top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-04

How to be a -10x Engineer

https://taylor.town/-10x

3 years ago

875 upvotes – 494 comments

Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/catan-1/news/catan-creator-passes-away

3 years ago

553 upvotes – 149 comments

Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v2

3 years ago

456 upvotes – 275 comments

Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_67375.htm

3 years ago

400 upvotes – 481 comments

Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI

https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b

3 years ago

369 upvotes – 175 comments

Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35440348

3 years ago

363 upvotes – 185 comments

Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux

https://boilingsteam.com/liberating-the-macbook-air-2013-with-linux-complete-guide/

3 years ago

351 upvotes – 239 comments

Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev for Using the Word 'Monster'

https://www.thegamer.com/monster-energy-goes-after-glowstick-entertainment-for-using-the-word-monster/

3 years ago

328 upvotes – 176 comments

Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

https://twitter.com/googledrive/status/1643049029251776515

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 178 comments

Circuit.js – Electronic circuit simulator on the web

http://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/circuitjs.html

3 years ago

320 upvotes – 61 comments

Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty

https://nickvsnetworking.com/the-time-bell-labs-brought-the-statue-of-liberty-under-its-roof-literally/

3 years ago

319 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Live coaching app for remote SWE interviews, uses Whisper and GPT-4

https://github.com/leetcode-mafia/cheetah

3 years ago

301 upvotes – 114 comments

Even if you can't write assembly, you can read disassembly

https://wordsandbuttons.online/you_dont_have_to_learn_assembly_to_read_disassembly.html

3 years ago

291 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Want something better than k-means? Try BanditPAM

https://github.com/motiwari/BanditPAM

3 years ago

281 upvotes – 41 comments

We need a more sophisticated debate about AI

https://www.ft.com/content/87108d74-b4fe-4271-bdfb-7828ba2ea351

3 years ago

276 upvotes – 551 comments

The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/the-electric-vehicles-we-need-now-are-e-bikes

3 years ago

269 upvotes – 365 comments

An LLM playground you can run on your laptop

https://github.com/nat/openplayground

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 56 comments

How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove

https://www.vinylrecorder.com/stereo.html

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 89 comments

Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India

https://restofworld.org/2023/india-sound-boxes-paytm-phonepe/

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 142 comments

Sugihara's Dog

https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/1642871991932944385

3 years ago

258 upvotes – 25 comments

Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI

https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1643012248720523264

3 years ago

243 upvotes – 117 comments

FBI seizes bot shop ‘Genesis Market’ amid arrests targeting operators, suppliers

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/04/fbi-seizes-bot-shop-genesis-market-amid-arrests-targeting-operators-suppliers/

3 years ago

239 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% client-side (WASM)

https://www.ermine.ai/

3 years ago

236 upvotes – 68 comments

LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round

https://blog.langchain.dev/announcing-our-10m-seed-round-led-by-benchmark/

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 167 comments

Levels of banned CFCs rising

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00940-2

3 years ago

222 upvotes – 171 comments

Build your own agents which are controlled by LLMs

https://github.com/mpaepper/llm_agents

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 35 comments

Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop

3 years ago

216 upvotes – 115 comments

Everything Is a Practice

https://luxagraf.net/essay/everything-is-a-practice

3 years ago

207 upvotes – 78 comments

Flecs – A fast entity component system for C and C++

https://www.flecs.dev/flecs/

3 years ago

200 upvotes – 86 comments

Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35442103

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 230 comments

Tesla ordered to pay more than $3M to former worker in racism suit

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/business/tesla-racial-discrimination-case/index.html

3 years ago

186 upvotes – 245 comments

Ask HN: Courses/textbook recommendations for studying robotics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441180

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 39 comments

Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230402-the-entrepreneurs-who-regret-starting-businesses

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 267 comments

ZSTD 1.5.5 is released with a corruption fix found at Google

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.5

3 years ago

170 upvotes – 23 comments

MLOps is mostly data engineering

https://www.cpard.xyz/posts/mlops_is_mostly_data_engineering/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 88 comments

The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations

https://www.righto.com/2023/04/8086-microcode-string-operations.html

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 96 comments

My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)

https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/my-long-goodbye-to-windows-xp

3 years ago

164 upvotes – 316 comments

Mindset shifts for functional programming (with Clojure)

https://blog.janetacarr.com/mindset-shifts-for-functional-programming-with-clojure/

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 94 comments

Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01993-w

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 41 comments

Mapping hospital accessibility with OpenStreetMap

https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/visualizing-hospital-accessibility/

3 years ago

151 upvotes – 33 comments

UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65163418

3 years ago

150 upvotes – 241 comments

AMD and Jedec Are Collaborating on DDR5 MRDIMMs at 17,600 MT/S

https://hothardware.com/news/ddr5-mrdimms-standardized-up-to-17600

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 160 comments

Using ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/04/siri_alexa_cortana_google_nuit/

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/04/03/introducing-trurl/

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 38 comments

How SerenityOS declares ssize_t

https://awesomekling.github.io/How-SerenityOS-declares-ssize_t/

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 89 comments

Frank founder allegedly defrauded JPMorgan out of $175M hit with federal charges

https://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-javice-frank-criminal-charges-financial-fraud-jpmorgan-chase-2023-1

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 115 comments

Microsoft tests Windows account menu error badge when Microsoft Account not used

https://twitter.com/thebookisclosed/status/1638607997952987137

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 108 comments

Eight things to know about large language models [pdf]

https://cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman/eightthings.pdf

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 110 comments

Why TinyML is still so hard to get excited about

https://staceyoniot.com/why-tinyml-is-still-so-hard-to-get-excited-about/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 88 comments

Brave launches self-serve ads program

https://brave.com/self-serve-ads/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: Promptr, let GPT operate on your codebase and other useful goodies

https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 95 comments

Make your CLI demos a breeze with zero stress and zero mistakes

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/94

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-design-controversy

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/04/1070938/we-are-hurtling-toward-a-glitchy-spammy-scammy-ai-powered-internet/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 103 comments

Double-anonymous peer review reduces reviewer bias, finds three-year trial

https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/double-anonymous-peer-review-reduces-reviewer-bias-find-three-year-trial/

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-workers-london-stage-walkout-over-job-cuts-2023-04-04/

3 years ago

91 upvotes – 192 comments

Emacs in Odd Places (2020)

https://www.eigenbahn.com/2020/09/02/emacs-in-odd-places

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Finland Has Joined NATO

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65173043

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 2 comments

Amazon, despite climate pledge, fought to kill emissions bill in Oregon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/04/amazon-climate-energy-fuel-oregon/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 32 comments

Twitter has inexplicably turned off access to sign in with Twitter SSO

https://flipboard.social/@mike/110137461654913391

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

European Commission ask Nintendo to repair controllers

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/110140022257601348

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: Fastest way to turn a Jupyter notebook into a website these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35435253

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Maybe we can have a specific tab for submitted contents about GPT and AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35444018

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

A Generalized Ray Formulation for Wave-Optics Rendering

https://ssteinberg.xyz/2023/03/27/rtplt/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

TikTok fined £12.7M for misusing children's data

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65175902

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

The Future of the Transistor

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-future-of-the-transistor

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

All you need is data and functions

https://mckayla.blog/posts/all-you-need-is-data-and-functions.html

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05418

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

ICE Is Grabbing Data from Schools and Abortion Clinics

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-1509-custom-summons/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments
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