2455
1063
Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
2 years ago
989
507
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs
https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90
595
358
So this guy is now S3. All of S3
https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432
486
314
Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/ftc-says-facebook-violated-privacy-order-proposes-ban-on-monetizing-youth-data/
465
262
The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park
https://outdoorstatus.com/articles/recreation-gov-lottery-fees/
390
202
The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
367
195
Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-05-03-mojo-launch.html
364
192
EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users
https://techfreedom.org/earn-it-act-remains-a-threat-to-liberty-security-safety-of-children/
352
147
A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge
https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/nimitz-mansion-hidden-under-bay-bridge-17999245.php
322
505
Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes
318
313
Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/googlers-angry-about-ceos-226m-pay-after-cuts-in-perks-and-12000-layoffs/
279
Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-04/heavy-marijuana-use-increases-schizophrenia-in-men-study-finds
306
418
Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html
300
168
America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan
https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/americas-first-high-volume-pfas-annihilator-is-up-and-running-in-west-michigan/
289
179
How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
https://pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-patterns/
283
286
Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-up-with-shrinking-savings-europeans-drain-billions-banks-2023-05-04/
276
207
Google employees complain about CEO's pay raise as cost cuts hit company
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/google-employees-complain-about-ceo-sundar-pichais-pay-raise.html
265
166
Google Introduces Passkey Authentication
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-long-passwords-thanks-for-all-phish.html
264
173
New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition
https://gizmodo.com/nyc-msg-facial-recognition-landlords-ban-law-hearing-1850401997
252
83
Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2023/05/04/langchain-mini.html
194
Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx
250
82
Pynecone – Performant, customizable web apps in pure Python
https://pynecone.io/
245
A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans
https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/a-look-at-the-crystal-programming
243
180
My pay went from $240k to $0
https://mstdn.social/@Devilstower/110299576469326182
238
151
The “baseline” scene in bladerunner 2049 was written by Ryan Gosling (2022)
https://cohost.org/mcc/post/178201-the-baseline-scene
235
104
Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List
https://github.com/erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ultimate-list
218
143
Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor
https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/ap300-smr
205
271
New C features in GCC 13
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/04/new-c-features-gcc-13
22
A Linux kernel without struct buffer_head
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/930173/c1a1f68dc4e20191/
196
102
JEP 450: Compact Object Headers
https://openjdk.org/jeps/450
186
108
Hue Light Hack
https://www.atomic14.com/2023/05/04/hue-light-hacking.html
185
37
BigCode Project Releases StarCoder: A 15B Code LLM
https://huggingface.co/bigcode
181
96
Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/colorado-kills-law-that-made-it-harder-for-cities-to-offer-internet-service/
174
72
Show HN: GPT-JSON – Structured and typehinted GPT responses in Python
https://github.com/piercefreeman/gpt-json
153
OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form
https://share.hsforms.com/1UPy6xqxZSEqTrGDh4ywo_g4sk30
161
Westinghouse announces a new small modular nuclear reactor
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/westinghouse-announces-a-small-nuclear-reactor.html
157
109
Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities
https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2023-05-02-GitLab-and-Google-Cloud-Partner-to-Expand-AI-Assisted-Capabilities-with-Customizable-Gen-AI-Foundation-Models
34
Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301
152
61
The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHoTzs3mtM8
162
AI is just someone else's intelligence
https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=12001
146
38
Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]
https://wangzwhu.github.io/home/file/acmmm-t-part3-ann.pdf
137
2
Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly revenue estimates
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/shopify-reports-first-quarter-revenue-above-estimates-2023-05-04/
136
19
Running JavaScript in Rust with Deno: Experimenting with Deno's Rust Crates
https://austinpoor.com/blog/js-in-rs
134
53
Fixing Hallucination with Knowledge Bases
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/langchain-retrieval-augmentation/
131
95
Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf]
https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/shannon_51.pdf
129
190
The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet
https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks
23
The First Image from EUMETSAT’s Newest Satellite
https://www.eumetsat.int/features/discover-first-images-mtg-i1
127
55
UEFI Secure Boot on the Raspberry Pi
https://www.linux.it/~ema/posts/secure-boot-rpi/
126
44
Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime-pt3
121
94
Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk-v2/
119
18
Tell HN: Beware Stripe's “Minimum Fee Commitment”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809687
114
125
66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/renters-say-homeownership-is-hopeless-how-theyre-spending-instead.html
113
White House announces new actions to promote responsible AI innovation
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/04/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-promote-responsible-ai-innovation-that-protects-americans-rights-and-safety/
36
Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose
https://firesky.tv/
5
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/
21
UDP transmitter implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040
https://vanhunteradams.com/Pico/Ethernet/UPD_TX.html
107
103
GitHub is down
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/c2jg911dtkjb
FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/privacy/ftc-facebook-broke-terms-5b-data-privacy-settlement
101
Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation
https://blog.deepgram.com/augmenting-llms-beyond-basic-text-completion-and-transformation/
63
EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/04/eu-urged-to-protect-grassroots-ai-research-or-risk-losing-out-to-us
93
13
Ted Chiang: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
