1008
1183
Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
3 years ago
707
273
Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
https://prism-break.org/en/
643
233
Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
https://krita.org/en/
554
541
JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23034.html
521
36
The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]
https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf
495
185
Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
https://www.michaeljfox.org/publication/michael-j-fox-foundation-announces-significant-breakthrough-search-parkinsons-biomarker
431
216
A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/a-bacterial-culprit-for-rheumatoid-arthritis-71088
370
499
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773707
350
7
Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706311/hinton-godfather-of-ai-threats-fears-warnings
302
392
Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
https://apnews.com/article/germany-public-transit-cheap-ticket-trains-metro-3d83f1a35ab8e3945b8034b9bd511c29
285
146
First clean water, now clean air
https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/clean-air/
275
32
GradIEEEnt half decent
http://tom7.org/grad/
267
139
Storage on Vercel
https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage
261
174
I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
https://evhaste.com/blog/silenced-no-more
246
406
Vacations in the Soviet Union
https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/
241
81
Heathkit
https://shop.heathkit.com/shop
236
102
The web’s most important decision
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/the-webs-most-important-decision/
221
31
Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020)
https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=652
88
Yurt Calculator
https://simplydifferently.org/Yurt_Notes?page=1#Yurt%20Calculator
202
Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/apr/27/ignore-microsoft-whines-activision-blizzard-the-cma-did-its-job
193
106
Vercel Service Markup
https://service-markup.vercel.app
191
66
Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element
https://www.devever.net/~hl/web-keygen
189
149
The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale than previously considered
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-anthropologist-pair-mystery-mayan-day.html
188
162
The “Location Off” switch on your phone is a lie
https://gabrielsieben.tech/2023/05/01/the-location-off-switch-on-your-phone-is-a-lie/
186
72
Unlocking North Korean songs on a karaoke machine
https://www.northkoreatech.org/2020/06/02/unlocking-north-korean-songs-on-a-karaoke-machine/
91
You and Your Research (1986)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
172
60
Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-data-unknown-oceans-sea-mountains
165
99
Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
https://ozanvarol.com/the-key-to-becoming-extraordinary/
159
Mercury OS
https://www.mercuryos.com
161
152
Chatbots are not the future
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots
218
The kingdom of Bhutan has been quietly mining Bitcoin for years
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/04/30/bhutan-bitcoin-mining-crypto/
158
177
Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen
https://blog.ledger.com/Funds-of-every-wallet-created-with-the-Trust-Wallet-browser-extension-could-have-been-stolen/
156
104
Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/05/01/apple-has-just-released-the-first-rapid-security-response-for-ventura/
154
184
Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife
https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/03/17/replika-your-money-or-your-wife/#fnref:if
130
Are emergent abilities of large language models a mirage?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
150
A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (2015)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tom-sukanens-prairie-ship
145
164
Nostr – Decentralized social network
https://nostr.com
144
131
Xterm: It's better than you thought (2021)
https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/
140
71
Deseret Alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
136
46
Ggwave: Message people over sound
https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave
355
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773705
129
111
Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/savings-and-loan-crisis
125
105
Reddit's proposed API changes and the continued existence of RedReader
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/132qkb8/update_2_reddits_proposed_api_changes_and_the/
124
128
Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/media/vice-bankruptcy.html
116
119
Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-chemists-tackle-tough-recycling-plastics.html
114
67
Parenting tech opens the door to state surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/how-parenting-tech-opens-the-door-to-state-surveillance/
113
48
Cube.js: Headless Semantic Layer
https://github.com/cube-js/cube
109
20
Mysteries of the Griffin iMate
https://www.projectgus.com/2023/04/griffin-imate/
103
45
Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022)
https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/science/woodpeckers-hammer-without-headaches/
78
Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema
https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074
101
Lithium-ion batteries a growing fire hazard in NYC garbage trucks
https://gothamist.com/news/lithium-ion-batteries-a-growing-fire-hazard-in-nyc-garbage-trucks-dsny-says
98
9
A Mirror for Rust: Compile-Time Reflection Report
https://soasis.org/posts/a-mirror-for-rust-a-plan-for-generic-compile-time-introspection-in-rust/
97
57
Design a keyboard with Ergogen v4
https://flatfootfox.com/ergogen-introduction/
18
Learning Some Logarithms
https://two-wrongs.com/learning-some-logarithms.html
95
38
Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4 only apps on Linux
https://pavel.network/enabling-ipv6-support-for-ipv4-only-apps-on-linux/
93
Two Approaches to Decoupling
https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/
92
220
City Council to install 20 cameras as automated license-plate recognition system
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/04/03/palo-alto-leans-on-license-plate-readers-to-dent-property-crime
90
170
Change my mind: Density increases local but decreases global prices
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/change-my-mind-density-increases
VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-wasm/commit/0cdb9997d83bae116bb7693ba6837ffa812425a7
86
133
Intel to drop the “I” moniker in upcoming CPU rebrand
https://boringtextreviews.com/2023/04/30/intel-to-drop-the-i-moniker-in-upcoming-cpu-rebrand/
A simple and eco-friendly way to make ammonia
https://scitechdaily.com/just-add-water-stanford-researchers-have-discovered-a-simple-and-eco-friendly-way-to-make-ammonia/
82
173
Classic fountain pens
https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/classic-fountain-pens
64
Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
https://www.mux.com/blog/up-next-the-lawsuit-threatening-your-youtube-watch-queue
80
228
Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-mormons-make-great-fbi-recruits
79
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory
77
14
Privacyguides.org – The guide to restoring your online privacy
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/
75
28
Ask HN: Besides Legos, what’s the best kit for prototyping mechanical devices?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767870
35
Things that don’t work well with MySQL’s FOREIGN KEY implementation
http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/things-that-dont-work-well-with-mysqls-foreign-key-implementation