Hacker News on Saturday, 15 April 2023

Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful(tech.slashdot.org)

576 points by rurban 3 years ago | 307 comments

Slashdot story reporting that Valve restricted the Steam accounts of about 2,500 users who marked a negative game review as useful.

Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?(hellgatenyc.com)

561 points by raybb 3 years ago | 531 comments

Hell Gate article investigating why airport food like a $15 turkey sandwich is so expensive in NYC, after the Port Authority withheld pricing records.

Lofi air traffic control – LAX(lofiatc.com)

537 points by hot_gril 3 years ago | 121 comments

Web app that plays live LAX air traffic control radio (Los Angeles Tower 133.900) mixed with lofi music tracks.

Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf](ia601707.us.archive.org)

452 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 years ago | 309 comments

A PDF court filing from the Epic v. Google case in N.D. California, cited for a Google CEO message asking to set a chat group to history-off.

What are transformer models and how do they work?(txt.cohere.ai)

380 points by tomcam 3 years ago | 91 comments

Cohere blog post explaining what transformer models are and how they work in natural language processing.

WebGPU Fundamentals(webgpufundamentals.org)

377 points by itsuka 3 years ago | 169 comments

WebGPU Fundamentals is a site of tutorial articles teaching WebGPU, covering basics like uniforms, storage buffers, vertex buffers, and textures.

The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat(opencoreventures.com)

275 points by sherlockxu 3 years ago | 178 comments

Surviving Burnout (2015)(lifeofaudrey.com)

275 points by luu 3 years ago | 130 comments

DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter(theor.xyz)

264 points by fmeyer 3 years ago | 38 comments

Exercism – learn programming languages for free(exercism.org)

228 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 34 comments

Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix(giraffesecurity.dev)

225 points by speedboat199 3 years ago | 156 comments

OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf](ykilcher.com)

225 points by pps 3 years ago | 59 comments

Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models(github.com)

220 points by summarity 3 years ago | 68 comments

Low Code Software Development Is a Lie(jaylittle.com)

208 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 129 comments

Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)(twitter.com)

204 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 149 comments

Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming language(github.com)

203 points by zdw 3 years ago | 38 comments

Hypervisor Development in Rust(memn0ps.github.io)

202 points by ingve 3 years ago | 10 comments

33TB of text data for a 1T-parameter model(lifearchitect.ai)

164 points by ofou 3 years ago | 119 comments

Tiny DNA circles are key drivers of cancer, study finds(med.stanford.edu)

158 points by panabee 3 years ago | 27 comments

Apollo 13 in Real Time(apolloinrealtime.org)

151 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 16 comments

Easily accessing all your stuff with a zero-trust mesh VPN(changelog.complete.org)

147 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 54 comments

Systems design 2: What we hope we know(apenwarr.ca)

146 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 20 comments

Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo contest(petapixel.com)

141 points by kyleyeats 3 years ago | 87 comments

Yeah, about that active comeback...(ft.com)

140 points by belter 3 years ago | 108 comments

New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database(malwarebytes.com)

136 points by WallyFunk 3 years ago | 68 comments

Geometry Central: library of data structures, algorithms for geometry processing(geometry-central.net)

135 points by jasondavies 3 years ago | 9 comments

Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes(paulstamatiou.com)

134 points by PStamatiou 3 years ago | 109 comments

Stop Building Closed Ecosystems(buttondown.email)

131 points by LinguaBrowse 3 years ago | 122 comments

Show HN: IPython-GPT, a Jupyter/IPython Interface to Chat GPT(github.com)

129 points by santiagobasulto 3 years ago | 27 comments

Fun with fluorescence in olive oil (2012)(aapt.scitation.org)

127 points by jjoe 3 years ago | 60 comments

DOJ charges 10 with fraud in global air freight kickback scheme(aircargonews.net)

124 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 47 comments

Generalizations of Fourier analysis (2021)(gabarro.org)

119 points by mscharrer 3 years ago | 22 comments

One economist went on a long whimsical journey to pay his taxes with cash(fortune.com)

114 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 106 comments

The Decade of Deep Learning(bmk.sh)

111 points by signa11 3 years ago | 63 comments

KeePassXC Audit Report(keepassxc.org)

108 points by crecker 3 years ago | 57 comments

Algebraic graph calculus (2021)(gabarro.org)

107 points by 082349872349872 3 years ago | 17 comments

The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s(blog.jgc.org)

106 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 71 comments

HyperShell: Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer(github.com)

105 points by goodburb 3 years ago | 36 comments

Appleseed – open-source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine(appleseedhq.net)

97 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 14 comments

OpenAssistant released the best open-source Chat AI [video](youtube.com)

95 points by consumer451 3 years ago | 39 comments

New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms(theverge.com)

95 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 95 comments

Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?

90 points by amichail 3 years ago | 124 comments

SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests(road.cc)

89 points by kitkat_new 3 years ago | 94 comments

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017)(lemire.me)

87 points by burntcaramel 3 years ago | 41 comments

How close are we to the holy grail of room-temperature superconductors?(forbes.com)

86 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 89 comments

Searching for Lost Time in the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar(nytimes.com)

83 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 27 comments

In a deadly mountain pass, a tiny hotel is a lifeline(nytimes.com)

81 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 29 comments

Uber, Amazon use AI to pay people different wages for same work: Study(businessinsider.com)

77 points by amichail 3 years ago | 65 comments

The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)(blog.pkh.me)

72 points by dosshell 3 years ago | 39 comments

Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)(aus.social)

70 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 64 comments

A Mechanism for Long Covid(mastodon.nl)

70 points by pera 3 years ago | 25 comments

MacStealer allows for WiFi client isolation bypasses(github.com)

68 points by oger 3 years ago | 13 comments

Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)(libreboot.org)

64 points by leahlibre 3 years ago | 10 comments

Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico(theguardian.com)

63 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 51 comments

Mouse scroll wheel acceleration, implemented in user space(github.com)

62 points by albertzeyer 3 years ago | 47 comments

HDD Sales Crater, Drop 35% Year-over-Year(tomshardware.com)

60 points by ms512 3 years ago | 51 comments

Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in the Workplace (2022)(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

51 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 44 comments

BabyAGI: An Autonomous and Self-Improving Agent(github.com)

51 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 42 comments

Peru's Great Urban Experiment(archaeology.org)

51 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 26 comments

Cash App founder stabbed after allegedly drinking with suspect's sister(washingtonpost.com)

48 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 16 comments