Hacker News on Thursday, 6 July 2023

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

817 points by baron816 3 years ago | 462 comments

A Tell HN discussion thread reporting that nearly all of Evernote's remaining staff were laid off after Bending Spoons took over operations and raised prices.

evernote bending-spoons layoffs acquisitions

Screenshot of openai.com: GPT-4 API General Availability

GPT-4 API General Availability (openai.com)

695 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 479 comments

OpenAI blog post announcing general availability of the GPT-4 API and the deprecation of older models in the Completions API.

gpt-4 openai openai-api llm

Screenshot of airdisputes.com: Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won

Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won (airdisputes.com)

488 points by cromka 3 years ago | 239 comments

A blog post by Derrick Flanagin describing how he challenged Air France's denial of EU 261/2004 flight delay compensation and won.

eu-261 air-france flight-delay-compensation consumer-rights

Screenshot of godotengine.org: Godot 4.1

Godot 4.1 (godotengine.org)

449 points by freeCandy 3 years ago | 137 comments

Godot Engine's official announcement of the Godot 4.1 release of its open-source game engine.

godot game-engine release open-source

Screenshot of sqlite.org: Cloud Backed SQLite

Cloud Backed SQLite (sqlite.org)

414 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 125 comments

Documentation for Cloud Backed SQLite, a system for storing and accessing SQLite databases in cloud blob storage such as Azure and Google Cloud.

sqlite cloud-storage azure-blob-storage google-cloud-storage

Screenshot of archive.org: LEGO Building Instructions

LEGO Building Instructions (archive.org)

389 points by micah_chatt 3 years ago | 138 comments

Internet Archive collection of 6,854 LEGO building instruction booklet PDFs dumped from the LEGO website as of March 2023.

lego internet-archive building-instructions digital-preservation

Screenshot of twitter.com: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 (twitter.com)

388 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 332 comments

Tweet by Łukasz Langa noting Meta's Threads backend runs on Python 3.10 via Instagram's Cinder fork with a JIT, lazy imports, and other tweaks.

python cinder meta-threads cpython

Screenshot of owen.cafe: {n} times faster than C

{n} times faster than C (owen.cafe)

381 points by 414owen 3 years ago | 197 comments

Blog post that takes a clang-compiled C loop and hand-tweaks the x86 assembly in various ways, measuring the speedup of each change.

assembly x86 c performance

Screenshot of gazettengr.com: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone (gazettengr.com)

377 points by u2077 3 years ago | 331 comments

Peoples Gazette news article reporting that France passed a bill letting police remotely activate suspects' phone cameras, microphones and GPS.

surveillance france privacy law-enforcement

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government (arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.

first-amendment content-moderation social-media biden-administration

Screenshot of igalia.com: Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine