Google Mars
Link: google.com/mars/
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Google Mars
Link: google.com/mars/
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Explosions are great, actually
Link: 1517.substack.com/p/explosions…
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The history of spaceflight is the story of weirdos, explosions, and stacked odds.areoform (1517 Fund)
More than 19k undersea volcanoes discovered
Link: science.org/content/article/it…
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Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills
Link: lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/
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The text-based SQL learning game for data scientists and marketerslost-at-sql.therobinlord.com
Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
Link: raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1…
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Show HN: Automatic prompt optimizer for LLMs
Link: promptperfect.jina.ai/
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Optimize prompts for GPT-4, ChatGPT, StableLM, Claude, MidJourney, DALL-E, StableDiffusion, Kandinsky, Lexica. Automatic prompt engineering done right!promptperfect.jina.ai
Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
Link: reuters.com/technology/us-cryp…
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Major U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) has said it has secured a licence to operate in Bermuda, as part of a wider push to expand globally.Reuters
Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots
Link: news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/…
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Pet parrots in a new study led by Northeastern researchers loved using iPads to call fellow birds to chat while forging lasting friendships.Northeastern Global News
Animal Meat and Milk Sales Drop in Europe as Vegan Versions Hit Record Highs
Link: plantbasednews.org/news/econom…
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New report: Europe saw a huge increase in plant-based food sales from 2020-2022, with vegan meat and dairy-free milk leading the market.Amy Buxton (Plant Based News)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation While Firing Thousands
Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
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In Gelsenkirchen ist der Fahrer eines E-Rollers mit einem dreijährigen Kind zusammengestoßen. Statt zu helfen, fuhr er laut Polizei einfach weiter.
E-Rollerfahrer verletzt Kleinkind in Gelsenkirchen schwer - und flieht
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Telegram Web Apps for Bots
Link: core.telegram.org/bots/webapps
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Telegram bots can completely replace any website. They support seamless authorization, integrated payments via 20 payment…core.telegram.org
AI is upending the freelance world
Link: forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast…
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While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves.Rashi Shrivastava (Forbes)
Will boiling water ruin green tea?
Link: myjapanesegreentea.com/will-bo…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A common myth regarding green tea is that it shouldn't be prepared with boiling water.Ricardo Caicedo (My Japanese Green Tea)
US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011
Link: reuters.com/markets/us/us-5-ye…
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The cost of insuring exposure to United States sovereign debt rose to the highest level since 2011 on Friday, over market jitters that the government could hit its debt ceiling sooner-than-expected.Reuters
Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads
Link: richg42.blogspot.com/2023/04/f…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
When the JPEG folks were working on image compression, they didn't create a better or faster LZ. Instead they developed new approaches. I se...richg42.blogspot.com
The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements
Link: rootsofprogress.org/isambard-b…
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How to “embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of today”The Roots of Progress
Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed
Link: github.com/lukeaschenbrenner/T…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
An app that lets you browse the web over SMS. Contribute to lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
There is no A.I.
Link: newyorker.com/science/annals-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Jaron Lanier writes about how the term “artificial intelligence” is a misnomer, possibilities for productively using A.I., and the subject of data dignity.Jaron Lanier (The New Yorker)
Windows on Btrfs
Link: lilysthings.org/blog/windows-o…
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Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate
Link: chronicle.com/article/ban-on-t…
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Lawmakers’ campaign to reshape public higher education in the state reached a rare milestone: A tenure ban won approval in a legislative chamber.Sarah Brown (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Fire Mark Zuckerberg
Link: ez.substack.com/p/fire-mark-zu…
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced in October 2021 that Facebook would now be known as “Meta,” many people fell for several astonishingly obvious lies.Ed Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
Pico Cray – Small scale distributed computing
Link: extremeelectronics.co.uk/pico-…
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The Pico Cray is a cluster of 8 Picos and a controller Pico. All Picos are connected in parallel by an I2C bus. The controller is designated by one GPIO being held low, the processor Pico’s addresses are allocated automatically.Extreme Electronics
'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found
Link: phys.org/news/2023-04-devastat…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study.Seth Borenstein (Phys.org)
Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist
Link: atlasobscura.com/articles/null…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The ocean spot is the center of the world's geocoded map mistakes.Tim St. Onge (Atlas Obscura)
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Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
Link: nationalinterest.org/feature/n…
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Only nuclear power is carbon-free and able to meet growing U.S. calls for electrification and global needs for basic economic growthTodd Royal (The National Interest)
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Four-Byte Burger
[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p…
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahoySoundtrack is available on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/6P6RP2Ad0L4klna5GdiBlIalso on Bandcamp:https://xahoy.b...YouTube
Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service
Link: github.com/highlight/highlight…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging and more. - highlight/README.md at main · highlight/highlightGitHub
GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
Link: codeium.com/blog/copilot-train…
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Demonstrating that GitHub Copilot trains on non-permissive licenses and is unable to filter out suggestions properly, while Codeium does not expose users to legal risk.Exafunction Team
Scaling Databases at Activision
[pdf]Link: static.sched.com/hosted_files/…
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Physicists discover that gravity can create light
Link: phys.org/news/2023-04-physicis…
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Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.Paul M. Sutter (Phys.org)
Bard coding update with Colab exporting
Link: blog.google/technology/ai/code…
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Bard can now help with programming and software development tasks, across more than 20 programming languages.Paige Bailey (Google)
Mass editing memory in a transformer
Link: memit.baulab.info/
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Updating thousands of memories in GPT by directly calculating parameter changes.memit.baulab.info
Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
Link: economist.com/interactive/scie…
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They bring enormous promise and peril. In the first of three special articles we explain how they workThe Economist
Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges
Link: nature.com/articles/d41586-023…
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Members of the departing editorial teams say that the fees to publish articles are unsustainable.Sanderson, Katharine
Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs
Link: wsj.com/articles/lyft-to-cut-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Latest cuts could impact 30% or more of company’s over 4,000 employeesPreetika Rana (The Wall Street Journal)
Manipulative Consent Requests
Link: wideangle.co/blog/dark-pattern…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
While not always illegal, "Dark patterns" are deceptive user interfaces that trick people into acting against their best interests.wideangle.co
Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
Link: davidlaprade.github.io/give-a-…
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