Hacker News on Tuesday, 18 June 2024

KidPix(kidpix.app)

852 points by wonger_ 2 years ago | 121 comments

JS Kid Pix, a browser-based JavaScript recreation of Craig Hickman's 1989 public-domain Kid Pix painting program for children.

Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)(freiheitsrechte.org)

701 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 185 comments

Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte issue page arguing the EU's proposed Chat Control regulation for scanning private messages is incompatible with fundamental rights.

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now(threema.ch)

677 points by andrew918277 2 years ago | 210 comments

Threema blog post from June 17, 2024 urging that the EU's proposed Chat Control regulation for scanning private messages be stopped.

Cyber Scarecrow(cyberscarecrow.com)

540 points by toby_tw 2 years ago | 229 comments

Landing page for Cyber Scarecrow, alpha software that runs in the background to make a computer look like a security research environment, deterring malware.

A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing(frame.work)

504 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 139 comments

Framework blog post announcing a RISC-V mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13 developed by DeepComputing.

Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta(hakaimagazine.com)

331 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 242 comments

A Hakai Magazine visual feature on how agricultural drones are changing rice farming in the Mekong River delta.

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative(radius.to)

292 points by radius89 2 years ago | 115 comments

Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space(billard.medusis.com)

287 points by bambax 2 years ago | 68 comments

Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell(retractionwatch.com)

264 points by susam 2 years ago | 160 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo(ubc-vision.github.io)

228 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 54 comments

Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?

225 points by alexhutcheson 2 years ago | 221 comments

Open Source Python ETL(amphi.ai)

217 points by justjico 2 years ago | 102 comments

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR(ai.meta.com)

206 points by TheAceOfHearts 2 years ago | 48 comments

Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks(blog.apnic.net)

197 points by gtirloni 2 years ago | 74 comments

Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California(washingtonpost.com)

196 points by green-eclipse 2 years ago | 186 comments

Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction(arxiv.org)

181 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 40 comments

Brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression/anxiety(nature.com)

180 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 73 comments

Satellites Spotting Ships(tech.marksblogg.com)

172 points by ingve 2 years ago | 66 comments

TikTag: Breaking ARM's memory tagging extension with speculative execution(arxiv.org)

165 points by skilled 2 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app(github.com)

164 points by niedev 2 years ago | 43 comments

Carabiner Collection(carabinercollection.com)

150 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 16 comments

Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs(boundaryml.com)

143 points by constantinum 2 years ago | 64 comments

IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison(3tilley.github.io)

132 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 53 comments

Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping(tylermw.com)

132 points by tylermw 2 years ago | 27 comments

Loop: Open-source macOS window manager(github.com)

131 points by edu 2 years ago | 59 comments

The short, happy reign of CD-ROM(fastcompany.com)

130 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 189 comments

Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century(spectrum.ieee.org)

129 points by cyberlimerence 2 years ago | 25 comments

Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope(nature.com)

125 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 19 comments

YaFSDP: a sharded data parallelism framework, faster for pre-training LLMs(github.com)

125 points by wiradikusuma 2 years ago | 15 comments

Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl(blog.christianperone.com)

121 points by sonabinu 2 years ago | 10 comments

Code Models(openjdk.org)

116 points by ludovicianul 2 years ago | 15 comments

Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation(thechipletter.substack.com)

110 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 56 comments

The misunderstood Kessler Syndrome(aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org)

103 points by throw0101a 2 years ago | 102 comments

What happens to latency if service time is cut in half (2022)(pveentjer.github.io)

102 points by luu 2 years ago | 42 comments

The Public Interest Internet(berjon.com)

95 points by recifs 2 years ago | 51 comments

When are SSDs slow?(cedardb.com)

91 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 68 comments

Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid(fortune.com)

91 points by Capstanlqc 2 years ago | 115 comments

The shape of information(kucharski.substack.com)

91 points by effect 2 years ago | 26 comments

What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? (2023)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

90 points by taubek 2 years ago | 42 comments

Noam Chomsky has passed away(twitter.com)

83 points by wavelander 2 years ago | 12 comments

Stellarium Web Online Star Map(stellarium-web.org)

80 points by susam 2 years ago | 27 comments

Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git (2021)(blog.lambda.cx)

78 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 43 comments

Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)(ocw.mit.edu)

76 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Eggcorn Database(eggcorns.lascribe.net)

73 points by RodgerTheGreat 2 years ago | 27 comments

Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash(omid.dev)

71 points by omidfarhang 2 years ago | 49 comments

ControlNet Game of Life(jerpint.io)

63 points by jerpint 2 years ago | 4 comments

Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools(politico.com)

62 points by koolba 2 years ago | 74 comments

Revolutionizing solar plant prospection with automated viewshed analysis(go-inicio.com)

56 points by nadou 2 years ago | 23 comments

Malaysia to Join BRICS(aljazeera.com)

54 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 42 comments

Social-Media Influencers Aren't Getting Rich–They're Barely Getting By(wsj.com)

51 points by marban 2 years ago | 52 comments

An Introduction to Sleep Obfuscation for Malware (2023)(dtsec.us)

49 points by jstrieb 2 years ago | 3 comments

Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on Human-Generated Data(epochai.org)

49 points by trott 2 years ago | 28 comments

U.S..D.A. Suspends Avocado Inspections in Mexico, Citing Security Concerns(nytimes.com)

49 points by jelliclesfarm 2 years ago | 9 comments

The ChatGPT Linux System(incoherency.co.uk)

48 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 7 comments

Framework: A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing(frame.work)

47 points by felixdorn 2 years ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Ritt – Tag-centric file manager(ritt.app)

46 points by chenxy88 2 years ago | 13 comments

Translate Datadog Metrics into OTLP(grafana.com)

46 points by buro9 2 years ago | 1 comments

'Glowing' plants could help scientists predict flash drought(jpl.nasa.gov)

45 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Vulture and the Little Girl(en.wikipedia.org)

43 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 10 comments

The difference between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads(eff.org)

41 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 6 comments