It's 2024-04-06. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces | comment
Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images | comment
Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP | comment
Saving cloud costs by writing our own database | comment
Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom | comment
PiVPN v4.6.0: The End | comment
The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper | comment
Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage | comment
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains | comment
Runtipi: Docker-based home server management | comment
Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service | comment
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 | comment
Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on | comment
How we communicate | comment
AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse | comment
Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search | comment
US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers | comment
Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022) | comment
Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools | comment
Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023) | comment
PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025 | comment
She slept with a violin on her pillow | comment
WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows | comment
xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine | 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

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
FFmpeg 7.0 | 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
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