Hacker News on Sunday, 14 May 2023

Get started making music(learningmusic.ableton.com)

1035 points by prhrb 3 years ago | 211 comments

Ableton's free interactive browser-based lessons teaching the basics of music making, covering drums, bass, chords, and melodies.

Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy(ag.ny.gov)

711 points by RecycledEle 3 years ago | 256 comments

NY Attorney General press release announcing a $615,000 settlement with three companies that submitted fake comments impersonating Americans to influence the FCC's net neutrality repeal.

Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card(gist.github.com)

564 points by rain1 3 years ago | 233 comments

A GitHub Gist with instructions for running Meta's Llama 13B model on a 6GB GPU using llama.cpp's CUDA/cuBLAS layer offloading.

Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide(github.com)

467 points by appwiz 3 years ago | 88 comments

GitHub repository from Brex containing a guide with tips and tricks for working with large language models like OpenAI's GPT-4.

What Wikipedia Did(twitter.com)

401 points by doener 3 years ago | 207 comments

Tweet by Jimmy Wales contrasting Wikipedia's court fight against Turkey's ban with Elon Musk's decision to restrict tweets in Turkey.

Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal(github.com)

372 points by denysonique 3 years ago | 87 comments

GitHub repository for Distrobox, a tool that runs any Linux distribution inside your terminal using containers.

The networkQuality tool on macOS(cyberhost.uk)

363 points by cyberhost 3 years ago | 74 comments

A CyberHost blog post explaining the built-in macOS networkQuality command-line tool for testing internet speed and responsiveness.

Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles(billydm.github.io)

325 points by ingve 3 years ago | 217 comments

A blog post from Feb 2023 on the difficulties of building a digital audio workstation GUI, covering performance, GUI library problems, and the Rust GUI landscape.

The World is Built on Probability (1984)(archive.org)

245 points by the-mitr 3 years ago | 79 comments

My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it(robotsinplainenglish.com)

243 points by ripe 3 years ago | 52 comments

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)(catb.org)

215 points by wallflower 3 years ago | 135 comments

Artists must be allowed to make bad work(austinkleon.com)

212 points by open-source-ux 3 years ago | 144 comments

The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video](youtube.com)

211 points by luu 3 years ago | 39 comments

47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022?(securitymagazine.com)

209 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 116 comments

OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time(people.skolelinux.org)

203 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 25 comments

ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021)(chipsandcheese.com)

198 points by NavinF 3 years ago | 157 comments

Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed(esa.int)

198 points by zdw 3 years ago | 64 comments

Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages(apnews.com)

197 points by zdw 3 years ago | 85 comments

Companies to pay $615k in investigation over faked net neutrality comments(apnews.com)

196 points by deepzn 3 years ago | 91 comments

Pfeilstorch(en.wikipedia.org)

188 points by georgecmu 3 years ago | 46 comments

High Performance Browser Networking(hpbn.co)

181 points by 0xDEF 3 years ago | 23 comments

Instead of your Life's Purpose (2021)(philosophyinhell.substack.com)

174 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 79 comments

Are We Sixel Yet(arewesixelyet.com)

172 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 122 comments

Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics(blog.plover.com)

171 points by luu 3 years ago | 96 comments

Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989)(groups.google.com)

170 points by nixass 3 years ago | 59 comments

JavaScript state machines and statecharts(xstate.js.org)

161 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 74 comments

Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies(18alan.space)

157 points by 18al 3 years ago | 71 comments

Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples(makefiletutorial.com)

156 points by ingve 3 years ago | 72 comments

macOS Apps in Rust(github.com)

154 points by debdut 3 years ago | 34 comments

Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)(dept-info.labri.fr)

148 points by medo-bear 3 years ago | 63 comments

Vore: A new RSS feed reader(j3s.sh)

147 points by j3s 3 years ago | 95 comments

Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)(byrnehobart.medium.com)

143 points by mathgenius 3 years ago | 87 comments

Devil Mode for Emacs(susam.github.io)

128 points by susam 3 years ago | 68 comments

Tell HN: Putting mirrors around my desk improved my posture

126 points by cushpush 3 years ago | 73 comments

Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (2015)(smithsonianmag.com)

120 points by buttocks 3 years ago | 38 comments

Chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology(news.northwestern.edu)

115 points by vanilla-almond 3 years ago | 39 comments

The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire(atlasobscura.com)

113 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 82 comments

How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)(archive.org)

112 points by classichasclass 3 years ago | 26 comments

Combinatory Logic(plato.stanford.edu)

110 points by nz 3 years ago | 16 comments

FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)(vermaden.wordpress.com)

106 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 42 comments

Heart attack deaths drop over past two decades(acc.org)

105 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 82 comments

Open-Llama: Complete training pipeline for building large language models(github.com)

104 points by bayes-song 3 years ago | 6 comments

Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)(tweag.io)

102 points by ingve 3 years ago | 13 comments

Moving from Blame to Accountability (2017)(thesystemsthinker.com)

84 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 43 comments

Attempto Controlled English(en.wikipedia.org)

83 points by sublinear 3 years ago | 50 comments

What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of AI?(economist.com)

77 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 34 comments

Facebook claims people showing art, electronics, wheelchair mods is hate speech(blog.adafruit.com)

76 points by ptorrone 3 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: What 60 folks can give career and general life advice for 40 folks

75 points by maheshs 3 years ago | 34 comments

How ‘open’ should your open source be?(github.com)

74 points by graderjs 3 years ago | 40 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)(colab.research.google.com)

74 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: I built my first Cyberdeck(github.com)

73 points by Gisbitus 3 years ago | 44 comments

The long-term persistence of old trees in human-dominated landscapes(nature.com)

72 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 22 comments

Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work(fortune.com)

69 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 78 comments

The Group Decode ROM: The 8086 processor's first step of instruction decoding(righto.com)

57 points by zdw 3 years ago | 19 comments

Contempt Culture (2015)(blog.aurynn.com)

53 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments

The Web I Want (2018)(quii.dev)

52 points by rafamaddd 3 years ago | 32 comments

The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Familiar (Rich) Winners(nytimes.com)

51 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 45 comments

Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes worry crew(cbsnews.com)

48 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 45 comments

VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics(vt100.net)

46 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 39 comments

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History(lareviewofbooks.org)

44 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 37 comments