top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-15

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/irs-free-file/

3 years ago

Pixpaint

https://warms.maxbittker.repl.co/

3 years ago

Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

https://github.com/toverainc/willow

3 years ago

My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated

https://blog.visionarycto.com/p/my-20-year-career-is-technical-debt

3 years ago

Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering

3 years ago

Smol Developer

https://github.com/smol-ai/developer

3 years ago

Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/sapien-smartphone-report

3 years ago

Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office

https://www.techradar.com/news/dell-goes-back-on-wfh-pledge-forces-employees-to-come-back-to-the-office

3 years ago

random(random(random(random())))

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1575230/

3 years ago

Uncensored Models

https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models

3 years ago

Taxonomy of Procrastination

https://dynomight.net/procrastination/

3 years ago

This blog is hosted on my Android phone

https://androidblog.a.pinggy.io/

3 years ago

Come back, c2.com, we still need you

http://wiki.c2.com

3 years ago

LobbyFacts – Exposing lobbying in European institutions

https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/

3 years ago

StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06161

3 years ago

Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-whistleblower-ensign-peak-church-investment-fund-allegations-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-14/

3 years ago

VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages

https://gist.github.com/hyperupcall/99e355405611be6c4e0a38b6e3e8aad0

3 years ago

Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/business/media/vice-bankruptcy.html

3 years ago

Blizzard developers say return-to-office policy 'cost us some amazing people'

https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-developers-say-mandatory-return-to-office-policy-has-cost-us-some-amazing-people/

3 years ago

Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s

https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/computer-art-50s-and-60s

3 years ago

Pinball is booming in America

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/05/14/pinball-is-booming-in-america-thanks-to-nostalgia-and-canny-marketing

3 years ago

Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35946260

3 years ago

Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI

https://twitter.com/jlowin/status/1658117052425543682

3 years ago

LTESniffer – An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

https://github.com/SysSec-KAIST/LTESniffer

3 years ago

Companies to pay $615k in investigation over faked net neutrality comments

https://apnews.com/article/settlement-fake-public-comments-net-neutrality-ae1f69a1f5415d9f77a41f07c3f6c358

3 years ago

U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

3 years ago

Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up?

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/15/kafka-vs-redpanda-performance-do-the-claims-add-up

3 years ago

Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/fake-trezor-hardware-crypto-wallet/48155/

3 years ago

This Word Does Not Exist

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

3 years ago

Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/15/apple-tsmc-3nm-production-capacity/

3 years ago

Introduction to the Fourier transform for image processing (2001)

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~brayer/vision/fourier.html

3 years ago

Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

https://stratechery.com/2023/google-i-o-and-the-coming-ai-battles/

3 years ago

The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-connection-records-uk-surveillance/

3 years ago

Vice files for Bankruptcy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/vice-files-for-chapter-11-in-shift-of-fortune-for-media-upstart

3 years ago

EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona

https://clic.epfl.ch/news/49

3 years ago

Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

https://github.com/suno-ai/bark/blob/main/README.md

3 years ago

Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/clinical-trial-mrna-universal-influenza-vaccine-candidate-begins

3 years ago

Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?

http://www.janromme.com/2023/05/ChaptGPT-transaltion-of-Akkadian-texts.html

3 years ago

Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/14/fake-british-accents-americans-gen-z

3 years ago

The Maddest My Code Made Anyone

http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2023/05/14/the_maddest_my_code_made_anyone/

3 years ago

Basic SAT model of x86 instructions using Z3, autogenerated from Intel docs

https://github.com/zwegner/x86-sat

3 years ago

Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites

https://www.space.com/saturn-moon-king-62-newfound-satellites

3 years ago

A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert

https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-non-native-species-a-weed-is-swallowing-the-sonoran-desert

3 years ago

Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-rog-ally-emulation-performance

3 years ago

Show HN: Use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and Claude in One App

https://github.com/chathub-dev/chathub/blob/main/README.md

3 years ago

Server-sent events

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events

3 years ago

Stories We’ve Seen Too Often

http://strangehorizons.com/submit/fiction-submission-guidelines/stories-weve-seen-too-often/

3 years ago

Deadlines as Technology

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/deadlines-as-technology/

3 years ago

F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]

https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/057-f-droid.html

3 years ago

It Wasn't AI

https://itwasntai.com/

3 years ago

So, how do you refill an aquifer?

https://heatmap.news/technology/so-how-do-you-actually-refill-an-aquifer

3 years ago

We Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI

3 years ago

Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/hippo-meat/

3 years ago

GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including Nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/gcc13-c2x-features/

3 years ago

ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

https://scholarturbo.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database builder for communities

https://www.sortabase.com/

3 years ago

CMU Common Lisp 21e

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/releases/21e

3 years ago

Gambling firm allegedly paid blogs to link new mothers to its online games

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/14/gambling-firm-allegedly-paid-blogs-to-link-new-mothers-to-its-online-games

3 years ago

Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?

https://assistedeverything.substack.com/p/the-three-hills-model-for-evaluating

3 years ago

The groundbreaking plan to map the entire human immune system

https://www.freethink.com/health/human-immunome

3 years ago

The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969807/

3 years ago

Bard API

https://github.com/dsdanielpark/Bard-API

3 years ago

Two students built an A-bomb (2003)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science

3 years ago

Windows 2000 64-bit for Alpha AXP

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/05/15/windows-2000-64-bit-for-alpha-axp/

3 years ago

All Roll Is B-Roll: Adam Curtis Goes Quiet

https://www.thedriftmag.com/all-roll-is-b-roll/

3 years ago

You studied computer science but Big Tech no longer wants you

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/05/15/you-studied-computer-science-but-big-tech-no-longer-wants-you-now-what

3 years ago

What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome?

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-worst-jobs-for-poor-Romans-in-Ancient-Rome

3 years ago

Ask HN: Retired engineers, are you being asked to return to work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954523

3 years ago

Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html

3 years ago

Many soft contact lenses in US made up of PFAS, research suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/09/contact-lenses-pfas-forever-chemicals

3 years ago

The complicated history of how the Earth’s atmosphere became breathable

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/the-complicated-history-of-how-the-earths-atmosphere-became-breathable/

3 years ago

Sorry Mont Blanc, I will not be purchasing any product from you in the future

https://twitter.com/sschueller/status/1658116405609340932

3 years ago

Vanilla-FP: A no-framework framework for component-based purely-functional UIs

https://github.com/abuseofnotation/vanilla-fp

3 years ago

Full of contempt, she refused to talk to the engineers

https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/full-of-contempt-she-refused-to-talk

3 years ago

Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/health/who-sweeteners-weigh-loss-guideline-wellness/index.html

3 years ago

Together’s $20M seed funding to build open-source AI and cloud platform

https://www.together.xyz/blog/seed-funding

3 years ago

Cedar is an open source policy language and evaluation engine

https://github.com/cedar-policy

3 years ago

How A24 Took over Hollywood [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tuRJIkDcXg

3 years ago

Anxious dogs, like anxious people, need help managing and reducing distress

https://undark.org/2023/05/11/opinion-dogs-can-have-human-like-anxiety-they-need-human-like-treatment/

3 years ago

How to Play Hextraction

https://www.playhextraction.com/how-to-play

3 years ago