top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-29

The age of average

https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

3 years ago

Universal Speech Model

https://sites.research.google/usm/

3 years ago

Text2Video-Zero Code and Weights Released by Picsart AI Research (12G VRAM)

https://github.com/Picsart-AI-Research/Text2Video-Zero

3 years ago

★ 4.2k Python

Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound

https://www.wsj.com/articles/binance-sees-2-billion-in-outflows-as-troubles-compound-9a136e21

3 years ago

Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/927262/6adb2350e2b0d2ce/

3 years ago

Wat [video] (2012)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

3 years ago

AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover

https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfiguration

3 years ago

Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35358873

3 years ago

SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2023/03/29/sam-bankman-fried-legal-fees-funded-by-alameda-money-gifted-to-father-joe-bankman/

3 years ago

Command line functions around OpenAI

https://kadekillary.work/posts/1000x-eng/

3 years ago

How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to-draw-dotted-lines-on-chalkboards-mit-style/

3 years ago

Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.373179/gov.uscourts.cand.373179.469.0.pdf

3 years ago

Original Prusa MK4

https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-mk4-2/

3 years ago

Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65110744

3 years ago

New insights into why aspirin works so well

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/983050?

3 years ago

Bing Chat now has ads

https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1640892791923572737

3 years ago

The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/international-mental-illness-part-one

3 years ago

Brainstorm questions not ideas

https://www.muledesign.com/blog/brainstorm-questions

3 years ago

Cerebras-GPT vs. LLaMA AI Model Performance Comparison

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/cerebras-gpt-vs-llama-ai-model-comparison/

3 years ago

Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation

https://eig.org/remote-work-family-formation/

3 years ago

Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders [pdf]

https://wrv.github.io/h26forge.pdf

3 years ago

Carl Braun on communicating like a grown-up (2016)

https://fs.blog/carl-braun-communicating/

3 years ago

Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-horrifying-epidemic-of-teen-age-fentanyl-deaths-in-a-texas-county

3 years ago

Blender 3.5

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-5/

3 years ago

Type system of Fortnite's Verse language

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/verse_types

3 years ago

Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/great-espresso-isnt-hard-enough-so-heres-a-diy-open-source-machine-for-it/

3 years ago

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

3 years ago

Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against Android, iOS and Chrome

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/spyware-vendors-use-0-days-and-n-days-against-popular-platforms/

3 years ago

Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust

https://github.com/rosefromthedead/effing-mad

3 years ago

★ 660 Rust

Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos

https://boingboing.net/2023/03/28/samsungs-ai-photo-feature-adds-creepy-teeth-to-baby-photos.html

3 years ago

Problem Details for HTTP APIs

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7807

3 years ago

'Ultramassive' black hole discovered – bigger than the majority of galaxies

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-65109663

3 years ago

A VC bought the Flatiron Building and didn’t pay for it

https://hellgatenyc.com/some-guy-bought-the-flatiron-building-and-didnt-pay-for-it

3 years ago

Tailwind CSS v3.3

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v3-3

3 years ago

Gambas Almost Means BASIC

https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

3 years ago

Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond parody” stage

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1640827575437250561

3 years ago

Rotten meat may have been a staple of Stone Age diets

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meat-rotten-putrid-paleo-diet-fire-neanderthal

3 years ago

AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/run-alloydb-anywhere

3 years ago

I built an iMessage bot using Beeper

https://www.getclearspace.com/beeper

3 years ago

Show HN: Mirrorful – A developer-first way to implement designs faster

https://github.com/Mirrorful/mirrorful

3 years ago

★ 1.4k TypeScript MIT

Fireside Chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/video-and-transcript-fireside-chat

3 years ago

Emergent Mind: AI News, Curated and Explained by AI

https://www.emergentmind.com/

3 years ago

Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rural-children-now-grow-slightly-taller-than-city-children-in-wealthy-countries/

3 years ago

Messaging layer security: Secure and usable end-to-end encryption

https://www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-and-usable-end-to-end-encryption/

3 years ago

Show HN: go-nbd – A Pure Go NBD Server and Client

https://github.com/pojntfx/go-nbd

3 years ago

★ 399 Go Apache-2.0

I wanted a beautiful computer and couldn't find one, so I made my own

https://www.mythic.computer/essays/origins

3 years ago

Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018)

https://www.deepstateblog.org/2018/12/04/declassified-records-show-bushs-oil-business-was-probably-a-cia-front/

3 years ago

Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do PeerReview

https://mstdn.science/@ukrio/110100752908161183

3 years ago

“Terrascope”: The possibility of using the Earth as an atmospheric lens (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00490

3 years ago

Generative AI is good at cooperating with people and bad at full automation

https://skybrian.substack.com/p/generative-ai-is-good-at-cooperating

3 years ago

GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/z3c6q056q332

3 years ago

New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-19/to-fight-floods-new-york-city-rebuilds-a-wall-of-oysters

3 years ago

CSS is hard no matter how good you are at it

https://www.aha.io/engineering/articles/css-is-hard-no-matter-how-good-you-are-at-it

3 years ago

Sex and the citizenship process

https://lux-magazine.com/article/sex-and-the-citizenship-process/

3 years ago

Our Shift to Usage-Based Pricing

https://www.appsmith.com/blog/usage-based-pricing

3 years ago

WiFi protocol flaw allows attackers to hijack network traffic

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wifi-protocol-flaw-allows-attackers-to-hijack-network-traffic/

3 years ago

Establishing a UART Root Connection to a TP-Link Wireless Router

https://staging.rickconsole.com/posts/hardware-hacking-tp-link/

3 years ago

In the age of AI, don't let your skills atrophy

https://www.cyberdemon.org/2023/03/29/age-of-ai-skill-atrophy.html

3 years ago

Qt Creator 10 Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-10-released

3 years ago

Sōzu – HTTP reverse proxy in Rust for immutable infrastructures

https://www.sozu.io/

3 years ago

An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged

https://lithub.com/an-unstandardized-decentralized-carnival-fire-how-rare-books-are-cataloged/

3 years ago

F2-NeRF: Fast Neural Radiance Field Training with Free Camera Trajectories

https://totoro97.github.io/projects/f2-nerf/

3 years ago

Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf]

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf

3 years ago

Rust Identified as Safer Coding Tool by NIST

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-identified-as-safer-coding-tool-by-nist/

3 years ago

Apple sued for allegedly firing, threatening union organizers

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/apple_sued_cwa_union/

3 years ago

Fuel from discarded plastics comes with a high cancer risk

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/climate-friendly-us-program-plastics-fuel-cancer

3 years ago

Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War: Take Him Seriously

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/xi-jinping-says-he-preparing-china-war

3 years ago

Terence Tao makes progress on the Collatz conjecture (2019)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-proves-huge-result-on-dangerous-problem-20191211

3 years ago

Clues to the lives of North America’s first inhabitants are hidden underwater

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/biggest-clues-lives-early-americans-hidden-underwater-submerged-prehistory-180981891/

3 years ago

$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-29/ai-chatgpt-related-prompt-engineer-jobs-pay-up-to-335-000

3 years ago

Mamihlapinatapai, Most Succinct Word

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

3 years ago

Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357933

3 years ago

The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet

https://publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the-three-legged-stool/

3 years ago