Hacker News on Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Internet Archive: Security breach alert(theverge.com)

1029 points by ewenjo 2 years ago | 564 comments

The Verge reports the Internet Archive suffered a breach exposing info for 31 million accounts amid days of DDoS attacks, revealed via a popup message.

Dookie Demastered(dookiedemastered.com)

750 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 192 comments

Promotional site for Dookie Demastered, a release of Green Day's 1994 album Dookie on obsolete or novelty media formats like floppy disks and toys.

Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction(nobelprize.org)

510 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 287 comments

Official Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press release announcing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.

US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case(ft.com)

418 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 689 comments

Financial Times article reporting that the US government is considering seeking a break-up of Google in its landmark antitrust case.

Conway's Gradient of Life(hardmath123.github.io)

377 points by networked 2 years ago | 40 comments

Blog post describing how to approximately find predecessor states of a Conway's Game of Life board using differentiable automata and gradient descent.

Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key(beeps.website)

370 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 220 comments

Blog post explaining why the GOV.UK Design System's Exit this Page component uses a Shift-key shortcut rather than the Escape key.

Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees(twitter.com)

311 points by Melchizedek 2 years ago | 226 comments

Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models(arxiv.org)

298 points by InvisibleUp 2 years ago | 110 comments

Turkish language has a gossip tense(twitter.com)

249 points by sedatk 2 years ago | 196 comments

An n-ball Between n-balls(arnaldur.be)

234 points by Hugsun 2 years ago | 54 comments

Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval(theguardian.com)

211 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 504 comments

Proposal: JavaScript Structs(github.com)

210 points by Kholin 2 years ago | 310 comments

Show HN: I made an SSH tunnel manager to learn Go(github.com)

192 points by 0x12A 2 years ago | 59 comments

Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices(arstechnica.com)

190 points by lisper 2 years ago | 152 comments

You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth(cacm.acm.org)

185 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 83 comments

Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP(github.com)

183 points by kevmo314 2 years ago | 35 comments

Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go(github.com)

161 points by andrearaponi12 2 years ago | 89 comments

On 17th century "cocaine"(resobscura.substack.com)

154 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 181 comments

Bridge to Nowhere(depth-first.com)

152 points by egorpv 2 years ago | 82 comments

The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from Leiden University(library.universiteitleiden.nl)

151 points by gpvos 2 years ago | 46 comments

Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US(levels.fyi)

150 points by zuhayeer 2 years ago | 103 comments

What Is LibreDrive (2019)(forum.makemkv.com)

146 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 33 comments

PEP 760: No more bare excepts(discuss.python.org)

140 points by ayhanfuat 2 years ago | 303 comments

Show HN: FinetuneDB – AI fine-tuning platform to create custom LLMs(finetunedb.com)

136 points by felix089 2 years ago | 64 comments

My negative views on Rust (2023)(chrisdone.com)

135 points by rc00 2 years ago | 145 comments

Putting a full power search engine in Ecto(moosie.us)

133 points by philippemnoel 2 years ago | 24 comments

Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 [video](youtube.com)

125 points by moose44 2 years ago | 10 comments

Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)(antirez.com)

120 points by drudru 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing(donobu.com)

116 points by wewtyflakes 2 years ago | 29 comments

OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers(ft.com)

108 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 55 comments

Command Line Tools I Like (2022)(rwblickhan.org)

98 points by yu3zhou4 2 years ago | 42 comments

Miqt: MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go(github.com)

97 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 65 comments

The human internet is dying. AI images are taking over Google top results(old.reddit.com)

96 points by botanical 2 years ago | 64 comments

A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy(blog.mozilla.org)

94 points by nalinidash 2 years ago | 72 comments

Geoffrey Hinton says he's proud Ilya Sutskever 'fired Sam Altman'(techcrunch.com)

93 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 2 comments

Wordpress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation with WP Engine to Log In(404media.co)

88 points by notamy 2 years ago | 56 comments

Why the ISO format has to die(easyos.org)

82 points by auraham 2 years ago | 71 comments

Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers learned?(illinoisfishinghub.com)

82 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries(itineraries.io)

79 points by samaralihussain 2 years ago | 57 comments

Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) Basics(te.com)

79 points by userbinator 2 years ago | 18 comments

Io_uring and seccomp (2022)(blog.0x74696d.com)

72 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 23 comments

Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs(gizmodo.com)

67 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 28 comments

Your brain changes based on what you did two weeks ago(newsweek.com)

67 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 15 comments

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake(phoronix.com)

66 points by marcodiego 2 years ago | 23 comments

Gboard double-sided version(landing.google.co.jp)

65 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 9 comments

Analyzing New Unique Identifier Formats (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8)(blog.scaledcode.com)

60 points by futurecat 2 years ago | 46 comments

Google threatened with being broken up by US(bbc.com)

59 points by christhecaribou 2 years ago | 50 comments

Should we be thinking about luck differently?(theguardian.com)

56 points by daverol 2 years ago | 39 comments

Python and SysV Shared Memory(euroquis.nl)

55 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 5 comments

Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life"(twitter.com)

54 points by vintagedave 2 years ago | 39 comments

How Waffle House helps Southerners and FEMA judge a storm's severity(apnews.com)

52 points by geox 2 years ago | 24 comments

The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles(bbc.com)

47 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 18 comments

Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error(til.simonwillison.net)

45 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 36 comments

For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies(news.mongabay.com)

44 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 14 comments

Wealth Distribution in the United States(righto.com)

43 points by ssklash 2 years ago | 39 comments

A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide(taylor.town)

41 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 15 comments

Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare(businessinsider.com)

37 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 39 comments

Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for Clang tooling(github.com)

36 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 15 comments

The Open Source AI Definition RC1 Is Available for Comments(opensource.org)

36 points by foxbee 2 years ago | 15 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service(owlposting.com)

35 points by abhishaike 2 years ago | 14 comments