1264
463
The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos
2 years ago
1099
853
CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/
815
328
Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35650200
586
370
GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-not
503
241
Windows on Btrfs
https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/
464
359
Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-tech-bosses-are-letting-dictators-censor-what-americans-see
435
285
The weird world of Windows file paths
https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/
396
556
Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/nuclear-power-answer-global-and-environmental-energy-woes-206418
382
194
Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
https://inkscape.org/news/2023/04/17/inkscape-hiring-accelerating-gtk4-migration/
348
208
Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web
https://president.mn/mng/
337
89
Four-Byte Burger [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4
267
124
Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/881533
120
Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]
https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kccnceu2023/3d/KubeCon-2023-Scaling-Databases-Activision.pdf
234
73
Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed
https://github.com/lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser/blob/master/README.md
207
212
Will boiling water ruin green tea?
https://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/will-boiling-water-ruin-green-tea
205
168
Atari 800XL Remake
https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html
203
100
AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)
https://aolserver.github.io/
191
263
Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads
http://richg42.blogspot.com/2023/04/faster-lz-is-not-answer-to-150-250-gb.html
185
50
Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed
https://lxe.co/wasmgpt/
182
112
Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01391-5
179
ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-chatgpt-costs-openai-to-run-estimate-report-2023-4
169
86
Bard coding update with Colab exporting
https://blog.google/technology/ai/code-with-bard/
166
139
The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements
https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards
222
AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-taking-kenya-ghostwriters-jobs/
159
5
Simple Pathtracing (2012)
https://iquilezles.org/articles/simplepathtracing/
154
313
Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate
https://www.chronicle.com/article/ban-on-tenure-for-new-faculty-hires-passes-texas-senate
29
WebGPU GPT Model Demo
https://www.kmeans.org/
183
Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-to-cut-at-least-1-200-jobs-in-new-round-of-layoffs-to-reduce-costs-da423e53
153
Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology/2023/04/22/large-creative-ai-models-will-transform-how-we-live-and-work
197
'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-devastating-greenland-antarctic-ice-sheets.html
149
210
Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst
https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/18/iphone-sideloading/
146
98
US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-5-year-credit-default-swaps-rise-highest-since-2011-2023-04-21/
70
The Joy of an Empty Brain
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-joy-of-a-totally-empty-brain-4fe4a739
145
161
AI is upending the freelance world
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/04/20/ive-never-hired-a-writer-better-than-chatgpt-how-ai-is-upending-the-freelance-world/
52
The coming war on end-to-end encryption
https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-encryption/214
142
51
Mass editing memory in a transformer
https://memit.baulab.info/
144
Fire Mark Zuckerberg
https://ez.substack.com/p/fire-mark-zuckerberg
141
87
Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/null-island-is-one-of-the-most-visited-places-on-earth-too-bad-it-doesnt-exist
126
55
Show HN: Automatic prompt optimizer for LLMs
https://promptperfect.jina.ai/
123
84
Manipulative Consent Requests
https://wideangle.co/blog/dark-patterns-examples-of-manipulative-consent-requests
114
82
SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues
https://www.giskard.ai/safegpt
110
165
NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company
https://newsnotfound.com/whitepaper/
105
27
Standardizing BPF
https://lwn.net/Articles/926882/
19
OpenBSD: Viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230421124221
103
47
The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database
https://www.science.org/content/article/invented-persona-behind-key-pandemic-database
102
17
New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-technology-could-blow-away-gpt-4-and-everything-like-it/
99
46
Show HN: Chrome extension to hide AI/GPT related submissions from HN
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-filter/olcgmfffcodkgnpgbhijncgpadkjgedo
93
90
America’s $800B climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/04/10/americas-800bn-climate-splurge-is-feeding-a-new-lobbying-ecosystem
88
37
Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/googles-80-acre-san-jose-mega-campus-on-hold-amid-economic-slowdown-.html
85
25
Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)
https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace
26
Guess the Game
https://guessthe.game
158
Peter Gabriel: AI competition statement
https://petergabriel.com/news/ai-competition-statement/
