Hacker News on Wednesday, 14 June 2023

I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours(rwmj.wordpress.com)

759 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 250 comments

Blog post by Richard WM Jones describing booting the Linux kernel 292,612 times in 21 hours, likely to track down a kernel bug.

New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes(ogletree.com)

746 points by hhs 3 years ago | 200 comments

Ogletree Deakins law firm article from June 2023 reporting that the New York State Senate passed a bill prohibiting non-compete agreements.

First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources(public.substack.com)

603 points by larsiusprime 3 years ago | 569 comments

A Public (Substack) article claiming US government sources identified Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists doing gain-of-function research as the first COVID-19 cases.

Native JSON Output from GPT-4(yonom.substack.com)

552 points by yonom 3 years ago | 232 comments

A Substack post by Simon Farshid exploring OpenAI's new function calling API for getting structured JSON output from GPT-4.

Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted(sfgate.com)

458 points by gnicholas 3 years ago | 277 comments

SFGATE article about Kay Dean, a Bay Area woman investigating fraudulent reviews on Yelp to show they can't be trusted.

The Reddit blackout will continue(old.reddit.com)

391 points by taubek 3 years ago | 347 comments

r/ModCoord announcement post outlining next steps for an indefinite Reddit blackout protesting API changes that kill third-party apps, and polling communities.

The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes – TechRadar(techradar.com)

361 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 312 comments

TechRadar opinion piece arguing that the Reddit subreddit blackout exposed how heavily Google search results depend on Reddit content.

I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)(blog.benjojo.co.uk)

352 points by luu 3 years ago | 57 comments

A 2015 blog post by Ben Cox about April Fools' RFCs, focusing on real-world use of the RFC 3514 "evil bit" in IPv4 packets.

Always the same warning signs(science.org)

334 points by rossdavidh 3 years ago | 150 comments

Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post on Science.org about recurring warning signs in biotech and pharma business ventures.

Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED(nassiben.com)

297 points by jedisct1 3 years ago | 75 comments

Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity(alphagalileo.org)

286 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 246 comments

Trapped Under Trucks(propublica.org)

248 points by danso 3 years ago | 200 comments

The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021)(fs.blog)

248 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 100 comments

I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients(inflecthealth.medium.com)

245 points by SLHamlet 3 years ago | 189 comments

APIs for content sites must be free(somebits.com)

244 points by NelsonMinar 3 years ago | 238 comments

What Reddit Got Wrong(eff.org)

242 points by cryoz 3 years ago | 175 comments

EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling(theverge.com)

235 points by HatchedLake721 3 years ago | 263 comments

Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat?(cyberdemon.org)

235 points by dmazin 3 years ago | 216 comments

Getting to know the right people (2022)(notebook.drmaciver.com)

227 points by SenHeng 3 years ago | 102 comments

Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with APIs(shishirpatil.github.io)

222 points by throwaway888abc 3 years ago | 38 comments

Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?(progress.institute)

219 points by scythe 3 years ago | 306 comments

NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen(mamot.fr)

211 points by franky47 3 years ago | 210 comments

A 5.7 Terapixel Mosaic of the Surface of Mars(murray-lab.caltech.edu)

199 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 61 comments

AMD openSIL open source firmware proof of concept(github.com)

197 points by wmf 3 years ago | 36 comments

Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010)(johndcook.com)

196 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 129 comments

Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs – comparing available capacity at GPU cloud providers(llm-utils.org)

164 points by tikkun 3 years ago | 108 comments

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)(software.rajivprab.com)

158 points by whack 3 years ago | 72 comments

33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task(arxiv.org)

153 points by puttycat 3 years ago | 109 comments

Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting user locations by analyzing SMS timings(arxiv.org)

150 points by belter 3 years ago | 28 comments

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent(techcrunch.com)

144 points by zdw 3 years ago | 66 comments

Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

142 points by Quinzel 3 years ago | 138 comments

WinFsp · Windows File System Proxy(github.com)

140 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 31 comments

How to listen to database changes using Postgres triggers in elixir(peterullrich.com)

137 points by pjullrich 3 years ago | 51 comments

Gandi.net – Pricing Update(cloudflare-ipfs.com)

137 points by aendruk 3 years ago | 138 comments

SETI scientists to devise plan for lunar listening station(supercluster.com)

136 points by yk 3 years ago | 93 comments

Scientists Discover Phosphorus on Enceladus(tlpnetwork.com)

136 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 23 comments

France’s Mistral AI raises a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI(techcrunch.com)

132 points by rbrown 3 years ago | 108 comments

Phoenix LiveView: Async Assign Pattern(blog.andyglassman.com)

132 points by gnutrino 3 years ago | 20 comments

Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It(yugabyte.com)

126 points by ddorian43 3 years ago | 64 comments

Rash – The Reckless Racket Shell(rash-lang.org)

125 points by nrabulinski 3 years ago | 25 comments

MacOS X 10.1 (2001)(toastytech.com)

120 points by wastedbrains 3 years ago | 154 comments

Toward a more useful keyboard(github.com)

119 points by quyleanh 3 years ago | 117 comments

New Functionality: Bluetooth for Raspberry Pi Pico W(raspberrypi.com)

114 points by crispinh 3 years ago | 25 comments

Gamification, life, and the pursuit of a gold badge (2021)(austinhenley.com)

113 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 44 comments

Launch HN: Credal.ai (YC W23) – Data Safety for Enterprise AI

104 points by r_thambapillai 3 years ago | 23 comments

Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust (2019)(osblog.stephenmarz.com)

103 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 19 comments

Brain fog after Covid-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain’ in humans and mice(med.stanford.edu)

103 points by amichail 3 years ago | 32 comments

The PostgreSQL documentation and the limitations of community(rhaas.blogspot.com)

102 points by zdw 3 years ago | 52 comments

Zap – Fast backends in Zig(github.com)

97 points by jedisct1 3 years ago | 46 comments

New RAM card, prototype Mac Portable, demo System 7(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

94 points by classichasclass 3 years ago | 17 comments

Dingo, an open source robot dog(github.com)

84 points by stingrae 3 years ago | 32 comments

SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple(simulavr.com)

84 points by georgewsinger 3 years ago | 102 comments

When Talent Is Not Enough(albertcory50.substack.com)

81 points by btilly 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Complete ZX Spectrum ROM disassembly (1983) [pdf](primrosebank.net)

80 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Agency – Unifying human, AI, and other computing systems, in Python(github.com)

80 points by 0perand 3 years ago | 11 comments

The microarchitectures that I saw and the ones that I hope to one day see [pdf](hardwear.io)

80 points by luu 3 years ago | 21 comments

OpenAI Releases Function Calling for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4(platform.openai.com)

79 points by nlh 3 years ago | 21 comments

Attention is Turing complete (2021) [pdf](jmlr.org)

74 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: I’m building open-source headless CMS for technical content(vrite.io)

73 points by arek_nawo 3 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Scribbler – Podcast Summaries Using GPT(app.scribbler.so)

71 points by _fill 3 years ago | 21 comments