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Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately? 619 by behnamoh | 513 comments on Hacker News. It is much faster than before but the quality of its responses is more like a GPT-3.5++. It generates more buggy code, the answers have less depth and analysis to them, and overall it feels much worse than before. For a while, the GPT-4 on phind.com gave even better results than GPT-4-powered ChatGPT. I could notice the difference in speed of both GPT-4s. Phind's was slower and more accurate. I say "was" because apparently phind is now trying to use GPT-3.5 and their own Phind model more frequently, so much for GPT-4 powered search engine.... I wonder if I use Poe's GPT-4, maybe I'll get the good old GPT-4 back?

Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup 539 by koch | 54 comments on Hacker News. My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable.

Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant 548 by panarky | 144 comments on Hacker News.

JMAP – a modern email open standard 547 by tambourine_man | 188 comments on Hacker News.

I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog. Their lawyers are trying to ruin me 607 by graeme | 126 comments on Hacker News.

300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time 480 by janpio | 159 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube 483 by thunderbong | 293 comments on Hacker News.

Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics 531 by Akharin | 116 comments on Hacker News.

HBO Max new Captcha system 536 by Signez | 231 comments on Hacker News.

India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces 533 by throwaway384629 | 263 comments on Hacker News.

0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years 603 by wsgeorge | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost 501 by scrum-treats | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013) 660 by ColinWright | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Why I Left Rust 678 by SmileyKeith | 605 comments on Hacker News.

Tarkovsky's films online for free 618 by bookofjoe | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Paper Airplane Designs 619 by thunderbong | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases 598 by guiambros | 252 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally? 580 by molly0 | 580 comments on Hacker News. I’ve come to realize that I often take constructive criticisms personally. Everything from an unintentionally snarky comment in a PR I’ve made to someone highlight a mistake I’ve made that I probably couldn’t have known about. I see this as one of my major flaws and try hard to mask how I feel. But I just hope to learn to stop feeling bad for honest mistakes.

Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf] 579 by ggr2342 | 102 comments on Hacker News.

The brand new Thunderbird logo 550 by TangerineDream | 225 comments on Hacker News.

The tiny corp raised $5.1M 537 by super256 | 234 comments on Hacker News.

PyPI Was Subpoenaed 547 by quercusa | 233 comments on Hacker News.

Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA 488 by ksec | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) 488 by pmoriarty | 667 comments on Hacker News.

FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year 505 by nabla9 | 155 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used 484 by wfme | 380 comments on Hacker News. I bought an HP printer that came with an HP Instant Ink subscription a year ago. The subscription promises to send you ink when you're running low as long as you print within the designated number of pages. I recently changed my card and figured I would let the subscription expire. Fast forward to today. I go to print something and find that the printer is "unable to print" even though there is ample ink left in the cartridges. I press a button on the printer and it spits out a report that states the printer is unable to print, except for printer reports (!). I dig a little (since the error message they show provides no additional information beyond not being able to print) and find this thread [0] in their support forum. It turns out that once the subscription is cancelled or suspended, you are no longer able to use the ink that has been sent to you. Some

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption 476 by arkadiyt | 263 comments on Hacker News.

Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages 466 by crakenzak | 166 comments on Hacker News.

PrivateGPT 423 by antouank | 114 comments on Hacker News.

A highly intuitive visual guide on how memory allocation works, step by step 453 by thecoppinger | 73 comments on Hacker News.

Rooms.xyz 466 by prawn | 102 comments on Hacker News.

Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT 497 by talonx | 375 comments on Hacker News.

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser 449 by sathishmanohar | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Orb Farm 418 by thunderbong | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd 414 by jxi | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine 408 by stijnbakker | 78 comments on Hacker News.

Why is my dryer radioactive? 378 by jpitz | 95 comments on Hacker News.

ChatGPT app for iOS 543 by rememberlenny | 340 comments on Hacker News.

Numbers every LLM developer should know 400 by richardliaw | 100 comments on Hacker News.

Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible 466 by mooreds | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job 392 by JumpCrisscross | 762 comments on Hacker News.

Bun 0.6 416 by tommasoamici | 230 comments on Hacker News.

What happened with ASUS routers this morning? 553 by zdw | 352 comments on Hacker News.

My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated 559 by spo81rty | 558 comments on Hacker News.

Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features 614 by todsacerdoti | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI 632 by vforgione | 949 comments on Hacker News.

Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease 608 by lonelyasacloud | 299 comments on Hacker News.

Pixpaint 541 by luu | 35 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware 512 by kkielhofner | 122 comments on Hacker News. As the Home Assistant project says, it's the year of voice! I love Home Assistant and I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware with Home Assistant and other platforms. Why? - It's actually "Alexa/Echo competitive". Wake word detection, voice activity detection, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and high quality audio for $50 means with Willow and the support of Home Assistant there are no compromises on looks, quality, accuracy, speed, and cost. - It's cheap. With a touch LCD display, dual microphones, speaker, enclosure, buttons, etc it can be bought today for $50 all-in. - It's ready to go. Take it out of the box, flash with Willow, put it somewhere. - It's not creepy. Voice is either sent to a self-hosted inference server or commands are

Get started making music 556 by prhrb | 132 comments on Hacker News.

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants 531 by elicash | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript 493 by sebg | 171 comments on Hacker News.

Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years 593 by giuliomagnifico | 303 comments on Hacker News.

HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals 591 by jeremylevy | 417 comments on Hacker News.

Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy 598 by RecycledEle | 218 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt 623 by marvinvonhagen | 461 comments on Hacker News.

Implement DNS in a Weekend 547 by asicsp | 65 comments on Hacker News.

The .zip TLD sucks 537 by me_again | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide 553 by stacktrust | 235 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news 575 by aquaVitae | 213 comments on Hacker News. In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the facts and relevant information. By utilizing OpenAI's language models, Boring Report processes sensationalist news articles, transforms them into the content you see, and helps readers focus on the essential details. We recently updated our iOS app experience, so any and all feedback would be appreciated. App Link: https://ift.tt/YDHBwTo...

Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG 504 by perihelions | 192 comments on Hacker News.

Story: Redis and its creator antirez 482 by nixcraft | 92 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers 488 by jacooper | 955 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days? 451 by jvanderbot | 135 comments on Hacker News. Algs/DS were my first love in CS. Nowadays, all we hear about is AI/ML. There must be hardware/software improvements coming from or necessitating fundamental Algs/DS research. Care to share any of the favorite recent results? Are there big fields still making gains behind all this computing surge?

Learning DNS in 10 Years 469 by yarapavan | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Ancient Greek terms worth reviving 438 by cacher | 233 comments on Hacker News.

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS 486 by gmac | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines 455 by mulle_nat | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Language models can explain neurons in language models 429 by mfiguiere | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees 516 by mindracer | 239 comments on Hacker News.

Belgium legalises ethical hacking 444 by jruohonen | 67 comments on Hacker News.

macOS Internals 635 by JoelMcCracken | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security 634 by transpute | 356 comments on Hacker News.

Htmx Is the Future 571 by quii | 459 comments on Hacker News.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3 535 by aendruk | 340 comments on Hacker News.

Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password 521 by donohoe | 600 comments on Hacker News.

Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” 708 by klelatti | 334 comments on Hacker News.

Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Monolith, saves 90% 621 by debdut | 292 comments on Hacker News.

Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week 588 by swyx | 169 comments on Hacker News.

It's A(door)able 569 by michaelbrooks | 77 comments on Hacker News.

MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry 581 by dustedcodes | 433 comments on Hacker News.

Bank Failures Visualized 502 by A_D_E_P_T | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers 485 by lairv | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Eye Candy 470 by bookofjoe | 81 comments on Hacker News.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf] 489 by dataminer | 34 comments on Hacker News.

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead 518 by ramraj07 | 683 comments on Hacker News.

Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical 460 by doener | 195 comments on Hacker News.

Krita: A professional free and open source painting program 445 by doener | 148 comments on Hacker News.

JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank 438 by robbiet480 | 361 comments on Hacker News.

Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals” 431 by benguild | 197 comments on Hacker News.