Hacker News on Monday, 18 November 2024

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome(bloomberg.com)

1052 points by redm 1 year ago | 1198 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that the US Justice Department will push Google to sell its Chrome browser to break its search monopoly, plus data licensing and AI measures.

Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

571 points by huntaub 1 year ago | 308 comments

Launch HN post introducing Regatta Storage, a pay-as-you-go cloud file system that caches and syncs S3 data with local-like POSIX performance.

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted(cnn.com)

520 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 897 comments

CNN news article reporting that an undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland in the Baltic Sea was taken out of service by a mysterious fault.

Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank(github.com)

441 points by liukidar 1 year ago | 115 comments

GitHub repository for Fast GraphRAG, an open-source RAG framework using knowledge graphs and personalized PageRank for retrieval.

Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science(reason.com)

405 points by Bostonian 1 year ago | 746 comments

Reason opinion piece by Jesse Singal arguing that Scientific American's departing editor made the magazine ideologically biased, undermining trust in science.

20 years of Google Scholar(blog.google)

391 points by thepuppet33r 1 year ago | 171 comments

Google blog post marking Google Scholar's 20th anniversary with 20 facts about the academic search engine, written by its engineers Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya.

Reactive HTML Notebooks(maxbo.me)

342 points by california-og 1 year ago | 50 comments

Blog post by Max Bo arguing that a single HTML file can serve as a reactive notebook for scientific data exploration, typesetting, and distribution.

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)(michaels.world)

313 points by blindgeek 1 year ago | 220 comments

We are shutting down Ondsel(ondsel.com)

284 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 139 comments

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server(mailcatcher.me)

279 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 87 comments

A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor(joshtumath.uk)

276 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 115 comments

Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming(tips.io)

257 points by TIPSIO 1 year ago | 59 comments

Bayesian Neural Networks(cs.toronto.edu)

247 points by reqo 1 year ago | 52 comments

Against Best Practices(arp242.net)

246 points by ingve 1 year ago | 187 comments

Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis(cbsnews.com)

220 points by nradov 1 year ago | 294 comments

Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool(github.com)

218 points by hundredwatt 1 year ago | 51 comments

The tragedy of running an old Node project(abdisalan.com)

214 points by abdisalan 1 year ago | 301 comments

The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles(jvernay.fr)

209 points by lapnect 1 year ago | 51 comments

Museum of Bad Art(museumofbadart.org)

192 points by purkka 1 year ago | 132 comments

AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia(nextplatform.com)

172 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 93 comments

Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges(wired.com)

171 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 275 comments

Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes(apps.apple.com)

170 points by yeatsy 1 year ago | 66 comments

It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)(arxiv.org)

167 points by ilove_banh_mi 1 year ago | 120 comments

LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step(arxiv.org)

158 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 26 comments

Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023)(iximiuz.com)

155 points by 2-3-7-43-1807 1 year ago | 13 comments

Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies(metropolisjapan.com)

154 points by billybuckwheat 1 year ago | 105 comments

How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)(tofugu.com)

152 points by rawgabbit 1 year ago | 181 comments

Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables(bloomberg.com)

147 points by wslh 1 year ago | 108 comments

Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data(github.com)

144 points by Tammilore 1 year ago | 43 comments

Linux kernel 6.12 has been released(lwn.net)

136 points by nitinreddy88 1 year ago | 29 comments

Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope(zed.dev)

127 points by misternugget 1 year ago | 43 comments

Interactive Visual Sorting(mszula.github.io)

126 points by jason1610 1 year ago | 24 comments

Writes Large Correct Programs (2008)(johndcook.com)

125 points by gavinhoward 1 year ago | 85 comments

Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await(lucumr.pocoo.org)

124 points by samwillis 1 year ago | 70 comments

A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death(washingtonpost.com)

119 points by apollinaire 1 year ago | 48 comments

Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes(news.mongabay.com)

111 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 71 comments

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence(cam.ac.uk)

107 points by gmays 1 year ago | 6 comments

A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers(andreinc.net)

99 points by nomemory 1 year ago | 38 comments

Traits are a local maximum(thunderseethe.dev)

95 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 80 comments

Extending the context length to 1M tokens(qwenlm.github.io)

84 points by cmcconomy 1 year ago | 96 comments

DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data(malwarebytes.com)

82 points by nickcotter 1 year ago | 22 comments

Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues(smithsonianmag.com)

81 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 12 comments

Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming(tomsguide.com)

79 points by amichail 1 year ago | 133 comments

Unreal 5.5 is a big deal [video](youtube.com)

77 points by RobinHirst11 1 year ago | 36 comments

The Fastest Redis Ever(redis.io)

76 points by lsferreira42 1 year ago | 39 comments

ChibiHash: Small, Fast 64 bit hash function(nrk.neocities.org)

74 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API(github.com)

74 points by richardzhang 1 year ago | 39 comments

Fortran II Hypersource(texdraft.github.io)

74 points by texdraft 1 year ago | 8 comments

Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web(wiby.me)

71 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 17 comments

Removing global state from LLD, the LLVM linker(maskray.me)

71 points by ingve 1 year ago | 21 comments

GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation(nirvanalan.github.io)

68 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 7 comments

Open-interpreter: A natural language interface for computers(github.com)

67 points by 2-3-7-43-1807 1 year ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP(github.com)

65 points by notrab 1 year ago | 53 comments

Phonetic Matching(smoores.dev)

65 points by raybb 1 year ago | 26 comments

Ben Affleck's a surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video(twitter.com)

60 points by apitman 1 year ago | 32 comments

Stack Analyser: detect technologies used inside a repo(github.com)

59 points by h1fra 1 year ago | 10 comments

M4 chips: E and P cores(eclecticlight.co)

58 points by ingve 1 year ago | 7 comments

Music as Language (2019) [pdf](omelkonian.github.io)

54 points by sargstuff 1 year ago | 7 comments

Blogging Through the Decades(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

54 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 14 comments

The shrimp welfare project(benthams.substack.com)

51 points by 0xDEAFBEAD 1 year ago | 113 comments