Hacker News on Saturday, 28 December 2024

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of lapcatsoftware.com: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 (lapcatsoftware.com)

1207 points by latexr 1 year ago | 897 comments

Jeff Johnson's blog post reporting that Apple Photos' Enhanced Visual Search setting is enabled by default on iOS 18 and macOS 15 and sends photo data to Apple.

apple-photos privacy ios-18 macos-15

Screenshot of fishshell.com: Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus

Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)

783 points by jdxcode 1 year ago | 162 comments

Fish shell blog post reflecting on porting fish 4.0 from C++ to Rust, covering lessons learned, what went well, and what could have gone better.

fish-shell rust cpp rewrite

Screenshot of chronotrains.com: Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?

Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?(chronotrains.com)

618 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 392 comments

Chronotrains is an interactive map showing how far you can travel by train from any European station within 1 to 8 hours.

trains rail-travel europe isochrone-map

Screenshot of blog.daviddodda.com: I automated my job application process

I automated my job application process (blog.daviddodda.com)

591 points by paul-tharun 1 year ago | 796 comments

A blog post by David Dodda describing how he automated his job application process, part 1 of a series.

job-applications automation job-search llm

Screenshot of chuckwnelson.com: Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s (chuckwnelson.com)

380 points by chuckwnelson 1 year ago | 413 comments

Blog post by Chuck W. Nelson arguing Google's search results are degraded and that OpenAI's ChatGPT search is following Google's early-2000s playbook.

google-search openai chatgpt-search seo

Screenshot of righto.com: Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (righto.com)

362 points by gslin 1 year ago | 110 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post examining the Pentium die to show where the 1994 floating-point division bug lies in the silicon and why it occurred.

intel-pentium fdiv-bug reverse-engineering die-photo

Screenshot of unity.com: Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)

Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)(unity.com)

352 points by pierremenard 1 year ago | 169 comments

A 2016 Unity engineering blog post recounting how developers tracked down a memory corruption bug where an unknown source wrote the value 2 into the stack.

debugging memory-corruption unity windows

Screenshot of sachachua.com: EmacsConf 2024 Notes

EmacsConf 2024 Notes (sachachua.com)

324 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 124 comments

Sacha Chua's blog post with organizer notes and reflections on running EmacsConf 2024, including talk counts and BigBlueButton infrastructure.

emacsconf emacs conference-organizing bigbluebutton

Screenshot of media.ccc.de: Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]

Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video](media.ccc.de)

317 points by doener 1 year ago | 123 comments

Video recording of a 38C3 Chaos Communication Congress talk by Frostie314159 and Jasper Devreker on reverse engineering and liberating the ESP32's Wi-Fi stack.

esp32 wi-fi reverse-engineering open-source-firmware

Screenshot of timesnownews.com: Carlsen disqualified from World Rapid and Blitz championship for wearing jeans