Hacker News on Friday, 14 April 2023

Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)(elbruz.org)

598 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 242 comments

A geography trivia page listing record islands and lakes, culminating in the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

424 points by max_ 3 years ago | 407 comments

Ask HN thread asking people with side projects earning over $2k monthly what they built and how long it took to reach that revenue.

Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen?(simonwillison.net)

405 points by simonw 3 years ago | 182 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining prompt injection vulnerabilities in LLM-based applications and the potential harms they can cause.

The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket(arstechnica.com)

355 points by ChickeNES 3 years ago | 61 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FAA granted SpaceX a launch license for the first orbital Starship test flight.

Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave(cbc.ca)

310 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 210 comments

Temporal quality degradation in AI models(nannyml.com)

306 points by santiviquez 3 years ago | 282 comments

ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons(esa.int)

269 points by Tevias 3 years ago | 62 comments

Replying to comments about our web page design(research.exoticsilicon.com)

243 points by nhanb 3 years ago | 159 comments

An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings(github.com)

239 points by snork_alt 3 years ago | 11 comments

GM’s decision to ditch Apple CarPlay, Android Auto sparks backlash(freep.com)

216 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 300 comments

Building LLM Applications for Production(huyenchip.com)

207 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 89 comments

The least impactful way to spend $300M?(passingtime.substack.com)

198 points by Metacelsus 3 years ago | 217 comments

Show HN: WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected(wikibinge.com)

195 points by jamez 3 years ago | 54 comments

Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTok(gantry.io)

191 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 68 comments

Vast new stores of water reported on the moon(spectrum.ieee.org)

176 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 164 comments

Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence(codecodeship.com)

168 points by derekkraan 3 years ago | 84 comments

Zig build system(en.liujiacai.net)

168 points by SerCe 3 years ago | 103 comments

Beyond automatic differentiation(ai.googleblog.com)

167 points by shantanu_sharma 3 years ago | 32 comments

Juice launch to Jupiter – Live [video](esa.int)

167 points by csantini 3 years ago | 27 comments

Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time"(twitter.com)

159 points by ftxbro 3 years ago | 137 comments

Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R(news.livebook.dev)

158 points by hugobarauna 3 years ago | 45 comments

GNU toolchain for RISC-V including GCC(github.com)

157 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 21 comments

Brandolini's Law(en.wikipedia.org)

154 points by xrd 3 years ago | 89 comments

Prehistoric timeline in Africa pushed back by more than 10M years(phys.org)

149 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 78 comments

This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi-like computer(solar.leo32345.com)

148 points by zachlatta 3 years ago | 75 comments

Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices(matrixcalculus.org)

144 points by mrv_asura 3 years ago | 39 comments

DJI Inspire 3: new 8k cinema drone(dji.com)

139 points by jackhalford 3 years ago | 127 comments

Dbdev – A database package manager for PostgreSQL trusted language extensions(database.dev)

138 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 50 comments

Layout 2013 and Layout 2020(servo.org)

136 points by jerheinze 3 years ago | 95 comments

DPaint.js: A web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint(stef.be)

121 points by jukkakoskinen 3 years ago | 15 comments

Inmates in a Brazil prison shorten their sentences by writing book reviews(cbc.ca)

113 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 58 comments

Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

112 points by rrr83 3 years ago | 75 comments

A photon-recycling incandescent lighting device(science.org)

108 points by adrian_b 3 years ago | 63 comments

Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways(social.wildeboer.net)

105 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 161 comments

AMD Details OpenSIL for Advancing Open-Source System Firmware(phoronix.com)

103 points by YakBizzarro 3 years ago | 22 comments

Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa(lioness.co)

102 points by hosteur 3 years ago | 99 comments

Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (1999)(zdnet.com)

101 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 80 comments

Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it(theverge.com)

97 points by sine_break 3 years ago | 96 comments

Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbed to death after argument about suspect's sister(nbcnews.com)

91 points by RockyMcNuts 3 years ago | 70 comments

Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp(arstechnica.com)

88 points by carride 3 years ago | 68 comments

Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs(variety.com)

84 points by signa11 3 years ago | 130 comments

Searchable Linux Syscall Table for x86 and x86_64(filippo.io)

76 points by ingve 3 years ago | 33 comments

SpaceX is targeting Monday, April 17 for the first flight of Starship(spacex.com)

74 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 26 comments

AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award(eldagsen.com)

73 points by draugadrotten 3 years ago | 84 comments

Office vacancies in San Francisco jump to a record 33%(therealdeal.com)

69 points by GalenErso 3 years ago | 55 comments

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade(phys.org)

68 points by Tommstein 3 years ago | 11 comments

Universal Install Script (2016)(xkcd.com)

64 points by guessmyname 3 years ago | 23 comments

A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist(thenation.com)

62 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Debate Devil – AI debating practice app(debate-devil.com)

56 points by ngkw 3 years ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

50 points by rozenmd 3 years ago | 41 comments

Crem: Compositional Representable Executable Machines(tweag.io)

50 points by ingve 3 years ago | 2 comments

Skyscraper Proposed for 2700 Sloat Boulevard in Outer Sunset, San Francisco(sfyimby.com)

48 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 33 comments

AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape(spectrum.ieee.org)

43 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 40 comments

Dreams are the default for intelligence(kk.org)

43 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 40 comments

Optional If Expressions(animaomnium.github.io)

42 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 39 comments

The market is mostly being flooded with web developers(old.reddit.com)

41 points by synergy20 3 years ago | 28 comments

Why is ‘juice jacking’ suddenly back in the news?(krebsonsecurity.com)

40 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 57 comments

Farmers Win the Right to Repair Their Own Tractors in Colorado(vice.com)

40 points by ewhanley 3 years ago | 7 comments

Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor(thefp.com)

39 points by tcpip 3 years ago | 12 comments

EU's AI Act: ChatGPT must disclose use of copyrighted training data(artisana.ai)

38 points by mztwo 3 years ago | 38 comments