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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023 511 by kevincox | 222 comments on Hacker News.

Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context 513 by rushingcreek | 225 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, We’re excited to announce that Phind now defaults to our own model that matches and exceeds GPT-4’s coding abilities while running 5x faster. You can now get high quality answers for technical questions in 10 seconds instead of 50. The current 7th-generation Phind Model is built on top of our open-source CodeLlama-34B fine-tunes that were the first models to beat GPT-4’s score on HumanEval and are still the best open source coding models overall by a wide margin: https://ift.tt/HJviOSQ... . This new model has been fine-tuned on an additional 70B+ tokens of high quality code and reasoning problems and exhibits a HumanEval score of 74.7%. However, we’ve found that HumanEval is a poor indicator of real-world helpfulness. After deploying previous iterations of the Phind Model on our service, we’ve collected detailed feedback and noticed that our model matches o

The Grug Brained Developer (2022) 461 by simonsarris | 179 comments on Hacker News.

The product manager role is a mistake 406 by mooreds | 347 comments on Hacker News.

Giving a Shit as a Service (2022) 473 by damir | 257 comments on Hacker News.

'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps 399 by mindracer | 931 comments on Hacker News.

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars 539 by softskunk | 266 comments on Hacker News.

Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition 486 by __rito__ | 199 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin 477 by mrzool | 512 comments on Hacker News.

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt 458 by CathalMullan | 140 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign 448 by alexopensource | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript 440 by akling | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution 441 by Metacelsus | 318 comments on Hacker News.

Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper 465 by gridentio | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering 456 by maheshrjl | 105 comments on Hacker News.

'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó 440 by happy-go-lucky | 284 comments on Hacker News.

The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy 421 by czue | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Interactive intro to shaders 414 by superMayo | 58 comments on Hacker News.

How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site? 418 by mgarciaisaia | 307 comments on Hacker News.

Was Rust Worth It? 417 by todsacerdoti | 660 comments on Hacker News.

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop 474 by skadamat | 277 comments on Hacker News.

Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source 405 by cperciva | 184 comments on Hacker News.

iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices 454 by aw1621107 | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome ext. that generates an API spec as you browse 430 by mrmagoo2 | 43 comments on Hacker News. Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website.

Software disenchantment 546 by InsiderTesla | 400 comments on Hacker News.

Cooler screens 362 by kevincox | 242 comments on Hacker News.

California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment 618 by ra7 | 797 comments on Hacker News.

Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world 556 by rcarmo | 88 comments on Hacker News.

A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D 505 by GuardianCaveman | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Build your own BitTorrent 435 by romac | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative 531 by meatjuice | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum 472 by coloneltcb | 387 comments on Hacker News.

Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization 435 by aboodman | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off 527 by mstep | 420 comments on Hacker News.

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas 516 by reuven | 333 comments on Hacker News.

Write more "useless" software 491 by greenSunglass | 147 comments on Hacker News.

What is the Demoscene? An interview 464 by keiferski | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Commercially available chairs in Star Trek 443 by zichy | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police 400 by fortran77 | 213 comments on Hacker News.

Using Goatse to Stop App Theft 462 by joshcsimmons | 317 comments on Hacker News.

Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message 360 by the_bookmaker | 412 comments on Hacker News.

Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive 408 by miohtama | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data 402 by gslin | 151 comments on Hacker News.

TimeGPT-1 399 by PaulHoule | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook 401 by pwim | 546 comments on Hacker News.

ChatGPT’s system prompts 444 by spdustin | 226 comments on Hacker News.

Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance 443 by veeti | 225 comments on Hacker News.

Every app that adds AI looks like this 432 by vitabenes | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Desmos 3D graphing calculator 360 by benpm | 79 comments on Hacker News.

The midwit home 345 by stacktrust | 242 comments on Hacker News.

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student 345 by razin | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer 329 by microflash | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Introduction to Modern Statistics 366 by noelwelsh | 71 comments on Hacker News.

US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks 376 by bookofjoe | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Starlink Direct to Cell 384 by pr337h4m | 310 comments on Hacker News.

Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves 358 by geox | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players 344 by tosh | 709 comments on Hacker News.

The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack 350 by jsnell | 102 comments on Hacker News.

Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro 380 by robenkleene | 94 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art 361 by ea016 | 145 comments on Hacker News.

OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera 358 by danboarder | 59 comments on Hacker News.

Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps 448 by tomzur | 324 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years 379 by MallocVoidstar | 109 comments on Hacker News.

Blackmagic Camera for iPhone 431 by Lwrless | 236 comments on Hacker News.

What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker 370 by ahaucnx | 141 comments on Hacker News.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023 360 by zdw | 269 comments on Hacker News.

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users 353 by devinprater | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account 347 by drunner | 169 comments on Hacker News. I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time. Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account. When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else. All I have is a 'history' to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup. I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything. Beware! Update: I was able to manually import/restore using a backup I found in ~/.config/Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool. Any alternatives that I can migrate to?

We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms 355 by open-source-ux | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system 433 by thunderbong | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story 385 by r721 | 155 comments on Hacker News.

AMD may get across the CUDA moat 348 by danzheng | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports 355 by riffraff | 110 comments on Hacker News.

Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company 345 by bratao | 134 comments on Hacker News.

Making Hard Things Easy 469 by hasheddan | 94 comments on Hacker News.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) 417 by SEJeff | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search 381 by KoftaBob | 86 comments on Hacker News.

Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on 381 by tasn | 802 comments on Hacker News.

Where does my computer get the time from? 450 by fanf2 | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level 453 by bumbledraven | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras 591 by samaysharma | 163 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Classic Video Poker 552 by appstorelottery | 210 comments on Hacker News. I'm a Unity 3D refugee, certified expert, started in 2005 when it was a two man-band with Joachim and David. I've been lucky enough to make a good living out of Unity with my own consultancy over the years making data visualisation applications (Wind Energy) and innovation projects (Visualising accounting data for Wolters Kluwer etc.). Godot is pretty amazing in my opinion. Wrote this game over a few days and was productive in Godot basically instantly. I couldn't get up and running in Unreal despite trying a few times. It's my ambition to start a niche agency developing 80's style games of skill and chance for the corporate world. So... If anyone has any leads for making Space Invaders for Nike - please help! Happy to pay 5% on whatever work I get.

The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax” 510 by PaulHoule | 487 comments on Hacker News.

An interactive intro to CRDTs 498 by jakelazaroff | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM 463 by Robin89 | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) 456 by whoishiring | 476 comments on Hacker News. Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: try https://ift.tt/5y07M3H , https://ift.tt/w5r1mxg , https://ift.tt/DQSLkyA , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/JFeqQpA , https://ift.tt/zO5rLuF . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/XxWvUI8 Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/QiuG61t

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 412 by mrzool | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It 559 by Kye | 512 comments on Hacker News.

Python 3.12 421 by qsort | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Nomnoml 442 by mono-bob | 119 comments on Hacker News.

Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7 408 by juanfatas | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak 390 by tomduncalf | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency 377 by vpt | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent) 377 by throwaway71271 | 46 comments on Hacker News. I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. I want her to look at programs as things she can change, and make them do whatever she wants. Building your exploit in memory and jumping to it feels so cool. I hope this game teaches kids and programmers (who seem to have forgotten what computers actually are) that its quite fun to mess with programs. We used to have that excitement few years ago, just break into softice and change a branch into a nop and ignore the serial number check, or go to a different game level because this one is too annoying. While working on the game I kept thinking what we have lost from 6502 to Apple Silicon, and the transition from 'personal computers' to 'you are completely not responsible for most the code running on your device', it made me a bit sad and happy in the same time, RISCV seems like a breath

Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics 406 by geox | 292 comments on Hacker News.

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths 383 by scrose | 403 comments on Hacker News.