Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047(gov.ca.gov)
760 points by atlasunshrugged | 435 comments
Link to California Governor Gavin Newsom's veto message for SB 1047, the AI safety bill; the captured page showed a WSJ device verification screen instead.
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Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)(sohl-dickstein.github.io)
706 points by feyman_r | 298 comments
Blog post by Jascha Sohl-Dickstein arguing that excessive optimization for proxy measures worsens outcomes, linking Goodhart's law to overfitting in machine learning.
Do AI companies work?(benn.substack.com)
375 points by herbertl | 395 comments
A Substack essay by Benn Stancil questioning whether AI model companies have viable business models, subtitled "The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent."
Some Go web dev notes(jvns.ca)
370 points by tosh | 109 comments
Julia Evans' blog post sharing notes from building a website in Go, including Go 1.22's improved built-in routing.
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)(ghuntley.com)
354 points by ghuntley | 260 comments
Geoffrey Huntley's 2022 essay arguing that Microsoft designed Visual Studio Code's licensing and extension ecosystem so that open-source forks fracture from proprietary features.
Sitina1 Open-Source Camera(gitlab.com)
338 points by zdw | 139 comments
GitLab repository for Sitina1, an open-source digital camera project by Wenting Zhang, released under the MIT License.
Map with public fruit trees(mundraub.org)
333 points by dschuessler | 142 comments
Mundraub's interactive map of publicly accessible fruit trees, shrubs, herbs and nuts for foraging, mainly across Germany and Central Europe.
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
331 points by david927 | 940 comments
Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for September 2024 where users share projects they are working on and new ideas.
Serialization Is the Secret(zachdaniel.dev)
267 points by borromakot | 94 comments
Web components are okay(nolanlawson.com)
259 points by keybits | 299 comments
A Bendy RISC-V Processor(spectrum.ieee.org)
243 points by rbanffy | 80 comments
Why TCP needs 3 handshakes(pixelstech.net)
223 points by thunderbong | 73 comments
When To Do What You Love(paulgraham.com)
199 points by underdeserver | 163 comments
Kris Kristofferson has died(rollingstone.com)
198 points by coloneltcb | 40 comments
Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)(wiki.c2.com)
144 points by mpweiher | 76 comments
Feldera Incremental Compute Engine(github.com)
112 points by gzel | 42 comments
Ruby Meetups(rubyconferences.org)
107 points by mooreds | 11 comments
Salt Water Dimmers(en.wikipedia.org)
80 points by dcminter | 56 comments
On With Theo / T3.gg(ma.tt)
63 points by tosh | 25 comments
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