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New best story on Hacker News: Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection

Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection 494 by zbangrec | 147 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: How actors remember their lines

How actors remember their lines 581 by pepys | 188 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop

Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop 494 by tjake | 140 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Engineering for Slow Internet

Engineering for Slow Internet 666 by jader201 | 268 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely

Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely 612 by thunderbong | 339 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes 527 by maxkrieger | 129 comments on Hacker News. I was inspired by the way ChatGPT writes bullet lists, then invites you to "delve" deeper. This is an interface that reifies that rabbit-holing process into a tiling layout. The model is instructed to output hyperlink-prompts when it mentions something you might want to delve into. Lots of features to add (sessions, sharing, navigation, highlight-to-delve, images, ...). Would love to hear other usecases and ideas!

New best story on Hacker News: Donating forks to the dining hall

Donating forks to the dining hall 480 by kickofline | 157 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Kino: Pro Video Camera

Kino: Pro Video Camera 588 by louis-paul | 224 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business 538 by mtlynch | 201 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting 490 by blackmanta | 348 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: TTE: Terminal Text Effects

TTE: Terminal Text Effects 512 by makapuf | 74 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack 428 by toomanyrichies | 176 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Priced out of home ownership

Priced out of home ownership 416 by user20180120 | 1011 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes

Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes 395 by ColinWright | 191 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?

Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens? 399 by pantalaimon | 292 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero

Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero 426 by jgrahamc | 98 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”

Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login” 388 by tambourine_man | 221 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like

What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like 376 by ingve | 141 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging

Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging 372 by tfsh | 161 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks 372 by slovette | 149 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Writing a Unix clone in about a month

Writing a Unix clone in about a month 375 by drewdevault | 125 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic 398 by huhtenberg | 69 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)

Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003) 378 by Borrible | 238 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product

Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product 420 by aazo11 | 138 comments on Hacker News. Long story short: We (Dataherald) just open-sourced our entire codebase, including the core engine, the clients that interact with it and the backend application layer for authentication and RBAC. You can now use the full solution to build text-to-SQL into your product. The Problem: modern LLMs write syntactically correct SQL, but they struggle with real-world relational data. This is because real world data and schema is messy, natural language can often be ambiguous and LLMs are not trained on your specific dataset. Solution: The core NL-to-SQL engine in Dataherald is an LLM based agent which uses Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning and a number of different tools to generate high accuracy SQL from a given user prompt. The engine achieves this by: - Collecting context at configuration from the database and sources such as data dictionaries and unstructured documents which are stored i...

New best story on Hacker News: WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics 407 by whereistimbo | 189 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show 552 by richardatlarge | 1148 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: ICQ will stop working from June 26

ICQ will stop working from June 26 620 by Uncle_Sam | 403 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: We're ending our Samsung collaboration

We're ending our Samsung collaboration 557 by skilled | 317 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder 546 by smcameron | 153 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet 595 by asadm | 331 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

Introducing Copilot+ PCs 396 by skilled | 565 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: What UI density means and how to design for it

What UI density means and how to design for it 468 by delaugust | 242 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How? 399 by pinakinathc | 356 comments on Hacker News. Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms? Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views). Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it. I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough? If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works? ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency/cost like running view count algorithms.

New best story on Hacker News: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes 608 by spzx | 1036 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice 667 by mjcl | 456 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Lunacy of Artemis

The Lunacy of Artemis 543 by feross | 376 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Coding My Handwriting

Coding My Handwriting 504 by tobr | 39 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Llama3 implemented from scratch

Llama3 implemented from scratch 474 by Hadi7546 | 108 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Riven

Riven 447 by doppp | 140 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Floor796

Floor796 466 by gtirloni | 63 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check

Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check 474 by edent | 219 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)

Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) 393 by LightMachine | 91 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Worst Website in the Entire World

The Worst Website in the Entire World 386 by speckx | 187 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Exercises to Learn Rust

Exercises to Learn Rust 525 by sebg | 98 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Slack AI Training with Customer Data

Slack AI Training with Customer Data 505 by mlhpdx | 257 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: A forged Apple employee badge

A forged Apple employee badge 502 by ecliptik | 173 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: VCs aren’t your friends

VCs aren’t your friends 486 by taubek | 335 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking 474 by dmd | 261 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)

Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013) 466 by PaulHoule | 181 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: It’s an age of marvels

It’s an age of marvels 425 by pavel_lishin | 395 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI 509 by wavelander | 253 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Veo

Veo 518 by meetpateltech | 198 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs

Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs 516 by gnabgib | 398 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: GPUs Go Brrr

GPUs Go Brrr 820 by nmstoker | 153 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

Immersive Linear Algebra (2015) 787 by oumua_don17 | 64 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years 745 by thedg | 181 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer wasn't sure if I meant that it returned an error or if it was unresponsive. So the engineer would be frustrated, I would be frustrated, and fixing stuff would slow to a halt while we went back and forth to clarify how to repro the issue over async Jira comments. It’...

New best story on Hacker News: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora 762 by luispa | 190 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Jim Simons has died

Jim Simons has died 684 by fgblanch | 217 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: It's always TCP_NODELAY

It's always TCP_NODELAY 530 by todsacerdoti | 176 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial

Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial 538 by belter | 259 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed 520 by peutetre | 258 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"

Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine" 503 by chromakode | 67 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules 530 by zerojames | 248 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation

Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation 431 by ople | 273 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]

Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video] 436 by sschueller | 156 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years

Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years 421 by rodarima | 104 comments on Hacker News. As commented before[1], I've been working on the past months to get the Dillo back to life and today I'm happy to release the 3.1.0 version, after almost 9 years since the last one. [1]: https://ift.tt/VRvWqAj During this time: - A new mailing list was created[2] which is beginning to get some messages and patches. It is available in gmane via NNTP at gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel. [2]: https://ift.tt/GpVbd7N... - A LiberaPay page[3] which received the first donations (thanks!). [3]: https://ift.tt/gkpV9Wd - Some more bugs where fixed and new features where added (details in the release page and/or changelog). Thanks to all the people that contributed with patches and tests. Now let's see if we can make it land in some distros!

New best story on Hacker News: Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero 484 by alessiodm | 42 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Social engineering takeovers of open source projects

Social engineering takeovers of open source projects 455 by mooreds | 189 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices 458 by jjgreen | 566 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions

MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions 428 by nsoonhui | 282 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland 425 by coloneltcb | 119 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality

Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality 469 by wjb3 | 517 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension

I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension 499 by sebg | 85 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 504 by imaq | 432 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android 469 by ementally | 215 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 395 by Freedom2 | 447 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The File Filesystem (2021)

The File Filesystem (2021) 339 by wegwerff | 99 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js 379 by spxneo | 65 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: New startup sells coffee through SSH

New startup sells coffee through SSH 556 by ethanholt1 | 289 comments on Hacker News.