Hacker News on Friday, 7 February 2025

Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data(arstechnica.com)

1118 points by gameshot911 1 year ago | 804 comments

Ars Technica article on unsealed Meta emails in an authors' copyright case alleging Meta torrented and seeded 81.7 TB of pirated books to train AI.

Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor(macrumors.com)

1105 points by throw0101d 1 year ago | 574 comments

MacRumors article reporting that the UK government secretly ordered Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted iCloud content worldwide, citing The Washington Post.

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel(lkml.org)

848 points by Mond_ 1 year ago | 842 comments

LKML patch from Hector Martin removing himself as maintainer of ARM/Apple machine support in the Linux kernel, citing loss of faith in the kernel development process.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts(washingtonpost.com)

642 points by Despegar 1 year ago | 925 comments

Washington Post exclusive reporting that the U.K. secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to users' encrypted iCloud backups worldwide.

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)(blog.danslimmon.com)

533 points by tehnub 1 year ago | 137 comments

Blog post by Dan Slimmon describing "do-nothing scripts" that encode manual procedures step by step as a path toward gradual automation.

Obscure islands I find interesting(amanvir.com)

504 points by venusgirdle 1 year ago | 163 comments

An interactive world map highlighting obscure islands like Pheasant Island, Ailsa Craig, and Tristan da Cunha with short descriptions of each.

Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video](youtube.com)

388 points by esbudylin 1 year ago | 63 comments

YouTube video of Donald Knuth's 2024 Stanford Christmas lecture on strong and weak components in graphs, posted by Stanford Online.

Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities(kevin.burke.dev)

374 points by kevinburke 1 year ago | 336 comments

Kevin Burke blog post arguing Northern California cities can cost-effectively create their own electric utilities to undercut PG&E's high rates.

Announcing the data.gov archive(lil.law.harvard.edu)

311 points by govideo 1 year ago | 87 comments

Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences(theretowhere.com)

290 points by WiggleGuy 1 year ago | 92 comments

Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing(github.com)

251 points by c0nstantine 1 year ago | 81 comments

California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots(veeto.app)

248 points by alexd127 1 year ago | 129 comments

A brief history of code signing at Mozilla(hearsum.ca)

237 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 79 comments

Transformer – Spreadsheet(byhand.ai)

237 points by next_xibalba 1 year ago | 17 comments

Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js(github.com)

211 points by klaussilveira 1 year ago | 33 comments

German civil activists win victory in election case against X(reuters.com)

210 points by josefresco 1 year ago | 210 comments

Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family(hms.harvard.edu)

198 points by jimmytucson 1 year ago | 159 comments

Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams(bbc.co.uk)

194 points by inm 1 year ago | 80 comments

Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub(github.com)

186 points by lknik 1 year ago | 75 comments

Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker(github.com)

186 points by import-base64 1 year ago | 75 comments

Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math(nature.com)

177 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 194 comments

Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)(carto.com)

170 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 124 comments

Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware(mend.io)

161 points by tomabai 1 year ago | 88 comments

Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture(nbcnews.com)

160 points by kiyanwang 1 year ago | 71 comments

The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)(ieeexplore.ieee.org)

160 points by theamk 1 year ago | 213 comments

Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser(huggingface.co)

147 points by xenova 1 year ago | 26 comments

Balcony solar is taking off(theguardian.com)

143 points by mcp_ 1 year ago | 161 comments

Easy 6502(skilldrick.github.io)

140 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 17 comments

Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm(sciencealert.com)

137 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 54 comments

Robust autonomy emerges from self-play(arxiv.org)

123 points by reqo 1 year ago | 55 comments

Perma.cc – Permanent Link Service(perma.cc)

120 points by brianzelip 1 year ago | 72 comments

Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models(andrewchen.substack.com)

117 points by kiyanwang 1 year ago | 36 comments

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data(eff.org)

116 points by doener 1 year ago | 59 comments

Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds(theconversation.com)

111 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 19 comments

Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics(quantamagazine.org)

109 points by MindGods 1 year ago | 46 comments

HTML whitespace is broken (2024)(blog.dwac.dev)

106 points by marban 1 year ago | 52 comments

Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that featured false information(theguardian.com)

93 points by nemoniac 1 year ago | 64 comments

When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago(honest-broker.com)

92 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 10 comments

Search PPP Loans by Zip Code(ppploanmap.com)

91 points by zarie 1 year ago | 50 comments

The Age of Agent Experience(stytch.com)

91 points by bobfunk 1 year ago | 38 comments

Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video](yalemedicine.org)

85 points by ViktorRay 1 year ago | 60 comments

Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes(cnn.com)

84 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 69 comments

Explainable Linear Programs(jeremykun.com)

80 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 23 comments

A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop(source.coop)

80 points by dbreunig 1 year ago | 10 comments

Making Software Fun(furbo.org)

79 points by zdw 1 year ago | 23 comments

Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying(theverge.com)

71 points by donohoe 1 year ago | 2 comments

There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training(oatllm.notion.site)

70 points by qianli_cs 1 year ago | 7 comments

Run Doom on Google Sheets(github.com)

68 points by davidhay 1 year ago | 13 comments

Mapping Antarctica’s hidden ice-free lands: a blueprint for conservation(unsw.edu.au)

67 points by gmays 1 year ago | 1 comments

Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?(newsroom.ucla.edu)

67 points by thelastgallon 1 year ago | 28 comments

Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid(baltic-grid.sympower.net)

67 points by RvdV 1 year ago | 27 comments

Solving Sudoku with Tmux(willhbr.net)

67 points by mu0n 1 year ago | 4 comments

Pantograph: A Fluid and Typed Structure Editor(github.com)

62 points by rybla 1 year ago | 19 comments

How to help us build open source Pebble software(ericmigi.com)

60 points by cmbailey 1 year ago | 18 comments

HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for LLMs (2024)(arxiv.org)

59 points by veryluckyxyz 1 year ago | 3 comments

Building an "Easy" Web Application(rudyfaile.com)

58 points by luu 1 year ago | 24 comments

UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data(bbc.co.uk)

57 points by tooba 1 year ago | 18 comments

Elon Musk's Demolition Crew(projects.propublica.org)

55 points by raybb 1 year ago | 20 comments

Long Covid impacting more than 1M children: CDC study suggests(abcnews.go.com)

52 points by luu 1 year ago | 9 comments

A whirlwind tutorial on creating teensy ELF executables for Linux (1999)(muppetlabs.com)

51 points by xtacy 1 year ago | 16 comments