top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-28

Bicycle

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

3 years ago

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

3 years ago

PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”

https://twitter.com/littlesnitch/status/1640436716895870985

3 years ago

Gpt4all: A chatbot trained on ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations based on LLaMa

https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

3 years ago

EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/3/28/the-european-commission-does-not-understand-what-is-written-in-its-own-chat-control-bill/

3 years ago

Apple Music Classical

https://learn.applemusic.apple/apple-music-classical

3 years ago

Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-Efficient, Large Language Models

https://www.cerebras.net/blog/cerebras-gpt-a-family-of-open-compute-efficient-large-language-models/

3 years ago

Senate Bill to Ban TikTok

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15

3 years ago

Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659868/amazon-returns-warning-product-reviews-tag-feature

3 years ago

New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-23-illusion-of-transparency/

3 years ago

Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket

https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river

3 years ago

TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4

https://github.com/TaxyAI/browser-extension

3 years ago

Iceland long term visa for remote workers

https://island.is/en/get-long-term-visa-for-remote-workers

3 years ago

Microsoft's Software Is Malware

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

3 years ago

Incompetent but Nice

https://jacobian.org/2023/mar/28/incompetent-but-nice/

3 years ago

Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5023778-update-adds-promotions-to-the-start-menu/

3 years ago

Show HN: Regex.ai – AI-powered regular expression generator

https://regex.ai/

3 years ago

For the first time, the Fed is losing money

https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-the-first-time-the-fed-is-losing-money-mortage-backed-securities-treasurys-interest-rate-risk-svb-ad92e96f

3 years ago

Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/android-app-from-china-executed-0-day-exploit-on-millions-of-devices/

3 years ago

LLMs and GPT: Some of my favorite learning materials

https://gist.github.com/rain-1/eebd5e5eb2784feecf450324e3341c8d

3 years ago

Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/180321/can-you-buy-the-same-ticket-with-a-lower-price-if-you-buy-it-from-another-countr

3 years ago

Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org

https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.html

3 years ago

Open Flamingo – open framework to train multimodal LLMs

https://laion.ai/blog/open-flamingo/

3 years ago

Push notifications are now supported cross-browser

https://web.dev/push-notifications-in-all-modern-browsers/

3 years ago

The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-ev-transition-explained-2659602311

3 years ago

Procedural 3D mesh generation in a 64kB intro

https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/2023/procedural-3d-mesh-generation-in-a-64kb-intro/

3 years ago

ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for text-annotation tasks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

3 years ago

Alibaba to split into six separate groups

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-to-split-into-six-separate-groups-in-biggest-shake-up-9ce2201f

3 years ago

Your "simulation" might not need state

https://www.onsclom.net/posts/simulator-state

3 years ago

My4TH – A minimalistic FORTH computer with discrete CPU

http://mynor.org/my4th

3 years ago

Red Hat 30th anniversary

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-30th-anniversary-celebrating-red-hat-day-north-carolina

3 years ago

Apple introduces Apple Pay Later

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/03/apple-introduces-apple-pay-later/

3 years ago

I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one

https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/you-are-making-me-buy-a-new-phone?pk_campaign=rss

3 years ago

The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet

https://www.theverge.com/23653141/tiktok-ban-bytedance-congress-hearing-first-amendment-open-internet

3 years ago

Higher-Order Virtual Machine (HVM)

https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM

3 years ago

Launch HN: Metal (YC W23) – Embeddings as a Service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35341514

3 years ago

Wavelength

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/wavelength

3 years ago

Starbucks illegally withheld raises and tips from union workers, NLRB says

https://perfectunion.us/starbucks-nlrb-credit-card-tip-complaint/

3 years ago

Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for censorship, surveillance

https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-patriot-act-on-steroids-dc-uniparty

3 years ago

Is Babylon 5 secretly the most influential TV show of the past 25 years? (2021)

https://www.techradar.com/news/is-babylon-5-secretly-the-most-influential-tv-show-of-the-past-25-years

3 years ago

GitHub slashes engineering team in India

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/27/github-slashes-engineering-team-in-india/

3 years ago

UK sets up fake booter sites to muddy DDoS market

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/uk-sets-up-fake-booter-sites-to-muddy-ddos-market/

3 years ago

The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

https://qz.com/ipcc-report-on-climate-change-meat-industry-1850261179

3 years ago

Quicker serverless Postgres connections

https://neon.tech/blog/quicker-serverless-postgres

3 years ago

Show HN: A fully open-source (Apache 2.0)implementation of llama

https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lit-llama

3 years ago

Awk Technical Notes

https://maximullaris.com/awk_tech_notes.html

3 years ago

China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/03/china-reports-human-case-of-h3n8-bird-flu/

3 years ago

Rust Is a Scalable Language

https://matklad.github.io/2023/03/28/rust-is-a-scalable-language.html

3 years ago

A brief history of APFS (2022)

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/01/a-brief-history-of-apfs-in-honour-of-its-fifth-birthday/

3 years ago

EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-countries-poised-approve-2035-phaseout-co2-emitting-cars-2023-03-28/

3 years ago

Trigonometric Functions in CSS

https://web.dev/css-trig-functions/

3 years ago

The perils of polishing old Fortran libraries

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/the-perils-of-polishing-long/5444

3 years ago

Beej's Guide to C Programming

https://beej.us/guide/bgc/

3 years ago

Interaction Nets, Combinators, and Calculus – HVM

https://zicklag.github.io/blog/interaction-nets-combinators-calculus/

3 years ago

BASIC is anything but dead

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/28/nostalgic_for_basic/

3 years ago

How to create a private ChatGPT with your own data

https://medium.com/@imicknl/how-to-create-a-private-chatgpt-with-your-own-data-15754e6378a1

3 years ago

Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/open-sourcing-cody

3 years ago

A non-federated decentralized social protocol based on Git

https://github.com/social4git/social4git

3 years ago

It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/28/its-difficult-to-read-an-audiophile-guide-as-an-analogue-engineer/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Reddit Has Disabled i.reddit.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343748

3 years ago