How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette (simonwillison.net)
Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell (news.ycombinator.com)
Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time (arxiv.org)
Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230 (arstechnica.com)
WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans (vpnoverview.com)
Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal (www.cell.com)
Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off? (news.ycombinator.com)
Wolfenstein 3D with a CGA Renderer (github.com)
MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop (news.ycombinator.com)
The 88x31 GIF Collection (cyber.dabamos.de)
Pomodoro Timer (pomofocus.io)
“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees (www.gsb.stanford.edu)
Git-SIM: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos (initialcommit.com)
Detect breaches with Canary credit cards (blog.thinkst.com)
The contagious visual blandness of Netflix (haleynahman.substack.com)
The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1k ‘Lost’ Varieties (www.atlasobscura.com)
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (www.bbc.com)
Prisma laying off 28% staff (www.prisma.io)
Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K (twitter.com)
Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight (www.nytimes.com)
Letter to Sundar Pichai [pdf] (www.tcifund.com)
Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless (github.com)
Best Layman's Book on Electricity (news.ycombinator.com)
AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law (heathermeeker.com)
ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut – Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voice Assistant (matemarschalko.medium.com)
Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics? (thegradient.pub)
The Schwarzschild Defence (www.nature.com)
AirJet – Solid-state chip for active device cooling (www.froresystems.com)
Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem (pradyunsg.me)
New AI edits images based on text instructions (github.com)
The McMurdo Webcams (www.usap.gov)
Google Fuchsia OS team affected by layoffs (9to5google.com)
TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation (www.economist.com)
The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (www.righto.com)
Names (joostjansen.me)
Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens (www.windowscentral.com)
A large network of fake Google Maps comments/reviews and fake businesses (www.google.com)
What Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? (practical.engineering)
ECC RAM should be a human right (dmitrybrant.com)
Great text based games to play? (news.ycombinator.com)
Amazon Smile Gets a Frown (seths.blog)
Information about a recent security incident at Mailchimp (mailchimp.com)
Offsec.tools – A vast collection of security tools (offsec.tools)
General technology for enabling AI capabilities with LLMs and Generative models (github.com)
ECC RAM should be a human right (dmitrybrant.com)
Amazon Smile Gets a Frown (seths.blog)
General technology for enabling AI capabilities with LLMs and Generative models (github.com)
How did Sam Altman fail upward so well? (news.ycombinator.com)
Official Warning: Bryan Kirk (Zero3K) (reactos.org)
Vikunja – The open-source, self-hostable to-do app (vikunja.io)
Quiet, ultrathin AirJet solid state active cooling chips could replace fans (www.cnx-software.com)
Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder? (eclecticlight.co)
VSCode Swift 1.0 (forums.swift.org)
What to do when you 've ruined your life (www.bigfeels.club)
An unexpected benefit of unit tests (matthewc.dev)
Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff (techcrunch.com)
Capital One axes 1k tech roles (www.theregister.com)
Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth (www.skyfi.com)
The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) (idlewords.com)
A Dump of the Raw Stadia Controller BT Firmware (github.com)
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs (www.theregister.com)
Direct Memory Access computing machine RP2040 (people.ece.cornell.edu)
My husband was right about DVDs (slate.com)
GNU Octave (octave.org)
US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A secret for 50 years (www.cnn.com)
iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync (tidbits.com)
Andromeda Invaders: A retro-style game written in HTML5, Canvas, and Web Audio (susam.net)
An instruction oddity in the ppc64 (PowerPC 64-bit) architecture (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases (www.nia.nih.gov)
Make Up a Guy (www.antipope.org)
The Page with No Code (danq.me)
Self-Soldering Circuits [video] (www.youtube.com)
Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats (www.science.org)
SSHD: Random boot time relinking, OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
You don't have to engage with people on the Internet (xeiaso.net)
Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020) (codersblock.com)
Twitter TOS Change (www.diffchecker.com)
Rust in 2023: Growing Up (smallcultfollowing.com)
GPT-3: Techniques to improve reliability (github.com)
Large Transformer Model Inference Optimization (lilianweng.github.io)
From bartending to managing cloud infrastructure (news.ycombinator.com)
Script Kit: cross-platform, scriptable, automatic shortcuts to everything (www.scriptkit.com)
New York got it wrong on cybersecurity and the right to repair (www.timesunion.com)
The Rise of Steel Part II (constructionphysics.substack.com)
Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment (summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com)
Microsoft held an invite-only concert for execs, 1 day before announcing layoffs (www.businessinsider.com)
IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free (www.irs.gov)
Ain't it funny how the knight moves? (www.funnyhowtheknightmoves.com)
ChatGPT is not all you need. A SOTA Review of large Generative AI models (arxiv.org)
Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars (www.science.org)
From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (interrupt.memfault.com)
🥺: the best sudo replacement (xeiaso.net)
Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after convicted of fraud (www.nbcnews.com)
Towards a Reproducible F-Droid (f-droid.org)
GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support (github.blog)
Job Hunting in 2022 (mhlakhani.com)
Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US (arstechnica.com)
The exploited labor behind artificial intelligence (2022) (www.noemamag.com)
NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design (www.energy.gov)
Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 (tapbots.com)
Google spam filter getting worse? (news.ycombinator.com)
Has anyone successfully started their career over in their 30s? (news.ycombinator.com)
Idris: A language for type-driven development (www.idris-lang.org)
Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996) (math.ucr.edu)
Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave (news.ycombinator.com)
Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript (github.com)
Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus (group-media.mercedes-benz.com)
Wayfair is laying off 1,750 workers (www.wsj.com)
Runlike: Given an existing Docker container, prints the command line to run it (github.com)
Amazon to Lay of 18k Workers (www.cnbc.com)
Deep Learning Tuning Playbook (github.com)
The State of the Awk (2020) (lwn.net)
Where are all the parties? (news.ycombinator.com)
Choosing a Postgres Primary Key (supabase.com)
Lights have been on at this school for a year because no one can turn them off (www.nbcnews.com)
Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files (seclists.org)
The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) (payne.org)
Wolf Incident Postmortem (www.jefftk.com)
ZeroSSL: XSS to session hijacking, stealing a private key (and password hash) (groups.google.com)
Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set us up for the future (blog.google)
The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880) (www.gutenberg.org)
I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year (thoughtsbyaashiq.bearblog.dev)
Ultibo – Bare-Metal Pascal for Raspberry Pi (ultibo.org)
Nuclear explosion impact on humans indoors (2022) (aip.scitation.org)
CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions (www.carsized.com)
Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods (2022) (arxiv.org)
T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37M accounts (www.reuters.com)
Formalising a new proof that the square root of two is irrational (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed poor people had cars (sites.psu.edu)
Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3) (zura.wiki)
Exploiting null-dereferences in the Linux kernel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps (maia.crimew.gay)
How to destroy a certificate authority in one month (cohost.org)
ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model (github.com)
Launch HN: Odigos (YC W23) – Instant distributed tracing for Kubernetes clusters (news.ycombinator.com)
Retool Mobile (retool.com)
Twitterrific Has Been Discontinued (blog.iconfactory.com)
DALL-E for Playlists (www.naturallanguageplaylist.com)
Lisa Source Code Release (computerhistory.org)
A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016) (github.com)
Stock Market Charts You Never Saw (papers.ssrn.com)
Telling your inner critic to chill (www.radiatedaily.com)
Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM (www.jabber.org)
Coinbase is a joke (product and support) (news.ycombinator.com)
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile (techcrunch.com)
Online pharmacies selling abortion pills send fingerprints to Google Analytics (www.propublica.org)
It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes (news.ycombinator.com)
AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022) (blog.metabrainz.org)
Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage (www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov)
Math books that made you significantly better at math? (news.ycombinator.com)
Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil (blest.co.jp)
A version control system based on rsync (jamsync.dev)
Pwned or Bot (www.troyhunt.com)
Scamp – A self-contained Forth computer (udamonic.com)
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Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Short, friendly base32 slugs from timestamps (brandur.org)
Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Generative AI and The Future of Work (maestroai.substack.com)
Pandoc 3.0 (pandoc.org)
What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) (milk.com)
Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious? (news.ycombinator.com)
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says (2021) (spectrum.ieee.org)
Coinbase halts operations in Japan (www.coinbase.com)
Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding (stan.bar)
GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data (geoserver.org)
Personas (about.gitlab.com)
New Norwegian land could emerge from the Atlantic Ocean (sciencenorway.no)
Facebook Container Extension (addons.mozilla.org)
GPT-3.5 and Wolfram Alpha via LangChain (huggingface.co)
Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (www.simplethread.com)
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Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss (www.theverge.com)
Unblob – extraction suite for 30+ file formats (github.com)
Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation (github.com)
Amazon Closing AmazonSmile (www.aboutamazon.com)
An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space (utcc.utoronto.ca)
HC-tree is an experimental high-concurrency database back end for SQLite (sqlite.org)
Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records (mkaic.substack.com)
Burn-out, daunting work, overstretched, and it's just too much (www.adama-platform.com)
My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character (tedgioia.substack.com)
QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation (github.com)
Explore Wikipedia's New Look (wikimediafoundation.org)
Screenshots as the Universal API (matt-rickard.com)
Salesforce, but for Dating (dateforce.app)
GPUs for Deep Learning in 2023 – An In-depth Analysis (timdettmers.com)
Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri (twitter.com)
A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human (twitter.com)
Bun v0.5 (bun.sh)
Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008) (paulgraham.com)
Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging (www.cell.com)
U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members (www.npr.org)
Bank of America just lost all Zelle transfers, for many customers (old.reddit.com)
Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages (blog.deckc.hair)
With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market? (news.ycombinator.com)
Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier (rauljordan.com)
Tar.pl – A tar creator and extractor in approx. 100 lines of Prolog (github.com)
Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf] (www.user.tu-berlin.de)
Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev (bitwarden.com)
Amazon set to begin new round of layoffs affecting over 18,000 people (www.cnbc.com)
ReactOS (reactos.org)
Apple HomePod 2nd Generation (www.apple.com)
Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism (tegowerk.eu)
Is a venture studio right for you? (steveblank.com)
Microsoft to lay off 10k workers (blogs.microsoft.com)
OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic (time.com)
Fast DataFrames for Ruby (github.com)
Glitching a microcontroller to unlock the bootloader (grazfather.github.io)
Hello, PNG (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
WebGL Fluid Simulation (paveldogreat.github.io)
Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act (github.com)
Create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you (2020) (www.swyx.io)
DensePose from WiFi (arxiv.org)
Thonny – Python IDE for new to programming (thonny.org)
A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution (www.economist.com)
Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI (summate.it)
Datasette is my data hammer (www.jeremiak.com)
Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT (scale.com)
Japanese manhole mass production process [video] (www.youtube.com)
In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying” (twitter.com)
Techwise, how did TikTok get so good? (news.ycombinator.com)
No Start Menu for You (randomascii.wordpress.com)
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The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020) (www.theverge.com)
LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability (github.com)
ChrysaLisp (github.com)
Common Lisp and Music Composition (ldbeth.sdf.org)
Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke' (www.vice.com)
Hyundai Head Unit Hacking (xakcop.com)
Tailscale bug allowed a person to share nodes from other tailnets without auth (tailscale.com)
The art of knowing when to quit (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
What’s going on in the world of extensions (blog.mozilla.org)
The Quest for a Dumber Phone (every.to)
Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] (www.youtube.com)
Apple offers $970 in trade-in value for $52,199 Mac Pro (twitter.com)
EV batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand as early as 2030 (www.nature.com)
A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure (www.qmul.ac.uk)
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UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks (www.texastribune.org)
Republicans to pass bill in House to end telework for federal employees (www.wusa9.com)
Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan (scholars-stage.org)
Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022) (mullvad.net)
Stadia Bluetooth Mode (stadia.google.com)
Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees (www.reuters.com)
Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before? (news.ycombinator.com)
Git Security Vulnerabilities Announced (github.blog)
Plus – Self Updating Screenshots (www.plusdocs.com)
UK lawmakers vote to jail tech execs who fail to protect kids online (arstechnica.com)
Flying High (2018) (nones-leonard.medium.com)
Gmail's spam filters have gone bonkers (news.ycombinator.com)
Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies (www.reuters.com)
Dijkstra Maps Visualized (www.roguebasin.com)
What interesting people are you following on Mastodon? (news.ycombinator.com)
GNU make 4.4 adds --shuffle to help find parallel build issues (trofi.github.io)
Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023 (carhenge.club)
Memory Safety Approaches Speed Up and Slow Down Development Velocity (verdagon.dev)
Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready (shopify.engineering)
New Mac Mini (www.apple.com)
The FBI Identified a Tor User (www.schneier.com)
We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques (tratt.net)
Byte Magazine 1975-1995 (worldradiohistory.com)
Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects? (news.ycombinator.com)
Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max (www.apple.com)
How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick (csvbase.com)
PHP in 2023 (stitcher.io)
Elliptic Curves: The Great Mystery (www.cantorsparadise.com)
Hubble finds black hole twisting captured star into donut shape (phys.org)
The hardest part of being a junior developer (rachsmith.com)
Why Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16TB Portable SSD Drives? (www.reviewgeek.com)
How my brother's iCloud account was stolen (7c0h.com)
Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs (milkyeggs.com)
Otterkit – COBOL compiler for .NET (github.com)
Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes (vento.so)
Conditional CSS (ishadeed.com)
Intel Core i9-13900T CPU benchmarks show faster than 12900K 125W performance (wccftech.com)
Pretty Good House (www.prettygoodhouse.org)
Major standard library changes in Go 1.20 (blog.carlmjohnson.net)
Rust vs. C++ Formatting (brevzin.github.io)
Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (beelineblogger.blogspot.com)
Quitting the rat race (seanbarry.dev)
Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows (www.forbes.com)
Apple won’t let you use an Apple TV unless you have another Apple device (twitter.com)
When to make the jump to freelance/consultant? (news.ycombinator.com)
Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future (knowablemagazine.org)
Making Lenses Practical in Java (chriskiehl.com)
GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used (every.to)
Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020 (en.wikipedia.org)
America’s trustbusters plan to curtail the use of non-compete clauses. Good (www.economist.com)
Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing? (godotengine.org)
Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content (github.com)
Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops (www.youtube.com)
Granian – a Rust HTTP server for Python applications (github.com)
Wasavi – Vi editor for any webpage (appsweets.net)
There’s no planet B (aeon.co)
Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune (github.com)
Servo to Advance in 2023 (servo.org)
IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source (www.theregister.com)
The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking them (shkspr.mobi)
Wobbly clock (somethingorotherwhatever.com)
How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly in Machine Learning Is Breaking (www.semianalysis.com)
The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget (kentnerburn.com)
Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation (store.steampowered.com)
The Art and Science of Spending Money (collabfund.com)
Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition (cprimozic.net)
The global health-care collapse (www.economist.com)
TensorFlow for Python is dying? (thenextweb.com)
Selfie – A tiny RISC-V C compiler, emulator and hypervisor (selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at)
Interactive Music Theory Cheat Sheet (muted.io)
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (twitter.com)
How to beat lag when developing a multiplayer RTS game (www.construct.net)
All API keys for TweetBot are disabled by Twitter, per developer (tapbots.social)
Windows 98 icons are great (2015) (alexmeub.com)
Repurposing old iPads as home security cameras (news.ycombinator.com)
Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account (news.ycombinator.com)
1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Supply Chain Attack Using PyPI Packages “Colorslib”, “Httpslib”, and “Libhttps” (www.fortinet.com)
Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) (www.fosslife.org)
DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS – 2023 Edition (www.instructables.com)
We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened (blog.alexewerlof.com)
What we know now about Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport (viewfromthewing.com)