914
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Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-chief-goes-before-us-congress-propose-licenses-building-ai-2023-05-16/
3 years ago
734
376
JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/13ijhae/came_back_to_a_post_here_but_it_was_removed_from/
721
325
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
https://www.science.org/content/article/widely-used-chemical-strongly-linked-parkinson-s-disease
636
342
Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-speech-personal-voice-and-more-new-accessibility-features/
552
190
A guidance language for controlling LLMs
https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
532
103
The Sourdough Framework
https://github.com/hendricius/the-sourdough-framework
421
235
Bun 0.6
https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v0.6.0
322
138
Seaflooding
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/seaflooding
321
73
CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley
https://sp23.datastructur.es/
307
237
Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
https://www.leefang.com/p/big-tech-resumed-hiring-foreign-workers
296
254
Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2216573120
259
89
Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
https://www.erlang.org/blog/otp-26-highlights/
250
105
SQLite 3.42.0
https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_42_0.html
242
51
Ultimate Electronics (2021)
https://ultimateelectronicsbook.com/
236
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Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13isibz/texas_am_commerce_professor_fails_entire_class_of/
231
211
Updating our inactive account policies
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/
205
71
Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice
https://www.alcademics.com/index-of-ice-experiments-on-alcademics.html
193
129
Show HN: Oblivus GPU Cloud – Affordable and scalable GPU servers from $0.29/hr
https://oblivus.com
192
61
Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/
184
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I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080220175358/http://www.andrew-turnbull.net/tech/windows95.html
179
162
Beware offers of “help” with your projects
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/beware-help.html
178
116
Show HN: A little web server in C
https://github.com/robdelacruz/lkwebserver
177
57
One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01610-z
169
80
Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy
https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/optimization-without-using-derivatives-the-prima-package-its-fortran-implementation-and-its-inclusion-in-scipy/5798
154
41
Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame
https://www.jamez.it/blog/2023/05/16/version-2-of-my-solar-powered-epaper-digital-photo-frame/
149
121
EU Artificial Intelligence Act
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/
146
Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110366434912340959
70
Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-you-cant-trust-twitters-encrypted
144
24
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)
http://raganwald.com/2020/05/03/fractran.html
142
50
In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1176174760/sheep-shawl-fiber-art
91
Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-advice
134
58
CO2 Heat Pumps Found to Offer High Efficiency at Low Ambient Temperature
https://r744.com/co2-heat-pumps-found-to-offer-high-efficiency-at-low-ambient-temperature-in-electric-vehicles/
133
33
Bard generates clean JSON if you threaten to take a human life
https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1657396491676164096
130
78
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video]
https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970
128
Ask HN: Is YC becoming less of a home for hackers and more for MBA-types?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35961301
126
85
Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s exabyte-scale blob storage system
https://www.infoq.com/articles/dropbox-magic-pocket-exabyte-storage/
64
On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
122
34
Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/re-victimization-from-police-auctioned-cell-phones/
2
Algorithms and Data Structures (2007) [pdf]
https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ftp/Mehlhorn-Sanders-Toolbox.pdf
112
100
Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-now-offers-90-minute-game-trials-starting-with-dead-space/1100-6514177/
25
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
https://orlp.net/blog/bitwise-binary-search/
82
GitHub Incident
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/v2xjymn61dv8
110
94
Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true
https://www.theverge.com/23725039/framework-laptop-13-2023-intel-review
Renewables supplied 65% of new US utility-scale generating capacity in Q1 2023
https://electrek.co/2023/05/15/renewables-us-utility-scale-generating-capacity-q1-2023/
108
123
Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
https://thehftguy.com/2023/05/16/why-are-there-no-antitrust-claims-vs-github-copilot-when-there-is-a-precedent/
12
LMQL: A query language for programming (large) language models
https://github.com/eth-sri/lmql
106
ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Calls on Congress to Adopt Safety Standards for AI Systems
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpts-sam-altman-faces-senate-panel-examining-artificial-intelligence-4bb6942a
104
44
On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (2017)
https://time.com/4646293/japan-missing-people-johatsu-evaporated/
99
217
Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/05/16/businesses-are-in-for-a-mighty-debt-hangover
Ask HN: Has journaling improved your life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35960139
98
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Math prodigy runs market-making empire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/ken-griffin-s-hand-picked-math-prodigy-peng-zhao-runs-market-making-empire
96
119
Should we normalize ephemeral businesses?
https://anu.substack.com/p/the-generational-business-trap
198
Airbnb is making life hell for young renters in tourist hotspots
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/59744/1/airbnb-is-making-life-hell-for-young-renters-in-tourist-hotspots-cornwall
163
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/05/15/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-theft-245283
37
The war on Japanese knotweed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/16/the-war-on-japanese-knotweed
81
55
Experts weigh impact of Intel-Arm collaboration
https://www.eetimes.com/experts-weigh-impact-of-intel-arm-collaboration/
68
India's Alphonso mangoes are virtually impossible to find in America (2018)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyw4zb/alphonso-best-mangoes-india-us
79
Ask HN: How do I make a website in 2023?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35959204
38
Atlanta's Boot Girls are challenging the car booting industry
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176175801/boot-girls-atlanta-private-parking-enforcement
62
US Secret Service: “blockchain is an opportunity to track money”
https://coinpaper.com/1505/us-secret-service-blockchain-is-an-amazing-opportunity-to-track-money
77
95
Berkshire Hathaway sells entire stake in TSMC
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/investing/berkshire-hathaway-taiwan-tsmc-stock-exit-hnk-intl/index.html
76
7
From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Rendering the first glTF mesh
https://www.willusher.io/graphics/2023/05/16/0-to-gltf-first-mesh
75
ChatGPT chief calls for new agency to license AI systems in Congress testimony
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/16/05/2023/chatgpt-chief-calls-for-new-agency-to-license-ai-systems-in-congress-testimony
31
JPMorgan Staff Report 'Paranoia' Amid Increased Company Surveillance
https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-chase-employees-describe-fear-mass-workplace-data-surveillance-wadu-2022-5
72
45
Why `fsync()`: Losing unsynced data on a single node leads to global data loss
https://redpanda.com/blog/why-fsync-is-needed-for-data-safety-in-kafka-or-non-byzantine-protocols
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https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod
32
Mullvad Leta (Search Engine)
https://leta.mullvad.net/
10
10,000x Speedup for Postgres Queries: How to Make a Smart Optimizer More Stupid
https://ottertune.com/blog/how-to-fix-slow-postgresql-queries/
Show HN: Capillaries: Distributed data processing with Go and Cassandra
https://capillaries.io
48
Why you should still read the docs
https://death.andgravity.com/output
69
15
The Bookmarking Data Model Is Wrong for Highlighting
https://lgug2z.com/articles/the-bookmarking-data-model-is-wrong-for-highlighting/
67
59
Consumer Credit and the Removal of Medical Collections from Credit Reports
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-reports/consumer-credit-and-the-removal-of-medical-collections-from-credit-reports/
65
USB MIDI interface for the NeXTCube – ISPW board
https://0110.be/posts/USB_MIDI_interface_for_the_NeXTCube_-_ISPW_board
Rational Magic
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rational-magic
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https://gizmodo.com/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-tech-1850433697
63
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US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/a-us-senator-just-used-chatgpt-for-opening-remarks-at-a-hearing
Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio communications
https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/majority-of-eu-countries-support-scanning-of-audio-communications/
92
Apple is now worth more than the entire Russell 2000
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-stock-market-milestone-apple-is-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-russell-2000-e2dc3f75
54
How to spot cult leader personalities
https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-to-spot-cult-leader-personalities
26
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2023
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23/