1024
386
Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof
https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/
3 years ago
811
369
Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/
632
428
ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
https://minimaxir.com/2023/03/new-chatgpt-overlord/
442
126
A suspiciously criminal portfolio website
http://blueshirt.com/
397
801
Urgent: Sign the petition now
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-sign-the-petition-now-thousands-of-startups-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of-startup-jobs-are-at-risk/
382
266
Coinbase suspending USDC:USD conversions over the weekend
https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1634399032767307776
318
184
Ivy League Schools Sure Look Like a Cartel
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-11/ivy-league-athletic-scholarship-lawsuit-exposes-cartel-like-behavior
315
166
$3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB
https://twitter.com/circle/status/1634391505988206592
278
199
SVB depositors, investors tried to pull $42B Thursday
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/svb-depositors-investors-tried-to-pull-42-billion-on-thursday
119
Map of an Insect’s Brain
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-first-complete-map-of-an-insects-brain-180981778/
263
220
First Republic Bank files 8-K – Tech only 4% of total deposits; no sector >9%
https://ir.firstrepublic.com/static-files/295faa27-f208-4936-81ff-6c8bfa0fb6b5
262
208
People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/well/live/adhd-adderall-shortage.html
257
123
AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich Neovim config
https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim
255
181
A SVB short seller explains red flags he saw months ago
https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-short-seller-red-flags/
242
313
Common Beginner Mistakes with React
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/common-beginner-mistakes/
236
144
How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/how-to-insure-your-money-when-youre-banking-over-250k
225
76
Running LLaMA 7B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with Llama.cpp
https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2
224
68
SVB Financial: Blow Up Risk (2022)
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4565388-svb-financial-blow-up-risk
223
211
“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion
https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md
217
198
An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
https://www.circle.com/blog/an-update-on-usdc-and-silicon-valley-bank
201
80
Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses hours before seizure
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-paid-bonuses-fdic
200
93
SVB chief pressed lawmakers to weaken bank risk regulations
https://www.levernews.com/svb-chief-pressed-lawmakers-to-weaken-bank-risk-regs/
Philips and the death of Europe's last electronics giant [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE58YisgFeQ
193
91
Etsy Delays Seller Payouts Due to Run on Silicon Valley Bank
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2023/3/1678509907.html
176
101
GNU Octave 8.1
https://octave.org/news/release/2023/03/07/octave-8.1.0-released.html
171
98
Emacs is not just an editor (2015)
https://karl-voit.at/2015/10/23/Emacs-is-not-just-an-editor/
53
Small Asteroid Impacts Moon
https://twitter.com/dfuji1/status/1629259622619176961
170
Wells Fargo clients report missing deposits as bank works on fix
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2023/03/10/wells-fargo-clients-report-missing-deposits-as-bank-works-on-fix/
168
97
The water technology behind Avatar: The Way of Water
https://blog.unity.com/industry/technology-behind-avatar-the-way-of-water
121
A Bank of One's Own
https://nayafia.substack.com/p/a-bank-of-ones-own
165
42
Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices
https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64
155
134
There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks
154
83
SVB does not deserve a bailout. They DID NOT hedge interest rate risk at all
https://twitter.com/MacroAlf/status/1634626124260028419
34
Wonder Studio: this AI-powered tool might be a preview of the future of VFX
https://3dvf.com/en/wonder-studio-this-ai-powered-tool-might-be-a-preview-of-the-future-of-vfx/
143
111
Why Are There No Relational DBMSs? [pdf] (2015)
https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/Why-Are-There-No-Relational-DBMSs.pdf
140
43
OldLinux: Ancient Linux Resources
http://www.oldlinux.org/
139
48
How We Knew Space Was a Vacuum (2021)
https://sky-lights.org/2021/06/14/qa-how-we-knew-space-was-a-vacuum/
133
47
Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/knots-smaller-than-human-hair-make-materials-unusually-tough
130
196
The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085903/http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2011/10/the_coffeeshop_fallacy/
120
131
Write Posix Shell
https://j3s.sh/thought/write-posix-shell.html
118
44
Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8?gi=9f36e9e63dcb
116
18
Apple, Atari, and Commodore, Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/apple-atari-and-commodore-oh-my-explore-a-deluxe-home-vintage-computer-den/
17
Mozilla/Sops: Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
https://github.com/mozilla/sops
115
Status page for SVB payment systems
https://www.moderntreasury.com/svb-resource-center
112
81
Why I Use Old Hardware
https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html
106
Living the writing life means living with failure
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/06/living-writing-life-means-living-with-failure/
100
56
Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c
https://blog.jgc.org/2023/03/repairing-tiny-ribbon-cable-inside-28.html
90
Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app
https://tabby.sh/
96
6
The semantics of a simple functional language
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2023/03/08/Fun_Semantics.html
67
Brazil seizing Flipper Zero shipments to prevent use in crime
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brazil-seizing-flipper-zero-shipments-to-prevent-use-in-crime/
58
HP laptop can't connect to WiFi with letter 'p' in the password (2018)
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Software-and-How-To-Questions/P-button-in-WiFi-password-not-working-Win10/m-p/6722692#M246918
86
78
Show HN: Find the most climate friendly meeting location
https://www.meetinglocationcalculator.com
85
55
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/arnold-schwarzenegger-ukraine-covid-speech/673089/
64
USDC Down ~10%
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/usd-coin/
37
How to Like Things
https://mattgemmell.scot/how-to-like-things/
108
Startups that use Silicon Valley Bank are freaking out over payroll
https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-silicon-valley-bank-worried-wont-pay-employees-next-week-2023-3
82
Age Verification Mandates Would Undermine Anonymity Online
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/age-verification-mandates-would-undermine-anonymity-online
49
Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor
https://lemire.me/blog/2023/03/10/trimming-spaces-from-strings-faster-with-sve-on-an-amazon-graviton-3-processor/
50
A man says he accidentally unlocked and drove someone else’s Tesla using the app
https://globalnews.ca/news/9541040/bc-tesla-driving-wrong-car-app/
15
Did air pollution influence famous impressionist painters?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/air-pollution-impressionist-painters-monet-turner-180981710/
31
Reflections on a Decade of Coding
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/reflections-on-a-decade-of-coding/
How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch with Reality
https://issues.org/climate-change-scenarios-lost-touch-reality-pielke-ritchie/
26
Infinite Games
https://www.youngmoney.co/p/infinite-games
9
CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank no longer a director at SF Fed
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ceo-failed-silicon-valley-bank-no-longer-director-sf-fed-2023-03-10/
14
Julia 1.9 precompilation will be a turning point
https://twitter.com/kdpsinghlab/status/1633630727974580232
75
The uncanny failures of A.I.-generated hands
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands
73
Kopia – incremental backups, encryption, compression, data deduplication
https://github.com/kopia/kopia
71
22
Michigan Terminal System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Terminal_System
70
137
If you're so good, why aren't you making 600k at BigTech?
https://swizec.com/blog/if-you-re-so-good-why-aren-t-you-making-600k-at-bigtech/