Hacker News on Saturday, 25 May 2024

Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?

506 points by dinkleberg 2 years ago | 245 comments

An Ask HN thread where users share the custom instruction prompts they use to tailor ChatGPT's responses, starting with the poster's own brevity-focused setup.

Abusing Go's Infrastructure(reverse.put.as)

351 points by efge 2 years ago | 71 comments

Blog post examining how Go's checksum database and module proxy infrastructure can be abused, prompted by odd entries such as many Homebrew module versions.

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search(theverge.com)

183 points by rntn 2 years ago | 265 comments

Last hours of an organ donor(aeon.co)

179 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 108 comments

The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls(cnn.com)

178 points by reqo 2 years ago | 229 comments

Optimizing your talking points (2018)(rachelbythebay.com)

176 points by compiler-guy 2 years ago | 68 comments

Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)(sre.google)

172 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 95 comments

The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf](gjgreenberg.bol.ucla.edu)

172 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 18 comments

Mistral Fine-Tune(github.com)

168 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 54 comments

Tmux is worse-is-better(hiandrewquinn.github.io)

161 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2 years ago | 187 comments

Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?(arunmani.in)

153 points by arun-mani-j 2 years ago | 54 comments

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included(zellij.dev)

141 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 23 comments

Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same(bbc.com)

134 points by sonabinu 2 years ago | 106 comments

Lapis: A Web Framework for Lua(leafo.net)

131 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 35 comments

People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)(kenthendricks.com)

124 points by alihm 2 years ago | 129 comments

GRC SpinRite(computer.rip)

123 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 130 comments

Japan's clothes-drying bathrooms(bloomberg.com)

119 points by Luc 2 years ago | 128 comments

JetBrains releases RustRover IDE for Rust development(infoworld.com)

118 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 44 comments

A simple core.async job system in Clojure(blog.janetacarr.com)

107 points by janetacarr 2 years ago | 16 comments

Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (2012)(newscenter.lbl.gov)

106 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 17 comments

Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice(daringfireball.net)

100 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 25 comments

Taming floating-point sums(orlp.net)

99 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 45 comments

You are lucky, full moon tonight(twitter.com)

98 points by ca98am79 2 years ago | 42 comments

Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings(electrek.co)

97 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 40 comments

Chickens in Trees(suziepetryk.com)

96 points by tancik 2 years ago | 102 comments

The Fall of the House of Etsy(spy.com)

92 points by nutshell89 2 years ago | 83 comments

Two B.C. companies ordered to shut down on national security grounds(vancouversun.com)

82 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 59 comments

Show HN: Sum (algebraic) types for C in one 100 line header(github.com)

81 points by marosgrego 2 years ago | 43 comments

'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'(bbc.com)

77 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 41 comments

Goodix Fingerprint Drivers for Linux (Or at Least Debian)(github.com)

76 points by tcsenpai 2 years ago | 28 comments

Recently increased prevalence of human forearm median artery: Microevolution(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

75 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 30 comments

Extend your battery life with scx_rustland(arighi.blogspot.com)

73 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 11 comments

Don Knuth's MIP, 64 years later(nathanbrixius.wordpress.com)

70 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Prophet Who Failed(harpers.org)

65 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 75 comments

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules (2023)(nibblestew.blogspot.com)

64 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 38 comments

Signalfd Is Useless (2015)(ldpreload.com)

61 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 20 comments

Where are the builders?(near.blog)

57 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 27 comments

Depression (2014)(archive.fo)

56 points by llmblockchain 2 years ago | 18 comments

Rootless Docker in a multi-user environment(cmtops.dev)

49 points by rducksherlock 2 years ago | 38 comments

The solar industrial revolution is the biggest investment opportunity in history(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

44 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 34 comments

Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while(newatlas.com)

43 points by geox 2 years ago | 36 comments

The Route of a Text Message (2019)(web.archive.org)

40 points by dewey 2 years ago | 5 comments

The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good(ajournalofmusicalthings.com)

39 points by lightlyused 2 years ago | 24 comments

How to Remove Useless Localizations(sleeplessbeastie.eu)

34 points by CTOSian 2 years ago | 3 comments

Frida Kahlo's final painting vanished into storage(news.artnet.com)

33 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 11 comments

Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals(sciencealert.com)

33 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 56 comments

EU Approves AI Act(vcsi.org)

32 points by rippeltippel 2 years ago | 37 comments

Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal(popularmechanics.com)

32 points by rmason 2 years ago | 36 comments

Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash(techcrunch.com)

31 points by doener 2 years ago | 24 comments

I'm in love with my AI girlfriend GPT-4o will prove insatiable(unherd.com)

29 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 25 comments

Feral goldfish are threatening the Great Lakes ecosystem [video](pbs.org)

27 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 3 comments

Nonconsensual AI Porn Maker Accidentally Leaks His Customers' Emails(404media.co)

26 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 11 comments

HackNote(hacknote.co)

25 points by handfuloflight 2 years ago | 7 comments

Lessons from the trenches on reproducible evaluation of language models(arxiv.org)

25 points by veryluckyxyz 2 years ago | 2 comments

Kombucha-associated microbes alter host metabolism & suppress lipid accumulation(journals.plos.org)

24 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 11 comments

VisionGPT open source – Analyze your image in seconds with AI(github.com)

22 points by megoxv 2 years ago | 7 comments

Marijuana surpasses alcohol in daily use for Americans, study finds(washingtonpost.com)

21 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 30 comments

Could I use the iPad as my only computer?(thejollyteapot.com)

20 points by delaugust 2 years ago | 33 comments

Talos – An Immutable OS for Kubernetes(a-cup-of.coffee)

19 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Harsh Truth Behind Samsung's Phone Repair Program(gizmodo.com)

18 points by rntn 2 years ago | 3 comments