top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-02

I'm betting on HTML

https://catskull.net/html.html

3 years ago

Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio

https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiocraft-musicgen-audiogen-encodec-generative-ai-audio/

3 years ago

Run Llama 2 uncensored locally

https://ollama.ai/blog/run-llama2-uncensored-locally

3 years ago

A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers

https://praveshkoirala.com/2023/06/13/a-non-mathematical-introduction-to-kalman-filters-for-programmers/

3 years ago

LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

https://twitter.com/lipez400/status/1686793608626663441

3 years ago

Electronic Structure of LK-99

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00676

3 years ago

The underground world of credit card network exploitation

https://chargebackstop.com/blog/card-networks-exploitation/

3 years ago

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)

https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff-from-people

3 years ago

Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/

3 years ago

Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals

https://www.ft.com/content/b9582d62-cc6f-4b76-b0f9-5b37cf15dce4

3 years ago

Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con

3 years ago

Stopping at 90%

https://austinhenley.com/blog/90percent.html

3 years ago

Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do

https://old.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/15gechw/apple_just_stole_hundreds_of_dollars_from_me/

3 years ago

Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-for-apple-silicon-macs/

3 years ago

If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch

https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/02/if-youre-involved-in-drug-development-and-have-first-hand-knowledge-of-the-fdas-torpor-get-in-touch/

3 years ago

Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI

https://www.prettypolly.app

3 years ago

How NAT traversal works (2020)

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

3 years ago

Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/microsoft-cloud-security-blasted-for-its-culture-of-toxic-obfuscation/

3 years ago

FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-652A1.txt

3 years ago

Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/quest/reality-labs-research-display-systems-siggraph-2023-butterscotch-varifocal-flamera/

3 years ago

Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/point-no-return-australians-fight-right-work-home-permanently-2023-08-01/

3 years ago

Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex

3 years ago

A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-beetle-gets-eaten-frog-it-forces-its-way-out-back-door-180975484/

3 years ago

Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)

https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/

3 years ago

Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing

https://aaronhertzmann.com/2020/04/19/lines-as-edges.html

3 years ago

Excuse me, is there a problem?

https://longform.asmartbear.com/problem/

3 years ago

The infamous coin toss

https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2023/07/28/the-infamous-coin-toss/

3 years ago

Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967159

3 years ago

New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/997141

3 years ago

If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?

https://daverupert.com/2023/07/why-not-webcomponents/

3 years ago

Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23817147/kenya-worldcoin-suspended-sam-altman-eyeball-scanning

3 years ago

Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970135

3 years ago

Universal Paperclips

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

3 years ago

VkFFT: Vulkan/CUDA/Hip/OpenCL/Level Zero/Metal Fast Fourier Transform Library

https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT

3 years ago

A collection of quant riddles with answers

https://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/

3 years ago

Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless

https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.html

3 years ago

CodeCov is now Open Source

https://about.codecov.io/blog/codecov-is-now-open-source/

3 years ago

EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera

https://exptv.org/

3 years ago

Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/internet-providers-that-won-fcc-grants-try-to-escape-broadband-commitments/

3 years ago

South America is living one of the climate extreme events

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1686485331539820545

3 years ago

Enu – 3D live coding, implemented in Nim

https://github.com/dsrw/enu

3 years ago

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/

3 years ago

IRS launches paperless processing initiative

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1666

3 years ago

Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data

https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-francesca-gino-fake-data-fraud-allegations-scholar-2023-7

3 years ago

Adtech is built on a privacy fault line

https://iapp.org/news/a/a-view-from-dc-adtech-is-built-on-a-privacy-fault-line/

3 years ago

Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

3 years ago

Earth Overshoot Day

https://www.overshootday.org/about/

3 years ago

Cookbook: Finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, privately

https://blog.skypilot.co/finetuning-llama2-operational-guide/

3 years ago

Reading SEC filings using LLMs

https://www.beatandraise.com/

3 years ago

ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-is-finally-separating-chrome-from-chromeos-for-easier-updates/

3 years ago

“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking creativity

https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/the-onion-founder-strategies-sparking-creativity/

3 years ago

Encyclopedia of Life

https://eol.org/

3 years ago

Steam on Linux Usage Spikes to Nearly 2% in July, More Than Apple macOS

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023

3 years ago

Jim Larkin, Backpage exec, has died

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/jim-larkin-backpage-exec-dies-by-suicide-a-week-before-his-trial/

3 years ago

Why Rust helps even if you have to use a lot of `unsafe`

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/unsafe/

3 years ago

Infinite Mac: Disks, CD-ROMs and custom instances

https://blog.persistent.info/2023/08/infinite-mac-cd-roms.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975021

3 years ago

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/

3 years ago

Tailwind and the death of web craftsmanship

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-craftsmanship/

3 years ago

On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise (1996) [pdf]

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf

3 years ago

Gut–brain axis study shows autism-associated molecular, microbial profiles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01361-0

3 years ago

Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter

https://vienna.earth/plate/russell/kafka-insurance-career

3 years ago

Purism wants Louis Rossman to Delete video exposing refund scam & delay tactic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk

3 years ago