top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-09

Language models can explain neurons in language models

https://openai.com/research/language-models-can-explain-neurons-in-language-models

3 years ago

Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-brings-final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-to-ipad/

3 years ago

Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines

https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-just-lost-its-lawsuit-trying-to-ban-ios-virtual-machines

3 years ago

Story: Redis and its creator antirez

https://blog.brachiosoft.com/redis-en

3 years ago

Learning DNS in 10 Years

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/05/08/new-talk-learning-dns-in-10-years/

3 years ago

The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit

https://urbanists.social/@sam/110339902538138997

3 years ago

James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-fomalhauts-disk-in-unprecedented-detail/

3 years ago

UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/04/un-human-rights-chief-urges-uk-reverse-deeply-troubling-public-order-bill

3 years ago

CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers

https://leaningtech.com/announcing-cheerpj-3-0-a-jvm-replacement-in-html5-and-webassembly-to-run-java-applications-and-applets-on-modern-browsers/

3 years ago

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/

3 years ago

Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake

https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2023/dkfz-pm-23-27-Reduced-cancer-mortality-with-daily-vitamin-D-intake.php

3 years ago

Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program

https://syncthing.net/

3 years ago

Linux kernel use-after-free in Netfilter, local privilege escalation

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/133

3 years ago

Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan

https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-pakistan-amid-arrest-of-former-pm-imran-khan-JA6RmrAQ

3 years ago

Do the weirdest thing that feels right

https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/do-the-weirdest-thing-that-feels

3 years ago

“Tinder for Canceling Meetings”

https://meetcala.com/

3 years ago

Health advisory on social media use in adolescence

https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/health-advisory-adolescent-social-media-use

3 years ago

What is permaculture? (2015)

https://www.permaculturedesignmagazine.com/what-is-permaculture

3 years ago

The last days of a 350-year-old family farm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/these-intimate-photos-capture-a-family-farms-bittersweet-final-years-180982139/

3 years ago

The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death

https://thewalrus.ca/worlds-oldest-ultramarathon-runner/

3 years ago

Total Crap – A magazine written by AI

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai

3 years ago

GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/f0mhbz9xn497

3 years ago

432-Core RISC-V European Processor Designed for Use in Space Taped Out

https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/05/08/european-processor-designed-for-use-in-space-taped-out/

3 years ago

Google keeps failing its Nest customers

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/07/google-failing-nest/

3 years ago

Lotus 1-2-3

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/lotus123.html

3 years ago

Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in some juices and soft drinks

https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-elevated-levels-toxic-metals-some-mixed-fruit-juices-and-soft-drinks

3 years ago

Into Thin AirPods

https://defector.com/into-thin-airpods

3 years ago

Google promised to delete sensitive data. It logged my abortion clinic visit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/09/google-privacy-abortion-data/

3 years ago

Twenty years of blogging

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/twenty-years-of-blogging/

3 years ago

Sexual abuse tip-off site could be sharing data with Facebook

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/sexual-abuse-tip-off-site-could-be-sharing-data-with-facebook

3 years ago

Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings

https://news.nd.edu/news/companies-hide-negative-news-by-issuing-unrelated-press-releases-alongside-sec-filings-study-shows/

3 years ago

Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/9/is-sequential-io-dead-in-the-era-of-the-nvme-drive

3 years ago

In Erlang/OTP 27, +0.0 will no longer be exactly equal to -0.0

https://erlangforums.com/t/in-erlang-otp-27-0-0-will-no-longer-be-exactly-equal-to-0-0/2586

3 years ago

GitHub switches to Rust based Blackbird code search

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/blackbird_github_search/

3 years ago

Kchat: Persistent group chat in <50 lines using kdb+/k/q web sockets, JavaScript

https://github.com/srpeck/kchat

3 years ago

Constitutional AI: RLHF on Steroids

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/constitutional-ai-rlhf-on-steroids

3 years ago

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam

https://mastodon.social/@danluu/110335983520055904

3 years ago

Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716558/meta-imagebind-open-source-multisensory-modal-ai-model-research

3 years ago

Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-empty-offices-business-tech-17911258.php

3 years ago

Logic Pro for iPad

https://www.apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad/

3 years ago

The seven specification ur-languages

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/the-seven-specification-ur-languages/

3 years ago

T cells can activate themselves to fight tumors

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/t-cells-can-activate-themselves-to-fight-tumors

3 years ago

Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks

https://marcosticks.org/ten-thousand-ways/

3 years ago

Show HN: Engineering Book Club

https://www.engineeringbookclub.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: Card game where players write their own cards that get parsed into code

https://app.wordbots.io/

3 years ago

Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards

https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/getting-ready-to-ship-13th-gen-and-announcing-power-saving-expansion-cards

3 years ago

Darvaza Gas Crater

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

3 years ago

Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People's Thoughts in Breakthrough

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3w3g/scientists-use-gpt-ai-to-passively-read-peoples-thoughts-in-breakthrough

3 years ago

WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background

https://twitter.com/foaddabiri/status/1654856617723301888

3 years ago

Nyxt 3.0.0

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-3.0.0.org

3 years ago

Marginalia.nu API

https://www.marginalia.nu/marginalia-search/api/

3 years ago

‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed

3 years ago

Patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks (2019)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10452978B2/en

3 years ago

File Locks on Linux

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/FlockFcntlAndNFS

3 years ago

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

3 years ago

The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain

https://www.wired.com/story/aging-brain-volume/

3 years ago

Ex-Apple VP Mike Abbott Joins General Motors as Exec Vice President, Software

https://investor.gm.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tech-industry-innovator-mike-abbott-joins-general-motors/

3 years ago

Google Translate “Get well [Swedish firstname]” translates to “fuck you”

https://translate.google.se/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=krya%20p%C3%A5%20dig%20Bj%C3%B6rn%0A&op=translate

3 years ago

Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, How could I use my time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874542

3 years ago

Segment anything and Stable Diffusion showcase app

https://www.editanything.ai

3 years ago

What happens when half of the IPFS network is down?

https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-ipfs-unresponsive-nodes/

3 years ago

Spotify-Qt

https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt

3 years ago

Dose-response relationships of LSD-induced subjective experiences in humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-023-01588-2

3 years ago

Detailed Image of the Human Retina

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/05/detailed-image-of-the-human-retina.html

3 years ago

Students can’t get off their phones. Schools have had enough

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/09/school-cellphone-ban-yondr/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Fired for Using Firefox

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35870824

3 years ago

Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/tony-hsieh-and-the-emptiness-of-the-tech-mogul-myth

3 years ago

Where Did Personal Computing Go Wrong (2020)

http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/10/where-did-personal-computing-go-wrong.html

3 years ago

Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371594-mechanical-backpack-boosts-the-sensation-of-jumping-in-virtual-reality/

3 years ago

Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/goodbye-to-roblox-on-linux-with-their-new-anti-cheat-and-wine-blocking/

3 years ago

Show HN: JavaFiddle – Compile, run and share Java code fully client side

https://javafiddle.leaningtech.com

3 years ago