top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-03-31

Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm

3 years ago

Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613

3 years ago

AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-development/

3 years ago

Postgres as a graph database

https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts/postgres-is-a-graph-database/

3 years ago

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-bans-chatgpt/

3 years ago

CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cdc-team-sick-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/

3 years ago

Police relied on Clearview AI and put the wrong person in jail

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrests.html

3 years ago

Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/17/beat-chatgpt-in-a-browser/

3 years ago

NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/nypd-violating-post-act-inspector-general/

3 years ago

75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck

https://boilingsteam.com/75-of-the-top-100-most-played-games-on-steam-are-playable-verified-on-the-steam-deck/

3 years ago

Janet for Mortals

https://janet.guide/

3 years ago

Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen

https://blog.coscreen.co/blog/coscreen-v5-0-a-new-way-to-share-your-screen/

3 years ago

Heat pump sales outpaced gas furnace sales in the US in 2022

https://electrek.co/2023/03/31/heat-pump-sales-2022/

3 years ago

The Contradictions of Sam Altman

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-b0e1c8c9

3 years ago

The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799698058035200

3 years ago

Cosine Implementation in C

https://github.com/ifduyue/musl/blob/master/src/math/__cos.c

3 years ago

When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets

https://leonidasv.com/til-svg-specs-almost-got-raw-socket-support/

3 years ago

Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgd88zE3O38

3 years ago

Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/parking-lots-eat-american-cities/

3 years ago

Pairing With GPT-4

https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/pairing-with-gpt-4/

3 years ago

BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-new-bigquery-pricing-editions

3 years ago

HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580

3 years ago

San Francisco schools banned kids from taking algebra in 8th grade

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1641395730735849473

3 years ago

Gmail is killing independent email

http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html

3 years ago

Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/facebook-gets-to-decide-whether-eu-users-can-object-to-invasive-targeted-ads/

3 years ago

If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7174

3 years ago

Nim 2.0.0 RC2

https://nim-lang.org//blog/2023/03/31/version-20-rc2.html

3 years ago

Helix 23.03

https://helix-editor.com/news/release-23-03-highlights/

3 years ago

Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/politics/biden-irs-overhaul-taxes.html

3 years ago

Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/27/where-have-all-the-laid-off-tech-workers-gone

3 years ago

German police raid DDoS-friendly host FlyHosting

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/german-police-raid-ddos-friendly-host-flyhosting/

3 years ago

ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot

https://www.reasonfieldlab.com/post/chatgpt-the-revolutionary-bullshit-parrot?

3 years ago

The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023

https://blog.prusa3d.com/the-state-of-open-source-in-3d-printing-in-2023_76659/

3 years ago

A New Beginning for LifeHacker

https://lifehacker.com/a-new-beginning-for-lifehacker-1850278940

3 years ago

Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm

3 years ago

Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

https://digicamfinder.com/

3 years ago

BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17564

3 years ago

Show HN: Random Aerial Airport Views

https://randomairport.onrender.com/

3 years ago

Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode

https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-battery-no-anode

3 years ago

Immutable Linux distributions

https://itsfoss.com/immutable-linux-distros/

3 years ago

GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-plans-phase-apple-carplay-140319747.html

3 years ago

Italian data protection authority clamps down ChatGPT

https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9870847#english

3 years ago

Please delete 2M files to continue using your Google Drive account

https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/123fjx8/google_has_applied_a_5_million_items_limit_for/

3 years ago

Erlang/OTP: Garbage Collector

https://medium.com/erlang-battleground/erlang-otp-garbage-collector-48bb28767b87

3 years ago

Programming isn’t coding (2020)

https://occasionallycogent.com/programming_isnt_coding/index.html

3 years ago

Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389110

3 years ago

Pizza rolls and the meaning of midcentury food

https://www.snackstack.net/p/pizza-rolls-and-the-meaning-of-midcentury

3 years ago

A machine that bankrupted Mark Twain

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2023/03/the-machine-that-bankrupted-mark-twain/

3 years ago

SSD as Long Term Storage Testing

https://htwingnut.com/2022/09/11/ssd-as-long-term-storage-testing/

3 years ago

Why are movies so dark these days?

https://www.polygon.com/23661749/why-movies-look-dark-cinematography

3 years ago

Activision threatened, spied on workers amid union drive, U.S. agency says

https://www.reuters.com/technology/activision-threatened-spied-workers-amid-union-drive-us-agency-says-2023-03-31/

3 years ago

Automatically enable or disable end-to-end encryption

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135636

3 years ago

Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/groupon-which-has-lost-99-4-of-its-value-since-its-ipo-names-a-new-ceo-based-in-czech-republic/

3 years ago

US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/

3 years ago

Visual programming with Elixir: Learning to write binary parsers (2019)

https://hansonkd.medium.com/building-beautiful-binary-parsers-in-elixir-1bd7f865bf17

3 years ago

Show HN: Cadseer. a parametric solid modeling CAD desktop application

https://gitlab.com/blobfish/cadseer/-/releases

3 years ago

Nuclear power is too safe

https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/nuclear-power-is-too-safe

3 years ago

NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/31/nypd_surveillance_rules/

3 years ago

A new era of transparency for Twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era-of-transparency-for-twitter

3 years ago

Bittrex to Cease Operations in the US

https://bittrex.com/discover/important-message-for-bittrex-u-s-customers

3 years ago

Video shows ‘ghost co-driver’ added to trucker’s ELD to skirt HOS rules

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/video-shows-ghost-co-driver-added-to-truckers-eld-to-skirt-hos-rules

3 years ago

Responsible AI Challenge

https://future.mozilla.org/builders-challenge/

3 years ago