Hacker News on Thursday, 11 May 2023

Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news(boringreport.org)

1106 points by aquaVitae 3 years ago | 314 comments

Landing page for Boring Report, an iOS news app that uses OpenAI language models to rewrite sensationalist news headlines and articles in a neutral tone.

When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think(twitter.com)

874 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 532 comments

Paul Graham Twitter thread observing people rapidly switching to ChatGPT for writing and warning that losing the ability to write erodes thinking.

100K Context Windows(anthropic.com)

853 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 364 comments

Anthropic announcement from May 11, 2023 introducing 100K token context windows for its Claude language model.

Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide(badar.tech)

550 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 232 comments

A blog post guide describing how to set up an electronics lab bench, with photos of shelving, component storage and equipment.

Go with PHP(gowithphp.com)

422 points by eiiot 3 years ago | 419 comments

A promotional site titled "Go with PHP" that advocates using PHP, showing Laravel-style request validation and authorization code as an example.

YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail(news.yahoo.com)

394 points by tafda 3 years ago | 388 comments

AFP news article on Yahoo News reporting that a YouTuber who deliberately staged a plane crash for views faces up to 20 years in prison.

Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)(cloud.google.com)

390 points by OmarShehata 3 years ago | 92 comments

Google Cloud blog post announcing Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Google Maps Platform for building immersive 3D map experiences using open standards.

Windows 11 in Svelte(github.com)

311 points by jaden 3 years ago | 176 comments

Fuck being productive(dostoynikov.bearblog.dev)

278 points by memorable 3 years ago | 231 comments

Pharo 11(pharo.org)

273 points by xkriva11 3 years ago | 140 comments

Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password(gandalf.lakera.ai)

269 points by hubraumhugo 3 years ago | 167 comments

Bcachefs – A New COW Filesystem(lore.kernel.org)

266 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 187 comments

Fairbuds XL review: noise-cancelling headphones you can fix(theguardian.com)

254 points by aquir 3 years ago | 206 comments

Pixel Tablet(store.google.com)

252 points by abawany 3 years ago | 469 comments

Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research(bristol.ac.uk)

251 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 272 comments

IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX(unchainedcrypto.com)

237 points by sylvainkalache 3 years ago | 212 comments

Problems harder than NP-Complete(buttondown.email)

234 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 89 comments

Faster CPython at PyCon, part one(lwn.net)

234 points by jwilk 3 years ago | 121 comments

BBEdit is 31 years old(barebones.com)

225 points by rvense 3 years ago | 104 comments

Show HN: Moderator Mayhem, a game about the difficulties of content moderation(moderatormayhem.engine.is)

207 points by randylubin 3 years ago | 110 comments

Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source(synthtopia.com)

205 points by weatherlight 3 years ago | 44 comments

Incident with Issues and Pull Requests(githubstatus.com)

187 points by longwave 3 years ago | 115 comments

Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (2018)(blog.ganssle.io)

183 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 108 comments

The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”(propublica.org)

178 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 79 comments

One Day You'll Find Yourself(onedayyoullfindyourself.com)

166 points by kickofline 3 years ago | 151 comments

Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time(bbc.co.uk)

163 points by ljf 3 years ago | 180 comments

TP–7 Field Recorder(teenage.engineering)

162 points by johnsonap 3 years ago | 172 comments

Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (2012)(fungi.com)

158 points by cameron_b 3 years ago | 105 comments

Ask HN: Resources for older developers?

157 points by rlawson 3 years ago | 163 comments

Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3B in Profit(gamespot.com)

149 points by tragiclos 3 years ago | 101 comments

The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird(fly.io)

145 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 198 comments

Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding(eev.ee)

144 points by luu 3 years ago | 35 comments

SoftBank Vision funds post record $39B annual loss(ft.com)

144 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 114 comments

Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta(tailscale.com)

140 points by geoffeg 3 years ago | 22 comments

What happened after I left my software engineering career (2022)(thewebivore.com)

136 points by luu 3 years ago | 73 comments

Baseline: a unified view of stable web features(developer.mozilla.org)

131 points by Vinnl 3 years ago | 58 comments

Understanding the power of bitwise operators(deusinmachina.net)

122 points by Decabytes 3 years ago | 39 comments

Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?

121 points by debo_ 3 years ago | 185 comments

Doug Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution(wired.com)

120 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 82 comments

The Xerox PARC Archive(info.computerhistory.org)

118 points by ta988 3 years ago | 26 comments

Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say(cidrap.umn.edu)

114 points by orhmeh09 3 years ago | 134 comments

The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (2017)(viterbischool.usc.edu)

101 points by akhayam 3 years ago | 24 comments

Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced(github.com)

100 points by osanseviero 3 years ago | 19 comments

NIH restarts bat virus grant(science.org)

99 points by ed-209 3 years ago | 150 comments

The Two Cultures (1959) [pdf](apps.weber.edu)

97 points by raviksharma 3 years ago | 68 comments

The Backbone: A History of the Internet(technicshistory.com)

95 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 17 comments

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)(meyerweb.com)

92 points by doodlesdev 3 years ago | 100 comments

How to do distributed locking (2016)(martin.kleppmann.com)

92 points by thealig 3 years ago | 7 comments

Hobson’s choice(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by jackallis 3 years ago | 32 comments

Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers(wsj.com)

83 points by lxm 3 years ago | 170 comments

Show HN: Hacker News with Tags(histre.com)

83 points by kirubakaran 3 years ago | 42 comments

Proposal: Less error-prone loop variable scoping(github.com)

80 points by yujian 3 years ago | 48 comments

Against longtermism (2021)(aeon.co)

79 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 150 comments

Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (2012)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

74 points by minicaionut 3 years ago | 56 comments

Forgetful Browsing(brave.com)

73 points by keyboardJones 3 years ago | 39 comments

An IBM computer learned to sing in 1961(tedgioia.substack.com)

72 points by isomorph 3 years ago | 38 comments

Sorry Purism, I’m not investing. It’s (possibly) not even legal(gabrielsieben.tech)

72 points by gjsman-1000 3 years ago | 36 comments

The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] (2014)(destroyallsoftware.com)

71 points by mikece 3 years ago | 35 comments

Free42 – An HP-42S Calculator Simulator(thomasokken.com)

71 points by abiro 3 years ago | 32 comments

GitHub push protection is free for all public repositories(github.blog)

70 points by manojr13 3 years ago | 18 comments