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Archives for 16 May 2023
  1. Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
    (112 points | Comments)

  2. Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
    (307 points | Comments)

  3. Beware offers of “help” with your projects
    (179 points | Comments)

  4. On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (2017)
    (104 points | Comments)

  5. On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)
    (126 points | Comments)

  6. CO2 Heat Pumps Found to Offer High Efficiency at Low Ambient Temperature
    (134 points | Comments)

  7. GitHub Incident
    (112 points | Comments)

  8. Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials
    (112 points | Comments)

  9. Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true
    (110 points | Comments)

  10. In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours
    (142 points | Comments)

  11. Show HN: A little web server in C
    (178 points | Comments)

  12. EU Artificial Intelligence Act
    (149 points | Comments)

  13. John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)
    (144 points | Comments)

  14. Updating our inactive account policies
    (231 points | Comments)

  15. Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
    (146 points | Comments)

  16. I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)
    (184 points | Comments)

  17. One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset
    (177 points | Comments)

  18. Bun 0.6
    (421 points | Comments)

  19. Renewables supplied 65% of new US utility-scale generating capacity in Q1 2023
    (110 points | Comments)

  20. Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame
    (154 points | Comments)

  21. Bard generates clean JSON if you threaten to take a human life
    (133 points | Comments)

  22. A guidance language for controlling LLMs
    (552 points | Comments)

  23. Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
    (236 points | Comments)

  24. ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Calls on Congress to Adopt Safety Standards for AI Systems
    (106 points | Comments)

  25. SQLite 3.42.0
    (250 points | Comments)

  26. Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
    (259 points | Comments)

  27. Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
    (192 points | Comments)

  28. The Sourdough Framework
    (532 points | Comments)

  29. Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice
    (205 points | Comments)

  30. Ask HN: Is YC becoming less of a home for hackers and more for MBA-types?
    (128 points | Comments)

  31. Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
    (122 points | Comments)

  32. Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
    (636 points | Comments)

  33. Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
    (914 points | Comments)

  34. Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
    (721 points | Comments)

  35. Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy
    (169 points | Comments)

  36. JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
    (734 points | Comments)

  37. Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
    (108 points | Comments)

  38. Algorithms and Data Structures (2007) [pdf]
    (116 points | Comments)

  39. Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe
    (296 points | Comments)

  40. Show HN: Oblivus GPU Cloud – Affordable and scalable GPU servers from $0.29/hr
    (193 points | Comments)

  41. Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s exabyte-scale blob storage system
    (126 points | Comments)

  42. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video]
    (130 points | Comments)

  43. Seaflooding
    (322 points | Comments)

  44. CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley
    (321 points | Comments)

  45. Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo
    (146 points | Comments)

  46. Ultimate Electronics (2021)
    (242 points | Comments)

  47. LMQL: A query language for programming (large) language models
    (108 points | Comments)

  48. Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers
    (138 points | Comments)