top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-15

Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?

https://hellgatenyc.com/why-is-airport-turkey-sandwich-expensive

3 years ago

Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/14/175246/valve-restricts-accounts-of-2500-users-who-marked-a-negative-game-review-useful

3 years ago

Lofi air traffic control – LAX

https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=KLAX

3 years ago

Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]

https://ia601707.us.archive.org/28/items/gov.uscourts.cand.364454/gov.uscourts.cand.364454.385.0.pdf

3 years ago

What are transformer models and how do they work?

https://txt.cohere.ai/what-are-transformer-models/

3 years ago

WebGPU Fundamentals

https://webgpufundamentals.org/

3 years ago

The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat

https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-04-red-hat-model-only-worked-red-hat/

3 years ago

Surviving Burnout (2015)

https://lifeofaudrey.com/essays/surviving_burnout.html

3 years ago

Exercism – learn programming languages for free

https://exercism.org/

3 years ago

Low Code Software Development Is a Lie

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2023/4/low-code-software-development-is-a-lie

3 years ago

Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm

3 years ago

DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter

https://theor.xyz/doom-maps-laser-cut/

3 years ago

Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix

https://giraffesecurity.dev/posts/google-remote-code-execution/

3 years ago

OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf]

https://www.ykilcher.com/OA_Paper_2023_04_15.pdf

3 years ago

Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming language

https://github.com/m-ender/hexagony

3 years ago

Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1647317806697050112

3 years ago

Hypervisor Development in Rust

https://memn0ps.github.io/hypervisor-development-in-rust-part-1/

3 years ago

Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo contest

https://petapixel.com/2023/04/14/artist-refuses-prize-after-his-ai-image-wins-at-top-photo-contest/

3 years ago

Apollo 13 in Real Time

https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/

3 years ago

New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/04/new-macos-malware-yoinks-a-trove-of-sensitive-information-including-a-users-entire-keychain-database

3 years ago

33TB of text data for a 1T-parameter model

https://lifearchitect.ai/chinchilla/

3 years ago

Systems design 2: What we hope we know

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20230415

3 years ago

Tiny DNA circles are key drivers of cancer, study finds

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/04/ecDNA-cancer.html?sf176823295=1

3 years ago

Easily accessing all your stuff with a zero-trust mesh VPN

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10478-easily-accessing-all-your-stuff-with-a-zero-trust-mesh-vpn

3 years ago

KeePassXC Audit Report

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2023-04-15-audit-report/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579425

3 years ago

Stop Building Closed Ecosystems

https://buttondown.email/whatever_jamie/archive/stop-building-closed-ecosystems/

3 years ago

Yeah, about that active comeback...

https://www.ft.com/content/c331b279-00e5-4e7d-954f-468f4ee44c31

3 years ago

Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

https://paulstamatiou.com/digital-clutter/

3 years ago

Geometry Central: library of data structures, algorithms for geometry processing

https://geometry-central.net/

3 years ago

Show HN: IPython-GPT, a Jupyter/IPython Interface to Chat GPT

https://github.com/santiagobasulto/ipython-gpt

3 years ago

Fun with fluorescence in olive oil (2012)

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.4745700

3 years ago

OpenAssistant released the best open-source Chat AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddG2fM9i4Kk

3 years ago

The Decade of Deep Learning

https://bmk.sh/2019/12/31/The-Decade-of-Deep-Learning/

3 years ago

DOJ charges 10 with fraud in global air freight kickback scheme

https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/freighter-operator/us-doj-charges-10-with-defrauding-polar-air-cargo-worldwide/

3 years ago

Generalizations of Fourier analysis (2021)

http://gabarro.org/ccn/gen_fourier.html

3 years ago

One economist went on a long whimsical journey to pay his taxes with cash

https://fortune.com/2023/04/10/paying-taxes-with-cash-economist/

3 years ago

Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109334791235861940

3 years ago

HyperShell: Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer

https://github.com/holepunchto/hypershell

3 years ago

SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests

https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-more-dangerous-cyclists-than-other-cars-300605

3 years ago

Algebraic graph calculus (2021)

http://gabarro.org/ccn/algebraic_graph_calculus.html

3 years ago

The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/04/the-inner-beauty-of-tesla-stropkov-ds.html

3 years ago

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017)

https://lemire.me/blog/2017/02/28/how-many-floating-point-numbers-are-in-the-interval-01/

3 years ago

New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/13/23681770/arkansas-social-media-bill-restricts-minors-parental-consent

3 years ago

A Mechanism for Long Covid

https://mastodon.nl/@vickyvdtogt/110196805189572082

3 years ago

In a deadly mountain pass, a tiny hotel is a lifeline

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/world/asia/afghanistan-generosity-sabzak-pass.html

3 years ago

Uber, Amazon use AI to pay people different wages for same work: Study

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-amazon-pay-using-ai-different-wages-same-work-discrimination-2023-4

3 years ago

Appleseed – open-source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine

https://appleseedhq.net/

3 years ago

This account can no longer post all Tsunami Warnings, Advisories, Watches

https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC

3 years ago

How close are we to the holy grail of room-temperature superconductors?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/07/07/how-close-are-we-to-the-holy-grail-of-room-temperature-superconductors/

3 years ago

Searching for Lost Time in the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/arts/design/tres-riches-heures-calendar.html

3 years ago

MacStealer allows for WiFi client isolation bypasses

https://github.com/vanhoefm/macstealer

3 years ago

HDD Sales Crater, Drop 35% Year-over-Year

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-hdds-drop-35-percent-year-over-year

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who has deployed commercial features using GPT4?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583131

3 years ago

Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)

https://libreboot.org/news/hp8200sff.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why call it an AI company if all it does is call open AI API?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581031

3 years ago

Tell HN: Do Not Use Docusign

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581197

3 years ago

Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/mayan-ball-game-scoreboard-chichen-itza-mexico

3 years ago

The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)

http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

3 years ago

Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed deal

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

3 years ago

Whisper.cpp now has CoreML suppprt

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.3.0

3 years ago