top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-06

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641

3 years ago

1025 upvotes – 614 comments

GPT-4 API General Availability

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability

3 years ago

763 upvotes – 546 comments

Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won

https://airdisputes.com/air-france-denied-my-delay-compensation-so-i-challenged-them-and-won/

3 years ago

579 upvotes – 276 comments

Godot 4.1

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-1-is-here/

3 years ago

511 upvotes – 154 comments

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/

3 years ago

502 upvotes – 439 comments

Cloud Backed SQLite

https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

3 years ago

488 upvotes – 155 comments

Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

https://twitter.com/llanga/status/1676846870520291329

3 years ago

480 upvotes – 438 comments

{n} times faster than C

https://owen.cafe/posts/six-times-faster-than-c/

3 years ago

447 upvotes – 237 comments

LEGO Building Instructions

https://archive.org/details/lego-set-instructions

3 years ago

415 upvotes – 143 comments

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/judge-rules-white-house-pressured-social-networks-to-suppress-free-speech/

3 years ago

387 upvotes – 733 comments

Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

3 years ago

★ 54.5k TypeScript
344 upvotes – 214 comments

Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine

https://www.igalia.com/chats/ladybird

3 years ago

312 upvotes – 65 comments

Ban on recording without consent is unconstitutional, US court rules

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23867036-appeals-court-ruling-in-project-veritas-v-schmidt

3 years ago

311 upvotes – 270 comments

InternLM – new open source 7B LLM

https://github.com/InternLM/InternLM

3 years ago

★ 7.1k Python Apache-2.0
308 upvotes – 89 comments

Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]

https://podtail.com/podcast/future-tense-full-program-podcast/cory-doctorow-platform-capitalism-and-the-curse-of/

3 years ago

283 upvotes – 266 comments

Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself

https://blog.everstrike.io/wash-trading-gone-wrong-how-a-crypto-exchange-accidentally-obliterated-itself/

3 years ago

275 upvotes – 137 comments

Stop trying to make social networks succeed

https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html

3 years ago

273 upvotes – 215 comments

Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

https://www.threads.net/t/CuVjWxcJ22Z

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 343 comments

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 355 comments

Multi-Layered Calendars

https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/

3 years ago

249 upvotes – 51 comments

Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated from the World

https://www.timeextension.com/features/the-making-of-noctis-the-no-mans-sky-forerunner-whose-creator-retreated-from-the-world

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 41 comments

Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02486

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory

https://blogs.hn

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 57 comments

Sierra Creative Interpreter – Scripts

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 61 comments

AI for AWS Documentation

https://www.awsdocsgpt.com/

3 years ago

221 upvotes – 129 comments

AI agents that “self-reflect” perform better in changing environments

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-agents-self-reflect-perform-better-changing-environments

3 years ago

215 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Nvidia Keeps Winning

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise

3 years ago

212 upvotes – 277 comments

My Problem with the Four-Document Model

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/problems-with-the-4doc-model/

3 years ago

204 upvotes – 61 comments

Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote

https://twitter.com/StanfordGWU/status/1677048098080845824

3 years ago

198 upvotes – 181 comments

Threads profiles can't be deleted without removing your entire Instagram account

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23786029/instagram-threads-profiles-deleted-removing

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 2 comments

DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace (YC W15) for $111M in cash

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/digitalocean-acquires-paperspace-expand-ai-120000933.html

3 years ago

193 upvotes – 96 comments

/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs

https://uses.tech

3 years ago

183 upvotes – 77 comments

USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/tap-water-study-detects-pfas-forever-chemicals-across-us

3 years ago

182 upvotes – 169 comments

Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/partial-outage-on-30-june-2023/

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 75 comments

Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-tors-history-of-d-dos-attacks-strategy-for-mitigation/8145

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 98 comments

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/27109f01431939c8177d408d3c9848c3b46632cd.pdf

3 years ago

154 upvotes – 190 comments

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 99 comments

I want XAES-256-GCM/11

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/xaes-256-gcm-11/

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 100 comments

Demystifying Text Data with the Unstructured Python Library

https://saeedesmaili.com/demystifying-text-data-with-the-unstructured-python-library/

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 22 comments

Zink brings conformant OpenGL on Imagination GPUs

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/zink-on-imagination-gpus.html

3 years ago

137 upvotes – 30 comments

The case against self-closing tags in HTML

https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 158 comments

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth

https://apnews.com/article/global-record-breaking-heat-july-27069b5380117534d78f1f40a6edc7a0

3 years ago

132 upvotes – 171 comments

PlanetScale Scaler Pro

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-scaler-pro

3 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

Declarative Enhancement for HTML

https://twinspark.js.org/

3 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

More green spaces linked to slower biological aging

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/06/more-green-spaces-linked-to-slower-biological-aging/

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 61 comments

Please don't say just hello in chat

https://nohello.net/en/

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 126 comments

Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/health/pfas-nearly-half-us-tap-water-wellness/index.html

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 174 comments

A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/07/06/a-gigantic-landslide-shows-the-limit-to-how-high-mountains-can-grow

3 years ago

118 upvotes – 79 comments

Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276848586.html

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 96 comments

Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones

https://www.thedrive.com/news/rebels-are-disabling-waymo-cruise-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 147 comments

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6

https://blog.imaginationtech.com/imagination-gpus-now-support-opengl-4.6

3 years ago

110 upvotes – 82 comments

My small, no name company has lost its mind with AI

https://www.teamblind.com/post/My-small-no-name-company-has-completely-lost-its-mind-with-AI-nfqEDfSi

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 94 comments

Physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-physicists-generate-first-snapshots-fermion-pairs-0706

3 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours

https://www.threads.net/t/CuVxMmvLNsG

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Matcheroni, a tiny C++20 header library for building lexers/parsers

https://github.com/aappleby/Matcheroni

3 years ago

★ 211 C++ MIT
96 upvotes – 12 comments

Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/b978-0-12-814466-4.00015-x

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

https://www.threads.net/t/CuWGPjwrfq9

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 200 comments

Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs

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

3 years ago

86 upvotes – 129 comments

Earth entering ‘uncharted territory’ as heat records quickly shatter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/06/earth-record-heat-climate-extremes/

3 years ago

85 upvotes – 152 comments

Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”

https://uselessdevblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/03/responding-to-are-bugs-and-slow-delivery-ok-the-blog-post-that-ive-hated-the-most-ever/

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 124 comments

Show HN: Banger.show – Create colorful visuals for your songs in seconds

https://banger.show

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask HN: Stuck as a developer for 15 years. How to become a manager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614262

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 131 comments

LXD Moves into Canonical

https://lwn.net/Articles/937369/

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Facebook's Threads is so depressing

https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

For the sixth year, Algeria blocks internet to prevent cheating during exams

https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-blocks-internet-stop-cheating-during-final-exams

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 66 comments

StackRot (CVE-2023-3269): Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability

https://github.com/lrh2000/StackRot

3 years ago

★ 499 C
73 upvotes – 64 comments

Linux by Balenciaga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVD24fBI7g

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year

https://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/83770853308/update-single-fire-hydrant-nets-nyc-33000-a

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 95 comments

June’s record-smashing temperatures – in data

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02219-y

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 125 comments

France to Allow Police to Spy on People Through Phone Cameras

https://petapixel.com/2023/07/06/france-to-allow-police-to-spy-on-people-through-phone-cameras/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Paint Drip People

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments
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