Hacker News on Friday, 12 May 2023

GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt(twitter.com)

817 points by marvinvonhagen 3 years ago | 98 comments

A Twitter thread by Marvin von Hagen sharing the leaked confidential system prompt rules of GitHub Copilot Chat, obtained via prompt injection.

Implement DNS in a Weekend(implement-dns.wizardzines.com)

594 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 68 comments

Julia Evans's blog post announcing a free guide to implementing a DNS resolver from scratch in about 200 lines of Python.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release(zelda.com)

585 points by etrvic 3 years ago | 646 comments

Official Nintendo site for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch, featuring pre-order information.

Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years(bleepingcomputer.com)

544 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 273 comments

BleepingComputer article reporting that Toyota exposed car location data of about 2 million customers for ten years.

The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked(financialstatement.zip)

469 points by me_again 3 years ago | 244 comments

A protest page hosted on a .zip domain arguing that Google's .zip top-level domain enables phishing by confusing URLs with filenames and should be revoked.

Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter(twitter.com)

442 points by lopkeny12ko 3 years ago | 916 comments

Elon Musk tweet announcing Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO; the tweet content did not load in the capture.

Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died(spectrum.ieee.org)

433 points by furcyd 3 years ago | 94 comments

IEEE Spectrum obituary column reporting the death of Morris Tanenbaum, silicon transistor pioneer, at 94, alongside remembrances of other IEEE members.

Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs(github.com)

379 points by InitEnabler 3 years ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for Windmill, an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows and UIs, positioned as an alternative to Airplane and Retool.

Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines(zlib.net)

286 points by ingve 3 years ago | 181 comments

FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund(futo.org)

239 points by doodlesdev 3 years ago | 51 comments

GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt(simonwillison.net)

228 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 157 comments

CI/CD with KiCad and Gitlab(sschueller.github.io)

208 points by sschueller 3 years ago | 58 comments

Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am(grinfeld.org)

193 points by deepzn 3 years ago | 42 comments

Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts(thebaltimorebanner.com)

187 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 468 comments

Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection(simonwillison.net)

183 points by eiiot 3 years ago | 75 comments

First Rust code in the Windows 11 kernel(thurrott.com)

179 points by wojtczyk 3 years ago | 122 comments

How to sell Elixir again(gist.github.com)

164 points by thibaut_barrere 3 years ago | 108 comments

Open-source disposable email service(sorry.idont.date)

163 points by psarna 3 years ago | 55 comments

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers (2012) [video](youtube.com)

154 points by nabla9 3 years ago | 65 comments

A vaccine for pancreatic cancer treatment?(science.org)

153 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 118 comments

Google makes its text-to-music AI public(techcrunch.com)

148 points by gmays 3 years ago | 82 comments

Seinfeld Transcripts(seinfeldscripts.com)

147 points by adrian_mrd 3 years ago | 118 comments

Greater than 90% chance of El Niño persisting into Northern Hemisphere winter(cpc.ncep.noaa.gov)

144 points by geox 3 years ago | 75 comments

I've mostly stopped reading technical mailing lists(utcc.utoronto.ca)

136 points by zdw 3 years ago | 68 comments

A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency (2022) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

127 points by luu 3 years ago | 31 comments

Google Bard blocks all European Union countries(9to5google.com)

120 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 186 comments

The SGI XFS Filesystem(blog.koehntopp.info)

117 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 70 comments

IBM PC 8088 replaced with a Motorola 68000(microcorelabs.wordpress.com)

115 points by elvis70 3 years ago | 85 comments

EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill(theregister.com)

115 points by jjgreen 3 years ago | 95 comments

He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon(washingtonpost.com)

115 points by gmays 3 years ago | 104 comments

Extreme Multi-Threading: C++ and Julia 1.9 Integration(scientificcoder.com)

112 points by pieterr 3 years ago | 29 comments

Language models still struggle with the concept of negation(quantamagazine.org)

111 points by belter 3 years ago | 102 comments

Hammerhead sharks are first fish found to ‘hold their breath’(nature.com)

109 points by gmays 3 years ago | 24 comments

The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably(wolfhf.medium.com)

101 points by FionnMc 3 years ago | 183 comments

After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit(realclearwire.com)

100 points by baremetal 3 years ago | 62 comments

Asymptote: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language(asymptote.sourceforge.io)

100 points by smartmic 3 years ago | 7 comments

The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe(chicagomag.com)

96 points by effects 3 years ago | 18 comments

I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables(glean.io)

95 points by vndrewlee 3 years ago | 80 comments

Eva AI-Relational Database System(evadb.readthedocs.io)

95 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 25 comments

Has Apple sounded the last POST?(eclecticlight.co)

94 points by ingve 3 years ago | 55 comments

Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux(makeuseof.com)

85 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 38 comments

A local TV station investigated an underground mine fire in Pennsylvania(poynter.org)

79 points by DoreenMichele 3 years ago | 30 comments

The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)(nybooks.com)

75 points by okfine 3 years ago | 33 comments

U.S. focuses on invigorating ‘chiplets’ to stay cutting-edge in tech(nytimes.com)

75 points by adapteva 3 years ago | 43 comments

Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research(salon.com)

74 points by absolute100 3 years ago | 92 comments

Polyphony: Fine-Grained Concurrency for Ruby(github.com)

73 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 21 comments

A RP2040 Powered MIDI-Controlled Synth in CircuitPython(gist.github.com)

72 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 9 comments

Hyper – A fast and correct HTTP implementation for Rust(crates.io)

71 points by belter 3 years ago | 46 comments

Exploring the native use of 64-bit posit arithmetic in scientific computing(arxiv.org)

69 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 15 comments

Narrative over Numbers: Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto Report(newsletter.mollywhite.net)

69 points by rideontime 3 years ago | 39 comments

BQNPAD(bqnpad.mechanize.systems)

68 points by tosh 3 years ago | 10 comments

Who Were ‘The Celts’ and How Did They (Some of Them) Fight?(acoup.blog)

66 points by gostsamo 3 years ago | 17 comments

Understanding Modern Storage APIs: A systematic study of libaio, SPDK, io_uring [pdf](atlarge-research.com)

66 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 2 comments

Durin: A new mobile app for the IPFS network(blog.ipfs.tech)

65 points by meandave 3 years ago | 16 comments

AWS Lambda function for converting of Telegram channel to RSS feed(github.com)

65 points by gleb_the_human 3 years ago | 18 comments

Helping a kid who made a math mistake(kidswholovemath.substack.com)

64 points by sebg 3 years ago | 30 comments

Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

63 points by OnlyMateo 3 years ago | 27 comments

Unrelated Words Puzzle(unrelatedwords.com)

63 points by danieltait 3 years ago | 61 comments

Show HN: AI SQL Copilot LogicLoop – AI to Generate, Optimize and Debug SQL(logicloop.com)

60 points by akisej 3 years ago | 22 comments

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

55 points by jwilk 3 years ago | 19 comments