top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-12

Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers

https://www.phind.com

3 years ago

Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore

3 years ago

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

https://www.izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.html

3 years ago

NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

https://www.wbur.org/npr/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

3 years ago

Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/meta-layoffs-employees-management.html

3 years ago

Aztec monks with 1/55 HP no longer die when picking up or dropping a relic

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/12jbb9d/age_of_empires_ii_de_major_update_81058/jfy2mqq/

3 years ago

Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers

https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/arm64-cloud/

3 years ago

Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-foundry-arm-announce-multigeneration-collaboration-leading-edge-soc-design.html

3 years ago

New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-director-carl-sagan-oath-b2317698.html

3 years ago

Why Janet?

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/why-janet/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35536042

3 years ago

Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs

https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly/tree/master/data

3 years ago

Using io_uring for network I/O

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/04/12/why-you-should-use-iouring-network-io

3 years ago

Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/04/virtual-threads-arrives-jdk21/

3 years ago

ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license

https://www.amazingcto.com/beware-manycam-licensing-pricing/

3 years ago

I’ve been single all my life

https://lukasrosenstock.net/2023/04/10/im-single-i.html

3 years ago

Midjourney AI Guide

https://enchanting-trader-463.notion.site/Midjourney-AI-Guide-41eca43809dd4d8fa676e648436fc29c

3 years ago

FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/fbi-advising-people-to-avoid-public-charging-stations.html

3 years ago

FerretDB: open-source MongoDB alternative

https://blog.ferretdb.io/ferretdb-1-0-ga-opensource-mongodb-alternative/

3 years ago

The U.S. cracked a $3.4B crypto heist and Bitcoin’s anonymity

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-blockchain-hacking-arrests-93a4cb29

3 years ago

On a great interview question

https://behdadesfahbod.medium.com/on-a-great-interview-question-aea168279942

3 years ago

DeepSpeed Chat: Easy, fast and affordable RLHF training of ChatGPT-like models

https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/blob/master/blogs/deepspeed-chat/README.md

3 years ago

SQLite performance tuning: concurrent reads, multiple GBs and 100k SELECTs/s

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2020/sqlite-performance-tuning/

3 years ago

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

3 years ago

Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress

https://nautil.us/sugar-pill-nation-294292/

3 years ago

Terence Tao on GPT-4

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/110172426733603359

3 years ago

OpenCore Legacy Patcher – Use new macOS versions on old hardware

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

3 years ago

AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’

https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/ai-clones-teen-girls-voice-in-1m-kidnapping-scam/

3 years ago

Bookshop.org survives and thrives in Amazon’s world

https://www.wired.com/story/books-bookshop-org-thrives-amazon-world/

3 years ago

Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files

https://supabase.com/blog/storage-v3-resumable-uploads

3 years ago

Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered

https://github.com/trevorhobenshield/twitter-api-client

3 years ago

Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm

3 years ago

Microsoft is slowly rolling out ads in the Windows 11 start menu

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-11-onedrive-notifications-start-menu-1850327990

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

List of Citogenesis Incidents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents

3 years ago

Show HN: Personalized book recommendations with Librarian AI

https://www.librarian-ai.com/

3 years ago

Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-experiments/

3 years ago

Joblib: Running Python functions as pipeline jobs

https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier

https://beamanalytics.io/

3 years ago

Primitive Asgard cells show life on the brink of complexity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/primitive-asgard-cells-show-life-on-the-brink-of-complexity-20230411/

3 years ago

Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime

3 years ago

Sony backs Raspberry Pi with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/sony-backs-raspberry-pi-with-fresh-funding-access-to-ai-chips.html

3 years ago

Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers

https://www.beren.io/2023-04-11-Scaffolded-LLMs-natural-language-computers/

3 years ago

Former executives of Outcome Health convicted in $1B corporate fraud scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-executives-outcome-health-convicted-1b-corporate-fraud-scheme

3 years ago

Blank turns your TV screen black until you press any button on a remote

https://furbo.org/2023/04/12/announcing-blank/

3 years ago

Super Mario Bros. theme part of the 2023 Library of Congress registry

https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/registry-by-induction-years/2023/

3 years ago

Killing sparrows led to famines in China

https://www.historydefined.net/how-killing-sparrows-led-to-one-of-the-greatest-famines-in-history/

3 years ago

Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23673165/google-nest-dropcam-nest-secure-eol

3 years ago

Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05128

3 years ago

Meme group on Discord is focus of uproar over leaked Pentagon documents

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/business/discord-leaked-military-documents.html

3 years ago

The reality of being a Principal Engineer

https://leaddev.com/career-paths-progression-promotion/reality-being-principal-engineer

3 years ago

Collection of LLM resources that can be used to build products you can “own”

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-decentralized-llm

3 years ago

ELF hash function may overflow

https://maskray.me/blog/2023-04-12-elf-hash-function

3 years ago

Paul Theroux reflects on the evolving nature of rail travel

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/author-paul-theroux-rail-travel

3 years ago

Archimedes Palimpsest

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

3 years ago

The Complete Guide to All the Taquerias of Redwood City, v2.0 (2008)

http://www.emeraldlake.com/tacos/

3 years ago

Requiem for a Great Cat

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/requiem-for-a-great-cat

3 years ago

OpenAI releases Consistency Model for one-step generation

https://github.com/openai/consistency_models

3 years ago

Why MD5('240610708') is equal to MD5('QNKCDZO')?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/22140266

3 years ago

Show HN: I recreated a flying toasters screensaver for XScreensaver

https://github.com/torunar/flying-toasters-xscreensaver

3 years ago

NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

3 years ago

The different uses of Python type hints

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-different-uses-of-python-type-hints/

3 years ago

Japan Government warned citizens to shelter after ballistic missile launch

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

3 years ago

Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Fullscreen%20apps%20above%20the%20MacBook%20notch

3 years ago

Pedagogical Downsides of Haskell

https://ciobaca.substack.com/p/pedagogical-downsides-of-haskell

3 years ago

Ask HN: I am a full stack developer, where do I start learning for AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543774

3 years ago

U.S. Inflation Eased to 5% in March

https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-march-2023-consumer-price-index-fa6eba99

3 years ago

Bad News About Inflation

https://paulromer.net/bad-news-about-inflation/

3 years ago