top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-02-04

Open Assistant – project meant to give everyone access to a great chat based LLM

https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

2 years ago

713 upvotes – 2 comments

Scalability is overrated

https://waseem.substack.com/p/scalability-is-overrated

2 years ago

628 upvotes – 232 comments

ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors

https://eitherway.io/posts/esp32-buyers-guide/

2 years ago

490 upvotes – 214 comments

De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiny11-lean-windows-11

2 years ago

474 upvotes – 401 comments

Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone

https://open-assistant.io/

2 years ago

424 upvotes – 309 comments

FOSDEM 2023 is live now

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/streaming/

2 years ago

379 upvotes – 66 comments

U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-military-prepares-to-take-down-suspected-chinese-surveillance-balloon.html

2 years ago

371 upvotes – 1087 comments

Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657854

2 years ago

364 upvotes – 284 comments

SICP: the end of an era (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgRFOjVzvm0

2 years ago

361 upvotes – 389 comments

Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/google-testing-chatgpt-like-chatbot-apprentice-bard-with-employees.html

2 years ago

335 upvotes – 334 comments

I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

https://simonberens.me/blog/i-hired-5-people

2 years ago

286 upvotes – 321 comments

The Linux Upskill Challenge

https://theleo.zone/posts/linux-upskill/

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 88 comments

Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes

https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/extension/publications/air-air-heat-exchangers-healthier-energy-efficient-homes

2 years ago

272 upvotes – 180 comments

yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 53 comments

Showering at the South Pole

https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 98 comments

Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited

https://tyrrrz.me/blog/reverse-engineering-youtube-revisited

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 39 comments

2000 Years of Matrix Multiplication

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Matrices_and_determinants/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 32 comments

The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 229 comments

Expected changes with Dropbox for macOS

https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes

2 years ago

180 upvotes – 215 comments

Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality

https://github.com/dschil138/Fulcrum

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 149 comments
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