top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-15

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

3 years ago

Last Flight Out

https://brr.fyi/posts/last-flight-out

3 years ago

Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps

https://www.bennettnotes.com/notes/why-does-apple-restrict-hobby-development/

3 years ago

The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google

https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a

3 years ago

AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline

https://wccftech.com/amd-grabs-over-30-percent-market-share-with-epyc-cpus-intel-continues-to-decline/

3 years ago

Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/a-bold-new-approach-to-the-cloud/

3 years ago

Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230214/p2g/00m/0bu/043000c

3 years ago

The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546379/the-little-learner/

3 years ago

SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)

https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/sqlite-the-only-database-you-will-ever-need-in-most-cases.html

3 years ago

Introduction to Datalog

https://blogit.michelin.io/an-introduction-to-datalog/

3 years ago

Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/02/15/shrinkflation/

3 years ago

Squares in Squares

https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squinsqu/

3 years ago

DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero

https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1625538305889820673

3 years ago

Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library

https://github.com/microsoft/prompt-engine

3 years ago

Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society

https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/

3 years ago

Tell HN: DigitalOcean is doing layoffs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803696

3 years ago

When Rust hurts

https://mmapped.blog/posts/15-when-rust-hurts.html

3 years ago

Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX-512-Quicksort-Numpy

3 years ago

From Bing to Sydney

https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-sentient-ai/

3 years ago

Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/tax-raids-at-bbc-offices-in-india-enter-second-day

3 years ago

The israelis destabilizing democracy and disrupting elections worldwide

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2022-11-16/ty-article-static-ext/the-israelis-destabilizing-democracy-and-disrupting-elections-worldwide/00000186-461e-d80f-abff-6e9e08b10000

3 years ago

Documentation related to the implementation of SimCity 2000

https://github.com/dfloer/SC2k-docs

3 years ago

Rerun OSS beta is released

https://www.rerun.io/blog/oss-beta

3 years ago

Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/gsk-was-warned-repeatedly-about-zantac-risks-didnt-act-warnings-bloomberg

3 years ago

Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/googles-privacy-sandbox-advertising-system-arrives-on-android-in-beta/

3 years ago

Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00383-9

3 years ago

I was banned because of a security flaw in Facebook’s password recovery system

http://zuckbannedme.com/

3 years ago

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

https://blogit.michelin.io/clojure-programming/

3 years ago

A hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

3 years ago

Jonathan Blow: “Video Games and the Future of Education”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFScmtiC44

3 years ago

Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers

https://www.aft.org/news/bernie-sanders-partners-teachers-demand-higher-pay

3 years ago

What's new in Matplotlib 3.7

https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/prev_whats_new/whats_new_3.7.0.html

3 years ago

SOBA: Potential blood test for Alzheimer's disease

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213157119

3 years ago

MarioGPT Uses AI to Generate Endless Super Mario Levels for Free

https://www.slashgear.com/1199870/mariogpt-uses-ai-to-generate-endless-super-mario-levels-for-free/

3 years ago

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s two bond guarantors unsealed, ties to Stanford

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/sam-bankman-frieds-two-bond-guarantors-revealed-after-unsealing-.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34802589

3 years ago

Unix Edition Zero (1971)

http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v0/

3 years ago

Show HN: Build auto-updating dashboards in a spreadsheet

https://equals.app/dashboards/

3 years ago

SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf]

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.66.0.pdf

3 years ago

Food coloring, anti-caking nanoparticles may affect human gut

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/02/food-coloring-anti-caking-nanoparticles-may-affect-human-gut

3 years ago

EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules

https://twitter.com/NetopiaEU/status/1625845896758935553

3 years ago

Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port in Same Way as Lightning

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/10/apple-planning-to-limit-iphone-15-usb-c-port/

3 years ago

Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/swiss-vote-preventing-cashless-society-pressure-group-says-2023-02-06/

3 years ago

1:12 scale 1983 WarGames WOPR computer model

https://twitter.com/6502b/status/1625507300923392000

3 years ago

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson

https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Watterson/9781524884949

3 years ago

Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/15/under-no-circumstances-will-we-pay-that-absurd-amount-royal-mail-tells-hackers

3 years ago

Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available

https://ubuntu.com/blog/real-time-ubuntu-is-now-generally-available

3 years ago

FDA advisers recommend approval of over-the-counter naloxone

https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/15/naloxone-otc-opioisa-fda-panel-recommends/

3 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a tool in Rust for tracking all allocations in a Linux process

https://github.com/matt-kimball/allocscope

3 years ago

Ohio cleaning up toxic train derailment as pollution 'plume' moves downstream

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ohio-cleaning-up-toxic-train-derailment-pollution-plume-moves-downstream-2023-02-15/

3 years ago

All the Buns Are Blank

https://onefoottsunami.com/2023/02/15/all-the-buns-are-blank/

3 years ago

Godot 4.0 RC 2

https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-0-rc-2/

3 years ago

Court blocks NY law mandating “hateful conduct” policies by social media

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/14/court-blocks-new-york-law-mandating-posting-of-hateful-conduct-policies-by-social-media-platforms-including-us/

3 years ago

Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/trying-every-combination-flash-my-asus-motherboards-bios

3 years ago

Does mathematics need a philosophy?

https://www.logicmatters.net/2023/02/15/does-mathematics-need-a-philosophy/

3 years ago

PyTorch at the Edge: Deploy 964 TIMM Models on Android with TorchScript

https://dicksonneoh.com/portfolio/pytorch_at_the_edge_timm_torchscript_flutter/

3 years ago

Circadian – Suspend-on-Idle Daemon for GNU/Linux Power Management

https://github.com/mrmekon/circadian

3 years ago

Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/thunderbird-115-supernova-preview-the-new-folder-pane/

3 years ago

It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World

https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy

3 years ago

Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

http://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/

3 years ago

Tesla to open some superchargers to other vehicles

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-to-open-some-superchargers-to-other-vehicles-white-house-says-2ed35fd5

3 years ago

Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service

https://github.com/swarmlet/swarmlet

3 years ago

Show HN: Explore careers that you don't know even exist

https://careergpt.ai

3 years ago

Roll your own JavaScript runtime (2022)

https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime

3 years ago

Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are starting to ask why

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/many-women-struggle-to-breastfeed-scientists-are-starting-to-ask-why

3 years ago

Making a terrarium with an Arduino-powered artificial sun

https://twiddlingbits.net/artificial-sun

3 years ago

Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction

http://www.njohnston.ca/publications/conways-game-of-life-mathematics-and-construction/

3 years ago