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Hacker News (May 2023)
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Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate
172 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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Reflected Diffusion Models
172 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos”
171 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona
171 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit
171 points • comment • may 22, 2023
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With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law
171 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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Kenny Log-Ins
171 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Large language models generate functional protein sequences across families
171 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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Sexual abuse tip-off site could be sharing data with Facebook
170 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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The long life of Apache httpd 2.4
170 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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Kissinger's killing fields
170 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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CRDT Benchmarks
170 points • comment • may 22, 2023
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Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request
170 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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A chiral aperiodic monotile
170 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers (2012) [video]
169 points • comment • may 12, 2023
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Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code
169 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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Show HN: GPT-JSON – Structured and typehinted GPT responses in Python
169 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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Rules of thumb for software development estimations
168 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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210k works in the Public Domain, searchable
168 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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Paragon Graphite is a Pegasus spyware clone used in the US
168 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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Beware offers of “help” with your projects
168 points • comment • may 16, 2023
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OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form
168 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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IRS can get financial info of third parties without notice to third parties [pdf]
168 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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RIP HTTP
168 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
167 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies
167 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences
167 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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TP–7 Field Recorder
167 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains
167 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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JavaScript state machines and statecharts
166 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes
166 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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A guide to closures in Rust
166 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
166 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything
165 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source
165 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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RasaGPT: First headless LLM chatbot built on top of Rasa, Langchain and FastAPI
165 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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T-Mobile Breached, Again
165 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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SR-71 pilot, photographer and storyteller Brian Shul dies at 75
165 points • comment • may 22, 2023
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Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (2019)
164 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC
164 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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The QR-code menu is being shown the door
164 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples
164 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast
164 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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DIY-Thermocam: A low-cost thermal imager based on the FLIR Lepton sensor
163 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird
163 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
163 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended
163 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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FTC says Ring employees illegally surveilled customers, failed to stop hackers
163 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings
163 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
163 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Dandelion Root Recipes
163 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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A mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky
163 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods
163 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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20 Years of Gentoo
162 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)
162 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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A few words on Ruby's type annotations state
162 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Bark: A transformer based text to audio system
162 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
162 points • comment • may 12, 2023
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He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon
162 points • comment • may 12, 2023
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LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay
162 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon
161 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
161 points • comment • may 21, 2023
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How the lemon was invented (2018)
161 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
161 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins
161 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy
161 points • comment • may 16, 2023
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US banking crisis: Warren Buffett says bosses should face ‘punishment’
160 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Neeva acquired by Snowflake
160 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Bcrypt at 25
160 points • comment • may 28, 2023
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Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)
160 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back
160 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks
160 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications
160 points • comment • may 28, 2023
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DIY Git in Python
159 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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Iguana: fast SIMD-optimized decompression
159 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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A digital payments revolution in India
159 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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Driving Compilers
159 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Angular v16
159 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street
159 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience
159 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3B in Profit
158 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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WebXR
158 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Mercury OS
158 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]
158 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
158 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding
157 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise
157 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work
157 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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In Erlang/OTP 27, +0.0 will no longer be exactly equal to -0.0
157 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Integrating Zig and SwiftUI
157 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes
157 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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New horror revealed in sargassum blob
157 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Google breaking European privacy law by hoarding personal data of job candidates
157 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Using computers more freely and safely
156 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
156 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)
156 points • comment • may 22, 2023
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CodeWeavers Now Controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust
156 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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The Maddest My Code Made Anyone
156 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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The Bronze Age has never looked stronger
156 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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AVX512 intrinsics for JDK’s Arrays.sort methods
156 points • comment • may 31, 2023