top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-19

StableLM: A new open-source language model

https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-launches-the-first-of-its-stablelm-suite-of-language-models

3 years ago

Space Elevator

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

3 years ago

User: Junnn11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11

3 years ago

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way

https://dgross.ca/blog/linux-home-server-auto-sleep/

3 years ago

Offline is just online with extreme latency

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/offline-is-online-with-extreme-latency/

3 years ago

Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-skills-are-now-worth-0

3 years ago

Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/why-some-researchers-think-im-wrong

3 years ago

Conway's Game of Life digital clock

https://copy.sh/life/?gist=f3413564b1fa9c69f2bad4b0400b8090&step=512

3 years ago

ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

https://www.chatpdf.com

3 years ago

Satellite takes image of another satellite

https://twitter.com/NASA_Landsat/status/1642954595377750027

3 years ago

The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished

https://twitter.com/zemarmot/status/1646272510701236229

3 years ago

How RocksDB Works

https://artem.krylysov.com/blog/2023/04/19/how-rocksdb-works/

3 years ago

How to make good small games

http://farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-to-make-good-small-games.html

3 years ago

Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/california-to-sydney-how-do-you-wake-an-a380-after-1000-days-in-the-desert-20221227-p5c8zp.html

3 years ago

Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages

https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly

3 years ago

Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy

https://theconversation.com/building-telescopes-on-the-moon-could-transform-astronomy-and-its-becoming-an-achievable-goal-203308

3 years ago

Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/VideoLDM/

3 years ago

NaturalSpeech 2: Zero-shot speech and singing synthesizers

https://speechresearch.github.io/naturalspeech2/

3 years ago

Physicists discover that gravity can create light

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-physicists-gravity.html

3 years ago

Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public

https://www.yubico.com/blog/yubico-is-merging-with-acq-bure/

3 years ago

Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

http://informatimago.free.fr/i/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html

3 years ago

When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)

https://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html

3 years ago

Agents are the next AI killer app after ChatGPT

https://www.latent.space/p/agents

3 years ago

AI Incident Database

https://incidentdatabase.ai/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622847

3 years ago

In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees

https://mastodon.social/@Miriamm/110221714996508234

3 years ago

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/19/global-rice-shortage-is-set-to-be-the-largest-in-20-years-heres-why.html

3 years ago

More optimizations in the compiler and JIT

https://www.erlang.org/blog/more-optimizations/

3 years ago

Basic math related to computation and memory usage for transformers

https://blog.eleuther.ai/transformer-math/

3 years ago

Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7beyj/car-thieves-tech-hidden-old-nokia-phones-bluetooth-speakers-emergency-engine-start-keyless

3 years ago

Fictional Brands Archive

https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/

3 years ago

Stability AI Launches StableLM: A New Open-Source Language Model

https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM

3 years ago

Philly cheesesteaks became big in Lahore

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/04/08/philly-cheesesteaks-lahore-pakistan/

3 years ago

Why did Prolog lose steam? (2010)

https://www.kmjn.org/notes/prolog_lost_steam.html

3 years ago

Intranasal vaccine confers broad mucosal and systemic immunity against SARS-CoV2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01423-6

3 years ago

Explore Washington DC through the eyes of a spy

https://secretmissiondc.com/

3 years ago

Gezellig – a word that encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture

https://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/155-gezellig

3 years ago

Pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by 80s arcades

https://github.com/kiwphi/pop-shoot

3 years ago

Farouk al Kasim saved Norway from its oil (2014)

https://psmag.com/environment/iraqi-vikings-farouk-al-kasim-norway-oil-72715

3 years ago

Analyzing the websites that are used to train AI chatbots

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

3 years ago

Apollo dev explains how third-party Reddit apps are affected by API changes

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_few_calls_with_reddit_today_about_the/

3 years ago

The days are long but the decades are short (2015)

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short

3 years ago

DIY Neurotech: Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal into a maker’s world

https://spectrum.ieee.org/neurotechnology-diy

3 years ago

LlamaAcademy: Teach GPTs to understand API documentation with LoRA

https://github.com/danielgross/LlamaAcademy

3 years ago

Geneticists develop novel gene therapy for glaucoma

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2023/novel-gene-therapy-shows-promise-for-treating-multiple-eye-diseases/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is Google Down for You?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622873

3 years ago

Street Votes: A proposed response to Ireland's housing crisis

https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/a-simple-and-elegant-response-to

3 years ago

Developers should be force-fed state machines (2011)

https://shopify.engineering/17488160-why-developers-should-be-force-fed-state-machines

3 years ago

4chan's used car buying guide

https://i.4cdn.org/o/1587277284312.jpg

3 years ago

Nintendo Hacker Freed, Now Owes Them 25-30% of Salary for Life

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nintendo-hacker-forced-to-pay-them-for-life-after-being-released-from-prison-2117382/

3 years ago

The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iphone-setting-thieves-use-to-lock-you-out-of-your-apple-account-716d350d

3 years ago

Uncleftish Beholding (1989)

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish_beholding.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Open-source Auth0 alternative Ory Kratos v0.13 released – nearing v1.0

https://github.com/ory/kratos/releases/tag/v0.13.0

3 years ago

Meta to unveil fresh round of job cuts among highly skilled staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/18/meta-layoffs-tech/

3 years ago

Understanding Everything

https://shimmeringvoid.substack.com/p/understanding-everything

3 years ago

GPT-3 Creative Fiction (2020)

https://gwern.net/gpt-3

3 years ago

Sandboxing JavaScript Code

https://healeycodes.com/sandboxing-javascript-code

3 years ago

A Love Letter to Make

https://kmaasrud.com/blog/make

3 years ago

Show HN: Checksum – generate and maintain end-to-end tests using AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629050

3 years ago

How can some infinities be bigger than others?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-some-infinities-be-bigger-than-others-20230419/

3 years ago

Defining interfaces in C++ with ‘concepts’ (C++20)

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/04/18/defining-interfaces-in-c-with-concepts-c20/

3 years ago