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 Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit by a Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug
#ycombinator #Phoronix #Linux_Hardware_Reviews #Linux_hardware_benchmarks #Linux_server_benchmarks #Linux_benchmarking #Desktop_Linux #Linux_performance #Open_Source_graphics #Linux_How_To #Ubuntu_benchmarks #Ubuntu_hardware #Phoronix_Test_Suite 
 Study Finds Hybrid Work Improves Mental Health Compared to Remote or In-Office
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9517068/
#ycombinator 
 Inflated rents, high interest and lack of supply create European housing crisis
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231003-inflated-rents-high-interest-rates-and-lack-of-supply-create-european-housing-crisis
#ycombinator #Europe #housing #Features #European_Union #economy #homelessness #France #Paris #Ireland #inflation #Austria #Finland 
 How police use location/search data to find suspects
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/03/techscape-geofence-warrants
#ycombinator 
 The Key to Rocketing Your Japanese Understanding
https://japanesecomplete.com/articles/?p=1577
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Where are you looking for remote jobs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37755620
#ycombinator 
 Yt-Dlp Commands: The Complete Tutorial for Beginners
https://ostechnix.com/yt-dlp-tutorial/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Best books to understand semiconductor business?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754287
#ycombinator 
 Arc browser built-in AI features [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7koAGLf0EE
#ycombinator #arc #arc_browser #the_browser_company #browser 
 Google open-sources their graph mining library
https://github.com/google/graph-mining
#ycombinator 
 I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
https://www.careerfair.io/online-maze
#ycombinator 
 $8B Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/sam-bankman-fried-criminal-trial-starts-today-heres-whats-at-stake.html
#ycombinator #Breaking_News_Technology #Securities_fraud #Bitcoin_USD_Coinbase #FinTech #Technology #Cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #Energy #business_news 
 How the Upcoming Mazda RX-9 Will Keep the Spirit of the Rotary Engine Alive
https://www.topspeed.com/mazda-rx-9-will-keep-the-spirit-of-the-rotary-engine-alive/
#ycombinator 
 Pgroll: zero-downtime, undoable, schema migrations for Postgres
https://xata.io/blog/pgroll-schema-migrations-postgres
#ycombinator 
 Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable phone yet
https://www.androidpolice.com/fairphone-5-review/
#ycombinator 
 Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/ad-free-facebook-instagram-access-planned-for-14-per-month-in-europe/
#ycombinator 
 Missing girl found using fingerprints on ransom note
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66993201
#ycombinator 
 Daktilo: Turn Your Keyboard into a Typewriter
https://github.com/orhun/daktilo
#ycombinator 
 Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit-man-steals-800-gallons-using-bluetooth-to-hack-gas-pumps-at-station
#ycombinator #Crime_Publicsafety #News #Wayne_County #Detroit 
 Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? (Hint: No, it's not.)
https://www.chicagomediaaction.org/news.php?id=757
#ycombinator 
 HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/03/nokia-hmd-global-europe-smartphone/
#ycombinator 
 As EV sales surge and cars get heavier, parking garages will have to change
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/as-ev-sales-surge-and-cars-get-heavier-parking-garages-have-to-change.html
#ycombinator #Building_collapses #Public_buildings_construction #Building_codes #Climate #Autos #Transportation #Breaking_News_Business #Business #Renewable_Energy #Energy #Alternative_and_sustainable_energy #Environment #London #European_Commission #Electric_vehicles #Fires #Automobile_safety #Engineering #business_news 
 Show HN: Binance Orderbooks Consumer in C++
https://github.com/xreptoid/viperfish
#ycombinator 
 What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749619
#ycombinator 
 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/summary/
#ycombinator 
 Satya Nadella Says Copilot Will Be as Significant as the PC
https://jdmeier.com/satya-nadella-on-copilot/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: LinkedIn mysteriously banned me permanently; where to go next?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748263
#ycombinator 
 What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020)
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/hardware/
#ycombinator 
 What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/hardware/
#ycombinator 
 Illustrated A64 SIMD Instruction List: SVE Instructions
https://dougallj.github.io/asil/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Is GenAI heading for a crypto-esque bubble pop?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37747040
#ycombinator 
 The successful campaign to convince people the USA and not the USSR beat Hitler
https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year-campaign-to-convince-people-the-usa-and-not
#ycombinator 
 PicoCalc: A Fully-Functional Clone of VisiCalc
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=41739
#ycombinator 
 Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors
https://www.redfin.com/news/redfin-is-leaving-nar/
#ycombinator 
 Starlink is now available across the United States
https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1708871459224133933
#ycombinator 
 Kagi is 80% faster and 70% less carbon intensive than Google
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-speed.html
#ycombinator 
 Days of Awe: The clinical trial drug that might save my husband's life
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/days-of-awe-the-clinical-trial-drug
#ycombinator 
 Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear
https://www.rewind.ai/pendant
#ycombinator 
 Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-story-about-dead-grandma-tricks-microsoft-ai-into-solving-captcha/
#ycombinator 
 Oxford 'explosion' after lightning strike seen from A34
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23829165.oxford-explosion-lightning-strike-seen-a34/
#ycombinator 
 Asus Formally Completes Acquisition of Intel's NUC Business
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21080/asus-formally-completes-acquisition-of-intels-nuc-business
#ycombinator 
 Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
#ycombinator 
 Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14556
#ycombinator 
 Notion experiencing issues (over 6 hours)
https://status.notion.so/incidents/b3g5shlj6hhl
#ycombinator 
 The 15-minute city conspiracy theory goes mainstream
https://www.wired.com/story/15-minute-city-conspiracy-uk-politics/
#ycombinator #conspiracy_theories #transportation #disinformation #urban_planning #trolls 
 Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-02/robin-williams-daughter-zelda-slams-ai-for-recreating-her-fathers-voice.html
#ycombinator 
 Tom Hanks Warns Fans to Beware of Dental Plan Ad Featuring an AI Version of Him
https://www.ign.com/articles/tom-hanks-warns-fans-beware-dental-plan-ad-featuring-ai-version-of-him
#ycombinator 
 ASCII FacePalm
http://www.asciifacepalm.com/
#ycombinator #facepalm #face_palm #ascii 
 EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs a Coal Plant to Power It
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/09/22/ev-battery-factory-will-require-so-much-energy-it-needs-a-coal-plant-to-power-it/
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements
https://www.openstatus.dev
#ycombinator 
 Streaming LLM – No limit on context length for your favourite LLM
https://github.com/mit-han-lab/streaming-llm
#ycombinator 
 Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes It from the System
https://deform.co/microsoft-defender-flags-tor-browser-as-a-trojan-and-removes-it-from-the-system/
#ycombinator 
 Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/
#ycombinator 
 Stop Arguing over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tuition-free-public-college/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739028
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739027
#ycombinator 
 How to set up an anonymous user flow
https://fusionauth.io/blog/anonymous-user
#ycombinator 
 DOE: Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Virtual Power Plants
https://liftoff.energy.gov/vpp/
#ycombinator 
 Break-a-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image
https://omriavrahami.com/break-a-scene/
#ycombinator #Break_A_Scene #text_to_image_personalization 
 Major airline faces backlash after using ghost flights to exploit legal loophole
https://news.yahoo.com/major-airline-faces-backlash-using-220000546.html
#ycombinator 
 Python 3.12
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/
#ycombinator #Python_programming_language_object_oriented_web_free_open_source_software_license_documentation_download_community 
 James Webb Telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66974738
#ycombinator 
 Nobel Price in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
#ycombinator 
 Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
#ycombinator 
 HTTP Cats
https://http.cat/
#ycombinator #http #cats #http_cats #http_status_cats #status_cats #api #lolcats #error 
 Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour
https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/02/amsterdam-preparing-lower-speed-limit-30-kilometers-per-hour
#ycombinator 
 Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
https://floorp.app/en/
#ycombinator 
 Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity
https://nuejs.org/blog/rethinking-reactivity/
#ycombinator 
 VeraCrypt: Free, open source, disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
#ycombinator #encryption #security 
 Bye Sequence, Hello UUIDv7
https://buildkite.com/blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids
#ycombinator #UUID #UUIDv7 #Database #Indexes #Time_based #Primary_keys #Secondary_keys 
 Nvidia Unveils Updated GH200 Grace Hopper with HBM3e Memory, Shipping in Q2'2024
https://www.anandtech.com/show/20001/nvidia-unveils-gh200-grace-hopper-gpu-with-hbm3e-memory
#ycombinator 
 Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
https://www.dcsa.mil/
#ycombinator 
 LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37732203
#ycombinator 
 ‘Quotes were £5000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance cost
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/30/the-quotes-were-5000-or-more-electric-vehicle-owners-face-soaring-insurance-costs
#ycombinator 
 Intimacy does not scale (2021)
https://archive.ph/AUpYp
#ycombinator 
 Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good?
https://reason.com/2023/09/27/maybe-google-is-popular-because-its-good/
#ycombinator 
 FBI warns “phantom” hacker scams are emptying financial accounts
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/fbi-issues-warning-over-phantom-hacker-scams-dont-fall-for-this
#ycombinator 
 Tom Hanks says that’s not him selling dental insurance in Instagram ads
https://www.avclub.com/tom-hanks-ai-dental-plan-instagram-ads-1850890845
#ycombinator #Tom_Hanks #Dental_insurance #Instagram #Insurance #Entertainment #Culture #Health_insurance #Dentist #The_A_V_Club 
 My Dearest Data East: Why? Gate of Doom/Dark Seal
https://nicole.express/2023/im-gonna-open-the-doom-gate-now.html
#ycombinator