It's 2024-04-08. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA | comment
Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home | comment
After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative | comment
Hello World | comment
Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC | comment
How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet | comment
Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested | comment
Find My Device on Android | comment
Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi” | comment
High Definition CSS Color Guide | comment
Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLM's | comment
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 | comment
How we communicate | comment
Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG | comment
AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse | comment
Xkcd 1928: Seven Years (2017) | comment
Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022) | comment
ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down | comment
Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis | comment
Rpgp: Pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP | comment
Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools | comment
Command Injection and Backdoor Account in D-Link NAS Devices | comment
When a black hole and a neutron star merge | comment
What John von Neumann did at Los Alamos (2020) | comment
Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would | comment
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice | comment
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program | comment
FFmpeg 7.0 | comment
Just How Much Faster Are the Gnome 46 Terminals? | comment
Mario meets Pareto: multi-objective optimization of Mario Kart builds | 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
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
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
OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund | comment
Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores | 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
Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover | comment
Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years | comment
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