SpaceX is NASA's biggest lunar rival

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41883685


https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/17/spacex-is-nasas-biggest-lunar-rival 

 Kennedy, Merkley introduce bill to end TSA facial recognition (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41876071


https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2023/11/kennedy-merkley-introduce-bill-to-end-involuntary-facial-recognition-screenings-protect-americans-privacy 

 Optery (YC W22) Is Hiring Product Manager and Full Stack Developer (Node.js)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868815


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/optery/jobs 

 Critical default credentials in Kubernetes allows SSH root access

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866521


https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/critical_kubernetes_image_builder_bug/ 

 WordPress retaliation impacts community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866328


https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/c0438e0ee9382c5f/ 

 Reflex (YC W23) Hiring Senior/Staff Engineer – Infrastructure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41863937


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs/uBt9ZNP-senior-staff-engineer-infrastructure 

 Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853810


https://graphite.rs/ 

 Black Voters Drift from Democrats, Imperiling Harris's Bid, Poll Shows

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831932


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/us/politics/poll-black-voters-harris-trump.html 

 Tiny Glade: How Could They Do This? [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831135


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjEp8rMFUM 

 A Novel Channel Contention Mechanism for Improving Wi-Fi's Reliability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828069


https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07874 

 Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821131


https://legiscope.com/blog/hidden-productivity-drain-cookie-banners.html 

 Tesla Robotaxi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41805706


https://www.tesla.com/we-robot 

 Tesla's Robotaxi event still not started after 40 minutes [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41805515


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6dbxPlsXs 

 The human internet is dying. AI images are taking over Google top results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783787


https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1fye6tb/the_human_internet_is_dying_ai_images_taking_over/ 

 Nearly all of the Google Images results for "Baby Peacock" are AI generated

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767648


https://twitter.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556 

 Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running Out of Electricity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759360


https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-makes-the-majority-of-the-worlds-computer-chips-now-its-running-out-of-electricity/ 

 AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759112


https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2024-10-06-vpternlogd/ 

 Open Letter from American Medical Professionals Who Served in Gaza

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756088


https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024 

 PropelAuth (YC W22) is hiring engineers who love to write

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749301


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/propelauth/jobs/pLMnFlZ-technical-content-creator 

 The racist AI deepfake that fooled and divided a community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748201


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg9k5dv1zdo 

 Versable (YC W22) Is Hiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41746913


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/versable/jobs/LeJtyhJ-senior-engineer 

 Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736215


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/cox-slows-internet-speeds-in-entire-neighborhoods-to-punish-any-heavy-users/ 

 Flawless is now in Public Beta

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41735019


https://flawless.dev/docs/ 

 Popular ad blocker uBlock Origin Lite pulled from Firefox store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728408


https://www.pcworld.com/article/2474353/popular-ad-blocker-removed-from-firefox-extension-store.html 

 Devyce (YC S22) Is Hiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41718186


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/devyce/jobs/07JsyBp-senior-business-development-manager 

 Math from Three to Seven

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41715762


https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-math-from-three-to-seven-by 

 Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690087


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690087 

 Avoiding downtime: modern alternatives to outdated certificate pinning practices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687141


https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-certificate-pinning-is-outdated/ 

 Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns with Proof-of-Presence

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684116


https://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-controversial-recall-returns-with-proof-of-presence-encryption-data-isolation-opt-in-model/ 

 Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681666


https://ente.io/blog/mozilla-builders/ 

 Meta fined $102M for storing passwords in plain text

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678840


https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-fined-102-million-for-storing-passwords-in-plain-text-110049679.html 

 Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring an API Engineer in Paris (Node.js)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678456


https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/photoroom/24a08307-ae2e-4a40-a6fa-30fb919fb637 

 Bugs Found in Cups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667393


https://www.thestack.technology/critical-9-9-linux-bug-cups-your-ears-the-details-are-now-here/ 

 Cityfurnish (YC W19) Is Hiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665250


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cityfurnish/jobs/7EVvWqp-performance-marketing-head 

 We need to build the GitHub of scientific data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657595


https://vishnurnair.substack.com/p/we-need-to-build-the-github-of-scientific-data 

 OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Shift

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653592


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-25/openai-cto-mira-murati-says-she-will-leave-the-company 

 Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green but Still Sells as Much Fossil Fuel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638137


https://www.propublica.org/article/nw-natural-gas-oregon-fossil-fuel 

 Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633400


http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/09/23/colo/ 

 Crypto Wars: Hungarian Presidency continues fight against encryption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621572


https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-Wars-Hungarian-Presidency-continues-fight-against-encryption-9939732.html 

 If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621191


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621191 

 Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620955


https://www.airgradient.com/blog/co2-sensors-photo-acoustic-vs-ndir-updated/ 

 Larry Ellison: AI surveillance ensures 'citizens will be on their best behavior'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41606065


https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9 

 Show HN: Put this touch sensor on a robot and learn super precise tasks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41603865


https://any-skin.github.io 

 The scary truth about how far behind American kids have fallen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594851


https://www.vox.com/education/372475/math-reading-school-covid-education-learning-loss-kids 

 Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build open source stacked PRs CLI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593901


https://aviator.co/jobs 

 In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41576012


https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-taxpayer-money-funding-private-religious-schools 

 Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41571454


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTUqPue9sQ 

 Hezbollah members reportedly injured by exploding pagers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567813


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo 

 Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549086


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-09-13/playstation-5-pro-shows-futility-of-video-game-graphics-race 

 Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541770


https://lwn.net/Articles/990281/ 

 iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540894


https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/14/iphone-16-pro-m1/ 

 Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41527191


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41527191 

 Linear, symmetric, self-selecting 14-bit molecular memristors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41518606


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377744243_Linear_symmetric_self-selecting_14-bit_molecular_memristors 

 FBI recommends using an ad blocker

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483581


https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221 

 YouTube restricts teenager access to fitness videos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483439


https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/09/07/youtube-will-begin-limiting-access-to-fitness-videos-for-european-teens-heres-why 

 Don't defer Close() on writable files

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479283


https://www.joeshaw.org/dont-defer-close-on-writable-files/ 

 Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478785


https://vincents.dev/blog/creating-a-search-engine/? 

 X Exec Who Defended Restoring Account with Child Abuse Content Resigns

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41474602


https://gizmodo.com/x-twitter-exec-who-defended-restoring-account-that-posted-child-sexual-abuse-material-leaves-the-company-2000495687 

 Hindenburg's Interior: Photos Show What Luxury Air Travel Was Like in the 1930s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41474311


https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hindenburg-interior-photos/ 

 DNS Doesn't Propagate (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41472491


https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/06/dns-doesn-t-propagate/ 

 Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471510


https://thesun.my/local-news/mcmc-addresses-misinformation-on-dns-redirection-internet-access-restrictions-BN12972452 

 Steve Ballmer Was Wrong

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41463330


https://gukov.dev/puzzles/math/2024/09/05/steve-ballmer-was-wrong.html 

 I sold all my Tesla shares (TSLA), here's why

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459344


https://electrek.co/2024/09/05/i-sold-all-my-tesla-shares-tsla-why/ 

 Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443347


https://www.ft.com/content/5164185d-b0d6-40d1-99b4-59f8039111c2 

 Emerge Tools (YC W21) is hiring a senior front end engineer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440851


https://www.emergetools.com/careers/jobs/senior-frontend-engineer 

 Mineflow (YC S24) Is Hiring a Machine Learning Engineer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434072


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mineflow/jobs/sJbXTyi-founding-machine-learning-engineer 

 Starliner crew reports hearing "sonar like noises"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41416872


https://twitter.com/SpaceBasedFox/status/1830180273130242223 

 AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413174


https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/31/airtags-key-to-discovery-of-houstons-plastic-recycling-deception 

 One Million new Bluesky users in 3 days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41412606


https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l3277gkjjc2y 

 Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41412035


https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/08/31/greece-announces-new-rules-banning-mobile-phones-in-schools-from-september 

 The Threat to OpenAI Is Growing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411478


https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatgpt-nvidia-apple-facebook-383943d1 

 Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409522


https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/ 

 Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41408732


https://gizmodo.com/deepwater-submarine-recovers-roman-battering-ram-from-ancient-battle-2000493180 

 NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406129


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP14OzIJWI 

 Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Lead Product (New Product, B2B GenAI Platform)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405898


https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Jerry/d972d5ea-c671-49a9-b964-5fe829f075cf 

 Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring a Research Scientist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396868


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396868 

 SpaceX Falcon 9 booster 'tipped over' into the ocean during landing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41388181


https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/28/24230383/spacex-falcon-9-booster-first-stage-crash-starlink-launch 

 Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383914


https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2025 

 SF Mutual Fund Exec Front-Ran His Fund's Trades

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41374359


https://www.propublica.org/article/dodge-cox-exec-david-hoeft-made-millions-trading-same-stocks 

 Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363499


https://blog.colinbreck.com/predicting-the-future-of-distributed-systems/ 

 Apple to Replace CFO Luca Maestri on Jan. 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363043


https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/26/apple-to-replace-cfo-luca-maestri-on-jan-1.html 

 Months ago, Florida OK'd giving 324 acres of state forest to golf course company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41362852


https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2024/08/26/desantis-state-park-golf-course-land-swap-withlacoochee-forest-brooksville-cabot/ 

 Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring TypeScript Engineers – US/Canada (East Coast Only)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351662


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rollstack-2/jobs/QPqpb1n-middle-senior-software-engineer-typescript-us-canada-east-coast-only 

 Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348421


https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5028551/insurance-therapy-therapist-mental-health-coverage 

 Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341797


https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/papersway/ 

 Show HN: High school robotics code/CAD/design binder release

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340874


https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/team-341-miss-daisy-2024-cad-code-and-design-binder-release/467546 

 MIT's first freshman class since affirmative-action ban is less diverse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41334954


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rxvd2z6ldo 

 Metabolic byproduct of exercise helps cancer cells resist chemotherapy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41333617


https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02731-9 

 Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41325199


https://www.twz.com/sea/starlink-now-being-deployed-on-u-s-navy-warships 

 National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324911


https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/national-public-data-published-its-own-passwords/ 

 Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer (Remote)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295845


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/HD8NQOP-full-stack-engineer 

 Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285484


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/snoo-bassinet-baby-sleeping-subscription-b2597869.html 

 Ambulances called to Amazon's UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277154


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/17/ambulances-called-to-amazons-uk-warehouses-1400-times-in-five-years 

 Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41260321


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41260321 

 Leaked Secrets and Unlimited Miles: Hacking Airline and Hotel Rewards Platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41232446


https://samcurry.net/points-com 

 Why brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230039


https://text.npr.org/g-s1-6417 

 China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220098


https://renewablesnow.com/news/chinas-total-wind-and-solar-capacity-outstrips-coal-rystad-says-865106/ 

 ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217313


https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/chatgpt-unexpectedly-began-speaking-in-a-users-cloned-voice-during-testing/ 

 Does Astrology Work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208252


https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/does-astrology-work 

 Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41207556


http://wall.org/%7Elarry/ 

 Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Has Died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41207446


https://www.threads.net/@crumbler/post/C-ecdHJxHMq 

 GCVR (YC W22) Is Hiring Lead Animation Engineer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206619


https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gym-class-by-irl-studios/jobs/7UKmLED-lead-animation-engineer