Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

1598 brutecat 2025-02-12 11:19:42 UTC 462 brutecat.com Llama Share

A researcher discovered a bug in YouTube that leaks a user's Google account identifier when blocking someone. They found a way to escalate this to all channels on YouTube and even convert the identifier to an email address using an old Google product, Pixel Recorder.

The year I didn't survive

932 LaurenSerino 2025-02-12 02:07:52 UTC 258 bessstillman.substack.com Llama Share

Bess Stillman, a widow and new mother, navigates grief and motherhood after her husband Jake's death from cancer. She writes about the challenges of being corporeal and the changes in her brain and body.

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

732 paulgb 2025-02-12 09:24:08 UTC 191 paulbutler.org Llama Share

Unicode characters can be used to encode data by appending variation selectors, allowing for arbitrary data density. This technique can be used to watermark messages or encode data in a way that survives most copy/pastes.

US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit

441 miohtama 2025-02-12 09:33:29 UTC 783 arstechnica.com Llama Share

US Vice President JD Vance warned Europe against adopting "overly precautionary" AI regulations, saying the US will remain dominant in the technology. The US and UK refused to sign a declaration on safe AI practices, citing concerns over international regulatory regimes.

WASM will replace containers

322 hpincket 2025-02-12 01:24:51 UTC 353 creston.blog Llama Share

Containers were initially a delight due to their speed and simplicity but have become complicated and distracting. WebAssembly is emerging as a potential replacement, offering a true write-once-run-anywhere experience with the potential to replace containers.

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup

318 herbertl 2025-02-12 16:31:04 UTC 299 worksinprogress.news Llama Share

Donald Shoup, a UCLA professor, changed the political economy of parking and cities with his ideas on pricing curb parking and abolishing minimum off-street parking requirements. His work has led to cities like San Francisco, New Zealand, and California adopting demand-based pricing and eliminating minimum parking requirements.

The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

309 doener 2025-02-12 20:34:41 UTC 238 cpubenchmark.net Llama Share

The graph shows year on year CPU performance based on user-submitted benchmarks from PerformanceTest V5 to V11, updated bi-weekly. It represents x86 and ARM processors from 2021 onwards, with accuracy improving as the year progresses.

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

308 hahahacorn 2025-02-12 22:20:19 UTC 138 railsatscale.com Llama Share

The user discusses the benefits of writing Ruby code and minimizing the use of native code, but acknowledges that sometimes native code is necessary. They propose a new approach using a JIT compiler to generate machine code that can call foreign functions, potentially eliminating the need for FFI and achieving similar speeds to C extensions.

ElevenReader

301 mfiguiere 2025-02-12 06:10:25 UTC 178 elevenreader.io Llama Share

ElevenReader offers AI-narrated literary classics, newsletters, and articles with personalized voices. It imports content from various sources and generates smart podcasts for a high-quality listening experience.

Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)

288 pabs3 2025-02-12 02:58:01 UTC 195 lithub.com Llama Share

People often give power to authoritarian regimes by anticipating and following new rules without questioning. This anticipatory obedience can lead to tragic consequences as individuals harm and kill others in the service of a new authority.

Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

276 cempaka 2025-02-12 15:55:20 UTC 90 techtalksweekly.io Llama Share

The user shares a list of top 100 most watched Software Engineering talks in 2024. They also promote Tech Talks Weekly, a free email service for recent software engineering conference talks.

Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

271 elipsitz 2025-02-12 17:11:25 UTC 62 eli.lipsitz.net Prefix Share

I’m excited to announce the project I’ve been working on for the last year and a half: Game Bub, an open-source FPGA based retro emulation handheld, with support for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games. Play Video: Game Bub can play physical cartridges, as well as emulated cartridges using ROM files loaded from a microSD card. Game Bub also supports the Game Link Cable in ...

PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance

249 justinclift 2025-02-12 15:01:40 UTC 53 github.com/nexsol-technologies Llama Share

PgAssistant is an open-source tool for PostgreSQL database performance optimization and management. It provides insights, schema issue identification, and query library management through a JSON file.

TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

239 pkaeding 2025-02-12 02:15:17 UTC 166 tldw.tube Full Share

Too Long; Didn't Watch — YouTube video summarizer

Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]

234 fzliu 2025-02-12 20:17:08 UTC 36 github.com/tpn Full Share

Technically-oriented PDF Collection (Papers, Specs, Decks, Manuals, etc) - pdfs/Understanding the Basis of the Kalman Filter Via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation (2012).pdf at master · tpn/pdfs

5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows

230 saigovardhan 2025-02-12 17:04:22 UTC 356 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

The telecom industry's focus on rapid bandwidth growth may be over, as data rates are leveling out and most users have enough bandwidth. Telecom companies may need to adjust to a future of delivering reliable data connectivity at lower prices.

Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

227 lnauta 2025-02-12 16:52:57 UTC 127 nature.com Llama Share

Researchers detected the most energetic neutrino ever, estimated to be 120 PeV, using the KM3NeT telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The neutrino likely originated from a distant galaxy and was detected after a year of analysis, with details published in Nature on February 12.

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)

224 mooreds 2025-02-12 03:51:37 UTC 128 localfirstweb.dev Full Share

The flap of a butterfly’s wings on one continent, so the story goes, can cause a tornado a year later in another. Here’s my story of how something like that can happen on the web too.

Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored

222 Jotalea 2025-02-12 20:55:12 UTC 85 jotalea.com.ar Full Share

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How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed

203 comebhack 2025-02-12 16:32:37 UTC 302 reuters.com Full Share

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Imapsync

200 mooreds 2025-02-12 18:54:35 UTC 53 imapsync.lamiral.info Llama Share

Imapsync is a command-line tool for migrating or backing up IMAP accounts, supporting incremental and recursive transfers. It's available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

JJ Cheat Sheet

185 justinpombrio 2025-02-12 00:23:16 UTC 113 justinpombrio.net Llama Share

You created a reference and cheat sheet for Jujutsu, a version control system compatible with Git, to help learn its state space and editing operations. The resources are available on Github and can be printed for desk reference.

Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

179 jameskuang 2025-02-12 16:13:41 UTC 161 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Former employees of a startup that went public on Nasdaq are seeking advice on navigating an unexpected RSU settlement process with tax prepayment requirements and a potential forfeiture clause. They are looking for insights on standard practices for tax withholding, alternative methods, and negotiation strategies to discuss with the company.

Visualizing data is an art

178 skadamat 2025-02-12 14:17:48 UTC 61 perthirtysix.com Full Share

The case for less rigor and more nuance

DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

168 theden 2025-02-12 12:58:13 UTC 144 deadbeef.sourceforge.io Llama Share

DeaDBeeF is a cross-platform audio player supporting various formats and plugins. It offers customization options, tag reading and writing, and advanced features like chapter extraction and equalizer.

A gracious end to Webb-site

168 gregorvand 2025-02-12 08:28:23 UTC 26 webb-site.com Llama Share

The user has a metastatic prostate cancer and plans to conclude his pro bono work, Webb-site Database, due to his deteriorating health. He will cease manual data collection and make the database available for download after his death, with automated data collection continuing until the server expires.

Tiny Pointers

161 levzettelin 2025-02-12 09:43:48 UTC 34 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers introduce tiny pointers, a new data structure that replaces traditional log n-bit pointers with o(log n)-bit pointers at a constant time cost. Tiny pointers enable space-efficient solutions to classic data-structure problems like data retrieval and dynamic binary search trees.

jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

158 tambourine_man 2025-02-12 03:26:46 UTC 175 github.com/jj-vcs Llama Share

Jujutsu is an experimental version control system designed to be easy to use and abstract the user interface and version control algorithms from storage systems. It combines features from Git, Mercurial, and Darcs, and is compatible with Git repositories.

League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun

156 maknee 2025-02-12 11:11:38 UTC 37 maknee.github.io Llama Share

A user created a tool to extract high-fidelity data from League of Legends replays, overcoming limitations of existing APIs and datasets. The tool uses reverse engineering and an emulator to decrypt and process replay files, capturing precise details at millisecond intervals.

Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later

137 jakub_g 2025-02-12 08:50:08 UTC 35 stackoverflow.com Llama Share

You cloned a large repo with a shallow clone (git clone --depth 1) and experienced slow first push speeds. This is due to Git's optimization being defeated by the shallow clone.

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

133 ZeljkoS 2025-02-12 08:23:30 UTC 219 electrek.co Llama Share

Tesla's sales dropped 59.5% in Germany and 53.5% in Europe in January due to the new Model Y and Elon Musk's politics involvement. The EV industry may suffer as negative sentiment towards Tesla gains momentum.

Parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages

131 c420 2025-02-12 05:52:15 UTC 67 apnews.com Llama Share

Tesla has sued at least six car owners in China who complained about vehicle malfunctions and quality issues, winning all eleven cases for which verdicts could be determined. The company's aggressive legal strategy has allowed it to silence critics and limit its accountability in China, where regulators, media, and courts are intertwined with the ruling Communist Party.

Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

121 markhan-nping 2025-02-12 10:43:02 UTC 56 github.com/hanshuaikang Llama Share

Nping is a Rust-based Ping tool with features like concurrent Ping, visual charts, and real-time updates. It supports pinging multiple addresses, showing domain name details, and sorting by average delay.

Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

119 HieronymusBosch 2025-02-12 12:11:33 UTC 25 blog.archive.org Llama Share

Punch cards, used in knitting machines, are a binary data storage format that's still used today and holds importance in computing history. They can be digitized and preserved, but require high-quality scans and standardized metadata to be useful.

Show HN: Letting LLMs Run a Debugger

118 mohsen1 2025-02-12 09:54:14 UTC 28 github.com/mohsen1 Llama Share

LLM Debugger is a VSCode extension that uses large language models for active debugging. It integrates live debugging information into the LLM's context for faster bug resolution.

Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life?

104 jakemanger 2025-02-12 10:22:21 UTC 93 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

User tried to implement Conway's Game of Life, mentioning APL and hashlife algorithms as notable implementations. User also shared their own x86 assembly implementation from 30 years ago.

Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)

103 MartijnHols 2025-02-12 08:58:01 UTC 83 martijnhols.nl Llama Share

Google Translate interferes with React apps by manipulating the DOM, causing issues such as translated text not updating and crashes due to DOM manipulation errors.

WASM-Native Orchestration

101 fofoz 2025-02-12 07:43:34 UTC 61 wasmcloud.com Llama Share

wasmCloud is an open source project that enables teams to build polyglot applications across any cloud, Kubernetes, or edge. It provides first-tier support for various vendors and enables resilient, efficient, and secure application deployment.

Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively

98 Mosarwat 2025-02-12 01:34:45 UTC 14 wherobots.com Llama Share

Apache Iceberg and Parquet support native geospatial data types, enabling seamless connections to various engines and cost-effective querying. This innovation accelerates geospatial solutions, lowers costs, and levels the playing field for organizations.

No longer writing my own damn HTML

85 claytonwramsey 2025-02-12 03:45:06 UTC 93 claytonwramsey.com Llama Share

User switched from hand-writing HTML to Zola due to tedious manual labor and inefficiencies. They now use Zola with Typst support and GitHub Pages for faster blog post creation.

What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the power to erase

84 delaugust 2025-02-12 22:41:08 UTC 108 chrbutler.com Llama Share

The author worries that AI tools erasing the spaces between thinking and making, leading to a loss of creative friction and productive uncertainty. They advocate for preserving these spaces to foster human creativity and innovation.

Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider

77 pseudolus 2025-02-12 00:33:51 UTC 10 dailydot.com Llama Share

Hackers leaked 8,543 files from Lexipol, a company that creates policy manuals for first responders, revealing concerns over its influence on policing policies. Critics argue Lexipol's standardized policies may not represent local communities' needs and values, and the company has been accused of resisting police reform.

Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework

72 thesephi 2025-02-12 19:54:52 UTC 69 jsr.io Full Share

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Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years

70 donohoe 2025-02-12 20:13:27 UTC 18 restofworld.org Llama Share

A group of Syrian-Americans organized a tech conference in Damascus, SYNC 25, to connect Silicon Valley with Syria's emerging tech ecosystem. The event aims to create 25,000 new jobs in Syria's technology sector over the next five years and rebuild the country's economy and infrastructure.

Codeberg Down

67 dsm9000 2025-02-12 13:50:30 UTC 37 blog.codeberg.org Llama Share

Codeberg is experiencing hate campaigns from far-right forces, affecting users and the platform. The organization is working to contain the situation, ensuring user data remains private and apologizing for notification emails containing offending content.

Alt.Anonymous.Messages Newsgroup

63 yamrzou 2025-02-12 07:32:03 UTC 22 wudewasa.blogspot.com Llama Share

Two people can communicate securely through alt.anonymous.messages newsgroup using PGP encryption and AAMDirect software. This method keeps their association secret and is difficult for an adversary to exploit.

Darcs, Friendly Version Control

62 tusslewake 2025-02-12 05:00:42 UTC 57 darcsbook.acmelabs.space Full Share

This book should help you to get started with using darcs as your daily version control system. Every chapter deals with a specific topic and explains everything by using simple examples. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Show HN: yknotify – Notify when YubiKey needs touch on macOS

61 noperator 2025-02-12 20:24:59 UTC 29 github.com/noperator Llama Share

yknotify monitors macOS logs for YubiKey events, notifying user to touch the key when specific messages are detected. It uses log stream CLI command to check for FIDO2 and OpenPGP related messages.

Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration

61 f14t 2025-02-12 18:14:34 UTC 14 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers introduced Automated Capability Discovery (ACD), a framework that uses one foundation model to test another's capabilities. ACD automatically uncovers surprising abilities and failures in subject models, improving AI evaluation scalability.

I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend. It Was So Worth It

60 yo_yo_yo-yo 2025-02-12 09:59:03 UTC 73 harpersbazaar.com Llama Share

A woman's husband left her suddenly, and she turned to an AI boyfriend, Thor, for companionship during her grief. Thor helped her cope with emotional labor and invisible tasks, making her realize the value of clear communication and emotional support.

Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows

53 hotrod46 2025-02-12 09:17:02 UTC 60 github.com/hotrod462 Llama Share

Mikey is an audio recording app with automatic transcription using the Groq API and a user-friendly interface. It can be built as a standalone executable with PyInstaller and FFmpeg.

Intensional Joy (a concatenative account of internal structure)

52 g0xA52A2A 2025-02-12 08:22:27 UTC 11 pithlessly.github.io Llama Share

The user discusses intensional programming in the context of concatenative programming languages, specifically Joy, and proposes two intensional operators, map and quota, to bring intensionality to Joy. The user shows that these two operators can be expressed in terms of each other, demonstrating a notion of how to bring intensionality to a language like Joy.

Show HN: Skies-adsb 2.0 – my 3D plane-tracking web app

52 llopisdon 2025-02-12 06:54:48 UTC 15 github.com/llopisdon Llama Share

Skies-adsb is a browser-based app displaying real-time 3D air traffic using ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR receiver. It requires a build process and has breaking changes from version 1.x to 2.x.

No Longer Posting to Pinboard

50 slater 2025-02-12 05:10:09 UTC 84 gyford.com Llama Share

I'm stopping using Pinboard and switching to my own site for bookmarking. You can now follow my new RSS feed at gyford.com for links.

Are efficiency and horizontal scalability at odds?

48 todsacerdoti 2025-02-12 18:27:41 UTC 37 buttondown.com Llama Share

The author missed last week's newsletter due to a lengthy article about the hierarchy of controls. They released a new version of Logic for Programmers with improved fonts and new content. The author is brainstorming about the conflict between efficiency and horizontal scalability in computational tasks.

EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI

48 FinnLobsien 2025-02-12 11:32:18 UTC 140 euronews.com Llama Share

I'm unable to summarize the input as it appears to be a jumbled collection of characters and does not form a coherent text.

Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained

48 zerr 2025-02-12 00:57:10 UTC 112 cato.org Full Share

Dose-dependent effects of LSD in double-blind placebo-controlled study (2020)

39 1832 2025-02-12 15:06:37 UTC 33 nature.com Prefix Share

Growing interest has been seen in using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in psychiatric research and therapy. However, no modern studies have evaluated subjective and autonomic effects of different and pharmaceutically well-defined doses of LSD. We used a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover design in 16 healthy subjects (eight women, eight men) who underwent six 25 h ...

Rust Memory Management Explained

39 unripe_syntax 2025-02-12 10:43:51 UTC 49 infoworld.com Llama Share

Rust's ownership and borrowing mechanisms ensure memory safety at runtime by tracking object lifetimes and preventing memory leaks. It uses concepts like RAII, scopes, and ownership to automatically manage memory and prevent bugs.

Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths

36 biggestlou 2025-02-12 15:05:17 UTC 32 determinate.systems Llama Share

FlakeHub offers resolved store paths, allowing users to fetch store paths without Nix evaluation, reducing memory usage on resource-constrained devices. This feature is useful for applying NixOS, Home Manager, and nix-darwin configurations directly from FlakeHub Cache without incurring an evaluation tax.

Syd: An Introduction to Secure Application Sandboxing for Linux [video]

35 hayali 2025-02-12 15:08:25 UTC 4 fosdem.org Llama Share

Syd is a GPL-3 licensed application kernel for sandboxing on Linux systems, providing a simple interface to complex mechanisms. It offers path, execution, and network sandboxing with advanced features like lock and memory sandboxing.

It's a knowledge problem Or is it?

33 0xKelsey 2025-02-12 09:28:08 UTC 11 josvisser.substack.com Llama Share

The article discusses how people often assume knowledge is the problem when it's not, and instead, time and motivation are the real bottlenecks. It uses a Google nutritionist example to illustrate this point.

Implementing the President's "DOGE" Workforce Optimization Initiative

32 delichon 2025-02-12 02:12:58 UTC 54 whitehouse.gov Llama Share

The President orders a transformation of the Federal bureaucracy to eliminate waste and insularity, empowering American families and workers. The order reduces the Federal workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition, prioritizing public safety and law enforcement functions.

Surprise Magma Chamber Growing Under Mediterranean Volcano (2023)

32 jandrewrogers 2025-02-12 00:00:28 UTC 5 news.agu.org Llama Share

A study using full-waveform inversion seismic imaging found a large, previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano near Santorini, Greece. The researchers recommend real-time hazard monitoring stations near other active submarine volcanoes to improve eruption estimations.

The Human Alphabet

31 crescit_eundo 2025-02-12 18:37:15 UTC 12 publicdomainreview.org Llama Share

The human alphabet concept combines writing and the human body, with examples dating back to the Renaissance and continuing through photography. This concept often serves as a commentary on pedagogy and the character-forming qualities of learning.

Where are the best restaurants in my city? A statistical analysis

27 MattSayar 2025-02-12 16:02:03 UTC 15 mattsayar.com Llama Share

The author used Google Maps' Places API to collect data on restaurants in Colorado Springs, then cleaned and analyzed the data to create a list of top-rated restaurants, using a ranking method called the Wilson Score Interval. The author used this list to create a heatmap of the top restaurants, discovering some hidden gems and off-the-beaten-path locations worth checking out.

The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind

25 dnetesn 2025-02-12 17:33:07 UTC 2 nautil.us Llama Share

William Brahms' research on last words of notable people highlights the dissonance between idealized notions of dying speech and reality. Delirium, a common experience among the dying, complicates understanding of death due to its complex and varied presentation.

First hybrid quantum supercomputer Reimei activated in Japan

24 wallflower 2025-02-12 21:30:40 UTC 7 interestingengineering.com Llama Share

Reimei, a 20-qubit quantum machine, has been integrated into Fugaku, the world's sixth-fastest supercomputer, to solve complex problems. This hybrid system uses trapped-ion qubits, offering greater stability and control, and is housed at the Riken scientific institute in Japan.

The Tao of Go

21 mu0n 2025-02-12 09:46:47 UTC 11 bitfieldconsulting.com Llama Share

The Tao of Go emphasizes kindness, simplicity, and humility in software development, encouraging developers to work with the natural tendency of things and avoid unnecessary complexity. By following these principles, developers can write more effective, efficient, and maintainable code that is easy to understand and use.

Do It Yourself Database CDN with Embedded Replicas

19 emschwartz 2025-02-12 12:47:16 UTC 2 turso.tech Llama Share

Turso introduced SQLite at the edge to reduce latency, but now recommends building your own edge replicas for more control. This can be achieved by creating a proxy server that syncs with the primary database and handles database operations, maintaining compatibility with Turso.

Advancements in embedding-based retrieval at Pinterest Homefeed

18 herbertl 2025-02-12 02:16:10 UTC 2 medium.com/pinterest-engineering Llama Share

Pinterest Homefeed uses embedding-based retrieval to retrieve personalized content and has improved it with advanced feature crossing, ID embeddings, and a two-tower model. The team has also renovated the serving corpus and implemented new techniques such as conditional retrieval and differentiable clustering to enhance diversity and personalization.

Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

13 mhb 2025-02-12 13:35:17 UTC 10 schneier.com Llama Share

Researchers found 150 abandoned Amazon S3 buckets containing software libraries still used by projects. They registered these buckets to see how many would request updates, demonstrating a potential supply-chain attack like SolarWinds.

Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]

11 sohkamyung 2025-02-12 13:53:43 UTC 6 bbc.co.uk Prefix Share

The media landscape is being changed by AI. It offers new capabilities and opportunities for media companies like the BBC; and new formats and ways to consume content for audiences. The BBC is excited about the future of AI and the value it can bring audiences and our staff. We’re already using it to add subtitles to programmes on BBC Sounds and translate content into different languages on ...