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New top story on Hacker News: Senator calls for the public release of AT&T 'Hemisphere' surveillance records

Senator calls for the public release of AT&T 'Hemisphere' surveillance records 21 by barbacoa | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Forbes built hall of shame for the questionable people on its 30 Under 30 lists

Forbes built hall of shame for the questionable people on its 30 Under 30 lists 18 by pseudolus | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ballerburg SDL – Play classical castle combat game from 1987 in the browser

Ballerburg SDL – Play classical castle combat game from 1987 in the browser 6 by midzer | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users

Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users 61 by tysone | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I hereby pardon all junior engineers

I hereby pardon all junior engineers 12 by surprisetalk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: S3 Express Is All You Need

S3 Express Is All You Need 7 by ryanworl | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Combine GPTs with private knowledge for actually useful AIs

Combine GPTs with private knowledge for actually useful AIs 14 by Weves | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net

That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net 22 by zdw | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: BYD challenges Tesla with more than 300k electric cars sold in a month

BYD challenges Tesla with more than 300k electric cars sold in a month 26 by PaulHoule | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society

Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society 78 by pabs3 | 77 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SysXCHG: Refining Privilege with Adaptive System Call Filters

SysXCHG: Refining Privilege with Adaptive System Call Filters 3 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC

SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC 3 by justsomehnguy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman Animations running out of clay

Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman Animations running out of clay 8 by Rant423 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Single alerts API for all monitoring tools

Single alerts API for all monitoring tools 11 by shahargl | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud

Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud 9 by edward | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Let's Write a Malloc

Let's Write a Malloc 12 by yla92 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The bash book to rule them all

The bash book to rule them all 3 by tosh | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Autonomous Excavator Constructs a Six-Metre-High Dry-Stone Wall

Autonomous Excavator Constructs a Six-Metre-High Dry-Stone Wall 55 by belter | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Data Parallel Extensions for Python

Data Parallel Extensions for Python 6 by nateb2022 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure

Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure 4 by apollinaire | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Flutter seems to be having bad times internally

Flutter seems to be having bad times internally 28 by pjmlp | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Call the Routing Police

Call the Routing Police 9 by ggm | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is an Engineering Manager

Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is an Engineering Manager 1 by kanjun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: All design and engineering of the original Tesla Roadster is now open source

All design and engineering of the original Tesla Roadster is now open source 27 by nimmerland | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ford Is Killing the Explorer Hybrid Because Cops Are Buying All of Them

Ford Is Killing the Explorer Hybrid Because Cops Are Buying All of Them 7 by ourmandave | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Exponentially Faster Language Modelling

Exponentially Faster Language Modelling 37 by born-jre | 68 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package 4 by dddavid | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ChatGPT Voice for All Free Users Announced (By Greg Brockman)

ChatGPT Voice for All Free Users Announced (By Greg Brockman) 13 by Jimmc414 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Satya Nadella: "We have all the rights and all the capability."

Satya Nadella: "We have all the rights and all the capability." 63 by skilled | 74 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason

Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason 5 by fgfm | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that works

Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that works 6 by khalidx | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Changing User-Agent to Google Chrome drastically improves YouTube load times

Changing User-Agent to Google Chrome drastically improves YouTube load times 9 by drones | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information 26 by walterbell | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Trap and test AWS SES emails locally

Trap and test AWS SES emails locally 6 by anonfunction | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: CUBOTino: A small, simple, 3D printed, inexpensive Rubik's Cube solver robot

CUBOTino: A small, simple, 3D printed, inexpensive Rubik's Cube solver robot 15 by wallflower | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More

Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More 7 by abhi9u | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The share of Americans who are mortgage-free is at an all-time high

The share of Americans who are mortgage-free is at an all-time high 21 by safaa1993 | 20 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations

Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations 43 by raybb | 47 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5

A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5 3 by mikece | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected

Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected 23 by dakna | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England

How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England 6 by rntn | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges 10 by kurthr | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fact check: Earth is not flat or surrounded by an ice wall

Fact check: Earth is not flat or surrounded by an ice wall 7 by hhs | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Small scale data migrations (2012)

Small scale data migrations (2012) 4 by mooreds | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: LLMs by Hallucination Rate

LLMs by Hallucination Rate 14 by vincent_s | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Rolls-royce confirms all of its current engines can run on 100 percent SAF

Rolls-royce confirms all of its current engines can run on 100 percent SAF 18 by josephcsible | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: "Grand Ball Given by the Whales," Vanity Fair, April 20, 1861

"Grand Ball Given by the Whales," Vanity Fair, April 20, 1861 17 by sirobg | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Meta allows ads saying 2020 election was rigged on Facebook and Instagram

Meta allows ads saying 2020 election was rigged on Facebook and Instagram 16 by antiviral | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study

Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study 46 by pseudolus | 45 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I accidentally a scheme

I accidentally a scheme 25 by Tomte | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Bpftime: Userspace eBPF runtime for fast Uprobe and Syscall hook and Plugins

Bpftime: Userspace eBPF runtime for fast Uprobe and Syscall hook and Plugins 10 by dnsmichi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250 years later

Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250 years later 10 by saikatsg | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal 38 by madars | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3

PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3 18 by liuxiaopai | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims

Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims 11 by LinuxBender | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Stop deploying web application firewalls

Stop deploying web application firewalls 12 by b8 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Small Group Dynamics

Small Group Dynamics 3 by yamrzou | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: RISC-V with Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks

RISC-V with Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks 8 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally

Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally 11 by transpute | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Which sources cover AI developments without falling for the hype?

Ask HN: Which sources cover AI developments without falling for the hype? 31 by pramodbiligiri | 12 comments on Hacker News. Popular press seems to do a bad job covering AI related developments. Twitter is too scattered and academic papers are too narrow. So where do working professionals get seasoned and mature coverage of this space? What would be the AI equivalent of the Economist, AnandTech or Tom’s Hardware?

New top story on Hacker News: The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox)

The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox) 9 by classichasclass | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better 7 by digital55 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Are Sunk Costs Fallacies? (2012)

Are Sunk Costs Fallacies? (2012) 12 by yamrzou | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them

Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them 22 by bookofjoe | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What If Psychedelics' Hallucinations Are Just a Side Effect?

What If Psychedelics' Hallucinations Are Just a Side Effect? 26 by andsoitis | 19 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: .NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux

.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux 4 by tomaszs | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 'Father of cell phone' reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago

'Father of cell phone' reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago 3 by hhs | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly

Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly 4 by mcp_ | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it

Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 6 by jay_kyburz | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff

Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff 1 by kanjun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Illinois Senate approves plan to allow new nuclear reactors

Illinois Senate approves plan to allow new nuclear reactors 21 by mattas | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 34 by deverton | 18 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health

Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health 31 by miguelazo | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean

All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean 22 by rcarmo | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: CIA: All Foreign Governments

CIA: All Foreign Governments 21 by stefankuehnel | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The bash book to rule them all

The bash book to rule them all 52 by Tomte | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AGI Is Being Achieved Incrementally

AGI Is Being Achieved Incrementally 12 by swyx | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What the QWAC? an EV Certificate all over again

What the QWAC? an EV Certificate all over again 22 by charleyablaze | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Solar Splitting of CO2 with 3D-Printed Hierarchically Channeled Ceria Structures

Solar Splitting of CO2 with 3D-Printed Hierarchically Channeled Ceria Structures 3 by PaulHoule | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised All Prices

Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue to Undo T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised All Prices 14 by rntn | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: New job has no way of coding locally?

New job has no way of coding locally? 16 by thunderbong | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall

WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall 19 by toomuchtodo | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open-source model and scorecard for measuring hallucinations in LLMs

Show HN: Open-source model and scorecard for measuring hallucinations in LLMs 23 by eskibars | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi all! This morning, we released a new Apache 2.0 licensed model on HuggingFace for detecting hallucinations in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. What we've found is that even when given a "simple" instruction like "summarize the following news article," every LLM that's available hallucinates to some extent, making up details that never existed in the source article -- and some of them quite a bit. As a RAG provider and proponents of ethical AI, we want to see LLMs get better at this. We've published an open source model, a blog more thoroughly describing our methodology (and some specific examples of these summarization hallucinations), and a GitHub repository containing our evaluation from the most popular generative LLMs available today. Links to all of them are referenced in the blog here, but for the technical au...

New top story on Hacker News: Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges

Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges 59 by janandonly | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: New Microsoft Exchange zero-days allow RCE, data theft attacks

New Microsoft Exchange zero-days allow RCE, data theft attacks 32 by croes | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving 27 by midnightdiesel | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long

Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long 9 by jerryjerryjerry | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 59 by thunderbong | 45 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ploopy Adept is an open source, customizable trackball that sells for about $60

Ploopy Adept is an open source, customizable trackball that sells for about $60 18 by edward | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: DALL-E 3 Is So Good It's Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping

DALL-E 3 Is So Good It's Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping 36 by rntn | 39 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SBF Guilty on All Charges

SBF Guilty on All Charges 5 by emgeee | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges 2 by donohoe | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Apple called Android a 'massive tracking device' before doubling down on privacy

Apple called Android a 'massive tracking device' before doubling down on privacy 5 by dmitrygr | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Little Bobby Tables Has a Baby Sister. Meet Sally Ignore Previous Instructions

Little Bobby Tables Has a Baby Sister. Meet Sally Ignore Previous Instructions 54 by gregorymichael | 16 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire

Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire 27 by marban | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Apple's called Android a "massive tracking device" in an internal presentation

Apple's called Android a "massive tracking device" in an internal presentation 4 by mdwalters | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 4th edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available online

4th edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available online 22 by mariuz | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun

Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun 13 by mariuz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller

Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller 14 by omarfarooq | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal

Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal 15 by JoelEinbinder | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://ift.tt/a7iHkv9 Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://ift.tt/wyRl074 I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the terminal. Joel Einbinder

New top story on Hacker News: Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says

Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says 118 by Beggers1960 | 125 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval

Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval 7 by softwaredoug | 0 comments on Hacker News.