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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023 493 by kevincox | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context 471 by rushingcreek | 211 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/d85u0tx... . 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) 463 by simonsarris | 179 comments on Hacker News.

'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps 399 by mindracer | 930 comments on Hacker News.

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars 562 by softskunk | 285 comments on Hacker News.

Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition 493 by __rito__ | 202 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin 460 by mrzool | 500 comments on Hacker News.

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt 454 by CathalMullan | 139 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 439 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 467 by gridentio | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering 457 by maheshrjl | 105 comments on Hacker News.

'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó 445 by happy-go-lucky | 284 comments on Hacker News.

The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy 421 by czue | 297 comments on Hacker News.

Interactive intro to shaders 419 by superMayo | 59 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? 418 by todsacerdoti | 660 comments on Hacker News.

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop 444 by skadamat | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding 406 by artex_xh | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation 400 by ck45 | 304 comments on Hacker News.

iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices 460 by aw1621107 | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source 405 by cperciva | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation 347 by WarOnPrivacy | 268 comments on Hacker News.

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 573 by ra7 | 760 comments on Hacker News.

Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world 570 by rcarmo | 91 comments on Hacker News.

A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D 513 by GuardianCaveman | 70 comments on Hacker News.

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak 496 by riidom | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service 461 by f311a | 195 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 528 by mstep | 420 comments on Hacker News.

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas 530 by reuven | 339 comments on Hacker News.

Write more "useless" software 467 by greenSunglass | 128 comments on Hacker News.

What is the Demoscene? An interview 459 by keiferski | 184 comments on Hacker News.

Commercially available chairs in Star Trek 450 by zichy | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police 401 by fortran77 | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Using Goatse to Stop App Theft 416 by joshcsimmons | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers 410 by thunderbong | 175 comments on Hacker News.

"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming 410 by rcarmo | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder 384 by pg_1234 | 377 comments on Hacker News.

Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message 361 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 409 by gslin | 154 comments on Hacker News.

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

Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook 402 by pwim | 546 comments on Hacker News.

ChatGPT’s system prompts 454 by spdustin | 229 comments on Hacker News.

Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance 450 by veeti | 233 comments on Hacker News.

Scrollbars are becoming a problem 366 by dredmorbius | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Desmos 3D graphing calculator 353 by benpm | 78 comments on Hacker News.

The midwit home 348 by stacktrust | 245 comments on Hacker News.

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student 353 by razin | 83 comments on Hacker News.

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

Introduction to Modern Statistics 374 by noelwelsh | 72 comments on Hacker News.

US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks 350 by bookofjoe | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Starlink Direct to Cell 344 by pr337h4m | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players 344 by tosh | 710 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 400 by robenkleene | 97 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art 362 by ea016 | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started 350 by fbartos | 250 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 475 by tomzur | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years 394 by MallocVoidstar | 119 comments on Hacker News.

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity 497 by AndrewKemendo | 240 comments on Hacker News.

Blackmagic Camera for iPhone 432 by Lwrless | 236 comments on Hacker News.

What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker 379 by ahaucnx | 144 comments on Hacker News.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023 368 by zdw | 271 comments on Hacker News.

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users 355 by devinprater | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder 335 by eieio | 42 comments on Hacker News.

Organization probably doesn't want to improve things 480 by l0b0 | 439 comments on Hacker News.

Decomposing language models into understandable components 420 by tompark | 59 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 423 by thunderbong | 138 comments on Hacker News.

Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story 389 by r721 | 159 comments on Hacker News.

AMD may get across the CUDA moat 350 by danzheng | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports 355 by riffraff | 111 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 490 by hasheddan | 98 comments on Hacker News.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) 418 by SEJeff | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search 385 by KoftaBob | 87 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? 414 by fanf2 | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level 452 by bumbledraven | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras 600 by samaysharma | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Classic Video Poker 548 by appstorelottery | 209 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” 524 by PaulHoule | 491 comments on Hacker News.

An interactive intro to CRDTs 512 by jakelazaroff | 82 comments on Hacker News.

Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM 460 by Robin89 | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) 457 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/B0u8R2M , https://ift.tt/esKM0H8 , https://ift.tt/LKSHFeJ , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/kEAOJbg , https://ift.tt/WYqfM5g . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/WrJtXzM Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/5KTvruy

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman 433 by OskarS | 286 comments on Hacker News.

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 387 by mrzool | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Python 3.12 431 by qsort | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Nomnoml 451 by mono-bob | 120 comments on Hacker News.

Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7 421 by juanfatas | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak 385 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 416 by geox | 305 comments on Hacker News.

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths 379 by scrose | 402 comments on Hacker News.