2090
217
Remembering Bob Lee
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457341
3 years ago
1314
2780
Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-killed-sf-stabbing-17878809.php
1025
391
Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35447486
844
426
The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/
725
152
Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image
https://segment-anything.com/
642
68
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
630
215
Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441918#c82
623
94
Grid World
https://alex.miller.garden/grid-world/
615
113
Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
https://course.fast.ai/Lessons/part2.html
610
300
CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/
600
399
Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang
572
190
A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken
https://census.dev/blog/an-on-ramp-to-flow
549
265
Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/
537
407
I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-dont-want-streaming-music/
352
573
The case for banning children from social media
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-case-for-banning-children-from-social-media
344
2
Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco
https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/san-francisco-stabbing-victim-bob-lee-former-cto-square-mobilecoin/
342
588
China plans to ban exports of rare earth magnet tech
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230405-101753/
341
162
OpenAI Tokenizer
https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
328
71
Perspective: Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI
https://perspective.finos.org/
309
168
Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/269507/is-ram-wiped-before-use-in-another-lxc-container
273
195
GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
https://www.filestash.app/2023/04/01/chat-gpt-acting-as-a-ftp-server/
270
37
Tabloid – The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
https://tabloid-thesephist.vercel.app/
269
169
Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster
https://justine.lol/mmap/
261
359
I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
https://inflecthealth.medium.com/im-an-er-doctor-here-s-what-i-found-when-i-asked-chatgpt-to-diagnose-my-patients-7829c375a9da
255
201
“Inside-out Wankel” rotary engine delivers 5X the power of a diesel
https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/
240
82
A SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites
https://editable.website
230
129
Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/467529962c184258d08f16daec83d5da
227
355
Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their children
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/31/russia-is-persecuting-dissenters-by-taking-away-their-children
224
Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)
https://www.quadratichq.com/
112
Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
https://magrawala.substack.com/p/unpredictable-black-boxes-are-terrible
209
126
DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
https://petapixel.com/2023/04/04/dpreviews-founder-blasts-amazons-ceo-what-a-waste/
200
47
Run LLaMA and Alpaca on your computer
https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai
196
178
PWAs in App Stores
https://web.dev/pwas-in-app-stores/
192
78
Indie Hackers is indie again
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-hackers/indie-hackers-is-indie-again--NSIAlb7LggSjzTavQZb
187
65
Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management
https://www.homerow.app
No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
https://www.pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/
Johnson and Johnson reaches deal for $8.9B talc settlement
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/media/johnson-johnson-talc-settlement.html
174
22
AARON: AI Art Generator from 1973
https://www.katevassgalerie.com/blog/harold-cohen-aaron-computer-art
166
53
TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433
159
167
Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-preterite
143
19
Packet, where are you? – eBPF-based Linux kernel networking debugger
https://github.com/cilium/pwru
142
17
An introduction to zero-knowledge machine learning
https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/intro-to-zkml
131
45
APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and Ubuntu) packages
https://www.apt-browse.org/
130
141
Telemetry in Front-End Tools
https://telemetry.timseverien.com/
89
Calling Purgatory from Heaven: Binding to Rust in Haskell
https://well-typed.com/blog/2023/03/purgatory/
118
49
BRL-CAD
https://brlcad.org/
117
111
ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/
116
27
The Russian Federal Guard Service officer who worked with Putin and fled Russia
https://dossier.center/fso-en/
88
Ofcom proposes to refer UK cloud market for investigation
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/ofcom-proposes-to-refer-uk-cloud-market-for-investigation
114
25
The real “must have” tools for programming
https://jamesdunne.dev/posts/must-have-programming-tools/
38
TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with efficiency gains
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/tpu-v4-enables-performance-energy-and-co2e-efficiency-gains
109
32
Purkinje Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect
107
31
Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time (2021)
https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/11/qoi-fast-lossless-image-compression
105
Seized Genesis Market data is now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
https://www.troyhunt.com/seized-genesis-market-data-is-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned-courtesy-of-the-fbi-and-operation-cookie-monster/
103
43
Galaxy Simulation
https://galaxym.ovh/
98
Most technologies aren't races
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/most-technologies-arent-races
AI is coming for voice actors?
https://thewalrus.ca/ai-is-coming-for-voice-actors-artists-everywhere-should-take-note/
97
77
Deposit insurance maximization as a service
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/deposit-insurance-maximization-as-a-service/
96
51
America Has Too Much Parking
https://www.wsj.com/articles/parking-problem-too-much-cities-e94dcecf
95
40
System76 Teases Their “Virgo” In-House Manufactured Laptop
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Virgo-Tease
3
Cash App founder Bob Lee reportedly killed in San Francisco stabbing
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-killed-san-francisco-stabbing-sources-say-rcna78265
93
Microsoft’s new Surface Dock tosses the proprietary port, uses Thunderbolt 4
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/microsofts-new-surface-dock-tosses-the-proprietary-port-uses-thunderbolt-4/