The best of Hacker News - June 07, 2024

1.
Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS

576 points

2.
Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

468 points

3.
ASCII Silhouettify

330 points

4.
OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior

300 points

5.
How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?

276 points

6.
Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC

246 points

7.
Οƒ-GPTs: A new approach to autoregressive models

243 points

8.
Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)

240 points

9.
Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests

236 points

10.
AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead

230 points

11.
TPM GPIO fail: How bad OEM firmware ruins Intel TPM security

186 points

12.
Feynman’s Razor

182 points

13.
Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather

175 points

14.
Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)

175 points

15.
Martha Gellhorn, the only woman to report on the D-Day landings from the ground

163 points

16.
CPU Energy Meter: A tool for measuring energy consumption of Intel CPUs

160 points

17.
PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx

147 points

18.
Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards

147 points

19.
Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)

143 points

20.
Dragonfly: A large vision-language model with multi-resolution zoom

141 points

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