top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-06

New models and developer products

https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday

2 years ago

GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts

2 years ago

Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

https://www.404media.co/bored-ape-yacht-club-conference-eye-pain-vision-loss-yuga-labs/

2 years ago

Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript

https://phuoc.ng/collection/html-dom/

2 years ago

The coolest robot I've ever built [video]

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

2 years ago

Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete

https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense

2 years ago

Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

https://github.com/kubero-dev/ladder

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38161369

2 years ago

The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-first-stable-release/

2 years ago

FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1721275669336707152

2 years ago

Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/11/2.html

2 years ago

Git rebase, what can go wrong

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/06/rebasing-what-can-go-wrong-/

2 years ago

USB-C cable with the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948486/usb-c-cables-marking-speed-power-delivery-elgato

2 years ago

milliForth

https://github.com/fuzzballcat/milliForth

2 years ago

Happy 20th Birthday to Inkscape

https://inkscape.gitlab.io/inkscape-docs/awesome-web-pages/20th_anniversary/#frame4804

2 years ago

Oh my poor business logic

https://rednafi.com/misc/oh_my_poor_business_logic/

2 years ago

Parkinson's patient able to walk 6km without problems after spinal implant

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/06/parkinsons-patient-able-to-walk-6km-without-problems-after-spinal-implant

2 years ago

Racket branch of Chez Scheme merging with mainline Chez Scheme

https://groups.google.com/g/chez-scheme/c/D7g6mIcYLNU

2 years ago

Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/QnfydsDj48o/m/8WadV0_dBQAJ

2 years ago

Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/11/06/wpa3/

2 years ago

Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862

2 years ago

Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness

https://practicalbetterments.com/create-a-shortcut-for-even-lower-phone-brightness/

2 years ago

Updates to the H2O.ai db-benchmark

https://duckdb.org/2023/11/03/db-benchmark-update.html

2 years ago

A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely

https://dtransposed.github.io/blog/2023/11/02/Remote-SWE/

2 years ago

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs

https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/

2 years ago

Nrsc5: Receive NRSC-5 digital radio stations using an RTL-SDR dongle

https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5

2 years ago

FPGA Dev Boards for $150 or Less

https://www.fpgajobs.com/blog/fpga-boards-under-150-dollars/

2 years ago

UHZ1: NASA telescopes discover record-breaking black hole

https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2023/uhz1/

2 years ago

A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends

https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/

2 years ago

Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-11-06/Arbitration_report

2 years ago

IBM Rebus

https://www.ibm.com/design/language/ibm-logos/rebus/

2 years ago

Building a Streaming Platform in Go for Postgres

https://blog.peerdb.io/building-a-streaming-platform-in-go-for-postgres

2 years ago

Cicada – Open-source cross-platform version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI

https://github.com/Cicada-Software/cicada

2 years ago

A linear algebra trick for computing Fibonacci numbers fast

https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/a-linear-algebra-trick-for-fibonacci-numbers

2 years ago

Show HN: LLaVaVision: An AI "Be My Eyes"-like web app with a llama.cpp backend

https://github.com/lxe/llavavision

2 years ago

Who's behind the SWAT USA reshipping service?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/whos-behind-the-swat-usa-reshipping-service/

2 years ago

Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?

https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/29/atlantis-minoan-civilisation-santorini/

2 years ago

XAI PromptIDE

https://x.ai/prompt-ide/

2 years ago

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oj5FSKsTt7o

2 years ago

OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote Livestream [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mJuUkhUzk

2 years ago

Kai Fu Lee's New AI Company: Yi-Open Source

https://www.01.ai/en

2 years ago

01-AI/Yi: A series of large language models trained from scratch

https://github.com/01-ai/Yi

2 years ago

Google Pays $21B for Search Monopoly: How "Free" Tech Markets Repress

https://tutanota.com/blog/google-search-monopoly

2 years ago

English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-11-06/Recent_research

2 years ago

OpenAI releases Whisper v3, new generation open source ASR model

https://github.com/openai/whisper

2 years ago

Debian discusses vendoring again (2021)

https://lwn.net/Articles/842319/

2 years ago

Strong evidence for new light isotope of nitrogen

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-strong-evidence-isotope-nitrogen.html

2 years ago

U.S. net saving as a percentage of gross national income

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W207RC1Q156SBEA

2 years ago

On letting go of spite

https://ewanvalentine.io/blog/on-letting-go-of-spite

2 years ago

Passive SSH Key Compromise via Lattices [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1711.pdf

2 years ago

My 1976 KIM-1

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/11/my-1976-kim-1.html

2 years ago

OpenChat: Advancing open-source language models with imperfect data

https://github.com/imoneoi/openchat

2 years ago

Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

2 years ago

Rising pay transparency causing an employer compensation information 'arms race'

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/06/rising-pay-transparency-is-causing-an-employer-information-arms-race.html

2 years ago

Men's Shed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_shed

2 years ago

Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/minimalist-affordances/

2 years ago

The five filters of the mass media

https://prruk.org/noam-chomsky-the-five-filters-of-the-mass-media-machine/

2 years ago

Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers (2019)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-binding-arbitration-game-rigged-against-customers

2 years ago

How Rust can facilitate new contributors while decreasing vulnerabilities [pdf]

https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/gradingcurve-secdev23.pdf

2 years ago

Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/

2 years ago

TCP-brutal: Congestion control algorithm that increase speed on packet lost

https://github.com/apernet/tcp-brutal

2 years ago

QUIK is a method for quantizing LLM post-training weights to 4 bit precision

https://github.com/IST-DASLab/QUIK

2 years ago

California wants to end Cupertino's tax deal with Apple

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/04/california-wants-to-end-cupertinos-tax-deal-with-apple

2 years ago

What are Transformer Models and how do they work? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaWMOYf4ri8

2 years ago

Technology holy wars are coordination problems (2020)

https://gwern.net/holy-war

2 years ago

Scientists deeply concerned with upcoming EU digital identity regulations

https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/cG88cptFdaDNyRr

2 years ago

MISRA C

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

2 years ago

Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bxdx/scientists-are-researching-a-device-that-can-induce-lucid-dreams-on-demand

2 years ago

The Future of Synapse and Dendrite

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrite/

2 years ago

Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/humans-have-two-noses-really/675823/

2 years ago

Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings, cash pile of $157B

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/04/berkshire-hathaway-brk-earnings-q3-2023.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you start a research based company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160079

2 years ago

Starlink achieves cash-flow breakeven, says SpaceX CEO Musk

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-starlink-has-achieved-breakeven-cash-flow-2023-11-02/

2 years ago