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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate

    172 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  2. Reflected Diffusion Models

    172 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  3. Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos”

    171 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  4. EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona

    171 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  5. iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit

    171 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  6. With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law

    171 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  7. Kenny Log-Ins

    171 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  8. Large language models generate functional protein sequences across families

    171 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  9. Sexual abuse tip-off site could be sharing data with Facebook

    170 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  10. The long life of Apache httpd 2.4

    170 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  11. Kissinger's killing fields

    170 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  12. CRDT Benchmarks

    170 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  13. Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request

    170 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  14. A chiral aperiodic monotile

    170 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  15. Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers (2012) [video]

    169 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  16. Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code

    169 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  17. Show HN: GPT-JSON – Structured and typehinted GPT responses in Python

    169 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  18. Rules of thumb for software development estimations

    168 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  19. 210k works in the Public Domain, searchable

    168 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  20. Paragon Graphite is a Pegasus spyware clone used in the US

    168 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  21. Beware offers of “help” with your projects

    168 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  22. OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form

    168 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  23. IRS can get financial info of third parties without notice to third parties [pdf]

    168 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  24. RIP HTTP

    168 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  25. Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)

    167 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  26. Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies

    167 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  27. Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences

    167 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  28. TP–7 Field Recorder

    167 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  29. Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains

    167 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  30. JavaScript state machines and statecharts

    166 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  31. Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes

    166 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  32. A guide to closures in Rust

    166 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  33. Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft

    166 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  34. Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything

    165 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  35. JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source

    165 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  36. RasaGPT: First headless LLM chatbot built on top of Rasa, Langchain and FastAPI

    165 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  37. T-Mobile Breached, Again

    165 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  38. SR-71 pilot, photographer and storyteller Brian Shul dies at 75

    165 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  39. Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (2019)

    164 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  40. Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC

    164 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  41. The QR-code menu is being shown the door

    164 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  42. Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples

    164 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  43. Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast

    164 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  44. DIY-Thermocam: A low-cost thermal imager based on the FLIR Lepton sensor

    163 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  45. The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird

    163 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  46. Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?

    163 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  47. PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended

    163 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  48. FTC says Ring employees illegally surveilled customers, failed to stop hackers

    163 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  49. Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings

    163 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  50. The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK

    163 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  51. Dandelion Root Recipes

    163 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  52. A mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky

    163 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  53. The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods

    163 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  54. 20 Years of Gentoo

    162 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  55. Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)

    162 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  56. A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

    162 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  57. Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

    162 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  58. After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit

    162 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  59. He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon

    162 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  60. LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    162 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  61. US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon

    161 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  62. TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language

    161 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  63. How the lemon was invented (2018)

    161 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  64. Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it

    161 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  65. Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins

    161 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  66. Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy

    161 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  67. US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’

    160 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  68. Neeva acquired by Snowflake

    160 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  69. Bcrypt at 25

    160 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  70. Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)

    160 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  71. Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back

    160 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  72. ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks

    160 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  73. Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications

    160 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  74. DIY Git in Python

    159 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  75. Iguana: fast SIMD-optimized decompression

    159 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  76. A digital payments revolution in India

    159 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  77. Driving Compilers

    159 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  78. Angular v16

    159 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  79. Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street

    159 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  80. Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience

    159 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  81. Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3B in Profit

    158 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  82. WebXR

    158 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  83. Mercury OS

    158 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  84. IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]

    158 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  85. Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

    158 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  86. Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding

    157 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  87. Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise

    157 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  88. Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

    157 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  89. In Erlang/OTP 27, +0.0 will no longer be exactly equal to -0.0

    157 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  90. Integrating Zig and SwiftUI

    157 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  91. Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes

    157 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  92. New horror revealed in sargassum blob

    157 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  93. Google breaking European privacy law by hoarding personal data of job candidates

    157 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  94. Using computers more freely and safely

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  95. Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

    156 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  96. Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)

    156 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  97. CodeWeavers Now Controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust

    156 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  98. The Maddest My Code Made Anyone

    156 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  99. The Bronze Age has never looked stronger

    156 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  100. AVX512 intrinsics for JDK’s Arrays.sort methods

    156 points • comment • may 31, 2023