It's 2024-04-05. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

An IRC client in your motherboard | comment
The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics | comment
Fortran on WebAssembly | comment
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links | comment
Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative) | comment
Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data | comment
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza | comment
Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners | comment
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice | comment
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program | comment
FFmpeg 7.0 | comment
Timeline of the xz open source attack | comment
Low Cost Robot Arm | comment
CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians | comment
Mario meets Pareto: multi-objective optimization of Mario Kart builds | comment
The design philosophy of Great Tables | comment
The xz attack shell script | comment
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores | comment
Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years | comment
Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar | comment
But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video] | comment
Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14 | comment
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice | comment
Reflections on Distrusting xz | comment
3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine | comment
7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth | comment
Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected | comment
OpenBSD 7.5 | comment
Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas | comment
Banning open weight models would be a disaster | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise | comment
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison | comment
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza | comment
LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs | comment
Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners | comment
Daniel Kahneman has died | comment
Simon Riggs has died | comment
XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." | comment
Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor | comment
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining | comment
Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses | comment
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane | comment
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice | comment
NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ | comment
Xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects | comment
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program | comment
Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic | comment
Timeline of the xz open source attack | comment
Low Cost Robot Arm | comment
CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians | comment
Mario meets Pareto: multi-objective optimization of Mario Kart builds | comment
LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge | comment
The design philosophy of Great Tables | comment
IrfanView | comment
The xz attack shell script | comment
Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing | comment
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores | comment
OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund | comment
You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it | comment
Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet | comment
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