Hacker News on Tuesday, 12 September 2023

Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4

825 points by kcorbitt 3 years ago | 158 comments

Show HN post sharing notebooks and lessons on fine-tuning Llama 2 7B to match GPT-4 on a recipe classification task at far lower cost.

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus(apple.com)

725 points by mikece 3 years ago | 1826 comments

Apple Newsroom press release from September 12, 2023 announcing iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus with Dynamic Island, a 48MP camera, and USB-C.

Credit card debt collection(bitsaboutmoney.com)

655 points by got-any-grapes 3 years ago | 368 comments

Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie on how credit card debt collection works as the waste stream of consumer finance.

Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor(github.com)

420 points by sschueller 3 years ago | 209 comments

GitHub repository for Quiet, an open-source private peer-to-peer team chat app built on Tor and IPFS as an alternative to Slack and Discord.

We built the fastest CI and it failed(earthly.dev)

411 points by adamgordonbell 3 years ago | 251 comments

Earthly blog post by Vlad A. Ionescu explaining why the company shut down Earthly CI, its fast CI product, and the lessons learned.

Death by a Thousand Microservices(renegadeotter.com)

405 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 277 comments

A Renegade Otter blog post by Andrei Taranchenko arguing that the software industry is relearning that microservice complexity kills.

Interactive Map of Linux Kernel(makelinux.github.io)

366 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 25 comments

An interactive, zoomable SVG map of the Linux kernel showing its subsystems, layers, and functions with links to source code.

New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds(ethz.ch)

336 points by ldes 3 years ago | 258 comments

ETH Zurich news article on a student-built electric racing car setting a world record by accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds.

Unity plan pricing and packaging updates(blog.unity.com)

303 points by aschearer 3 years ago | 376 comments

Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP(chromereleases.googleblog.com)

298 points by skilled 3 years ago | 228 comments

Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools(apnews.com)

261 points by franczesko 3 years ago | 226 comments

How long it took different companies to find product-market fit(lennysnewsletter.com)

230 points by richardzhang 3 years ago | 63 comments

Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise(sony-semicon.com)

216 points by leduyquang753 3 years ago | 85 comments

Notes from building a blog in Django(til.simonwillison.net)

191 points by theptip 3 years ago | 104 comments

Category Theory Illustrated – Sets(abuseofnotation.github.io)

184 points by boris_m 3 years ago | 68 comments

Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max(apple.com)

177 points by jnieminen 3 years ago | 318 comments

How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?(thepalindrome.org)

166 points by sebg 3 years ago | 62 comments

Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack(cointelegraph.com)

153 points by RadixDLT 3 years ago | 123 comments

Some notes on local-first development(bricolage.io)

152 points by calcsam 3 years ago | 64 comments

Simulating History with ChatGPT(resobscura.substack.com)

147 points by arbesman 3 years ago | 75 comments

The New Godot Development Fund(godotengine.org)

146 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 37 comments

The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s(twitter.com)

143 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 105 comments

Birb: Programming with bird emojis(esolangs.org)

142 points by marvinborner 3 years ago | 26 comments

‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake(thesun.co.uk)

139 points by svenfaw 3 years ago | 140 comments

Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal(blog.appsignal.com)

133 points by amalinovic 3 years ago | 75 comments

Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)(foodtolive.com)

130 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 120 comments

Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy(martypc.blogspot.com)

130 points by zdw 3 years ago | 18 comments

Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default(caddyserver.com)

129 points by aabbcc1241 3 years ago | 97 comments

What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition(blog.janestreet.com)

113 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 65 comments

The Rules of Margin Collapse(joshwcomeau.com)

113 points by ayoreis 3 years ago | 27 comments

The Relativity of Wrong (1989)(hermiene.net)

111 points by tate 3 years ago | 89 comments

Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux(securelist.com)

108 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 90 comments

Show HN: Rental data supplied by tenants in Ireland, searchable by all(howmuchrent.com)

107 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 75 comments

I think I kind of hate lazy loading(shkspr.mobi)

99 points by edent 3 years ago | 122 comments

The Death of Unity(gamedeveloper.com)

99 points by sp332 3 years ago | 65 comments

You're barely managing(barely-managing.bearblog.dev)

98 points by ronsoak 3 years ago | 68 comments

FM radio wave-based early earthquake detection (2021)(semanticscholar.org)

97 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 43 comments

Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts(quantamagazine.org)

97 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 26 comments

Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack(blog.arxiv.org)

96 points by smcf 3 years ago | 32 comments

QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs(blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)

96 points by morceauxdebois 3 years ago | 32 comments

NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life(theguardian.com)

94 points by luxpir 3 years ago | 104 comments

Fixing Penn Station(commonedge.org)

93 points by community 3 years ago | 92 comments

Ask HN: How is Rust used in the Linux kernel today?

93 points by nequo 3 years ago | 49 comments

The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021)(guo.io)

92 points by AlexeyMK 3 years ago | 26 comments

86Box v4.0(86box.net)

87 points by gattilorenz 3 years ago | 17 comments

Greatest “Classic” Mac Laptop: Powerbook G3 Pismo (2021)(amigalove.com)

85 points by zrules 3 years ago | 66 comments

Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)(obsidian.md)

81 points by l2dy 3 years ago | 44 comments

Reasons to not use your own domain for email(bautista.dev)

81 points by EduardoBautista 3 years ago | 136 comments

Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold(nationalobserver.com)

79 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 62 comments

Steam is 20 Years Old(store.steampowered.com)

73 points by ls612 3 years ago | 35 comments

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1971) [pdf](win.tue.nl)

72 points by mavelikara 3 years ago | 13 comments

Control USB power on a port by port basis on some USB hubs(github.com)

71 points by codazoda 3 years ago | 26 comments

I2c-USB-hub: An i2C Controllable USB 2.0 Hub(github.com)

70 points by zdw 3 years ago | 39 comments

How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain(laphamsquarterly.org)

68 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 49 comments

Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on(news.northwestern.edu)

68 points by belltaco 3 years ago | 72 comments

WTF Happened in 1971?(wtfhappenedin1971.com)

65 points by mouzogu 3 years ago | 42 comments

Why not punish families? A challenge for consequentialists(betonit.substack.com)

65 points by purgator 3 years ago | 182 comments

Statistical significance on a shoestring budget(alexeymk.com)

64 points by AlexeyMK 3 years ago | 26 comments

Electric cooling could shrink quantum computers(spectrum.ieee.org)

64 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 10 comments

Compile time regular expression in C++(github.com)

63 points by Tideflat 3 years ago | 27 comments