top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-09

A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/

3 years ago

1563 upvotes – 146 comments

GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

https://twitter.com/webology/status/1623722731819659269

3 years ago

854 upvotes – 855 comments

Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/

3 years ago

703 upvotes – 595 comments

The Future of Thunderbird

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/

3 years ago

654 upvotes – 460 comments

ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

3 years ago

574 upvotes – 305 comments

Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

https://www.screenstab.com/editor/

3 years ago

497 upvotes – 226 comments

The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)

https://airfactsjournal.com/2020/11/the-20-an-hour-cessna-172-experiment/

3 years ago

485 upvotes – 329 comments

What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

https://kareem.substack.com/p/what-i-think-about-lebron-breaking

3 years ago

450 upvotes – 185 comments

Comcast gave false map data to FCC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-gave-false-map-data-to-fcc-and-didnt-admit-it-until-ars-got-involved/

3 years ago

416 upvotes – 148 comments

GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34727210

3 years ago

407 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725047

3 years ago

384 upvotes – 471 comments

Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

https://github.com/queer/boxxy

3 years ago

384 upvotes – 239 comments

The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

https://element.io/blog/the-online-safety-bill-an-attack-on-encryption/

3 years ago

381 upvotes – 179 comments

My network home setup – v4.0

https://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2023/01/05/home-network_v4.html

3 years ago

370 upvotes – 217 comments

Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/06/ancient-pompeii-site-installs-invisible-solar-panels-that-look-like-roman-terracotta-tiles

3 years ago

359 upvotes – 139 comments

Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

https://www.comparedial.com/news/apples-2-year-old-iphone-12-is-6-faster-than-the-latest-samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-for-single-core-performance-395

3 years ago

337 upvotes – 488 comments

AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB

https://www.engadget.com/a-robotics-engineer-is-trying-to-make-the-airpods-pro-easier-to-repair-184249580.html

3 years ago

319 upvotes – 290 comments

Why is remote work seen as a gift?

https://cdoyle.me/2023/02/08/why-is-remote-work-seen-as-a-gift/

3 years ago

276 upvotes – 542 comments

LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service

https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/

3 years ago

266 upvotes – 258 comments

There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (2014)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-four-billion-floatsso-test-them-all/

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 65 comments

Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23574178/insulin-cost-california-biden-medicare-coverage

3 years ago

241 upvotes – 258 comments

Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989

3 years ago

231 upvotes – 62 comments

Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/podman-vs-docker/

3 years ago

228 upvotes – 175 comments

Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play

https://podtext.ai

3 years ago

219 upvotes – 84 comments

Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/09/us-securities-and-exchange-commission-sues-kraken-over-crypto-staking-services/

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 219 comments

RustDesk – Remote desktop software, written in Rust

https://github.com/rustdesk

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 125 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722220

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 365 comments

Magic Sand: augmented reality sandbox/playground

https://github.com/thomwolf/Magic-Sand

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 52 comments

A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout

https://pldb.com/posts/JohnOusterhout.html

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 91 comments

Sabre/dav: open-source CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server

https://sabre.io/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 42 comments

We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

https://www.codeium.com/blog/bing-does-not-index-codeium

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 91 comments

Most FOSDEM 2023 videos have been uploaded

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

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 33 comments

Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/02/08/temple-strike-philadelphia/

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 248 comments

How ‘Diversity’ Policing Fails Science

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-diversity-policing-fails-science-equality-equity-education-texas-tech-job-candidates-interview-dei-pronouns-11675722169

3 years ago

178 upvotes – 291 comments

Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 309 comments

Image Compression with Singular Value Decomposition

http://timbaumann.info/svd-image-compression-demo/

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34719088

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 170 comments

GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”

https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/A-message-from-GoDaddy-CEO-Aman-Bhutani/default.aspx

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 97 comments

This site was styled by YouTube comments

https://css-comments.vercel.app/

3 years ago

148 upvotes – 61 comments

Emacs StackExchange

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=Votes

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 36 comments

AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/02/06/ai-potential-alien-signals/

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 152 comments

Service mesh use cases (2020)

https://lucperkins.dev/blog/service-mesh-use-cases/

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 48 comments

Credit Suisse confirms 50% bonus cut, Zero for Exec, amid terrible results

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/02/credit-suisse-bonuses

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Are alternative (oil, nu, etc.) shells usable as daily drivers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34722208

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 141 comments

We [Reddit] had a security incident. Here’s what we know

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/

3 years ago

116 upvotes – 38 comments

Burt Bacharach has died

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/burt-bacharach-death-cause-songs-b2279102.html

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

The Arm Manga Guide to the Mali GPU (2021)

https://interactive.arm.com/story/the-arm-manga-guide-to-the-mali-gpu/page/1

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmdX8Znv5g

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVZ80_tbkbc

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 32 comments

Clark Foam’s demise, 10 years later (2015)

https://www.surfer.com/blogs/culture/clark-foams-demise-10-years-later-grubby-clark/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 59 comments

Autodidax: JAX core from scratch

https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/autodidax.html

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search application?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723275

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 161 comments

Scientists document two separate reservoirs of latent HIV in patients

https://www.unc.edu/posts/2023/02/08/scientists-document-two-separate-reservoirs-of-latent-hiv-in-patients/

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost $145,000

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/02/08/medicare-home-hospice-care-sarah-romanelli

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 284 comments

Exploring the impact of code style in identifying good programmers (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10891

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Privacy friendly suite of PDF tools

https://pdfux.com/

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 44 comments

Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 55 comments

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

I gained a new appreciation for Test Driven Development

https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2023-02-09-i-was-saved-by-test-driven-development.html

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 110 comments

My Salary History

https://www.jvt.me/salary/

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 159 comments

Progressively Enhanced Turbo Native Apps in the App Store

https://masilotti.com/progressively-enhanced-turbo-native-apps-in-the-app-store/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs (2020)

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/british-rails-short-experiment-with-travelling-pubs-36068/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 76 comments

Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and “Alcohol Intoxication”

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/investigations/Pages/HWY21FH007.aspx

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 116 comments

I hate Hackathons

https://pgpt.substack.com/p/i-hate-hackathons

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 64 comments

Logic Gate Simulator

https://academo.org/demos/logic-gate-simulator/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Web Rendering Patterns

https://mburakerman.github.io/blog/web-rendering-patterns

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Is “prompt injection” going to be a new common vulnerability?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34719586

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 111 comments
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