top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-02-14

What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

3 years ago

Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156567743/health-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-chemicals

3 years ago

BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/bbc-offices-india-raided-tax-officials-modi-documentary-fallout

3 years ago

Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/10/google-employees-slam-ceo-sundar-pichai-for-rushed-bard-announcement.html

3 years ago

Google’s fully homomorphic encryption compiler – a primer

https://jeremykun.com/2023/02/13/googles-fully-homomorphic-encryption-compiler-a-primer/

3 years ago

Normalization of Deviance (2015)

https://danluu.com/wat/

3 years ago

Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding

https://www.fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-train-derailment-toxic-chemicals-pvc-spill-fire-disaster

3 years ago

Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/22-23/repurposing_ewaste/

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

https://peel.fm

3 years ago

Maybe people do care about performance and reliability

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/maybe-people-do-care-about-performance-and/

3 years ago

Does Google need a new CEO?

https://om.co/2023/02/08/does-google-need-a-new-ceo/

3 years ago

More than five whys and “layer eight” problems

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/02/13/broken/

3 years ago

Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-alchemist-powers-our-lunar-future/

3 years ago

Compact holographic sound fields enable rapid one-step assembly of matter in 3D

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf6182

3 years ago

Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/microsoft_ai_bing_error/

3 years ago

Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156512284/turkey-earthquake-erdogan-building-safety

3 years ago

Rust vs. Haskell

https://serokell.io/blog/rust-vs-haskell

3 years ago

How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2023/how-spotifys-podcast-bet-went-wrong

3 years ago

Consultancies know less than they claim and cost more than they seem to

https://www.ft.com/content/fb1254dd-a011-44cc-bde9-a434e5a09fb4

3 years ago

The art of the shadow: How painters have gotten it wrong for centuries

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-art-of-the-shadow-how-painters-have-gotten-it-wrong-for-centuries/

3 years ago