top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-01

Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

https://www.flightradar24.com/GTI747/2f0b1162

3 years ago

ChatGPT Plus

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/

3 years ago

Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

https://trigger.dev

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612353

3 years ago

A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy

https://github.com/defaultnamehere/verylegit.link

3 years ago

Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eyesight

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02311-1

3 years ago

Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/intel-cuts-pay-for-employees-to-keep

3 years ago

GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text

https://github.com/varunshenoy/GraphGPT

3 years ago

Do we live in a society without a counterculture?

https://www.xmodtwo.com/p/do-we-live-in-a-society-without-a

3 years ago

Go 1.20 released

https://go.dev/doc/go1.20

3 years ago

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead

3 years ago

Goiânia Accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

3 years ago

Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-01/australian-radioactive-capsule-found-in-wa-outback-rio-tinto/101917828

3 years ago

Netlify acquires Gatsby

https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acquires-gatsby-inc-to-accelerate-adoption-of-composable-web-architectures/

3 years ago

A manifesto on shower temperature control

https://benholmen.com/blog/shower-temperature-control/

3 years ago

EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/

3 years ago

Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist

https://blog.axo.dev/2023/02/cargo-dist

3 years ago

Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)

https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing

3 years ago

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003)

https://inference.org.uk/itila/book.html

3 years ago

When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5443/~/when-discord-is-open-in-the-background%2C-graphics-card-memory-clocks-will-not

3 years ago

How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird

https://colossal.com/dodo/

3 years ago

Sam Bankman-Fried accused of possible witness tampering [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.50.0.pdf

3 years ago

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-a-bullshit-generator-but

3 years ago

Stable Diffusion found to emit some images from training at generation time

https://twitter.com/Eric_Wallace_/status/1620449934863642624

3 years ago

Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity

https://same.energy

3 years ago

Erlang: The coding language that finance forgot (2022)

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/01/elixir-jobs

3 years ago

Academia’s culture of overwork almost broke me, so I’m working to undo it

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00241-8

3 years ago

Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasphemy

https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/media-center/single-media/wikipedia-services-degraded-over-unlawful-content-010223

3 years ago

Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April

https://support.stripe.com/questions/april-2023-pricing-updates-for-businesses-based-in-europe

3 years ago

Data-Free Disneyland

https://www.optoutproject.net/data-free-disney/

3 years ago

Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx

3 years ago

A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/a-cold-war-mystery-why-did-jimmy-carter-save-the-space-shuttle/

3 years ago

Python's “disappointing” superpowers

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/pythons-disappointing-superpowers/

3 years ago

Why are online recipes so long-winded?

https://jjpryor.substack.com/p/why-are-online-recipes-always-so

3 years ago

Write simply (2021)

http://www.paulgraham.com/simply.html

3 years ago

Richard Bartle explains Web3's flaws at a Web3 conference. It doesn't go well

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/02/richard-bartle-crypto-circle-blockchain-nft-virtual-worlds.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612351

3 years ago

Glen Canyon Revealed

https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.2/features-water-glen-canyon-revealed

3 years ago

Is remote work bad for the economy?

https://www.fractional.work/p/is-remote-work-bad-for-the-economy

3 years ago

Microsoft shows full-screen Windows 11 upgrade ads with two 'yes' buttons

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-shows-full-screen-windows-11-upgrade-ads-with-two-yes-buttons/

3 years ago

I've had bad luck with transparent hugepages on my Linux machines

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TransparentHugepagesBadLuck

3 years ago

The curse of the corporate headshot

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/26/the-curse-of-the-corporate-headshot

3 years ago

Ask HN: Reject/ghost on all job applications with 8 YoE, what am I doing wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609741

3 years ago

A novel PayPal scam

https://anderegg.ca/2023/02/01/a-novel-paypal-scam

3 years ago

An astonishing regularity in student learning rate

https://psyarxiv.com/pxsfh/

3 years ago

Reflections on My Decade at Sumo Logic

https://jacek.migdal.pl/2023/02/01/ten-years.html

3 years ago

We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/29/greening-ourselves-to-extinction

3 years ago

Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort

https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/buzzing-the-brain-with-electricity-can-boost-the-willingness-to-engage-in-mental-effort-67245

3 years ago

LLM discourse needs more nuance

https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2023-02-01/the-ai-crowd-is-mad.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Does the HN commentariat have a reductive view of what a human being is?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34618404

3 years ago

Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13779

3 years ago

BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature

https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/01/31/microsoft-research-proposes-biogpt-a-domain-specific-generative-transformer-language-model-pre-trained-on-large-scale-biomedical-literature/

3 years ago

The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020)

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/21/17687402/kylie-jenner-luck-human-life-moral-privilege

3 years ago

Choropleth maps with ggplot and R

https://socviz.co/maps.html

3 years ago

Visually simulate Git operations with a single terminal command

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

3 years ago

WASM compression benchmarks and the cost of missing compression APIs

https://nickb.dev/blog/wasm-compression-benchmarks-and-the-cost-of-missing-compression-apis/

3 years ago

Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding

https://sifted.eu/articles/tech-nation-shutting-down/

3 years ago

We need less powerful languages (2015)

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/

3 years ago

Hypermedia Clients

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-clients/

3 years ago

Some Ubuntu security patches are now behind 'Ubuntu Pro', a paid product

https://cloudisland.nz/@drV/109786183082845131

3 years ago

The Cost of Shadow Work

https://www.ft.com/content/c2913c55-b9f5-44fa-b6dc-7cd7a2659925

3 years ago

History of Lisp Parentheses (2019)

https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens

3 years ago

Tech only has one strategy: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

https://mrsteinberg.com/embrace-extend-extinguish/

3 years ago

Automatic, AI-generated interview notes by Metaview

https://www.metaview.ai/notes

3 years ago

Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k

https://ymcinema.com/2023/01/30/apple-your-52000-mac-pro-is-now-worths-1000/

3 years ago

Why I’m making my family German (2017)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/why-im-making-my-family-german

3 years ago

Tesla lost $140M trading Bitcoin in 2022

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=tesla-lost-140-million-trading-bitcoin-in-2022

3 years ago