Hacker News on Friday, 13 October 2023

Every app that adds AI looks like this(botharetrue.substack.com)

473 points by vitabenes 3 years ago | 171 comments

A Substack essay by Alex Dobrenko satirizing how tech companies bolt on AI features that look alike and add little value.

Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator(newsletter.smallbets.co)

443 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 229 comments

Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets newsletter post arguing that joining Y Combinator is a bad deal for founders despite being good for the economy.

TimeGPT-1(arxiv.org)

373 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 114 comments

arXiv paper introducing TimeGPT, a foundation model for time series forecasting that performs zero-shot predictions on unseen datasets.

Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook(tokyodev.com)

343 points by pwim 3 years ago | 453 comments

A TokyoDev founder recounts how his M2 MacBook Air became bricked by Activation Lock after a laptop swap at airport security because he hadn't set up Find My.

How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision(theblindkitchen.com)

316 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 114 comments

The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online(wired.com)

305 points by privong 3 years ago | 59 comments

The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)(mprove.de)

288 points by rbinv 3 years ago | 85 comments

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption(newscientist.com)

268 points by stevefan1999 3 years ago | 150 comments

Implementing a GPU's programming model on a CPU(litherum.blogspot.com)

245 points by luu 3 years ago | 53 comments

Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)(developer.mozilla.org)

243 points by sigma5 3 years ago | 35 comments

Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard(theguardian.com)

241 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 437 comments

Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA(lightning.ai)

236 points by rasbt 3 years ago | 36 comments

iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles(github.com)

225 points by dmunozv04 3 years ago | 91 comments

Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database(blog.xot.nl)

221 points by raybb 3 years ago | 189 comments

Signal Identification Wiki(sigidwiki.com)

217 points by hhthrowaway1230 3 years ago | 28 comments

Scalar: Generate interactive API documentations from Swagger files(github.com)

207 points by agmiklas 3 years ago | 64 comments

Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration(home-assistant.io)

201 points by andylynch 3 years ago | 67 comments

MathJax: Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers(mathjax.org)

199 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 74 comments

Jesus nut(en.wikipedia.org)

188 points by Boogie_Man 3 years ago | 91 comments

GPSJam: Daily maps of possible GPS interference(gpsjam.org)

186 points by scanny 3 years ago | 81 comments

Blue Frontier and its energy-efficient AC(technologyreview.com)

182 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 82 comments

What I wish I knew when I got my ASN(quantum5.ca)

176 points by signa11 3 years ago | 14 comments

Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle(davidlattimore.github.io)

169 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 71 comments

CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic(nbcnews.com)

166 points by cempaka 3 years ago | 83 comments

OpenWrt 23.05(openwrt.org)

162 points by arcxyz 3 years ago | 61 comments

Sodium ascorbate treatment for sepsis moves to next phase of human trials(florey.edu.au)

154 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 67 comments

Cisco Can't Stop Using Hard-Coded Passwords(schneier.com)

154 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 77 comments

Atlas of Surveillance: Documenting police tech in our communities(atlasofsurveillance.org)

151 points by freedomben 3 years ago | 62 comments

Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)(phys.org)

141 points by samaysharma 3 years ago | 83 comments

Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning(github.com)

141 points by GaggiX 3 years ago | 61 comments

Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text(arxiv.org)

140 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 38 comments

Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer(news.engin.umich.edu)

140 points by rmason 3 years ago | 27 comments

The Price-Fixing Economy(thebignewsletter.com)

133 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 96 comments

The Classic Super Star Trek Game(michaelburns.net)

132 points by remoquete 3 years ago | 42 comments

Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch(gaultier.github.io)

129 points by mmphosis 3 years ago | 30 comments

Microsoft Closes $69B Activision Deal, Overcoming Regulators' Objections(nytimes.com)

123 points by SeanBoocock 3 years ago | 150 comments

The Compact Calendar 2023-2024(davidseah.com)

121 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 14 comments

Make Your Car Electric for 5K in Less Than a Day(jamesdysonaward.org)

120 points by belter 3 years ago | 60 comments

"Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

119 points by anarbadalov 3 years ago | 123 comments

Bounty to Recover NIST's Elliptic Curve Seeds(schneier.com)

115 points by vintagedave 3 years ago | 16 comments

Words that deserve wider use(wordwarriors.wayne.edu)

114 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 98 comments

Nature: Programming language to experience the joy of programming(nature-lang.org)

113 points by psxuaw 3 years ago | 104 comments

Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'(theconversation.com)

113 points by grammers 3 years ago | 84 comments

How to fit a large program into a small machine (1999)(mud.co.uk)

113 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 33 comments

Would we still create Nebula today?(defined.net)

108 points by carride 3 years ago | 30 comments

The Advice SaaS Startup Founders Would Give Their Younger Selves(justbeepit.com)

107 points by rockyperezz 3 years ago | 48 comments

Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters(arxiv.org)

101 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 21 comments

Nineteenth century scientists set out to solve the "problem of American storms"(neh.gov)

99 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 52 comments

Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification(cloud.google.com)

98 points by stravant 3 years ago | 45 comments

"Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People", 7 Years Later(gonzoml.substack.com)

96 points by che_shr_cat 3 years ago | 36 comments

The Beatles’ collaborative notes: Three ways to write a song(jillianhess.substack.com)

92 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 14 comments

The Thumb Calendar(thumbcalendar.com)

87 points by colluder 3 years ago | 29 comments

Tesla is launching their developer APIs(developer.tesla.com)

83 points by nikunjk 3 years ago | 99 comments

The History of Cover Flow(512pixels.net)

83 points by ingve 3 years ago | 25 comments

The Quest to Recreate a Lost and 'Terrifying' Medieval Mead(atlasobscura.com)

80 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 32 comments

Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

78 points by msephton 3 years ago | 16 comments

FTX thief cashes out millions during Bankman-Fried trial(bbc.co.uk)

78 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 57 comments

LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B(lesswrong.com)

78 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 50 comments

Reproducibility trial: Biologists get different results from same data sets(nature.com)

77 points by EvgeniyZh 3 years ago | 28 comments

The Rise and Reign of Japanese VCRs [video](youtube.com)

67 points by creer 3 years ago | 15 comments