Hacker News Recap

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26th, 2023.(00:36): Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia casesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083620(02:01): Paper Airplane DesignsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087442(03:27): 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 yearsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36088672(05:12): Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respondOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36081655(06:31): Times New BastardOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36088783(07:53): Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36085642(09:12): There oughta be a bullet time video boothOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087252(10:33): That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us somethingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082180(11:55): What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36088693(13:19): George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment campOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082642This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25th, 2023.(00:35): Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069847(02:01): AI CanonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36072268(03:24): Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news siteOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36075886(05:09): How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom DatasetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36068850(06:49): War Is a Racket (1935)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36074845(08:13): Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated pageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360(09:31): Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36068896(11:10): VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI frameworkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067983(12:50): Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internetOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36075801(14:19): Cases where full scans are better than indexesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36071397This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24th, 2023.(00:31): PyPI Was SubpoenaedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061407(02:02): Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36059247(03:29): Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate pageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36056376(05:02): The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drivesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061574(06:21): The tiny corp raised $5.1MOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175(08:07): A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppressOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36054182(09:31): Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Scalable Model ArchitectureOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36053662(11:00): Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36055826(12:31): Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36053592(14:17): Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36057183This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23rd, 2023.(00:29): FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a yearOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041059(02:03): Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USAOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044977(03:30): Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to UberOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36043322(05:08): Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management softwareOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36047861(06:34): How to start a Go project in 2023Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36046662(08:27): Ableton Push 3Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041432(10:02): Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36042732(11:28): Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warnsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044561(13:04): Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at GoogleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36048261(14:49): I Block AdsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36046293This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023.(00:36): Memory AllocationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029087(02:02): Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36028845(03:41): Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code,  models for 1000+ languagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36034211(05:16): Severance payments at Wikimedia FoundationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029115(06:49): Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029020(08:20): Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal itOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36034929(09:51): Breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying upOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36033151(11:19): Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36027522(13:05): Polar NightOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029032(14:25): Black holes might be defects in spacetimeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030959This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023.(00:33): Writing Python like it's RustOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018621(02:02): The end of the accounting searchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021197(03:42): GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36019580(05:15): Suspicious iOS KeePass ClientOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020196(06:40): Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalledOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020431(08:10): Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36017793(09:32): KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of RedisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018149(11:05): Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36019485(12:16): The bill of materials for the Apple headset leakedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020437(14:18): The Drakon LanguageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021495This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20th, 2023.(00:35): Don Knuth plays with ChatGPTOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012360(02:11): Rooms.xyzOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009430(03:52): People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop livingOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36010975(05:13): Writing summaries is more important than reading more booksOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011599(06:36): Neeva (search engine with a privacy and AI focus) is shutting downOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36013783(08:01): Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009667(09:34): U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009701(11:19): Using ChatGPT for home automationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36013571(12:47): WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011072(14:10): “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36014796This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19th, 2023.(00:33): Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal EngineOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36000631(02:10): Orb FarmOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35999835(03:16): Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, ddOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36000407(04:31): Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006423(05:51): FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002574(07:11): Migrating from SupabaseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36004925(08:48): Venture PredationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003096(10:20): Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35999438(12:03): PyTorch for WebGPUOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006626(13:38): Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003661This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16th, 2023.(00:32): ChatGPT app for iOSOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990552(02:00): Why is my dryer radioactive?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990858(03:39): User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985240(04:52): Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three daysOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986956(06:21): European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projectsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985590(07:58): Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringementOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991725(09:33): One million cancel broadband as living costs riseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984928(10:47): Where have all the hackers gone?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986270(12:23): Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in stdOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991684(13:49): The Great CPU StagnationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35989462This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16th, 2023.(00:31): Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35976743(01:46): Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new jobOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973882(03:17): The Staff Engineer's Path – Book ReviewOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35974845(04:44): Lately I've been using timers dailyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35972096(06:34): BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPTOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971677(07:42): Numbers every LLM developer should knowOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35978864(08:55): Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong wayOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975353(10:27): Advertise on DuckDuckGo SearchOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979712(11:58): Wizards of the Coast Raids YouTuber’s House to Take Back Magic CardsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35976557(13:28): Retro Computer MuseumOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35974080This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai