A Reply to Josef PRůša (blog.thea.codes)
In 2017, developers competed for who could create worst volume control interface (twitter.com)
The Day Windows Died (thomasbandt.com)
Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment (github.com)
Windows Sandbox (learn.microsoft.com)
Optimizing Open Addressing (thenumb.at)
Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words (www.cnn.com)
Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees (hbr.org)
‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’ (english.elpais.com)
Dogme 95 (en.wikipedia.org)
Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS (cen.acs.org)
Work-from-home is the new normal in Canada (nationalpost.com)
Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine (english.nv.ua)
Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia (techcrunch.com)
Ryuichi Sakamoto has died (www.clashmusic.com)
‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’ (www.ft.com)
Thinking hard makes the brain tired (www.economist.com)
Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content (sitegpt.ai)
For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US (www.popsci.com)
A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader (boredreading.com)
PizzaGPT – ChatGPT clone accessible from Italy (www.pizzagpt.it)
UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k (infosec.exchange)
ISRO successfully lands a Reusable Launch Vehicle from a 4.5 km altitude. (www.thehindu.com)
Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military (americanmilitarynews.com)
The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility (www.nber.org)
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How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps (www.theverge.com)
XUL Layout has been removed from Firefox (crisal.io)
The Joy of Computer History Books (fabiensanglard.net)
MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention (www.youtube.com)
Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire (queue.acm.org)
SpaceX moves Starship to launch site, and liftoff could be just days away (arstechnica.com)
What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide (www.bloomberg.com)
Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence (2021) [pdf] (www.nber.org)
AI doomism is quickly becoming indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion (twitter.com)
SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy (interactive.satellitetoday.com)
Less than half of U.S. workers use all their vacation days (www.bloomberg.com)
NASA validates revolutionary propulsion design for deep space missions (www.nasa.gov)
Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan (www.bbc.co.uk)
APLcart – Find your way in APL (aplcart.info)
Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes (groups.google.com)
PC keyboard hides an interesting secret (linuxjedi.co.uk)
The Contradictions of Sam Altman (www.wsj.com)
Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum (finance.yahoo.com)
Use cookies from Chrome (CDP) in cURL without copy pasting (github.com)
Pizza rolls and the meaning of midcentury food (www.snackstack.net)
Erlang/OTP: Garbage Collector (medium.com)
The surprising roots of Japan's Indian curry (one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
F**k Teams (www.youtube.com)
France's Long Distance Trail (en.hexatrek.com)
Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative (www.cell.com)
Activision threatened, spied on workers amid union drive, U.S. agency says (www.reuters.com)
Why are movies so dark these days? (www.polygon.com)
Moving from Rust to C++ (raphlinus.github.io)
Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (www.exhypothesi.com)
NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules (www.theregister.com)
“Alexa, what is my WiFi password?” (dragon863.github.io)
Wine 8.5 (www.winehq.org)
A New Beginning for LifeHacker (lifehacker.com)
Coursemate, connect with other self learners (www.coursem8.com)
Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India (news.ycombinator.com)
Please delete 2M files to continue using your Google Drive account (old.reddit.com)
SSD as Long Term Storage Testing (htwingnut.com)
He who submits a resume has already lost (www.residentcontrarian.com)
ChatGPT simulates 1987 BBS System (sharegpt.com)
Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users (arstechnica.com)
DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data (digicamfinder.com)
Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities (bigthink.com)
Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton (www.youtube.com)
German police raid DDoS-friendly host FlyHosting (krebsonsecurity.com)
The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England (twitter.com)
The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta (iliana.fyi)
My quest to re-create Street Fighter’s long-lost pneumatic controls (arstechnica.com)
CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation (www.cbsnews.com)
A machine that bankrupted Mark Twain (www.todayifoundout.com)
Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now (github.com)
ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot (www.reasonfieldlab.com)
Heat pump sales outpaced gas furnace sales in the US in 2022 (electrek.co)
HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace (arxiv.org)
Police Relied on Clearview AI and Put the Wrong Person in Jail (www.nytimes.com)
GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help (finance.yahoo.com)
US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books (www.bloomberg.com)
Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO (techcrunch.com)
Exploring Neural Graphics Primitives (thenumb.at)
The Twitter Algorithm (blog.twitter.com)
Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine (github.com)
Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser? (simonwillison.net)
Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? (www.economist.com)
Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda (bitecode.substack.com)
Immutable Linux distributions (itsfoss.com)
Automatically enable or disable end-to-end encryption (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users (cloud.google.com)
Multi-Display Screen Sharing with CoScreen by Datadog (blog.coscreen.co)
Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had (www.dylanpaulus.com)
Janet for Mortals (janet.guide)
Pairing With GPT-4 (fly.io)
75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck (boilingsteam.com)
NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws (www.dailydot.com)
If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason (scottaaronson.blog)
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT (www.politico.eu)
Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode (spectrum.ieee.org)
Open-Source Webhooks Gateway for Platform Engineers (github.com)
Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21) (hardpivot.substack.com)
Nim 2.0.0 RC2 (nim-lang.org)
Italian Data Protection Authority Clamps Down ChatGPT (www.garanteprivacy.it)
Helix 23.03 (helix-editor.com)
Random Aerial Airport Views (randomairport.onrender.com)
RFdiffusion: Diffusion model generates protein backbones (github.com)
Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection (arstechnica.com)
Better World Books (www.betterworldbooks.com)
Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server (paper-chan.moe)
Finetuning LLMs on a Single GPU Using Gradient Accumulation (lightning.ai)
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects (simonwillison.net)
Cosine Implementation in C (github.com)
When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets (leonidasv.com)
Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul (www.nytimes.com)
BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance (arxiv.org)
One man’s quest to revive the great American vacuum tube (www.wired.com)
San Francisco schools banned kids from taking algebra in 8th grade (twitter.com)
Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search (github.com)
Tiny Tapeout: From idea to chip design in minutes! (tinytapeout.com)
Baseplate (YC W23) – Back end-as-a-service for LLM apps (news.ycombinator.com)
The Cambrian Period of AI (lachlangray.blot.im)
How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs (planetscale.com)
Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump (www.nytimes.com)
Noya (YC W23) – a new kind of design tool (news.ycombinator.com)
Gmail is killing independent email (www.igregious.com)
E3 Has Been Canceled (www.ign.com)
When Google paid websites to promote Firefox (leonidasv.com)
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out (www.theregister.com)
Vicuna: An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT quality (vicuna.lmsys.org)
A DNA ‘parasite’ may have fragmented our genes (www.quantamagazine.org)
Retool Database (retool.com)
My kids and I just played D&D with ChatGPT4 as the DM (obie.medium.com)
RoboPianist, a piano playing robot simulation in the browser (kevinzakka.github.io)
APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018) (medium.com)
YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI (yakgpt.vercel.app)
San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018) (www.deepstateblog.org)
Roku to cut 200 jobs in second round of layoffs (www.reuters.com)
Tailscale Funnel now available in beta (tailscale.com)
Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird (www.thesr71blackbird.com)
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks (aisnakeoil.substack.com)
Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience (acecreamu.substack.com)
Marvin – build AI functions that use an LLM as a runtime (github.com)
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children (scratch.mit.edu)
Google trained Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT (twitter.com)
The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained (snarfed.org)
There's something off about LED bulbs (nymag.com)
Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git (gut-cli.dev)
A Response to Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s “Incompetent but Nice” (blog.glyph.im)
The RWKV language model: An RNN with the advantages of a transformer (johanwind.github.io)
Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD (mastodon.social)
Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU (tutanota.com)
Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation (eig.org)
Messaging layer security: Secure and usable end-to-end encryption (www.ietf.org)
Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another (arstechnica.com)
50% of new NPM packages are spam (blog.sandworm.dev)
Yesterday I open sourced StratusGFX, a realtime 3D rendering engine (github.com)
The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok (www.vice.com)
Mirrorful – A developer-first way to implement designs faster (github.com)
AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover (www.wiz.io)
I wanted a beautiful computer and couldn't find one, so I made my own (www.mythic.computer)
How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021) (mitadmissions.org)
Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries (www.scientificamerican.com)
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down (time.com)
Problem Details for HTTP APIs (www.rfc-editor.org)
Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust (ohadravid.github.io)
Fireside Chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face (blog.eladgil.com)
Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county (www.newyorker.com)
go-nbd – A Pure Go NBD Server and Client (github.com)
TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video] (www.youtube.com)
I built an iMessage bot using Beeper (www.getclearspace.com)
Universal Speech Model (sites.research.google)
Type system of Fortnite's Verse language (brianmckenna.org)
Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos (boingboing.net)
Carl Braun on communicating like a grown-up (2016) (fs.blog)
Cerebras-GPT vs. LLaMA AI Model Performance Comparison (www.lunasec.io)
Gambas Almost Means BASIC (gambas.sourceforge.net)
Wat [video] (2012) (www.destroyallsoftware.com)
A VC bought the Flatiron Building and didn’t pay for it (hellgatenyc.com)
Rotten meat may have been a staple of Stone Age diets (www.sciencenews.org)
Incompetent but Nice (jacobian.org)
What we still don’t know about how A.I. is trained (www.newyorker.com)
Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
Original Prusa MK4 (www.prusa3d.com)
'Ultramassive' black hole discovered – bigger than the majority of galaxies (www.bbc.com)
Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)
Introduction to Autoencoders (www.pinecone.io)
Bing Chat now has ads (twitter.com)
Emergent Mind: AI News, Curated and Explained by AI (www.emergentmind.com)
The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere (jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
Blender 3.5 (www.blender.org)
Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust (github.com)
AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere (cloud.google.com)
Google finds more Android, iOS zero-days used to install spyware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
SBF’s Legal Defense Is Being Funded with Alameda Money He Gifted His Father (www.forbes.com)
A non-federated decentralized social protocol based on Git (github.com)
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket (www.oliverburkeman.com)
H26Forge: Exploiting Vulnerabilities in the H.264 Decoders of iOS, Firefox, VLC [pdf] (wrv.github.io)
Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond parody” stage (twitter.com)
Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin (kadekillary.work)
Tailwind CSS v3.3 (tailwindcss.com)
The age of average (www.alexmurrell.co.uk)
Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default (lwn.net)
Brainstorm questions not ideas (www.muledesign.com)
Interaction Nets, Combinators, and Calculus – HVM (zicklag.github.io)
New insights into why aspirin works so well (www.eurekalert.org)
Text2Video-Zero Code and Weights Released by Picsart AI Research (12G VRAM) (github.com)
Customizable, embeddable Chat GPT based on your own documents (libraria.dev)
The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks (spectrum.ieee.org)
Is Babylon 5 secretly the most influential TV show of the past 25 years? (2021) (www.techradar.com)
Open Flamingo – open framework to train multimodal LLMs (laion.ai)
UK sets up fake booter sites to muddy DDoS market (krebsonsecurity.com)
A fully open-source (Apache 2.0)implementation of llama (github.com)
TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4 (github.com)
LLMs and GPT: Some of my favorite learning materials (gist.github.com)
Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant (about.sourcegraph.com)
Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound (www.wsj.com)
Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division (www.wsj.com)
VPN Users Risk 20-Year Jail Sentences in the US Under New Restrict Act (beincrypto.com)
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$39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC (www.theverge.com)
Gpt4all: A chatbot trained on ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations based on LLaMa (github.com)
Rust Is a Scalable Language (matklad.github.io)
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter (futureoflife.org)
Senate Bill to Ban TikTok (www.congress.gov)
New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong (www.dolthub.com)
China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu (bnonews.com)
Microsoft's Software Is Malware (www.gnu.org)
Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Infinite Mac: Infinitemac.org (blog.persistent.info)
My4TH – A minimalistic FORTH computer with discrete CPU (mynor.org)
EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Own Chat Control Bill (mullvad.net)
Iceland long term visa for remote workers (island.is)
Quicker serverless Postgres connections (neon.tech)
Apple introduces Apple Pay Later (www.apple.com)
Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-Efficient, Large Language Models (www.cerebras.net)
Metal (YC W23) – Embeddings as a Service (news.ycombinator.com)
Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices (arstechnica.com)
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The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet (www.theverge.com)
Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)
Starbucks illegally withheld raises and tips from union workers, NLRB says (perfectunion.us)
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Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy (www.theverge.com)
Trigonometric Functions in CSS (web.dev)
Higher-Order Virtual Machine (HVM) (github.com)
The perils of polishing old Fortran libraries (fortran-lang.discourse.group)
Pirate Weather (pirateweather.net)
Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign (www.newyorker.com)
Alibaba to split into six separate groups in biggest shake-up (www.wsj.com)
GitHub slashes engineering team in India (techcrunch.com)
Your Code Might Not Need State (www.onsclom.net)
EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars (www.reuters.com)
You're making me buy a new phone (www.kooslooijesteijn.net)
Push notifications are now supported cross-browser (web.dev)
A brief history of APFS (Apple file system) in honour of its fifth birthday (eclecticlight.co)
Time-tracker that helps me with context switches and documentation (github.com)
After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on (www.mitchellrepublic.com)
Apple Music Classical (learn.applemusic.apple)
Parsing the .DS_Store File Format (2018) (0day.work)
Red Hat is 30 years old (www.redhat.com)
Defaulting on Single Page Applications (www.zachleat.com)
Little Snitch: PayPal has restricted our business account, threatens to close (twitter.com)
Wavelength (daringfireball.net)
Clearview AI used nearly 1M times by US police, it tells the BBC (www.bbc.com)
The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet (qz.com)
Procedural 3D mesh generation in a 64kB intro (www.ctrl-alt-test.fr)
Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country? (travel.stackexchange.com)
Regex.ai – AI-powered regular expression generator (regex.ai)
ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for text-annotation tasks (arxiv.org)
For the First Time, the Fed Is Losing Money (www.wsj.com)
The Prospect of an AI Winter (www.erichgrunewald.com)
The Diversity of Arabic Scripts (blogs.bl.uk)
Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for censorship, surveillance (dossier.substack.com)
Successful one-person online businesses? (news.ycombinator.com)
Apple Detection of Flashing Lights (github.com)
Soft-serve: A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line (github.com)
An insect that has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day (slate.com)
Kubernetes is hard (rcwz.pl)
The FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data (www.vice.com)
An ancient Indian Buddhist monk buried in Athens (greekreporter.com)
WebKit Features in Safari 16.4 (webkit.org)
An Open-Source Espresso (hackaday.com)
Disney Layoffs 7000 People (www.cnn.com)
Greenland ice sheet is close to a melting point of no return (news.agu.org)
Xstate: State machines and statecharts for the modern web (github.com)
Jsonnet – The Data Templating Language (jsonnet.org)
Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears (www.darkreading.com)
5M item limit for Google Drive: File unable to generate or upload due to 403 (issuetracker.google.com)
Rust's Golden Rule (steveklabnik.com)
Docker-compose.yml as a universal infrastructure interface (ergomake.dev)
Apple Passwords Deserve an App (cabel.com)
Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio (news.ycombinator.com)
Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood (cscaz.cansurround.com)
John Glenn’s $40 Camera Forced NASA to Rethink Space Missions (petapixel.com)
US CFTC Sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao (web3isgoinggreat.com)
Open AI is not Open – A browser extension (github.com)
Zig and Rust (matklad.github.io)
A Short 100-Question Diligence Checklist (www.thediff.co)
Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit (louwrentius.com)
OBS Studio Lands AV1 and HEVC RTMP Streaming Support (www.phoronix.com)
JSON for Linking Data (json-ld.org)
GitHub's Down (news.ycombinator.com)
Thoughts on Svelte (tyhopp.com)
The Vesuvius Challenge (scrollprize.org)
Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017) (bigthink.com)
The Odd Story of Factory-Downgraded 486s (2020) (x86.fr)
AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3 (www.infoq.com)
Zig Quirks (www.openmymind.net)
First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank (www.fdic.gov)
Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news (www.tomshardware.com)
Do large language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding? (drive.google.com)
Jailbreaking GPT3.5 Using GPT4 (github.com)
Dismantling a Crappy Malware Operation (mrbruh.com)
We need better support for SSH host certificates (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory (www.bloomberg.com)
The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies (mullvad.net)
The RIAA vs. Steve Jobs (weblog.rogueamoeba.com)
Ban 1+N in Django (suor.github.io)
BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4 (github.com)
Robot Learns to See in 30 Minutes (2022) (antonilo.github.io)
Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems (arxiv.org)