Hacker News on Tuesday, 22 August 2023

The first conformant M1 GPU driver(rosenzweig.io)

1545 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 636 comments

Blog post announcing that Asahi Linux's reverse-engineered open source OpenGL ES 3.1 driver for Apple M1/M2 GPUs passed official conformance.

Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel(theverge.com)

742 points by Xeophon 3 years ago | 398 comments

The Verge article reporting that Microsoft is integrating Python into Excel for data analysis and visualization.

Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America(404media.co)

523 points by kmfrk 3 years ago | 362 comments

A 404 Media investigation into how hackers use credit-bureau-linked lookup services like TLO and USinfoSearch to dox nearly anyone in America for about $15.

A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense(blog.promaton.com)

458 points by atorok 3 years ago | 409 comments

A Medium blog post from Promaton offering a practical guide to building a measurement culture where KPIs don't override common sense.

GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates(openai.com)

363 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 205 comments

OpenAI blog post announcing fine-tuning support for GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers customize the model with their own data, plus related API updates.

I walked across Luxembourg(blog.ioces.com)

345 points by shoobs 3 years ago | 201 comments

A personal blog post recounting a hike across Luxembourg from its western border to its eastern border.

Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel(scienceswitch.com)

288 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 260 comments

Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering(arm.com)

287 points by lultimouomo 3 years ago | 238 comments

Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp(github.com)

282 points by hggh 3 years ago | 27 comments

Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts(hillelwayne.com)

280 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 168 comments

Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free(blog.0x7d0.dev)

276 points by 0x7d0 3 years ago | 125 comments

Structured logging with slog(go.dev)

257 points by spacey 3 years ago | 121 comments

The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features(gizmodo.com)

250 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 170 comments

Architecture diagrams enable better conversations(unravelled.dev)

221 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 121 comments

The new science of meditation(vox.com)

214 points by ojarow 3 years ago | 291 comments

Experian fined $650k for not letting you opt out of its spammy emails(theverge.com)

206 points by rntn 3 years ago | 51 comments

MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac(goodsnooze.gumroad.com)

203 points by cristoperb 3 years ago | 79 comments

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents(manu.zone)

200 points by manuhortet 3 years ago | 144 comments

Switching from Chrome to Firefox(frunc.de)

196 points by fraencko 3 years ago | 153 comments

On keeping sketchbooks(attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com)

194 points by matt_kirkland 3 years ago | 68 comments

Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email(skiff.com)

176 points by throwoutway 3 years ago | 132 comments

1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’(vintag.es)

176 points by dxs 3 years ago | 130 comments

How to Solve It (1945)(math.utah.edu)

172 points by GamerUncle 3 years ago | 79 comments

Whisper.api: Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription(github.com)

168 points by innovatorved 3 years ago | 42 comments

No One Wants Simplicity(lukeplant.me.uk)

163 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 141 comments

Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar(bitecode.dev)

161 points by BiteCode_dev 3 years ago | 57 comments

Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea(techradar.com)

159 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 64 comments

SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation(about.fb.com)

154 points by mchiang 3 years ago | 31 comments

Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration(godly.website)

154 points by spansoa 3 years ago | 71 comments

Writing a Package Manager(antonz.org)

146 points by celiktom 3 years ago | 72 comments

Incumbents are fighting back against disrupters(economist.com)

144 points by ijidak 3 years ago | 127 comments

Compuserve(compuserve.com)

140 points by bane 3 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes(flakehub.com)

139 points by grhmc 3 years ago | 91 comments

Broken Ownership(blog.alexewerlof.com)

137 points by rdoherty 3 years ago | 30 comments

PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts(pglocks.org)

133 points by boiler_up800 3 years ago | 16 comments

A State Official Refused to Release Water for West Maui Fires(civilbeat.org)

132 points by rgrieselhuber 3 years ago | 75 comments

Stolen from Apple (2004)(folklore.org)

130 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 31 comments

LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6(phoronix.com)

127 points by profwalkstr 3 years ago | 146 comments

Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)(old.reddit.com)

125 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 183 comments

Inkscape possible domain compromise(discourse.nixos.org)

118 points by aendruk 3 years ago | 14 comments

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated(quantamagazine.org)

116 points by spekcular 3 years ago | 70 comments

Against Automaticity(carcinisation.com)

114 points by simonsarris 3 years ago | 28 comments

Jeff Bezos on AI (1998) [video](jessewright.com)

111 points by array-species 3 years ago | 66 comments

Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper than usual(github.com)

108 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 57 comments

Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode(figma.com)

106 points by emilsjolander 3 years ago | 54 comments

Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes(businessinsider.com)

99 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 44 comments

Northvolt raises $1.2B convertible note from BlackRock(sifted.eu)

99 points by doener 3 years ago | 73 comments

Impermanence(nixos.wiki)

98 points by anotherhue 3 years ago | 25 comments

STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM32MP1(st.com)

93 points by unwind 3 years ago | 60 comments

Your brain on emoji(nautil.us)

90 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 142 comments

Show HN: OpenCopilot – Build and embed open-source AI copilots into your product(github.com)

87 points by JohannesTk 3 years ago | 27 comments

Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture(newyorker.com)

84 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 144 comments

Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager(github.com)

83 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 27 comments

OpenSAFELY is a secure, open-source platform for analysis of health records data(opensafely.org)

82 points by murkle 3 years ago | 8 comments

‘Broken’ solar panels manufactured to deter criminals in South Africa(dailyinvestor.com)

81 points by SenAnder 3 years ago | 76 comments

New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension(bigthink.com)

80 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 44 comments

A complete guide to building a hand-wired keyboard (2020)(crackedthecode.co)

78 points by bfm 3 years ago | 54 comments

My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016(nothingeasyaboutthis.com)

77 points by bberenberg 3 years ago | 38 comments

Transactions in a Microservice World(wso2.com)

65 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 63 comments

Compile-Time Checked Truth Tables(blog.ploeh.dk)

64 points by chriskrycho 3 years ago | 19 comments