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

Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Rooms.xyz

https://rooms.xyz/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

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

3 years ago

We will be shutting down neeva.com

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

3 years ago

FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says

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

3 years ago

Using ChatGPT for home automation

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

3 years ago

Axle OS

https://axleos.com/

3 years ago

U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce

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

3 years ago

Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

The long life of Apache httpd 2.4

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

3 years ago

PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended

https://status.python.org

3 years ago

A digital payments revolution in India

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

3 years ago

Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture

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

3 years ago

Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Symbolics Lisp Machines Graphics Demo (1990) [video]

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

3 years ago

Building a Signal Analyzer with Modern Web Tech

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Apple-1 ELIZA chatbot vs. ChatGPT [video]

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

3 years ago

Martin Amis has died

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

3 years ago

Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

A rant on bus stops

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Solving Intermittent Cable Modem Issues

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Google blew it with open source layoffs

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

OpenEPaperLink: Alternative Firmware for ZBS243-Based eInk Shelf Labels

https://github.com/jjwbruijn/OpenEPaperLink

3 years ago

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

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

3 years ago

Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT

https://puzzlemoji.com/

3 years ago

Show HN: My affordable solution to costly workflow automation: Embed Workflow

https://embedworkflow.com/

3 years ago