Hacker News on Monday, 5 June 2023

Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer(apple.com)

2505 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 2576 comments

Apple Newsroom press release from June 5, 2023 announcing Apple Vision Pro, the company's first spatial computer headset.

Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat(eff.org)

1189 points by prhrb 3 years ago | 186 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin (June 2023) warning that proposed changes threaten the public's ability to challenge low-quality patents.

The Rust I wanted had no future(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

797 points by dochtman 3 years ago | 426 comments

A Dreamwidth blog post by Graydon Hoare reflecting on his original vision for Rust; the capture shows only a captcha check page.

Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics(qri.org)

561 points by robinhouston 3 years ago | 252 comments

Qualia Research Institute blog post announcing a contest to create 'psychedelic cryptography': messages decodable only in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules(bloomberg.com)

554 points by kgwgk 3 years ago | 331 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that the SEC sued Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao for operating an unregistered securities exchange and improperly selling tokens.

GPT Best Practices(platform.openai.com)

540 points by yla92 3 years ago | 165 comments

OpenAI platform documentation guide outlining six strategies and tactics for getting better results from GPT models through prompting.

Google no longer automatically indexes websites?(natehoffelder.com)

532 points by c5karl 3 years ago | 447 comments

Blog post by Nate Hoffelder complaining that Google no longer automatically indexes websites, requiring manual submission.

Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami(ascii.textfiles.com)

496 points by kencausey 3 years ago | 103 comments

Blog post from Jason Scott's ASCII blog about preparing to archive a large incoming collection of Computer Shopper magazines; the page returned a resource limit error.

Generative AI learning path(cloudskillsboost.google)

457 points by sh_tomer 3 years ago | 110 comments

Google Cloud Skills Boost learning path of 10 activities covering generative AI fundamentals, LLMs, and deploying generative AI solutions on Google Cloud.

Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro(apple.com)

432 points by 0xedb 3 years ago | 357 comments

Apple press release from June 5, 2023 announcing a new Mac Studio with M2 Max/M2 Ultra and an M2 Ultra Mac Pro with PCIe expansion.

Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps(sandstorm.io)

432 points by srgpqt 3 years ago | 121 comments

Homepage of Sandstorm, an open source platform for easily and securely self-hosting web-based productivity apps.

An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner(twitter.com)

372 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 170 comments

A tweet by Jon Stone reporting that Austria's SPÖ announced the wrong leadership election winner because of an Excel spreadsheet error.

Apple Introduces M2 Ultra(apple.com)

324 points by 0xedb 3 years ago | 311 comments

Apple Newsroom press release from June 5, 2023 announcing the M2 Ultra chip with a faster CPU and GPU and support for more unified memory.

Moderation strike(meta.stackexchange.com)

320 points by mwint 3 years ago | 226 comments

A Meta Stack Exchange post announcing a moderation strike by volunteers protesting Stack Overflow, Inc.'s treatment of its community moderators.

Why Lisp Syntax Works(borretti.me)

288 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 262 comments

Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative(plebbit-test.netlify.app)

280 points by estebanabaroa 3 years ago | 192 comments

I wrote my own smart home software(renato.athaydes.com)

278 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 175 comments

Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest

260 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 100 comments

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time(nature.com)

257 points by geox 3 years ago | 137 comments

macOS 14 will support JPEG XL(twitter.com)

252 points by biggestfan 3 years ago | 91 comments

Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones for kids as old as 13(businessinsider.com)

242 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 228 comments

React, but in Python(github.com)

225 points by filippofinke 3 years ago | 129 comments

Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)

223 points by foxtacles 3 years ago | 135 comments

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

Some blogging myths(jvns.ca)

200 points by GavinAnderegg 3 years ago | 53 comments

iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive(apple.com)

199 points by mihau 3 years ago | 163 comments

Implementing Cosine in C from Scratch (2020)(austinhenley.com)

197 points by alraj 3 years ago | 79 comments

SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators(nytimes.com)

189 points by pyrophane 3 years ago | 94 comments

How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory(developer.chrome.com)

185 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 58 comments

Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots(typewritten.org)

182 points by zdw 3 years ago | 48 comments

Apple Vision Pro(apple.com)

177 points by sandgraham 3 years ago | 81 comments

Linux on the Xbox 360(lilysthings.org)

177 points by zdw 3 years ago | 45 comments

Apple Vision Pro Is Apple's New VR Headset(theverge.com)

161 points by xNeil 3 years ago | 118 comments

Why did Usenet fail?(shkspr.mobi)

148 points by edent 3 years ago | 226 comments

Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps(theverge.com)

146 points by netfortius 3 years ago | 99 comments

Never trust a programmer who says they know C++(lbrandy.com)

132 points by sh_tomer 3 years ago | 179 comments

We've been targeted with a credit card testing fraud attack on Stripe(twitter.com)

117 points by weird-eye-issue 3 years ago | 64 comments

Poor people often don’t survive to become seniors who vote(nymag.com)

115 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 69 comments

Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset(macrumors.com)

113 points by clairity 3 years ago | 66 comments

Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip(macrumors.com)

109 points by clairity 3 years ago | 71 comments

Helplessness is not learned (2022)(neurofrontiers.blog)

109 points by robtherobber 3 years ago | 53 comments

iOS Reddit App Apollo's Developer Surprised by WWDC Callout(old.reddit.com)

106 points by doctoboggan 3 years ago | 21 comments

Pixar lays off animator who saved Toy Story 2 with car full of hard drives(sfgate.com)

103 points by starkparker 3 years ago | 70 comments

Is there a wider internet outage today?(thousandeyes.com)

103 points by brucethemoose2 3 years ago | 75 comments

Huh, our fake beach is good for sharks(hakaimagazine.com)

102 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 12 comments

Apple reveals Vision Pro, a AR/VR headset unlike any other(arstechnica.com)

100 points by thx-2718 3 years ago | 42 comments

WhatsApp Down(web.whatsapp.com)

99 points by Avlin67 3 years ago | 57 comments

Open-Source Data Collection Platform for LLM Fine-Tuning and RLHF(argilla.io)

99 points by dvilasuero 3 years ago | 11 comments

Three companies agree to pay $1B to settle 'forever chemical' claims(cnn.com)

98 points by gmays 3 years ago | 54 comments

Apple Announces Apple Silicon Mac Pro Powered by M2 Ultra(9to5mac.com)

97 points by mikece 3 years ago | 59 comments

A prompt pattern catalog to enhance prompt engineering with ChatGPT(arxiv.org)

95 points by aliparlakci 3 years ago | 20 comments

Building a programming language in twenty-four hours(ersei.net)

93 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 33 comments

Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here(techcrunch.com)

90 points by mikece 3 years ago | 55 comments

Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist?(obe.tv)

88 points by mmcclure 3 years ago | 43 comments

Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project(floraincognita.com)

88 points by retro_guy 3 years ago | 23 comments

New Massachusetts right-to-repair law now being enforced(boston.com)

85 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 35 comments

Scientists' report first X-ray of a single atom(phys.org)

84 points by wglb 3 years ago | 19 comments

The Meltdown at CNN(theatlantic.com)

79 points by jgalt212 3 years ago | 73 comments

Teardown and review of a new 386 system: Hand386(yeokhengmeng.com)

76 points by ingve 3 years ago | 35 comments

Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month(theregister.com)

75 points by belter 3 years ago | 41 comments