top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-17

Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35977891

3 years ago

Rekt.network

https://rekt.network

3 years ago

Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible

https://boulderbeat.news/2023/05/12/controlled-burn-rules/

3 years ago

Numbers every LLM developer should know

https://github.com/ray-project/llm-numbers

3 years ago

Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/americans-have-never-been-so-unwilling-to-relocate-for-a-new-job

3 years ago

The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review

https://smyachenkov.com/posts/book-review-the-staff-engineers-path/

3 years ago

Lately I've been using timers daily

https://github.com/madprops/blog/blob/main/docs/timers.md

3 years ago

BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT

https://bratgpt.com

3 years ago

Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/05/depression-reverse-brain-signals.html

3 years ago

Understanding database indexes in PostgreSQL

https://blog.mastermind.dev/indexes-in-postgresql

3 years ago

Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

https://blog.google/technology/developers/google-colab-ai-coding-features/

3 years ago

TikTok is now banned in Montana

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23686294/montana-tiktok-ban-signed-governor-gianforte-court

3 years ago

Retro Computer Museum

https://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/

3 years ago

Wizards of the Coast Raids YouTuber’s House to Take Back Magic Cards

https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic-the-gathering-1850368923

3 years ago

Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertise-on-duckduckgo-search/

3 years ago

Petrucci Music Library

https://imslp.org/

3 years ago

The IRS is building its own online tax filing system

https://text.npr.org/1176417594

3 years ago

OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973645

3 years ago

StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio

https://stability.ai/blog/stablestudio-open-source-community-driven-future-dreamstudio-release

3 years ago

Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/16/pixel-dashcam-personal-safety-update/

3 years ago

Managing State with Signals

https://tonsky.me/blog/humble-signals/

3 years ago

The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it

https://www.wired.com/story/usps-mail-surveillance-letter/

3 years ago

A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle

https://blog.bigpicture.io/introducing-the-worlds-largest-open-source-company-dataset/

3 years ago

Simulated Hospital

https://github.com/google/simhospital

3 years ago

An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (2019)

https://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/

3 years ago

Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate

https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-letter-us-senate-ai-oversight

3 years ago

The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods

https://worldsensorium.com/the-regenerating-power-of-big-basins-redwoods/

3 years ago

Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I)

https://stephenramsay.net/posts/groff-mom.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Postgres query lock explainer

https://github.com/AdmTal/PostgreSQL-Query-Lock-Explainer

3 years ago

DIY Book Binding

http://www.diybookbinding.com/

3 years ago

Photomator for Mac

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2023/05/16/photomator-for-mac-is-out-now/

3 years ago

Using Bun.js as a Bundler

https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/using-bun-js-as-a-bundler/

3 years ago

Logitech Partners with iFixit for Self-Repairs

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23726681/logitech-ifixit-self-repair-program-announcement-mx-master-anywhere

3 years ago

Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig

https://quad9.net/news/press/quad9-s-opinion-of-the-recent-court-ruling-in-leipzig/

3 years ago

Summarize Any Article as a Dialog Between Two People with Bing Chat

https://www.aidemos.info/summarize-any-article-as-a-dialog-between-two-people-with-bing-chat/

3 years ago

WebGPU hits 40% availability 2 weeks after Chrome releases support

https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu

3 years ago

Code Generator for SQLite

https://cgsql.dev/

3 years ago

Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison

https://datascientyst.com/pandas-vs-julia-comparison-cheat-sheet/

3 years ago

Conditional CSS with:has and:nth-last-child

https://ishadeed.com/article/conditional-css-has-nth-last-child/

3 years ago

Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games

https://github.com/nickm980/smallville

3 years ago

Add opt-in transparent telemetry to Go toolchain

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58894

3 years ago

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals sentence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/court-rules-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-must-go-to-prison-while-she-appeals-sentence

3 years ago

Planned obsolescence: Apple attacked for the “serialization” of its spare parts

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2023/05/17/obsolescence-programmee-apple-attaquee-pour-la-serialisation-de-ses-pieces-detachees_6173705_4408996.html

3 years ago

Framework Laptop 13 Review

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/framework-laptop-13-review-modular-pc-upgrade-performance

3 years ago

Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service

https://requestmetrics.com/blog/product/google-analytics-4-has-me-so-frustrated-we-built-our-own-analytics-service/

3 years ago

Langton’s ant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant

3 years ago

The myth of the $600 hammer (1998)

https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the-600-hammer/5271/

3 years ago

Slack issues

https://status.slack.com/

3 years ago

DevEx: What Drives Productivity

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878

3 years ago

Show HN: Pinbot – An extension to privately search one's browser history with AI

https://getpinbot.com

3 years ago

Understanding Passkeys

https://michal.sapka.me/2023/passkeys/

3 years ago

Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/23726295/valve-immersion-rumble-lawsuit

3 years ago

Astmaker – A DSL in Rust for programming language designers

https://david-delassus.medium.com/astmaker-a-dsl-in-rust-for-programming-language-designers-99691a00b831

3 years ago

A minimal operating system (2K LOC) on QEMU and a RISC-V board

https://github.com/yhzhang0128/egos-2000

3 years ago

Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/improving-performance-with-http-streaming-ba9e72c66408

3 years ago

SkiFree has been recompiled using VS2019 for modern Windows

https://ski.ihoc.net/#download

3 years ago

New proof finds the ‘ultimate instability’ in a solar system model

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-shows-when-solar-systems-become-unstable-20230516/

3 years ago

Bosses of failed US banks refuse to hand back millions of dollars in pay

https://www.ft.com/content/26ed4163-84d3-45af-a784-8aeb4abc288b

3 years ago

Fast GPT-2 inference written in Fortran

https://github.com/certik/fastGPT

3 years ago

Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-17/ai-regulation-openai-s-sam-altman-is-the-wrong-person-to-ask

3 years ago

U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-new-highs.aspx

3 years ago

Bing thinks Hitler was in Radiohead

https://twitter.com/jdx/status/1658876595921190912

3 years ago

The U.S. birth rate has fallen by 20% since 2007

https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth-rate

3 years ago

Degrowth and the monkey's paw

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/degrowth-and-the-monkeys-paw

3 years ago

Pandas AI

https://medium.com/@fareedkhandev/pandas-ai-the-future-of-data-analysis-8f0be9b5ab6f

3 years ago

Elizabeth Holmes ordered to pay $452M restitution

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/elizabeth-holmes-ordered-to-pay-452m-restitution-for-blood-testing-hoax-theranos-ceo-conviction-fraud-billionaire-ramesh-sunny-balwani-the-dropout-silicon-valley-prison-southern-california

3 years ago

Show HN: Speeding up the code-test cycle for Java developers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35972112

3 years ago

Traders Do Less Crime at Home

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-16/traders-do-less-crime-at-home

3 years ago

IntelligentPad (1989): a component-based drag-and-drop software creator

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/05/17/intelligentpad-component-based-drag-and-drop-software-creator/

3 years ago

Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts disagree

https://text.npr.org/1175726650

3 years ago

Global warming set to break key 1.5C by 2027

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602293

3 years ago

Hybrid Fortran – A Framework for GPU Acceleration

https://github.com/muellermichel/Hybrid-Fortran

3 years ago

DM32 – a modern take on the HP-32SII calculator

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/model-dm32

3 years ago

Ask HN: Stripe shut our microbiology conference for adult content?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975943

3 years ago

Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? (2021)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/why-did-thomas-harriot-invent-binary

3 years ago

Real-Time Full-Text Site Search with SQLite FTS5 extension

https://blog.sqlitecloud.io/real-time-full-text-site-search-with-sqlite-fts5-extension

3 years ago

Students are increasingly refusing to go to school

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2023/05/15/school-avoidance-becomes-crisis-after-covid/11127563002/

3 years ago

Show HN: Cloudthread Savings Hub – Find AWS Savings or We'll Pay You

https://www.cloudthread.io/

3 years ago

How's business at Stack Overflow?

https://jlericson.com/2023/05/17/so_business.html

3 years ago