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

2 years ago

1008 upvotes – 1202 comments

Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical

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

2 years ago

707 upvotes – 273 comments

Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

https://krita.org/en/

2 years ago

643 upvotes – 232 comments

JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

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

2 years ago

554 upvotes – 541 comments

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]

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

2 years ago

521 upvotes – 36 comments

Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker

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

2 years ago

495 upvotes – 184 comments

A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?

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

2 years ago

431 upvotes – 216 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

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

2 years ago

370 upvotes – 510 comments

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

2 years ago

350 upvotes – 7 comments

Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket

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

2 years ago

302 upvotes – 393 comments

First clean water, now clean air

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

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 146 comments

GradIEEEnt half decent

http://tom7.org/grad/

2 years ago

275 upvotes – 31 comments

Storage on Vercel

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

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 139 comments

I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing

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

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 174 comments

Vacations in the Soviet Union

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

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 406 comments

Heathkit

https://shop.heathkit.com/shop

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 81 comments

The web’s most important decision

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

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 102 comments

Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020)

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

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 31 comments

Yurt Calculator

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

2 years ago

221 upvotes – 88 comments

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

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 202 comments

Vercel Service Markup

https://service-markup.vercel.app

2 years ago

193 upvotes – 106 comments

Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element

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

2 years ago

191 upvotes – 66 comments

The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale than previously considered

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

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 149 comments

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/

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 162 comments

You and Your Research (1986)

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

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 91 comments

Unlocking North Korean songs on a karaoke machine

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

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 72 comments

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

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

2 years ago

172 upvotes – 60 comments

Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it

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

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 99 comments

Mercury OS

https://www.mercuryos.com

2 years ago

162 upvotes – 159 comments

Chatbots are not the future

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

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 152 comments

The kingdom of Bhutan has been quietly mining Bitcoin for years

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

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 218 comments

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/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 177 comments

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/

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 104 comments

Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife

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

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 184 comments

Are emergent abilities of large language models a mirage?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 130 comments

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

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

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 60 comments

Nostr – Decentralized social network

https://nostr.com

2 years ago

145 upvotes – 164 comments

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

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

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 131 comments

Deseret Alphabet

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

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

Ggwave: Message people over sound

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 46 comments

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

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

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 407 comments

Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989

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

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 111 comments

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/

2 years ago

125 upvotes – 105 comments

Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy

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

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 128 comments

Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics

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

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 119 comments

Parenting tech opens the door to state surveillance

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

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 67 comments

Cube.js: Headless Semantic Layer

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

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate

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

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022)

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

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

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

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

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

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 101 comments

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/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

Learning Some Logarithms

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

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Design a keyboard with Ergogen v4

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

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 57 comments

Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4 only apps on Linux

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

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

Two Approaches to Decoupling

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

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 57 comments

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

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 220 comments

Change my mind: Density increases local but decreases global prices

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

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 170 comments

VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell

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

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

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/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

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/

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 133 comments
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