Hacker News recap for week 11/2023

From 13/3/2023 to 19/3/2023

Articles #

• GPT-4 5700 comments in 7 discussions

• Meta plans to lay off 10k employees 831 comments in 1 discussion

• Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners 789 comments

• Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013) 757 comments in 1 discussion

• Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know 1375 comments in 7 discussions

• More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships 679 comments in 1 discussion

• Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems 654 comments in 1 discussion

• Leaving China 654 comments in 2 discussions

• We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data 603 comments in 1 discussion

• Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money 726 comments in 2 discussions

• Changes at YC 525 comments in 1 discussion

• Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros 514 comments in 1 discussion

• Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies? 509 comments in 1 discussion

• Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI 492 comments in 1 discussion

• SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole 4747 comments in 3 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you? 442 comments

• Ask HN: Any solo game developers here? 146 comments

• Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey? 113 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Chase shadow banned and closed my bank accounts 114 comments

• Tell HN: Instagram's API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green 82 comments

Releases #

• Python Insider: Python 3.12.0 alpha 6 released

• I've released JavaScript Assistant for VS Code (120 refactorings) as open source 2 comments in 1 discussion

• LLVM 16.0 Released with New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features

Projects #

• Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook 287 comments in 2 discussions

• GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code 207 comments in 1 discussion

• DreamWorks releases OpenMoonRay source code 160 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts 149 comments in 1 discussion

• Miller: Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON 190 comments in 5 discussions

• Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS 108 comments in 3 discussions

• Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table 85 comments in 2 discussions

• Verilog Ethernet: Work-in-Progress 100BASE-TX PHY 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT 65 comments in 1 discussion

• Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust 73 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us 564 comments in 3 discussions

• Live-caption glasses let deaf people read conversations [video] 176 comments in 1 discussion

• Magic the Gathering content creator pleas YouTube to stop scammer bot deluge 68 comments in 1 discussion

• Analyzing a failed drill bit with an electron microscope [video] 56 comments in 1 discussion

• Video Shows Russian Fighter Hitting USAF Drone 46 comments in 1 discussion

• Tearing down Apple's display opener [video] 103 comments in 2 discussions

• Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (1981) 19 comments in 1 discussion