top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-02-28

Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks

https://www.jailbreakchat.com

2 years ago

1118 upvotes – 528 comments

“Clean” code, horrible performance

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance

2 years ago

739 upvotes – 907 comments

FFmpeg 6.0

http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_6.0

2 years ago

594 upvotes – 207 comments

Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/hackers-claim-they-breached-t-mobile-more-than-100-times-in-2022/

2 years ago

533 upvotes – 326 comments

Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

https://vimium.github.io/

2 years ago

441 upvotes – 209 comments

The E-Ink Badge

https://census.dev/blog/diy-e-ink-badge

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 144 comments

LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/27/lastpass-devops-engineers-hacked/

2 years ago

376 upvotes – 261 comments

Show HN: Scribble Diffusion – Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI

https://scribblediffusion.com

2 years ago

373 upvotes – 89 comments

We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/uk-undermine-encryption

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 219 comments

Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute

https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2023-02-20-efficient-multimodality

2 years ago

342 upvotes – 57 comments

Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution

https://datapythonista.me/blog/

2 years ago

314 upvotes – 93 comments

A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

2 years ago

314 upvotes – 180 comments

Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain’s reward circuits

https://news.uci.edu/2023/02/27/early-life-stress-can-disrupt-maturation-of-brains-reward-circuits-promoting-disorders/

2 years ago

309 upvotes – 120 comments

OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot

https://cognitiverevolution.substack.com/p/openais-foundry-leaked-pricing-says

2 years ago

307 upvotes – 206 comments

Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)

https://www.talhoffman.com/2021/07/18/firecracker-internals/

2 years ago

300 upvotes – 52 comments

Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard

https://github.com/rosenpass/rosenpass

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 80 comments

Loneliness reshapes the brain

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-loneliness-reshapes-the-brain-20230228/

2 years ago

279 upvotes – 180 comments

AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back

https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/2/22/33

2 years ago

277 upvotes – 130 comments

Where has all the Chartreuse gone?

https://www.everydaydrinking.com/p/where-has-all-the-chartreuse-gone

2 years ago

247 upvotes – 157 comments

Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apartment-rents-fall-as-crush-of-new-supply-hits-market-2403c6ea

2 years ago

245 upvotes – 324 comments

Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API

https://www.crul.com/

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 79 comments

sqlean: A set of SQLite extensions

https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 23 comments

World Building with GPT

https://ianbicking.org/blog/2023/02/world-building-with-gpt.html

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 107 comments

Unfolder for Mac – a 3D modelcreating papercraft

https://www.unfolder.app/

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 38 comments

The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting

https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-professor-mass-layoffs-caused-by-social-contagion-companies-imitating-2023-2

2 years ago

233 upvotes – 205 comments

Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V

https://gist.github.com/cb372/5f6bf16ca0682541260ae52fc11ea3bb

2 years ago

229 upvotes – 71 comments

Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (2004)

https://twasink.net/2004/03/30/dtsttcpw-what-does-it-mean/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 90 comments

The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad051/7059318

2 years ago

213 upvotes – 94 comments

The Lone Developer Problem

https://evanhahn.com/the-lone-developer-problem/

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 172 comments

How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it

https://apuchitnis.substack.com/p/how-sms-fraud-works-and-how-to-guard-against-it

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 105 comments

Pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 32 comments

X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)

https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12/

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 303 comments

What I Learned at Stripe

https://steinkamp.us/post/2022/11/10/what-i-learned-at-stripe.html

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 197 comments

Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/02/28/rtx-video-super-resolution/

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 162 comments

Show HN: Briefsky – a free Dark Sky clone for multiple weather APIs

https://briefsky.app/

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 71 comments

Git branches are named sequences of commits

https://blog.plover.com/2023/02/27/

2 years ago

170 upvotes – 224 comments

Why and how I use Org Mode for my writing and more

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/index.html

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 159 comments

Client-side encryption for Gmail in Google Workspace is now generally available

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/client-side-encryption-for-gmail-generally-available.html

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 94 comments

Rare insect found at Arkansas Walmart

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-rare-insect-arkansas-walmart-historic.html

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 111 comments

Proposal to Merge Pyston with Cpython

https://discuss.python.org/t/contributing-the-pyston-jit/24195

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

Explanation of the Domino's Pizza tracker

https://twitter.com/snubs/status/1630220894919598080

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 78 comments

Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

2 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/28/microsoft-imessage-windows-support/

2 years ago

126 upvotes – 161 comments

Launch HN: Pyq (YC W23) – Simple APIs to Popular AI Models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34971883

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer

https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology/vodafone-unveils-prototype-5g-network-built-raspberry-pi-computer

2 years ago

123 upvotes – 106 comments

'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'

https://www.newsweek.com/google-ai-blake-lemoine-bing-chatbot-sentient-1783340

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 328 comments

We're creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI

https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/were-creating-a-new-top-level-product-group-at-meta-focused-on-generative-ai-to-/10115006704889901/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 129 comments

Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture

https://havewelanded.com/mars-wicker-furniture

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

AI Tool Reveals How Celebrities’ Faces Have Been Photoshopped

https://petapixel.com/2023/02/28/ai-tool-reveals-how-celebrities-faces-have-been-photoshopped/

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

Oxide and Friends – Rack-scale Networking [audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWh2Sms3aw

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory corruption

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/782720

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

I wanted to see James Taylor, but didn't know it would cost $5k

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/columnists/simon-winchester-james-taylor-tickets-secondary-ticket-market-five-thousand-dollars/article_628155f2-b471-11ed-8e17-c79bc3e262ff.html

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 79 comments

Fourier analysis may help to quickly train more accurate neural networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/black-box-ai

2 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

Tunnelmole – give your local servers a public URL

https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans and domestic animals

https://www.science.org/content/article/who-rules-earth-wild-mammals-far-outweighed-humans-and-domestic-animals

2 years ago

101 upvotes – 107 comments

LokiOS: A new version of CP/M 2.2, written from scratch

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/introducing-lokios-a-new-version-of-cp-m-written-from-scratch-compatible-with-cp-m2-2-programs.1242138/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 76 comments

How the 8086 processor determines the length of an instruction

https://www.righto.com/2023/02/how-8086-processor-determines-length-of.html

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 23 comments

Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/28/canada-bans-tiktok-on-government-phones-devices-over-security-risks

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 60 comments

Comparing static website hosts (2022)

https://kevquirk.com/comparing-static-site-hosts-best-host-for-a-static-site/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

Generic dynamic array in 60 lines of C

https://gist.github.com/nicebyte/86bd1f119d3ff5c8da06bc2fd59ad668

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 104 comments

Transformer learning explained: Coinductive guide to inductive transformer heads

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Tabular – Email design tool that generates bulletproof email HTML

https://tabular.email/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Safety performance of the Waymo rider-only automated driving system [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/files/documents/safety/Safety%20Performance%20of%20Waymo%20RO%20at%201M%20miles.pdf

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Startup Decoupling and Reckoning

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/startup-decoupling-and-reckoning

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 6 comments

Team-based map making with Felt

https://felt.com/blog/felt-reaches-1-0-now-ready-for-teams

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

The End of the English Major

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 279 comments

Rivian announces 1B gross loss and 600M revenue [pdf]

https://assets.rivian.com/2md5qhoeajym/5TBOuPTvDNZwGjUte1Vp1M/d789f042ab663f6766491f028ef8378f/Rivian_Q4-2022_Shareholder_Letter.pdf

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 167 comments

Why CMake sucks (2021)

https://twdev.blog/2021/08/cmake/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 89 comments

AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU – 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18721/ces-2023-amd-instinct-mi300-data-center-apu-silicon-in-hand-146b-transistors-shipping-h223

2 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments
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