Hacker News with Generative AI

Investigating an "Evil" RJ45 Dongle (lcamtuf.substack.com)
When it comes to information security headlines, a good rule of thumb is that claims about about widespread supply-chain sabotage are usually false.
Information Security, Hardware, Cybersecurity
137 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 53 comments
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center (railway.com)
Since the beginning, Railway’s compute has been built on top of Google Cloud Platform. The platform supported Railway's initial journey, but it has caused a multitude of problems that have posed an existential risk to our business. More importantly, building on a hyperscaler prevents us from delivering the best possible platform to our customers.
Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Startups, Software Development, Google Cloud
94 points by dban 3 hours ago | 29 comments
Brood War Korean Translations (sourcedive.net)
As work slowed down during the last couple of weeks of 2024, I decided to redirect some of my energy to hobbies instead of work. One such hobby is StarCraft: Brood War (or BW for short), a classic, highly competitive RTS from '98 that still has an active community today.
Gaming, StarCraft, Nostalgia, Community
202 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 58 comments
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline (cnbc.com)
Supreme Court, TikTok, Government, Law, Politics
760 points by kjhughes 8 hours ago | 1885 comments
Branchless UTF-8 Encoding (cceckman.com)
Can you encode UTF-8 without branches?
Encoding, UTF-8, Programming
70 points by vortex_ape 4 hours ago | 20 comments
French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism (aeon.co)
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling:
Art, History, Media, Modernism
84 points by crescit_eundo 7 hours ago | 24 comments
Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle (arxiv.org)
We investigate the combinatorics of permutations underlying the the daily word game Waffle, and learn why some games are easy to solve while extreme games are very hard. A perfect unscrambling must have precisely 11 orbits, with at least one of length 1, on the 21 squares.
Mathematics, Word Games, Combinatorics, Algorithms, Games
30 points by belter 4 hours ago | 10 comments
Hands-On Graphics Without X11 (blogsystem5.substack.com)
Graphics, Linux, Programming
47 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 8 comments
Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption (cryptographyengineering.com)
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see this paper, because while I don’t agree with every one of it’s conclusions, it’s a good first stab at an incredibly important set of questions.
Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Security, Research Papers
134 points by chmaynard 18 hours ago | 47 comments
Dr. TVAM – Inverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (github.com/rgl-epfl)
Dr.TVAM is an inverse rendering framework for tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing.
3D Printing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Research
35 points by roflmaostc 6 hours ago | 8 comments
Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams (mermaidchart.com)
Mermaid charts are widely used for their ability to represent complex diagrams quickly, and now, thanks to a new update, editing Mermaid Class Diagrams has become even easier and more intuitive.
Software, Visualizations, Diagrams, Mermaid, User Interfaces
132 points by knsv 8 hours ago | 39 comments
Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity (lightcellenergy.com)
Renewable Energy, Energy, Technology
69 points by curl-up 3 days ago | 41 comments
No Calls (keygen.sh)
When I first started Keygen, I had this idea in my head that I could create a company where I never had to get on a sales call — or any call.
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Remote Work, Sales
1486 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 485 comments
Finite Field Assembly: A Language for Emulating GPUs on CPU (leetarxiv.substack.com)
FF-asm is a programming language founded on the thesis: Math is mostly invented, rarely discovered.
Programming Languages, GPU Emulation, Computer Architecture, Mathematics
11 points by muragekibicho 4 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system (p2p.industries)
Coordinate swarms of robots, drones, or any debian-powered machine in a fully decentralized way! Without internet connection, without orchestration servers.
Robotics, Decentralized Systems, Software, Open Source
46 points by hannesfur 4 days ago | 21 comments
Starship Flight 7 (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.
Space Travel, SpaceX
635 points by chinathrow 1 day ago | 669 comments
Is the world becoming uninsurable? (charleshughsmith.substack.com)
I ask the question, "is the world becoming uninsurable?" not as an expert on the insurance industry but as a homeowner who can no longer obtain hurricane insurance, and as an observer of long-term trends keenly interested in the way global risks pile up either unseen, denied or misinterpreted until it's too late to mitigate them.
Climate Change, Insurance, Risk, Global Trends
438 points by spking 23 hours ago | 1053 comments
PostgreSQL Anonymizer (readthedocs.io)
PostgreSQL Anonymizer is an extension to mask or replace personally identifiable information (PII) or commercially sensitive data from a Postgres database.
Data Privacy, PostgreSQL, Databases, Security
214 points by chynkm 4 days ago | 37 comments
A New type of web hacking technique: DoubleClickjacking (paulosyibelo.com)
“Clickjacking” attacks have been around for over a decade, enabling malicious websites to trick users into clicking hidden or disguised buttons they never intended to click.
Cybersecurity, Web Security, Hacking, Exploits
104 points by shinzub 4 days ago | 53 comments
Maze Generation: Recursive Division (2011) (jamisbuck.org)
A novel method for generating fractal-like mazes is presented, with sample code and an animation
Maze Generation, Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Programming, Fractals
6 points by homarp 3 days ago | 0 comments
Skyvern Browser Agent 2.0: How We Reached State of the Art in Evals (skyvern.com)
We’ve been working hard cooking up something new to share with you all!
Browser Extensions, AI, Performance, Machine Learning
20 points by suchintan 8 hours ago | 12 comments
Swedish Exports of Ball Bearings (reddit.com)
"Swedish exports of ball bearings" are commonly brought up in historical discussions of World War II. Why were other countries so reliant on Swedish ball bearings and unable to produce enough themselves?
History, Manufacturing, Sweden
13 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | 1 comments
The Family Bass - Music with an NES (linusakesson.net)
I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live.
Music, Retro Gaming, Hardware, DIY
131 points by rcarmo 14 hours ago | 9 comments
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (zadzmo.org)
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.
Artificial Intelligence, Web Crawlers
624 points by blendergeek 1 day ago | 240 comments
A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet (universityofcalifornia.edu)
In 2004, while she was still a meticulous young graduate student, Elaine Sullivan made a discovery that would deepen the history of human writing.
Archaeology, History, Language, Writing Systems
134 points by diodorus 4 days ago | 42 comments
Show HN: Real-time nonlinear optics simulation (JS/GLSL) (github.com/westoncb)
An interactive study of controlled nonlinear dynamics, implemented through the concrete example of coupled optical fields.
Science, Physics, Simulation, Javascript, Web Development
30 points by westoncb 1 day ago | 7 comments
Learn Yjs Interactively (learn.yjs.dev)
Welcome to Learn Yjs — an interactive tutorial series on building realtime collaborative applications using the Yjs CRDT library.
Real-Time Collaboration, Web Development, Javascript, Tutorials, CRDTs
290 points by paulgb 1 day ago | 40 comments