Hacker News recap for week 9/2023

From 27/2/2023 to 5/3/2023

Articles #

• Banning words won’t make the world more just 1312 comments in 2 discussions

• “Clean” code, horrible performance 2083 comments in 5 discussions

• Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs 670 comments in 2 discussions

• Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents 851 comments in 4 discussions

• Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief 642 comments in 2 discussions

• EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022) 2468 comments in 4 discussions

• Honestly, It's Probably the Phones 572 comments in 1 discussion

• OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit 1392 comments in 2 discussions

• Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments 3529 comments in 9 discussions

• Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks 523 comments in 1 discussion

• How to hire engineering talent without the BS 523 comments in 1 discussion

• U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs 469 comments in 1 discussion

• ARM64 Linux Workstation 573 comments in 3 discussions

• Amazon is closing its cashierless stores in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle 389 comments in 1 discussion

• What is the minimal possible UK address? 377 comments in 1 discussion

Ask HN #

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) 559 comments

• Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech? 421 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023) 370 comments

Tell HN #

• Tell HN: Be careful enabling Cloudflare features 19 comments

• Tell HN: YouTube red is increasing subscription price by 53% 6 comments

Projects #

• High-res image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain 155 comments in 1 discussion

• Fix Intel CPU Throttling on Linux 144 comments in 3 discussions

• Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model 126 comments in 1 discussion

• Minimum Viable Hugo 107 comments in 1 discussion

• Microsoft Kosmos-1: A Multimodal Large Language Model 102 comments in 1 discussion

• The extensible vi layer for Emacs 97 comments in 1 discussion

• A 'CSS reset' for TypeScript, improving types for common JavaScript API's 112 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git 87 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Procal: A simple Qt-based programming calculator 84 comments in 1 discussion

• Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD 114 comments in 3 discussions

Videos #

• Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement [video] 87 comments in 1 discussion

• The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike (2015) [video] 77 comments in 3 discussions

• We’re using our streets wrong [video] 47 comments in 1 discussion

• Oxide and Friends – Rack-scale Networking [audio] 45 comments in 1 discussion

• How to earn customers for life [video] 43 comments in 1 discussion

• Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem WSJ 159 comments in 3 discussions

• Zag Smalltalk [video] 15 comments in 1 discussion