Hacker News on Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone(ssoready.com)

1051 points by noleary 2 years ago | 424 comments

SSOReady engineering blog post explaining a conceptual model of timezones by examining the weirdest ones, such as Australia/Lord_Howe's 30-minute DST shift.

Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages(gamingonlinux.com)

868 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 595 comments

GamingOnLinux news article reporting that Valve now requires Steam games to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on their store pages.

M4 MacBook Pro(apple.com)

830 points by tosh 2 years ago | 1172 comments

Apple press release from October 30, 2024 announcing the new MacBook Pro with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, a 12MP Center Stage camera, Thunderbolt 5, and a nano-texture display option.

Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI(businessinsider.com)

567 points by S0y 2 years ago | 912 comments

Business Insider article reporting Google CEO Sundar Pichai's statement that over a quarter of Google's new code is generated by AI, from Q3 2024 earnings.

Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid(theatlantic.com)

421 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 733 comments

The Atlantic article arguing black plastic spatulas may leach flame-retardant chemicals into cooking oil and should be thrown out.

OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it(despairlabs.com)

421 points by type0 2 years ago | 203 comments

Blog post by a Klara developer explaining OpenZFS 2.3.0's new Fast Dedup feature and why most users still shouldn't enable deduplication.

Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction(blog.dropbox.com)

405 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 702 comments

Dropbox company blog post from CEO Drew Houston announcing a 20% reduction of its global workforce.

Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf](ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov)

361 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Second Circuit Court of Appeals opinion (case 23-6181) holding that Google's terms of service do not eliminate a user's Fourth Amendment privacy rights.

Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse(arxiv.org)

352 points by benocodes 2 years ago | 229 comments

arXiv paper examining tasks where chain-of-thought prompting reduces LLM performance, drawing on cases where deliberation hurts human performance.

NandGame – Build a computer from scratch(nandgame.com)

312 points by OuterVale 2 years ago | 47 comments

Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques(30fps.net)

308 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 63 comments

It might be possible to detect gravitons after all(quantamagazine.org)

242 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 138 comments

Pushing the frontiers of audio generation(deepmind.google)

229 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 99 comments

Crafting Painterly Shaders(blog.maximeheckel.com)

227 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 18 comments

Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell(github.com)

226 points by ocean_moist 2 years ago | 86 comments

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause(scitechdaily.com)

223 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 143 comments

SimpleQA(openai.com)

216 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 76 comments

Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video](youtube.com)

215 points by PotatoNinja 2 years ago | 184 comments

The inventor of the automatic rice cooker(spectrum.ieee.org)

207 points by jnord 2 years ago | 174 comments

Async Rust is not safe with io_uring(tonbo.io)

178 points by ethegwo 2 years ago | 123 comments

Gross Apple Marketing(jonathanbuys.com)

173 points by mrzool 2 years ago | 162 comments

AI Flame Graphs(brendangregg.com)

170 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 31 comments

The carefulness knob(surfingcomplexity.blog)

168 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 112 comments

Generative AI Scripting(microsoft.github.io)

162 points by baublet 2 years ago | 38 comments

Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web(build.shepherd.com)

160 points by bwb 2 years ago | 110 comments

Democratising publishing(john.onolan.org)

159 points by mxstbr 2 years ago | 43 comments

Thunderbird for Android Now Available(blog.thunderbird.net)

157 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 63 comments

1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community(infoq.com)

152 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals(aiomnigen.com)

152 points by lcorinst 2 years ago | 41 comments

Jaywalking legalized in New York City(theguardian.com)

151 points by Thomashuet 2 years ago | 183 comments

DeepSeek v2.5 – open-source LLM comparable to GPT-4, but 95% less expensive(deepseek.com)

149 points by jchook 2 years ago | 41 comments

Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart(sophiebits.com)

145 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 62 comments

EPA cancels pesticide shown to be harmful to unborn babies(thenewlede.org)

140 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 83 comments

The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store(palant.info)

137 points by supermatou 2 years ago | 30 comments

Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation(adsknews.autodesk.com)

134 points by bx376 2 years ago | 14 comments

Eighteen Years of ABI Stability(daniel.haxx.se)

132 points by TangerineDream 2 years ago | 48 comments

CFPB finalizes personal financial data rights rule(eff.org)

119 points by hn_acker 2 years ago | 51 comments

Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly(garethx.com)

118 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 17 comments

The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes(thecookscook.com)

116 points by classichasclass 2 years ago | 124 comments

LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations(arxiv.org)

113 points by benocodes 2 years ago | 96 comments

Math and puzzle fans find magic in Martin Gardner's legacy(scientificamerican.com)

112 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 47 comments

Sets, types and type checking(kaleidawave.github.io)

99 points by kaleidawave 2 years ago | 20 comments

Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite(gaultier.github.io)

99 points by broken_broken_ 2 years ago | 27 comments

Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments

97 points by JakeVacovec 2 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: LlamaPReview – AI GitHub PR reviewer that learns your codebase(github.com)

88 points by Jet_Xu 2 years ago | 28 comments

Cheap solar panels are changing the world(theatlantic.com)

85 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 90 comments

Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling(astral.sh)

71 points by hunvreus 2 years ago | 35 comments

ThunderKittens: Simple, fast, and adorable AI kernels(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

66 points by lnyan 2 years ago | 8 comments

Representing web applications as knowledge graphs(arxiv.org)

66 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 7 comments

BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time(ft.com)

65 points by leto_ii 2 years ago | 62 comments

Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills(theregister.com)

62 points by rntn 2 years ago | 17 comments

Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry (2023)(every.to)

59 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 26 comments

Algorithmic Music Generation with Python(github.com)

58 points by lapnect 2 years ago | 16 comments

INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause(stackoverflow.com)

56 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 33 comments

Pg_analytics is now PostgreSQL Licensed(github.com)

55 points by philippemnoel 2 years ago | 8 comments

A Serious Man: On Bruno Latour(jhiblog.org)

54 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 45 comments

Nulls: Revisiting null representation in modern columnar formats(dl.acm.org)

50 points by tosh 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized(quantamagazine.org)

46 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 11 comments

Apple Introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max(apple.com)

46 points by griffinli 2 years ago | 12 comments

Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results(hamel.dev)

43 points by thenameless7741 2 years ago | 4 comments