Hacker News on Saturday, 9 September 2023

Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions(benchmarks.llmonitor.com)

653 points by vincelt 3 years ago | 309 comments

A page showing raw answers from about 60 LLMs to 20 prompts testing reasoning, instruction following, and creativity, browsable by prompt or model.

Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found(chemistryworld.com)

651 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 302 comments

Chemistry World news article on a lithium deposit found in an ancient US volcanic caldera that could be the largest ever discovered.

Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla(foundation.mozilla.org)

520 points by sandermvanvliet 3 years ago | 254 comments

Mozilla Foundation blog post reporting that all 25 car brands it reviewed, including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota, failed its privacy test.

Memories from old LAN parties(thomask.sdf.org)

393 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 213 comments

A blog post by Thomas Karpiniec recounting a collection of humorous memories from attending LAN parties in the 2000s.

Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)(bricknerd.com)

348 points by nkurz 3 years ago | 106 comments

BrickNerd guest article by Ryan Howerter cataloguing every type of plastic material LEGO has used in its bricks and elements.

Coffee in a Can(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

267 points by kizunajp 3 years ago | 166 comments

FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”(arstechnica.com)

263 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 67 comments

SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents(github.com)

234 points by e3a8 3 years ago | 36 comments

A guy preserving the new history of PC games, one Linux port at a time(404media.co)

206 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 100 comments

Morocco earthquake kills more than 1,000(nbcnews.com)

196 points by geox 3 years ago | 110 comments

Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario(github.com)

192 points by 0d0a 3 years ago | 26 comments

Public restrooms are hard to find in America(washingtonpost.com)

189 points by linusg789 3 years ago | 387 comments

Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Part I: Talos on Hetzner(datavirke.dk)

187 points by MathiasPius 3 years ago | 66 comments

FFmpeg Patches for a 20% speedup of Apple ProRes decoding(ffmpeg.org)

182 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 32 comments

Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark(discourse.julialang.org)

174 points by npalli 3 years ago | 116 comments

It's My Monitor(popey.com)

173 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 151 comments

The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market(awealthofcommonsense.com)

172 points by rufus_foreman 3 years ago | 403 comments

Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity(thelancet.com)

168 points by lxm 3 years ago | 88 comments

The Development of the C Language (2003)(cm.bell-labs.co)

167 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 21 comments

Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs(moneycontrol.com)

163 points by donnie12345 3 years ago | 214 comments

CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab(livescience.com)

158 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 25 comments

Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died(washingtonpost.com)

155 points by weird_science 3 years ago | 87 comments

Show HN: I built a Python web framework(github.com)

151 points by zerointensity 3 years ago | 91 comments

PAROL6 Desktop Robot Arm(github.com)

150 points by tildef 3 years ago | 43 comments

School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads(github.com)

148 points by gautamsomani 3 years ago | 46 comments

Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show(theglobeandmail.com)

140 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 125 comments

DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months(forum.dji.com)

139 points by curiousexplorer 3 years ago | 101 comments

Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor(phys.org)

136 points by scapecast 3 years ago | 83 comments

Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality(npr.org)

123 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 377 comments

Advanced NLP with SpaCy(course.spacy.io)

122 points by auraham 3 years ago | 40 comments

My mental model of Clojure transducers(blog.danieljanus.pl)

121 points by nathell 3 years ago | 61 comments

Why you might want async in your project(notgull.net)

119 points by jdon 3 years ago | 110 comments

No Google Topics in Vivaldi(vivaldi.com)

108 points by CynicusRex 3 years ago | 79 comments

The Berkeley Hotel Hostage of Douglas Adams(thebookseller.com)

108 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 25 comments

Eio 1.0 – Effects-based IO for OCaml 5(icfp23.sigplan.org)

106 points by hackandthink 3 years ago | 6 comments

The end of the subscription era is coming(nickfthilton.medium.com)

100 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 87 comments

Learning Zig(openmymind.net)

92 points by ingve 3 years ago | 29 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up(bottomupcs.com)

90 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations(github.com)

85 points by advaith08 3 years ago | 35 comments

The English cottage where John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(lithub.com)

83 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 60 comments

Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal(heirloomcarbon.com)

79 points by cdr_fyi 3 years ago | 81 comments

Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9(ecl.common-lisp.dev)

74 points by jackdaniel 3 years ago | 17 comments

Redesigned Google Fonts website(material.io)

73 points by marban 3 years ago | 67 comments

Ham Imports(hamimports.com)

72 points by thcipriani 3 years ago | 18 comments

On Desktop GUI Minimalism(mycophobia.org)

68 points by netdoll 3 years ago | 57 comments

Google's Statement on the UK Online Safety Bill [pdf](bills.parliament.uk)

65 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Looking for a resource on Linux kernel module development

62 points by matt3210 3 years ago | 39 comments

Appeals Court Rules White House Overstepped First Amendment on Social Media(nytimes.com)

61 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 60 comments

Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (1999)(nngroup.com)

60 points by selalipop 3 years ago | 14 comments

Block the Blue – Twitter Verified Blocker(chrome.google.com)

56 points by kitkat_new 3 years ago | 32 comments

Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of Warming(nasa.gov)

51 points by geox 3 years ago | 22 comments

Bitwarden has been disabled in Chrome [img](imgur.com)

49 points by srcreigh 3 years ago | 11 comments

Our Self-Driving Cars Will Save Lives, but They Will Kill Some of You First(mcsweeneys.net)

48 points by sundaeofshock 3 years ago | 35 comments

Florida’s “Nub City,” Where Residents Cut Off Their Own Appendages for Insurance(allthatsinteresting.com)

47 points by qwertyuiop_ 3 years ago | 15 comments

The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card(hackaday.com)

46 points by lxm 3 years ago | 58 comments

Common garden weeds in Southern California(gregalder.com)

46 points by serhack_ 3 years ago | 24 comments

Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach(krebsonsecurity.com)

44 points by Animats 3 years ago | 28 comments

Making the Distribution, Part 1(funtoo.org)

44 points by badrabbit 3 years ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Will Google delete inactive gmail accounts that forward email?

43 points by tikkun 3 years ago | 39 comments

Australia to give cats a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals(insider.com)

43 points by koqoo 3 years ago | 35 comments