Hacker News on Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Eye Candy(eycndy.com)

740 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 122 comments

EyeCandy is a visual library of cinematography and video techniques, such as dolly zoom, datamosh, and whip pan, browsable by name.

Bank Failures Visualized(observablehq.com)

739 points by A_D_E_P_T 3 years ago | 290 comments

An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock visualizing historical US bank failures using FDIC data, sortable by date or size.

Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers(modular.com)

482 points by lairv 3 years ago | 185 comments

Modular's product page introducing Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers that combines Python usability with high performance.

Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla(fakespot.com)

453 points by mattweinberg 3 years ago | 338 comments

Fakespot company blog post from May 2, 2023 announcing that the fake-review detection company has been acquired by Mozilla.

Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy(arstechnica.com)

449 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 193 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that a judge voided film studios' subpoena seeking the identities of Reddit users who commented about piracy.

Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge(gizmodo.com)

392 points by adrian_mrd 3 years ago | 271 comments

Gizmodo news article reporting that Microsoft broke a Google Chrome feature on Windows in order to push users toward its Edge browser.

News Minimalist – Only significant news(newsminimalist.com)

390 points by t0bia_s 3 years ago | 167 comments

News Minimalist is a site where ChatGPT reads daily top news and shows only stories scoring above 6/10 on a significance scale, with a daily newsletter.

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide(sysprog21.github.io)

340 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 26 comments

Online edition of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Salzman, Burian, Pomerantz, Mottram and Huang, with GitHub source and PDF download.

Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card(printables.com)

327 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 102 comments

A Printables 3D model page for a printable cupholder that plugs into a Framework laptop expansion card slot.

PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law(kslnewsradio.com)

319 points by LordAtlas 3 years ago | 740 comments

KSL NewsRadio article reporting that PornHub blocked Utah users in response to the state's new age verification law.

African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize(time.com)

288 points by jaredwiener 3 years ago | 177 comments

Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs(github.com)

287 points by yunyu 3 years ago | 76 comments

Investigating Linux phantom disk reads(questdb.io)

277 points by kamaraju 3 years ago | 47 comments

faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets(arxiv.org)

276 points by kerm1t 3 years ago | 246 comments

An Update on the Lock Icon(blog.chromium.org)

256 points by semenko 3 years ago | 152 comments

How to Design Programs 2nd Edition(htdp.org)

235 points by noob_eng 3 years ago | 97 comments

IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI(finance.yahoo.com)

235 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 165 comments

Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option(blog.edwardloveall.com)

229 points by zdw 3 years ago | 185 comments

Show HN: I've built a spectrogram analyzer web app(webfft.net)

224 points by ssgh 3 years ago | 64 comments

Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees(cnbc.com)

223 points by mrkramer 3 years ago | 225 comments

Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)(math.stackexchange.com)

192 points by layer8 3 years ago | 333 comments

NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts(arstechnica.com)

192 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 374 comments

SIMD with Zig(openmymind.net)

189 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 33 comments

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)(brutalist-web.design)

189 points by CaesarA 3 years ago | 105 comments

Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients(utu.fi)

179 points by _xerces_ 3 years ago | 113 comments

America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?(economist.com)

170 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 361 comments

Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits(wsj.com)

170 points by gnicholas 3 years ago | 216 comments

Red Canary Mac Monitor(redcanary.com)

167 points by tanelpoder 3 years ago | 22 comments

GPT makes learning fun again(vipshek.com)

166 points by vipshek 3 years ago | 166 comments

Nate Silver: Some personal news(natesilver.substack.com)

157 points by r721 3 years ago | 109 comments

Adult-use cannabis delivers $15B in tax revenues(greenmarketreport.com)

155 points by DocFeind 3 years ago | 179 comments

Brain activity of dying people shows signs of near-death experiences(newscientist.com)

152 points by RafelMri 3 years ago | 173 comments

IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video](youtube.com)

148 points by twoodfin 3 years ago | 128 comments

Building a Compiler with Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) (2020) [pdf](llvm.org)

138 points by informalo 3 years ago | 16 comments

Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request(mullvad.net)

137 points by netfortius 3 years ago | 9 comments

Google DeepMind CEO says some form of AGI possible in a few years(wsj.com)

133 points by type4 3 years ago | 220 comments

Google Cloud Storage FUSE(cloud.google.com)

132 points by mvolfik 3 years ago | 95 comments

Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers(npr.org)

130 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 239 comments

Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?(foundation.mozilla.org)

129 points by light94 3 years ago | 65 comments

Why champagne has stable “bubble chains” and other carbonated drinks do not(arstechnica.com)

129 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 38 comments

Anonymous Tor Phone(0ut3r.space)

128 points by h0ek 3 years ago | 77 comments

Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications(vectara.com)

124 points by ofermend 3 years ago | 101 comments

How to Reduce Stress and Overcome Anxiety as a Software Developer(andreizgirvaci.com)

117 points by MD3XTER 3 years ago | 53 comments

OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera(blazsemprimoznik.com)

117 points by zdw 3 years ago | 26 comments

Like the macOS Dock but for macOS System 7(github.com)

116 points by zdw 3 years ago | 61 comments

Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)(hanselman.com)

116 points by BiteCode_dev 3 years ago | 116 comments

Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website(currl.io)

115 points by vasanthv 3 years ago | 41 comments

ChatGPT has no inner monologue or meta-cognition(lukeplant.me.uk)

110 points by srijan4 3 years ago | 81 comments

Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine(balkangreenenergynews.com)

108 points by Analemma_ 3 years ago | 116 comments

AI Generated Propaganda(twitter.com)

106 points by johndcook 3 years ago | 73 comments

Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI(tomshardware.com)

99 points by azalemeth 3 years ago | 63 comments

T-Mobile Breached, Again(arstechnica.com)

89 points by udev4096 3 years ago | 46 comments

Mullvad: Update regarding the search warrant from two weeks ago(mullvad.net)

87 points by sulkie 3 years ago | 4 comments

Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing(innovation.alteryx.com)

85 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 15 comments

Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes(macarthur.me)

85 points by joelkesler 3 years ago | 24 comments

Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami(thenation.com)

83 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?

81 points by blululu 3 years ago | 44 comments

Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses in America [pdf] (2022)(cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com)

74 points by brandonlc 3 years ago | 86 comments

UFOs exist in the low information zone(metabunk.org)

74 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 62 comments

Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021)(alexanderell.is)

68 points by otras 3 years ago | 14 comments