top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-31

Infinite Craft

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

2 years ago

Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/

2 years ago

Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming-42-million-gb-of-data-per-day

2 years ago

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports

https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-online-rant-spurs-threat-to-supe-police-reports/

2 years ago

The Far Side – By Gary Larson

https://www.thefarside.com/

2 years ago

Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance

https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ceo-confirms-leak-of-new-open-source-ai-model-nearing-gpt-4-performance/

2 years ago

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/microsoft_edge_tabs/

2 years ago

I moved my blog from IPFS to a server

https://neimanslab.org/2024-01-31/why-i-moved-my-blog-ipfs-to-server.html

2 years ago

Sega AI

https://www.smspower.org/SegaAI/Index

2 years ago

23andMe's Fall

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/23andme-anne-wojcicki-healthcare-stock-913468f4

2 years ago

Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder

https://mitenmit.github.io/gpt/

2 years ago

Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite

https://github.com/dgllghr/stanchion

2 years ago

Macaroons Escalated Quickly

https://fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quickly/

2 years ago

MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device

https://blog.research.google/2024/01/mobilediffusion-rapid-text-to-image.html

2 years ago

Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews

https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews

2 years ago

I don't want anything your AI generates

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/i-dont-want-anything-your-ai-generates/

2 years ago

Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/activity_pub/

2 years ago

Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/adobe-gives-up-on-xd-after-figma-deal-collapse

2 years ago

Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator

https://mkremins.github.io/epitaph/

2 years ago

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

http://binvis.io/#/

2 years ago

LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge

https://llava-vl.github.io/blog/2024-01-30-llava-1-6/

2 years ago

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/comcast-to-stop-calling-entire-network-10g-as-name-is-ruled-misleading/

2 years ago

DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself

https://deepseekcoder.github.io/

2 years ago

Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings

https://www.science.org/content/article/citation-cartels-help-some-mathematicians-and-their-universities-climb-rankings

2 years ago

Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally

https://2mb.codes/~cmb/ollama-bot/

2 years ago

RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)

https://jepsen.io/analyses/ravendb-6.0.2

2 years ago

XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta

https://www.micahlerner.com/2024/01/23/xfaas-hyperscale-and-low-cost-serverless-functions-at-meta.html

2 years ago

Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins

https://moveit.substack.com/p/why-custom-gpts-are-better-than-plugins

2 years ago

Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph

https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree

2 years ago

Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)

http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/

2 years ago

Hearing aids slow cognitive decline in people at high risk

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/hearing-aids-slow-cognitive-decline-people-high-risk

2 years ago

Constructing a Four-Point Egg

https://dotat.at/@/2024-01-29-four-point-egg.html

2 years ago

Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-edge-chrome-data-update-windows/

2 years ago

Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

https://neovide.dev

2 years ago

Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu

https://github.com/kando-menu/kando

2 years ago

Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD

https://reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1aesrm3/dont_use_namecheap_for_the_fr_tld/

2 years ago

In Praise of Buttons

https://www.nubero.ch/blog/009/

2 years ago

Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app

https://github.com/msasikanth/twine

2 years ago

The Pentagon tried to hide that it bought Americans' data without a warrant

https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-data-purchases-wyden-letter/

2 years ago

Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-cellphone-starlink

2 years ago

Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/30/getting-fitter-can-reduce-prostate-cancer-risk-by-35-study-finds

2 years ago

Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/31/introducing-differ-a-new-tool-for-testing-and-validating-transformed-programs/

2 years ago

The Burial of William the Conqueror: A Comedy of Errors

http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-burial-of-william-conqueror-comedy.html

2 years ago

Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

https://openai.com/research/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation

2 years ago

FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/volt_typhoon_botnet/

2 years ago

There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless

https://gizmodo.com/more-proof-that-return-to-office-is-pointless-1851209231

2 years ago

The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)

http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html

2 years ago

Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/infomania

2 years ago

Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display

https://hardfault.life/p/big-seven-segment

2 years ago

Godot 4.3 Game Engine to Feature Native Wayland Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.3-Wayland-Support

2 years ago

Launch HN: Encord (YC W21) – Unit testing for computer vision models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205725

2 years ago

1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SFm1dS6myqq7psBKttP7CVYN4jO66lOp7ZMA829c_hc/edit

2 years ago

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-technica-used-in-malware-campaign-with-never-before-seen-obfuscation/

2 years ago

Spatial Computing

https://hypercritical.co/2024/01/30/spatial-computing

2 years ago

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/

2 years ago

Redeployment Part Three

https://brr.fyi/posts/redeployment-part-three

2 years ago

DNS over HTTPS is not what I thought

https://www.petefreitag.com/blog/dns-over-https/

2 years ago

Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents

https://www.engadget.com/japan-will-no-longer-require-floppy-disks-for-submitting-some-official-documents-212048844.html

2 years ago

Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game

https://www.arctic81.com

2 years ago

Give AI curiosity, and it will watch TV forever (2018)

https://qz.com/1366484/give-ai-curiosity-and-it-will-watch-tv-forever

2 years ago

RISC-V Assembler: Arithmetic

https://projectf.io/posts/riscv-arithmetic/

2 years ago

AWS is estimated to make $400M to $1B with the new IPv4 charge

https://www.border0.com/blogs/ipv4-surcharge---your-aws-bill-is-going-up-this-february

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203916

2 years ago

Rust, a Game Review (2019)

https://llogiq.github.io/2019/06/07/game.html

2 years ago

Eleven US states now get over half their electricity from renewables

https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/08/eleven-us-states-now-get-over-half-their-electricity-from-renewables/

2 years ago