top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-17

Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

3 years ago

MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-unveils-macbook-pro-featuring-m2-pro-and-m2-max/

3 years ago

Microsoft to lay off 11k employees

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-cut-thousands-jobs-sky-news-2023-01-17/

3 years ago

The Pretty Good House

https://www.prettygoodhouse.org

3 years ago

Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready

https://shopify.engineering/ruby-yjit-is-production-ready

3 years ago

Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412069

3 years ago

The FBI Identified a Tor User

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34dx3/fbi-wont-say-hacked-dark-web-isis-site-nit

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527

3 years ago

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/

3 years ago

Git security vulnerabilities announced

https://github.blog/2023-01-17-git-security-vulnerabilities-announced-2/

3 years ago

Tailscale bug allowed a person to share nodes from other tailnets without auth

https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins/#ts-2023-001/

3 years ago

Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

https://www.plusdocs.com/

3 years ago

New Mac Mini

https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

3 years ago

Datasette is my data hammer

https://www.jeremiak.com/blog/datasette-the-data-hammer/

3 years ago

Hyundai Head Unit Hacking

https://xakcop.com/post/hyundai-hack-2/

3 years ago

EV batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand as early as 2030

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35393-0

3 years ago

New make --shuffle mode

https://trofi.github.io/posts/238-new-make-shuffle-mode.html

3 years ago

How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick

https://csvbase.com/blog/2

3 years ago

Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism

https://tegowerk.eu/posts/cruel-optimism/

3 years ago

The art of knowing when to quit

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/art-of-knowing-when-to-quit/

3 years ago

UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/17/ut-austin-tiktok-ban/

3 years ago

PHP in 2023

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2023

3 years ago

Show HN: Otterkit – COBOL compiler for .NET

https://github.com/otterkit/otterkit

3 years ago

Ask HN: What interesting people are you following on Mastodon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413641

3 years ago

My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)

https://nones-leonard.medium.com/flying-high-8536fa403324

3 years ago

Why we need to know LR and recursive descent parsing techniques

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/why_we_need_to_know_lr_and_recursive_descent_parsing_techniques.html

3 years ago

Official SkiFree Home Page

https://ski.ihoc.net/

3 years ago

Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan (2020)

https://scholars-stage.org/losing-taiwan-means-losing-japan/

3 years ago

Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor (2022)

https://bsandro.tech/posts/monochrome-terminal-setup-for-an-e-ink-monitor/

3 years ago

Hubble finds black hole twisting captured star into donut shape

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-hubble-hungry-black-hole-captured.html

3 years ago

A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2023/smd/ten-minute-scan-enables-detection-and-cure-of-the-commonest-cause-of-high-blood-pressure.html

3 years ago

Apple offers $970 in trade-in value for $52,199 Mac Pro

https://twitter.com/durvidimel/status/1615371726195687424

3 years ago

The Quest for a Dumber Phone

https://every.to/cybernaut/the-quest-for-a-dumber-phone

3 years ago

The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/6/30/21292182/thinkpad-trackpoint-mouse-nub-button-trackpad-challenges-design-user-input

3 years ago

Stadia Bluetooth Mode

https://stadia.google.com/controller/

3 years ago

Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke'

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a4qe/conservatives-panicking-about-ai-bias-years-too-late-think-chatgpt-has-gone-woke

3 years ago

UK lawmakers vote to jail tech execs who fail to protect kids online

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/uk-lawmakers-vote-to-jail-tech-execs-who-fail-to-protect-kids-online/

3 years ago

In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying”

https://twitter.com/shengwuli/status/1614637276113563648

3 years ago

ChrysaLisp

https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp

3 years ago

Why is Amazon selling fake 16TB portable SSD drives?

https://www.reviewgeek.com/142496/why-the-heck-is-amazon-selling-these-fake-16-terabyte-portable-hard-drives/

3 years ago

Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI

https://summate.it/?v2

3 years ago

How Memory safety approaches speed up and slow down development velocity

https://verdagon.dev/blog/when-to-use-memory-safe-part-2

3 years ago

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/01/17/a-flurry-of-new-studies-identifies-causes-of-the-industrial-revolution

3 years ago

What’s going on in the world of extensions

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/heres-whats-going-on-in-the-world-of-extensions/

3 years ago

Common Lisp and Music Composition

https://ldbeth.sdf.org/articles/cm.html

3 years ago

Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-beta-system-transparency-stboot/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Gmail's spam filters have gone bonkers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411009

3 years ago

Dijkstra Maps Visualized

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Dijkstra_Maps_Visualized

3 years ago

Republicans to pass bill in House to end telework for federal employees

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/show-up-act-federal-workers-telework-bill/65-11d0e826-21c4-4a2e-96ba-1741637411d2

3 years ago

Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023

https://carhenge.club/@mattdsteele/109700383808551139

3 years ago

Is a venture studio right for you?

https://steveblank.com/2023/01/17/is-a-venture-studio-right-for-you/

3 years ago

Small VMs and Coroutines

https://blog.dziban.net/coroutines/

3 years ago

Glitching a microcontroller to unlock the bootloader

https://grazfather.github.io/posts/2019-12-08-glitcher/

3 years ago

Show HN: A tool for motion-capturing 3D characters using a VR headset

https://diegomacario.github.io/Hands-In-The-Web/public/index.html

3 years ago

Use the wrong tool for the job

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/use-the-wrong-tool-for-the-job/

3 years ago

Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs

https://jakewharton.com/using-jlink-to-cross-compile-minimal-jres/

3 years ago

How do AIs' political opinions change as they get smarter and better-trained?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/how-do-ais-political-opinions-change

3 years ago

It's time to put cancer warning labels on alcohol, experts say

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-cancer-risk-warning-1.6715769

3 years ago

Some thoughts on the ETH's Threema analysis

https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2023/1/14/threema/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What happened to flatbuffers? Are they being used?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415858

3 years ago

Official Twitter Statement on Revoking API Access to 3rd Party Devs

https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1615405842735714304

3 years ago

Software testing, and why I'm unhappy about it

http://nhaehnle.blogspot.com/2023/01/software-testing-and-why-im-unhappy.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Stack-chan – Open-source companion robot easy to assemble and customize

https://github.com/meganetaaan/stack-chan

3 years ago

Starting Box2D 3.0

https://box2d.org/posts/2023/01/starting-box2d-3.0/

3 years ago

Show HN: Metapict – TikZ like figures using Racket

https://soegaard.github.io/blog/metapict/

3 years ago

Getty Images is suing the creators of Stable Diffusion

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit

3 years ago