Hacker News on Saturday, 8 July 2023

When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option(mastodon.gamedev.place)

926 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 357 comments

A Mastodon post arguing that OS permission prompts should offer an option to feed apps fake data such as generated contacts, ambient sounds, or fake location.

If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython(discuss.python.org)

580 points by bratao 3 years ago | 397 comments

A Python Discourse thread post on PEP 703 stating Meta would commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython if the proposal is accepted.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python(statlearning.com)

359 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 65 comments

Official website for the textbook An Introduction to Statistical Learning, offering free downloads of the R and Python editions plus resources and errata.

Learn electronics by practice(beletronics.wordpress.com)

332 points by Sandman 3 years ago | 63 comments

A WordPress site offering practice-based lessons for learning electronics, organized into parts with schematics and breadboard builds.

Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.

I stopped buying new laptops (2020)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

295 points by danradunchev 3 years ago | 414 comments

PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS(github.com)

284 points by raghavankl 3 years ago | 120 comments

Langchain Is Pointless(old.reddit.com)

257 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 119 comments

Why use Pascal?(castle-engine.io)

256 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 250 comments

iVentoy(iventoy.com)

227 points by jaclaz 3 years ago | 34 comments

Superrational(skunkledger.substack.com)

216 points by everybodyknows 3 years ago | 63 comments

Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed(github.com)

212 points by ekiauhce 3 years ago | 191 comments

The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod(kotaku.com)

209 points by bryan0 3 years ago | 55 comments

California needs real math education, not gimmicks(noahpinion.blog)

209 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 219 comments

When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?(dirtyfeed.org)

204 points by apophatic 3 years ago | 147 comments

Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift(anotherangrywoman.com)

197 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 125 comments

You Suck at Excel (2015) [video](youtube.com)

185 points by kristianp 3 years ago | 85 comments

Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud(developer.nvidia.com)

180 points by GavCo 3 years ago | 98 comments

Open sourcing the Nginx playground(jvns.ca)

178 points by thepbone 3 years ago | 6 comments

LlamaIndex: Unleash the power of LLMs over your data(llamaindex.ai)

173 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 51 comments

The Concise TypeScript Book(github.com)

171 points by revskill 3 years ago | 72 comments

Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?(stylewarning.com)

166 points by reikonomusha 3 years ago | 83 comments

Machine Unlearning Challenge(ai.googleblog.com)

158 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 27 comments

Container Training(container.training)

148 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 37 comments

A $182B Chip Maker: AMD's Labs – Full Documentary [video](youtube.com)

142 points by Night_Thastus 3 years ago | 8 comments

An ARM Assembler Written in Lisp(forum.ulisp.com)

139 points by chrisjj 3 years ago | 30 comments

Thermochromic Breadboard(improwis.com)

136 points by zdw 3 years ago | 40 comments

Bevy XPBD: A physics engine for the Bevy game engine(joonaa.dev)

133 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 19 comments

Quetzal-1 Satellite Goes Open Source(hackaday.com)

132 points by jerryjerryjerry 3 years ago | 8 comments

Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)(web.archive.org)

128 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 134 comments

Khoj: An AI Personal Assistant for Your Digital Brain(khoj.dev)

125 points by activatedgeek 3 years ago | 65 comments

Cargo-semver-checks: Scan your Rust crate for semver violations(github.com)

125 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 89 comments

I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience(internettalk.substack.com)

121 points by pityJuke 3 years ago | 174 comments

Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons(diff.wikimedia.org)

117 points by gslin 3 years ago | 10 comments

Is Htmx Gaining in Popularity?(trends.builtwith.com)

112 points by andrewfromx 3 years ago | 53 comments

Reverse-engineering the 8086 processor's address and data pin circuits(righto.com)

109 points by picture 3 years ago | 14 comments

Stupid alloc – what if memory allocation was annoying(github.com)

103 points by jmmv 3 years ago | 57 comments

Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer [video](youtube.com)

101 points by ruik 3 years ago | 18 comments

Experiments with plane-filling curves and Fourier transform(github.com)

98 points by pyinstallwoes 3 years ago | 7 comments

Farmer ordered to pay $CAD82k after confusion over meaning of thumbs-up emoji(abc.net.au)

95 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 109 comments

Open Letter to Tim O’Reilly to Free the Perl Camel

92 points by reeeese 3 years ago | 24 comments

How to keep lambda calculus simple(hirrolot.github.io)

92 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 33 comments

The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer(dev-eloper.com)

90 points by ingve 3 years ago | 92 comments

Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly(lemire.me)

88 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 15 comments

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning(0ver.org)

86 points by dmitryminkovsky 3 years ago | 77 comments

Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt(blog.google)

84 points by skilled 3 years ago | 82 comments

Spying on a smartphone remotely by the authorities: feasibility and operation(security.stackexchange.com)

83 points by joebiden2 3 years ago | 67 comments

Algae powers computer for a year using only light and water(anthropocenemagazine.org)

77 points by geox 3 years ago | 28 comments

RISC-V Assembly Programming(riscv-programming.org)

72 points by prabhu-yu 3 years ago | 17 comments

A 286 running like a 386? (2021)(dosdays.co.uk)

71 points by classichasclass 3 years ago | 47 comments

As a therapist, I know what’s breaking couples up(thewalrus.ca)

70 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 74 comments

A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers (2018)(zdnet.com)

67 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 22 comments

We all need some space(aperiodical.com)

64 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 32 comments

How to Blow Up a Timeline(eugenewei.com)

61 points by jger15 3 years ago | 26 comments

CrunchGPT: A ChatGPT assisted framework for scientific machine learning(arxiv.org)

59 points by occamschainsaw 3 years ago | 2 comments

The away team model at Amazon (2022)(pedrodelgallego.github.io)

57 points by softwaredoug 3 years ago | 43 comments

A definitive guide to Docker in 2023(masteringbackend.com)

56 points by taubek 3 years ago | 15 comments

Entropy and Life (2013)(letstalkaboutscience.wordpress.com)

54 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 20 comments

Raytheon asks retirees for help making new Stinger anti-air missiles(popsci.com)

54 points by blinding-streak 3 years ago | 53 comments

San Francisco loses 2 big conferences(sfgate.com)

53 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 55 comments