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posted on Wed Aug 31 15:21:43 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN
The person who was the sole source for the article about a purported "breach" at Ubiquiti has been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing, which includes providing false information to the press.
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
posted on Wed Aug 31 16:24:59 UTC 2022 by dannyw | view on HN
The new Outpainting feature on the DALL-E AI system enables users to extend their creativity by continuing an image beyond its original borders, adding visual elements in the same style or taking a story in new directions, simply by using a natural language description.
Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
posted on Wed Aug 31 12:02:56 UTC 2022 by 0xedb | view on HN
The article is about a user who found that their app wasn't usable when they disabled cookies in Chrome, and the fix for the Issue was annoying, but simple.
Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
posted on Wed Aug 31 13:13:09 UTC 2022 by jgrahamc | view on HN
Fake musicians: a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme
posted on Wed Aug 31 14:00:48 UTC 2022 by danso | view on HN
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power and found that Dr. Martin Jugenburg, a well-coiffed Toronto plastic surgeon, was part of a scheme to get improperly verified as a musician on Instagram.
Lambda the Ultimate is now running in a new, more stable environment
posted on Wed Aug 31 11:31:30 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN
The article discusses the recent downtime experienced by LtU and how it has been migrated to a new environment which should be much more stable.
Launch HN: Lion Pose (YC W21) – Safe and effective skin care for people of color
posted on Wed Aug 31 16:10:25 UTC 2022 by nphatak | view on HN
Inter-brain sync occurs without physical copresence during online gaming
posted on Wed Aug 31 14:43:52 UTC 2022 by programd | view on HN
Want to found a startup? Work at one first
posted on Wed Aug 31 10:35:15 UTC 2022 by lawrjone | view on HN
The article discusses the importance of experience for founders of startups, sharing the author's own experience working at a startup.
Fuzzing Go APIs for SQL Injection
posted on Wed Aug 31 16:11:19 UTC 2022 by andrei | view on HN
Fuzzing is a powerful tool that finds subtle bugs and vulnerabilities by running millions of procedurally generated tests on your code.
Snap lays off 20% of employees
posted on Wed Aug 31 15:02:17 UTC 2022 by no_wizard | view on HN
Snap is laying off around 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees, canceling its original shows, in-app games, and several other projects as part of a corporate restructuring.
Show HN: An opinionated and statically-typed TypeScript SDK generator
posted on Wed Aug 31 16:47:36 UTC 2022 by simplesager | view on HN
Poll HN: Do you use SSH certificates (not mere public-key authentication)?
posted on Wed Aug 31 11:26:36 UTC 2022 by tonyg | view on HN
Film: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion
posted on Wed Aug 31 08:18:53 UTC 2022 by memorable | view on HN
This article discusses a frame interpolation algorithm that synthesizes multiple intermediate frames from two input images with large in-between motion, using a single unified network.
Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier
posted on Wed Aug 31 10:13:07 UTC 2022 by nsoonhui | view on HN
The article discusses the Busy Beaver function and recent developments in its study.
Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it
posted on Wed Aug 31 14:28:07 UTC 2022 by jayass | view on HN
This extension loads a cached version of the page from Google cache and most of the time this removes the paywall.
Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images
posted on Wed Aug 31 15:15:44 UTC 2022 by pseudolus | view on HN
Seaweed could be the future of plastic [video]
posted on Wed Aug 31 11:07:36 UTC 2022 by simonebrunozzi | view on HN
The Viable Systems Model, and where my team fits
posted on Mon Aug 29 03:46:55 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN
The Viable Systems Model is a tool to help identify where a team or company fits in a system and how it can contribute to the overall viability of the system.
The Original “Universal” Port by Atari
posted on Wed Aug 31 15:22:48 UTC 2022 by schmudde | view on HN
The article discusses how the 9-pin Atari joystick port became a de facto standard and how it was used on three consoles and three computer systems.
The several deaths of François Vatel
posted on Mon Aug 29 17:25:54 UTC 2022 by Thevet | view on HN
The article is about the life of François Vatel, a maître d'hôtel who is most famous for his death by suicide.
Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy
posted on Wed Aug 31 11:12:49 UTC 2022 by cwwc | view on HN
The article discusses how scientists are trying to find a drug that has anti-ageing effects and how the most promising drug currently is Rapamycin. A research group has found that brief exposure to rapamycin has the same positive effects as lifelong treatment.
Performance Improvements in .NET 7
posted on Wed Aug 31 13:18:33 UTC 2022 by mikece | view on HN
The article discusses the many performance improvements in .NET 7.
Git’s Database Internals III: File History Queries
posted on Wed Aug 31 14:01:42 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN
The article discusses how different history modes behave and which ones to use when you need them.
Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing revelations
posted on Wed Aug 31 12:58:48 UTC 2022 by echelon_musk | view on HN
The article is discussing how the US National Security Agency tried to get the British counterpart to stop the Guardian from publishing Edward Snowden's revelations, but the British refused.
Tab (YC W15) Is Hiring a Lead Developer in London
posted on Wed Aug 31 07:00:50 UTC 2022 by markdatta | view on HN
Tab is a company that has created a payments platform for businesses in the tourism industry that is able to handle a large number of payments in different currencies in real time with little to no downtime. The company is profitable and sustainable, and is looking to expand its team as it continues to grow revenue.
Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?
posted on Wed Aug 31 14:21:29 UTC 2022 by faizshah | view on HN
posted on Wed Aug 31 04:33:37 UTC 2022 by gcollard- | view on HN
The article is about a method for animating stable diffusion by interpolating between two prompts.
posted on Wed Aug 31 10:35:36 UTC 2022 by connorlu | view on HN
Software engineering research questions
posted on Wed Aug 31 03:36:11 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN
The article is a list of research ideas for software engineering, with questions ranging from the impact of documentation in code to the difficulty of getting software installed and configured.