Hacker News recap for week 12/2023

From 20/3/2023 to 26/3/2023

Articles #

• ChatGPT Plugins 1296 comments in 6 discussions

• UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years 1162 comments in 2 discussions

• Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London 999 comments in 6 discussions

• Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts 2442 comments in 7 discussions

• Judge decides against Internet Archive 793 comments in 1 discussion

• GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview 1236 comments in 4 discussions

• I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney 683 comments in 1 discussion

• Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access 678 comments in 1 discussion

• Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK 638 comments in 3 discussions

• OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google 584 comments in 1 discussion

• Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos 659 comments in 3 discussions

• Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought 1011 comments in 6 discussions

• We updated our RSA SSH host key 772 comments in 9 discussions

• Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator 483 comments in 1 discussion

• Post-GPT Computing 481 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? 735 comments

• Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge? 725 comments

• Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis? 216 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools 199 comments

• Tell HN: Reddit removed i.reddit.com and reddit.com/.compact 84 comments

Releases #

• CADR Lisp Machine System Software 100 Released 6 comments in 1 discussion

• It’s Java 20 Release Day, Here’s What’s New

• Java Spring released 19 years ago 106 comments in 3 discussions

Projects #

• Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon 422 comments in 2 discussions

• LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models 156 comments in 1 discussion

• Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source 1068 comments in 7 discussions

• Open-source high-performance RISC-V processor 207 comments in 2 discussions

• RWKV RNN: Better than ChatGPT? 179 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON 168 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Finetune LLaMA-7B on commodity GPUs using your own text 98 comments in 1 discussion

• What we know about the Apple Neural Engine 107 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: Aquarium – AI Controlled Containers 97 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: The Shark Programming Language 94 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Louis Rossmann could sue John Deere for GPL violation [video] 191 comments in 1 discussion

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Lex Fridman Podcast [video] 97 comments in 2 discussions

• Adding an ISA Slot to a Modern Motherboard [video] 67 comments in 1 discussion

• Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (1986) [video] 52 comments in 1 discussion

• Linus Tech Tips channel hacked 44 comments in 1 discussion

• Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered [video] 30 comments in 2 discussions

• Low-Level C Programming – CSE 325 Lecture Videos 25 comments in 1 discussion