Hacker News on Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Why wordfreq will not be updated(github.com)

1620 points by tomthe 2 years ago | 483 comments

SUNSET.md in the wordfreq GitHub repository explaining why the word-frequency dataset, a snapshot through 2021, will no longer be updated.

Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC(timculpan.substack.com)

1566 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 798 comments

Tim Culpan's Substack newsletter post reporting that TSMC's Arizona fab has begun producing Apple's A16 mobile processors on its 5nm process.

Is Tor still safe to use?(blog.torproject.org)

727 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2 years ago | 505 comments

Tor Project blog post from September 2024 addressing whether Tor remains safe to use following reports of deanonymization attacks.

HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?(shkspr.mobi)

410 points by edent 2 years ago | 111 comments

Terence Eden blog post exploring the obscure dict: URL scheme and DICT dictionary server protocol found in an old codebase regex.

Comic Mono(dtinth.github.io)

382 points by rootforce 2 years ago | 101 comments

Download page for Comic Mono, a legible monospace font forked from Shannon Miwa's Comic Shanns, with TTF downloads and a list of differences.

LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool(twitter.com)

382 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 209 comments

A post on X by Rachel Tobac saying LinkedIn is using users' content to train its AI tools; the post content did not load.

Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly(github.com)

381 points by zlwaterfield 2 years ago | 153 comments

GitHub repository for Scramble, an open-source, MIT-licensed browser extension that offers Grammarly-like writing help using OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini.

GPU Puzzles(github.com)

345 points by cgadski 2 years ago | 35 comments

GitHub repository by Sasha Rush offering interactive puzzles in a notebook for learning CUDA GPU programming.

Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue(github.com)

331 points by gkucsko 2 years ago | 56 comments

GitHub repository for Kyutai Labs' Moshi, a speech-text foundation model for real-time spoken dialogue, with Python, MLX, Rust, and client code.

Llama 3.1 Omni Model(github.com)

284 points by taikon 2 years ago | 36 comments

Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting(knhash.in)

276 points by kn81198 2 years ago | 112 comments

Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray(theregister.com)

276 points by rntn 2 years ago | 246 comments

Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc(nintendo.co.jp)

275 points by monocasa 2 years ago | 212 comments

0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced(districtcon.org)

255 points by winnona 2 years ago | 146 comments

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning(futurism.com)

248 points by EgoIncarnate 2 years ago | 186 comments

CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)(pscbc.blogspot.com)

246 points by jer0me 2 years ago | 172 comments

RabbitMQ 4.0(github.com)

238 points by rhodin 2 years ago | 101 comments

A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM(github.com)

221 points by wspeirs 2 years ago | 76 comments

Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy(theguardian.com)

213 points by n1b0m 2 years ago | 122 comments

Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls(eff.org)

208 points by speckx 2 years ago | 45 comments

Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta(engineering.fb.com)

207 points by Maro 2 years ago | 107 comments

Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail(crowdwave.com)

183 points by andrewstuart 2 years ago | 98 comments

AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds(cbc.ca)

174 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 140 comments

Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"(twitter.com)

171 points by alexandercheema 2 years ago | 78 comments

Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran(gitlab.com)

167 points by doruk101 2 years ago | 107 comments

GM electric vehicles can now access Tesla Superchargers(theverge.com)

166 points by ivewonyoung 2 years ago | 194 comments

Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain(jamanetwork.com)

159 points by hindsightbias 2 years ago | 160 comments

Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models(qwenlm.github.io)

155 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 33 comments

Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks(ssoready.com)

154 points by ucarion 2 years ago | 76 comments

Things I've learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation(simonwillison.net)

151 points by rednafi 2 years ago | 60 comments

PeerTube 6.3(joinpeertube.org)

151 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System(github.com)

144 points by journal 2 years ago | 33 comments

Hezbollah hand-held radios explode, killing three, one day after pager blasts(reuters.com)

133 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 132 comments

Tiny Tapeout VGA Playground(tinytapeout.github.io)

132 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 12 comments

26-Year-Old EY Employee Succumbs to 'Work Stress' Four Months After Joining(old.reddit.com)

126 points by shscs911 2 years ago | 61 comments

Lichess: Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime(lichess.org)

111 points by jpablo 2 years ago | 19 comments

Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone(macrumors.com)

108 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 97 comments

iOS 18 breaks IMAPS self-signed certs(forums.developer.apple.com)

107 points by mmd45 2 years ago | 124 comments

Show HN: Parse your Postgres queries into a fully-typed AST in TypeScript(github.com)

106 points by aleclarsoniv 2 years ago | 17 comments

Knowledge graphs using Ollama and Embeddings to answer and visualizing queries(github.com)

97 points by punnerud 2 years ago | 8 comments

Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API(omarshehata.substack.com)

97 points by OmarShehata 2 years ago | 72 comments

Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains(cbc.ca)

93 points by curmudgeon22 2 years ago | 57 comments

Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?

92 points by wruza 2 years ago | 40 comments

Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out(github.com)

90 points by schaum 2 years ago | 24 comments

J2ME-Loader: J2ME emulator for Android devices(github.com)

84 points by flykespice 2 years ago | 42 comments

Large Text Compression Benchmark(mattmahoney.net)

83 points by redeux 2 years ago | 48 comments

Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks(github.com)

79 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 57 comments

Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)(olivergrimsley.com)

78 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 92 comments

Asgard launches world's first DDR5-9600 DIMMs(tomshardware.com)

71 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 40 comments

The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame(gq.com)

71 points by divbzero 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Selectable – mobile-friendly Postgres client(getselectable.com)

68 points by yen223 2 years ago | 25 comments

IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says(theregister.com)

65 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 47 comments

Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again(github.com)

65 points by Telemaco019 2 years ago | 39 comments

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)(jakepoz.com)

64 points by edward 2 years ago | 19 comments

The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry(soatok.blog)

63 points by gmemstr 2 years ago | 49 comments

Restish: CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features(rest.sh)

56 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 4 comments

Crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator(arstechnica.com)

56 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 14 comments

Compile and Run C in JavaScript(bun.sh)

55 points by ekosz 2 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack(selectric.io)

55 points by adityawasudeo 2 years ago | 52 comments

Backlash over Amazon's return to office comes as workers demand higher wages(arstechnica.com)

54 points by rntn 2 years ago | 43 comments