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April 12th, 2023 | Replacing friends with an LLM? Apr 13, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 12th, 2023.
(00:42): Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35536550
(01:53): Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668
(03:10): Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540154
(04:25): NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539280
(05:31): Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537813
(07:05): Hetzner Introduces ARM64 Cloud Servers
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540084
(08:52): New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35536612
(10:00): Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539057
(11:36): Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35541861
(12:55): Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535906

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Hacker News Recap | April 11th, 2023 Apr 12, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 11th, 2023.
(00:45): I worked at Google for -10 days
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525294
(02:22): Substack Notes Launched
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526768
(03:45): We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521704
(05:13): SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526846
(07:11): Anthropic's $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523859
(08:38): Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525222
(10:28): The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35527873
(11:53): Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532479
(13:23): People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524881
(15:10): Distributed Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525661

Hacker News Recap | April 10th, 2023 Apr 11, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 10th, 2023.
(00:36): Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
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(02:08): Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
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(04:01): rePalm
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(05:35): Effective Spaced Repetition
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(07:33): The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business
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(09:40): FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls
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(11:47): How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on my Car in 408 Days
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(13:59): Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
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(15:31): How To Get Started In Soldering
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(17:04): Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
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Hacker News Recap | April 9th, 2023 Apr 10, 2023

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 9th, 2023.
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00:42: The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
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02:10: From Deep to Long Learning?
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04:07: EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany
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06:22: This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting
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07:56: Perseus -- NextJS alternative in Rust
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09:55: Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
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11:41: Flatcar Container Linux
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13:30: Closing a stale SSH connection
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15:12: The first ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion
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16:53: RISC-V Bytes: Exploring a Custom ESP32 Bootloader
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