top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-04

Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

3 years ago

2455 upvotes – 1039 comments

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

3 years ago

989 upvotes – 507 comments

So this guy is now S3. All of S3

https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

3 years ago

595 upvotes – 358 comments

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/

3 years ago

486 upvotes – 314 comments

The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park

https://outdoorstatus.com/articles/recreation-gov-lottery-fees/

3 years ago

465 upvotes – 262 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2021)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html

3 years ago

390 upvotes – 202 comments

Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-05-03-mojo-launch.html

3 years ago

367 upvotes – 195 comments

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/

3 years ago

364 upvotes – 192 comments

A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/nimitz-mansion-hidden-under-bay-bridge-17999245.php

3 years ago

352 upvotes – 147 comments

Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes

3 years ago

322 upvotes – 505 comments

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/

3 years ago

318 upvotes – 313 comments

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

3 years ago

313 upvotes – 279 comments

Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF

https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html

3 years ago

306 upvotes – 413 comments

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/

3 years ago

300 upvotes – 168 comments

How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed

https://pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-patterns/

3 years ago

289 upvotes – 179 comments

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/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 286 comments

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

3 years ago

276 upvotes – 207 comments

Google Introduces Passkey Authentication

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/so-long-passwords-thanks-for-all-phish.html

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 166 comments

New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition

https://gizmodo.com/nyc-msg-facial-recognition-landlords-ban-law-hearing-1850401997

3 years ago

264 upvotes – 173 comments

Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2023/05/04/langchain-mini.html

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 83 comments

Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 194 comments

Pynecone – Performant, customizable web apps in pure Python

https://pynecone.io/

3 years ago

250 upvotes – 82 comments

A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans

https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/a-look-at-the-crystal-programming

3 years ago

245 upvotes – 207 comments

My pay went from $240k to $0

https://mstdn.social/@Devilstower/110299576469326182

3 years ago

243 upvotes – 180 comments

The “baseline” scene in bladerunner 2049 was written by Ryan Gosling (2022)

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/178201-the-baseline-scene

3 years ago

238 upvotes – 151 comments

Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List

https://github.com/erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ultimate-list

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 104 comments

Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor

https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/ap300-smr

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 143 comments

New C features in GCC 13

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/04/new-c-features-gcc-13

3 years ago

205 upvotes – 271 comments

A Linux kernel without struct buffer_head

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/930173/c1a1f68dc4e20191/

3 years ago

202 upvotes – 22 comments

JEP 450: Compact Object Headers

https://openjdk.org/jeps/450

3 years ago

196 upvotes – 102 comments

Hue Light Hack

https://www.atomic14.com/2023/05/04/hue-light-hacking.html

3 years ago

186 upvotes – 108 comments

BigCode Project Releases StarCoder: A 15B Code LLM

https://huggingface.co/bigcode

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 37 comments

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/

3 years ago

181 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: GPT-JSON – Structured and typehinted GPT responses in Python

https://github.com/piercefreeman/gpt-json

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 72 comments

OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form

https://share.hsforms.com/1UPy6xqxZSEqTrGDh4ywo_g4sk30

3 years ago

174 upvotes – 153 comments

Westinghouse announces a new small modular nuclear reactor

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/westinghouse-announces-a-small-nuclear-reactor.html

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 143 comments

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

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 109 comments

Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 34 comments

The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHoTzs3mtM8

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 61 comments

AI is just someone else's intelligence

https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=12001

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 161 comments

Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]

https://wangzwhu.github.io/home/file/acmmm-t-part3-ann.pdf

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 38 comments

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/

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 2 comments

Running JavaScript in Rust with Deno: Experimenting with Deno's Rust Crates

https://austinpoor.com/blog/js-in-rs

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 19 comments

Fixing Hallucination with Knowledge Bases

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/langchain-retrieval-augmentation/

3 years ago

134 upvotes – 53 comments

Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf]

https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/refs/shannon_51.pdf

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 95 comments

The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet

https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 190 comments

The First Image from EUMETSAT’s Newest Satellite

https://www.eumetsat.int/features/discover-first-images-mtg-i1

3 years ago

129 upvotes – 23 comments

UEFI Secure Boot on the Raspberry Pi

https://www.linux.it/~ema/posts/secure-boot-rpi/

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 55 comments

Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3

https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime-pt3

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk-v2/

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 94 comments

Tell HN: Beware Stripe's “Minimum Fee Commitment”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809687

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 18 comments

66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/renters-say-homeownership-is-hopeless-how-theyre-spending-instead.html

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 125 comments

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 5 comments

Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

https://firesky.tv/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

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/

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 94 comments

UDP transmitter implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040

https://vanhunteradams.com/Pico/Ethernet/UPD_TX.html

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

GitHub is down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/c2jg911dtkjb

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 102 comments

FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/privacy/ftc-facebook-broke-terms-5b-data-privacy-settlement

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 2 comments

Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation

https://blog.deepgram.com/augmenting-llms-beyond-basic-text-completion-and-transformation/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

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

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 64 comments

Ted Chiang: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)

https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments
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