Hacker News on Saturday, 22 March 2025

Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)(oncontracts.com)

510 points by wallflower 1 year ago | 172 comments

A 2008 blog post on the On Contracts legal blog about Monster Cable sending a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, whose president fought back.

Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers(github.com)

460 points by Zoup 1 year ago | 155 comments

GitHub repository for landrun, a Go tool that runs Linux processes in an unprivileged sandbox using the Landlock LSM, with filesystem and network restrictions.

PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog(blog.ezyang.com)

418 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 24 comments

Edward Yang's long-form blog essay on PyTorch internals, based on his talk at the PyTorch NYC meetup on May 14, 2019.

California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers(oag.ca.gov)

399 points by thoughtpeddler 1 year ago | 283 comments

Press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta issuing a consumer alert advising 23andMe customers about protecting their genetic data.

George Foreman has died(variety.com)

286 points by wallflower 1 year ago | 113 comments

Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision(blog.mozilla.ai)

286 points by Brysonbw 1 year ago | 71 comments

Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model(llm.hunyuan.tencent.com)

283 points by marban 1 year ago | 168 comments

NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor(luj.fr)

260 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 112 comments

The polar vortex is hitting the brakes(climate.gov)

256 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 293 comments

The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil(washingtonpost.com)

228 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 477 comments

Scallop – A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming(scallop-lang.org)

213 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 59 comments

Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability(nextjs.org)

196 points by makepanic 1 year ago | 153 comments

'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import(au.news.yahoo.com)

180 points by geox 1 year ago | 139 comments

Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2(github.com)

176 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 46 comments

When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)(tinyhack.com)

172 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 93 comments

“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality(cendyne.dev)

164 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 177 comments

Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D(epoch.ai)

147 points by ydnyshhh 1 year ago | 210 comments

CEO of Kubient sentenced for fraud(arstechnica.com)

144 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 47 comments

Differential Geometry: A First Course in Curves and Surfaces [pdf](math.franklin.uga.edu)

141 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 7 comments

Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law(arstechnica.com)

137 points by DanAtC 1 year ago | 93 comments

Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks(github.com)

137 points by mr_Fatalyst 1 year ago | 68 comments

Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective(github.com)

129 points by pama 1 year ago | 16 comments

Mathematical Methods for Physics [pdf](ma.imperial.ac.uk)

118 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 38 comments

Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own(npmjs.com)

117 points by arthurgousset 1 year ago | 49 comments

WWI's 'Dazzle' Camouflage Seemed Effective Due to Unexpected Optical Trick(gizmodo.com)

112 points by ilamont 1 year ago | 66 comments

Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight(bbc.co.uk)

110 points by dijksterhuis 1 year ago | 79 comments

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video](youtube.com)

106 points by mdp2021 1 year ago | 24 comments

Amazon wants a product safety regulator declared unconstitutional(washingtonpost.com)

105 points by danorama 1 year ago | 84 comments

Quitting an Intel x86 Hypervisor(halobates.de)

104 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 17 comments

The Vectrex Computer(amigalove.com)

82 points by erickhill 1 year ago | 28 comments

Bra and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS(datagubbe.se)

69 points by ingve 1 year ago | 2 comments

AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI(engadget.com)

66 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 75 comments

A study reveals that deciduous trees' roots remain active in winter(creaf.cat)

63 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 25 comments

Yahoo is selling TechCrunch to private equity firm Regent(techcrunch.com)

59 points by Garbage 1 year ago | 12 comments

StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text(starvector.github.io)

55 points by lnyan 1 year ago | 4 comments

The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate(filfre.net)

54 points by doppp 1 year ago | 32 comments

I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format (2009)(github.com)

52 points by tosh 1 year ago | 17 comments

Meta pirated books to train its AI(theatlantic.com)

51 points by Hary06 1 year ago | 37 comments

Svelte: $derived can now be overwritten(github.com)

45 points by jedeusus 1 year ago | 35 comments

Improved ways to operate a rude crawler(marginalia.nu)

43 points by doruk101 1 year ago | 10 comments

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others(garymarcus.substack.com)

40 points by tu7001 1 year ago | 11 comments

One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone(thetimes.com)

38 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 33 comments

High Frequency Food: Better Cutting with Ultrasonics(hackaday.com)

33 points by zdw 1 year ago | 7 comments

The future of AI is Ruby on Rails(seangoedecke.com)

32 points by daviducolo 1 year ago | 19 comments

Concise Machine Learning [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

28 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 1 comments

MacBooks account for 86% of total Mac sales; Mac desktops just 14%(macdailynews.com)

24 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 37 comments

The Cybernetic Teammate(oneusefulthing.org)

24 points by tobr 1 year ago | 8 comments

Horror on the coast of Oaxaca, a tourist paradise plagued by mass disappearances(english.elpais.com)

24 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 10 comments

Don't compete(invertedpassion.com)

24 points by paraschopra 1 year ago | 3 comments

Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default(github.com)

23 points by nobunaga 1 year ago | 3 comments

IETF setting standards for AI preferences(ietf.org)

22 points by Mithriil 1 year ago | 8 comments

Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default(github.com)

20 points by nobunaga 1 year ago | 7 comments

There's no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger(aeon.co)

20 points by privong 1 year ago | 19 comments

Older editions of which books were better than the new ones?(mathoverflow.net)

17 points by susam 1 year ago | 7 comments

How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE)(lighthouseproofreading.co.uk)

16 points by susam 1 year ago | 16 comments

C++26 Expansion Tricks(pydong.org)

16 points by HeliumHydride 1 year ago | 20 comments

The unexpected legend of WD-40(youtube.com)

14 points by zirkuswurstikus 1 year ago | 3 comments

Revenge of the Junior Developer(sourcegraph.com)

13 points by ado__dev 1 year ago | 13 comments

The struggle that made us in Waterloo(intention.bearblog.dev)

11 points by d-k-blackthorn 1 year ago | 3 comments

Idiomatic Rust: Part 2(a-i-nstein.neocities.org)

11 points by astennumero 1 year ago | 2 comments