Hacker News on Sunday, 20 October 2024

Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories(hnup.date)

581 points by yunusabd 2 years ago | 173 comments

HN Update is a web player for an hourly AI-generated audio news broadcast summarizing top Hacker News stories.

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens(bleepingcomputer.com)

467 points by vladyslavfox 2 years ago | 300 comments

BleepingComputer news article reporting that the Internet Archive was breached again by attackers using stolen access tokens.

Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations(bloomberg.com)

412 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 859 comments

Bloomberg feature examining whether AI-writing detectors work and how students are being falsely accused of cheating with AI.

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)(cs.cmu.edu)

341 points by virtualwhys 2 years ago | 109 comments

Andy Pavlo blog post from April 2023 criticizing PostgreSQL's multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation and its drawbacks.

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published(polygon.com)

331 points by musha68k 2 years ago | 94 comments

Polygon article about the publication of GHQ, a long-lost wargame board game designed by author Kurt Vonnegut, including a publisher interview.

WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator(wifi-solver.com)

321 points by jasmcole 2 years ago | 82 comments

Wifi Solver is a browser-based WebGPU simulation that visualizes WiFi signal propagation from a router, running live on the user's device.

Syncthing Android App Discontinued(forum.syncthing.net)

314 points by opengears 2 years ago | 181 comments

Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems(github.com)

314 points by benocodes 2 years ago | 54 comments

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products(techcrunch.com)

250 points by alephnerd 2 years ago | 129 comments

Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

249 points by reverseCh 2 years ago | 344 comments

The AI Investment Boom(apricitas.io)

246 points by m-hodges 2 years ago | 337 comments

How to do distributed locking (2016)(martin.kleppmann.com)

230 points by yusufaytas 2 years ago | 94 comments

The IPv6 Transition(potaroo.net)

192 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 293 comments

The best darn grid shader yet (2023)(bgolus.medium.com)

191 points by eliasylonen 2 years ago | 18 comments

Using Euro coins as weights (2004)(rubinghscience.org)

176 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 169 comments

Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary(lists.ubuntu.com)

166 points by aquova 2 years ago | 78 comments

Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI(github.com)

163 points by arthurtakeda 2 years ago | 61 comments

Sampling with SQL(blog.moertel.com)

162 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments

VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack(versatiles.org)

159 points by moooo99 2 years ago | 17 comments

Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time(sciencedirect.com)

132 points by andrewstetsenko 2 years ago | 42 comments

The Ultimate Conditional Syntax(dl.acm.org)

127 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 38 comments

Mind Wandering: More than a Bad Habit (2018) [pdf](labs.psych.ucsb.edu)

127 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 68 comments

Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages(nolanlawson.com)

127 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 219 comments

Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018)(aphelis.net)

116 points by hyperific 2 years ago | 52 comments

C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets(c-motive.com)

111 points by Jeff_Brown 2 years ago | 48 comments

David Lynch Interview Project(youtube.com)

94 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 18 comments

What docs-as-code means(passo.uno)

87 points by remoquete 2 years ago | 94 comments

The useful use of cat(mrmr.io)

84 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 86 comments

A New Artificial Intelligence Tool for Cancer(hms.harvard.edu)

81 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 34 comments

A Console-Friendly Pastebin with binary support(paste.c-net.org)

81 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 43 comments

The history of the barcode(bbc.com)

78 points by belter 2 years ago | 23 comments

Why Surgeons Are Wearing the Apple Vision Pro in Operating Rooms(time.com)

74 points by williamstein 2 years ago | 54 comments

Learn Rust the Dangerous Way(cliffle.com)

70 points by davikr 2 years ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Semantic Macros Text Editor(samtxt.samrawal.com)

62 points by zora_goron 2 years ago | 16 comments

Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Change (2016)(journals.plos.org)

60 points by sandwichsphinx 2 years ago | 19 comments

Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS(tonyfinn.com)

59 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 46 comments

All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication(phys.org)

59 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 7 comments

Bumblebee queens choose to hibernate in pesticide-contaminated soil(phys.org)

57 points by andai 2 years ago | 18 comments

The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint(theregister.com)

55 points by amichail 2 years ago | 35 comments

Machine conquest: Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking(cambridge.org)

54 points by johntfella 2 years ago | 61 comments

If you're curious why every username is a domain, it's because users are sites(bsky.app)

54 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 38 comments

Performance of popular microcontroller boards running uLisp(ulisp.com)

50 points by tosh 2 years ago | 10 comments

What Color is Your Function? (2015)(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

48 points by adunk 2 years ago | 46 comments

Sabotage evaluations for frontier models(anthropic.com)

48 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 4 comments

DawVert – a DAW project file converter(github.com)

47 points by SatyrDiamond 2 years ago | 15 comments

Paranormasight: A Game Exploring the Depths of Honjo in Tokyo(boilingsteam.com)

46 points by ekianjo 2 years ago | 7 comments

Irreproducible Results (2011)(kk.org)

44 points by fsagx 2 years ago | 19 comments

Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fermi paradox(sciencedirect.com)

35 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 38 comments

1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates(intelligent.com)

31 points by Raed667 2 years ago | 37 comments

Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's(twitter.com)

30 points by drones 2 years ago | 21 comments

Apple's macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position(theverge.com)

29 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 35 comments

When machines could see you(dnlserrano.dev)

26 points by dnlserrano 2 years ago | 1 comments

World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating(news.sky.com)

24 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Mad Files(tabletmag.com)

21 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 3 comments

Why computational predictive toxicology is hard(owlposting.com)

21 points by abhishaike 2 years ago | 9 comments

Janus: Decoupling Visual Encoding for Multimodal Understanding and Generation(github.com)

21 points by jinqueeny 2 years ago | 3 comments

The World’s $100T Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking(bloomberg.com)

21 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 39 comments

RRR: A Succinct Rank/Select Index for Bit Vectors (2011)(alexbowe.com)

20 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 0 comments

Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then?(azhdarchid.com)

20 points by MrVandemar 2 years ago | 9 comments

Microsoft asking us to buy new Windows 11 PCs is wasteful(xda-developers.com)

20 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 7 comments