news, !paper 2024-08-17

1083 Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player / mpv.io / 547

805 Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely / github.com/magic-wormhole / 248

597 Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store / twitter.com/organicmapsapp / 214

489 Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out / csoonline.com / 305

481 X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum / fortune.com / 438

452 Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture / praachi.work / 220

365 Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf] / files.eric.ed.gov / 134

344 Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers? / news.ycombinator.com / 183

340 X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders / reuters.com / 592

338 Blockbuster Video VHS insert template / github.com/rfinnie / 84

294 Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program / github.com/chrxh / 22

276 Games People Play with Cash Flow (2020) / commoncog.com / 85

246 Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC? / news.ycombinator.com / 354

231 Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word? / joel.tools / 101

230 Renderings Created with Only a Pencil / core77.com / 63

226 Just use Postgres / mccue.dev / 225

215 FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords) / loyaltylobby.com / 134

196 I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU) / legendofworlds.com / 81

195 Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google / tinystruggles.com / 233

186 Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess' / theverge.com / 192

185 Slackdump / github.com/rusq / 44

183 pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA / motherduck.com / 29

182 Yesterday's Pixels, Today / nas.sr / 45

180 Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones / arstechnica.com / 144

173 Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables / blog.sylver.dev / 12

168 Xapian: Open source search engine library / xapian.org / 43

159 There Is No Website / thereisnoweb.site / 84

153 An unordered list of things I miss in Go / kokada.capivaras.dev / 272

142 How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI / justinmath.com / 32

128 Surgeons Cut a Giant Tumor Out of My Head. Is There a Better Way? / bloomberg.com / 70

128 Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage / newatlas.com / 63

123 China's manufacturers are going broke / economist.com / 207

118 Hacking with PDF (2022) / 0xcybery.github.io / 12

115 DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model / arxiv.org / 46

111 Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics / privatdozent.co / 29

110 The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life / proton.me / 45

110 Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019) / outlandnish.com / 20

104 NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users / cnet.com / 68

100 Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them / github.com/PatrickJS / 50

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