top 10 hacker news stories for 2023-02-11

A Heisenbug lurking in async Python

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/02/11/the-heisenbug-lurking-in-your-async-code/

2 years ago

696 upvotes – 232 comments

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids

2 years ago

427 upvotes – 296 comments

Why does the SARS-Cov2 genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? (2020)

https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/11227/why-does-the-sars-cov2-coronavirus-genome-end-in-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 92 comments

Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/02/10/scientists-discover-receptor-that-blocks-covid-19-infection.html

2 years ago

272 upvotes – 151 comments

Google Python Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 173 comments

Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)

https://kottke.org/15/04/treasure-trove-of-over-1700-mechanical-animations

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 39 comments

US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64614098

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 493 comments

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 45 comments

How to train large models on many GPUs? (2021)

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-09-25-train-large/

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 33 comments

I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it

https://colinmeloy.substack.com/p/i-had-chatgpt-write-a-decemberists

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 110 comments
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