Notices by Hacker News 250 (hn250@social.lansky.name)

Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

Link: https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187494

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)

Link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39244254

Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies

Link: https://hitregbroke.com/anime/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39074062

Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20360
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38834244

IDEs we had 30 years ago

Link: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38792446

Constellations are younger than continents

Link: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YMakfmwZsoLdXAZhb/constellations-are-younger-than-continents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38760131

Learn SVG with 25 examples – How to code images in HTML

Link: https://svg-tutorial.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556116

Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor

Link: http://www.righto.com/2023/10/intel-386-die-versions.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881656

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

Link: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37889666

The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)

Link: https://qz.com/1903322/why-pivot-tables-are-the-spreadsheets-most-powerful-tool
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820877

The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-it-works-the-novel-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830987

Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk

Link: https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/gnu40/rms-gnu40.webm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699851

An Internet of PHP

Link: https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/an-internet-of-php/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415747

VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

Link: https://vscodium.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381335

CLI text processing with GNU awk

Link: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/awk-introduction.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290356