top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-30

Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

https://scratch.mit.edu/about

3 years ago

TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQGA_n5Z4M

3 years ago

Is Y Combinator worth the money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35373019

3 years ago

There's something off about LED bulbs

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.html

3 years ago

Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news

3 years ago

50% of new NPM packages are spam

https://blog.sandworm.dev/one-in-two-new-npm-packages-is-seo-spam-right-now

3 years ago

My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM

https://obie.medium.com/my-kids-and-i-just-played-d-d-with-chatgpt4-as-the-dm-43258e72b2c6

3 years ago

Show HN: StratusGFX, my open-source real-time 3D rendering engine

https://github.com/KTStephano/StratusGFX

3 years ago

The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns

3 years ago

San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/san-jose-police-union-director-smuggle-fentanyl-charge

3 years ago

Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT

https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1641267979399704576

3 years ago

The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained

https://snarfed.org/the-twitter-api-is-now-effectively-unmaintained

3 years ago

Making Python faster with Rust

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2023-03-rusty-python/

3 years ago

Vicuna: An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT quality

https://vicuna.lmsys.org/

3 years ago

The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta

https://iliana.fyi/blog/acropalypse-now/

3 years ago

Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git

https://gut-cli.dev

3 years ago

Tailscale Funnel now available in beta

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-funnel-beta/

3 years ago

A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-about-sci

3 years ago

Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

https://yakgpt.vercel.app/

3 years ago

Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

3 years ago

Show HN: RoboPianist, a piano playing robot simulation in the browser

https://kevinzakka.github.io/robopianist-demo/

3 years ago

Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-client-side-scanning

3 years ago

Launch HN: Noya (YC W23) – a new kind of design tool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35374639

3 years ago

When Google paid websites to promote Firefox

https://leonidasv.com/til-google-paid-websites-for-referring-firefox/

3 years ago

Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/110102954036946925

3 years ago

My quest to re-create Street Fighter’s long-lost pneumatic controls

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/my-quest-to-recreate-street-fighters-long-lost-pneumatic-controls/

3 years ago

Retool Database

https://retool.com/blog/rdb/

3 years ago

Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird

https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/mach-35-over-libya-in-an-sr-71-blackbird

3 years ago

The RWKV language model: An RNN with the advantages of a transformer

https://johanwind.github.io/2023/03/23/rwkv_overview.html

3 years ago

One man’s quest to revive the great American vacuum tube

https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-quest-to-revive-the-great-american-vacuum-tube/

3 years ago

Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda

https://bitecode.substack.com/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use

3 years ago

Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (2019)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/brains-speed-up-perception-by-guessing-whats-next-20190502/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Baseplate (YC W23) – Back end-as-a-service for LLM apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35375727

3 years ago

A Response to Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s “Incompetent but Nice”

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/03/incompetent-but-nice-response.html

3 years ago

How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs

https://planetscale.com/blog/how-read-mysql-explains

3 years ago

Tiny Tapeout: From idea to chip design in minutes!

https://tinytapeout.com/

3 years ago

A DNA ‘parasite’ may have fragmented our genes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-dna-parasite-may-have-fragmented-our-genes-20230330/

3 years ago

Better World Books

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/

3 years ago

E3 Has Been Canceled

https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-has-been-canceled

3 years ago

Show HN: Marvin – build AI functions that use an LLM as a runtime

https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin

3 years ago

Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server

https://paper-chan.moe/folia/

3 years ago

Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out

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

3 years ago

Roku to cut 200 jobs in second round of layoffs

https://www.reuters.com/technology/streaming-device-maker-roku-cut-200-jobs-second-round-layoffs-2023-03-30/

3 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source Webhooks Gateway for Platform Engineers

https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy

3 years ago

RFdiffusion: Diffusion model generates protein backbones

https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RFdiffusion

3 years ago

The Cambrian Period of AI

https://lachlangray.blot.im/the-cambrian-period-of-ai

3 years ago

K: We need to talk about group

https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/3450fe6172a7cc441d0819379ed3a32a

3 years ago

Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)

https://hardpivot.substack.com/p/open-sourcing-my-y-combinator-winter

3 years ago

Exploring Neural Graphics Primitives

https://thenumb.at/Neural-Graphics/

3 years ago

APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)

https://medium.com/@kaleberg7/apl-an-array-oriented-programming-language-b03fb39401c1

3 years ago

Finetuning LLMs on a Single GPU Using Gradient Accumulation

https://lightning.ai/pages/blog/gradient-accumulation/

3 years ago

SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds

https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html

3 years ago

The fascinating world of HTTP Strict-Transport-Security

https://ergomake.dev/blog/hsts-introduction/

3 years ago

The Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

https://www.wired.com/story/unbelievable-zombie-comeback-analog-computing/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you become smarter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35380028

3 years ago

Mini-Consortia Forming Around Chiplets

https://semiengineering.com/mini-consortia-forming-around-chiplets/

3 years ago

Can we hide the orange dot without disabling SIP?

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Can%20we%20hide%20the%20orange%20dot%20without%20disabling%20SIP

3 years ago

Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu

https://evertpot.com/switching-to-fedora/

3 years ago

This is a Chord (2016)

https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/152691534221

3 years ago