Hacker News recap for week 14/2024
From toNewsletter sent every monday with a recap of articles, projects and tutorials from previous week.
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'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza 1746 comments in 7 discussions
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How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain 920 comments in 1 discussion
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Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores 1249 comments in 4 discussions
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Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images 667 comments in 1 discussion
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How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways 550 comments in 1 discussion
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Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners 492 comments in 1 discussion
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Timeline of the xz open source attack 483 comments in 3 discussions
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LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs 451 comments in 3 discussions
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Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years 436 comments in 4 discussions
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M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake 352 comments in 1 discussion
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Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen? 347 comments in 1 discussion
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German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice 1614 comments in 7 discussions
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Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on 323 comments in 1 discussion
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Reflections on Distrusting xz 330 comments in 3 discussions
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice 970 comments in 5 discussions
Ask HN #
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Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? 742 comments
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024) 427 comments
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024) 394 comments
Tell HN #
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Tell HN: My CEO wants to shut down the intern program and use Devin instead 7 comments
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Tell HN: Reddit killed its compact mode on 2024-04-01 1 comment
Projects #
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Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor 472 comments in 3 discussions
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Low Cost Robot Arm 247 comments in 1 discussion
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Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative) 204 comments in 3 discussions
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Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues 164 comments in 2 discussions
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Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone 132 comments in 1 discussion
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PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS 124 comments in 1 discussion
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A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem 122 comments in 1 discussion
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Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced 127 comments in 2 discussions
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WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows 303 comments in 6 discussions
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Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks 110 comments in 1 discussion
Videos #
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Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video] 180 comments in 2 discussions
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A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video] 145 comments in 1 discussion
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But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video] 66 comments in 3 discussions
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Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video] 36 comments in 1 discussion
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Micronics Announces Desktop SLS 3D Printer, Starting at $2,999 [video] 26 comments in 1 discussion
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Jon Stewart on the False Promises of AI [video] 19 comments in 1 discussion
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The Graph of Wikipedia [video] 18 comments in 1 discussion
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