Hacker News on Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly(blog.jgc.org)

804 points by thepbone 3 years ago | 280 comments

John Graham-Cumming blog post explaining why Kelly Rowland's Excel-texting scene in the Dilemma video on a Nokia 9210 Communicator couldn't work via =HYPERLINK().

Displayport: A Better Video Interface(hackaday.com)

729 points by zdw 3 years ago | 366 comments

Hackaday article by Arya Voronova explaining the DisplayPort video interface and why it is better than alternatives like HDMI.

Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request(newpipe.net)

584 points by the-scrabi 3 years ago | 248 comments

NewPipe blog announcement that newpipe.net was removed from Google search results following a DMCA takedown request.

GPT-4 details leaked?(threadreaderapp.com)

569 points by bx376 3 years ago | 488 comments

A Thread Reader unrolled 37-tweet Twitter thread by Yam Peleg purporting to reveal leaked architecture and training details of OpenAI's GPT-4.

Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share(linuxiac.com)

480 points by cglong 3 years ago | 408 comments

Linuxiac article reporting that, per StatCounter data, Linux reached a 3% desktop market share by June 2023.

SUSE is forking RHEL(suse.com)

406 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 3 years ago | 229 comments

SUSE press release announcing it will fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a $10+ million investment to preserve choice in enterprise Linux.

Claude 2(anthropic.com)

383 points by technics256 3 years ago | 232 comments

Anthropic's July 11, 2023 announcement introducing Claude 2, its new large language model and chatbot.

Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain(economist.com)

382 points by benrmatthews 3 years ago | 444 comments

An Economist By Invitation opinion piece in which think-tank head Mathew Lawrence argues privatisation in Britain has been a costly failure and favours state ownership.

The Free Movie(thefreemovie.buzz)

376 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 92 comments

The Free Movie is a collaborative web project where visitors draw frames for a crowdsourced movie; the capture shows a 'device too small' notice asking to expand the browser height.

Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night(landcamp.org)

325 points by chaseadam17 3 years ago | 195 comments

Landing page for Land Camp, a membership service offering free van, truck, or tent camping spots at California outdoor destinations, with an apply-to-join button.

GPT-Prompt-Engineer(github.com)

311 points by sturza 3 years ago | 140 comments

PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web(github.com)

299 points by pretext 3 years ago | 148 comments

Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC(servethehome.com)

276 points by 2bluesc 3 years ago | 84 comments

Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy(oldbytes.space)

274 points by gslin 3 years ago | 309 comments

Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML(trygloo.com)

237 points by hellovai 3 years ago | 102 comments

Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard(theverge.com)

233 points by meetpateltech 3 years ago | 278 comments

We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it(tigerbeetle.com)

208 points by BratishkaErik 3 years ago | 46 comments

Breaking java.lang.String(wouter.coekaerts.be)

185 points by coekie 3 years ago | 127 comments

Guam: The America that Americans forget(nytimes.com)

177 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 192 comments

Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board(playlaser.xyz)

176 points by xgboop 3 years ago | 53 comments

A petabyte of health insurance prices per month(blog.turquoise.health)

174 points by ageitgey 3 years ago | 202 comments

The Pile: An 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling (2020)(arxiv.org)

164 points by charlysl 3 years ago | 59 comments

Keras Core: Keras for TensorFlow, Jax, and PyTorch(keras.io)

149 points by dewitt 3 years ago | 55 comments

Retro: A modern, pragmatic Forth(retroforth.org)

148 points by Drakonis 3 years ago | 42 comments

Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler(nnethercote.github.io)

147 points by edmorley 3 years ago | 12 comments

Firejail: Light, featureful and zero-dependency security sandbox for Linux(firejail.wordpress.com)

144 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 53 comments

GitHub profile achievements(cqcumbers.com)

141 points by cqcumbers 3 years ago | 66 comments

Emacs GUI Library(andreyor.st)

135 points by iscream26 3 years ago | 85 comments

Interaction to Next Paint (INP)(web.dev)

133 points by 42droids 3 years ago | 63 comments

The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video](tilvids.com)

133 points by rglullis 3 years ago | 218 comments

Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google(arstechnica.com)

119 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 83 comments

QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system(qubes-os.org)

113 points by TheFreim 3 years ago | 99 comments

UCLA professor refuses to cover for Dan Ariely in issue of data provenance(openmkt.org)

107 points by kblissett 3 years ago | 74 comments

Elo for VC – Founder's Choice(founderschoicevc.com)

106 points by satuke 3 years ago | 24 comments

Storing Data in Control Flow(research.swtch.com)

106 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 27 comments

Memos: A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub(github.com)

105 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 29 comments

A chimpanzee brought Xerox to the masses(cbc.ca)

103 points by geox 3 years ago | 48 comments

AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment(fast.ai)

102 points by wskinner 3 years ago | 127 comments

Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context(github.com)

102 points by nevodavid10 3 years ago | 46 comments

Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?(resobscura.substack.com)

101 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 36 comments

Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video](youtube.com)

100 points by jstanley 3 years ago | 55 comments

IntelliJ Rust(jetbrains.com)

95 points by manchoz 3 years ago | 36 comments

Svelte is a language(gist.github.com)

95 points by r0xsh 3 years ago | 56 comments

ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets(scylladb.com)

94 points by carpintech 3 years ago | 23 comments

Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf](usenix.org)

92 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 75 comments

Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot(g-w1.github.io)

90 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 57 comments

Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM(arstechnica.com)

88 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 67 comments

Laws of UX(lawsofux.com)

88 points by mgdo 3 years ago | 74 comments

Bubblewrap – Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak(github.com)

82 points by TheFreim 3 years ago | 27 comments

Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps(evolutionary.arweave.dev)

74 points by k__ 3 years ago | 41 comments

Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

70 points by scrollaway 3 years ago | 36 comments

How much information is too much information? (2022)(sourcery.ai)

69 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 48 comments

Mailgun: Public Security Disclosure

67 points by throwaway2346mg 3 years ago | 19 comments

HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?(neon.tech)

67 points by nikita 3 years ago | 32 comments

Roots of Trust Are Difficult(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

66 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 26 comments

Solar Energy Solves Global Warming(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

66 points by ph0rque 3 years ago | 62 comments

Cancer’s origin story features predictable plot line, researchers find(med.stanford.edu)

63 points by gmays 3 years ago | 17 comments

Grave of a man who never was (2015)(atlasobscura.com)

63 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 14 comments

SpaceX is stretching the lifetime of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters(arstechnica.com)

59 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 41 comments

Intel is quitting on NUC computers(theverge.com)

58 points by ArmandGrillet 3 years ago | 56 comments