top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-25

Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]

https://www.math.cmu.edu/~jmackey/151_128/bws_book.pdf

3 years ago

941 upvotes – 147 comments

Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drops-100-gigabytes-of-tesla-secrets-to-g-1850476542

3 years ago

588 upvotes – 602 comments

AI Canon

https://a16z.com/2023/05/25/ai-canon/

3 years ago

518 upvotes – 219 comments

How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset

https://lightning.ai/pages/blog/how-to-finetune-gpt-like-large-language-models-on-a-custom-dataset/

3 years ago

498 upvotes – 122 comments

Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835158

3 years ago

468 upvotes – 382 comments

War Is a Racket (1935)

https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket

3 years ago

383 upvotes – 534 comments

Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet

https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/24/municipal-internet-sb-152-repealed-colorado/

3 years ago

332 upvotes – 117 comments

Neanderthal Flute

https://www.nms.si:443/en/collections/highlights/343-Neanderthal-flute

3 years ago

329 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36070090

3 years ago

303 upvotes – 36 comments

Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023-05-25-raft.html

3 years ago

272 upvotes – 79 comments

Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages

https://deno.com/blog/v1.34

3 years ago

271 upvotes – 90 comments

Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/

3 years ago

255 upvotes – 119 comments

VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework

https://github.com/vanjs-org/van

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 204 comments

Cases where full scans are better than indexes

https://www.jefftk.com/p/you-dont-always-need-indexes

3 years ago

243 upvotes – 214 comments

Archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/09/medieval-books-manuscripts-discovered-romania/

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 69 comments

Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4

https://bit.kevinslin.com/p/leveraging-gpt-4-to-automate-the

3 years ago

206 upvotes – 92 comments

Alien was released 44 years ago today

https://twitter.com/ATRightMovies/status/1661664750273527810

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 203 comments

Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google

https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 153 comments

JJ: JSON Stream Editor

https://github.com/tidwall/jj

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 48 comments

Kissinger's killing fields

https://theintercept.com/series/henry-kissinger-killing-fields/

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 162 comments

Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/

3 years ago

167 upvotes – 170 comments

Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 211 comments

US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2310186/business-economy

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 181 comments

Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates

https://studyfinds.org/snacking-processed-foods-brain/

3 years ago

160 upvotes – 173 comments

New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65709834

3 years ago

159 upvotes – 72 comments

ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase

https://supabase.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins-support-postgres

3 years ago

155 upvotes – 32 comments

PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-beta-1-released-2643/

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 60 comments

Germany Falls into Recession

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/economy/germany-recession-q1-2023/index.html

3 years ago

147 upvotes – 193 comments

Jails on FreeBSD

https://ogris.de/howtos/freebsd-jails.html

3 years ago

143 upvotes – 114 comments

Hacker News in Slow Italian

https://hn.lingually.ai

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN

https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello.hnFollow

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 81 comments

The XY Problem (2014)

https://xyproblem.info/

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 95 comments

Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals

https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/05/animal-siblings.html

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

Chatbot Arena Leaderboard

https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-05-25-leaderboard/

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 39 comments

58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majority-of-americans-have-heard-of-chatgpt-but-few-have-tried-it-themselves/

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 65 comments

Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers

https://blog.replit.com/super-colliding-nix-stores

3 years ago

112 upvotes – 76 comments

IUP – Cross platform C GUI library

https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: What happened to fuzzy logic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36068677

3 years ago

107 upvotes – 75 comments

DARPA’s silent MHD magnetic drives for replacing naval propellers

https://www.naval-technology.com/features/darpa-silent-mhd-magnetic-drives-for-replacing-naval-propellers/

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 103 comments

New Playground: Memory Spy

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/05/25/new-playground--memory-spy/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 5 comments

The smartest slime [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GTIL7AECQ

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

JobRunr: A library for background processing in Java

https://www.jobrunr.io/en/

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

Curing brain tumors: blocking functions in cells with a docked molecule

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-major-brain-tumors-blocking-functions.html

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Framework Laptop 16

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-16

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-openai-gpt-chatbot-chatgpt-gpt4-1850471865

3 years ago

87 upvotes – 201 comments

The Birth of the Self

https://hudsonreview.com/?p=21100#.ZG551nbMKUk

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto

https://www.elliptic.co/blog/chinese-businesses-fueling-the-fentanyl-epidemic-receive-millions-in-cryptocurrency-payments

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 96 comments

Ethereum Ceremony – Add your randomness to prepare the way for EIP-4844

https://ceremony.ethereum.org

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/europes_biggest_council_faces_100m_erp_bill/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 94 comments

How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

Automating everything in a USB cable tester PCB design

https://www.jitx.com/blog/automating-everything-in-a-usb-cable-tester-pcb-design

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Appliku – Deployment PaaS for Python/Django

https://appliku.com/

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

SRI’s radioactive contamination treatment is now in its first-in-human trial

https://www.sri.com/story/sris-radioactive-contamination-treatment-is-now-in-its-first-in-human-trial/

3 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of longevity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069967

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 123 comments

Observable Plot 0.6.7 released: pointer interaction, tip mark

https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/1661814623962812416

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Tesla Model Y is now the world's best-selling car, first EV to do so

https://electrek.co/2023/05/25/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worlds-best-selling-car-first-ev-to-do-so/

3 years ago

65 upvotes – 1 comments

To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Psychiatric detentions rise in first year of 988 hotline

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/05/psychiatric-detentions-rise-988/

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 74 comments

Nvidia’s Blowout Forecast Sparks $260B AI Rally

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-24/nvidia-ignites-ai-related-stock-rally-after-blow-out-forecast

3 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Ford will add Tesla plug to its electric vehicles in surprising move

https://electrek.co/2023/05/25/ford-will-add-tesla-plug-to-its-electric-vehicles-in-surprising-move/

3 years ago

61 upvotes – 46 comments
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