Hacker News on Thursday, 25 May 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf](math.cmu.edu)

841 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 142 comments

A PDF textbook from Carnegie Mellon introducing mathematical thinking, logic, and proof-writing for beginning university students.

Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site(jalopnik.com)

481 points by VagueMag 3 years ago | 470 comments

Jalopnik news article reporting that a whistleblower leaked 100 GB of internal Tesla data to German outlet Handelsblatt.

How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset(lightning.ai)

465 points by T-A 3 years ago | 118 comments

Lightning AI blog tutorial by Aniket Maurya explaining how to finetune GPT-like large language models on a custom dataset.

AI Canon(a16z.com)

446 points by nihit-desai 3 years ago | 196 comments

Andreessen Horowitz's "AI Canon," a curated list of resources for learning about modern AI and generative AI, by Derrick Harris, Matt Bornstein, and Guido Appenzeller.

Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

363 points by ReadCarlBarks 3 years ago | 267 comments

Mozilla Bugzilla bug 1835158 reporting that Firefox 113 showed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page, closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

War Is a Racket (1935)(archive.org)

343 points by pasquinelli 3 years ago | 453 comments

Internet Archive page hosting the full text of Major General Smedley Butler's 1935 book War Is A Racket, about war profiteering.

Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet(coloradosun.com)

314 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 102 comments

Neanderthal Flute(nms.si)

306 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 123 comments

Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages(deno.com)

258 points by unripe_syntax 3 years ago | 86 comments

Show HN: Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University)

257 points by jayalammar 3 years ago | 31 comments

Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go(notes.eatonphil.com)

247 points by simjue 3 years ago | 66 comments

VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework(github.com)

233 points by Lwrless 3 years ago | 187 comments

Cases where full scans are better than indexes(jefftk.com)

223 points by xnx 3 years ago | 196 comments

Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs(gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu)

220 points by shishirpatil 3 years ago | 105 comments

Archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church(medievalists.net)

190 points by quakeguy 3 years ago | 60 comments

Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4(bit.kevinslin.com)

184 points by kevinslin 3 years ago | 73 comments

Jj: JSON Stream Editor(github.com)

165 points by ingve 3 years ago | 39 comments

Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google(gitlab.com)

156 points by fodmap 3 years ago | 125 comments

Kissinger's killing fields(theintercept.com)

152 points by l3mure 3 years ago | 101 comments

Alien was released 44 years ago today(twitter.com)

137 points by tosh 3 years ago | 130 comments

US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories(arabnews.com)

135 points by belter 3 years ago | 128 comments

Jails on FreeBSD(ogris.de)

129 points by rodrigo975 3 years ago | 103 comments

ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase(supabase.com)

129 points by cendenta 3 years ago | 20 comments

Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode(theregister.com)

124 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 121 comments

New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI(bbc.com)

122 points by tsenapathy 3 years ago | 43 comments

Hacker News in Slow Italian(hn.lingually.ai)

121 points by lakySK 3 years ago | 74 comments

Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN(val.town)

120 points by stevekrouse 3 years ago | 74 comments

Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates(studyfinds.org)

120 points by rajnathani 3 years ago | 114 comments

PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1(postgresql.org)

115 points by jkatz05 3 years ago | 40 comments

The XY Problem (2014)(xyproblem.info)

112 points by nitinreddy88 3 years ago | 89 comments

Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals(news.ucsc.edu)

109 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 26 comments

Chatbot Arena Leaderboard(lmsys.org)

98 points by tosh 3 years ago | 27 comments

Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers(blog.replit.com)

98 points by osener 3 years ago | 59 comments

Flowers for Turing(equalitytime.github.io)

95 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 9 comments

IUP – Cross platform C GUI library(tecgraf.puc-rio.br)

94 points by inxode 3 years ago | 37 comments

DARPA’s silent MHD magnetic drives for replacing naval propellers(naval-technology.com)

93 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 85 comments

Germany Falls into Recession(cnn.com)

91 points by super256 3 years ago | 77 comments

New Playground: Memory Spy(jvns.ca)

90 points by modinfo 3 years ago | 3 comments

Curing brain tumors: blocking functions in cells with a docked molecule(medicalxpress.com)

89 points by wglb 3 years ago | 20 comments

Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights(youtube.com)

83 points by trymas 3 years ago | 101 comments

JobRunr: A library for background processing in Java(jobrunr.io)

82 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 42 comments

The Birth of the Self(hudsonreview.com)

71 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 31 comments

Framework Laptop 16(frame.work)

68 points by kristianp 3 years ago | 15 comments

Ethereum Ceremony – Add your randomness to prepare the way for EIP-4844(ceremony.ethereum.org)

67 points by kristianpaul 3 years ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: What happened to fuzzy logic?

67 points by _448 3 years ago | 53 comments

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation(gizmodo.com)

63 points by rntn 3 years ago | 80 comments

SRI’s radioactive contamination treatment is now in its first-in-human trial(sri.com)

61 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

Automating everything in a USB cable tester PCB design(jitx.com)

60 points by caydenpiercehax 3 years ago | 27 comments

Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto(elliptic.co)

57 points by ourmandave 3 years ago | 37 comments

58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it(pewresearch.org)

54 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 38 comments

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster(theregister.com)

51 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 56 comments

Tesla Model Y is now the world's best-selling car, first EV to do so(electrek.co)

46 points by belltaco 3 years ago | 35 comments

Observable Plot 0.6.7 released: pointer interaction, tip mark(twitter.com)

45 points by mbostock 3 years ago | 7 comments

The obvious final step(akrzemi1.wordpress.com)

44 points by codewiz 3 years ago | 41 comments

Psychiatric detentions rise in first year of 988 hotline(madinamerica.com)

44 points by VagueMag 3 years ago | 40 comments

An interactive introduction to the surface code(arthurpesah.me)

42 points by EvgeniyZh 3 years ago | 9 comments

There May Be a Second Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons Is Headed There(spaceref.com)

38 points by belter 3 years ago | 1 comments

PostgresML raises $4.7M to launch serverless AI app databases based on Postgres(postgresml.org)

36 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 14 comments

Media Bias Fact Check: Hacker News(mediabiasfactcheck.com)

36 points by Zetice 3 years ago | 36 comments

I Fired Myself(blog.cto.berlin)

35 points by ctoberlin 3 years ago | 42 comments