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People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”
posted on Fri Dec 02 16:08:13 UTC 2022 by isp | view on HN
The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.
posted on Fri Dec 02 14:25:04 UTC 2022 by pyinstallwoes | view on HN
The article discusses how DNS over Wikipedia can be used to find the most up-to-date URL for a website, as Wikipedia is often more current than Google.
posted on Fri Dec 02 16:17:32 UTC 2022 by lairv | view on HN
The article discusses the new features of PyTorch 2.0, which include a faster performance, support for dynamic shapes, and support for distributed training.
Remotely unlock/start/locate/flash/honk any remotely connected Honda/Nissan
posted on Fri Dec 02 14:48:57 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN
The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.
Jeff Bezos' 127M sailing yacht has completed construction
posted on Fri Dec 02 15:50:15 UTC 2022 by giuliomagnifico | view on HN
The article is about the Oceanco Y721, a record-breaking sailing yacht that is the longest yacht to have been built in the Netherlands and the largest superyacht ever built at Oceanco.
The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bash
posted on Fri Dec 02 14:35:55 UTC 2022 by Un1corn | view on HN
The article discusses the author's reluctance to use shell scripts to install programs, as they are often complicated and can override existing files or change the user's shell without permission.
posted on Fri Dec 02 12:51:02 UTC 2022 by ibobev | view on HN
Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX
posted on Fri Dec 02 15:29:43 UTC 2022 by kalimanzaro | view on HN
The article discusses what is included in the FT.com trial and what will happen at the end of the trial period.
posted on Fri Dec 02 03:55:49 UTC 2022 by Thevet | view on HN
The baiji, a dolphin species native to China's Yangtze River, is thought to be the first dolphin species extinguished by humans.
Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market
posted on Fri Dec 02 10:25:16 UTC 2022 by joos3 | view on HN
In response to the ubiquity of smartphones, Japanese camera manufacturers Panasonic and Nikon are suspending development of entry-level point-and-shoot cameras and instead focusing resources on pricier mirrorless models.
posted on Fri Dec 02 13:25:17 UTC 2022 by wallflower | view on HN
The article discusses the new findings of the Homo naledi species and how they used fire.
Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staff Leave
posted on Fri Dec 02 13:30:36 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article is about the launch and eventual failure of Future, a tech publication from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
posted on Wed Nov 30 23:12:44 UTC 2022 by ezfe | view on HN
Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?
posted on Fri Dec 02 16:14:11 UTC 2022 by behnamoh | view on HN
BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff
posted on Fri Dec 02 01:22:05 UTC 2022 by lxm | view on HN
Lambda School, now Bloom Institute of Technology, is conducting massive layoffs, according to sources, which is expected to have impacted around 88 employees.
Emerge Tools (YC W21) Is Hiring a Rockstar Senior Mobile Engineer
posted on Fri Dec 02 12:00:16 UTC 2022 by jshchnz | view on HN
At Emerge, Senior Mobile Engineers are responsible for implementing low level measurement and tooling in iOS apps, while analyzing the best ways to improve upon common development patterns.
posted on Fri Dec 02 12:06:24 UTC 2022 by markonen | view on HN
The article is about the new traffic shaping feature in HAProxy 2.7 and how it works.
posted on Fri Dec 02 09:33:37 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN
The article discusses how the PHP programming language is full of abbreviations and how this is off-putting to British programmers.
Blitsort: A fast, in-place stable hybrid merge/quick sort
posted on Thu Dec 01 00:41:29 UTC 2022 by scandum | view on HN
Blitsort is an in-place rotate quick/merge sort based on quadsort and fluxsort. It is the fastest in-place stable sort written so far and is about 15-50% faster than octosort, which is a block merge sort.
Show HN: A Visual UI to Hacker News
posted on Fri Dec 02 13:14:03 UTC 2022 by breck | view on HN
Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Administrators
posted on Fri Dec 02 15:40:17 UTC 2022 by jseliger | view on HN
The article discusses how there are too many administrators at Harvard and how this is a problem.
posted on Fri Dec 02 13:34:19 UTC 2022 by signa11 | view on HN
The article discusses how to emit machine code into memory and execute it, with code snippets showing how to do this.
Ticketmaster's tech problem isn't a tech problem
posted on Fri Dec 02 14:43:28 UTC 2022 by passwordoops | view on HN
The article discusses how Ticketmaster's monopoly power led to their poor handling of Taylor Swift ticket sales, and how the Department of Justice Antitrust Division is investigating Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, for antitrust violations.
Tremc: Curses Interface for Transmission
posted on Wed Nov 30 16:16:36 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article describes the various features of the Tremc console client for the BitTorrent client Transmission, including how to install and use it.
Debunking CISC vs. RISC code density
posted on Fri Dec 02 13:28:05 UTC 2022 by mbitsnbites | view on HN
The article discusses how code density affects the performance of a CPU and debunks the misconception that CISC ISA:s yield better machine code density than RISC ISA:s.
Kinograph: Open-Source Film Digitization
posted on Thu Dec 01 12:27:04 UTC 2022 by bryanrasmussen | view on HN
Kinograph is a low-cost film scanner for 35mm and 16mm film reels that also shares its knowledge, skills, and resources to make film digitization accessible and affordable.
Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
posted on Fri Dec 02 05:13:34 UTC 2022 by thunderbong | view on HN
The article explains the reasons why the author chose Svelte over Vue 3 as the new front-end framework, including better retention ratio, typing experience, syntax, and compiling code without virtual DOM.
Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
posted on Thu Dec 01 18:41:58 UTC 2022 by kennytilton | view on HN
The article discusses how to use ClojureDart and Matrix to program Flutter apps, and provides instructions on how to get started.
posted on Thu Dec 01 22:15:44 UTC 2022 by bkudria | view on HN
This post explores the idea that designing component APIs to avoid ghosts can help make complex systems more modular.
Understanding Convolutions in Probability
posted on Thu Dec 01 17:59:15 UTC 2022 by CountBayesie | view on HN
A convolution is the way to determine the distribution of the sum of two random variables, which is useful because the distribution of the sum of two random variables is not usually the same as the distribution of each individual random variable.