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Hacker News (Apr 2023)

  1. Web LLM runs the vicuna-7B LLM in the browser and it’s impressive

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  2. The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits

    53 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  3. CRISPR-Cas-amplified urinary biomarkers for cancer diagnostics

    53 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  4. Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’

    53 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  5. Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform

    53 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  6. I was bullied by a customer-focused, highest-market-value company

    53 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  7. Lawyers cough up $200k after health data stolen in Microsoft Exchange pillaging

    53 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  8. Roger Bacon (1214 – 1292) – Biography (2003)

    53 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  9. Why California is taking on caste-based discrimination

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  10. Looplets: A Language for Structured Coiteration

    53 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  11. Peru's Great Urban Experiment

    53 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  12. Show HN: TypeAPI – An OpenAPI alternative optimized for code generation

    53 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  13. Optional If Expressions

    53 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  14. Could the dodo come back from extinction?

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  15. This Month with Nim: March 2023

    53 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  16. Facing brutal climate math, US bets billions on direct air capture

    53 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  17. Windows ARM Dev Kit 2023

    53 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  18. The Origin of “Baum’s Loop” (2020)

    53 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  19. After All Is Said and Indexed – Unlocking Information in Recorded Speech

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  20. Dooble Web Browser

    53 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  21. The Unequal Impact of Parenthood in Academia (2021)

    53 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  22. Campanology

    52 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  23. Colosseum – A quick overview of the most powerful RF emulator

    52 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  24. Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed deal

    52 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  25. Mark Zuckerberg abandons metaverse as shiny new toy appears

    52 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  26. Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms

    52 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  27. Starlink was down because of expired certificate

    52 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  28. The Last Week in AI

    52 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  29. SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  30. PostgreSQL Row Level Security

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  31. Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes (2007)

    52 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  32. Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Stoned, and Abused in India

    52 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  33. Can we make bicycles sustainable again?

    52 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  34. Mario Is Moving Away from Mobile Games, Reveals Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto

    52 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  35. Zendesk created a fake band “Zendesk Alternative” that ranks first in SEO

    52 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  36. Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up

    52 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  37. Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  38. A Map of Places in the US with the Same Name

    52 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  39. The Origins of Creativity

    52 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  40. Roman architectural revolution

    52 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  41. Army researchers detect broadest frequencies ever with quantum receiver (2021)

    52 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  42. Twitter is now blocking Matt Taibbi from search results

    52 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  43. UgBASIC – An isomorphic BASIC language compiler for retrocomputers

    52 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  44. Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project Team Up to Release the Mullvad Browser

    52 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  45. Jumpstart: A recruitment startup flipping the job hunt on its head

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  46. Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software

    52 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  47. EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks

    51 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  48. Why is ‘juice jacking’ suddenly back in the news?

    51 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  49. Codecs for the 4K Era: HEVC, AV1, VVC and Beyond

    51 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  50. Meta's Reality Labs lost $3.99B last year, bringing total losses to $30B

    51 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  51. The Soul of an Old Machine

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  52. What follows from empirical software research?

    51 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  53. Dad says glitch in ‘Find My iPhone’ app directs angry strangers to his home

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  54. Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  55. A Kubernetes Operator in Rust

    51 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  56. Hyperspectral camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors

    51 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  57. Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors could be impossible to stop

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  58. Node.js – v20.0.0

    51 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  59. McDonald’s Shuts Corporate Offices Ahead of Layoffs

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  60. Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests

    51 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  61. Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal brings Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to smartphones

    51 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  62. Chocolate: Open-Source Media Manager

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  63. After the Lawn (2015)

    51 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  64. Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’

    51 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  65. XTS-210 25hp rotary engine; 1/5th size/weight of diesel piston engines

    51 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  66. Most Popular Programming Languages on GitHub by OSS Insight

    51 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  67. Why paid masterminds are mental masturbation

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  68. A colorful problem that has long frustrated mathematicians

    51 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  69. FAA selects sustainable design for new control towers at smaller airports

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  70. PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it?

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  71. Our Sun Was Born in a Stellar Family Far, Far from Here

    50 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  72. “Design choice was made by accounting and legal. Therefore, won’t fix” (2020)

    50 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  73. BPA-like chemicals seeps from labels to food

    50 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  74. Twitter claims that dead celebrities have subscribed to Twitter Blue

    50 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  75. If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance

    50 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  76. These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft

    50 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  77. Sandy Munro Talks Battery Battles, Calls Solid State “Kiss of Death” for Gas

    50 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  78. The Pornography Paradox

    50 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  79. Humanity is the reimagined 3D Lemmings we didn’t know we needed

    50 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  80. The curse of being good in IT

    50 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  81. Flame-Throwing Tractors Kill Weeds [video]

    50 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  82. SETI and Signal Leakage: Where Do Our Transmissions Go?

    50 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  83. Exploring the Gameboy Memory Bank Controller (2020)

    50 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  84. ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask

    50 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  85. The Paratethys Sea was the largest lake in Earth’s history

    50 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  86. In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use

    50 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  87. The Wealth Gap in Science: How Your Parents's Income Affects Your Career

    50 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  88. Tech Leaders Blamed San Francisco for Bob Lee’s Killing. Then Came the Arrest

    50 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  89. How the Good Friday Agreement created an ‘all-Ireland’ economy

    50 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  90. Cash App founder stabbed after allegedly drinking with suspect's sister

    50 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  91. An end to pop?

    50 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  92. Is there a canonical source for “the argument for AGI ruin” somewhere

    50 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  93. The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late (2019)

    50 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  94. U.S. Government Sold $216M of Seized Silk Road Bitcoin This Month

    50 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  95. Gold Heist Worth Millions at Toronto's Airport

    49 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  96. AWS S3 beginning to apply 2 security best practices all new buckets by default

    49 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  97. Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years

    49 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  98. Flexible membrane mirrors for large space-based telescopes

    49 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  99. Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore

    49 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  100. Show HN: CheekyKeys – A Face-Controlled Keyboard

    49 points • comment • apr 25, 2023