top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-21

So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/

3 years ago

Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator

https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html

3 years ago

DPReview.com to close

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close

3 years ago

Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hyundai-promises-to-keep-buttons-in-cars-because-touchscreen-controls-are-dangerous

3 years ago

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought

https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinting-is-worse-than-I-thought.html

3 years ago

Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object

https://zero123.cs.columbia.edu/

3 years ago

Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source

https://github.com/typst/typst

3 years ago

Google Bard waitlist

https://bard.google.com/

3 years ago

MySQL for Developers

https://planetscale.com/courses/mysql-for-developers/introduction/course-introduction

3 years ago

uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.48.0

3 years ago

Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/technology/google-bard-chatbot.html

3 years ago

Clifford Stoll beat the Russians, then made useless, wondrous objects (2016)

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2016-war-stories/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made/

3 years ago

America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/21/americas-banks-are-missing-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars

3 years ago

Laying Out a Print Book with CSS

https://iangmcdowell.com/blog/posts/laying-out-a-book-with-css/

3 years ago

Awesome-totally-open-ChatGPT: A list of open alternatives to ChatGPT

https://github.com/nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt

3 years ago

GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks

3 years ago

Louis Rossmann could sue John Deere for GPL violation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7Qx1FF1hA

3 years ago

Shields Up

https://seths.blog/2023/03/shields-up-2/

3 years ago

Why construction projects always go over budget

https://practical.engineering/blog/2023/3/21/why-construction-projects-always-go-over-budget

3 years ago

Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too

https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1638222624084951040

3 years ago

Java 20 / JDK 20: General Availability

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2023-March/007517.html

3 years ago

Unchecked corporate pricing power is a factor in US inflation

https://www.ft.com/content/151cb429-d024-4d5c-9edf-5b4a2b104a66

3 years ago

Java 20 Is Out!

https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/20/

3 years ago

Surprise computer science proof in combinatorics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprise-computer-science-proof-stuns-mathematicians-20230321/

3 years ago

Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7

https://andrewlock.net/understanding-the-dotnet-ecosystem-the-evolution-of-dotnet-into-dotnet-7/

3 years ago

The Age of AI has begun

https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun

3 years ago

Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (1986) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2uls6iIEU

3 years ago

Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling

https://scrippsnews.com/stories/how-to-turn-off-wi-fi-calling-on-android-to-combat-hackers/

3 years ago

Bing Image Creator

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/21/create-images-with-your-words-bing-image-creator-comes-to-the-new-bing/

3 years ago

Curl 8.0.1

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/curl-8-0-1-because-i-jinxed-it/

3 years ago

Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)

https://stallman.org/google.html

3 years ago

An Introduction to Computer Networks (2020)

https://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/

3 years ago

Bank failures come in waves

https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks2

3 years ago

OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242069

3 years ago

How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/how-i-came-to-write-tidy-first

3 years ago

Stanford’s Alpaca shows that OpenAI may have a problem

https://the-decoder.com/stanfords-alpaca-shows-that-openai-may-have-a-problem/

3 years ago

A ChatGPT Emacs Shell

https://xenodium.com/a-chatgpt-emacs-shell/

3 years ago

Rolling Stone left out the reason why FBI raided journalist's home

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164360143/rolling-stone-fbi-raid-journalist-james-gordon-meek

3 years ago

Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/tech/google-layoffs-employee-culture/index.html

3 years ago

PeerTube 5.1

https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-5.1

3 years ago

Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI

https://virtualface.app

3 years ago

Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

https://www.headshotpro.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: Public transportation signage based on bloom filters (rough mockup)

https://github.com/jsvan/BusStopBloomfilter

3 years ago

Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-polio-cases-linked-new-oral-vaccine-detected-africa

3 years ago

Nvidia Announces H100 NVL – Max Memory Server Card for Large Language Models

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18780/nvidia-announces-h100-nvl-max-memory-server-card-for-large-language-models

3 years ago

Can GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 play Wordle?

https://twitter.com/biz84/status/1637793452879405064

3 years ago

Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/20/psychedelic-brew-ayahuasca-profound-impact-brain-scans-dmt

3 years ago

Strong Consistency with Raft and SQLite

https://blog.sqlitecloud.io/strong-consistency-with-raft-and-sqlite

3 years ago

GOOD Meat gets green light from FDA for cultivated meat

https://agfundernews.com/good-meat-gets-green-light-from-fda-for-cultivated-meat

3 years ago

One of the best podcasting apps you know is built by a single person

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23648650/marco-arment-overcast-solo-acts

3 years ago

Build a Celebrity Twitter Chatbot with GPT-4

https://medium.com/mindsdb/build-a-celebrity-twitter-chatbot-with-gpt-4-78b6ecd84a00

3 years ago

Switzerland bans deferred bonuses for Credit Suisse staff

https://www.ft.com/content/cb213446-332d-4689-8911-e0371c2eb287

3 years ago

Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/magazine/cfcs-inventor.html

3 years ago

Try Bard and share your feedback

https://blog.google/technology/ai/try-bard/

3 years ago

An Aperiodic Monotile

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798

3 years ago

Show HN: Watermelon – GPT-powered code contextualizer

https://www.watermelontools.com/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Frigade (YC W23) – Faster, better product onboarding

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246292

3 years ago

Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-nuclear-now-trailer-1235357522/

3 years ago

Room Generation Using Constraint Satisfaction

https://pvigier.github.io/2022/11/05/room-generation-using-constraint-satisfaction.html

3 years ago

Mostly adequate guide to FP (in JavaScript)

https://mostly-adequate.gitbook.io/mostly-adequate-guide/

3 years ago

Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society

https://www.foliosociety.com/row/consider-phlebas.html

3 years ago

Image obtained with high-speed camera shows how lightning rods work

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-unique-image-scientists-high-speed-camera.html

3 years ago

Gloria Dea, Las Vegas magician who vanished into obscurity, has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/20/gloria-dea-first-las-vegas-magician-dies-at-100/

3 years ago

Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse

https://www.wsj.com/articles/anxiety-strikes-8-trillion-mortgage-debt-market-after-svb-collapse-15ef0207

3 years ago