Hacker News Recap

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 22th, 2023. (00:41): The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35666598 (01:50): Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219 (03:02): Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennia...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 21th, 2023. (00:36): CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35649935 (02:03): The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35655282 (03:15): GitHub Copilot emits GPL code Original post: https://...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 20th, 2023. (00:35): SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35640002 (01:41): Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638917 (03:00): Shutting down my legal torrent site aft...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 19th, 2023. (00:41): StableLM: A new open-source language model Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629127 (01:59): Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35627107 (03:19): An example of LLM prompting for programming Original post:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 18th, 2023. (00:39): Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313 (01:46): Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611923 (02:54): An example of LLM prompting for programming O...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 17th, 2023. (00:43): MiniGPT-4 Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598281 (02:16): RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600860 (03:31): Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 16th, 2023. (00:45): De-Stressing Booking.com Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590734 (01:25): I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592847 (02:01): AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable Orig...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 15th, 2023. (00:37): Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport? Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35580847 (02:20): WebGPU Fundamentals Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579334 (03:43): Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off”  Original post: ht...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 14th, 2023. (00:44): Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007) Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567026 (01:38): Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen? Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572290 (03:19): The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starshi...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 13th, 2023. (00:42): Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525 (01:54): YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35553337 (03:14): The art of auto engineering Original post:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 12th, 2023. (00:42): Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard  Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35536550 (01:53): Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668 (03:10): Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages Original post: https:...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 11th, 2023. (00:45): I worked at Google for -10 days Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525294 (02:22): Substack Notes Launched Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526768 (03:45): We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 10th, 2023. (00:36): Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75% Original post (02:08): Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source Original post (04:01): rePalm Original post (05:35): Effective Spaced Repetition Original post (07:33): The biggest EV battery recycli...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 9th, 2023. Show notes: 00:42: The LLama Effect : How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT Original post 02:10: From Deep to Long Learning? Original post 04:07: EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany Original post 06:22: This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your ba...