top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-01-22

Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/blob/master/README.md

3 years ago

WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans

https://vpnoverview.com/news/wifi-routers-used-to-produce-3d-images-of-humans/

3 years ago

The contagious visual blandness of Netflix

https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/132-the-contagious-visual-blandness

3 years ago

Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos

https://initialcommit.com/blog/git-sim

3 years ago

Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433

3 years ago

Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-off-entire-teams-behind-virtual-mixed-reality-and-hololens

3 years ago

Detect breaches with Canary credit cards

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html

3 years ago

ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant

https://matemarschalko.medium.com/chatgpt-in-an-ios-shortcut-worlds-smartest-homekit-voice-assistant-9a33b780007a

3 years ago

Perplexity.ai prompt leakage

https://twitter.com/jmilldotdev/status/1600624362394091523

3 years ago

Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(22)00474-8

3 years ago

Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?

https://thegradient.pub/othello/

3 years ago

Appalachian Apple hunter who rescued 1k ‘lost’ varieties (2021)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-apples

3 years ago

AirJet – Solid-state chip for active device cooling

https://www.froresystems.com/

3 years ago

Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html

3 years ago

Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63830490

3 years ago

“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-copycat-layoffs-wont-help-tech-companies-or-their-employees

3 years ago

Astronautilia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronautilia

3 years ago

Guide to Software Architecture Documentation

https://www.workingsoftware.dev/software-architecture-documentation-the-ultimate-guide/

3 years ago

JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor

https://openjdk.org/jeps/8300786

3 years ago

Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/supreme-court-allows-reddit-mods-to-anonymously-defend-section-230/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Best Layman's Book on Electricity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474403

3 years ago

Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT

https://neelc.org/posts/chatgpt-gmail-spam/

3 years ago

The Schwarzschild Defence

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04550-2

3 years ago

How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/13/semantic-search-answers/

3 years ago

Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03456

3 years ago

Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless

https://github.com/boltops-tools/jets

3 years ago

Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/920158/313ec4305df220bb/

3 years ago

Prisma laying off 28% staff

https://www.prisma.io/blog/restructure-announcement-1a9ek279du8j

3 years ago

Letter to Sundar Pichai from TCI Fund Management [pdf]

https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/20th%20January%202023.pdf

3 years ago

Secure Scuttlebutt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt

3 years ago

I, Libertine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Libertine

3 years ago

Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477498

3 years ago

Wolfenstein 3D with a CGA Renderer

https://github.com/jhhoward/WolfensteinCGA

3 years ago

Pomodoro Timer

https://pomofocus.io/

3 years ago

The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThePointOfTheBanachTarskiTheorem.html?wa22hn

3 years ago

Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sensational-runestone-discovered-in-norway-may-be-the-worlds-oldest-180981470/

3 years ago

Google Fuchsia OS team affected by layoffs

https://9to5google.com/2023/01/21/fuchsia-area-120-google-layoffs/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479806

3 years ago

Rust on macOS 9

https://twitter.com/turbolent/status/1617231570573873152

3 years ago

The first new build of Circle, a new C++20 compiler, since April 2022 is online

https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/new-circle/README.md

3 years ago

The Dawn of Everything challenges a mainstream telling of prehistory

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/david-graeber-vs-yuval-harari-forgotten-cities-myths-how-civilisation-began

3 years ago

The Mystery of Richard Posner

https://lawliberty.org/features/the-mystery-of-richard-posner/

3 years ago

Gpu.js: GPU Accelerated JavaScript

https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js

3 years ago

Signal app's president-“layoffs in tech are to keep salaries in check”

https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1616535695216050184

3 years ago

Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K

https://twitter.com/mikeburgersburg/status/1616901701927059457

3 years ago

Rumors of GTA online exploits allowing remote code execution on gamer PCs

https://old.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/10hsosu/mass_reporting_the_dangerous_pc_exploit/

3 years ago

A Welsh firm breeding maggots to heal wounds

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/22/breeding-maggots-heal-wounds-welsh-firm-biomonde

3 years ago

Microsoft Hosted Sting Performance in Davos on Night Before Announcing Layoffs

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/davos2023/card/microsoft-hosted-sting-performance-in-davos-on-night-before-it-announced-layoffs-cRHO4k295pSWarvtfQRJ

3 years ago

WY Union Says Court Ruling in Kroger–Albertson’s Merger Favors “Ultra-Wealthy”

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/01/19/fight-over-albertsons-kroger-grocery-mega-merger-moves-goes-political/

3 years ago

Googlers scramble for answers after layoffs hit long-tenured, recently promoted

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/21/google-employees-scramble-for-answers-after-layoffs-hit-long-tenured.html

3 years ago

Google Search URL Request Parameters (2016)

https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-power-search-url-request-parameters/

3 years ago

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Urges Caution on AI

https://time.com/6246119/demis-hassabis-deepmind-interview/

3 years ago

Decoding Lunar Flashlight

https://destevez.net/2023/01/decoding-lunar-flashlight/

3 years ago

Hampstead Heath

https://www.hampsteadheath.net/about

3 years ago

CMI says 2022 had the worst second half for mortality since 2010

https://actuaries.org.uk/news-and-media-releases/news-articles/2023/jan/17-january-23-cmi-says-2022-had-the-worst-second-half-for-mortality-since-2010/

3 years ago

Enigma: A simple cross-platform encrypted filesystem in Golang

https://github.com/aegistudio/enigma

3 years ago

Rodney Brooks Predictions Scorecard

https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2023-january-01/

3 years ago