top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-04-21

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35650200

3 years ago

GitHub Copilot emits GPL code

https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-not

3 years ago

Windows on Btrfs

https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/

3 years ago

Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-tech-bosses-are-letting-dictators-censor-what-americans-see

3 years ago

The weird world of Windows file paths

https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/

3 years ago

Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/nuclear-power-answer-global-and-environmental-energy-woes-206418

3 years ago

Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration

https://inkscape.org/news/2023/04/17/inkscape-hiring-accelerating-gtk4-migration/

3 years ago

Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web

https://president.mn/mng/

3 years ago

Four-Byte Burger [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

3 years ago

Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/881533

3 years ago

Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]

https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kccnceu2023/3d/KubeCon-2023-Scaling-Databases-Activision.pdf

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Will boiling water ruin green tea?

https://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/will-boiling-water-ruin-green-tea

3 years ago

Atari 800XL Remake

https://revive-machines.com/index-en.html

3 years ago

AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)

https://aolserver.github.io/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed

https://lxe.co/wasmgpt/

3 years ago

Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01391-5

3 years ago

ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-chatgpt-costs-openai-to-run-estimate-report-2023-4

3 years ago

Bard coding update with Colab exporting

https://blog.google/technology/ai/code-with-bard/

3 years ago

AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students

https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-taking-kenya-ghostwriters-jobs/

3 years ago

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards

3 years ago

Simple Pathtracing (2012)

https://iquilezles.org/articles/simplepathtracing/

3 years ago

WebGPU GPT Model Demo

https://www.kmeans.org/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-devastating-greenland-antarctic-ice-sheets.html

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst

https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/18/iphone-sideloading/

3 years ago

The Joy of an Empty Brain

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-joy-of-a-totally-empty-brain-4fe4a739

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

The coming war on end-to-end encryption

https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-encryption/214

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Fire Mark Zuckerberg

https://ez.substack.com/p/fire-mark-zuckerberg

3 years ago

Mass editing memory in a transformer

https://memit.baulab.info/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Show HN: Automatic prompt optimizer for LLMs

https://promptperfect.jina.ai/

3 years ago

Manipulative Consent Requests

https://wideangle.co/blog/dark-patterns-examples-of-manipulative-consent-requests

3 years ago

SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues

https://www.giskard.ai/safegpt

3 years ago

NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company

https://newsnotfound.com/whitepaper/

3 years ago

OpenBSD: Viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230421124221

3 years ago

Standardizing BPF

https://lwn.net/Articles/926882/

3 years ago

The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database

https://www.science.org/content/article/invented-persona-behind-key-pandemic-database

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Show HN: Chrome extension to hide AI/GPT related submissions from HN

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-filter/olcgmfffcodkgnpgbhijncgpadkjgedo

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace

3 years ago

Guess the Game

https://guessthe.game

3 years ago

Peter Gabriel: AI competition statement

https://petergabriel.com/news/ai-competition-statement/

3 years ago

John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)

https://www.orchardandvine.net/news/john-deere-%E2%80%98kill-switch%E2%80%99-renders-stolen-tractors-useless/

3 years ago

Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?

https://joshuamo876.bearblog.dev/can-rust-beat-javascript-in-2023/

3 years ago

How to become a “designer who codes” (2019)

https://publication.design.systems/how-to-become-a-designer-who-codes-52ae97f60d68?gi=81198e6b14b3

3 years ago

CEO celebrates worker who sold family dog after he demanded return to office

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj574/ceo-celebrates-worker-who-sold-family-dog-after-he-demanded-they-return-to-office

3 years ago

xPrize Wildfire – $11M Prize Competition

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/wildfire

3 years ago

Hetzner’s New AX102 Dedicated Server with AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/new-amd-ryzen-7950-server/

3 years ago