top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-18

Llama 2

https://ai.meta.com/llama/

3 years ago

Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?timerange=31536000&series=mozilla-central,3735773,1,13&series=mozilla-central,3412459,1,13

3 years ago

Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/refusing-to-teach-kids-math-will

3 years ago

Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

3 years ago

Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo

https://islamov.ai/stable-diffusion-webgpu/

3 years ago

Sweden Sans

https://identity.sweden.se/en/design-elements/typography

3 years ago

When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/07/12/when-open-becomes-opaque-the-changing-face-of-open-source-hardware-companies/

3 years ago

Human Shader

https://humanshader.com

3 years ago

Val, a high-level systems programming language

https://www.val-lang.dev/

3 years ago

A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme

3 years ago

A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/

3 years ago

Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w

3 years ago

The office is a theatre for work (2019)

https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/11/18/yes-and/

3 years ago

Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

3 years ago

The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/new-yorks-driver-owned-ride-hailing-app-is-putting-its-foot-on-the-accelera

3 years ago

Japanese words of Portuguese origin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_Portuguese_origin

3 years ago

Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam

https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7

3 years ago

Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774611

3 years ago

Payment systems while working at a pizza place

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/what-i-learned-about-payment-systems-while-working-at-a-pizza-place

3 years ago

Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/07/generative-ai-space-and-the-mental-imagery-of-alien-minds/

3 years ago

Voder Speech Synthesizer

https://griffin.moe/voder/

3 years ago

Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)

https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server

3 years ago

Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid

https://www.engadget.com/tesla-directors-agree-to-return-735-million-following-claims-they-were-massively-overpaid-105506056.html

3 years ago

Cython 3.0 Released

https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/changes.html

3 years ago

AutoChain, lightweight and testable alternative to LangChain

https://github.com/Forethought-Technologies/AutoChain

3 years ago

Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jul/18/accessing-llama-2/

3 years ago

Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2023/ten-years-of-go-good-bad-meh/

3 years ago

The businessmen broke Hollywood

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/hollywoods-cruel-strategy/674730/

3 years ago

How to write a great README

https://www.appsmith.com/blog/write-a-great-readme

3 years ago

Styling Flowcharts Using CSS

https://flowchart.fun/blog/post/styling-flowcharts-using-css

3 years ago

Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2023/07/18/citus-12-schema-based-sharding-for-postgres/

3 years ago

Kraken Technologies: How we organise our large Python monolith

https://blog.europython.eu/kraken-technologies-how-we-organize-our-very-large-pythonmonolith/

3 years ago

Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/teaching-programming-in-the-age-of-chatgpt/

3 years ago

Statistical Arbitrage – An Easy Walkthrough

https://dm13450.github.io/2023/07/15/Stat-Arb-Walkthrough.html

3 years ago

Nintendo 64 Test Cart ROM

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2023/07/nintendo-64-test-cart-rom/

3 years ago

fMRI-to-image with contrastive learning and diffusion priors

https://stability.ai/research/minds-eye

3 years ago

Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy, security, and speed

https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox

3 years ago

Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/342941-windows-11-collects-an-awful-lot-of-telemetry-about-your-pc

3 years ago

A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09871

3 years ago

10NES

https://fabiensanglard.net/10nes/index.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780295

3 years ago

Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5796524191121408

3 years ago

The HTML review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

https://thehtml.review/

3 years ago

Swig – Connect C/C++ programs with high-level programming languages

https://www.swig.org/

3 years ago

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/18/linux_desktop_debate/

3 years ago

Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave

https://www.radiomarine.org/mrhs-events

3 years ago

Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees

https://time.com/6294640/remote-work-winning/

3 years ago

It's easy to underprice your product (2009)

https://venturehacks.com/pricing

3 years ago

G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column

3 years ago

Qualcomm works with Meta to enable on-device AI applications using Llama 2

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/07/qualcomm-works-with-meta-to-enable-on-device-ai-applications-usi

3 years ago

I'm moving my projects off GitHub

https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/

3 years ago

Use multiple Git SSH identities on a single computer

https://github.com/InderdeepBajwa/gitid

3 years ago

Quantum physicists explained earth’s oscillating weather patterns

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quantum-physics-describes-earths-weather-patterns-20230718/

3 years ago

Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/18/apple-maps-winning-over-haters/

3 years ago

Yelp rebuilds corrupted Cassandra cluster using its data streaming architecture

https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/yelp-corrupted-cassandra-rebuild/

3 years ago

Data Parallel, Task Parallel, and Agent Actor Architectures

https://bytewax.io/blog/data-parallel-task-parallel-and-agent-actor-architectures

3 years ago

85% of AI Startups Will Be Out of Business in 3 Years, Major Investor Says

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/ai-85-pct-of-startups-will-be-out-of-business-in-3-years-major-investor-says

3 years ago

Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-laptop-16-pre-orders-are-now-open/33828

3 years ago

Britain Is a Developing Country

https://www.sambowman.co/p/britain-is-a-developing-country

3 years ago

Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code (2008)

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/

3 years ago

Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch

https://bgr.com/tech/threads-has-lost-half-of-its-daily-active-users-a-week-after-launch/

3 years ago

AI: Startup vs Incumbent Value (2022)

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/ai-startup-vs-incumbent-value

3 years ago

Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center (1973) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYiktO0D64

3 years ago

In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)

https://www.aier.org/article/in-the-asian-flu-of-1957-58-they-rejected-lockdowns/

3 years ago

Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy?

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/wilfrid-voynich-bookseller-revolutionary

3 years ago

What is a merge queue, and does your team need one?

https://graphite.dev/blog/what-is-a-merge-queue

3 years ago

A Girl Who Turns into Bone While Her Identical Twin Remains Healthy

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-07-18/the-enigma-of-the-girl-who-turns-into-bone-while-her-identical-twin-remains-healthy.html

3 years ago