Hacker News on Sunday, 21 May 2023

Writing Python like it's Rust(kobzol.github.io)

441 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 266 comments

A blog post on applying Rust-inspired practices like strict type hints and sound API design to writing Python code.

Beej's Guide to Network Programming(beej.us)

430 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 78 comments

Landing page for Beej's Guide to Network Programming, a free online guide to using Internet sockets in C, with links to buy a print edition.

PrivateGPT(github.com)

392 points by antouank 3 years ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for privateGPT, an open-source tool for querying your own documents with GPT-style LLMs locally and privately without data leaks.

The end of the accounting search(lwn.net)

356 points by belter 3 years ago | 180 comments

LWN editor Jonathan Corbet describes finally replacing proprietary QuickBooks with free-software accounting after a search that began in 2007.

Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser(engine.study)

348 points by serverlessmom 3 years ago | 92 comments

Blog post on the ENGINE site describing modding Age of Empires II by generating building sprites with a diffusion model.

GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers(arxiv.org)

273 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 216 comments

Rodney Brooks on GPT-4(spectrum.ieee.org)

241 points by marshblocker 3 years ago | 292 comments

Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled(arstechnica.com)

230 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 168 comments

Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift(github.com)

223 points by hnand 3 years ago | 201 comments

Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps(github.com)

213 points by willm 3 years ago | 61 comments

Suspicious iOS KeePass Client(old.reddit.com)

212 points by natrys 3 years ago | 128 comments

Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)(surma.dev)

207 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 28 comments

The DRAKON Language(drakonhub.com)

200 points by brudgers 3 years ago | 35 comments

How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?(pkolaczk.github.io)

197 points by pkolaczk 3 years ago | 168 comments

Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s(wsj.com)

194 points by lxm 3 years ago | 181 comments

Noise is all around us(thewalrus.ca)

190 points by akeck 3 years ago | 140 comments

Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)(feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

188 points by sethbannon 3 years ago | 43 comments

KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis(docs.keydb.dev)

181 points by nilsbunger 3 years ago | 112 comments

Show HN: SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges(badgers.space)

180 points by splittydev 3 years ago | 38 comments

Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023(dolphin-emu.org)

178 points by thepbone 3 years ago | 52 comments

High-Performance Graph Databases(arxiv.org)

174 points by belter 3 years ago | 51 comments

Building a Handheld PC(bytewelder.com)

170 points by lo2y 3 years ago | 24 comments

Toaster: Pure CSS 3D Editor(petertyliu.github.io)

166 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 31 comments

The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked(twitter.com)

163 points by avian 3 years ago | 211 comments

Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

161 points by bojangleslover 3 years ago | 256 comments

An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and Its Effects(lauren.vortex.com)

151 points by PrimeMcFly 3 years ago | 97 comments

Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing(fullstackdeeplearning.com)

146 points by nihit-desai 3 years ago | 52 comments

TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language(toml.io)

134 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 175 comments

AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity(reuters.com)

129 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 140 comments

DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet(arxiv.org)

128 points by rajtilakjee 3 years ago | 52 comments

Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language(en.wikipedia.org)

125 points by lisper 3 years ago | 83 comments

Testing a Formally Verified Compiler(hal.science)

119 points by luu 3 years ago | 28 comments

'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma(engadget.com)

116 points by cf100clunk 3 years ago | 93 comments

Tell HN: Be aware of people trying to scam contractors

113 points by AlexITC 3 years ago | 73 comments

ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (1955)(xav.io)

111 points by 082349872349872 3 years ago | 27 comments

Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy(inc.com)

109 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 160 comments

Typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types(github.com)

108 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 39 comments

For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen(nature.com)

106 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 72 comments

Study finds 90% of Australian teachers can't afford to live where they teach(phys.org)

99 points by tremon 3 years ago | 138 comments

r9: Plan 9 in Rust(github.com)

97 points by noja 3 years ago | 22 comments

Arch Linux: Git migration completed(archlinux.org)

93 points by timnf 3 years ago | 18 comments

Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025(artnews.com)

90 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 83 comments

KLOR – A 36-42 keys column-staggered split keyboard(github.com)

90 points by 7839284023 3 years ago | 89 comments

Deep neural networks as computational graphs (2018)(medium.com)

88 points by softwaredoug 3 years ago | 39 comments

Recreating RP2040 PIO Interface in an FPGA(github.com)

87 points by f_devd 3 years ago | 31 comments

In Defense of Pure 16-Bit Floating-Point Neural Networks(arxiv.org)

80 points by belter 3 years ago | 32 comments

Success to the successful(riskmusings.substack.com)

78 points by vitabenes 3 years ago | 51 comments

Clinical validation of a blood-pressure sensor for continuous health monitoring(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

78 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 17 comments

PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless(blog.yossarian.net)

74 points by woodruffw 3 years ago | 71 comments

HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update(bleepingcomputer.com)

74 points by miles 3 years ago | 57 comments

Hoarding(michaelsamsel.com)

73 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 47 comments

Reasons Not to Become Famous(tim.blog)

72 points by barry-cotter 3 years ago | 71 comments

A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis (2002) [pdf](cs.otago.ac.nz)

70 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 7 comments

Plain Text Accounting(plaintextaccounting.org)

70 points by pessimizer 3 years ago | 27 comments

America’s skepticism toward the first automobiles (1930)(saturdayeveningpost.com)

69 points by dclowd9901 3 years ago | 92 comments

No Screens Cafe(cmart.blog)

67 points by chrismartin 3 years ago | 77 comments

A Microscopic Look at Snail Jaws(nhm.org)

66 points by dmbche 3 years ago | 7 comments

The Industrial Hammer Complex(eisenbergeffect.medium.com)

65 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 31 comments

Perfectly secure steganography using minimum entropy coupling(arxiv.org)

64 points by Topolomancer 3 years ago | 15 comments

San Francisco office values fall 75%(hoover.org)

64 points by xqcgrek2 3 years ago | 70 comments