Hacker News on Monday, 15 May 2023

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants(washingtonpost.com)

693 points by elicash 3 years ago | 349 comments

Washington Post article reporting that the IRS is testing a prototype free government e-filing system that could compete with commercial tax preparation companies.

Pixpaint(warms.maxbittker.repl.co)

638 points by luu 3 years ago | 46 comments

Pixpaint, a browser-based painting toy by Max Bittker with a black canvas and a color palette for drawing pixels.

Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware(github.com)

492 points by kkielhofner 3 years ago | 121 comments

GitHub repository for Willow, an open-source, self-hosted voice assistant firmware for Espressif ESP BOX hardware that integrates with Home Assistant.

Smol Developer(github.com)

460 points by tlarkworthy 3 years ago | 113 comments

GitHub repository for smol-ai's Smol Developer, an open-source AI agent that generates entire codebases from prompts using large context windows.

My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated(blog.visionarycto.com)

439 points by spo81rty 3 years ago | 442 comments

A Substack essay from The Visionary CTO reflecting on how all the code from the author's 20-year career has become technical debt or been deprecated.

random(random(random(random())))(openprocessing.org)

341 points by Alifatisk 3 years ago | 131 comments

An OpenProcessing sketch visualizing how nesting random() calls changes the distribution of points within a circle.

Come back, c2.com, we still need you(wiki.c2.com)

325 points by joshuanapoli 3 years ago | 131 comments

The c2.com WikiWikiWeb, Ward Cunningham's original wiki, currently returning a "page does not exist" message instead of content.

Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

313 points by civeng 3 years ago | 294 comments

Taxonomy of Procrastination(dynomight.net)

301 points by DerekBickerton 3 years ago | 68 comments

Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office(techradar.com)

297 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 297 comments

LobbyFacts – Exposing lobbying in European institutions(lobbyfacts.eu)

296 points by belter 3 years ago | 37 comments

This blog is hosted on my Android phone(androidblog.a.pinggy.io)

287 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 182 comments

StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length(arxiv.org)

285 points by belter 3 years ago | 135 comments

Uncensored Models(erichartford.com)

269 points by rahidz 3 years ago | 272 comments

Pinball is booming in America(economist.com)

247 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 223 comments

Mormon whistleblower says is his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”(cbsnews.com)

245 points by nabla9 3 years ago | 197 comments

Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy(nytimes.com)

240 points by mikhael 3 years ago | 204 comments

Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s(amygoodchild.com)

232 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 29 comments

LTESniffer – An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper(github.com)

227 points by conductor 3 years ago | 40 comments

Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI(twitter.com)

223 points by jlowin 3 years ago | 158 comments

VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages(gist.github.com)

220 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 102 comments

Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet(kaspersky.com)

187 points by freerk 3 years ago | 129 comments

Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up?(jack-vanlightly.com)

184 points by gagejustins 3 years ago | 122 comments

Introduction to the Fourier transform for image processing(cs.unm.edu)

182 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 27 comments

Blizzard says mandatory return-to-office policy has 'cost some amazing people'(pcgamer.com)

181 points by ahiknsr 3 years ago | 173 comments

This Word Does Not Exist(thisworddoesnotexist.com)

180 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 103 comments

U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr(theintercept.com)

178 points by mikece 3 years ago | 113 comments

Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles(stratechery.com)

157 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 148 comments

Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?(janromme.com)

157 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 96 comments

The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up(wired.com)

157 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 39 comments

Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023(macrumors.com)

153 points by carlycue 3 years ago | 136 comments

Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

148 points by surrTurr 3 years ago | 129 comments

Bark: A transformer based text to audio system(github.com)

145 points by antman 3 years ago | 41 comments

The Maddest My Code Made Anyone(jackkelly.name)

145 points by signa11 3 years ago | 106 comments

Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?(theguardian.com)

143 points by isomorph 3 years ago | 414 comments

Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites(space.com)

140 points by gmays 3 years ago | 90 comments

Basic SAT model of x86 instructions using Z3, autogenerated from Intel docs(github.com)

139 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 20 comments

Vice files for Bankruptcy(bloomberg.com)

134 points by 7ero 3 years ago | 99 comments

Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins(nih.gov)

132 points by geox 3 years ago | 118 comments

A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert(hcn.org)

131 points by bikenaga 3 years ago | 102 comments

Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease(tomshardware.com)

131 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 180 comments

Deadlines as Technology(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

121 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 41 comments

So, how do you refill an aquifer?(heatmap.news)

119 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 81 comments

Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers(spectrum.ieee.org)

118 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 78 comments

F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio](fossandcrafts.org)

117 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 43 comments

Show HN: Use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and Claude in One App(github.com)

115 points by wonderfuly 3 years ago | 43 comments

ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)(scholarturbo.com)

112 points by marcametz 3 years ago | 61 comments

GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including Nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations(infoq.com)

112 points by mikece 3 years ago | 82 comments

Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple(ripleys.com)

109 points by nonethewiser 3 years ago | 138 comments

CMU Common Lisp 21e(gitlab.common-lisp.net)

109 points by mepian 3 years ago | 14 comments

Stories We’ve Seen Too Often(strangehorizons.com)

107 points by ddougj 3 years ago | 71 comments

We Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video](youtube.com)

107 points by ducktective 3 years ago | 46 comments

Gambling firm allegedly paid blogs to link new mothers to its online games(theguardian.com)

105 points by sandebert 3 years ago | 87 comments

Server-sent events(developer.mozilla.org)

100 points by corentin88 3 years ago | 89 comments

EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona(clic.epfl.ch)

99 points by eps 3 years ago | 148 comments

Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database builder for communities(sortabase.com)

98 points by Trayja-Peter 3 years ago | 29 comments

It Wasn't AI(itwasntai.com)

96 points by dbrereton 3 years ago | 96 comments

LMQL: A query language for programming (large) language models(github.com)

92 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 10 comments

The groundbreaking plan to map the entire human immune system(freethink.com)

81 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 7 comments

Windows 2000 64-bit for Alpha AXP(virtuallyfun.com)

79 points by zdw 3 years ago | 54 comments