top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-17

MiniGPT-4

https://minigpt-4.github.io/

3 years ago

RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license

https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama

3 years ago

Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phones-tablets-bing-search-replace-google-default-search-engine/

3 years ago

The Windows 11 Trash Party

https://birchtree.me/blog/the-windows-11-trash-party/

3 years ago

I liked this simple calculus exercise

https://blog.plover.com/math/se/calculus-exercise.html

3 years ago

OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of-giant-ai-models-is-already-over/

3 years ago

Booting Modern Intel CPUs

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66109.html

3 years ago

iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/ios-17-will-reportedly-set-the-stage-for-sideloading-apps-on-iphone/

3 years ago

No Source Code == No Patent

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/no-source-code-no-patent

3 years ago

Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110209163620520535

3 years ago

I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

https://louwrentius.com/i-made-my-blog-solar-powered-then-things-escalated.html

3 years ago

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

3 years ago

How do electrons find the “path of least resistance”? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3gnNpYK3lo

3 years ago

AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/amazon_annual_shareholder_letter_aws/

3 years ago

Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time

https://masto.ai/@mg/110212843144499061

3 years ago

The colorful charm of Amiga utility disks

https://www.datagubbe.se/utildisks/

3 years ago

Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-yield-savings-account-is-now-available-offering-a-4-point-15-percent-apy/

3 years ago

Starship Flight Test [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5QXreqOrTA

3 years ago

Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm8

3 years ago

Build 5G networks using open-source software, general-purpose hardware (2021)

https://rs-ojict.pubpub.org/pub/lqhigiva/release/2

3 years ago

DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning

https://dinov2.metademolab.com/

3 years ago

The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases

https://questdb.io/blog/inner-workings-distributed-databases/

3 years ago

Keep stuff linkable

https://animaomnium.github.io/keep-stuff-linkable/

3 years ago

Implementers, Solvers, and Finders

https://rkoutnik.com/2016/04/21/implementers-solvers-and-finders.html

3 years ago

Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/crooks-mistaken-bet-on-encrypted-phones

3 years ago

Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/opinion_column/

3 years ago

A Forty-Year Career (2019)

https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

3 years ago

OpenBSD: Malloc leak detection available in -current

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230417074903

3 years ago

Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts

https://restofworld.org/2023/indian-government-fact-check-delete-social-media/

3 years ago

Qemu.js – a proof-of-concept port of QEMU to web browser using WASM JIT (2019)

https://github.com/atrosinenko/qemujs

3 years ago

Apple, Goldman Sachs Debut Savings Account with 4.15% Annual Yield

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-17/apple-goldman-debut-savings-account-with-4-15-annual-yield

3 years ago

Cryptographic Best Practices

https://gist.github.com/atoponce/07d8d4c833873be2f68c34f9afc5a78a

3 years ago

New 3D Printable Search Engine

https://www.printablesearch.com

3 years ago

Valve Releases Proton 8.0-1c

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-8.0-1c

3 years ago

Breaking the limits of TLA+ model checking

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graphing-tla/

3 years ago

Horrible Code, Clean Performance

https://johnnysswlab.com/horrible-code-clean-performance/

3 years ago

Community Is the Future of AI

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/04/17/community-is-the-future-of-ai/

3 years ago

How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)

https://www.growveg.com/guides/how-to-make-a-hotbed-for-the-earliest-sowings/

3 years ago

There are no fees at America’s smallest bank

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-13/america-s-smallest-bank-is-kentland-federal-savings-and-loan

3 years ago

ATC staff shortages: 11,000 flights cut from NYC and DCA in summer 2023

https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/over-11000-flights-cut-from-new-york-and-washington-schedules-for-summer-2023.html

3 years ago

Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions

https://www.falltide.com/p/jung-chang-mao-mechanics-of-terror

3 years ago

Inside a Fujitsu Ethernet chip from 1984

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/110209305209920677

3 years ago

Tag Systems

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/tag-systems/

3 years ago

Codegraph – static code analyzator / code diagramer

https://github.com/xnuinside/codegraph

3 years ago

Community is the future of AI: Blog post and community discussion

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388401/new-blog-post-from-our-ceo-prashanth-community-is-the-future-of-ai

3 years ago

Most of us won't be inventing little languages (2004)

http://slesinsky.org/brian/code/little_languages.html

3 years ago

History of Kites

https://www.kite.org/about-kites/history-of-kites/

3 years ago

Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories

https://blog.medium.com/now-you-can-embed-mastodon-posts-in-medium-stories-99b11d0baa7f

3 years ago

Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant

https://www.power-eng.com/nuclear/michigan-could-provide-300m-to-reopen-nuclear-power-plant/

3 years ago

Linuxwave: Generate Music from the Entropy of Linux

https://github.com/orhun/linuxwave

3 years ago

Neobuthus Factorio

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

3 years ago

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg

3 years ago

VW, Rivian, Nissan, BMW lose access to U.S. EV tax credits

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vw-rivian-nissan-bmw-lose-140645246.html

3 years ago

12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1168824035/child-labor-tobacco-legal-dangerous

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is PostgreSQL better than MySQL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599118

3 years ago

The Big Dictionary of MLOps

https://www.hopsworks.ai/mlops-dictionary

3 years ago

NYPD Can Now Shoot GPS Trackers at Your Car

https://jalopnik.com/starchase-guardian-hx-nypd-vehicle-gps-tracker-police-1850327888

3 years ago

Borland C++ Builder (2015)

http://runtimeterror.com/blog/borland-c-builder.html

3 years ago

A Journey Through Color Space with FFmpeg

https://canvatechblog.com/a-journey-through-color-space-with-ffmpeg-3a129bfd9b05

3 years ago

A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65298834

3 years ago

A hyper-fast local vector database for use with LLM Agents

https://github.com/jdagdelen/hyperDB

3 years ago

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/

3 years ago

The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer

https://www.fastcompany.com/90879768/cybertruck-behind-schedule-tesla-beer-gigabier

3 years ago

Arrested for Allegedly Operating Illegal Chinese ‘Police Station' in NYC

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/2-arrested-for-allegedly-operating-illegal-chinese-police-station-in-nyc-sources-say/4247736/

3 years ago

Common Crawl

https://commoncrawl.org/

3 years ago

DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23629095/duckduckgo-ai-answers-browser-app-extension-search

3 years ago

Podman 4.5.0

https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v4.5.0

3 years ago

FBI Arrests Two on Charges Tied to Chinese Police Outpost in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/nyregion/fbi-chinese-police-outpost-nyc.html

3 years ago