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/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Google Python Style Guide

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

3 years ago

Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)

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

3 years ago

US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada

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

3 years ago

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it

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

3 years ago