Hacker News Recap

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April 22th, 2023 | Parrots use Zoom Apr 23, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 22th, 2023.
(00:41): The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35666598
(01:50): Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219
(03:02): Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664972
(04:18): Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668387
(05:39): Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668357
(06:37): Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667429
(08:07): Finetuning Large Language Models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35666201
(09:24): Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664586
(10:48): Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667714
(12:12): Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35670646

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April 21th, 2023 | Nuclear energy is the answer Apr 22, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 21th, 2023.
(00:36): CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35649935
(02:03): The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35655282
(03:15): GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657982
(04:41): Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35653867
(06:16): Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35650663
(07:31): Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35658318
(08:51): The weird world of Windows file paths
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35654574
(10:08): ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35652434
(11:20): Windows on Btrfs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660186
(12:44): Scaling Databases at Activision
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35655910

April 20th, 2023 | MDMA therapy anyone? Apr 21, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 20th, 2023.
(00:35): SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35640002
(01:41): Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638917
(03:00): Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639370
(04:07): Google Deepmind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643049
(05:36): Spinning Diagrams with CSS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35646199
(06:28): BuzzFeed News is shutting down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641448
(07:33): US could soon approve MDMA therapy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638362
(08:56): Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645624
(10:12): Bark – Text-prompted generative audio model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643219
(11:26): Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638899

April 19th, 2023 | Is social media linked mental illness? Apr 20, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 19th, 2023.
(00:41): StableLM: A new open-source language model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629127
(01:59): Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35627107
(03:19): An example of LLM prompting for programming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35626015
(04:45): Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35627779
(05:57): Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35626755
(07:25): ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35626312
(08:30): The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35630681
(09:34): Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635491
(10:58): How to make good small games
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35625543
(12:13): NaturalSpeech 2: Zero-shot speech and singing synthesizers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35627790

April 18th, 2023 | Netflix DVD service comes to an end after 25 years Apr 19, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 18th, 2023.
(00:39): Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313
(01:46): Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611923
(02:54): An example of LLM prompting for programming
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35612494
(04:21): Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619293
(05:24): Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614190
(06:40): Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615848
(07:45): A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613247
(09:10): Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619589
(10:21): Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35613594
(11:29): French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617773

April 17th, 2023 | Making friends as an adult is tough Apr 18, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 17th, 2023.
(00:43): MiniGPT-4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598281
(02:16): RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600860
(03:31): Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600087
(04:51): iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599315
(06:20): OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603756
(07:26): Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599181
(08:43): The Windows 11 Trash Party
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35607757
(10:06): You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965
(11:23): Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35597540
(12:51): AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603457

April 16th, 2023 | De-stressing Booking.com Apr 17, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 16th, 2023.
(00:45): De-Stressing Booking.com
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590734
(01:25): I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592847
(02:01): AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592607
(02:45): 'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595026
(03:31): Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem (RP2040 Microcontroller)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589172
(04:14): Why flying insects gather at artificial light
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592654
(04:52): FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179
(05:30): Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literature
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589756
(06:08): I liked this simple calculus exercise
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595808
(06:52): The fastest math typesetting library for the web
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588985

April 15th, 2023 | Google's internal chat deletion Apr 16, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 15th, 2023.
(00:37): Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35580847
(02:20): WebGPU Fundamentals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579334
(03:43): Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585174
(04:50): Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581532
(06:27): Dishwasher Salmon
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35586683
(07:41): OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35582417
(09:24): Hypervisor Development in Rust
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579876
(10:39): The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585117
(12:05): Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming language
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581768
(13:02): Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583349

April 14th, 2023 | TikTok's recommendation algorithm: Monolith Apr 15, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 14th, 2023.
(00:44): Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567026
(01:38): Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572290
(03:19): The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298
(04:30): Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35571481
(05:45): Replying to comments about our web page design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567285
(07:03): ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35574177
(08:38): What are transformer models and how do they work?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35576918
(10:06): Beyond automatic differentiation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35570742
(11:37): Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35570027
(12:48): Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTok
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573624

April 13th, 2023 | Bob Lee's alleged killer in custody Apr 14, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 13th, 2023.
(00:42): Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525
(01:54): YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553337
(03:14): The art of auto engineering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35552393
(04:32): Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554270
(05:56): We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551830
(07:20): Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559124
(08:58): Animated Drawings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561203
(10:03): Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554460
(11:09): Google has already pulled six products in 2023
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553421
(12:29): Nvidia RTX Remix Runtime Open Source Available Now
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35552378

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