It's 2024-01-17. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2021) | comment
Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases | comment
Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator | comment
AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry | comment
John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo | comment
FAQ on Leaving Google | comment
Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases | comment
If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source | comment
Doom Released Under GPLv2 | comment
We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023) | comment
Notion Calendar | comment
Cancer Alley | comment
K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney | comment
OpenAI is working with the US military now | comment
Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association | comment
Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling | comment
On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney | comment
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) | comment
Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI | comment
High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98 | comment
TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning | comment
Modeless Vim | comment
FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm | comment
6174 | comment
How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives | comment
SQLite 3.45 released with JSONB support | comment
Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri | comment
Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0 | comment
Scrum Sucks | comment
Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf] | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy | comment
US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes | comment
Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC | comment
Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service | comment
On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney | comment
Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time | comment
Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions | comment
Is my plane a 737 MAX? | comment
Python 3.13 Gets a JIT | comment
Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range? | comment
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees | comment
I quit my job to work full time on my open source project | comment
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) | comment
Signs that it's time to leave a company | comment
Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985) | comment
Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio | comment
Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more | comment
Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf] | comment
Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run | comment
A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's | comment
Elixir is now a gradually typed language | comment
A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant | comment
A supply chain attack on PyTorch | comment
ChatGPT for Teams | comment
SEC's X Account Hacked, Bitcoin Spot ETFs Not yet Approved | comment
Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model | comment
A decade-old Steam bug | comment
Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff | comment
OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare" | comment
Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database | comment
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