Hacker News recap for week 8/2023

From 20/2/2023 to 26/2/2023

Articles #

• Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone 1127 comments in 2 discussions

• Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says 1808 comments in 4 discussions

• I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it 777 comments in 2 discussions

• Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls 640 comments in 1 discussion

• Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 679 comments in 2 discussions

• CheatGPT 513 comments in 1 discussion

• Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills 509 comments in 1 discussion

• Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination 498 comments in 1 discussion

• My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account 476 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs 1182 comments in 3 discussions

• The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web 1466 comments in 4 discussions

• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop 942 comments in 3 discussions

• The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee 410 comments in 1 discussion

• I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to 403 comments in 1 discussion

• The age of cargo cult Agile must end 402 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? 327 comments

• Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal? 251 comments

• Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? 162 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical 295 comments

• Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms 100 comments

Releases #

• Jitar v0.3 Released – Distributable Runtime for TypeScript and JavaScript 17 comments in 4 discussions

Projects #

• Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU 264 comments in 1 discussion

• Learn Vim (2021) 422 comments in 5 discussions

• Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files 200 comments in 3 discussions

• Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering 149 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server 196 comments in 5 discussions

• Show HN: Yobulk – Open-source CSV importer powered by GPT3 112 comments in 2 discussions

• MINIX from Scratch 205 comments in 8 discussions

• Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9 93 comments in 1 discussion

• Relic: Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script) 109 comments in 3 discussions

• WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults 92 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video] 266 comments in 2 discussions

• Why the rate of single men in the US looking for dates has declined 153 comments in 1 discussion

• Wendelstein 7-X: 8 min Plasma with 1.3 GJ Energy Turnover [video] 30 comments in 1 discussion

• Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor? 27 comments in 1 discussion

• How to Moor a British Rigid Airship: The Cardington Mast [video] 24 comments in 1 discussion

• How I learned to program a Commodore 64 in BASIC and compiled C (2020) [video] 22 comments in 1 discussion

• Dusk OS Demo 8 comments in 1 discussion