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Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs 399 by cbracketdash | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam 420 by tomwas54 | 74 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet 556 by statquontrarian | 309 comments on Hacker News. Across many different pages including science journals, ChatGPT, and many others, CloudFlare verification goes into an infinite loop of: 1. "Verify you are a human" 2. Check the box or perform some other type of rain dance 3. "Please stand by, while we are checking your browser..." 4. Repeat step 1 I'm on Fedora Linux 37 using Firefox 110. The workaround is to use Chrome. After experiencing this dozens of times and getting annoyed of needing to use Chrome, I finally went and deleted all my cookies and cache which I had been dreading to do. It did not help. I don't have a CloudFlare account so I wrote up a detailed post on their community forums. I offered a HAR file and was willing to do diagnostics. It received no responses and it was auto-closed. It's unacceptable that CloudFlare is breaking the internet while offering no community support

Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen 622 by ruph123 | 206 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? 630 by l2silver | 847 comments on Hacker News. Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.

Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere 593 by FridayoLeary | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index 619 by twapi | 401 comments on Hacker News.

As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling 593 by sprawl_ | 159 comments on Hacker News.

Datomic is Free 533 by xmlblog | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative 399 by cheeseblubber | 133 comments on Hacker News.

Lessons by 3blue1brown 439 by spallas | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS 385 by david_elson | 48 comments on Hacker News. (This was previously submitted as https://ift.tt/hF4GAxD ) The Ravenna Ultra-Low-Altitude Vehicle is a backyard rocketship treehouse nestled in the Seattle neighborhood of Ravenna. Click the link to see a demo video ( http://rocket.jonh.net ). The hexagonal treehouse is about 6.5 feet (2 meters) across at its widest point. The frame is welded mild steel with riveted aluminum siding. It contains nearly 800 LEDs forming dozens of numeric displays spread across 14 control panels, each with an acrylic face laser-cut and etched with labels such as "Lunar Distance" and "Hydraulic Pressure". The pilot controls the rocket using a joystick and panels full of working switches, knobs and buttons. Underneath the capsule are three "thrusters" that shoot plumes of water and compressed air under the control of the pilot's joystick, simulating real positi

Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing 481 by FabHK | 628 comments on Hacker News.

Transformers from Scratch 457 by jasim | 33 comments on Hacker News.

UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal 433 by jmsflknr | 398 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing 417 by sphars | 282 comments on Hacker News.

Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility 427 by thunderbong | 291 comments on Hacker News.

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm 560 by h1x | 159 comments on Hacker News.

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL 499 by philbo | 167 comments on Hacker News.

MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad 459 by MasterYoda | 126 comments on Hacker News.

Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see 456 by moose_man | 346 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Eid Mubarak 765 by asim | 313 comments on Hacker News. To the Muslims on HN, Eid Mubarak! And to everyone else, Eid Mubarak! For those who don't know. Eid is a day of celebration after the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fasted for 30 days from sunrise to sunset with no food or water. It's something 2B people around the world celebrate to today or tomorrow (moon sighting permitted). A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say check it out! After over 20 years of doing it I'm still learning something new every year, or I should say, unlearning bad habits we've created for ourselves as a society through abundance. Hope you all have a great day!

The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos 728 by glitcher | 284 comments on Hacker News.

World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density 721 by rippercushions | 567 comments on Hacker News.

Spinning Diagrams with CSS 654 by kilovoltaire | 29 comments on Hacker News.

Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years 630 by en3r0 | 308 comments on Hacker News. I ran Legit Torrents for ~17 years and shut it down recently. The homepage is now a nostalgic look back at that time.

Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised 531 by coldblues | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way 612 by danieg | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Space Elevator 702 by nivethan | 117 comments on Hacker News.

User: Junnn11 636 by oboes | 84 comments on Hacker News.

Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?” 619 by snitzr | 601 comments on Hacker News.

StableLM: A new open-source language model 588 by davidbarker | 175 comments on Hacker News.

Clock 607 by notmysql_ | 90 comments on Hacker News.

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival 583 by mjwhansen | 576 comments on Hacker News.

Astral 554 by hasheddan | 142 comments on Hacker News.

Load Balancing 508 by kiyanwang | 123 comments on Hacker News.

Making friends as an adult is hard (2021) 500 by neom | 283 comments on Hacker News.

The Windows 11 Trash Party 515 by Amorymeltzer | 400 comments on Hacker News.

RedPajama: Reproduction of Llama with Friendly License 515 by tim_sw | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport? 647 by raybb | 591 comments on Hacker News.

Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful 652 by rurban | 367 comments on Hacker News.

De-Stressing Booking.com 779 by robin_reala | 298 comments on Hacker News.

The early days of Linux 743 by Paul-Craft | 143 comments on Hacker News.

Animated Drawings 730 by jonbaer | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech 755 by cemerick | 909 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers 591 by rushingcreek | 234 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, Today we’re launching GPT-4 answers on Phind.com, a developer-focused search engine that uses generative AI to browse the web and answer technical questions, complete with code examples and detailed explanations. Unlike vanilla GPT-4, Phind feeds in relevant websites and technical documentation, reducing the model’s hallucination and keeping it up-to-date. To use it, simply enable the “Expert” toggle before doing a search. GPT-4 is making a night-and-day difference in terms of answer quality. For a question like “How can I RLHF a LLaMa model”, Phind in Expert mode delivers a step-by-step guide complete with citations ( https://ift.tt/bKSEwH6... ) while Phind in default mode meanders a bit and answers the question very generally ( https://ift.tt/SUsrWIK... ). GPT-4 is significantly more concise and “systematic” in its answers than our default model. It generates step-by-step i

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages 552 by izzymiller | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard 579 by kieto | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Deck.of.cards 525 by edent | 69 comments on Hacker News.

SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue 502 by ctc24 | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Substack Notes Launched 492 by theolivenbaum | 508 comments on Hacker News.

I worked at Google for -10 days 511 by vanburen | 299 comments on Hacker News.

The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business 459 by orangebanana1 | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Effective Spaced Repetition 445 by g0xA52A2A | 215 comments on Hacker News.

EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany 456 by mfiguiere | 278 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75% 584 by ylere | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station 465 by justsomehnguy | 49 comments on Hacker News.

The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT 442 by gardenfelder | 269 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot 605 by wsxiaoys | 125 comments on Hacker News. I would like to introduce Tabby, which is a self-hosted alternative to GitHub Copilot that you can integrate into your hardware. While GitHub Copilot has made coding more efficient and less time-consuming by assisting developers with suggestions and completing code, it raises concerns around privacy and security. Tabby is in its early stages, and we are excited to receive feedback from the community. Its Github repository is located here: https://ift.tt/GKN6PwL . We have also deployed the latest docker image to Huggingface for a live demo: https://ift.tt/NjX1APu . Tabby is built on top of the popular Hugging Face Transformers / Triton FasterTransformer backend and is designed to be self-hosted, providing you with complete control over your data and privacy. In Tabby's next feature iteration, you can fine-tune the model to meet your project requirements.

System design and the cost of architectural complexity (2013) 455 by damethos | 164 comments on Hacker News.

New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem 632 by malshe | 155 comments on Hacker News.

Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? 597 by deeg | 709 comments on Hacker News.

Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails 583 by Lukas_Skywalker | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Grid World 604 by tobr | 89 comments on Hacker News.

WebGPU is available in Chrome 113 589 by itsuka | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero 552 by whereistimbo | 64 comments on Hacker News.

Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon 521 by codetrotter | 318 comments on Hacker News.

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS 461 by waxpancake | 208 comments on Hacker News.

CAN Injection: Keyless car theft 445 by kotaKat | 253 comments on Hacker News.

How to do hard things 429 by tacon | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 541 by noob_eng | 101 comments on Hacker News.

Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco 525 by rdl | 558 comments on Hacker News.

Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died 501 by miiiiiike | 120 comments on Hacker News.

iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t remove or stop from joining 553 by newZWhoDis | 213 comments on Hacker News. Well this was a major surprise so I figured I’d share it here to get some eyeballs on it. Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device. These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal priority with your real, personal networks. So guess what happens when your neighbors get a wifi/modem combo that blasts a free hotspot SSID? Not only does it pollute the already crowded 2.4ghz band, your iPhone will often prefer this connection over your real /local wifi (despite said wifi being at 1 bar). As of post-time, there is no way to remove these networks short of completely disabling cell service/removing the eSIM and resetting all network settings. You can see this for yourself by going to WiFi/“edit” and scrolling down. Edit: to

How to be a -10x Engineer 529 by surprisetalk | 344 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption 454 by jmoorebeek | 215 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I’m Joseph, and along with Arpan and Bailey we are the founders of OutSail Shipping ( https://ift.tt/QPLvFZr ). We’re building a sail the size of a 747 that rolls up into a shipping container. When deployed, it will generate thrust from the wind to reduce the fuel consumption of a cargo ship. An array of these devices will reduce fuel consumption on ships by up to 20%. These sails are easily stowed and removed to cause no interference with cargo operations. Here’s a short video showing our prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpVqzpym54 . Sails powered ships for millennia; but then the convenience of energy-dense fuels displaced sails. As ship speeds eventually exceeded wind speeds, the consensus became that sails had no place in shipping and were relegated to hobbyists and sport. Fast forward a century and a half, and maritime shipping, like a

Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible 425 by belter | 519 comments on Hacker News.

Saying Goodbye to GitHub 456 by donutshop | 375 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL 511 by poeti8 | 96 comments on Hacker News.

The Mullvad Browser 463 by Foxboron | 177 comments on Hacker News.

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT 506 by sarusso | 677 comments on Hacker News.

The day Windows died 578 by alexzeitler | 437 comments on Hacker News.

Postgres as a graph database 503 by elorant | 110 comments on Hacker News.