Hacker News on Sunday, 9 April 2023

The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT(thesequence.substack.com)

699 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 425 comments

A TheSequence newsletter issue discussing how the leak of Meta's LLaMA model spurred a wave of open source ChatGPT alternatives.

From deep to long learning?(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

451 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 98 comments

Stanford Hazy Research blog post by Dan Fu, Michael Poli, and Chris Ré on their lab's work increasing sequence length in deep learning models.

EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany(economist.com)

426 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 262 comments

Economist article reporting that German regulators banned EY from taking on new audit clients, adding to the accountancy firm's other problems.

A Baby GPT(twitter.com)

396 points by tosh 3 years ago | 89 comments

Tweet by Andrej Karpathy showing a tiny GPT with two tokens and context length 3 viewed as a finite state Markov chain, explaining learned transition probabilities.

Sunset at the South Pole(brr.fyi)

281 points by calcifer 3 years ago | 63 comments

USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher handwriting(kutv.com)

225 points by gscott 3 years ago | 200 comments

Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla(bloomberg.com)

220 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 205 comments

Ideas That Changed My Life(perell.com)

214 points by carltheperson 3 years ago | 105 comments

PL/Rust 1.0: now a trusted language for Postgres(tcdi.github.io)

211 points by kiwicopple 3 years ago | 36 comments

Apple Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores from Unionizing(bloomberg.com)

199 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 73 comments

Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in intimidation scheme(nltimes.nl)

192 points by belter 3 years ago | 67 comments

Spherical tokamak achieves crucial plasma temperatures(eetimes.com)

190 points by rajnathani 3 years ago | 48 comments

Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust(framesurge.sh)

184 points by erlend_sh 3 years ago | 135 comments

UnicodePlots(github.com)

181 points by dunefox 3 years ago | 34 comments

We Need To Talk About Vercel(maxcountryman.com)

173 points by llambda 3 years ago | 73 comments

Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack(flipboard.social)

166 points by camjohnson26 3 years ago | 71 comments

Closing a stale SSH connection(davidisaksson.dev)

166 points by granddave 3 years ago | 66 comments

Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C(github.com)

164 points by rysertio 3 years ago | 62 comments

Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed displa(dmitry.gr)

162 points by dmitrygr 3 years ago | 41 comments

Two types of software engineers(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

162 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 117 comments

Advanced Linux Programming (2001)(mentorembedded.github.io)

160 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 37 comments

Flatcar Container Linux(flatcar.org)

158 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 59 comments

ArmorPaint and ArmorLab: open-source alternative to Adobe Substance(armorpaint.org)

153 points by lastdong 3 years ago | 20 comments

A CERN for Open Source Large-Scale AI(openpetition.eu)

148 points by galaxyLogic 3 years ago | 35 comments

The first game ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion(thehustle.co)

137 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 66 comments

India’s Tigers Bounce Back(nytimes.com)

137 points by gumby 3 years ago | 53 comments

What does a research grant pay for?(austinhenley.com)

125 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 86 comments

Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML community(github.com)

119 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 34 comments

I think faster than light travel is possible [video](backreaction.blogspot.com)

117 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 168 comments

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 is finally available for hobbyists(raymii.org)

116 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 36 comments

Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis(macleans.ca)

114 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 257 comments

The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun(newyorker.com)

113 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 15 comments

Modular Errors in Rust(sabrinajewson.org)

113 points by mplanchard 3 years ago | 22 comments

Who invented vector clocks?(decomposition.al)

110 points by rntz 3 years ago | 31 comments

Nam: Neural network emulator for guitar amplifiers(github.com)

109 points by tonybeltramelli 3 years ago | 20 comments

Digital collectibles on Instagram is winding down(help.instagram.com)

106 points by marban 3 years ago | 82 comments

Show HN: Supavisor – a Postgres connection pooler written in Elixir(github.com)

103 points by kiwicopple 3 years ago | 23 comments

68–95–99.7 Rule(en.wikipedia.org)

100 points by turrini 3 years ago | 19 comments

The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries(theatlantic.com)

99 points by mdp2021 3 years ago | 78 comments

REBL(docs.datomic.com)

97 points by tosh 3 years ago | 47 comments

Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station(hackaday.com)

96 points by lxm 3 years ago | 9 comments

New Mexico is losing a form of Spanish spoken nowhere else(nytimes.com)

95 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 77 comments

RISC-V Bytes: Exploring a Custom ESP32 Bootloader(danielmangum.com)

87 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 6 comments

Interview with Andrew Kelley (Zig Creator) (2021)(corecursive.com)

87 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 8 comments

Sailcargo(sailcargo.inc)

82 points by jmacd 3 years ago | 55 comments

Do Kwon converted illicit funds from LUNA to Bitcoin(cointelegraph.com)

82 points by solalf 3 years ago | 26 comments

‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein(theguardian.com)

81 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 94 comments

Laid-off tech workers choose stability over status(wsj.com)

80 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 97 comments

IRB's Built-In Measure (2021)(jemma.dev)

79 points by semiquaver 3 years ago | 7 comments

World’s last dedicated Meccano factory to close in France(theguardian.com)

78 points by vixen99 3 years ago | 95 comments

When do you need chain-of-thought prompting for ChatGPT?(arxiv.org)

75 points by belter 3 years ago | 16 comments

Getting the ^D(owengage.com)

74 points by signa11 3 years ago | 39 comments

Street fighting engineers vs. martial arts engineers(ravitejakanta.substack.com)

72 points by lazy_afternoons 3 years ago | 50 comments

Car exhaust filters fail to clean up ‘ultrafine’ air pollution(studyfinds.org)

71 points by rajnathani 3 years ago | 59 comments

NIST AI Risk Management Framework(nist.gov)

69 points by ftxbro 3 years ago | 36 comments

At Stanford law school, the dean takes a stand for free speech. will it work?(nytimes.com)

68 points by gnicholas 3 years ago | 60 comments

The One Thing I Can’t Stand About Teaching English in Japan (2019)(geekstravelinjapan.wordpress.com)

66 points by insightcheck 3 years ago | 52 comments

Mobile home park residents form co-ops to save their homes(mynorthwest.com)

65 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 36 comments

Inline in Rust (2021)(matklad.github.io)

62 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 2 comments

Irregular Expressions(tavianator.com)

61 points by signa11 3 years ago | 32 comments