top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-01

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

Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical

https://prism-break.org/en/

3 years ago

Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

https://krita.org/en/

3 years ago

JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23034.html

3 years ago

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]

https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf

3 years ago

Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker

https://www.michaeljfox.org/publication/michael-j-fox-foundation-announces-significant-breakthrough-search-parkinsons-biomarker

3 years ago

A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/a-bacterial-culprit-for-rheumatoid-arthritis-71088

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773707

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket

https://apnews.com/article/germany-public-transit-cheap-ticket-trains-metro-3d83f1a35ab8e3945b8034b9bd511c29

3 years ago

First clean water, now clean air

https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/clean-air/

3 years ago

GradIEEEnt half decent

http://tom7.org/grad/

3 years ago

Storage on Vercel

https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage

3 years ago

I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing

https://evhaste.com/blog/silenced-no-more

3 years ago

Vacations in the Soviet Union

https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/

3 years ago

Heathkit

https://shop.heathkit.com/shop

3 years ago

The web’s most important decision

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/the-webs-most-important-decision/

3 years ago

Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020)

https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=652

3 years ago

Yurt Calculator

https://simplydifferently.org/Yurt_Notes?page=1#Yurt%20Calculator

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Vercel Service Markup

https://service-markup.vercel.app

3 years ago

Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element

https://www.devever.net/~hl/web-keygen

3 years ago

The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale than previously considered

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-anthropologist-pair-mystery-mayan-day.html

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Unlocking North Korean songs on a karaoke machine

https://www.northkoreatech.org/2020/06/02/unlocking-north-korean-songs-on-a-karaoke-machine/

3 years ago

You and Your Research (1986)

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

3 years ago

Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-data-unknown-oceans-sea-mountains

3 years ago

Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it

https://ozanvarol.com/the-key-to-becoming-extraordinary/

3 years ago

Mercury OS

https://www.mercuryos.com

3 years ago

Chatbots are not the future

https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots

3 years ago

The kingdom of Bhutan has been quietly mining Bitcoin for years

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/04/30/bhutan-bitcoin-mining-crypto/

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/03/17/replika-your-money-or-your-wife/#fnref:if

3 years ago

Are emergent abilities of large language models a mirage?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004

3 years ago

A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (2015)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tom-sukanens-prairie-ship

3 years ago

Nostr – Decentralized social network

https://nostr.com

3 years ago

Xterm: It's better than you thought (2021)

https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/

3 years ago

Deseret Alphabet

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

3 years ago

Ggwave: Message people over sound

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave

3 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773705

3 years ago

Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/savings-and-loan-crisis

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/media/vice-bankruptcy.html

3 years ago

Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-chemists-tackle-tough-recycling-plastics.html

3 years ago

Parenting tech opens the door to state surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/how-parenting-tech-opens-the-door-to-state-surveillance/

3 years ago

Cube.js: Headless Semantic Layer

https://github.com/cube-js/cube

3 years ago

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate

https://www.projectgus.com/2023/04/griffin-imate/

3 years ago

Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022)

https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/science/woodpeckers-hammer-without-headaches/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Design a keyboard with Ergogen v4

https://flatfootfox.com/ergogen-introduction/

3 years ago

Learning Some Logarithms

https://two-wrongs.com/learning-some-logarithms.html

3 years ago

Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4 only apps on Linux

https://pavel.network/enabling-ipv6-support-for-ipv4-only-apps-on-linux/

3 years ago

Two Approaches to Decoupling

https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Change my mind: Density increases local but decreases global prices

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/change-my-mind-density-increases

3 years ago

VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-wasm/commit/0cdb9997d83bae116bb7693ba6837ffa812425a7

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Classic fountain pens

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/classic-fountain-pens

3 years ago

Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue

https://www.mux.com/blog/up-next-the-lawsuit-threatening-your-youtube-watch-queue

3 years ago

Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-mormons-make-great-fbi-recruits

3 years ago

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory

3 years ago

Privacyguides.org – The guide to restoring your online privacy

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Besides Legos, what’s the best kit for prototyping mechanical devices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767870

3 years ago

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

3 years ago