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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
posted on Mon Jan 09 14:14:35 UTC 2023 by picture | view on HN
Identity thieves have been exploiting a security weakness on Experian's website that allows anyone to bypass questions and go straight to the consumer's report.
VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
posted on Mon Jan 09 11:48:43 UTC 2023 by cbeach | view on HN
The article discusses the latest text-to-speech model from Microsoft, VALL-E, which is a significant improvement over previous models.
Mind Your Own Business Act of 2021
posted on Mon Jan 09 15:01:13 UTC 2023 by impish9208 | view on HN
'Terminator' 1 and 2 Save Their Reveals for the Right Time
posted on Mon Jan 09 14:23:37 UTC 2023 by georgecmu | view on HN
The article discusses how the Terminator movie is actually a horror movie and how the sequels have demystified the Terminators.
posted on Mon Jan 09 07:17:52 UTC 2023 by weatherlight | view on HN
The article is about the website gail.com, which is a popular website that receives a lot of traffic because many people mistype gmail.com and end up on gail.com instead. The owner of gail.com does not monetize the website or put up ads, but instead has a link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports a free Internet.
Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (Remote/US)
posted on Mon Jan 09 17:00:05 UTC 2023 by asommer12 | view on HN
Kable makes it easy for developers to add usage-based billing, analytics, and authentication to their API products with just three lines of code, helping API companies bring their products to market faster, more securely, and with flexible billing tools that help businesses scale.
Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
posted on Mon Jan 09 14:28:39 UTC 2023 by Tomte | view on HN
The Go programming language fetches modules via git, such that a user who imports a package will cause the toolchain to fetch the corresponding repository via git in order to make it available in the user’s Go environment. SourceHut will disable git access for the Go Module Mirror on February 24th, 2023, which will cause a service impact for Go users.
Tetris is capable of universal computation
posted on Mon Jan 09 12:47:54 UTC 2023 by zero__one | view on HN
posted on Mon Jan 09 15:15:00 UTC 2023 by RebootStr | view on HN
The article discusses the importance of being able to deploy code changes yourself, and how to create a simple deploy command to make this possible.
I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books
posted on Mon Jan 09 12:40:43 UTC 2023 by sasha_fishter | view on HN
‘That Girl Is Going to Get Herself Killed’
posted on Mon Jan 09 13:18:46 UTC 2023 by mooreds | view on HN
The article tells the story of the author nearly drowning in a river in Glacier National Park.
Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment
posted on Mon Jan 09 02:01:17 UTC 2023 by impish9208 | view on HN
Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?
posted on Mon Jan 09 08:59:39 UTC 2023 by xrayarx | view on HN
The article discusses how to use the 'zz' command in Vim to save and exit a file, as well as how to use it to scroll to the current line of code without moving the viewport.
posted on Mon Jan 09 15:11:22 UTC 2023 by bubblehack3r | view on HN
The article discusses the importance of logging, and provides tips on how to write better logs.
Show HN: I wrote a WebAssembly Interpreter and Toolkit in C
posted on Mon Jan 09 14:02:45 UTC 2023 by 4984 | view on HN
Web49 is a repository containing a few tools for working with WebAssembly, including interpreters, a WASI implementation, and binary tools.
The Organ as a Wind Instrument
posted on Mon Jan 09 11:35:35 UTC 2023 by fipar | view on HN
The article discusses how to produce sound on a pipe organ.
John Carmack: I loaned money to anyone that asked me
posted on Mon Jan 09 16:20:58 UTC 2023 by eatonphil | view on HN
The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.
Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 2)
posted on Mon Jan 09 05:04:03 UTC 2023 by laptou | view on HN
The article discusses reverse engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation using Babel scripts.
TouchEn nxKey: The keylogging anti-keylogger solution
posted on Mon Jan 09 06:58:07 UTC 2023 by curling_grad | view on HN
The article is about South Korea's mandatory security applications and how they are disliked by the public.
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
posted on Mon Jan 09 02:23:39 UTC 2023 by nimzoLarsen | view on HN
This article is about how to come up with fresh, transformative ideas.
PromptArray: A Prompting Language for Neural Text Generators
posted on Mon Jan 09 04:52:12 UTC 2023 by kelseyfrog | view on HN
This repo implements the rudiments of what I am hoping will become a broader set of techniques for controlling text generators, which is a step toward a dream the computer scientist Jean E. Sammet expressed over half a century ago: programming a computer in English.
posted on Sat Jan 07 15:02:42 UTC 2023 by lbatchelor | view on HN
The article is about a man who created a fully playable game of snake that is only 713 bytes.
Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?
posted on Mon Jan 09 16:21:42 UTC 2023 by elashri | view on HN
Ask HN: Lead developer but I just don't enjoy management
posted on Mon Jan 09 11:44:14 UTC 2023 by throwaway040991 | view on HN
In honor of Weizenbaum's Centenary, I asked ChatGPT to program ELIZA
posted on Mon Jan 09 01:18:06 UTC 2023 by abrax3141 | view on HN
Parsing layout – problems with Haskell's syntax
posted on Mon Jan 09 05:44:44 UTC 2023 by g0xA52A2A | view on HN
The article is about how to write a parser for a simple language with the same indentation sensitive parsing behaviour as Haskell, the layout rule.
Raiders of the Lost Ark turns 40, and is still an unqualified masterpiece (2021)
posted on Mon Jan 09 14:54:06 UTC 2023 by Tomte | view on HN
The article discusses the making of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark and how it became a success.
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 / Ryzen 7 7700 / Ryzen 9 7900 Linux Performance
posted on Mon Jan 09 14:13:10 UTC 2023 by mfiguiere | view on HN
The new 65 Watt Ryzen 7000 series processors were announced at the AMD CES 2023 keynote last week and are going retail this week with a suggested price of $429 for the 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 7900, $329 for the 8-core Ryzen 7 7700, and $229 for the 6-core Ryzen 5 7600.
posted on Sun Jan 08 21:46:29 UTC 2023 by cglong | view on HN
The article discusses a new repository that contains tools for syncing and streaming files from Windows to Linux based on Content Defined Chunking (CDC), in particular FastCDC.
Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits
posted on Mon Jan 09 11:24:15 UTC 2023 by isaacmurasaki | view on HN
Intermittent fasting, or time-restricted eating, is a growing trend with many health benefits, including a longer life expectancy. Salk institute researchers looked at the molecular level to discover what is happening and found that intermittent fasting influences gene expression in more than 22 parts of the body and brain.