top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-11

Deck.of.cards

https://deck.of.cards/old/

3 years ago

Substack Notes Launched

https://on.substack.com/p/notes

3 years ago

I worked at Google for -10 days

https://andgein.ru/blog/all/20-i-worked-at-google-for-10-days/

3 years ago

SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue

https://www.prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-why-we-ditched-rabbitmq-and-replaced-it-with-a-postgres-queue

3 years ago

Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair

https://www.ifixit.com/News/73291/colorado-approves-first-ever-agricultural-right-to-repair-bill

3 years ago

We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/how-were-building-a-browser-when

3 years ago

The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-42-Best-Pens-for-2023-Gel-Ballpoint-Rollerball-and-Fountain-Pens/pt/974

3 years ago

Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/

3 years ago

Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

https://thanks.dev/home

3 years ago

Htmx 1.9.0 has been released

https://htmx.org/posts/2023-04-11-htmx-1-9-0-is-released/

3 years ago

Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions

https://supabase.com/blog/edge-runtime-self-hosted-deno-functions

3 years ago

Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer

https://www.refactoringui.com/

3 years ago

The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-end-of-myth-distributed.html

3 years ago

Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and Livebook

https://news.livebook.dev/distributed2-machine-learning-notebooks-with-elixir-and-livebook---launch-week-1---day-2-1aIlaw

3 years ago

People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/american-madness-schizophrenia-mental-illness/673490/

3 years ago

It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

https://old.reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/it_happened_to_me_today/

3 years ago

Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering

https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizing-the-potential-of-llms/

3 years ago

The Coming of Local LLMs

https://nickarner.com/notes/the-coming-of-local-llms-march-23-2023/

3 years ago

KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment

https://github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid

3 years ago

Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?

https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/twitter-showed-us-its-algorithm-what-does-it-tell-us

3 years ago

Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS

https://github.com/AccessOwl/open_owl

3 years ago

WordPerfect for Unix character terminals

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix

3 years ago

FreeBSD 13.2

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/

3 years ago

A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35528595

3 years ago

Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words

https://stevejobsarchive.com/book

3 years ago

GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7209

3 years ago

YouTube suspends a YouTuber's Patreon-exclusive account for self-impersonation

https://twitter.com/craig1black/status/1645649300167495681

3 years ago

Foundational distributed systems papers (2021)

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/foundational-distributed-systems-papers.html

3 years ago

Open source and the future of nuclear physics

https://github.com/readme/featured/nuclear-fusion-open-source

3 years ago

The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-eus-proposed-cra-law-may-have.html

3 years ago

A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived

https://psyche.co/ideas/a-life-of-splendid-uselessness-is-a-life-well-lived

3 years ago

The electron is so round that it’s ruling out potential new particles

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-electron-is-so-round-that-its-ruling-out-new-particles-20230410/

3 years ago

An Open Source Book That Teaches JavaScript

https://github.com/sumn2u/learn-javascript

3 years ago

Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-loses-bid-to-stay-out-of-prison.html

3 years ago

The Free Software Foundation is dying

https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html

3 years ago

After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'Satanic panic' case

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-04-11/after-30-years-a-father-is-exonerated-in-satanic-panic-case

3 years ago

A man who walked around the world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/11/the-man-who-walked-around-the-world-tom-turcich-seven-year-search-meaning-of-life

3 years ago

What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015)

https://www.audionotch.com/blog/2015/06/24/what-are-the-most-common-tinnitus-frequencies/

3 years ago

Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination

https://github.com/vlopes11/rrust.nvim

3 years ago

Becoming Rustacean: Resources to Learn Rust Programming

https://www.nativebyx.dev/rust/becoming-rustacean/awesome-free-online-resources-to-earn-rust-programming-language.html

3 years ago

GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours

https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-crowdworkers-saving-researchers-usd500-000-and-20

3 years ago

The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding

https://www.hermansilver.com/pulse-arc-welding.htm

3 years ago

Now live for all: Substack Notes

https://on.substack.com/p/notes

3 years ago

WordGrinder: Terminal-based distraction free word processor

https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder

3 years ago

A Cryptographic Near Miss

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/near-miss/

3 years ago

Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2012/11/02/car-alarms-and-smoke-alarms-the-tradeoff-between-sensitivity-and-specificity/

3 years ago

Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?

https://nicole.express/2023/the-third-dimension-and-the-eight-bits.html

3 years ago

DPReview is being shut down by Amazon today

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/dpreview-is-being-shut-down-by-amazon-today-what-a-waste-says-founder

3 years ago

Why is sea level rise worse in some places?

https://nautil.us/why-is-sea-level-rise-worse-in-some-places-294325/

3 years ago

I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/archive-page-extension/id6446372766

3 years ago

Show HN: Sheet Markup – add spreadsheets to a Markdown document

https://www.equalto.com/markup/

3 years ago

Seattle's new airport terminal can’t fit planes it was designed to handle

https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2023/04/09/seattle-discovers-its-new-1-billion-airport-terminal-cant-fit-the-long-haul-planes-it-was-designed-to-handle/

3 years ago

Conversation with Larry Masinter about standardizing Common Lisp

https://irclog.tymoon.eu/libera/%23commonlisp?to=1681213754

3 years ago

Energy-saving coating without pigment keeps the surface beneath cool

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/01/1166093778/scientists-create-an-eco-friendly-paint-that-mimics-nature

3 years ago

Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oasis-ai/id1668222944

3 years ago

Swarm

https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/swarm/

3 years ago

Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-telling-everyone-what-you-do-for-a-living-5daa8fc9

3 years ago

Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing worker safety

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/business/san-francisco-whole-foods-closure/index.html

3 years ago

Steve Roberts: Computing Across America

https://bikepacking.com/plog/steve-roberts-computing-across-america/

3 years ago

Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Closing a Year After Opening

https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/

3 years ago

FTC fines supplement maker $600k for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings

https://www.engadget.com/ftc-fines-supplement-maker-600000-for-review-hijacking-amazon-listings-210142185.html

3 years ago

The Case of the Fake Sherlock

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/richard-walter-criminal-profiler-fraud.html

3 years ago

Ellie – A Mastodon Client for Windows

https://ellie.software/

3 years ago

Displaying my washing machine's remaining time with curl, jq, and pizauth

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/displaying_my_washing_machines_remaining_time_with_curl_jq_pizauth.html

3 years ago

Dependently Typing R Vectors, Arrays, and Matrices

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04265

3 years ago

Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/920158/

3 years ago

Not Forgotten: ChatGPT isn’t the only important trend in technology

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/not-forgotten/

3 years ago

Real-time quantum error correction beyond break-even

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05782-6

3 years ago

Dyson hair dryer becomes jet engine

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/10/dyson-hair-dryer-becomes-jet-engine/

3 years ago

PhaseLLM: Standardized Chat LLM API (Cohere, Claude, GPT) + Evaluation Framework

https://github.com/wgryc/phasellm

3 years ago

Three Sisters (Agriculture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

3 years ago

Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report

https://www.thedrive.com/news/heavy-evs-could-collapse-old-parking-garages-report

3 years ago

Nyquist Frequency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency

3 years ago

Nvidia drivers are detecting and reporting LLaMa/LLM users

https://imgur.com/a/xdFg6SO

3 years ago

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem on BBC 4 Radio Full-Cast Drama (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe8lRAIunxs

3 years ago

Ford to spend $1.3B to transform Canada factory into EV manufacturing hub

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/ford-to-spend-1-3b-to-transform-canada-factory-into-ev-manufacturing-hub/

3 years ago

Free Speech Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical of Indian Government

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/11/free-speech-twitter-is-now-globally-blocking-posts-critical-of-the-modi-government/

3 years ago

The long, slow death of global development

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/11/the-long-slow-death-of-global-development/

3 years ago