Hacker News digest

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First images from Euclid are in (dlmultimedia.esa.int)

311 comments 22 hours, 1409 points

Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations (www.bloomberg.com)

940 comments 2 days, 1380 points

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan (www.quantamagazine.org)

349 comments 19 hours, 1044 points

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

335 comments 2 days, 829 points

show Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories (hnup.date)

178 comments 2 days, 797 points

Accountability sinks (aworkinglibrary.com)

298 comments 2 days, 790 points

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort (www.bbc.com)

65 comments 30 hours, 664 points

Syncthing Android App Discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

254 comments 2 days, 640 points

The AI Investment Boom (www.apricitas.io)

369 comments 2 days, 636 points

Please do not write below the line (www.bbctvlicence.com)

296 comments 24 hours, 633 points

A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote (www.openculture.com)

335 comments 21 hours, 584 points

The IPv6 Transition (www.potaroo.net)

370 comments 2 days, 581 points

QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet (arxiv.org)

269 comments 2 days, 575 points

Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot? (old.reddit.com)

200 comments 24 hours, 559 points

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023) (www.cs.cmu.edu)

124 comments 2 days, 488 points

Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages (nolanlawson.com)

305 comments 45 hours, 464 points

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published (www.polygon.com)

97 comments 2 days, 433 points

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products (techcrunch.com)

149 comments 45 hours, 429 points

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker (www.bbc.com)

118 comments 27 hours, 428 points

Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features (www.theverge.com)

179 comments 18 hours, 423 points

WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator (wifi-solver.com)

82 comments 2 days, 408 points

ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project (www.bbc.com)

203 comments 39 hours, 404 points

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users (arstechnica.com)

190 comments 22 hours, 387 points

Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems (github.com)

63 comments 2 days, 385 points

Using Euro coins as weights (2004) (www.rubinghscience.org)

177 comments 2 days, 356 points

Learning to Learn (kevin.the.li)

110 comments 19 hours, 351 points

Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary (lists.ubuntu.com)

100 comments 45 hours, 337 points

How to do distributed locking (2016) (martin.kleppmann.com)

94 comments 2 days, 334 points

Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing (www.takeourword.com)

99 comments 2 days, 332 points

show Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading (github.com)

43 comments 29 hours, 323 points

Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf] (ieeecs-media.computer.org)

123 comments 23 hours, 311 points

Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit (spacenews.com)

136 comments 29 hours, 293 points

Scientists working to decode birdsong (www.newyorker.com)

136 comments 39 hours, 290 points

Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time (www.quantamagazine.org)

145 comments 22 hours, 287 points

Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy? (theshamblog.com)

155 comments 27 hours, 287 points

Blocking code is a leaky abstraction (notgull.net)

142 comments 2 days, 274 points

LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper (github.com)

40 comments 18 hours, 265 points

A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics (news.mit.edu)

76 comments 41 hours, 259 points

Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab (www.amoses.dev)

82 comments 24 hours, 259 points

Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning (www.trevorlasn.com)

121 comments 39 hours, 245 points

Autism's Four Core Subtypes (www.thetransmitter.org)

103 comments 2 days, 239 points

U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken (www.eff.org)

114 comments 25 hours, 237 points

Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time (www.sciencedirect.com)

53 comments 2 days, 231 points

The best darn grid shader yet (2023) (bgolus.medium.com)

22 comments 2 days, 229 points

show Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research (github.com)