Hacker News recap for week 10/2023

From 6/3/2023 to 12/3/2023

Articles #

• Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC 2792 comments in 4 discussions

• FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank 2207 comments in 6 discussions

• Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout 1410 comments in 1 discussion

• Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake 2211 comments in 4 discussions

• Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank 834 comments in 1 discussion

• French workers protest plan to increase retirement age 811 comments in 1 discussion

• Urgent: Sign the petition now 801 comments in 1 discussion

• React is holding me hostage 581 comments in 3 discussions

• Google Search Is Dying (2022) 500 comments in 1 discussion

• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms 573 comments in 2 discussions

• Reliability: It’s not great 461 comments in 3 discussions

• Twitter was down 442 comments in 1 discussion

• Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs 436 comments in 1 discussion

• Zero energy ready homes are coming 478 comments in 3 discussions

• Discord, or the Death of Lore 436 comments in 3 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of? 327 comments

• Ask HN: How is the SVB situation affecting your startup? 188 comments

• Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet? 172 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me 37 comments

• Tell HN: YouTube Shorts can no longer be dismissed from the front page 18 comments

Releases #

• JEP Pattern Matching for switch and Records planned for final release in Java 21 45 comments in 1 discussion

• Chrome 112 Beta Released with CSS Nesting, WebAssembly Tail Call

• Nim Version 1.6.12 Released 4 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support 286 comments in 2 discussions

• Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU 170 comments in 1 discussion

• A low latency guitar effects processor suitable for running on a Raspberry Pi 227 comments in 3 discussions

• RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust 690 comments in 13 discussions

• Secretive: Store SSH Keys in the Secure Enclave 246 comments in 4 discussions

• AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich Neovim config 183 comments in 5 discussions

• ChatGPT-Linux-Assistant 118 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Faster FastAPI with simdjson and io_uring on Linux 5.19 98 comments in 2 discussions

• Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022) 88 comments in 1 discussion

• Pgrok – Poor Man’s Ngrok 79 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical Subversion 176 comments in 1 discussion

• How Brompton Bicycle uses Raspberry Pi technology to improve production [video] 48 comments in 1 discussion

• I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video] 45 comments in 1 discussion

• Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics (1965) [video] 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Why π^π^π^π could be an integer (for all we know) [video] (2021) 15 comments in 2 discussions

• Some Cities Are More Doomed Than Others – Peter Thiel and Dave Rubin 11 comments in 1 discussion

• VFD Displays 5 comments in 1 discussion