top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-21

Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero

https://saveflipper.ca/

2 years ago

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/21/gemini-pro-video/

2 years ago

Gemma: New Open Models

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/

2 years ago

iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

2 years ago

ChatGPT went berserk

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-has-gone-berserk

2 years ago

AI behavior guardrails should be public

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1760360183945965853

2 years ago

Stop postponing things by embracing the mess

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/stop-postponing-things-by-embracing-the-mess

2 years ago

Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453402

2 years ago

Atuin – Magical shell history

https://atuin.sh

2 years ago

Useful Uses of cat

https://two-wrongs.com/useful-uses-of-cat

2 years ago

Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

https://pijul.org/

2 years ago

Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough

https://newatlas.com/energy/nuclear-reactor-weld-one-day/

2 years ago

Things I don't know about AI

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/things-i-dont-know-about-ai

2 years ago

Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy

2 years ago

Neural Network Diffusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13144

2 years ago

Go run

https://breadchris.com/blog/go-run/

2 years ago

Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460788

2 years ago

Data will not tell you what to do

https://mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/data-will-not-tell-you-what-to-do

2 years ago

XL: An Extensible Programming Language

https://xlr.sourceforge.io/

2 years ago

An introduction to the theory and practice of poker (2020)

https://hopkinspokercourse.com/

2 years ago

Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/21/adams

2 years ago

Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer

https://github.com/readysettech/readyset

2 years ago

Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)

https://www.pmichaud.com/toast/

2 years ago

GaussianObject: Just Taking Four Images to Get a High-Quality 3D Object

https://gaussianobject.github.io/

2 years ago

LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking

https://www.ejmastnak.com/tutorials/vim-latex/intro/

2 years ago

Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)

https://smallest.app/notesollama/

2 years ago

Moving a billion Postgres rows on a $100 budget

https://blog.peerdb.io/moving-a-billion-postgres-rows-on-a-100-budget

2 years ago

APL at Volvo

https://www.dyalog.com/case-studies/hercules.htm

2 years ago

Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance

https://sahanjournal.com/business-work/amazon-coffee-machine-camera-surveillance/

2 years ago

The code worked differently when the moon was full (2021)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-code-worked-differently-when-the-moon-was-full

2 years ago

Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

2 years ago

Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits

https://cbarrick.dev/posts/2024/02/19/tic-tac-toe

2 years ago

Remix Vite Is Now Stable

https://remix.run/blog/remix-vite-stable

2 years ago

Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on tips sent to teachers

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/21/insight-timer-meditation-app-store-rules/

2 years ago

Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/walmart-buying-tv-brand-vizio-for-its-ad-fueling-customer-data/

2 years ago

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/echr_backdoor_encryption/

2 years ago

Graphic Presentation (1939)

https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich

2 years ago

U.S. to invest billions to replace China-made cranes at nation's ports

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-to-invest-billions-to-replace-china-made-cranes-at-nations-ports-d451ef8f

2 years ago

Boeing ousts 737 MAX chief

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-ousts-head-of-737-max-program-reshuffles-leadership-team/

2 years ago

A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)

https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/beginners-guide-constant-time-cryptography.html

2 years ago

Game Programming Patterns (2014)

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

2 years ago

Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2011/parsing_the_solved_problem_that_isnt.html

2 years ago

Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?

https://raypatrick.xyz/blog/2023/11/24/would-von-brauns-mars-landers-have-worked/

2 years ago

100kHz to 6GHz 2 port USB based VNA

https://github.com/jankae/LibreVNA

2 years ago

The funding frenzy at Anthropic

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/technology/anthropic-funding-ai.html

2 years ago

Google Gemini try to generate image of Caucasians

https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1760093853430710557

2 years ago

Algebraic effects, ownership, and borrowing

https://antelang.org/blog/effects_ownership_and_borrowing/

2 years ago

Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

https://www.pge.com/en/accessibility/supported-browsers.html#tabs-281f6d0cf8-item-5d2127a6b9-tab

2 years ago

HuggingChat: Chat with Open Source Models

https://huggingface.co/chat/models

2 years ago

Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOFSllSc354

2 years ago

How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html

2 years ago

AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling

https://junzhan2000.github.io/AnyGPT.github.io/

2 years ago

So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS (2022)

https://becca.ooo/blog/so-you-want-to-ship-a-command-line-tool-for-macos/

2 years ago

John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/john-c-dvorak-on-intels-first-neural

2 years ago

The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/508

2 years ago

Scientists Developed a Tool to Reveal Who's at Risk of Burnout, and It's Free

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-developed-a-tool-to-reveal-whos-at-risk-of-burnout-and-its-free

2 years ago

BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bt-tower-is-to-be-turned-into-a-hotel-70413/

2 years ago

Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2024

2 years ago

Get unstuck from a creative rut

https://www.holloway.com/s/cd-three-exercises-for-getting-unstuck

2 years ago

First Framework Laptop 16 shipments and a $499 Framework Laptop

https://frame.work/blog/first-framework-laptop-16-shipments-and-a-499-framework

2 years ago

What is going on in Argentina?

https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/what-the-fuck-is-going-on-in-argentina

2 years ago

Use of decimal point is 1.5 centuries older than historians thought

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-decimal-centuries-older-historians-thought.html

2 years ago

ChatGPT is apparently going off the rails and no one can explain why

https://twitter.com/seanw_m/status/1760115118690509168

2 years ago

How smart do you have to be to get a degree?

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/education-isnt-what-it-used-to-be

2 years ago