Hacker News on Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of zen-browser.app: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine (zen-browser.app)

684 points by femou 2 years ago | 325 comments

Homepage of Zen, an open-source, privacy-focused web browser built on Firefox with an Arc-like design, offering an alpha download.

zen-browser firefox web-browser arc-browser

Screenshot of maxschmitt.me: Toasts are bad UX

Toasts are bad UX (maxschmitt.me)

652 points by Mackser 2 years ago | 371 comments

Blog post by Max Schmitt arguing that toast notifications are bad UX because they appear far from where the user's attention is, using YouTube as an example.

ux toast-notifications ui-design youtube

Screenshot of promptarmor.substack.com: Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection (promptarmor.substack.com)

578 points by tprow50 2 years ago | 170 comments

PromptArmor blog post describing an indirect prompt injection vulnerability in Slack AI that lets attackers exfiltrate data from private channels.

prompt-injection slack-ai data-exfiltration llm-security

Screenshot of sparcopen.org: MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)

498 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 173 comments

SPARC resource profiling how MIT Libraries handled ending its Big Deal subscription contract with Elsevier, part of its unbundling profiles knowledge base.

elsevier mit-libraries academic-publishing open-access

Screenshot of economist.com: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

Artificial intelligence is losing hype (economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

artificial-intelligence ai-hype hype-cycle economics

Screenshot of eric-fritz.com: Sourcegraph went dark

Sourcegraph went dark (eric-fritz.com)

383 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 154 comments

Former Sourcegraph engineer Eric Fritz's blog post lamenting that the sourcegraph/sourcegraph repository went private, ending its build-in-the-open culture.

sourcegraph open-source source-available github

Screenshot of zarar.dev: The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown

The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown (zarar.dev)

366 points by recroad 2 years ago | 223 comments

A personal blog post recounting a late-night production outage on jumpcomedy.com where all RTK Query POST calls failed on a Next.js/Vercel deployment, and the stress of debugging it.

nextjs vercel rtk-query production-incident

Screenshot of github.com: Transformers for Ruby

Transformers for Ruby (github.com)

344 points by felipemesquita 2 years ago | 45 comments

GitHub repository for transformers-ruby by ankane, a Ruby port of state-of-the-art transformer models, licensed under Apache-2.0.

ruby transformers hugging-face nlp

Screenshot of youtube.com: Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video](youtube.com)

337 points by teqsun 2 years ago | 113 comments

YouTube video of a 1953 U.S. Navy instructional film explaining the basic mechanisms used in mechanical fire control computers, posted by PeriscopeFilm.

mechanical-computers fire-control us-navy analog-computing