Hacker News on Monday, 17 April 2023

MiniGPT-4(minigpt-4.github.io)

812 points by GaggiX 3 years ago | 256 comments

Project page for MiniGPT-4, a KAUST research model enhancing vision-language understanding with advanced LLMs, with links to paper, code, and video.

RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license(together.xyz)

805 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 202 comments

Together blog post announcing RedPajama, a project to build open-source LLMs that starts by reproducing the LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens.

Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine(sammobile.com)

562 points by carlycue 3 years ago | 686 comments

SamMobile news article reporting that Samsung is considering replacing Google with Microsoft Bing as the default search engine on Galaxy phones.

The Windows 11 Trash Party(birchtree.me)

514 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 398 comments

Blog post on birchtree.me about Windows 11 design and annoyances; the page failed to load with a Cloudflare 522 connection timeout error.

I liked this simple calculus exercise(blog.plover.com)

420 points by kamaraju 3 years ago | 134 comments

Mark Dominus blog post discussing a Math StackExchange calculus exercise integrating e^(x/2 - floor(x/2)) from 0 to 2000 and why it is a good problem.

Why don’t more people live close to friends?(annehelen.substack.com)

399 points by sharkweek 3 years ago | 433 comments

Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study essay offering theories on why people don't live closer to their friends despite being happier when they do.

OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over(wired.com)

352 points by labrador 3 years ago | 371 comments

Wired article reporting Sam Altman's claim that scaling up giant AI models has run its course and future AI progress will need new ideas.

Booting Modern Intel CPUs(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

351 points by zdw 3 years ago | 107 comments

A blog post by Matthew Garrett on mjg59.dreamwidth.org about how modern Intel CPUs boot; the capture shows a Dreamwidth hCaptcha check page instead.

iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone(techcrunch.com)

321 points by mikece 3 years ago | 493 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Apple's iOS 17 will lay groundwork for sideloading apps on iPhones outside the App Store.

Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey(mastodon.social)

277 points by luu 3 years ago | 282 comments

I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated(louwrentius.com)

262 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 158 comments

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong(features.apmreports.org)

259 points by Khaine 3 years ago | 403 comments

No Source Code == No Patent(albertcory50.substack.com)

254 points by AlbertCory 3 years ago | 149 comments

How do electrons find the “path of least resistance”? [video](youtube.com)

240 points by GavCo 3 years ago | 80 comments

The colorful charm of Amiga utility disks(datagubbe.se)

231 points by arexxbifs 3 years ago | 53 comments

GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J(gpt4all.io)

229 points by manyoso 3 years ago | 140 comments

AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'(theregister.com)

213 points by MISTERJerk2U 3 years ago | 210 comments

Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time(masto.ai)

206 points by mg 3 years ago | 138 comments

Starship Flight Test [video](youtube.com)

189 points by somenameforme 3 years ago | 128 comments

KV.js(github.com)

169 points by ent101 3 years ago | 50 comments

Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video](youtube.com)

159 points by stefandesu 3 years ago | 188 comments

Build 5G networks using open-source software, general-purpose hardware (2021)(rs-ojict.pubpub.org)

157 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 31 comments

Keep stuff linkable(animaomnium.github.io)

151 points by animaomnium 3 years ago | 84 comments

The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases(questdb.io)

150 points by bluestreak 3 years ago | 20 comments

Implementers, Solvers, and Finders(rkoutnik.com)

148 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 12 comments

Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p(apple.com)

147 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 186 comments

Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones(newyorker.com)

140 points by jbegley 3 years ago | 159 comments

DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning(dinov2.metademolab.com)

139 points by mvoodarla 3 years ago | 13 comments

OpenBSD: Malloc leak detection available in -current(undeadly.org)

138 points by peter_hansteen 3 years ago | 51 comments

Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of(theregister.com)

138 points by Sindisil 3 years ago | 108 comments

A Forty-Year Career (2019)(lethain.com)

132 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 74 comments

Qemu.js – a proof-of-concept port of QEMU to web browser using WASM JIT (2019)(github.com)

121 points by mepian 3 years ago | 25 comments

Breaking the limits of TLA+ model checking(hillelwayne.com)

114 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 4 comments

Horrible Code, Clean Performance(johnnysswlab.com)

112 points by signa11 3 years ago | 89 comments

How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)(growveg.com)

109 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 53 comments

New 3D Printable Search Engine(printablesearch.com)

106 points by hugegreenbug 3 years ago | 44 comments

Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts(restofworld.org)

103 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 73 comments

Inside a Fujitsu Ethernet chip from 1984(oldbytes.space)

98 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 20 comments

Cryptographic Best Practices(gist.github.com)

96 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 37 comments

Apple, Goldman Sachs Debut Savings Account with 4.15% Annual Yield(bloomberg.com)

95 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 69 comments

There are no fees at America’s smallest bank(bloomberg.com)

94 points by LastNevadan 3 years ago | 75 comments

ATC staff shortages: 11,000 flights cut from NYC and DCA in summer 2023(flyertalk.com)

93 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 128 comments

Community Is the Future of AI(stackoverflow.blog)

93 points by mikece 3 years ago | 31 comments

Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions(falltide.com)

90 points by chrysostom 3 years ago | 93 comments

History of Kites(kite.org)

90 points by DoreenMichele 3 years ago | 15 comments

Linuxwave: Generate Music from the Entropy of Linux(github.com)

86 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 7 comments

Codegraph – static code analyzator / code diagramer(github.com)

84 points by sargstuff 3 years ago | 22 comments

Valve Releases Proton 8.0-1c(github.com)

83 points by rc00 3 years ago | 66 comments

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

Neobuthus Factorio(en.wikipedia.org)

78 points by jryb 3 years ago | 17 comments

Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant(power-eng.com)

74 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 51 comments

Borland C++ Builder (2015)(runtimeterror.com)

74 points by networked 3 years ago | 40 comments

12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields(npr.org)

72 points by petee 3 years ago | 78 comments

Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories(blog.medium.com)

72 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 16 comments

Tag Systems(buttondown.email)

72 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 32 comments

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)(youtube.com)

71 points by nailer 3 years ago | 26 comments

The Big Dictionary of MLOps(hopsworks.ai)

70 points by jamesblonde 3 years ago | 10 comments

A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral(bbc.co.uk)

63 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 63 comments

NYPD Can Now Shoot GPS Trackers at Your Car(jalopnik.com)

59 points by mhb 3 years ago | 58 comments

Amiga History: The Delfina Plus 16 bit sound card [video](youtube.com)

57 points by doener 3 years ago | 13 comments