Hacker News on Thursday, 26 September 2024

OpenAI to become for-profit company(reuters.com)

1239 points by jspann 2 years ago | 668 comments

News report that OpenAI plans to remove nonprofit control and become a for-profit company, giving Sam Altman equity; the captured page shows a captcha.

Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake(theatlantic.com)

1229 points by jimbob45 2 years ago | 1081 comments

An Atlantic Ideas essay by Charles Fain Lehman arguing that legalizing sports gambling was a mistake because the betting industry is harming lives.

Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate(samcurry.net)

543 points by speckx 2 years ago | 320 comments

Sam Curry's writeup on Kia web vulnerabilities that allowed remotely controlling vehicle functions using only a license plate number.

WordPress.org bans WP Engine(techcrunch.com)

510 points by openplatypus 2 years ago | 424 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that WordPress.org banned WP Engine and blocked it from accessing WordPress.org resources.

PostgreSQL 17(postgresql.org)

493 points by jkatz05 2 years ago | 102 comments

Official PostgreSQL news announcement of the PostgreSQL 17 release on September 26, 2024.

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS(evilsocket.net)

385 points by NetBender 2 years ago | 280 comments

Security researcher evilsocket's writeup of a remote code execution attack on GNU/Linux and UNIX systems via CUPS and cups-browsed, plus notes on the disclosure process.

Tcl 9.0(tcl-lang.org)

359 points by bch 2 years ago | 182 comments

Tcl Developer Xchange release page for Tcl/Tk 9.0.0 (Sep 26, 2024), listing highlights like 64-bit capacity, full Unicode, and zip filesystems.

U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction(torrentfreak.com)

348 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 329 comments

News article on a U.S. court ordering pirate library LibGen to pay $30 million to publishers and issuing a broad injunction against its domains.

Rewriting Rust(josephg.com)

298 points by yett 2 years ago | 294 comments

DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says(arstechnica.com)

289 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 192 comments

Our Android app is frozen in carbonite(ia.net)

272 points by zdw 2 years ago | 116 comments

End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images(usgs.gov)

258 points by Qqqwxs 2 years ago | 45 comments

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes(nature.com)

247 points by user070223 2 years ago | 35 comments

NKRYPT Sculpture(meme.net.au)

239 points by goles 2 years ago | 8 comments

Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships(construction-physics.com)

208 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 252 comments

Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C(jorenar.com)

177 points by rramadass 2 years ago | 54 comments

A pilot project in universal algebra to explore new ways to collaborate(terrytao.wordpress.com)

169 points by anothermathbozo 2 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Cronexpr, a Rust library to parse and iter crontab expression(docs.rs)

151 points by tison 2 years ago | 30 comments

Vanilla OS 2: an immutable distribution to run all software(lwn.net)

150 points by signa11 2 years ago | 43 comments

Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?(allthingsopen.org)

146 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 49 comments

Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"(old.reddit.com)

140 points by upwardbound 2 years ago | 27 comments

New standards for a faster and more private Internet(blog.cloudflare.com)

129 points by terrelln 2 years ago | 54 comments

AWS Nitro Enclaves: Attack Surface(blog.trailofbits.com)

127 points by ingve 2 years ago | 13 comments

FCC unlocks spectrum to support advanced satellite services(fcc.gov)

124 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 62 comments

Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs(arxiv.org)

121 points by some_furry 2 years ago | 113 comments

X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier(theverge.com)

118 points by jeromegv 2 years ago | 51 comments

From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign(jwn.gr)

116 points by jwngr 2 years ago | 74 comments

Nardwuar on his best and worst interviews(vulture.com)

115 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 35 comments

OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once(theregister.com)

102 points by gsky 2 years ago | 63 comments

Behind OpenAI's plan to make A.I. flow like electricity(nytimes.com)

99 points by typon 2 years ago | 116 comments

Italian Music Through the Lens of Complex Networks(michelecoscia.com)

98 points by mikk14 2 years ago | 17 comments

BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software(bookstackapp.com)

77 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 12 comments

Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI(thedebrief.org)

74 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira(ehandbook.com)

72 points by thecosas 2 years ago | 96 comments

Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?(cacm.acm.org)

69 points by zdw 2 years ago | 70 comments

Swift/Java interoperability tools and libraries(twitter.com)

66 points by timsneath 2 years ago | 17 comments

Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug(wired.com)

63 points by marban 2 years ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it

62 points by throwaway844535 2 years ago | 43 comments

Galaxy Buds reportedly exploded in a user's ear causing permanent hearing loss(androidpolice.com)

61 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 62 comments

Critical Mass and Tipping Points(fs.blog)

61 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 29 comments

WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after 'cybersecurity incident'(theguardian.com)

60 points by chrisjj 2 years ago | 54 comments

Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone: Report(newsweek.com)

58 points by HiroProtagonist 2 years ago | 23 comments

When Insurers Exit (2023) [pdf](hbs.edu)

55 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 28 comments

Rents Fall and Listings Increase After Milei Ends Rent Control in Argentina(msn.com)

55 points by cbeach 2 years ago | 24 comments

Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos(twitter.com)

52 points by tantalor 2 years ago | 15 comments

Register Allocation in the Go Compiler(developers.redhat.com)

49 points by jnord 2 years ago | 3 comments

Incident: Wordpress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from registry(wpenginestatus.com)

42 points by _morgs_ 2 years ago | 24 comments

Twitter banned me after publishing the JD Vance Dossier(kenklippenstein.com)

42 points by slantedview 2 years ago | 5 comments

OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Shift(bloomberg.com)

40 points by dataminer 2 years ago | 31 comments

RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Cups(gist.github.com)

39 points by bramhaag 2 years ago | 4 comments

LG TVs Start Showing Ads on Screensavers(arstechnica.com)

35 points by m463 2 years ago | 37 comments

Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles(arstechnica.com)

34 points by ra7 2 years ago | 25 comments

Sam Altman tells staff there’s no plan for him to receive ‘giant equity stake’(cnbc.com)

32 points by donsupreme 2 years ago | 48 comments

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO, 3-in-4 want to jump ship(theregister.com)

32 points by taubek 2 years ago | 9 comments

Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can't Save Them(wired.com)

31 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 35 comments

A coffee table that walks(core77.com)

27 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group(horg.com)

26 points by ChuckMcM 2 years ago | 9 comments

A new Llama-based model for efficient large-scale voice generation(github.com)

21 points by BuildWithMason 2 years ago | 7 comments

In the Shack with Robert Caro(curbed.com)

21 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 17 comments

Teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment. Debate ensues(businessinsider.com)

20 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments