Hacker News on Thursday, 4 May 2023

Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”(semianalysis.com)

2299 points by klelatti 3 years ago | 963 comments

SemiAnalysis publishes a leaked internal Google memo arguing that open source AI will outcompete both Google and OpenAI, which lack a competitive moat.

Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs(primevideotech.com)

826 points by debdut 3 years ago | 415 comments

Prime Video Tech blog post on moving its audio/video monitoring service from distributed microservices to a monolith, improving scale and cutting costs by 90%.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3(chaos.social)

524 points by aendruk 3 years ago | 332 comments

Mastodon post showing that Bluesky handles verified by serving a file from a domain let someone claim an S3 domain handle.

Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC(arstechnica.com)

464 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 265 comments

Ars Technica article on the FTC alleging Facebook violated its 2020 privacy order and proposing a ban on Meta monetizing data from minors.

A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge(sfgate.com)

325 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 132 comments

SFGATE Obscure SF article about a historic mansion, the Nimitz house, located directly beneath the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge on Yerba Buena Island.

The seven programming ur-languages (2021)(madhadron.com)

320 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 167 comments

An essay on the madhadron blog arguing that programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore, rather than near-identical mainstream ones.

Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF(blog.waymo.com)

282 points by ra7 3 years ago | 326 comments

America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan(woodtv.com)

274 points by rmason 3 years ago | 142 comments

Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics(news.shopify.com)

266 points by virtuosarmo 3 years ago | 258 comments

EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users(techfreedom.org)

265 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 102 comments

Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs(arstechnica.com)

245 points by eysquared 3 years ago | 206 comments

Google Introduces Passkey Authentication(security.googleblog.com)

236 points by rbinv 3 years ago | 134 comments

Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings(reuters.com)

236 points by rntn 3 years ago | 222 comments

How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed(pudding.cool)

235 points by feross 3 years ago | 156 comments

New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition(gizmodo.com)

232 points by onychomys 3 years ago | 154 comments

Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds(bloomberg.com)

227 points by shaburn 3 years ago | 171 comments

Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#(github.com)

225 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 156 comments

A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans(deusinmachina.net)

218 points by fork-bomber 3 years ago | 157 comments

Pynecone – Performant, customizable web apps in pure Python(pynecone.io)

214 points by gilad 3 years ago | 78 comments

Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code(blog.scottlogic.com)

206 points by ColinEberhardt 3 years ago | 66 comments

Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List(github.com)

203 points by philonoist 3 years ago | 86 comments

Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor(westinghousenuclear.com)

195 points by wanderingmind 3 years ago | 96 comments

A Linux kernel without struct buffer_head(lwn.net)

193 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 17 comments

The “baseline” scene in bladerunner 2049 was written by Ryan Gosling (2022)(cohost.org)

186 points by Fraterkes 3 years ago | 99 comments

JEP 450: Compact Object Headers(openjdk.org)

185 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 92 comments

New C features in GCC 13(developers.redhat.com)

165 points by petercooper 3 years ago | 178 comments

My pay went from $240k to $0(mstdn.social)

164 points by epilys 3 years ago | 97 comments

Show HN: GPT-JSON – Structured and typehinted GPT responses in Python(github.com)

161 points by icyfox 3 years ago | 64 comments

Hue Light Hack(atomic14.com)

158 points by iamflimflam1 3 years ago | 97 comments

Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities(googlecloudpresscorner.com)

144 points by taubek 3 years ago | 100 comments

OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form(share.hsforms.com)

141 points by ciccionamente 3 years ago | 130 comments

Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service(arstechnica.com)

139 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 66 comments

The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video](youtube.com)

139 points by rhema 3 years ago | 56 comments

Westinghouse announces a new small modular nuclear reactor(cnbc.com)

130 points by akeck 3 years ago | 91 comments

Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf](wangzwhu.github.io)

129 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 33 comments

Running JavaScript in Rust with Deno: Experimenting with Deno's Rust Crates(austinpoor.com)

125 points by a-poor 3 years ago | 15 comments

Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training(arxiv.org)

125 points by verdverm 3 years ago | 21 comments

The First Image from EUMETSAT’s Newest Satellite(eumetsat.int)

123 points by julienchastang 3 years ago | 22 comments

Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3(deno.com)

116 points by danielskogly 3 years ago | 41 comments

Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf](princeton.edu)

115 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 77 comments

The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet(theverge.com)

114 points by rntn 3 years ago | 150 comments

AI is just someone else's intelligence(zdziarski.com)

114 points by jzdziarski 3 years ago | 110 comments

Fixing Hallucination with Knowledge Bases(pinecone.io)

113 points by gk1 3 years ago | 46 comments

BigCode Project Releases StarCoder: A 15B Code LLM(huggingface.co)

112 points by enum 3 years ago | 27 comments

UEFI Secure Boot on the Raspberry Pi(linux.it)

108 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 42 comments

Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose(firesky.tv)

98 points by ericzawo 3 years ago | 34 comments

FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement(scmagazine.com)

98 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 36 comments

UDP transmitter implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040(vanhunteradams.com)

98 points by vha3 3 years ago | 13 comments

Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly revenue estimates(reuters.com)

96 points by andrewdutton 3 years ago | 92 comments

GitHub is down(githubstatus.com)

92 points by romellem 3 years ago | 60 comments

Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation(blog.deepgram.com)

91 points by jasondrowley 3 years ago | 19 comments

White House announces new actions to promote responsible AI innovation(whitehouse.gov)

85 points by magoghm 3 years ago | 71 comments

I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)(yosefk.com)

67 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 26 comments

EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US(theguardian.com)

67 points by magoghm 3 years ago | 34 comments

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”(simonwillison.net)

65 points by cube2222 3 years ago | 10 comments

MaMMUT: A simple vision-encoder text-decoder architecture for multimodal tasks(ai.googleblog.com)

63 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 25 comments

Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now(hillelwayne.com)

61 points by psxuaw 3 years ago | 41 comments

The most important machine that was never built(quantamagazine.org)

58 points by akeck 3 years ago | 18 comments

On Having Enough Socks (2019)(gwern.net)

56 points by hacb 3 years ago | 129 comments

The Shootings at Kent State: The Search for Historical Accuracy (1998)(kent.edu)

51 points by theandrewbailey 3 years ago | 36 comments