Hacker News on Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub(trufflesecurity.com)

1823 points by __0x1__ 2 years ago | 341 comments

Truffle Security blog post explaining how data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories on GitHub can remain accessible to anyone.

Large Enough – Mistral AI(mistral.ai)

575 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 452 comments

Mistral AI's announcement of Mistral Large 2, its new flagship model with improved code generation, math, reasoning, multilingual support, and function calling.

Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal(404media.co)

339 points by turkeytotal 2 years ago | 246 comments

404 Media news article reporting that Reddit now blocks search engines other than Google, following its AI data licensing deal with Google.

Generating sudokus for fun and no profit(tn1ck.com)

331 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 63 comments

A blog post by Tom Nick on building a sudoku solver and generating sudokus of a specified human-perceived difficulty for his open source sudoku app.

Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text(ericwbailey.website)

326 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 76 comments

Blog post by Eric Bailey on how descriptive techniques from running Dungeons & Dragons games inform writing good image alt text for accessibility.

You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?(nature.com)

225 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 116 comments

The secret of Minecraft (2014)(medium.com)

207 points by prawn 2 years ago | 192 comments

Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice(krebsonsecurity.com)

204 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 147 comments

A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens(github.com)

203 points by kulikalov 2 years ago | 48 comments

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data(nature.com)

200 points by rntn 2 years ago | 159 comments

What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA(papersplease.org)

190 points by greyface- 2 years ago | 125 comments

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage(techcrunch.com)

188 points by LordAtlas 2 years ago | 90 comments

Physicists may now have a way to make element 120(newscientist.com)

177 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 173 comments

Preliminary Post Incident Review(crowdstrike.com)

174 points by cavilatrest 2 years ago | 189 comments

Llama 3.1 in C(github.com)

171 points by AMICABoard 2 years ago | 26 comments

Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video](youtube.com)

170 points by tagyro 2 years ago | 89 comments

The rich history of ham radio culture(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

158 points by rmason 2 years ago | 115 comments

Biological Circuit Design(biocircuits.github.io)

157 points by drones 2 years ago | 28 comments

Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts(righteousit.com)

157 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: We made glhf.chat – run almost any open-source LLM, including 405B(glhf.chat)

148 points by reissbaker 2 years ago | 79 comments

Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024(railsatscale.com)

133 points by ksec 2 years ago | 49 comments

MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)(chm.bris.ac.uk)

131 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 128 comments

Crash course in deep learning for computer graphics(gpuopen.com)

130 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Ridgeway: The 5k-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road(bbc.com)

128 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 29 comments

"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)(kohala.com)

122 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 87 comments

Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record(jasoncollins.blog)

121 points by amadeuspagel 2 years ago | 79 comments

CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4B(theguardian.com)

119 points by Terretta 2 years ago | 101 comments

X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm(blog.emojipedia.org)

115 points by donohoe 2 years ago | 169 comments

Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?(dive.club)

114 points by ridd_design 2 years ago | 101 comments

Micromouse(en.wikipedia.org)

108 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: NoteTech – Create personal automations by writing notes(simpltech.ai)

103 points by kenstler 2 years ago | 26 comments

Space-filling curves, constructively(math.andrej.com)

102 points by luu 2 years ago | 26 comments

InteractiVenn – Interactive Venn Diagrams(interactivenn.net)

99 points by histories 2 years ago | 14 comments

Julia for Economists (2022)(github.com)

95 points by sebg 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: Hooper – AI-driven stats and highlights for basketball play(hooper.gg)

94 points by grub007 2 years ago | 26 comments

The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types (2015)(codewords.recurse.com)

89 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 25 comments

Notes on Taylor and Maclaurin Series(eli.thegreenplace.net)

85 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 26 comments

CrowdStrike Timeline Mystery(bitsight.com)

83 points by JohnMay8 2 years ago | 26 comments

Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died old(nytimes.com)

81 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 14 comments

Hackers Exploited a PC Driving SIM to Pull Off Disney Data Breach(thedrive.com)

80 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 44 comments

Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?

79 points by iiJDSii 2 years ago | 49 comments

eBPF Offensive Capabilities – Get Ready for Next-Gen Malware (2023)(sysdig.com)

76 points by password4321 2 years ago | 10 comments

FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing'(cnbc.com)

74 points by m463 2 years ago | 9 comments

Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing(dublog.net)

71 points by LarsDu88 2 years ago | 55 comments

Visual explanation of SAML authentication (2020)(sheshbabu.com)

70 points by rkwz 2 years ago | 27 comments

A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent(arxiv.org)

64 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 7 comments

Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)(arxiv.org)

62 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 36 comments

How do you find a good manager?(nber.org)

60 points by samuel246 2 years ago | 62 comments

77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads and Hampered Productivity(forbes.com)

56 points by layer8 2 years ago | 41 comments

More delays for Euston's HS2 station(ianvisits.co.uk)

52 points by edward 2 years ago | 84 comments

Show HN: A personalised AI tutor with < 1s voice responses(educationbot.cerebrium.ai)

51 points by za_mike157 2 years ago | 14 comments

Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come(chicagotribune.com)

51 points by rmason 2 years ago | 38 comments

Did pizza exist in the Soviet Union?(quora.com)

50 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 42 comments

We've built the Ultimate e-Bike Battery that you can Repair and Refill(get.gouach.com)

50 points by oulipo 2 years ago | 43 comments

CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee(theregister.com)

47 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 49 comments

OpenAI may lose $5B this year and may run out of cash in 12 months(twitter.com)

46 points by robertguss 2 years ago | 33 comments

My programming beliefs as of July 2024(evanhahn.com)

44 points by signa11 2 years ago | 13 comments

Learn in Public (2018)(swyx.io)

43 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 11 comments

X suspends account that leaked info about protected user TOS bypass(twitter.com)

42 points by bbqfog 2 years ago | 8 comments

Seam Carving (2018)(andrewdcampbell.github.io)

41 points by maxwell 2 years ago | 12 comments