top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-04

Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/microsoft-hopes-openai-s-chatbot-will-make-bing-smarter

3 years ago

Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years

https://mattmazur.com/2023/01/04/going-full-time-on-my-saas-after-13-years/

3 years ago

‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04505-7

3 years ago

Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-lay-off-over-17-000-workers-more-than-first-planned-11672874304

3 years ago

G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering

https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/g-3po-a-protocol-droid-for-ghidra-4b46fa72f1ff

3 years ago

The expanding dark forest and generative AI

https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

3 years ago

Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension

https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimension-5249e3186ec9

3 years ago

Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/salesforce-will-lay-off-10-of-staff-as-part-of-restructuring-11672832799

3 years ago

Even More Bay Area House Party

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/even-more-bay-area-house-party

3 years ago

Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement

https://noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohibited-use-personal-data-advertisment

3 years ago

Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34240298

3 years ago

Microsoft workers to form company’s first union in the U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-workers-to-form-companys-first-union-in-the-u-s-11672779470

3 years ago

Fun, danger, and 70s airplane toys

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-dangerous-toy-edition

3 years ago

NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow

https://gothamist.com/news/snow-go-for-nycs-electric-garbage-trucks-that-cant-handle-winter-weather

3 years ago

MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23538548/macbook-class-action-lawsuit-claims-faulty-butterfly-keyboard

3 years ago

Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/109632248664696707

3 years ago

QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text

https://datalars.com/2023/01/03/qbittorrent-v450-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-legible-text-2/

3 years ago

Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/awesome-intelligence

3 years ago

AutoHotKey V2 (Breaking Upgrade)

https://www.autohotkey.com/v2/

3 years ago

Pushup: a new compiler for making web apps in Go

https://github.com/adhocteam/pushup

3 years ago

Go 1.20 Cryptography

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/go-1-20-cryptography/

3 years ago

The faker's guide to reading x86 assembly language

https://www.timdbg.com/posts/fakers-guide-to-assembly/

3 years ago

Urllib3 in 2022

https://sethmlarson.dev/urllib3-in-2022

3 years ago

Emulating an emulator inside itself. Meet Blink

https://hiro.codes/read/emulating-an-emulator-inside-itself.-meet-blink

3 years ago

Juan Tamariz, the godfather of close-up card magic

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/magazine/juan-tamariz-magic.html

3 years ago

Faster MySQL with HTTP/3

https://planetscale.com/blog/faster-mysql-with-http3

3 years ago

Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager

https://github.com/noborus/ov

3 years ago

On-demand learning comes at the cost of conceptual understanding

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/learning.html

3 years ago

Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

https://lnav.org/

3 years ago

How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware?

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/04/how-do-you-know-when-macos-detects-and-remediates-malware/

3 years ago

Globalization is dead and no one is listening

https://interconnect.substack.com/p/globalization-is-dead-and-no-one

3 years ago

Kids and music lessons: why do many promising players quit early?

https://thewalrus.ca/why-do-kids-hate-music-lessons/

3 years ago

Two surprises in browser crashes

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2023/01/browser-crashes.html

3 years ago

Chaos Hypertextbook

https://hypertextbook.com/chaos/

3 years ago

Function keys productivity trick

https://mxgrn.com/blog/function-keys-productivity-trick

3 years ago

All About USB-C: Resistors and Emarkers

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/04/all-about-usb-c-resistors-and-emarkers/

3 years ago

WAL Mode in LiteFS

https://fly.io/blog/wal-mode-in-litefs/

3 years ago

Researchers develop a light source that produces two entangled light beams

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-source-entangled.html

3 years ago

Why would prisons ban my book? Absurdities rule the system (2022)

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/prison-banned-books-new-york-florida-censorship

3 years ago

What Is AGI-Hard

https://lspace.swyx.io/p/agi-hard

3 years ago

Supermicro throws its weight behind Arm servers

https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/01/03/supermicro-throws-its-weight-behind-arm-servers/

3 years ago

Thanks to DALL-E, the race to make artificial protein drugs is on

https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/03/thanks-to-dall-e-the-race-to-make-artificial-protein-drugs-is-on/

3 years ago

Moiré no more (2021)

https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/moire-no-more/

3 years ago

WordPress sites under attack from newly found Linux trojan

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/wordpress-under-attack-from-new-linux-backdoor-malware

3 years ago

Marshall McLuhan on surveillance and identity in the electric age (1977) [video]

https://twitter.com/bfcarlson/status/1609988081825751041

3 years ago

Walter Cunningham, who helped pave the way to the moon, dies at 90

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/science/space/walter-cunningham-dead.html

3 years ago

Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here

https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15500/announcement-ai-generated-answers-are-officially-banned-here

3 years ago

Apple headset leak reveals new details and confirms earlier rumors

https://mixed-news.com/en/massive-apple-headset-leak-reveals-new-details-and-confirms-earlier-rumors/

3 years ago

Debugging Lisp: trace options, break on conditions

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/debugging-lisp-trace-options-break-on-conditions/

3 years ago

Aleister Crowley, the Wickedest Climber Ever? (2022)

https://www.climbing.com/people/aleister-crowley-the-wickedest-climber-ever/

3 years ago

Migrating our largest mobile app to React Native

https://shopify.engineering/migrating-our-largest-mobile-app-to-react-native

3 years ago

Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spyware-scandal-exposing-pegasus/

3 years ago

Parallel streaming in Haskell: Part 1 – Fast, efficient, and fun

https://www.channable.com/tech/parallel-streaming-in-haskell-part-1-fast-efficient-fun

3 years ago

A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) [pdf]

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/waldo/files/waldo-94.pdf

3 years ago

Docker sends usages even if you've opted out

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/2122

3 years ago

DragonFly BSD 6.4

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/

3 years ago

C Posix-compliant argument parsing in 42 LoC, inspired by Duff's device

https://github.com/camel-cdr/cauldron/blob/main/cauldron/arg.h

3 years ago

Chunking strings in Elixir: how difficult can it be?

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/chunking-strings-in-elixir-how-difficult-can-it-be/

3 years ago

Show HN: Semantic search for video

http://semanticvideosearch.com

3 years ago

Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2023

https://00f.net/2023/01/04/webassembly-benchmark-2023/

3 years ago

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

3 years ago

Tell HN: I'm scared of sharing my opinion online

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246024

3 years ago

Sailboat UI – A Framework for Tailwind

https://sailboatui.com/

3 years ago

JPSO used facial recognition technology to arrest a man. The tech was wrong

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/jpso-used-facial-recognition-to-arrest-a-man-it-was-wrong/article_0818361a-8886-11ed-8119-93b98ecccc8d.html

3 years ago

Lincoln Cathedral

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/lincoln-cathedral-the-950-year-story-of-one-of-europes-very-greatest-cathedrals-251041

3 years ago

Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/popularity_decrease.html

3 years ago

Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw

3 years ago