It's 2024-08-20. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection | comment
MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract | comment
Zed AI | comment
Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o | comment
The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018) | comment
Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you | comment
Why are Texas interchanges so tall? | comment
Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules | comment
Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store | comment
Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely | comment
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player | comment
X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum | comment
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud | comment
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable | comment
CSS Grid Areas | comment
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk | comment
13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted | comment
Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by New Zealand | comment
Sourcegraph went dark | comment
Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data | comment
X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders | comment
Leaving Neovim for Zed | comment
MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf] | comment
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships | comment
Toasts Are Bad UX | comment
Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment | comment
Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition | comment
Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place | comment
Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021) | comment
I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels | comment
Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon | comment
Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules | comment
Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms | comment
Susan Wojcicki has died | comment
Repair and Remain (2022) | comment
GitHub Is Down | comment
Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk | comment
All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019) | comment
Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store | comment
Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely | comment
Google Pixel 9 Pro | comment
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player | comment
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers | comment
X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum | comment
CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon | comment
Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants "categorically" unconstitutional | comment
LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime | comment
Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach | comment
Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away | comment
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud | comment
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40 | comment
Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer | comment
Examples of Great URL Design (2023) | comment
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable | comment
Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs | comment
CSS Grid Areas | comment
Isometric Projection in Game Development | comment
RLHF is just barely RL | comment
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk | comment
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