hackernews 2 years ago

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped police identify activist Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347773 )

TechCrunch

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch

Spanish police requested information from Apple, and encrypted services Proton and Wire, about a pro-Catalan independence activist.

hackernews 2 years ago

Amazon's self-driving taxi Zoox under investigation by US after rear-end crashes Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346677 )

AP News

Amazon's self-driving robotaxi unit Zoox under investigation by US after 2 rear-end crashes

Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked sudde...

hackernews 2 years ago

Math problems with GPT-4o [video] Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347320 )

hackernews 2 years ago

Static Chess Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342803 )

Val Town

maxm/staticChess

A TypeScript project on Val Town written by maxm

hackernews 2 years ago

Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999 Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346350 )

DDW News

Alarming Increases in CRC Incidence Among Younger Adults - DDW News

Physicians should not dismiss the possibility of CRC in younger patients, says Dr. Islam Mohamed.

hackernews 2 years ago

2.4M person study: Internet use boosts, not hurts, well being Comments (

2.4M person study: Internet use boosts, not hurts, well being | Hacker News

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Client Challenge

hackernews 2 years ago

Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347118 )

Quartz

Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account

About half a million customers of the Australian fund UniSuper were locked out of their accounts for a week

hackernews 2 years ago

Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346024 )

Apple Newsroom (Canada)

Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android

Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.

hackernews 2 years ago

Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant Comments (

Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant | Hacker News

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GitHub

GitHub - nkasmanoff/pi-card: Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant

Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant. Contribute to nkasmanoff/pi-card development by creating an account on GitHub.

hackernews 2 years ago

Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres Comments (

Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres | Hacker News

) https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_lakehouse

hackernews 2 years ago

Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346148 )

FORGE: A File-Oriented Reflective Graphical Environment

hackernews 2 years ago

mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight brain tumors Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346675 )

New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight malignant brain tumor - UF Health

In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the...

hackernews 2 years ago

Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345596 ) https://twitter.com/xoseperez/status/1790031351443341357

hackernews 2 years ago

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes Comments (

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes | Hacker News

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Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes - AWS

Discover more about what

hackernews 2 years ago

Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40340417 )

New Books Network

Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024) - New Books Network

hackernews 2 years ago

Deblur-GS: 3D Gaussian Splatting from Camera Motion Blurred Images Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345654 )

Deblur-GS: 3D Gaussian Splatting from Camera Motion Blurred Images

3D Gaussian Splatting from Camera Motion Blurred Images

hackernews 2 years ago

Ruby 3.4, No More TypeError with **Nil as It Is Treated as an Empty Hash Comments (

Ruby 3.4, No More TypeError with **Nil as It Is Treated as an Empty Hash | Hacker News

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Saeloun Blog

Ruby 3.4 **nil No Longer Raises TypeError

When double splat ** operator used with nil, it is treated similarly to **{}, which passes no keywords and does not call any conversion methods.

hackernews 2 years ago

Space Junk Removal Is Not Going Smoothly (2021) Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345521 )

Scientific American

Space Junk Removal Is Not Going Smoothly

Despite promising technology demonstrations, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the growing problem of taking out the orbital trash

hackernews 2 years ago

A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345641 ) https://phys.org/news/2024-05-global-plastic-treaty-caps-production.html

hackernews 2 years ago

Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants Comments (

Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants | Hacker News

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GitHub

GitHub - pipecat-ai/pipecat: Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.

Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community. - pipecat-ai/pipecat