top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-20

Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

2 years ago

927 upvotes – 622 comments

Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline

https://github.com/NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts

2 years ago

540 upvotes – 165 comments

Rooms.xyz

https://rooms.xyz/

2 years ago

480 upvotes – 107 comments

People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-20/psychologist-enrique-echeburua-people-who-die-by-suicide-want-to-stop-suffering-not-to-stop-living.html

2 years ago

422 upvotes – 413 comments

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

https://www.andreasfragner.com/writing/writing-summaries

2 years ago

389 upvotes – 161 comments

We will be shutting down neeva.com

https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement

2 years ago

373 upvotes – 289 comments

FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-improperly-searched-spy-database-for-information-on-americans-court-says-2f12bcd

2 years ago

371 upvotes – 218 comments

Using ChatGPT for home automation

https://www.atomic14.com/2023/05/14/is-this-the-future-of-home-automation.html

2 years ago

261 upvotes – 108 comments

Axle OS

https://axleos.com/

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 51 comments

U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chips-act-workforce-development

2 years ago

235 upvotes – 242 comments

Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)

https://marckhoury.github.io/blog/counterintuitive-properties-of-high-dimensional-space/

2 years ago

230 upvotes – 60 comments

“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4

https://gist.github.com/Jessime/63f93215faed6f7109c6d62b7fef7fbc

2 years ago

223 upvotes – 132 comments

SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly-failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 93 comments

Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub

https://torrentfreak.com/popular-pirate-bay-proxy-site-disappears-from-github-230520/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 136 comments

WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-startup-failure-benchmark-insight-partners-venture-capitalists-learned-nothing-2023-4

2 years ago

184 upvotes – 256 comments

Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/japanese-police-make-first-ever-youtuber-arrest-for-uploading-video-game-gameplay-videos

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 199 comments

The long life of Apache httpd 2.4

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/Apache24LongLife

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 146 comments

PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended

https://status.python.org

2 years ago

168 upvotes – 131 comments

A digital payments revolution in India

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/05/15/a-digital-payments-revolution-in-india

2 years ago

164 upvotes – 165 comments

Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ponders-transition-to-64-bit-only-x86s-architecture

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 133 comments

Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/wendy-carlos-trans-profile-251085

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 49 comments

Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water

https://news.stanford.edu/2023/05/18/new-technology-uses-ordinary-sunlight-disinfect-drinking-water/

2 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

Symbolics Lisp Machines Graphics Demo (1990) [video]

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

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 78 comments

Building a Signal Analyzer with Modern Web Tech

https://cprimozic.net/blog/building-a-signal-analyzer-with-modern-web-tech/

2 years ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (2019)

https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 62 comments

Using Advanced Camera Tech and AI to Target the Poor

https://petapixel.com/2023/05/19/big-brother-is-using-advanced-camera-tech-and-ai-to-target-the-poor/

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 83 comments

Martin Amis has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/martin-amis-era-defining-british-novelist-dies-aged-73

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

Apple-1 ELIZA chatbot vs. ChatGPT [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yZRNt25Wdo

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 68 comments

Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication

https://mw.lojban.org/index.php?title=Lojban&setlang=en-US

2 years ago

110 upvotes – 143 comments

A rant on bus stops

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/why-the-us-cant-have-nice-things

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 179 comments

Hitler’s Antarctic base: the myth and the reality (2007) [pdf]

https://www.histarmar.com.ar/Antartida/Base-Hitler/LaBaseAntarticadeHitler.pdf

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 52 comments

GlitchTip: An open source, Sentry API compatible error tracking platform

https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend/-/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

Solving Intermittent Cable Modem Issues

https://www.duckware.com/tech/solving-intermittent-cable-modem-issues.html

2 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

Gfycat has been down for two days due to an expired SSL certificate

https://old.reddit.com/r/gfycat/comments/13kj3u7/has_gfycat_suddenly_gone_down_for_anyone_else/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Google blew it with open source layoffs

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3686511/google-blew-it-with-open-source-layoffs.html

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

Poverty Is the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the US, Research Shows

https://www.commondreams.org/news/poverty-4th-leading-cause-death

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 77 comments

Thales seizes control of ESA demonstration satellite in cybersecurity exercise

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/thales-seizes-control-esa-demonstration-satellite-first

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s surveillance machine

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/amazon-workers-surveillance/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 38 comments

OpenEPaperLink: Alternative Firmware for ZBS243-Based eInk Shelf Labels

https://github.com/jjwbruijn/OpenEPaperLink

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

https://www.generalist.com/briefing/where-do-great-ideas-come-from

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments
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