top 50% 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

3 years ago

713 upvotes – 2 comments

Scalability is overrated

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

3 years ago

628 upvotes – 232 comments

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

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

3 years ago

490 upvotes – 213 comments

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

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

3 years ago

474 upvotes – 401 comments

Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone

https://open-assistant.io/

3 years ago

424 upvotes – 309 comments

FOSDEM 2023 is live now

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

3 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

3 years ago

371 upvotes – 1086 comments

Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?

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

3 years ago

364 upvotes – 284 comments

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

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

3 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

3 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

3 years ago

286 upvotes – 321 comments

The Linux Upskill Challenge

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

3 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

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 180 comments

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

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 53 comments

Showering at the South Pole

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

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 98 comments

Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited

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

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 39 comments

2000 Years of Matrix Multiplication

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

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 31 comments

The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners

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

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 229 comments

Expected changes with Dropbox for macOS

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

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 215 comments

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

https://github.com/dschil138/Fulcrum

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 149 comments

Nostr.how – A Complete Guide to Nostr

https://www.nostr.how/

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 135 comments

AMD Killed the Itanium (2005)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/AMDandItanium

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 239 comments

Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)

https://herbcaudill.com/words/20190219-rewrite-refactor-reinvent

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 56 comments

Why did The Beatles get so many bad reviews?

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/why-did-the-beatles-get-so-many-bad

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 166 comments

Design your pricing and tools so you can adapt them later

https://arnon.dk/design-your-pricing-and-tools-so-you-can-adapt-it-later/

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

The War for Iron

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/war-iron

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 44 comments

Solving the cube root of 19,683 mentally

https://www.nigamanth.com/blog/2023/cube-roots-trick.html

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 91 comments

Servo 2023 Roadmap

https://servo.org/blog/2023/02/03/servo-2023-roadmap/

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

Protocol Labs is laying off 21% of staff (89 people)

https://protocol.ai/blog/2023-02-03-crypto-winter-update/

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 168 comments

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 22 comments

Understanding the limits of large language models

https://inorris.com/Blog/GPT/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

A Solar Kiln to dry wood. Overview, design and build (2019)

https://www.adrianpreda.com/blog/solar-kiln

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 36 comments

LVFS – Linux Vendor Firmware Service

https://fwupd.org

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 65 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Setuid in Unix created to enable a game

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-February/027644.html

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air (2019)

https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 70 comments

Everything You Can’t Have

https://collabfund.com/blog/everything-you-cant-have/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 92 comments

Mesa 23.1 Includes Asahi Linux Gallium3D Driver Progress

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/20835

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

Mantis shrimp eyes

https://ryanblakeley.net/p/mantis-shrimp-eyes

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

What time is it? A simple question with a complex answer

https://andrea.corbellini.name/2023/01/23/what-time-is-it/

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 19 comments

The Magic of Sampling, and Its Limitations

https://research.swtch.com/sample

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bdmv/judge-used-chatgpt-to-make-court-decision

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

Helping mentally ill people in the Philippines (2022)

https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fgesundheit%2F2022-10%2Fmental-illness-poverty-climate-change-lyra-verzosa

3 years ago

76 upvotes – 82 comments

Type Inference That Sticks

https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/type-inference-that-sticks/

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

Microsoft mangles VS Code protected properties to prevent UI customization

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/166126

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

A Linking Adventure

https://nsnotes.github.io/2023/03/03/A-linking-adventure/

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_(Mary_Shelley_novel)

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: What can you do or learn to experience a better love life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34653505

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 98 comments

Astronomers uncover a one-in-ten-billion binary star system

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230201134112.htm

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Pirate Bay Proxy Defeats Police’s GitHub Takedown with DMCA Counternotice

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-proxy-defeats-polices-github-takedown-with-dmca-counternotice-230204/

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Study links adoption of EV with less air pollution and improved health

https://keck.usc.edu/study-links-adoption-of-electric-vehicles-with-less-air-pollution-and-improved-health/

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 90 comments

Seawater split to produce green hydrogen

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2023/01/30/seawater-split-to-produce-green-hydrogen

3 years ago

59 upvotes – 54 comments

The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/04/the-wic64-brings-classic-commodores-online-google-maps-included/

3 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

3 years ago

58 upvotes – 28 comments
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