Tuesday, May 30, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Hacking a Philips Sonicare Toothbrush

Hacking a Philips Sonicare Toothbrush
58 by PikelEmi | 18 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: 25 things I’ve learned about life the hard way before turning 25

25 things I’ve learned about life the hard way before turning 25
20 by ednevsky | 20 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Apple’s big test of data integrity

Apple’s big test of data integrity
15 by headalgorithm | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup
18 by koch | 2 comments on Hacker News.
My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable.

New top story on Hacker News: Creating a Memory-Safe Workstation with CheriBSD [pdf]

Creating a Memory-Safe Workstation with CheriBSD [pdf]
19 by ksec | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, May 29, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: HBO Max new Captcha system

HBO Max new Captcha system
49 by Signez | 10 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Chocolate and the Steam Engine (2014)

Chocolate and the Steam Engine (2014)
4 by drdee | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Fossil tells the 'tail' of an ancient beast

Fossil tells the 'tail' of an ancient beast
5 by wglb | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air

Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air
6 by wglb | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for

Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
33 by walterbell | 53 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, May 27, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Emily Wilson on Epictetus

Emily Wilson on Epictetus
6 by diodorus | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: 19th century painters may have primed their canvases with beer-brewing leftovers

19th century painters may have primed their canvases with beer-brewing leftovers
5 by prismatic | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Translating/bridging across multiple protocols and identities (via federation)

Translating/bridging across multiple protocols and identities (via federation)
5 by mawise | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?

Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?
11 by drdee | 3 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Senators issued satellite phones, offered demos on upgraded security devices

Senators issued satellite phones, offered demos on upgraded security devices
6 by gumby | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, May 25, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: An interactive introduction to the surface code

An interactive introduction to the surface code
12 by EvgeniyZh | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track

It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track
16 by rustoo | 14 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podcast (with code)

Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podcast (with code)
13 by lakySK | 7 comments on Hacker News.
There are plenty of podcasts to listen to some slow basic Italian, but often they just talk about random things I'm not that interested in. Nothing a few hours of tinkering with Python cannot solve these days! Introducing Hacker News in Slow Italian. Each episode is generated automatically, using GPT4 API to summarise the top articles on Hacker News and then fed to Play.ht for text-to-speech. The (very short) code is available on Github: https://ift.tt/loPj751

New top story on Hacker News: New Playground: Memory Spy

New Playground: Memory Spy
13 by modinfo | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Behind a Pseudonym, Literary Provocation

Behind a Pseudonym, Literary Provocation
3 by Caiero | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, May 24, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [pdf]

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [pdf]
9 by andsoitis | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI Major Outage

OpenAI Major Outage
52 by zurfer | 49 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Power series, power serious: Talk by Doug McIlroy (2007) [video]

Power series, power serious: Talk by Doug McIlroy (2007) [video]
4 by adamnemecek | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Nicholas Gray, 86, Dies; Paired Hot Dogs With Papaya to Make a Landmark


By BY ALEX TRAUB from NYT New York https://ift.tt/XyYbtl3

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?

Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?
23 by flerovium | 23 comments on Hacker News.
If it simply visits sites, it will face a paywall too. If it identifies itself as archive.is, then other people could identify themselves the same way.

Sunday, May 21, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Neural Network Architecture Beyond Width and Depth

Neural Network Architecture Beyond Width and Depth
15 by StrauXX | 3 comments on Hacker News.


Greek Leader Claims ‘Political Earthquake’ as His Party Leads in Elections


By BY NIKI KITSANTONIS from NYT World https://ift.tt/ODKhHwT

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
29 by bojangleslover | 43 comments on Hacker News.
Here is a screenshot of my Bitwarden: https://ift.tt/fuvnzC0 They include some really important things such as: Health insurance G-Suite for work Bill.com (which I use to get paid) IRS.gov (which I use to get un-paid) UK Companies House Register Interactive Brokers My bank Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate. I'm asking because of how insane auth has become. I know companies like OnePassword and Bitwarden are working on this and overall they do a great job. But I still have a near-stroke every time I have to do the "forgot my password" loop, or use Duo Mobile/other 2FA. The only really good auth feature I've ever encountered has been Apple's "fill from Messages" feature as well as their Touch.

Una estampida en un estadio de fĂștbol en El Salvador deja a 12 personas muertas


By BY EDUARDO MEDINA from NYT En español https://ift.tt/Kx4aoy1

New top story on Hacker News: Typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types

Typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types
5 by g0xA52A2A | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, May 20, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: My affordable solution to costly workflow automation: Embed Workflow

Show HN: My affordable solution to costly workflow automation: Embed Workflow
8 by ewf | 3 comments on Hacker News.


Bakhmut has exposed an ugly, personal feud between the Russian Defense Ministry and ‘Putin’s chef.’


By BY ANUSHKA PATIL AND ANATOLY KURMANAEV from NYT World https://ift.tt/4jdRDxA

New top story on Hacker News: Gfycat has been down for two days due to an expired SSL certificate

Gfycat has been down for two days due to an expired SSL certificate
23 by thorum | 2 comments on Hacker News.


More Than a Dozen People Killed in Northern Italy Flooding


By BY REUTERS AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/iwBoq6r

New top story on Hacker News: Review: Energy and Civilization, by Vaclav Smil

Review: Energy and Civilization, by Vaclav Smil
4 by tim_sw | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Ukraine will not trade territory for peace, its foreign minister tells a Chinese envoy.


By BY ANDREW E. KRAMER from NYT World https://ift.tt/xhC3mst

New top story on Hacker News: Has HN Changed? I assume it's just me

Has HN Changed? I assume it's just me
19 by travisgriggs | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I've been reading HN for a while. I made my first comment May 31, 2018. And have gone through cycles of engagement during that time. But for the last few weeks, even months, I still scan the top articles daily, but something has changed for me. Historically, there's almost always been at least one thing in the top 30 I would be interested in. Sometimes many. But of late, none of it interests me near as much anymore. My guess is that this is just pretty much burnout/age me changing. But I was curious if maybe it was a wider spread effect that others are experiencing. Perhaps the downturn in the tech industry has just led to less of a "this is the place to be and things to know!" experience in general.

New top story on Hacker News: Understanding Database Indexes in PostgreSQL

Understanding Database Indexes in PostgreSQL
17 by mrpotato | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Two Television Showrunners on ‘Creative Short Circuits’


By BY REGGIE UGWU from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/SpHEnvB

New top story on Hacker News: Astmaker – A DSL in Rust for programming language designers

Astmaker – A DSL in Rust for programming language designers
15 by linkdd | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Google Analytics 4 Has Me So Frustrated, We Built Our Own Analytics Service

Google Analytics 4 Has Me So Frustrated, We Built Our Own Analytics Service
29 by twapi | 7 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, May 15, 2023

Staff Members Attacked With Bat at Congressman’s Virginia Office


By BY REMY TUMIN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/FzZyG29

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Openlayer – Test, fix, and improve your ML models

Show HN: Openlayer – Test, fix, and improve your ML models
16 by vikasnair | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, my name is Vikas, and my cofounders Rish, Gabe and I are building Openlayer: http://openlayer.com/ Openlayer is an ML testing, evaluation, and observability platform designed to help teams pinpoint and resolve issues in their models. We were ML engineers experiencing the struggle that goes into properly evaluating models, making them robust to the myriad of unexpected edge cases they encounter in production, and understanding the reasons behind their mistakes. It was like playing an endless game of whack-a-mole with Jupyter notebooks and CSV files — fix one issue and another pops up. This shouldn’t be the case. Error analysis is vital to establishing guardrails for AI and ensuring fairness across model predictions. Traditional software testing platforms are designed for deterministic systems, where a given input produces an expected output. Since ML models are probabilistic, testing them reliably has been a challenge. What sets Openlayer apart from other companies in the space is our end-to-end approach to tackling both pre- and post-deployment stages of the ML pipeline. This "shift-left" approach emphasizes the importance of thorough validation before you ship, rather than relying solely on monitoring after you deploy. Having a strong evaluation process pre-ship means fewer bugs for your users, shorter and more efficient dev-cycles, and lower chances of getting into a PR disaster or having to recall a model. Openlayer provides ML teams and individuals with a suite of powerful tools to understand models and data beyond your typical metrics. The platform offers insights about the quality of your training and validation sets, the performance of your model across subpopulations of your data, and much more. Each of these insights can be turned into a “goal.” As you commit new versions of your models and data, you can see how your model progresses towards these goals, as you guard against regressions you may have otherwise not picked up on and continually raise the bar. Here's a quick rundown of the Openlayer workflow: 1. Add a hook in your training / data ingestion pipeline to upload your data and model predictions to Openlayer via our API 2. Explore insights about your models and data and create goals around them [1] 3. Diagnose issues with the help of our platform, using powerful tools like explainability (e.g. SHAP values) to get actionable recommendations on how to improve 4. Track the progress over time towards your goals with our UI and API and create new ones to keep improving We've got a free sandbox for you to try out the platform today! You can sign up here: https://ift.tt/2QvXxLO . We are also soon adding support for even more ML tasks, so please reach out if your use case is not supported and we can add you to a waitlist. Give Openlayer a spin and join us in revolutionizing ML development for greater efficiency and success. Let us know what you think, or if you have any questions about Openlayer or model evaluation in general. [1] A quick run-down of the categories of goals you can track: - Integrity goals measure the quality of your validation and training sets - Consistency goals guard against drift between your datasets - Performance goals evaluate your model's performance across subpopulations of the data - Robustness goals stress-test your model using synthetic data to uncover edge cases - Fairness goals help you understand biases in your model on sensitive populations

What We Learned Through a Quarter of the M.L.B. Season


By BY BENJAMIN HOFFMAN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/LvyYix5

New top story on Hacker News: Together’s $20M seed funding to build open-source AI and cloud platform

Together’s $20M seed funding to build open-source AI and cloud platform
33 by tim_sw | 14 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: Software Development Ethics

Software Development Ethics
2 by zdw | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, May 14, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: The path to path-traced movies (2016)

The path to path-traced movies (2016)
7 by oumua_don17 | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Here is how you pronounce Kilicdaroglu.


By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/bEwkTHn

New top story on Hacker News: Pfeilstorch

Pfeilstorch
35 by georgecmu | 4 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)

The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)
13 by behnamoh | 1 comments on Hacker News.


U.S. officials, often exasperated by Erdogan, are watching the vote closely.


By BY MICHAEL CROWLEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/l9koBFc

New top story on Hacker News: The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
20 by wallflower | 3 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, May 13, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects

Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects
13 by anvaka | 0 comments on Hacker News.


‘That Fear Never Goes Away’: One Family Awaits a Decision on Asylum


By BY SARAH KERR, NOAH THROOP, ALINE CORPUS AND AXEL BOADA from NYT World https://ift.tt/bmE6pZd

New top story on Hacker News: RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans

RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans
40 by wglb | 0 comments on Hacker News.


As the war rages, some Ukrainians turn to Eurovision for a bit of cheer.


By BY MARIA VARENIKOVA from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/JIDsTz0

New top story on Hacker News: Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence

Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence
16 by belter | 1 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, May 5, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Carmakers are pushing electric SUVs, but smaller is better when it comes to EVs

Carmakers are pushing electric SUVs, but smaller is better when it comes to EVs
29 by PaulHoule | 33 comments on Hacker News.


The first lady, Jill Biden, greets children and veterans in London.


By BY MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/VoE54nD

New top story on Hacker News: The core problem with hamburger menus

The core problem with hamburger menus
69 by todsacerdoti | 117 comments on Hacker News.


Job gains in April reverse cooling trend.


By BY LYDIA DEPILLIS from NYT Business https://ift.tt/RBfT8dW

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS

Show HN: On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS
18 by proxystore | 1 comments on Hacker News.
In the past few days, there have been uncertainties and concerns about the LUKS (“Linux Unified Key Setup”) disk encryption, which is widely used on Linux. We publish our assessment of this here.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

New top story on Hacker News: Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologists

Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologists
7 by LinuxBender | 2 comments on Hacker News.


Belarus Opposition Activist Whose Flight Was Forced Down Is Sentenced to 8 Years


By BY NEIL MACFARQUHAR from NYT World https://ift.tt/VGp1PBv

New top story on Hacker News: The Poet and the Tyrant: Osip Mandelstam: A Biography

The Poet and the Tyrant: Osip Mandelstam: A Biography
6 by Caiero | 0 comments on Hacker News.


The Kremlin is at the heart of Putin’s security bubble, but his movements are guarded and obscured.


By BY NEIL MACFARQUHAR from NYT World https://ift.tt/B90fIru

New top story on Hacker News: UFOs Exist in the Low Information Zone

UFOs Exist in the Low Information Zone
5 by apsec112 | 0 comments on Hacker News.