Hacker News on Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon(reuters.com)

946 points by logicchains 2 years ago | 2141 comments

Reuters news report on pager explosions in Lebanon that killed several people and wounded Hezbollah members; the page shows a bot-check captcha.

Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode(timesofisrael.com)

665 points by FridayoLeary 2 years ago | 657 comments

Times of Israel liveblog entry reporting dozens of Hezbollah members seriously injured in Beirut when devices exploded in an alleged Israeli operation.

Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board(investors.23andme.com)

616 points by LarsDu88 2 years ago | 341 comments

A 23andMe investor relations press release announcing that the company's independent directors have resigned from its board.

macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption(obdev.at)

518 points by HelenePhisher 2 years ago | 185 comments

Objective Development blog post warning that macOS Sequoia 15 may send DNS queries unencrypted, bypassing configured DNS encryption.

Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.(github.com)

465 points by bukacdan 2 years ago | 52 comments

GitHub repository for ripgrep-all (rga), a tool extending ripgrep to search inside PDFs, e-books, Office documents, and archives like zip and tar.gz.

Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra(downtowndougbrown.com)

449 points by miles 2 years ago | 84 comments

Blog post by Doug Brown describing diagnosing and repairing a broken Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device, including firmware reverse engineering with Ghidra.

Swift 6(swift.org)

330 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 225 comments

Official Swift.org blog post announcing the general availability of Swift 6, covering low-level features, Embedded Swift, Linux/Windows support, and Swift Testing.

GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java(graalvm.org)

304 points by fniephaus 2 years ago | 126 comments

Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative(voideditor.com)

298 points by andrewpareles 2 years ago | 132 comments

The centrality of stupidity in mathematics(mathforlove.com)

256 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 150 comments

Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash(indystar.com)

248 points by Drunk_Engineer 2 years ago | 179 comments

Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough(quoteinvestigator.com)

245 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 107 comments

Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone(github.com)

238 points by ductionist 2 years ago | 75 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers(shikaan.github.io)

230 points by shikaan 2 years ago | 39 comments

OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code(jeremymorrell.dev)

213 points by masterj 2 years ago | 28 comments

Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video](youtube.com)

211 points by asimpletune 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy(conversableeconomist.com)

209 points by speckx 2 years ago | 182 comments

Why to Not Write a Book(gwern.net)

195 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 158 comments

Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated(mcgill.ca)

175 points by Gadiguibou 2 years ago | 113 comments

Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)(github.com)

174 points by danso 2 years ago | 48 comments

WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image(kovenyu.com)

169 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 17 comments

Things you should know about Windows Input, but would rather not(ph3at.github.io)

149 points by w4rh4wk5 2 years ago | 88 comments

Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres(github.com)

147 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 41 comments

Rio: Web apps in pure Python(github.com)

144 points by doppp 2 years ago | 123 comments

Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization(twitter.com)

141 points by Apocryphon 2 years ago | 82 comments

47-year-old Voyager 1 fired up thrusters it hasn't used in decades(cnn.com)

137 points by 5F7bGnd6fWJ66xN 2 years ago | 49 comments

Scientists find new blood group after 50-year mystery(bbc.com)

134 points by tomrod 2 years ago | 10 comments

What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy

129 points by aws_throwaway 2 years ago | 98 comments

Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December(techcrunch.com)

126 points by rglullis 2 years ago | 77 comments

Launch HN: Marblism (YC W24) – Generate full-stack web apps from a prompt

122 points by umussetu 2 years ago | 84 comments

Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations(github.com)

118 points by jasonwcfan 2 years ago | 67 comments

Signatures of gravitational atoms from black hole mergers(physics.aps.org)

110 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 53 comments

TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast(chatgpt.com)

105 points by ofou 2 years ago | 67 comments

A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class(longreads.com)

105 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 118 comments

In 1926, TV Was Mechanical(spectrum.ieee.org)

105 points by jnord 2 years ago | 32 comments

GPU Debug Scopes(wunkolo.github.io)

93 points by qsantos 2 years ago | 6 comments

Cold war spy satellites and AI detect ancient underground aqueducts(newscientist.com)

88 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 13 comments

A Curried Composition Puzzle(franklin.dyer.me)

83 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 11 comments

Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'(fortune.com)

83 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 54 comments

Pixtral 12B(mistral.ai)

82 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 13 comments

Rustpad is an efficient and minimal open-source collaborative text editor(github.com)

79 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 11 comments

Race conditions in Linux Kernel perf events(binarygecko.com)

72 points by signa11 2 years ago | 12 comments

Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems(twitter.com)

69 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 31 comments

Machine Learning Model Homotopy(win-vector.com)

63 points by jmount 2 years ago | 10 comments

An interactive core memory electronic kit(core64.io)

59 points by eigenhombre 2 years ago | 3 comments

IBM acquires Kubecost(newsroom.ibm.com)

59 points by ludikoff 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Opik, an open source LLM evaluation framework(github.com)

57 points by calebkaiser 2 years ago | 9 comments

Lightweight radio transmitters on birds, bats and insects(smithsonianmag.com)

56 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 18 comments

Advice on Reading Homer in Translation(talesoftimesforgotten.com)

54 points by Khaine 2 years ago | 39 comments

The theft of a Churchill portrait(thewalrus.ca)

54 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 23 comments

Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center(vsquare.org)

50 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 7 comments

We are self-hosting our GPUs(gumlet.com)

45 points by adityapatadia 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Will I run Boston 2025?(getfast.ai)

42 points by tmulc 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why is it so hard to go back to the moon?(scientificamerican.com)

41 points by ajd2201 2 years ago | 38 comments

The making of Four Laps – a looping video about looping videos (2021)(medium.com)

36 points by wonger_ 2 years ago | 6 comments

Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits(rockefeller.edu)

35 points by marc__1 2 years ago | 43 comments

Our digital lives need data centers. What goes on inside them?(washingtonpost.com)

32 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: Help me restore the LCD displays on classic samplers so I can use them

31 points by ThinkBeat 2 years ago | 37 comments

BeOS inspired Haiku R1/beta5 is out(haiku-os.org)

30 points by Aldipower 2 years ago | 5 comments

Cloudflare Network Issues Affecting Service Reachability(cloudflarestatus.com)

29 points by RyeCombinator 2 years ago | 4 comments