It's 2023-07-21. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights" | comment
Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists | comment
‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense | comment
Web Environment Integrity API Proposal | comment
Diablo | comment
Llama: Add grammar-based sampling | comment
Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco | comment
MiniZinc | comment
Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old | comment
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers | comment
FedNow Is Live | comment
Kevin Mitnick has died | comment
Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt | comment
ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products | comment
Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers | comment
IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system | comment
I have written a JVM in Rust | comment
JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going | comment
Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock | comment
TypeChat | comment
Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption | comment
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers | comment
Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) | comment
Val, a high-level systems programming language | comment
Become Ungoogleable | comment
Crockford on JSON license (2011) | comment
How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time? | comment
Running Stable Diffusion in 260MB of RAM | comment
‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders | comment
Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, sign digital documents | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Llama 2 | comment
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers | comment
FedNow Is Live | comment
Kevin Mitnick has died | comment
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity | comment
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website | comment
Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer | comment
Displayport: A Better Video Interface | comment
Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share | comment
Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt | comment
Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law | comment
GPT-4 details leaked? | comment
Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly | comment
LazyVim | comment
ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products | comment
Passkeys will come at a cost | comment
Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003) | comment
I Am Leaving | comment
Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain | comment
SUSE is forking RHEL | comment
Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud | comment
IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system | comment
WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser | comment
Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request | comment
Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government | comment
JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going | comment
Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock | comment
You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email | comment
Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL | comment
“Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?” | comment
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