top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-19

StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech

https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2

2 years ago

Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327017

2 years ago

Deep Learning Course

https://fleuret.org/dlc/

2 years ago

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence

2 years ago

HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder

https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?t=43311

2 years ago

datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated

2 years ago

Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy

https://zero-k.info/

2 years ago

Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/practical-tips-for-finetuning-llms

2 years ago

Awesome Engineering Games

https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games

2 years ago

Altman sought billions for AI chip venture before OpenAI ouster

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/altman-sought-billions-for-ai-chip-venture-before-openai-ouster

2 years ago

U.S. agency declares 21 species now extinct

https://www.pbsnc.org/blogs/science/us-agency-declares-21-species-now-extinct/

2 years ago

I will always prefer to work from home

https://shavingtheyak.com/2023/10/25/wfh-part1/

2 years ago

OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/openai-negotiations-to-reinstate-altman-hit-snag-over-board-role

2 years ago

Why I tend not to use content negotiation

https://htmx.org/essays/why-tend-not-to-use-content-negotiation/

2 years ago

Kyutai AI research lab with a $330M budget that will make everything open source

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/kyutai-is-an-french-ai-research-lab-with-a-330-million-budget-that-will-make-everything-open-source/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any comprehensive courses on Auth?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331501

2 years ago

Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock

https://shavingtheyak.com/2023/10/28/hashicorps-terraform-cloud-rum-pricing-sticker-shock/

2 years ago

From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/19/companies-lobbyists-fight-junk-fees/

2 years ago

Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247

2 years ago

Victor Mono Typeface

https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

2 years ago

Revenge bedtime procrastination

https://solvingprocrastination.com/revenge-bedtime-procrastination/

2 years ago

A Timeline of the OpenAI Board

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board

2 years ago

Persuasion through status rather than argument

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/how-dumb-ideas-capture-smart-and

2 years ago

Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters

https://github.com/erkyrath/infocom-zcode-terps

2 years ago

Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (2001)

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/should-i-replace-my-56k-modem-with-a-28-8k-modem.437516/

2 years ago

I cancelled my Replit subscription

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-i-cancelled-my-replit-subscription

2 years ago

Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty

https://opensource.net/governments-adopt-open-source-sovereignty/

2 years ago

Lindenmayer systems

https://vsekar.me/blog/log_coffee/chapter_0.html

2 years ago

The architecture of today's LLM applications

https://github.blog/2023-10-30-the-architecture-of-todays-llm-applications/

2 years ago

HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened

https://github.com/lee101/hidden-form-on-the-internet

2 years ago

Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-readies-vote-likely-presidential-election-thriller-2023-11-19/

2 years ago

A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe

https://twitter.com/faborio/status/1725631676309463137

2 years ago

Ninth Dedekind number found by two independent groups

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ninth-dedekind-number-found-by-two-independent-groups-20230801/

2 years ago

Gang crisis shaking Sweden

https://www.ft.com/content/79f0d181-bdae-4c81-a971-861ccd8d512c

2 years ago

Financial situation of the Matrix.org Foundation

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/571

2 years ago

The big TDD misunderstanding (2022)

https://linkedrecords.com/the-big-tdd-misunderstanding-8e22c2f1fc21?gi=61ce87d573e8

2 years ago

OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-trying-to-get-sam-altman-back-4b728049

2 years ago

Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1726055095341875545

2 years ago

A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/the-skylab-race-to-san-francisco-18074888.php

2 years ago

Rosalynn Carter has died

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/rosalynn-carter-former-first-lady-dies-rcna62862

2 years ago

The Myth of RAM (2014)

https://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html

2 years ago

Bootstrapping self awareness in GPT-4: Towards recursive self inquiry

https://thewaltersfile.substack.com/p/bootstrapping-self-awareness-in-gpt

2 years ago

Help HN: Google has blocked our entire domain for harmful programs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333127

2 years ago

Underage workers are training AI

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-data-labeling-children/

2 years ago

FSL: A License for the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/11/19/cathedral-and-bazaaar-licensing/

2 years ago

US ex-President Jimmy Carter's wife Rosalynn dies aged 96

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67467831

2 years ago

The Cassette-Tape Revolution

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-cassette-tape-revolution

2 years ago

The microtype package: Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection [pdf]

https://mirror.clientvps.com/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/microtype/microtype.pdf

2 years ago

Ex-IBM sales veteran sues for access to health benefits

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/19/ibm_sales_veteran_healthcare_lawsuit/

2 years ago

Songs of Syx: A city-builder with complex mechanics (2020)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/

2 years ago

Windows Refund Day – When Linux users demanded their money back (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk

2 years ago

No One Wants to Pay Anymore

https://medium.com/@johnmoyle/no-one-wants-to-pay-any-more-cd96c58010b3

2 years ago

More advertisers halt spending on X in growing backlash against Musk

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-x-advertisers.html

2 years ago

CUBOTino: A small, simple, 3D printed, inexpensive Rubik's Cube solver robot

https://github.com/AndreaFavero71/CUBOTino_base_version

2 years ago

French authorities label Vitamin D as endocrine disruptor

https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2023/11/17/french-authorities-label-vitamin-d-as-endocrine-disruptor

2 years ago

Rational Ritual: Why everyone needs to know what everyone knows (2020)

https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-ruffian-special-edition-book

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you keep going without burning out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38329657

2 years ago

Termux: Linux Applications on Android

https://lwn.net/Articles/936953/

2 years ago

How to Shuffle Songs? (2014)

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/

2 years ago

Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2 [pdf] (1994)

https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Books/Oberon2.pdf

2 years ago

Boeing 787 capable of carrying 300 passengers lands in Antarctica in world first

https://news.sky.com/story/boeing-787-plane-capable-of-carrying-300-passengers-lands-in-antarctica-in-world-first-13010950

2 years ago

A Tour of the Tektronix Ceramic CRT "Catacombs"

https://vintagetek.org/tour-crt-catacombs/

2 years ago

Yesterday, planet Earth took its first step over the 2.0 degrees Celsius barrier

https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1726229409756225765

2 years ago

The position of a watch influences accuracy (2020)

https://watchesbysjx.com/2020/02/positional-error-and-accuracy.html

2 years ago