusprime 2 years ago | 286 comments

Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers(news.mit.edu)

292 points by gmays 2 years ago | 85 comments

Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative(github.com)

285 points by ethanpailes 2 years ago | 147 comments

AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference(blog.tensorwave.com)

252 points by fvv 2 years ago | 192 comments

Fungus breaks down ocean plastic(nioz.nl)

233 points by gmays 2 years ago | 209 comments

U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years(nasdaq.com)

228 points by westcort 2 years ago | 217 comments

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll(avherald.com)

223 points by belter 2 years ago | 172 comments

Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting(amygoodchild.com)

206 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 13 comments

Luma AI Dream Machine(lumalabs.ai)

193 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 50 comments

IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries(fortune.com)

189 points by belter 2 years ago | 140 comments

Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize(lithub.com)

186 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 93 comments

Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad(twitter.com)

165 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 210 comments

Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed(xda-developers.com)

152 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 116 comments

Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

151 points by nobody9999 2 years ago | 93 comments

I bought an encyclopedia(optoutproject.net)

149 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 92 comments

New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos(csail.mit.edu)

147 points by geox 2 years ago | 63 comments

Study finds juvenile dolphins who play together are more successful as adults(phys.org)

117 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 35 comments

IntelliJ GitHub Plugin leaking credentials(blog.jetbrains.com)

113 points by jonahss 2 years ago | 12 comments

iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in(iterm2.com)

111 points by trustno2 2 years ago | 99 comments

Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code(yobibyte.github.io)

110 points by sebg 2 years ago | 126 comments

Lamini Memory Tuning: 10x Fewer Hallucinations(lamini.ai)

109 points by galeos 2 years ago | 40 comments

SSH agent extensions as an arbitrary RPC mechanism(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

104 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 16 comments

You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents(annas-archive.org)

102 points by FabHK 2 years ago | 53 comments

Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person(theguardian.com)

93 points by hackerbeat 2 years ago | 133 comments

Freenet 2024 – a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web [video](youtube.com)

88 points by sanity 2 years ago | 55 comments

The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza(globalvoices.org)

82 points by mwenge 2 years ago | 41 comments

Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE(pganalyze.com)

81 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 9 comments

Enhancing Code Completion for Rust in Cody(sourcegraph.com)

77 points by imnot404 2 years ago | 16 comments

Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords(arstechnica.com)

73 points by sam_bristow 2 years ago | 48 comments

What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?(arxiv.org)

70 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 33 comments

Embedded Swift [video](youtube.com)

68 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 36 comments

Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world(electrek.co)

68 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Paramount – Human Evals of AI Customer Support(github.com)

66 points by hakimk 2 years ago | 24 comments

Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album (Eventually)(nytimes.com)

64 points by throwawaycities 2 years ago | 32 comments

A common misunderstanding about wave-particle duality(chemistryworld.com)

62 points by mathgenius 2 years ago | 70 comments

Why not just embed Neovim?(zed.dev)

62 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 35 comments

React 19 Breaks Async Composability(github.com)

62 points by antimatter15 2 years ago | 37 comments

VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team(ask.vrchat.com)

61 points by tyleo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck(github.com)

59 points by morishin 2 years ago | 39 comments

From grep to SPLADE: a journey through semantic search(blog.elicit.com)

58 points by stuhlmueller 2 years ago | 18 comments

US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers(reuters.com)

57 points by instagib 2 years ago | 46 comments

The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control(ykulbashian.medium.com)

56 points by background 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ask HN: Widespread Apathy?

54 points by throw_that_away 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Four Kinds of Research-and-Development Teams(blogs.newardassociates.com)

54 points by zdw 2 years ago | 13 comments

OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board(openai.com)

51 points by flawn 2 years ago | 19 comments

Anticipatory Anxiety(lrb.co.uk)

50 points by passing 2 years ago | 8 comments

Supreme Court Upholds Broad Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone(nytimes.com)

47 points by Amorymeltzer 2 years ago | 18 comments

Canada Imposes 5% Tax on Streaming to Fund Local News, Diverse Content(techdirt.com)

47 points by rntn 2 years ago | 56 comments

About the solar powered website (2022)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

47 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 14 comments

Surprising New Renewable Power Source Has 'Negative Carbon Emissions'(newsweek.com)

46 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 39 comments

Whose CIDR is it anyway?(netmeister.org)

45 points by zdw 2 years ago | 5 comments

Microsoft's Nadella is building an AI empire(wsj.com)

44 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 48 comments

Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 Scenes in 25 Days(github.com)

44 points by susam 2 years ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Pathway – Build Mission Critical ETL and RAG in Python (NATO, F1 Used)(github.com)

43 points by janchorowski 2 years ago | 7 comments

California's wage gap is the biggest in the US(sfgate.com)

42 points by jerlam 2 years ago | 38 comments