Hacker News on Monday, 14 August 2023

Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time(github.com)

776 points by remilouf 3 years ago | 263 comments

GitHub repository for Outlines, a Python library by Normal Computing for guided LLM text generation that guarantees output matching regexes or JSON schemas.

Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better(addyosmani.com)

597 points by twapi 3 years ago | 149 comments

Addy Osmani blog post arguing that writing about what you learn deepens understanding and reveals gaps in your knowledge.

Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions(github.com)

492 points by npace12 3 years ago | 88 comments

GitHub repository for Little Rat, a Chrome extension that monitors network requests made by other installed Chrome extensions.

Bypassing YouTube video download throttling(blog.0x7d0.dev)

466 points by 0x7d0 3 years ago | 193 comments

Blog post explaining how tools like yt-dlp bypass YouTube's video download throttling by reverse-engineering its JavaScript signature parameters.

OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge(openfarm.cc)

442 points by lasermatts 3 years ago | 42 comments

Homepage of OpenFarm, a free and open crowdsourced database and web app for sharing farming and gardening growing guides.

Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript(github.com)

390 points by ykhli 3 years ago | 102 comments

GitHub repository for AI-town, a deployable TypeScript starter kit for building a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize, backed by Convex.

Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media(blog.archive.org)

364 points by leotravis10 3 years ago | 157 comments

Internet Archive blog post responding to a recording industry lawsuit over its digitization of obsolete media such as 78rpm records.

Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2(go.dev)

364 points by philosopher1234 3 years ago | 264 comments

A Go Blog post by Russ Cox explaining the compatibility features added in Go 1.21 and why there will be no breaking Go 2.

Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet(stackdiary.com)

340 points by skilled 3 years ago | 123 comments

Stack Diary news article reporting that data from 760,000 Discord.io users was listed for sale on a darknet forum.

JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe(quantamagazine.org)

322 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 133 comments

Quanta Magazine article on James Webb Space Telescope observations revealing an unexpected abundance of giant black holes in the early universe.

Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models(darkreading.com)

317 points by AaronM 3 years ago | 159 comments

Software Engineering at Google (2020)(abseil.io)

288 points by nvahalik 3 years ago | 294 comments

I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one(claytonwramsey.github.io)

285 points by claytonwramsey 3 years ago | 120 comments

Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom(npr.org)

283 points by bratgpttamer 3 years ago | 83 comments

The 2002 Überlingen midair collision(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

226 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 90 comments

Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?(dashbit.co)

215 points by weatherlight 3 years ago | 138 comments

The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

205 points by luu 3 years ago | 157 comments

Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says(reuters.com)

195 points by koolba 3 years ago | 86 comments

Python: Just Write SQL(joaodlf.com)

192 points by joaodlf 3 years ago | 228 comments

Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision(washingtonpost.com)

168 points by hebleb 3 years ago | 77 comments

Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK(jitsi.org)

159 points by Lwrless 3 years ago | 116 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)(apenwarr.ca)

156 points by jnord 3 years ago | 178 comments

Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework(veilid.com)

150 points by homarp 3 years ago | 50 comments

Testing on production(marcochiappetta.medium.com)

150 points by chpmrc 3 years ago | 88 comments

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)(rcrowley.org)

145 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 33 comments

Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm?(mathoverflow.net)

141 points by thechao 3 years ago | 21 comments

Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)(gadanidis.ca)

139 points by saltwatercowboy 3 years ago | 81 comments

Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues(michiganmedicine.org)

130 points by elorant 3 years ago | 71 comments

Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story(wired.com)

128 points by Geekette 3 years ago | 104 comments

Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing(math.mit.edu)

127 points by programd 3 years ago | 32 comments

Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative

125 points by Alanhlwang 3 years ago | 72 comments

Autospam and Naive Bayes(pixelfed.blog)

121 points by pixelfed 3 years ago | 30 comments

Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange(thediff.co)

121 points by gadders 3 years ago | 116 comments

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling(arstechnica.com)

119 points by tapper 3 years ago | 81 comments

What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?(technologyreview.com)

115 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 75 comments

Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web(github.com)

113 points by kevin_hu 3 years ago | 15 comments

Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)(astronomy.stackexchange.com)

110 points by shmde 3 years ago | 16 comments

Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993)(defacto2.net)

109 points by hggh 3 years ago | 58 comments

Java 21: First Release Candidate(openjdk.org)

109 points by mkurz 3 years ago | 68 comments

Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention(theregister.com)

107 points by rntn 3 years ago | 35 comments

Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts(emiruz.com)

106 points by usgroup 3 years ago | 61 comments

Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid(cbsnews.com)

101 points by uptown 3 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Epsilla – Open-source vector database with low query latency(github.com)

98 points by songrenchu 3 years ago | 23 comments

Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers(phoboslab.org)

98 points by sph 3 years ago | 19 comments

Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

96 points by KoftaBob 3 years ago | 159 comments

Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted(arstechnica.com)

96 points by momirlan 3 years ago | 46 comments

Bombe: Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once(store.steampowered.com)

94 points by ivank 3 years ago | 24 comments

Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards(thebignewsletter.com)

92 points by cainxinth 3 years ago | 94 comments

How to run a miserable code review(badsoftwareadvice.substack.com)

91 points by tate 3 years ago | 77 comments

Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?

91 points by smdz 3 years ago | 76 comments

The Cuts at WVU(community.wvu.edu)

89 points by lightlyused 3 years ago | 51 comments

Stefan Tilkov has died(innoq.com)

85 points by nperson 3 years ago | 7 comments

AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf](stefan-marr.de)

85 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 33 comments

Decimal to fraction(leancrew.com)

85 points by ingve 3 years ago | 43 comments

The Dance of Śiva(asymptotejournal.com)

83 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 27 comments

The IPv6 mess(cr.yp.to)

81 points by lproven 3 years ago | 97 comments

The Virtual Blender Camera(srlt.ca)

79 points by fn42 3 years ago | 15 comments

LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons(python.langchain.com)

76 points by vvoruganti 3 years ago | 22 comments

The Cost of Convenience(surma.dev)

74 points by zdw 3 years ago | 2 comments

Timing with Curl (2010)(susam.net)

69 points by kamaraju 3 years ago | 11 comments