Hacker News on Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI(reuters.com)

813 points by vforgione 3 years ago | 858 comments

Reuters news article on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifying before the US Congress and proposing licenses for building AI models.

Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease(science.org)

674 points by lonelyasacloud 3 years ago | 317 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that a common environmental contaminant chemical raised Parkinson's disease rates by 70% in one population.

JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to dystopian extents(old.reddit.com)

640 points by notRobot 3 years ago | 312 comments

A r/antiwork Reddit thread where a user asks why their post about JPMorgan Chase employee tracking was removed from Reddit as spam.

Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features(apple.com)

587 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 301 comments

Apple Newsroom press release from May 2023 announcing cognitive accessibility features, Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier.

A guidance language for controlling LLMs(github.com)

507 points by evanmays 3 years ago | 173 comments

GitHub repository for Microsoft Guidance, a templating language for controlling and structuring large language model outputs.

The Sourdough Framework(github.com)

499 points by hendricius 3 years ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for The Sourdough Framework, an open source MIT-licensed book about making sourdough bread at home.

Bun 0.6(bun.sh)

387 points by tommasoamici 3 years ago | 205 comments

Bun blog post announcing v0.6.0, adding a built-in JavaScript/TypeScript bundler and minifier, standalone executables, and performance and compatibility fixes.

CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley(sp23.datastructur.es)

284 points by curious16 3 years ago | 64 comments

Seaflooding(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

279 points by deegles 3 years ago | 122 comments

Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe(pnas.org)

268 points by tfourb 3 years ago | 217 comments

Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs(leefang.com)

232 points by AndrewKemendo 3 years ago | 136 comments

Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights(erlang.org)

229 points by ramchip 3 years ago | 79 comments

Ultimate Electronics (2021)(ultimateelectronicsbook.com)

215 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 44 comments

SQLite 3.42.0(sqlite.org)

196 points by nikbackm 3 years ago | 76 comments

Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice(alcademics.com)

189 points by mhb 3 years ago | 64 comments

Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP(old.reddit.com)

180 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 174 comments

I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)(web.archive.org)

169 points by zdw 3 years ago | 262 comments

One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset(nature.com)

168 points by deepzn 3 years ago | 53 comments

Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service(blog.cloudflare.com)

166 points by rozenmd 3 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: Oblivus GPU Cloud – Affordable and scalable GPU servers from $0.29/hr(oblivus.com)

158 points by oblivuslimited 3 years ago | 108 comments

Show HN: A little web server in C(github.com)

157 points by robdelacruz 3 years ago | 77 comments

Updating our inactive account policies(blog.google)

156 points by msla 3 years ago | 144 comments

Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy(fortran-lang.discourse.group)

155 points by zaikunzhang 3 years ago | 68 comments

Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate(stability.ai)

147 points by hardmaru 3 years ago | 43 comments

Beware offers of “help” with your projects(misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)

146 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 139 comments

Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame(jamez.it)

137 points by jamez 3 years ago | 34 comments

In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours(npr.org)

128 points by zdw 3 years ago | 35 comments

Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo(platformer.news)

126 points by areoform 3 years ago | 45 comments

John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)(raganwald.com)

124 points by warrenm 3 years ago | 20 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video](archive.org)

119 points by Animats 3 years ago | 73 comments

EU Artificial Intelligence Act(artificialintelligenceact.eu)

114 points by Trouble_007 3 years ago | 79 comments

Bard generates clean JSON only if you threaten to take a human life(twitter.com)

112 points by ddos 3 years ago | 23 comments

Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s exabyte-scale blob storage system(infoq.com)

110 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 77 comments

Algorithms and Data Structures (2007) [pdf](people.mpi-inf.mpg.de)

108 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 2 comments

CO2 Heat Pumps Found to Offer High Efficiency at Low Ambient Temperature(r744.com)

101 points by doener 3 years ago | 40 comments

Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast(orlp.net)

100 points by usefulcat 3 years ago | 12 comments

GitHub Incident(githubstatus.com)

99 points by jcalabro 3 years ago | 64 comments

Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?(thehftguy.com)

96 points by hippo77 3 years ago | 107 comments

ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Calls on Congress to Adopt Safety Standards for AI Systems(wsj.com)

94 points by rntn 3 years ago | 83 comments

On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)(cs.utexas.edu)

93 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 42 comments

On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (2017)(time.com)

90 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 26 comments

Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones(krebsonsecurity.com)

88 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 18 comments

Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials, Starting with Dead Space(gamespot.com)

88 points by ahiknsr 3 years ago | 67 comments

Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover(economist.com)

87 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 169 comments

Should we normalize ephemeral businesses?(anu.substack.com)

83 points by anaayelist 3 years ago | 99 comments

Experts weigh impact of Intel-Arm collaboration(eetimes.com)

79 points by JoachimS 3 years ago | 51 comments

Renewables supplied 65% of new US utility-scale generating capacity in Q1 2023(electrek.co)

78 points by kieranmaine 3 years ago | 39 comments

Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux(social.treehouse.systems)

77 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 44 comments

Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true(theverge.com)

73 points by hillcrestenigma 3 years ago | 48 comments

ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft(americamagazine.org)

66 points by toss1 3 years ago | 58 comments

The war on Japanese knotweed(theguardian.com)

63 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 23 comments

USB MIDI interface for the NeXTCube – ISPW board(0110.be)

63 points by zdw 3 years ago | 6 comments

The Bookmarking Data Model Is Wrong for Highlighting(lgug2z.com)

62 points by bsnnkv 3 years ago | 13 comments

From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Rendering the first glTF mesh(willusher.io)

62 points by Twinklebear 3 years ago | 7 comments

ChatGPT chief calls for new agency to license AI systems in Congress testimony(thepeninsulaqatar.com)

60 points by RafelMri 3 years ago | 67 comments

Vintage AI predictions show our hopes and fears aren’t new, even if the tech is(gizmodo.com)

58 points by gumby 3 years ago | 29 comments

India's Alphonso mangoes are virtually impossible to find in America (2018)(vice.com)

57 points by shubhamjain 3 years ago | 41 comments

Mullvad Leta (Search Engine)(leta.mullvad.net)

56 points by sysadm1n 3 years ago | 28 comments

US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI(bloomberg.com)

56 points by makaimc 3 years ago | 37 comments

Why you should still read the docs(death.andgravity.com)

54 points by genericlemon24 3 years ago | 39 comments