Hacker News Recap

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Apr 18, 2023 • 15min

April 17th, 2023 | Making friends as an adult is tough

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 17th, 2023.(00:43): MiniGPT-4Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598281(02:16): RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly licenseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600860(03:31): Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engineOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600087(04:51): iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhoneOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599315(06:20): OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already overOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603756(07:26): Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So WrongOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599181(08:43): The Windows 11 Trash PartyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35607757(10:06): You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hardOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965(11:23): Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first timeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35597540(12:51): AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603457This 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
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Apr 17, 2023 • 8min

April 16th, 2023 | De-stressing Booking.com

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 16th, 2023.(00:45): De-Stressing Booking.comOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590734(01:25): I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dogOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592847(02:01): AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592607(02:45): 'Algebra for none' fails in San FranciscoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595026(03:31): Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem (RP2040 Microcontroller)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589172(04:14): Why flying insects gather at artificial lightOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592654(04:52): FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in ChromeOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179(05:30): Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literatureOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589756(06:08): I liked this simple calculus exerciseOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595808(06:52): The fastest math typesetting library for the webOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588985This 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
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Apr 16, 2023 • 15min

April 15th, 2023 | Google's internal chat deletion

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 15th, 2023.(00:37): Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35580847(02:20): WebGPU FundamentalsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579334(03:43): Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585174(04:50): Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581532(06:27): Dishwasher SalmonOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35586683(07:41): OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model AlignmentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35582417(09:24): Hypervisor Development in RustOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579876(10:39): The Red Hat model only worked for Red HatOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585117(12:05): Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming languageOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581768(13:02): Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language ModelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583349This 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
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Apr 15, 2023 • 14min

April 14th, 2023 | TikTok's recommendation algorithm: Monolith

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 14th, 2023.(00:44): Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567026(01:38): Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572290(03:19): The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocketOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298(04:30): Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in caveOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35571481(05:45): Replying to comments about our web page designOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567285(07:03): ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moonsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35574177(08:38): What are transformer models and how do they work?Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35576918(10:06): Beyond automatic differentiationOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35570742(11:37): Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of ROriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35570027(12:48): Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTokOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573624This 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
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Apr 14, 2023 • 14min

April 13th, 2023 | Bob Lee's alleged killer in custody

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 13th, 2023.(00:42): Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in techOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525(01:54): YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized CensorshipOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553337(03:14): The art of auto engineeringOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35552393(04:32): Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554270(05:56): We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551830(07:20): Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open sourceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559124(08:58): Animated DrawingsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561203(10:03): Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally AvailableOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554460(11:09): Google has already pulled six products in 2023Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553421(12:29): Nvidia RTX Remix Runtime Open Source Available NowOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35552378This 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
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Apr 13, 2023 • 15min

April 12th, 2023 | Replacing friends with an LLM?

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 12th, 2023.(00:42): Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35536550(01:53): Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668(03:10): Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messagesOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540154(04:25): NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539280(05:31): Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at MetaOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537813(07:05): Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud ServersOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540084(08:52): New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of BibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35536612(10:00): Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC designOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539057(11:36): Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35541861(12:55): Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of ConcurrencyOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535906This 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
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Apr 12, 2023 • 17min

Hacker News Recap | April 11th, 2023

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 11th, 2023.(00:45): I worked at Google for -10 daysOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525294(02:22): Substack Notes LaunchedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526768(03:45): We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossibleOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521704(05:13): SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres QueueOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526846(07:11): Anthropic's $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523859(08:38): Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno FunctionsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525222(10:28): The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain PensOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35527873(11:53): Colorado passes agricultural Right to RepairOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532479(13:23): People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional systemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524881(15:10): Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and LivebookOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525661This 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
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Apr 11, 2023 • 18min

Hacker News Recap | April 10th, 2023

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 10th, 2023.(00:36): Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%Original post(02:08): Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source Original post(04:01): rePalmOriginal post(05:35): Effective Spaced RepetitionOriginal post(07:33): The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for businessOriginal post(09:40): FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controlsOriginal post(11:47): How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on my Car in 408 DaysOriginal post(13:59): Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented languageOriginal post(15:31): How To Get Started In SolderingOriginal post(17:04): Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has diedOriginal postThis 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
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Apr 10, 2023 • 19min

Hacker News Recap | April 9th, 2023

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 9th, 2023. Show notes:00:42: The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPTOriginal post02:10: From Deep to Long Learning?Original post04:07: EY gets banned from new audit business in GermanyOriginal post06:22: This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwritingOriginal post07:56: Perseus -- NextJS alternative in RustOriginal post09:55: Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in COriginal post11:41: Flatcar Container LinuxOriginal post13:30: Closing a stale SSH connectionOriginal post15:12: The first ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellionOriginal post16:53: RISC-V Bytes: Exploring a Custom ESP32 BootloaderOriginal postThis 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

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