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Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) 499 by AndrewKemendo | 320 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients 490 by mkmk | 404 comments on Hacker News.

Happy New Year HN! 659 by thunderbong | 132 comments on Hacker News. I spend too much time on HN. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only place which feels worth visiting multiple times a day! Wishing everyone a great 2024!

Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT 572 by 882542F3884314B | 252 comments on Hacker News.

The art of high performance computing 540 by rramadass | 86 comments on Hacker News.

Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers 512 by ruik | 383 comments on Hacker News.

NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances 512 by justinc8687 | 860 comments on Hacker News.

In 2024, please switch to Firefox 666 by Vinnl | 292 comments on Hacker News.

IDEs we had 30 years ago 502 by titaniumtown | 423 comments on Hacker News.

Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs 492 by alexzeitler | 224 comments on Hacker News.

The curse of the goitre in Switzerland 558 by _ihaque | 247 comments on Hacker News.

3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js 555 by brw | 145 comments on Hacker News.

First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation 508 by ano-ther | 450 comments on Hacker News.

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 506 by ssgodderidge | 700 comments on Hacker News.

DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching 603 by rcarmo | 144 comments on Hacker News.

A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors 529 by ssgodderidge | 202 comments on Hacker News.

Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies 498 by mfiguiere | 264 comments on Hacker News.

Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) 493 by ent101 | 419 comments on Hacker News.

Ruby 3.3 552 by dduugg | 184 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023? 584 by divan | 180 comments on Hacker News. There is a 5 month old thread [1] on this, but it might be already outdated. What is the best approach for feeding custom set of documents to LLM and get non-halucinating and decent result in Dec 2023? UPD: The question is generally about how to "teach" LLM answer questions using your set of documents (not necessarily train your own, so approaches like RAG counts) [1] https://ift.tt/o05v7uy

Tell HN: Merry Christmas 582 by LorenDB | 205 comments on Hacker News.

Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game 555 by 0x000042 | 111 comments on Hacker News.

Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms 601 by varun_ch | 573 comments on Hacker News.

How big is YouTube? 588 by MBCook | 185 comments on Hacker News.

From Nand to Tetris (2017) 560 by mikpanko | 157 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers 555 by jonatanheyman | 179 comments on Hacker News. Hey! I made Heynote entirely for my own use case. For many years, I always had an Emacs instance running with the scratch buffer open, even long after I had abandoned Emacs as my programming editor in favor of more recent IDE:s. The simplicity of having just one big scratch buffer appeals to me, but I still want to separate the different things I jot down somehow (without using tabs or similar). Previously, my solution was to insert a bunch of blank lines between the notes, but hitting C-A would still select the entire buffer. That's why I came up with the concept of "blocks", which turned out really well for my use cases. I decided to release Heynote, thinking it might be useful to others.

Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays 498 by waynesoftware | 96 comments on Hacker News. Thank you for keeping systems available and safe. I've been there many times in the past, including having to fly at the last minute to a non-internet-connected data center in NJ to babysit an emergency production bug fix that took the entire holiday to create, install, verify, and monitor.

ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format 528 by programd | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Apple allows applications to track user locations without authorization 581 by lloyds_barclays | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record 472 by indosauros | 128 comments on Hacker News. Is this bad? $ nslookup microsoft.com Non-authoritative answer: Name: microsoft.com Address: 192.168.1.0 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.112.250.133 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.231.239.246 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.76.201.171 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.70.246.20 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.236.44.162 Name: microsoft.com Address: 192.168.1.1

"I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1" 409 by isp | 336 comments on Hacker News.

How to learn chess as an adult (2021) 465 by pseudolus | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook 443 by pwim | 330 comments on Hacker News.

Ventoy 405 by matthberg | 85 comments on Hacker News.

Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase 402 by padolsey | 97 comments on Hacker News.

NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus 399 by wglb | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes 391 by type0 | 123 comments on Hacker News.

I bricked my Christmas lights 474 by willcooke | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules 463 by thunderbong | 313 comments on Hacker News.

Database Fundamentals 450 by tontinton | 77 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? 342 by fuzztester | 714 comments on Hacker News. Could be CLI, GUI, web, mobile, other. Asking out of interest. Thanks in advance to all.

Zero downtime Postgres upgrades 373 by brentjanderson | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find 490 by Stratoscope | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice 424 by ralfelfving | 154 comments on Hacker News. Heeey! I built a macOS copilot that has been useful to me, so I open sourced it in case others would find it useful too. It's pretty simple: - Use a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of your active macOS window and start recording the microphone. - Speak your question, then press the keyboard shortcut again to send your question + screenshot off to OpenAI Vision - The Vision response is presented in-context/overlayed over the active window, and spoken to you as audio. - The app keeps running in the background, only taking a screenshot/listening when activated by keyboard shortcut. It's built with NodeJS/Electron, and uses OpenAI Whisper, Vision and TTS APIs under the hood (BYO API key). There's a simple demo and a longer walk-through in the GH readme https://ift.tt/ST3b9Ai , and I also posted a different demo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ralfelfving/stat

Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted 677 by josephcsible | 395 comments on Hacker News.

'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture 584 by wahnfrieden | 1064 comments on Hacker News.

23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent customers from suing 483 by osmanbaskaya | 234 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads 481 by Jakob-G | 305 comments on Hacker News.

A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 655 by xenophonf | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet 679 by blakewatson | 303 comments on Hacker News.

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application 657 by lsferreira42 | 97 comments on Hacker News.

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access 607 by coloneltcb | 593 comments on Hacker News.

The pro-Israel information war 577 by anigbrowl | 907 comments on Hacker News.

Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking 497 by GruHe | 198 comments on Hacker News.

SVG Tutorial 461 by HunorBorbely | 106 comments on Hacker News.

Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? 454 by manicennui | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice 579 by apsec112 | 320 comments on Hacker News.

How does Shazam work? (2022) 575 by TaurenHunter | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications 614 by ahiknsr | 496 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini 587 by dmotz | 677 comments on Hacker News.

JSONB has landed 564 by nalgeon | 167 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet 612 by tosh | 340 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox on the brink? 541 by alexzeitler | 661 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android 485 by erohead | 366 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It's available to download today (no waitlist): https://ift.tt/yUR7jOa and there's a technical writeup here: https://ift.tt/kHE5M6c . Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple servers to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages. Encryption keys never leave your device. No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account. With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage. You show up as a ‘blue bubble’ when iPhone friends text you, and can join real iMessage group chats. All chat features like typing status, read receipts,

Django 5.0 526 by sarahboyce | 217 comments on Hacker News.

Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops 597 by miki123211 | 200 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? 499 by jessehorne | 472 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious to see what projects members of this community have worked on that contributed to them getting a job. What's the project? How did it help you land a job? Did the project itself get you the job or did it help in the interview process? Was the project work related to the job at all? Edit: Ya'll hirin'?

Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one 487 by kristianp | 89 comments on Hacker News.

Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation 588 by anticorporate | 130 comments on Hacker News.

LLM Visualization 482 by plibither8 | 87 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) 471 by whoishiring | 367 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/72YzUGZ , https://ift.tt/yBFOc8s , https://ift.tt/hazF5rj , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/tXTzae0 , https://ift.tt/jcN8KCZ . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/5qZD8lw Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/jS3kf46

LLM Visualization 494 by jonbaer | 36 comments on Hacker News.

Accidental database programming 541 by thunderbong | 279 comments on Hacker News.

You don't need JavaScript for that 596 by soheilpro | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage 513 by beefman | 303 comments on Hacker News.

A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography 491 by indrora | 377 comments on Hacker News.

The Seamless Communication models 520 by skadamat | 265 comments on Hacker News.

Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy 471 by sebg | 75 comments on Hacker News.

Who makes the most reliable new cars? 497 by deletionist | 1017 comments on Hacker News.