top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-03

Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files

3 years ago

ARM64 Linux Workstation

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/ultimate-linux-arm64-workstation/

3 years ago

High-res image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain

https://github.com/yu-takagi/StableDiffusionReconstruction

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35008392

3 years ago

Demystifying bitwise operations, a gentle C tutorial

https://www.andreinc.net/2023/02/01/demystifying-bitwise-ops

3 years ago

What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports

https://collabfund.com/blog/i-read-1-000-investor-reports-last-year-heres-what-i-learned/

3 years ago

The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/924577/75ae0a1538029fcc/

3 years ago

Initial V: A BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth keyboard for use with Vim

https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v

3 years ago

Use GNU Emacs

https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/emacs/

3 years ago

Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/us-rail-workers-east-palestine-ohio-train-crash

3 years ago

30 Days of Python

https://github.com/Asabeneh/30-Days-Of-Python

3 years ago

Mullvad becomes highest level of Tor Member (Shallot)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/3/3/mullvad-becomes-highest-level-of-tor-member-shallot/

3 years ago

Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world

3 years ago

Ethically Sourced Lena Picture

https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/

3 years ago

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

3 years ago

DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables

https://duckdb.org/2023/03/03/json.html

3 years ago

Why Python keeps growing, explained

https://github.blog/2023-03-02-why-python-keeps-growing-explained/

3 years ago

Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

https://thecradle.co/article-view/22122

3 years ago

Amazon Buys One Medical

https://www.onemedical.com/mediacenter/one-medical-joins-amazon/

3 years ago

CGI Renders Are Real Photos (2017)

https://petapixel.com/2017/01/02/cgi-renders-actually-real-photos/

3 years ago

Matty Benedetto Designed and Prototyped 350 Inventions in 3 Years

https://unnecessaryinventions.com/

3 years ago

Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023/03/02/ford-establishes-latitude-ai-to-develop-future-automated-driving.html

3 years ago

Hacking the Nintendo DSi Browser

https://farlow.dev/2023/03/02/hacking-the-nintendo-dsi-browser

3 years ago

OpenAI Becomes ClosedAI

https://closedai.us/blog/openai-becomes-closedai

3 years ago

I am Neal Stephenson, sci-fi author, geek, and now, sword maker – AMA

https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/11h6hg5/i_am_neal_stephenson_scifi_author_geek_and_now/

3 years ago

Lemon-derived nanoparticles block the progression of kidney stones

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c05099

3 years ago

Opted out, yet tracked: Are regulations enough to protect privacy?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00885

3 years ago

MailCrab

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/86/introducing-mailcrab

3 years ago

JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Java 21

https://openjdk.org/jeps/430

3 years ago

Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dad2.12404

3 years ago

Cosmic Text: Pure Rust multi-line text handling

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text

3 years ago

The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000647

3 years ago

AI teaches itself to use an API

https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere/status/1631349179934203904

3 years ago

Better alternatives to git submodules

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14666.html

3 years ago

Detecting Starlink Satellites with a Portable Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR (2022)

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/detecting-starlink-satellites-with-a-portable-raspberry-pi-rtl-sdr/

3 years ago

Imaging a Hard Drive with Non-ECC Memory – What Could Go Wrong?

https://blog.robertelder.org/importance-of-ecc-memory/

3 years ago

Belgium launches nationwide safe harbor for ethical hackers

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/belgium-launches-nationwide-safe-harbor-for-ethical-hackers

3 years ago

Continuous growth is cancer

https://christianheilmann.com/2023/03/03/continuous-growth-is-cancer/

3 years ago

BlackLotus malware can bypass secure boot

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/blacklotus_malware_eset/

3 years ago

Electronics Repair Workshop

https://futo.org/workshops/

3 years ago

Why I stopped using an external monitor

https://bt.ht/monitor/

3 years ago

RVVM – The RISC-V Virtual Machine

https://github.com/LekKit/RVVM

3 years ago

Self-replicating Python using ChatGPT

https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine

3 years ago

Cucumber maintainer has been laid off

https://mattwynne.net/new-beginning

3 years ago

Rethinking splice()

https://lwn.net/Articles/923237/

3 years ago

Limitations of Goodhart's Law

https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/

3 years ago

Switching to Fedora Silverblue

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/switching-to-fedora-silverblue/

3 years ago

RISC-V Business: Testing StarFive's VisionFive 2 SBC

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/risc-v-business-testing-starfives-visionfive-2-sbc

3 years ago

The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/

3 years ago

The Super Tiny Compiler

https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler

3 years ago

How to measure milliseconds mechanically for camera shutter calibration [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07CTj4fUeY

3 years ago

The extensible vi layer for Emacs

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

3 years ago

How to earn customers for life [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJay5YW4fLA

3 years ago

Tesla's next-gen electric motors will get rid of rare earth elements

https://insideevs.com/news/655233/tesla-next-gen-eletric-motors-no-rare-earth-elements/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Be careful enabling Cloudflare features

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35004020

3 years ago

20M digits of pi in 1 minute using Julia

https://gist.github.com/juliusgeo/41811563811a6e523086e514ef2bec4a

3 years ago

Tell HN: My son is being bullied for owning an Android phone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35014499

3 years ago

GraphQL vs. REST APIs: a complete guide

https://www.airplane.dev/blog/graphql-vs-rest-apis-a-complete-guide

3 years ago

Live2D Is a Security Trainwreck

https://undeleted.ronsor.com/live2d-a-security-trainwreck/

3 years ago

Amazon pauses construction on second HQ in Virginia amid job cuts

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-pauses-construction-on-second-headquarters-in-virginia-as-it-cuts-jobs/

3 years ago

Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companions. Then they lost them

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196

3 years ago

Show HN: Watch ChatGPT debate itself on a given topic

https://opinionate.io/

3 years ago

The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (2008)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-tunguska-mystery-100-years-later/

3 years ago

Ao486_MiSTer: i486 core for the MiSTer FPGA gaming system

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer

3 years ago

ASCII Double-Murder (2022)

https://madned.substack.com/p/ascii-double-murder

3 years ago

What Are Signals?

https://signia.tldraw.dev/docs/what-are-signals

3 years ago

First Impressions of Bluesky's Brand New iOS App

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/bluesky-ios-app-review/

3 years ago

Tether Used Falsified Documents and Shell Companies to Get Bank Accounts

https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-companies-behind-tether-used-falsified-documents-and-shell-companies-to-get-bank-accounts-f798b0a5

3 years ago

Building the worlds jankiest serial to USB cable from scavenged parts

https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2023/3/1/building-a-jank-uart-cable-from-scavenged-parts.md

3 years ago

APL Since 1978 (2020) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386319

3 years ago

Updates and Deletes on Columnar Postgres

https://blog.hydra.so/blog/2023-03-02-columnar-updates-and-deletes

3 years ago

A 'CSS reset' for TypeScript, improving types for common JavaScript API's

https://github.com/total-typescript/ts-reset

3 years ago

Beware of Book Blurbs

https://themillions.com/2023/03/beware-of-blurbs.html

3 years ago

Oldest Human Genome from Southern Spain

https://www.forensicmag.com/594943-Oldest-Human-Genome-from-Southern-Spain/

3 years ago

Texas Is Trying to Scrub Abortion from Its Internet

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-trying-scrub-abortion-internet-181045657.html

3 years ago

Accessing the RAM of a QEMU Emulated System from Another Process

https://blog.reds.ch/?p=1379

3 years ago

The (Almost) Definitive PC Sound Card Article (Pre-1990)

http://brassicgamer.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-almost-definitive-pc-sound-card.html

3 years ago

Egypt: Corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza seen for first time

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64825526

3 years ago

No Magnets, Big Power: BMW’s Fifth-Generation Electric Motor (2022)

https://www.motortrend.com/news/bmw-ix-m60-brushed-electric-motor-tech-deep-dive/

3 years ago

Hidden order in chaotic crowds

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-lane-hidden-chaotic-crowds.html

3 years ago