top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-25

OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

https://opentf.org/announcement

a year ago

1711 upvotes – 486 comments

Factorio: Space Age

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373

a year ago

1443 upvotes – 354 comments

Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B

https://www.phind.com/blog/code-llama-beats-gpt4

a year ago

813 upvotes – 285 comments

Web scraping for me, but not for thee

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-for-me-but-not-for-thee-guest-blog-post.htm

a year ago

582 upvotes – 152 comments

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06457-y

a year ago

498 upvotes – 220 comments

Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-the-ipad-only-dream/

a year ago

382 upvotes – 617 comments

How to drill your own water well

https://drillyourownwell.com/

a year ago

338 upvotes – 223 comments

Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency

https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-concurrency.html

a year ago

329 upvotes – 131 comments

The EU's war on behavioral advertising

https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/the-eu-war-on-behavioral-advertising

a year ago

309 upvotes – 405 comments

Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python

https://vmartin.fr/understanding-automatic-differentiation-in-30-lines-of-python.html

a year ago

308 upvotes – 45 comments

Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

https://www.os-js.org/

a year ago

284 upvotes – 180 comments

HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

a year ago

253 upvotes – 142 comments

Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/08/developer-rewrites-original-wipeout-from-abysmal-leaked-windows-source/

a year ago

250 upvotes – 76 comments

Apple supports right-to-repair bill

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hell-freezes-over-as-apple-supports-right-to-repair-bill/

a year ago

248 upvotes – 271 comments

CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

a year ago

231 upvotes – 73 comments

Fifth Circuit: Law enforcement doesn’t need warrants to search phones at border

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/25/fifth-circuit-says-law-enforcement-doesnt-need-warrants-to-search-phones-at-the-border/

a year ago

219 upvotes – 151 comments

Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide

https://resend.com/blog/email-authentication-a-developers-guide

a year ago

209 upvotes – 50 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler

https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/08/25/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-august-2023.html

a year ago

205 upvotes – 78 comments

UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water

https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/16/microplastic-pollution-plants-could-be-the-answer/

a year ago

194 upvotes – 112 comments

The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

a year ago

183 upvotes – 96 comments

Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/25/just-23-of-americans-know-the-u-s-has-failed-to-pass-an-internet-era-privacy-law/

a year ago

181 upvotes – 90 comments

Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step

https://htmx.org/essays/no-build-step/

a year ago

178 upvotes – 85 comments

Meta throttles 404media investigation on drug ads, continues to advertise drugs

https://www.404media.co/instagram-throttles-404-media-investigation-into-drug-ads-on-instagram-continues-to-let-people-advertise-drugs/

a year ago

174 upvotes – 95 comments

AI isn’t good enough

https://skventures.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-good-enough

a year ago

172 upvotes – 365 comments

A place where no humans will tread for 100k years

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230824-the-descent-to-the-worlds-first-waste-nuclear-fuel-storage-site

a year ago

165 upvotes – 212 comments

Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00927-x

a year ago

164 upvotes – 186 comments

Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/helicopter-footage-from-mass-arrest-reveals-state-trooper-surveillance-capabilities-tactics-and-communications/

a year ago

163 upvotes – 138 comments

Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

https://algoritmos-iii.github.io/assets/bibliografia/programming-as-theory-building.pdf

a year ago

162 upvotes – 36 comments

Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset

https://github.com/iamarunbrahma/finetuned-qlora-falcon7b-medical

a year ago

160 upvotes – 108 comments

Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

a year ago

155 upvotes – 39 comments

I cycled to all the villages in alphabetical order

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/16260.html

a year ago

148 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263473

a year ago

143 upvotes – 84 comments

50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity

https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/08/23/50tb-ibm-tape/

a year ago

143 upvotes – 173 comments

America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/08/05/america-is-building-chip-factories-now-to-find-the-workers

a year ago

139 upvotes – 274 comments

Improving sleep

https://vincelwt.com/sleep

a year ago

137 upvotes – 159 comments

How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview

https://scriv.ai/guides/retrieval-augmented-generation-overview/

a year ago

136 upvotes – 37 comments

Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/python-square-of-opposition/

a year ago

134 upvotes – 194 comments

Slime Molds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpt9cJrEZ_Y

a year ago

133 upvotes – 31 comments

The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html

a year ago

131 upvotes – 206 comments

None of us are truly living off the grid

https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-going-to-make-it/

a year ago

129 upvotes – 178 comments

Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10825

a year ago

128 upvotes – 59 comments

Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/paper-bamboo-straws-contain-pfas-forever-chemicals-rcna101614

a year ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life

https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/25/naked-mole-rats-longevity-gene-gives-mice-a-longer-life/

a year ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

Support ActivityPub for merge requests

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

a year ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

Untouchable number

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

a year ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Wavefont: A Typeface for Rendering Data

https://dy.github.io/wavefont/

a year ago

107 upvotes – 2 comments

Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu

https://stgraber.org/2023/08/24/stable-linux-mainline-builds/

a year ago

106 upvotes – 57 comments

Research group detects a quantum entanglement wave for the first time

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/research-group-detects-a-quantum-entanglement-wave-for-the-first-time-using-real-space-measurements

a year ago

103 upvotes – 13 comments

Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps-ai-chat-distractions-notion-roam-mem-obsidian

a year ago

102 upvotes – 87 comments

NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-shares-first-images-from-us-pollution-monitoring-instrument/

a year ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

How to Read an RFC (2018)

https://www.ietf.org/blog/how-read-rfc/

a year ago

100 upvotes – 7 comments

Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io

https://blog.phylum.io/rust-malware-staged-on-crates-io/

a year ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law

https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/

a year ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

LuaJIT uses rolling releases

https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/LuaJIT-uses-rolling-releases

a year ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

A new futex API

https://lwn.net/Articles/940944/

a year ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Huawei reportedly building 'secret' semiconductor fabs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/25/huawei_building_secret_fabs/

a year ago

90 upvotes – 67 comments

Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06391-z

a year ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

BASH Stack – Bash Awk Sed HTMX web framework

https://bashsta.cc/

a year ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments
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