Hacker News on Friday, 13 September 2024

Boeing workers vote to strike(washingtonpost.com)

512 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 481 comments

Washington Post article reporting that about 96% of Boeing union members voted to strike, rejecting a proposed contract with raised pay and benefits.

CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process'(semafor.com)

506 points by everybodyknows 2 years ago | 256 comments

Semafor article in which former CrowdStrike employees describe rising technical errors and weak quality control before the July 2024 global outage.

Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS(mikko-kenttala.medium.com)

427 points by jviide 2 years ago | 152 comments

A Medium write-up describing a zero-click vulnerability chain in macOS triggered by a malicious Calendar invite.

Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned(theverge.com)

404 points by nickcotter 2 years ago | 199 comments

The Verge reports that the entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive resigned after negotiations to spin it out as an independent company broke down.

Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch(reader.tymoon.eu)

396 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 72 comments

A blog post describing the two-year effort to port the SBCL Common Lisp runtime to the Nintendo Switch so the Trial game engine can run on it.

OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought(twitter.com)

394 points by jsheard 2 years ago | 214 comments

A tweet reporting that OpenAI warned a user it would revoke o1 model access after they asked the model about its hidden chain of thought.

My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures(louwrentius.com)

391 points by louwrentius 2 years ago | 271 comments

Blog post reviewing a self-built 71 TiB ZFS NAS with twenty-four 4 TB drives that has run for 10 years without a single drive failure.

Lisp implemented in Rust macros(github.com)

282 points by quasigloam 2 years ago | 73 comments

The Lego Great Ball Contraption(kottke.org)

277 points by mhb 2 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs(github.com)

260 points by coekie 2 years ago | 30 comments

Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption(synacktiv.com)

248 points by alxjsn 2 years ago | 75 comments

Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?(hadijaveed.me)

227 points by hjaveed 2 years ago | 268 comments

Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI(abc.net.au)

219 points by elashri 2 years ago | 233 comments

Who Owns Nebula?(medium.com)

204 points by mintplant 2 years ago | 60 comments

Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography(amazon.science)

199 points by lemaudit 2 years ago | 78 comments

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

185 points by mellonaut 2 years ago | 66 comments

The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning (2023)(ppml.dev)

173 points by rramadass 2 years ago | 30 comments

OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub(arcprize.org)

173 points by z7 2 years ago | 85 comments

Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military(bloomberg.com)

163 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 118 comments

I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription(notes.kateva.org)

148 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 61 comments

The Legend of Holy Sword: An Immersive Experience for Concentration Enhancement(arxiv.org)

125 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 59 comments

Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs(lepisma.xyz)

120 points by adityaathalye 2 years ago | 29 comments

JG Ballard's Apocalyptic Art(newstatesman.com)

108 points by thinkingemote 2 years ago | 29 comments

Using the Topics API (Chrome Only, Opposed by Firefox/Safari)(developer.mozilla.org)

94 points by kreyenborgi 2 years ago | 45 comments

I Added SVG Maps to My Travel Posts(cyberb.space)

93 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 13 comments

US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein(ft.com)

92 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 51 comments

S6 – skarnet's small supervision suite(skarnet.org)

90 points by tosh 2 years ago | 33 comments

Jensen's Inequality as an Intuition Tool (2021)(blog.moontower.ai)

87 points by sebg 2 years ago | 20 comments

Haxe lang – build cross-platform application with fast cross-compiler(haxe.org)

85 points by Alifatisk 2 years ago | 18 comments

Martin Luther King Jr. In Berlin(german-way.com)

85 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 23 comments

Grounding AI in reality with a little help from Data Commons(research.google)

84 points by throwaway888abc 2 years ago | 13 comments

John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams(thisiscolossal.com)

83 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 10 comments

18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World(nytimes.com)

82 points by Fricken 2 years ago | 35 comments

Safe C++(safecpp.org)

79 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000)(lweb.cfa.harvard.edu)

77 points by vinnyglennon 2 years ago | 25 comments

NextNav's Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz(eff.org)

70 points by hn_acker 2 years ago | 18 comments

Throwable tactical camera transmits 360° panoramic thermal images(newatlas.com)

70 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 41 comments

Modular Monoliths Are a Good Idea(materializedview.io)

69 points by riccomini 2 years ago | 43 comments

You're Not Smiling Enough(rubenerd.com)

69 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 29 comments

Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS(jcs.org)

67 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 19 comments

Product Psychology(delightyourusers.com)

67 points by notracks 2 years ago | 7 comments

Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless from iOS 18 Onwards(macobserver.com)

66 points by miles 2 years ago | 44 comments

Scrolling Text Display(technoblogy.com)

65 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 4 comments

CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out(twitter.com)

63 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 39 comments

I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't(xeiaso.net)

60 points by xena 2 years ago | 46 comments

Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)(rfc-editor.org)

60 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 69 comments

Is MathAcademy Worth It? Thoughts After 2k Experience Points (XP)(jonathanwhitmore.com)

57 points by jv22222 2 years ago | 21 comments

Haiku R1/beta5 has been released(haiku-os.org)

54 points by waddlesplash 2 years ago | 1 comments

Mecanum Wheel(en.wikipedia.org)

54 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 23 comments

Ncomm – A node-based robotics framework written in Rust(github.com)

48 points by Tycho87 2 years ago | 25 comments

40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer – and Apple – History(drexel.edu)

44 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 13 comments

Shrinking the economy won't save the planet(vox.com)

42 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 38 comments

Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse(euronews.com)

39 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 38 comments

Computer Languages Timeline [pdf] (2022)(levenez.com)

38 points by archargelod 2 years ago | 10 comments

PGVector's Missing Features(trieve.ai)

38 points by skeptrune 2 years ago | 6 comments

Unicode 16 now includes retro video game sprites [pdf](unicode.org)

34 points by qingcharles 2 years ago | 39 comments

Music Industry's 1990s Hard Drives Are Dying(arstechnica.com)

31 points by m463 2 years ago | 27 comments

User-Space Interrupts (2021)(lwn.net)

31 points by hyperbrainer 2 years ago | 3 comments

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)(publicdomainreview.org)

28 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 2 comments

Pico-ASHA: USB audio to ASHA adapter(github.com)

28 points by madspindel 2 years ago | 7 comments