Hacker News recap for week 8/2024

From 19/2/2024 to 25/2/2024

Articles #

• Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution 1125 comments in 1 discussion

• Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero 878 comments in 1 discussion

• Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames 1101 comments in 5 discussions

• Stable Diffusion 3 693 comments in 1 discussion

• Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished 585 comments in 2 discussions

• Gemma: New Open Models 535 comments in 2 discussions

• The day I canceled my Spotify subscription 498 comments in 1 discussion

• The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input 489 comments in 2 discussions

• Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models 493 comments in 3 discussions

• ChatGPT went berserk 468 comments in 1 discussion

• Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users 1433 comments in 2 discussions

• Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters 451 comments in 2 discussions

• Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011 470 comments in 3 discussions

• Vice website is shutting down 451 comments in 2 discussions

• In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022) 750 comments in 5 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C? 153 comments

• Ask HN: My company went bankrupt today and I have 2 options 86 comments

• Ask HN: How to Overcome the Trough of Sorrow? 85 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming 135 comments

• Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns 105 comments

Projects #

• Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust 371 comments in 4 discussions

• Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL 139 comments in 1 discussion

• Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox 117 comments in 1 discussion

• Extreme video compression with prediction using pre-trainded diffusion models 88 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python 83 comments in 1 discussion

• Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer 69 comments in 1 discussion

• Windows in a Docker Container 176 comments in 2 discussions

• A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Candy – a minimalistic functional programming language 63 comments in 1 discussion

• Faster: Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store 217 comments in 5 discussions

Videos #

• Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video] 176 comments in 1 discussion

• Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video] 127 comments in 1 discussion

• GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video] 98 comments in 1 discussion

• YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video] 85 comments in 1 discussion

• Let's Build the GPT Tokenizer [video] 51 comments in 1 discussion

• This is how cargo ships fight pirates without guns [video] 26 comments in 1 discussion

• Archival Floppy Disk Preservation and Use [video] 23 comments in 1 discussion