top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-20

Google to reduce workforce by 12k

https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/

3 years ago

Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

https://summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34455934

3 years ago

Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/

3 years ago

NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design

3 years ago

I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year

https://thoughtsbyaashiq.bearblog.dev/ive-procrastinated-working-on-my-thesis-for-over-a-year/

3 years ago

Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus

https://group-media.mercedes-benz.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Mercedes-Benz-strategy-pays-off-workforce-to-receive-record-profit-sharing-bonus.xhtml?oid=55064985

3 years ago

CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

https://www.carsized.com/en/

3 years ago

🥺: the best sudo replacement

https://xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA

3 years ago

GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support

https://github.blog/2023-01-20-sunsetting-subversion-support/

3 years ago

Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7781

3 years ago

Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

https://www.funnyhowtheknightmoves.com/

3 years ago

Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

3 years ago

Job Hunting in 2022

https://mhlakhani.com/blog/2023/01/tech-job-market/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Where are all the parties?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34450096

3 years ago

Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020)

https://codersblock.com/blog/the-surprising-things-that-css-can-animate/

3 years ago

Idris: A language for type-driven development

https://www.idris-lang.org/

3 years ago

The myth of the myth of the 10x programmer (2020)

https://payne.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-10x-programmer/

3 years ago

From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (2019)

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-1

3 years ago

Tell HN: From bartending to managing cloud infrastructure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460997

3 years ago

Choosing a Postgres primary key

https://supabase.com/blog/choosing-a-postgres-primary-key

3 years ago

Towards a Reproducible F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/2023/01/15/towards-a-reproducible-fdroid.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully started their career over in their 30s?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34455518

3 years ago

The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8581/8581-h/8581-h.htm

3 years ago

Runlike: Given an existing Docker container, prints the command line to run it

https://github.com/lavie/runlike

3 years ago

T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37M accounts

https://www.reuters.com/technology/t-mobile-says-investigating-data-breach-affecting-37-mln-accounts-2023-01-19/

3 years ago

Wayfair is laying off 1,750 workers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wayfair-is-preparing-to-lay-off-more-than-1-000-workers-11674161122

3 years ago

Deep learning tuning playbook

https://github.com/google-research/tuning_playbook

3 years ago

The exploited labor behind artificial intelligence (2022)

https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/

3 years ago

The Grapes of Wrath’s Foreshadowing of the Cold War (2018)

https://sites.psu.edu/comm150honors/2016/02/04/the-grapes-of-wraths-foreshadowing-of-the-cold-war/

3 years ago

Microsoft held an invite-only concert for execs, 1 day before announcing layoffs

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-execs-private-sting-show-davos-before-mass-layoff-announcement-2023-1

3 years ago

Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Google spam filter getting worse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34455854

3 years ago

ChatGPT is not all you need. A SOTA Review of large Generative AI models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04655

3 years ago

Large Transformer Model Inference Optimization

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-10-inference-optimization/

3 years ago

Script Kit: cross-platform, scriptable, automatic shortcuts to everything

https://www.scriptkit.com/

3 years ago

Amazon job cuts: Read the memos

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-job-cuts-read-the-memos.html

3 years ago

Lights have been on at this school for a year because no one can turn them off

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lights-massachusetts-school-year-no-one-can-turn-rcna65611

3 years ago

Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after convicted of fraud

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elizabeth-holmes-bought-one-way-ticket-mexico-theranos-fraud-rcna66765

3 years ago

New York got it wrong on cybersecurity and the right to repair

https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Commentary-New-York-got-it-wrong-on-17707551.php

3 years ago

Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats

https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-fighting-murder-convictions-rest-shoddy-stats

3 years ago

Drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/gonorrhea-is-becoming-unstoppable-highly-resistant-cases-found-in-us/

3 years ago

Offsec.tools – A vast collection of security tools

https://offsec.tools

3 years ago

The Rise of Steel Part II

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-steel-part-ii

3 years ago

Twitter TOS Change

https://www.diffchecker.com/DmAjUJGK/

3 years ago

Rust in 2023: Growing Up

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2023/01/20/rust-in-2023-growing-up/

3 years ago

Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours

https://timeretain.com/

3 years ago

General technology for enabling AI capabilities with LLMs and Generative models

https://github.com/microsoft/LMOps

3 years ago

Replacing Pandas with Polars

https://www.confessionsofadataguy.com/replacing-pandas-with-polars-a-practical-guide/

3 years ago

Lean – Theorem Prover

https://leanprover.github.io/

3 years ago

SSHD: Random boot time relinking, OpenBSD

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230119075627

3 years ago

The enduring mystery of an aggressive FBI raid near Area 51

https://gizmodo.com/ufo-fbi-area-51-raid-dreamland-resort-joerg-arnu-1849887879

3 years ago

WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/world-economic-forum-speaker-touts-technology-that-allows-your-boss-to-monitor-your-brain-activity/

3 years ago

Getting started with property-based testing in Python with hypothesis and Pytest

https://semaphoreci.com/blog/property-based-testing-python-hypothesis-pytest

3 years ago

Show HN: Music Audio Search Engine Using OpenAI's Embeddings on GPT Descriptions

https://muzic-sage.vercel.app/

3 years ago

Genesis Filed for Bankruptcy

https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1616298056097624064

3 years ago

Mathematicians roll dice and get rock-paper-scissors

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-roll-dice-and-get-rock-paper-scissors-20230119/

3 years ago

Compilable Lightweight Markup Language for Linear Algebra

https://iheartla.github.io/

3 years ago

Not worried about AI that passes Turing test, but AI that fails it on purpose

https://old.reddit.com/r/C_S_T/comments/ae288t/im_not_worried_about_the_ai_that_can_pass_the/

3 years ago

Debugging a Crash in OpenRCT2

http://voidstar.tech/rct_crash/

3 years ago

Practical Scheme

http://practical-scheme.net/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple bring continuity to the Music app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34448621

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why is everybody copying layoffs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460692

3 years ago

Winnebago’s Electric Motorhome Prototype

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/this-is-winnebagos-e-transit-based-electric-rv-prototype/

3 years ago

How restaurant workers help pay for lobbying to keep their wages low

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/politics/restaurant-workers-wages-lobbying.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34450924

3 years ago

Databricks cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business (2021)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2021/05/26/accidental-billionaires-databricks-ceo-ali-ghodsi-seven-berkeley-academics/

3 years ago

Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse

https://blog.jonudell.net/2023/01/19/of-course-the-attention-economy-is-threatened-by-the-fediverse/

3 years ago

U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a4p5/us-no-fly-list-leaks-after-being-left-in-an-unsecured-airline-server

3 years ago

PyTorch Vulkan Back End User Workflow

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/prototype/vulkan_workflow.html

3 years ago