top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-17

Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64987074

3 years ago

746 upvotes – 363 comments

Negativity drives online news consumption

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

3 years ago

617 upvotes – 355 comments

Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/02/one-hour-operation-could-cure-prostate-cancer-destroying-tumours/

3 years ago

577 upvotes – 107 comments

Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems

https://tylerglaiel.substack.com/p/can-gpt-4-actually-write-code

3 years ago

567 upvotes – 654 comments

ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning

https://viper.cs.columbia.edu/

3 years ago

565 upvotes – 211 comments

Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

https://retool.com/visual-basic/

3 years ago

443 upvotes – 259 comments

SVB Hall of Shame

https://svbhallofshame.wordpress.com/

3 years ago

416 upvotes – 288 comments

Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader

3 years ago

373 upvotes – 149 comments

Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/goodbye-newspapers-on-kindle-amazon-stops-selling-newspaper-and-magazine-subscriptions/

3 years ago

346 upvotes – 248 comments

A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvgjm/a-growing-number-of-scientists-are-convinced-the-future-influences-the-past

3 years ago

329 upvotes – 436 comments

One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here

https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7

3 years ago

323 upvotes – 356 comments

Speak English to me: The secret world of programmers

https://github.com/npmaile/blog/blob/main/posts/3.%20The%20Secret%20World%20of%20Programmers.md

3 years ago

287 upvotes – 327 comments

GPT-4 System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 239 comments

Google Summer of Code 2023

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023/organizations

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 74 comments

Web Stable Diffusion

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion

3 years ago

254 upvotes – 41 comments

Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316/

3 years ago

243 upvotes – 313 comments

ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400

https://dkb.blog/p/chatgpts-chess-elo-is-1400

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 345 comments

Load LLaMA Models Instantly

https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/1636628000493174784

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 55 comments

Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206469

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 144 comments

New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore

https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2023/03/17/new-react-docs-pretend-spas-dont-exist

3 years ago

199 upvotes – 218 comments

Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/16/23644013/samsung-exynos-modem-security-issue-project-zero

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 73 comments

JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

https://tschatzl.github.io/2023/03/14/jdk20-g1-parallel-gc-changes.html

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 184 comments

Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-arrives-in-the-epic-games-store/

3 years ago

172 upvotes – 121 comments

DDRamDisk: RAM disk, a disk based on RAM memory chips

https://ddramdisk.store/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 124 comments

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 229 comments

Spelunking Apple’s Open Source

https://bitsplitting.org/2023/03/17/spelunking-apples-open-source/

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 42 comments

Vanishing phone customer support is driving us all insane

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/07/phone-customer-support-disappearing/

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 146 comments

Big Banks Agree to Historic $30B Deposit Injection in First Republic

https://www.citigroup.com/global/news/press-release/2023/bank-of-america-citigroup-jpmorgan-chase-wells-fargo-goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley-bny-mellon-pnc-bank-state-street-truist-and-u-s-bank-to-make-uninsured-deposits-totaling-30-billion-into-first-republic-bank

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 241 comments

Launch HN: Codeparrot (YC W23) – Automated API testing using production traffic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201036

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 63 comments

Minimum Viable Finance: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups

https://www.causal.app/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-finance-for-seed-series-a-companies

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

PostgreSQL Logical Replication Explained

https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/inside-logical-replication-in-postgresql

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

Rippling raises $500M in emergency funds after SVB fails

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-17/rippling-raises-500-million-in-emergency-funds-after-svb-fails

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 85 comments

DIY Nitrogen TEA Laser (2020)

https://physicsopenlab.org/2020/07/16/diy-nitrogen-tea-laser/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Still Have a Use for Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working to Safely Emulate It in Rust

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ruffle-Adobe-Flash-Rust

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 60 comments

Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]

http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/cdr_cdrw.pdf

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 110 comments

Retiring a favourite C++ joke

https://ignition-training.com/posts/retire-cpp-joke/

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 141 comments

ChatGPT is laying you off

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/chatgpt-is-laying-you-off

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: 'Hello, World ' in x86 assembly, but make it gibberish

https://github.com/phoreverpheebs/gibberish

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Stanford Alpaca web demo suspended “until further notice”

https://alpaca-ai-custom4.ngrok.io/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (2014)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

Verilog Ethernet: Work-in-Progress 100BASE-TX PHY

https://github.com/Forty-Bot/ethernet

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

UBS in talks to acquire Credit Suisse

https://www.ft.com/content/17892f24-4ca0-417f-9093-289b019a0852

3 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

The price of eggs in America cannot be explained by inflation alone

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/03/16/the-price-of-eggs-in-america-cannot-be-explained-by-inflation-alone

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 63 comments

The friendship between Haskell and C

https://typeclasses.substack.com/p/the-friendship-between-haskell-and

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 46 comments

Vid2Seq: A pretrained visual language model for describing multi-event videos

https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/03/vid2seq-pretrained-visual-language.html

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

The Misalignment Museum

https://www.misalignmentmuseum.com/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 37 comments

The Role of AI in Accelerating Skill Development

https://saulcosta.com/the-role-of-ai-in-accelerating-skill-development-a4831311f0db

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 51 comments

Pico_1140: A PDP11/40 emulator that will run Unix v5/v6 on a Raspberry Pi RP2040

https://github.com/Isysxp/Pico_1140

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

The LLM Problem

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/14/Binging

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments

GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind

https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-4-a-copilot-for-the-mind

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 58 comments

US Air Force MQ-9 camera footage: Russian Su-27 Black Sea intercept

https://www.eucom.mil/video/42319/us-air-force-mq-9-camera-footage-russian-su-27-black-sea-intercept

3 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

Why do older grad students become bitter?

https://musings.lambdaloop.com/bitter-grads/

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 111 comments

Using Super Glue

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/youre-using-superglue-all-wrong/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

Bourbon and Branch Water (2013)

https://flemingsbond.com/bourbon-and-branch-water/

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 63 comments
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