top 20 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

No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

3 years ago

I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation

https://moritz.pm/posts/chatgpt-bing

3 years ago

Another UFO shot down over Canada by US

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-still-gives-no-details-about-alaska-ufo-new-object-seen-over-canada-2023-02-11/

3 years ago

A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell

https://compactmag.com/article/a-black-professor-trapped-in-anti-racist-hell

3 years ago

WW2 Bomb Explodes in England

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wwii-era-bomb-explodes-in-england-in-unplanned-detonation/

3 years ago

Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-trove-spices-world-sunken-fifteenth-century.html

3 years ago

My review of the C standard library in practice

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/02/11/

3 years ago

Show HN: Toodle.Studio is an art playground with Lisp and turtles

https://toodle.studio

3 years ago

SDK update for Raspberry Pi Pico W unlocks Bluetooth support

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/releases/tag/1.5.0

3 years ago

DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357017-deepmind-ai-is-as-fast-as-humans-at-solving-previously-unseen-tasks/

3 years ago