top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-13

Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35138319

3 years ago

927 upvotes – 789 comments

Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

3 years ago

700 upvotes – 298 comments

Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2020fa/self-guided/

3 years ago

662 upvotes – 82 comments

Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage

https://blog.benton.io/post/711712394255138816/experian-is-a-pile-of-dark-pattern-garbage

3 years ago

642 upvotes – 152 comments

Changes at YC

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/changes-at-yc/

3 years ago

604 upvotes – 524 comments

Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35136827

3 years ago

550 upvotes – 315 comments

Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html

3 years ago

535 upvotes – 343 comments

Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)

https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/pcaudio/119979/

3 years ago

529 upvotes – 757 comments

Switching from C++ to Rust

https://laplab.me/posts/switching-from-cpp-to-rust/

3 years ago

344 upvotes – 275 comments

How Python virtual environments work

https://snarky.ca/how-virtual-environments-work/

3 years ago

332 upvotes – 283 comments

SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole

https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 472 comments

California cancels salmon fishing season

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-cancels-salmon-fishing-season/

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 226 comments

Why some GitHub labels are illegible

https://firsching.ch/github_labels.html

3 years ago

284 upvotes – 60 comments

Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features

https://nftnow.com/news/breaking-instagram-is-sunsetting-digital-collectibles-nfts/

3 years ago

270 upvotes – 429 comments

Generating aerial imagery with your iPhone's Lidar sensor

https://jakecoppinger.com/2023/03/generating-aerial-imagery-with-your-iphones-lidar-sensor/

3 years ago

267 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134805

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 146 comments

Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 230 comments

HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64937251

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 146 comments

Things I learned after getting users

https://basementcommunity.bearblog.dev/things-i-learned/

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 149 comments

Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care

https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/

3 years ago

247 upvotes – 207 comments

What is Temperature in NLP?

https://lukesalamone.github.io/posts/what-is-temperature/

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 79 comments

When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?

https://nongaap.substack.com/p/sivb-held-to-mortem-governance

3 years ago

230 upvotes – 233 comments

Tiny-C Compiler (2001)

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~felipe/IFT2030-Automne2002/Complements/tinyc.c

3 years ago

229 upvotes – 65 comments

Stanford Alpaca, and the acceleration of on-device LLM development

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/13/alpaca/

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 66 comments

Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitlab-gtlb-earnings-q4-2023.html

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 207 comments

Facebook confirms it will drop news sharing in Canada under bill C-18

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/03/the-consequence-of-mandated-payments-for-links-facebook-confirms-it-will-drop-news-sharing-in-canada-under-bill-c-18/

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 160 comments

Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud

https://www.onvoard.com/blog/our-production-servers-was-suspended-by-google-cloud

3 years ago

209 upvotes – 180 comments

An end to typographic widows on the web

https://clagnut.com/blog/2424

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 88 comments

Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/13/ahrefs_on_prem_savings/

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 197 comments

SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/svb-collapse-peter-thiel-silicon-valley-

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 270 comments

Framework 12th gen laptop review

https://anarc.at/hardware/laptop/framework-12th-gen/

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 161 comments

Alpaca: An Instruct Tuned LLaMA 7B – Responses on par with txt-DaVinci-3

https://crfm.stanford.edu/alpaca/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 11 comments

SVB insider says employees are angry with CEO

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/business/svb-employees-angry-at-ceo/index.html

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 158 comments

Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust (2021)

https://pkolaczk.github.io/overhead-of-optional/

3 years ago

179 upvotes – 158 comments

Ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended by GitHub

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ipmitool-GitHub-Suspended

3 years ago

177 upvotes – 66 comments

WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

3 years ago

175 upvotes – 156 comments

PostgreSQL 14 Internals

https://postgrespro.com/blog/pgsql/5969985

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Counter – Simple and free web analytics

https://counter.dev/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 81 comments

FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., As Successor to Signature Bank

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23018.html

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 213 comments

Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230217-1

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 181 comments

Bunki, a C Coroutine Library

https://github.com/Keith-Cancel/Bunki

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 30 comments

From Books to Knowledge Graphs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10766

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Web0.cc – Generate clutter, ad and tracker free article pages to share

https://web0.cc/

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

SVB's programmatic payment systems are back online

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35136915

3 years ago

130 upvotes – 65 comments

Y Combinator cuts nearly 20% of staff, scales back growth stage investments

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/y-combinator-cuts-nearly-20-of-staff-scales-back-growth-stage-investments/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 8 comments

Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Rich

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/svb-failure-socialism-rich/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 69 comments

The Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw over Silicon Valley Bank

https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 124 comments

Twitter has an internal root CA problem

https://izzodlaw.com/@IzzoD/110001516908481048

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 76 comments

Believe it or not, the Amish are loving electric bikes

https://electrek.co/2023/03/12/believe-it-or-not-the-amish-are-loving-electric-bikes/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 73 comments

Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/highest-temperature-superconducting-materials-metals-reddmatter-551382/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 80 comments

Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse

https://www.thelocal.se/20230313/swedish-pension-giant-loses-12-billion-kronor-from-us-banks-collapse

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 132 comments

America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/_pages/ck8xtn5bu00qawly6zpbbvn3a.html

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone made the transition from app development to ML/AI work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35143213

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

HSBC Purchased Silicon Valley Bank UK (SVB UK) for $1.21 (£1)

https://www.hsbc.com/news-and-media/media-releases

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 68 comments

\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async Rust work on Windows

https://notgull.github.io/device-afd/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

PCIe 4.0 Card Hosts 21M.2 SSDs: Up To 168TB, 31 GB/s

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pcie4-card-21-m2-ssds-168tb-31gbps

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 101 comments

Losing Signal

https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 75 comments

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962) [pdf]

https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/papers/scanned/Doug_Engelbart-AugmentingHumanIntellect.pdf

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 14 comments

Stanford Alpaca: An Instruction-following LLaMA model

https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 2 comments

Peppercorn (law)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Plunge in regional bank stocks triggers spate of trading halts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2023-03-12/svb-fallout-spreads

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: Is it just me, or could file conversion websites be a honeypot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35130045

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 56 comments

First Transient Electronic Bandage Speeds Healing by 30 Percent

https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2023/02/first-transient-electronic-bandage-speeds-healing-by-30-percent/

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Ventura has changed app quarantine with a new xattr

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/13/ventura-has-changed-app-quarantine-with-a-new-xattr/

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 63 comments

How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

https://dot.la/openai-elon-musk-2659434979.html

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 70 comments

Magic the Gathering content creator pleas YouTube to stop scammer bot deluge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcdEf0fNA0

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

SpaceX is getting ready to test its Starlink satellite-to-cell phone service

https://www.engadget.com/spacex-is-getting-ready-to-test-its-starlink-satellite-to-cell-phone-service-181810564.html

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

The End of Silicon Valley (Bank)

https://stratechery.com/2023/the-death-of-silicon-valley-bank/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 136 comments

The Great Illyrian Revolt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellum_Batonianum

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 61 comments

Mercury Vault: money market fund and up to $3M in FDIC insurance

https://twitter.com/mercury/status/1635249668593692673

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 72 comments

Arkansas: No need to age verify kids working in meat processing plants

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/10/arkansas-no-need-to-age-verify-kids-working-in-meat-processing-plants-but-we-must-age-verify-kids-online/

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments
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