Hacker News on Friday, 25 August 2023

OpenTF announces fork of Terraform(opentf.org)

1600 points by cube2222 3 years ago | 470 comments

OpenTF announcement, dated August 25, 2023, that it is forking Terraform after HashiCorp moved its core products to the Business Source License.

Factorio: Space Age(factorio.com)

1318 points by haunter 3 years ago | 322 comments

Factorio Friday Facts #373 blog post announcing the game's expansion, Factorio: Space Age, by kovarex and Earendel.

Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B(phind.com)

737 points by rushingcreek 3 years ago | 258 comments

Phind blog post announcing fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B models that score 67.6% and 69.5% pass@1 on HumanEval, beating GPT-4's reported 67%.

Web scraping for me, but not for thee(blog.ericgoldman.org)

499 points by mhb 3 years ago | 131 comments

Guest post on Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog arguing big tech firms like Meta and Microsoft hypocritically fight scraping of their sites while scraping others.

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome(nature.com)

447 points by birriel 3 years ago | 196 comments

Nature research article (August 2023) presenting the first complete telomere-to-telomere sequence of a human Y chromosome.

Giving up the iPad-only travel dream(sixcolors.com)

336 points by haunter 3 years ago | 523 comments

Six Colors column by Jason Snell explaining why he gave up on traveling with only an iPad and returned to carrying a Mac.

Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency(underjord.io)

300 points by lawik 3 years ago | 106 comments

The EU's war on behavioral advertising(thisisunpacked.substack.com)

273 points by curiousbird 3 years ago | 359 comments

How to drill your own water well(drillyourownwell.com)

272 points by jacobmarble 3 years ago | 189 comments

Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python(vmartin.fr)

251 points by sebg 3 years ago | 32 comments

Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager(os-js.org)

251 points by auraham 3 years ago | 160 comments

Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022)(karpathy.github.io)

248 points by gsky 3 years ago | 84 comments

HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD(hellosystem.github.io)

235 points by gautamcgoel 3 years ago | 128 comments

Apple supports right-to-repair bill(arstechnica.com)

200 points by travisgriggs 3 years ago | 189 comments

Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster(arstechnica.com)

189 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 57 comments

Fifth Circuit: Law enforcement doesn’t need warrants to search phones at border(techdirt.com)

185 points by latexr 3 years ago | 96 comments

Sidewalk Garden(zachklein.com)

183 points by zdw 3 years ago | 39 comments

Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide(resend.com)

182 points by zenorocha 3 years ago | 43 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler(nnethercote.github.io)

170 points by mfrw 3 years ago | 47 comments

The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook(gizmodo.com)

155 points by mikece 3 years ago | 83 comments

UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water(news.ubc.ca)

152 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 97 comments

AI isn’t good enough(skventures.substack.com)

151 points by MaysonL 3 years ago | 287 comments

Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset(github.com)

146 points by iamarunbrahma 3 years ago | 91 comments

Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law(techdirt.com)

146 points by rntn 3 years ago | 61 comments

I cycled to all the villages in alphabetical order(diziet.dreamwidth.org)

136 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 46 comments

Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf](algoritmos-iii.github.io)

132 points by solomonb 3 years ago | 24 comments

A place where no humans will tread for 100k years(bbc.com)

129 points by Vigier 3 years ago | 176 comments

Meta throttles 404media investigation on drug ads, continues to advertise drugs(404media.co)

127 points by nickthegreek 3 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure

120 points by dgiffin 3 years ago | 67 comments

Slime Molds [video](youtube.com)

118 points by oatmeal1 3 years ago | 28 comments

How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview(scriv.ai)

118 points by czue 3 years ago | 33 comments

Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists(arxiv.org)

113 points by sebg 3 years ago | 38 comments

50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity(blocksandfiles.com)

112 points by voxadam 3 years ago | 125 comments

Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List(github.com)

110 points by tomodachi94 3 years ago | 23 comments

We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake(aeon.co)

106 points by drdee 3 years ago | 111 comments

Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life(scienceswitch.com)

103 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 58 comments

CVE Is Everything Terrible About the System(daniel.haxx.se)

103 points by mistrial9 3 years ago | 32 comments

Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation(today.uic.edu)

102 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 31 comments

Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step(htmx.org)

102 points by crbelaus 3 years ago | 47 comments

Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?(blog.carlmjohnson.net)

100 points by vikrum 3 years ago | 156 comments

Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu(stgraber.org)

96 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 52 comments

Untouchable number(en.wikipedia.org)

95 points by optimalsolver 3 years ago | 47 comments

How to Read an RFC (2018)(ietf.org)

83 points by ademarre 3 years ago | 4 comments

Gitlab's plan to support ActivityPub for merge requests(gitlab.com)

81 points by raider 3 years ago | 18 comments

LuaJIT uses rolling releases(freelists.org)

77 points by P_qRs 3 years ago | 46 comments

Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that?(theverge.com)

75 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 72 comments

America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers(economist.com)

73 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 142 comments

A new futex API(lwn.net)

71 points by signa11 3 years ago | 36 comments

Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law(justsecurity.org)

70 points by night-rider 3 years ago | 33 comments

Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

69 points by msephton 3 years ago | 33 comments

Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io(blog.phylum.io)

67 points by inferiorhuman 3 years ago | 29 comments

None of us are truly living off the grid(okdoomer.io)

66 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 74 comments

Scene Archetypes: The ones making Amiga 500 fun(datagubbe.se)

63 points by zdw 3 years ago | 1 comments

Why do cats love tuna so much? Scientists may finally know(science.org)

61 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 36 comments

BASH Stack – Bash Awk Sed HTMX web framework(bashsta.cc)

61 points by elchief 3 years ago | 13 comments

Huawei reportedly building 'secret' semiconductor fabs(theregister.com)

58 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 34 comments

The Notetaking Cold War (2020)(every.to)

52 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 24 comments

Does wearing waterproof clothing increase PFAS in our bodies?(molecularspec.substack.com)

51 points by adomasm3 3 years ago | 47 comments

X to use Israeli software to require selfie, govt-issued ID for verification(jpost.com)

50 points by celtoid 3 years ago | 33 comments

Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds(nature.com)

50 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 13 comments