Hacker News on Saturday, 14 October 2023

ChatGPT’s system prompts(github.com)

738 points by spdustin 3 years ago | 366 comments

A GitHub markdown file in the ChatGPT-AutoExpert repo documenting the hidden system prompts ChatGPT uses with GPT-4, including DALL·E and other modes.

Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance(dannymekic.com)

581 points by veeti 3 years ago | 299 comments

Blog post by Danny Mekić criticizing the European Commission's push for digital surveillance legislation (chat control) as undermining democracy.

Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date(grumpy.website)

561 points by microflash 3 years ago | 275 comments

Blog post quoting Nikita Prokopov arguing that relative time labels like 'yesterday' or '2 days ago' are misleading and that older items should show actual dates.

Linux Performance(brendangregg.com)

316 points by nitinreddy88 3 years ago | 55 comments

F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect(discuss.kde.org)

309 points by ciclotrone 3 years ago | 164 comments

Kalman filter from the ground up(kalmanfilter.net)

290 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 129 comments

Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends(github.com)

286 points by d3vr 3 years ago | 110 comments

Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message(twitter.com)

281 points by the_bookmaker 3 years ago | 288 comments

PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno(github.com)

261 points by jerawaj749 3 years ago | 127 comments

Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor(righto.com)

259 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 55 comments

Daily energy expenditure through the human life course(research.brighton.ac.uk)

220 points by shartshooter 3 years ago | 205 comments

Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans(news.umich.edu)

214 points by elorant 3 years ago | 31 comments

The British Mosquito once carried Niels Bohr in its bomb bay(thedrive.com)

196 points by pepys 3 years ago | 60 comments

Snowden Archive – documents leaked by Snowden(github.com)

176 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 26 comments

AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans(tomshardware.com)

164 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 120 comments

Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V(simonwillison.net)

159 points by simonw 3 years ago | 46 comments

Recursive Recipes(recursiverecipes.schollz.com)

151 points by xk3 3 years ago | 79 comments

Petition against EU chat control(stopscanningme.eu)

143 points by regularjack 3 years ago | 21 comments

The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)(ian-leslie.com)

128 points by wallflower 3 years ago | 60 comments

The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening (1985) [pdf](sharpeninghandbook.info)

125 points by daverol 3 years ago | 35 comments

Mindblowing dissertations(ideophone.org)

120 points by belter 3 years ago | 23 comments

Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021)(quuxplusone.github.io)

115 points by pornel 3 years ago | 50 comments

Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency(theguardian.com)

111 points by zolbrek 3 years ago | 83 comments

Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller(dmitry.gr)

107 points by exar0815 3 years ago | 27 comments

Antarctica: Ice shelves shrinking 'with no sign of recovery(dw.com)

101 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 89 comments

Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate?

94 points by r_singh 3 years ago | 47 comments

The Welsh Punk Scene of the 1980s(huckmag.com)

94 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 11 comments

Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong? (2010)(mathoverflow.net)

92 points by belter 3 years ago | 32 comments

Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables(engadget.com)

92 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 129 comments

Fcron Is the Best Cron(dbohdan.com)

86 points by networked 3 years ago | 49 comments

Gsplat: CUDA accelerated rasterization of gaussians with Python bindings(docs.gsplat.studio)

85 points by tylerneylon 3 years ago | 30 comments

Caltrans exec who protested a freeway expansion gets demoted(latimes.com)

84 points by oftenwrong 3 years ago | 39 comments

It Is Time to End the War on Remote Work(usnews.com)

83 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 32 comments

OpenBSD PF-based firewalls suffer differently from denial of service attacks(utcc.utoronto.ca)

78 points by mfrw 3 years ago | 25 comments

Lisp Badge(ulisp.com)

75 points by throwaway71271 3 years ago | 3 comments

Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging(nih.gov)

74 points by rstocker99 3 years ago | 23 comments

The science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life(undark.org)

72 points by akolbe 3 years ago | 33 comments

Louise Glück has died(nytimes.com)

69 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 8 comments

Cottage Computer Programming (2003?)(atariarchives.org)

68 points by elierotenberg 3 years ago | 11 comments

FreeBSD 14.0-RC1 Now Available(lists.freebsd.org)

66 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 11 comments

WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms(techcrunch.com)

60 points by carapace 3 years ago | 12 comments

Linux on the Web: Getting a handle on the files in the browser(linuxontheweb.github.io)

59 points by linuxontheweb 3 years ago | 40 comments

Ten Years Writing Book Reviews (2003)(dannyreviews.com)

57 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 3 comments

Firefox accounts renamed Mozilla accounts(support.mozilla.org)

55 points by elashri 3 years ago | 65 comments

QNX Demo Disk screen shots(toastytech.com)

53 points by accrual 3 years ago | 24 comments

Think in Analog, Capture in Digital(huwfulcher.com)

52 points by HuwFulcher 3 years ago | 21 comments

Google blocked Pixel 8 reviewers and owners from benchmarking the Tensor G3 chip(notebookcheck.net)

51 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 16 comments

Ferrari to accept crypto as payment for its cars in the US(reuters.com)

49 points by iancmceachern 3 years ago | 44 comments

Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought(nautil.us)

46 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 15 comments

The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Branson(thetimes.co.uk)

46 points by robbiet480 3 years ago | 33 comments

The Apple Macintosh Primer (1984) [pdf](vintageapple.org)

45 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 8 comments

Paper posits ultradense asteroid 33 Polyhymnia has transuranic elements(popularmechanics.com)

44 points by philipswood 3 years ago | 16 comments

Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years(english.elpais.com)

41 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 29 comments

Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program(prog21.dadgum.com)

40 points by raytopia 3 years ago | 39 comments

You are onboarding developers wrong (Featuring Ambient Game Engine)(dickymirrors.substack.com)

38 points by fu7kt 3 years ago | 11 comments

The Datassettes(linusakesson.net)

35 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 6 comments

Show HN: mystery-o-matic offers a daily random murder mystery(mystery-o-matic.com)

35 points by galapago 3 years ago | 22 comments

What happened to the source code for The AppleSoft Compiler?(youtube.com)

33 points by olvy0 3 years ago | 9 comments

Nevergrad: Python toolbox for performing gradient-free optimization(github.com)

31 points by cl3misch 3 years ago | 5 comments

Bitcoin stolen from FTX being converted to cash via "mixer"(bbc.com)

30 points by heresie-dabord 3 years ago | 38 comments