Hacker News recap for week 8/2023

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

Articles #

• Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone 1108 comments in 2 discussions

• Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says 1696 comments in 4 discussions

• I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it 757 comments in 2 discussions

• Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 667 comments in 2 discussions

• Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls 579 comments in 1 discussion

• CheatGPT 512 comments in 1 discussion

• Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills 496 comments in 1 discussion

• My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account 468 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs 1157 comments in 3 discussions

• The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web 1458 comments in 4 discussions

• Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination 419 comments in 1 discussion

• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop 934 comments in 3 discussions

• The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee 402 comments in 1 discussion

• I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to 395 comments in 1 discussion

• My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021) 960 comments in 2 discussions

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? 322 comments

• Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal? 244 comments

• Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? 147 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Oops Upwork did it again 91 comments

• Tell HN: Uber sold my email address 28 comments

Projects #

• Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU 259 comments in 1 discussion

• Learn Vim (2021) 418 comments in 5 discussions

• Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files 198 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 174 comments in 4 discussions

• Show HN: Yobulk – Open-source CSV importer powered by GPT3 111 comments in 2 discussions

• Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9 92 comments in 1 discussion

• MINIX from Scratch 200 comments in 7 discussions

• WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults 90 comments in 1 discussion

• Relic: Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script) 103 comments in 2 discussions

Videos #

• 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video] 303 comments in 3 discussions

• Why the rate of single men in the US looking for dates has declined 121 comments in 1 discussion

• Wendelstein 7-X: 8 min Plasma with 1.3 GJ Energy Turnover [video] 32 comments in 1 discussion

• Game Made for VR on a $1 Processor? 26 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] 21 comments in 1 discussion

• Device corkscrews itself into the ground like a seed [video] 8 comments in 1 discussion