top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-09

The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT

https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental

3 years ago

791 upvotes – 504 comments

From deep to long learning?

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learning

3 years ago

499 upvotes – 117 comments

EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/04/05/ey-gets-banned-from-new-audit-business-in-germany

3 years ago

471 upvotes – 286 comments

A Baby GPT

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1645115622517542913

3 years ago

461 upvotes – 165 comments

Sunset at the South Pole

https://brr.fyi/posts/sunset

3 years ago

353 upvotes – 85 comments

Ideas That Changed My Life

https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 156 comments

PL/Rust 1.0: now a trusted language for Postgres

https://tcdi.github.io/plrust/plrust.html

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores from Unionizing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-04-09/apple-aapl-continues-efforts-to-keep-retail-stores-from-unionizing-lg9gjdx2

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 151 comments

Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in intimidation scheme

https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/08/dutch-journalist-writes-critically-china-targeted-bizarre-intimidation-scheme

3 years ago

254 upvotes – 107 comments

USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher handwriting

https://kutv.com/news/eye-on-utah/what-happens-to-mail-with-band-handwriting-united-states-postal-service-letter-carrier-usps-mailwoman-mailman-cursive-taught-in-schools-unreadable-print-envelopes-undeliverable-packages-salt-lake-city-utah

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 229 comments

Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-04/how-tesla-tsla-elon-musk-are-helping-australia-quit-coal-power

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 247 comments

Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack

https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard/110161362001035875

3 years ago

223 upvotes – 133 comments

Spherical tokamak achieves crucial plasma temperatures

https://www.eetimes.com/spherical-tokamak-achieves-crucial-plasma-temperatures/

3 years ago

210 upvotes – 84 comments

Z-Library to let users share physical books

https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-plans-to-let-users-share-physical-books-through-z-points-230408/

3 years ago

208 upvotes – 80 comments

Two types of software engineers

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/two-types-of-software-engineers

3 years ago

203 upvotes – 148 comments

Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust

https://framesurge.sh/perseus/en-US/

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 169 comments

UnicodePlots

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl

3 years ago

195 upvotes – 38 comments

Closing a stale SSH connection

https://davidisaksson.dev/posts/closing-stale-ssh-connections/

3 years ago

188 upvotes – 87 comments

Advanced Linux Programming (2001)

https://mentorembedded.github.io/advancedlinuxprogramming/

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 40 comments

Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

https://github.com/eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 70 comments

Flatcar Container Linux

https://www.flatcar.org/

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 77 comments

A CERN for Open Source Large-Scale AI

https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/securing-our-digital-future-a-cern-for-open-source-large-scale-ai-research-and-its-safety

3 years ago

180 upvotes – 40 comments

ArmorPaint and ArmorLab: open-source alternative to Adobe Substance

https://armorpaint.org/

3 years ago

173 upvotes – 27 comments

The first game ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion

https://thehustle.co/the-first-easter-eggs-were-an-act-of-corporate-rebellion/

3 years ago

158 upvotes – 70 comments

India’s Tigers Bounce Back

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/world/asia/india-tiger-conservation-success.html

3 years ago

156 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Supavisor – a Postgres connection pooler written in Elixir

https://github.com/supabase/supavisor

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

I think faster than light travel is possible [video]

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2023/04/i-think-faster-than-light-travel-is.html

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 209 comments

Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML community

https://github.com/microsoft/JARVIS

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 42 comments

Modular Errors in Rust

https://sabrinajewson.org/blog/errors

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 27 comments

What does a research grant pay for?

https://austinhenley.com/blog/grantbudget.html

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 101 comments

68–95–99.7 Rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rule

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 is finally available for hobbyists

https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_is_finally_available_for_hobbyists.html

3 years ago

128 upvotes – 48 comments

Who invented vector clocks?

https://decomposition.al/blog/2023/04/08/who-invented-vector-clocks/

3 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/jerusalem-emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-music-review

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 17 comments

Nam: Neural network emulator for guitar amplifiers

https://github.com/sdatkinson/neural-amp-modeler

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/internet-archive-libraries-federal-court-ruling/673615/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 121 comments

Digital collectibles on Instagram is winding down

https://help.instagram.com/1824155514623095

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 136 comments

REBL

https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/other-tools/REBL.html

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 57 comments

Interview with Andrew Kelley (Zig Creator) (2021)

https://corecursive.com/067-zig-with-andrew-kelley/

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

Do Kwon converted illicit funds from LUNA to Bitcoin

https://cointelegraph.com/news/do-kwon-converted-stolen-funds-from-luna-to-bitcoin-s-korean-prosecutors

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

New Mexico is losing a form of Spanish spoken nowhere else

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/us/new-mexico-spanish.html

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 117 comments

When do you need chain-of-thought prompting for ChatGPT?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03262

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/08/russias-new-mystery-shortwave-station/

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 16 comments

World’s last dedicated Meccano factory to close in France

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/last-dedicated-meccano-factory-to-close-in-france

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 118 comments

Street fighting engineers vs. martial arts engineers

https://ravitejakanta.substack.com/p/the-2-breeds-of-10x-engineers

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 68 comments

New allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/09/new-allegations-of-plagiarism-against-roy-lichtenstein

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 117 comments

Laid-off tech workers choose stability over status

https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-tech-jobs-disappear-silicon-valley-veterans-reset-their-careers-dbdb983

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 161 comments

Sailcargo

https://www.sailcargo.inc

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

RISC-V Bytes: Exploring a Custom ESP32 Bootloader

https://danielmangum.com/posts/risc-v-bytes-exploring-custom-esp32-bootloader/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 8 comments

At Stanford law school, the dean takes a stand for free speech. will it work?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/us/stanford-law-school-free-speech.html

3 years ago

97 upvotes – 129 comments

IRB's Built-In Measure (2021)

https://jemma.dev/blog/irb-measure

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 7 comments

Getting the ^D

https://owengage.com/writing/2023-04-08-getting-the-ctrl-d/

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

The One Thing I Can’t Stand About Teaching English in Japan (2019)

https://geekstravelinjapan.wordpress.com/2019/03/10/the-one-thing-i-cant-stand-about-teaching-english-in-japan/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 97 comments

Car exhaust filters fail to clean up ‘ultrafine’ air pollution

https://studyfinds.org/car-exhaust-filters-air-pollution/

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 111 comments

One of the world’s largest investment banks: ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far

https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/end-of-capitalism-inflation-greedflation-societe-generale-corporate-profits/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 123 comments

Stock-market investors can no longer count on the ‘index effect’

https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-cant-count-on-index-effect-ca57fd5f

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 86 comments

I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

https://www.techradar.com/opinion/i-test-the-worlds-best-smartwatches-so-why-am-i-wearing-a-dollar15-casio

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

Inline in Rust (2021)

https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/09/inline-in-rust.html

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Irregular Expressions

https://tavianator.com/2023/irregex.html

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 40 comments

Mobile home park residents form co-ops to save their homes

https://mynorthwest.com/3872036/mobile-home-park-residents-form-co-ops-to-save-their-homes/

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 74 comments

It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/09/it-sounds-like-science-fiction-but-its-not-ai-can-financially-destroy-your-business

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Shell-maker, a maker of Emacs shells

https://xenodium.com/a-shell-maker/

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 1 comments

Twitter is now blocking Matt Taibbi from search results

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1644845539941335044

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments

Large Language Models Are Human-Level Prompt Engineers

https://openreview.net/forum?id=92gvk82DE-

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

When should a decision be fast, or slow?

https://longform.asmartbear.com/decisions-fast-slow/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

The Interoperable Europe Act Needs a “Free Software First” Approach

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230323-02.en.html

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments
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