top 50% 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

Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to RAM and Wakes Up Again

https://maximiliangolla.com/blog/2022-10-wol-plex-server/

3 years ago

Whistleblowers take note: don’t trust cropping tools

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/14/whistleblower-image-crop-document/

3 years ago

WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00283-y

3 years ago

Ruff: A fast Python linter, written in Rust

https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/

3 years ago

Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-mitigates-record-breaking-71-million-request-per-second-ddos-attack/

3 years ago

People can read their manager's mind (2015)

https://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.html

3 years ago

50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/14/iphone-casings-produced-in-india/

3 years ago

Hyundai, Kia to update security on millions of vehicles after TikTok challenge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599300/hyundai-kia-car-theft-software-update-free-tiktok-challenge

3 years ago

Show HN: Data Painter – A Different Way to Interact with Your Data

https://docs.kanaries.net/rath/tutorials/data-painter/

3 years ago

Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language/

3 years ago

Build your own fast, persistent KV store

https://dinesh.wiki/posts/build-your-own-persistent-kv-store/

3 years ago

SkillzTruth - Proof of concept demonstrating how to cheat on Skillz apps

https://www.skillztruth.com/

3 years ago

ChatGPT Hardware: A look at 8x NVIDIA A100 powering the tool

https://www.servethehome.com/chatgpt-hardware-a-look-at-8x-nvidia-a100-systems-powering-the-tool-openai-microsoft-azure-supermicro-inspur-asus-dell-gigabyte/

3 years ago

Curl audit: How a joke led to significant findings

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/02/14/curl-audit-fuzzing-libcurl-command-line-interface/

3 years ago

Today is the 10th year anniversary of Steam being officially out for Linux

https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/9943

3 years ago

The case for frameworks

https://seldo.com/posts/the_case_for_frameworks

3 years ago

Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site (2018)

https://david-gilbertson.medium.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5

3 years ago

Tesla Workers Launch Union Campaign in New York

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/tesla-autopilot-workers-launch-union-campaign-in-buffalo-new-york-tsla

3 years ago

Putting solar panels in grazing fields is good for sheep

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357545-putting-solar-panels-in-grazing-fields-is-good-for-sheep/

3 years ago

Gigapresses – the die casts reshaping car manufacturing

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gigapresses-giant-die-casts-reshaping-car-manufacturing-2023-02-10/

3 years ago

Disinfection with Far-UV (222 nm Ultraviolet light) (2020) [pdf]

https://www.boeing.com/confident-travel/downloads/CAP-3_Disinfection_with_Far-UV.pdf

3 years ago

Data Classification: Does Python still have a need for class without dataclass?

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

3 years ago

Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio

https://www.baugues.com/layoff/

3 years ago

SS United States, the fastest passenger liner ever built

https://lflank.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/ss-united-states/

3 years ago

How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? (2021)

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05/how-to-design-a-sailing-ship-for-the-21st-century.html

3 years ago

Biggest Barrier to Biking Is a Fear of Cars

https://www.treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-biggest-biking-barrier-study-6979522

3 years ago

WebContainer API

https://webcontainers.io/

3 years ago

Modders are using AI to put voice acting in Morrowind

https://www.pcgamer.com/modders-are-using-ai-to-put-voice-acting-in-morrowind-and-im-impressed-and-concerned-all-at-once/

3 years ago

TurboTLS: TLS connection establishment with 1 less round trip

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05311

3 years ago

Data-Free Disney

https://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/

3 years ago

Pre-seed, seed startups with employees in office have higher revenue growth

https://steveblank.com/2023/02/14/startups-that-have-employees-in-offices-grow-3-%c2%bd-times-faster/

3 years ago

Meta reportedly plans more job cuts

https://www.engadget.com/meta-reportedly-plans-to-cut-more-jobs-171716224.html

3 years ago

USCO tells judge that art created without human involvement is not protectable

https://petapixel.com/2023/02/09/u-s-copyright-office-tells-judge-that-ai-artwork-isnt-protectable/

3 years ago

An interactive explanation of quadtrees (2014)

https://jimkang.com/quadtreevis/

3 years ago

Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer

https://imgur.com/a/Qj9U2ia

3 years ago

Frame pointers vs. DWARF – my verdict

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/frame-pointers-vs-dwarf-my-verdict/

3 years ago

GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-for-business-is-now-available/

3 years ago

Show HN: Screenshot.Rocks: Open-source browser and mobile screenshot mockup tool

https://screenshot.rocks

3 years ago

It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/its-not-aliens-itll-probably-never-be-aliens-so-stop-please-just-stop/

3 years ago

Tesla workers launch unionization campaign in New York

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/tesla-new-york-workers-union

3 years ago

Ask HN: Open-source ChatGPT alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34795886

3 years ago

Vxlan over WireGuard (On OpenBSD)

https://rob-turner.net/post/vx-lan/

3 years ago

Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse

https://betterwithout.ai/only-you-can-stop-an-AI-apocalypse

3 years ago

The US Air Force successfully tested AI-controlled jet fighter

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/02/the-us-air-force-successfully-tested-this-ai-controlled-jet-fighter/

3 years ago

C++23 “Pandemic Edition” is complete

https://herbsutter.com/2023/02/13/c23-pandemic-edition-is-complete-trip-report-winter-iso-c-standards-meeting-issaquah-wa-usa/

3 years ago

A Pig Quest

https://piggy18.itch.io/a-pig-quest

3 years ago

The Price of a Harvard Lawyer

https://theflaw.org/articles/the-price-of-a-harvard-lawyer/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Any HNers have air quality sensors near-ish 'East Palistine, Ohio'?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783664

3 years ago

Salesforce CEO took 10-day digital detox In French Polynesia after laying off 7k

https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-benioff-10-day-digital-detox-after-layoffs-report-2023-2

3 years ago

My System/3 model 10 (2010)

http://www.ibmsystem3.nl/my5410/my5410.html

3 years ago

The More You Look for Spy Balloons, the More UFOs You’ll Find

https://www.wired.com/story/spy-balloons-ufo-shot-down-us/

3 years ago

What is .NET, and why should you choose it?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/why-dotnet/

3 years ago

Why Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2669690/why-does-google-prepend-while1-to-their-json-responses

3 years ago

Incident: United B772 at Kahului on Dec 18th 2022, pilots filed safety report

http://avherald.com/h?article=50526a09

3 years ago

EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-lawmakers-approve-effective-2035-ban-new-fossil-fuel-cars-2023-02-14/

3 years ago

Emotion in music, giving you the chills

https://abbeyroadinstitute.nl/blog/emotion-in-music-giving-you-the-chills/

3 years ago