Hacker News on Saturday, 20 May 2023

Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT(cs.stanford.edu)

805 points by talonx 3 years ago | 557 comments

A plain-text note by Donald Knuth recording twenty questions he posed to ChatGPT, with its answers and his commentary.

Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline(github.com)

480 points by notjoemartinez 3 years ago | 144 comments

GitHub repository for yt-fts, a Python command-line tool that scrapes a YouTube channel's subtitles into SQLite for full-text search with timestamped links.

Rooms.xyz(rooms.xyz)

429 points by prawn 3 years ago | 95 comments

Landing page for Rooms.xyz, a browser-based tool for creating and remixing interactive isometric voxel-style rooms.

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books(andreasfragner.com)

350 points by 42point2 3 years ago | 152 comments

Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.

FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says(wsj.com)

341 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 181 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting the FBI improperly searched a foreign-intelligence database for information on Jan. 6 rioters and George Floyd protesters, per the FISA court.

We will be shutting down neeva.com(neeva.com)

315 points by oidar 3 years ago | 235 comments

People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living(english.elpais.com)

290 points by belter 3 years ago | 283 comments

Using ChatGPT for home automation(atomic14.com)

232 points by iamflimflam1 3 years ago | 95 comments

Axle OS(axleos.com)

216 points by mmphosis 3 years ago | 34 comments

U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce(spectrum.ieee.org)

207 points by mikhael 3 years ago | 215 comments

Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)(marckhoury.github.io)

200 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 53 comments

Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub(torrentfreak.com)

157 points by gslin 3 years ago | 95 comments

The long life of Apache httpd 2.4(utcc.utoronto.ca)

156 points by ingve 3 years ago | 121 comments

SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised(arstechnica.com)

154 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 62 comments

“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4(gist.github.com)

153 points by LifeIsBio 3 years ago | 74 comments

A digital payments revolution in India(economist.com)

150 points by saikatsg 3 years ago | 142 comments

PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended(status.python.org)

150 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 96 comments

Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos(xtramagazine.com)

145 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 44 comments

WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50(businessinsider.com)

139 points by redbell 3 years ago | 194 comments

Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water(news.stanford.edu)

139 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 70 comments

Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay(japantoday.com)

135 points by edandersen 3 years ago | 118 comments

Symbolics Lisp Machines Graphics Demo (1990) [video](youtube.com)

131 points by mepian 3 years ago | 55 comments

Building a Signal Analyzer with Modern Web Tech(cprimozic.net)

125 points by Ameo 3 years ago | 27 comments

Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture(tomshardware.com)

121 points by MR4D 3 years ago | 93 comments

A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (2019)(wired.com)

110 points by venmul 3 years ago | 48 comments

Using Advanced Camera Tech and AI to Target the Poor(petapixel.com)

106 points by dxs 3 years ago | 49 comments

Martin Amis has died(theguardian.com)

101 points by rocketbop 3 years ago | 25 comments

GlitchTip: An open source, Sentry API compatible error tracking platform(gitlab.com)

96 points by benatkin 3 years ago | 16 comments

Hitler’s Antarctic base: the myth and the reality (2007) [pdf](histarmar.com.ar)

95 points by aww_dang 3 years ago | 48 comments

Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication(mw.lojban.org)

90 points by lordylord 3 years ago | 117 comments

Thales seizes control of ESA demonstration satellite in cybersecurity exercise(thalesgroup.com)

88 points by belter 3 years ago | 38 comments

Solving Intermittent Cable Modem Issues(duckware.com)

87 points by miles 3 years ago | 32 comments

Apple-1 ELIZA chatbot vs. ChatGPT [video](youtube.com)

87 points by pizza 3 years ago | 48 comments

How Do Semiconductors Work? Introduction to SiliWiz(tinytapeout.com)

83 points by transpute 3 years ago | 4 comments

OpenEPaperLink: Alternative Firmware for ZBS243-Based eInk Shelf Labels(github.com)

82 points by zdw 3 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: My affordable solution to costly workflow automation: Embed Workflow(embedworkflow.com)

78 points by ewf 3 years ago | 17 comments

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?(generalist.com)

75 points by SongofEarth 3 years ago | 17 comments

Gfycat has been down for two days due to an expired SSL certificate(old.reddit.com)

73 points by thorum 3 years ago | 20 comments

Poverty Is the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the US, Research Shows(commondreams.org)

73 points by Paul-Craft 3 years ago | 41 comments

A rant on bus stops(walkingtheworld.substack.com)

73 points by Chris_arnade 3 years ago | 59 comments

Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT(puzzlemoji.com)

68 points by sunnyba 3 years ago | 57 comments

How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s surveillance machine(codastory.com)

68 points by f4f4f4f43f 3 years ago | 17 comments

Review: Energy and Civilization(thepsmiths.com)

62 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 26 comments

Sadist – An old DOS game from 1998(github.com)

50 points by nathell 3 years ago | 9 comments

Fermented coffee’s fruity aromas [video](youtube.com)

49 points by zdw 3 years ago | 10 comments

Almost 90M American Adults Struggle to Make Ends Meet, Census Says(bloomberg.com)

46 points by mennaali 3 years ago | 39 comments

Wrench Embedded Interpreter(northarc.com)

45 points by wryun 3 years ago | 15 comments

Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel at Netflix(netflixtechblog.com)

44 points by fork-bomber 3 years ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest(map.name)

43 points by bnd 3 years ago | 17 comments

Neeva, would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine(theverge.com)

42 points by samspenc 3 years ago | 25 comments

Google blew it with open source layoffs(infoworld.com)

39 points by transpute 3 years ago | 13 comments

Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?(nautil.us)

39 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 55 comments

An exploit can reveal your KeePass master password in plaintext(pcworld.com)

39 points by el_hacker 3 years ago | 30 comments

Attention, Hollywood: De-Aging Isn’t Working, So Please Stop Using It(variety.com)

35 points by marban 3 years ago | 24 comments

ONR Digital Computer Newsletter (1949-64)(bitsavers.org)

34 points by abrax3141 3 years ago | 3 comments

0+: A double digit Sharpe HFT strategy(blog.everstrike.io)

34 points by julianhul 3 years ago | 35 comments

China overtakes United States on contribution to research in Nature Index(nature.com)

34 points by eunos 3 years ago | 35 comments

Why districts are slow to charge market rates for water (2009)(onthepublicrecord.org)

33 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments

Does AI mean we don't need the Semantic Web?(shkspr.mobi)

33 points by edent 3 years ago | 35 comments

Thermal transfer compound comparison (2002)(dansdata.com)

33 points by pwg 3 years ago | 16 comments