top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-20

Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/

3 years ago

Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style

https://petals.ml/

3 years ago

Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux

https://asahilinux.org/2023/03/road-to-vulkan/

3 years ago

Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/amazon-layoffs-company-to-cut-off-9000-more-workers.html

3 years ago

Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35235732

3 years ago

Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35229045

3 years ago

Twenty-five years of curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35226887

3 years ago

TinyVG – an alternative binary encoded vector graphics format

https://tinyvg.tech/

3 years ago

Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS

https://altstore.io/

3 years ago

Doors I touched today (1999)

https://fluxus.org/FluxusMidwest/doorknobs/

3 years ago

A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us

https://www.wingolog.org/archives/2023/03/20/a-world-to-win-webassembly-for-the-rest-of-us

3 years ago

SVG Backgrounds

https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/

3 years ago

Meta Layoffs

https://brandur.org/fragments/meta-layoffs

3 years ago

Supreme Court asked to strike down immunity for police who brutally beat student

https://ij.org/press-release/supreme-court-asked-to-strike-down-immunity-for-police-task-force-officers-who-brutally-beat-innocent-college-student/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275

3 years ago

Zippyshare quits after 17 years, 45M visits per month makes no money

https://torrentfreak.com/zippyshare-file-hosting-veteran-calls-it-quits-2006-2023-230320/

3 years ago

Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator

https://previous.unixdude.net/

3 years ago

IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c

3 years ago

ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgpt_or_me_been_hacked_ive_never_had_these/

3 years ago

Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/03/20/an-update-about-our-workforce/

3 years ago

The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600

https://newatlas.com/technology/stanford-alpaca-cheap-gpt/

3 years ago

ChatGPT is down

https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd

3 years ago

Oakland's non-profit video game museum is back, and thriving

https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/fly-spaceships-battle-aliens-and-drive-a-crazy-taxi-at-this-oakland-museum/

3 years ago

Command Line One-Liners

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

3 years ago

Curl 8.0.0

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/curl-8-0-0-is-here/

3 years ago

GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

3 years ago

Prompt Engineering: Steer a large pretrained language model to do what you want

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-engineering/

3 years ago

Who becomes an entrepreneur? Insights from research studies

https://www.generalist.com/briefing/who-becomes-an-entrepreneur

3 years ago

Vallejo CA police shared data in violation of state law, watchdog says

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-police-shared-data-in-violation-of-state-law-watchdog-alleges/

3 years ago

Building ClickHouse Cloud from scratch in a year

https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-clickhouse-cloud-from-scratch-in-a-year

3 years ago

The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/20/the-cloud-backlash-has-begun-why-big-data-is-pulling-compute-back-on-premises/

3 years ago

When can two TCP sockets share a local address?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-quantum-state-of-a-tcp-port/

3 years ago

macOS Cursors

https://mac-cursors.netlify.app

3 years ago

Why use Rust on the back end?

https://blog.adamchalmers.com/why-rust-on-backend/

3 years ago

Gitea 1.19

https://blog.gitea.io/2023/03/gitea-1.19.0-is-released/

3 years ago

Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/fbp-ai-human-collaboration/

3 years ago

UBS got Credit Suisse for almost nothing

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-20/ubs-got-credit-suisse-for-almost-nothing

3 years ago

Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS

https://spack.io/

3 years ago

DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and grit identified Somerton Man 75 years later

https://spectrum.ieee.org/somerton-man

3 years ago

Credit Suisse’s takeover causes turmoil in a $275B bond market

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/20/credit-suisses-takeover-causes-turmoil-in-a-275bn-bond-market

3 years ago

Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/3/20/lessons-from-a-pessimist/

3 years ago

Who is still inside the metaverse?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html

3 years ago

Pacific Pinball Museum

https://www.pacificpinball.org

3 years ago

Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35240431

3 years ago

In-Flight Entertainment Challenge

https://blog.mand3l.com/post/712193955168731136/the-inflight-entertainment-challenge

3 years ago

Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/book-publishers-with-surging-profits-struggle-to-prove-internet-archive-hurt-sales/

3 years ago

Medieval monks were distracted too

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/books/review/the-wandering-mind-jamie-kreiner.html

3 years ago

CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers With Conditional Computation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09752

3 years ago

The End of Front-End Development

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-end-of-frontend-development/

3 years ago

Cesium-137 missing and found in junk yard in Thailand

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40025846

3 years ago

Launch HN: Lume (YC W23) – Generate custom data integrations with AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35232171

3 years ago

Reassessing relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24712

3 years ago

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

https://react-lm.github.io

3 years ago

SVB was particularly poorly run

https://fedguy.com/hidden-to-market/#more-6013

3 years ago

Chronology Clock

https://chronologyclock.com/

3 years ago

Argbash – Bash Argument Parsing Code Generator

https://argbash.dev

3 years ago

MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse

https://news.mit.edu/2023/barry-duncan-palindromes-writing-reverse-0320

3 years ago

Why northern Europe is so indebted (2021)

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-northern-europe-is-so-indebted/

3 years ago

Tinker V: Single-board RISC-V computer

https://tinker-board.asus.com/product/tinker-v.html?s=09

3 years ago

Show HN: Recursive LLM Prompts

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm

3 years ago

Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs

https://slashdot.org/story/23/03/20/1440238/amazon-cutting-another-9000-jobs

3 years ago

Notes on Fast Fourier Transforms for Implementers

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/notes-on-ffts-for-implementers/

3 years ago