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

Htmx Is the Future

https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future

3 years ago

Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/build-your-own-private-wireguard-vpn-pivpn

3 years ago

Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request

https://www.mayer.cool/writings/Heisting-20-Million-in-Magic-Cards/

3 years ago

Public Money, Public Code

https://publiccode.eu/en/

3 years ago

When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”

https://blog.zulip.com/2023/05/04/when-free-forever-is-4-months/

3 years ago

What is a Vector Database? (2021)

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/

3 years ago

Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama

https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama-models-v1

3 years ago

Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government

https://element.io/blog/india-bans-flagship-client-for-the-matrix-network/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836221

3 years ago

Give It the Craigslist Test

https://ericaheinz.com/notes/give-it-the-craigslist-test/

3 years ago

The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption

3 years ago

I found the best anagram in English (2017)

https://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring.html

3 years ago

Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01625

3 years ago

Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/tiktok-spied-on-me-why/

3 years ago

U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-hits-z-library-with-new-domain-name-seizures-230505/

3 years ago

Show HN: A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites

https://usegrasp.com

3 years ago

Monoliths are not dinosaurs

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html

3 years ago

Paradigms of A.I. Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (1991)

https://norvig.github.io/paip-lisp/#/

3 years ago

Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond review-and-approval

https://rootsofprogress.org/against-review-and-approval

3 years ago

Given a place to live, Finland’s homeless were better able to deal with problems

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/04/20/how-finland-managed-to-virtually-end-homelessness.html

3 years ago

Big oil helped shape Stanford’s latest climate-research focus

https://www.chronicle.com/article/big-oil-helped-shape-stanfords-latest-climate-research-focus

3 years ago

Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast

https://hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com

3 years ago

A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

https://zverok.space/blog/2023-05-05-ruby-types.html

3 years ago

The core problem with hamburger menus

https://bt.ht/hamburgers/

3 years ago

Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for another decade

https://www.space.com/europe-no-reusable-rocket-until-2030s

3 years ago

Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

3 years ago

At Musk’s brain-chip startup, animal-testing panel is rife with conflicts

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-brain-chip-startup-animal-testing-panel-is-rife-with-potential-conflicts-2023-05-04/

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are ways to combat loneliness and build meaningful connections?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35832296

3 years ago

Squad Solar City Car

https://www.squadmobility.com/

3 years ago

MSI firmware signing keys leaked

https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/blob/main/MSI/ImpactedDevices.md

3 years ago

A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-theory-for-the-assembly-of-life-in-the-universe-20230504/

3 years ago

Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/gmail-ads-increase-2023/

3 years ago

Pioneer – An Open Source space adventure game set in our galaxy

https://pioneerspacesim.net

3 years ago

Sam Altman says era of remote work is over

https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/chatgpt-maker-sam-altman-says-era-of-remote-work-is-over-380090-2023-05-04

3 years ago

MosaicML MPT-7B: A Commercially-Usable LLaMa-Quality Model

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

3 years ago

Concrete: A fully homomorphic encryption compiler

https://www.zama.ai/post/zama-concrete-fully-homomorphic-encryption-compiler

3 years ago

Favicon Dino Game

https://mashpoe.github.io/favicon-dino-game/

3 years ago

Google engineer jumps to death in NYC, second worker suicide in months

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/google-senior-software-engineer-31-jumps-to-death-from-nyc-headquarters/

3 years ago

Ask not what the compiler can do for you

https://github.com/juspay/hyperswitch/wiki/Ask-not-what-the-compiler-can-do-for-you

3 years ago

How Wolfenstein 3D shocked the world, 30 years later

https://www.howtogeek.com/802248/how-wolfenstein-3d-shocked-the-world-30-years-later/

3 years ago

Everything happening on Bluesky

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708385/bluesky-weather-report-moderation-app-store

3 years ago

Motorola’s 1990s Corvette EV Project

https://www.thedrive.com/features/the-untold-story-of-motorolas-secret-1990s-corvette-ev-project-who-killed-the-electric-corvette

3 years ago

US crypto mining used more power last year than all the computers

https://www.pcgamer.com/so-youre-telling-me-that-us-crypto-mining-used-more-power-last-year-than-all-the-computers/

3 years ago

Four of Uranus’ largest moons likely contain an ocean layer

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-study-of-uranus-large-moons-shows-4-may-hold-water/

3 years ago

Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design (2020)

https://hugotunius.se/2020/10/31/flutter-web-a-fractal-of-bad-design.html

3 years ago

A Detailed Look Into The Making of Tron Legacy VFX

https://gmunk.com/TRON-Legacy

3 years ago

Show HN: Make domain verification as easy as verifying an email or phone number

https://www.domainverification.org

3 years ago

New Playground: Integer.exposed

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/04/19/new-playground-integer-exposed/

3 years ago

The AI PR Industrial Complex

https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-ai-pr-industrial-complex

3 years ago

Science Fiction Movie Lettering

https://reaganray.com/2020/05/12/sci-fi-movie-lettering.html

3 years ago

Mischievous NPM Publications

https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-mischievous-npm-publications/

3 years ago

Urban Density and Home Prices

https://www.econlib.org/why-scott-alexander-is-wrong/

3 years ago

Slack GPT, the Future of AI in Slack

https://slack.com/blog/news/introducing-slack-gpt

3 years ago