Nostr notes by bestofhn

I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the ...

2023-07-25T10:35:02Z

I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020) https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenollosa/103469996345323076

Cash Amnesia ...

2023-07-24T19:35:02Z

Cash Amnesia https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/indulging-guilty-pleasure-dont-put-it-card

A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets ...

2023-07-22T20:20:01Z

A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-07-21/caltech-nobel-laureate-rudy-marcus-turns-100-and-gets-back-to-work

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning https://0ver.org/

2023-07-08T15:00:02Z

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning https://0ver.org/

OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature ...

2023-07-04T07:20:02Z

OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web

How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation ...

2023-07-02T05:50:02Z

How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation https://careercutler.substack.com/p/how-you-can-15x-your-salary-through

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical ...

2023-06-30T22:55:02Z

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1 ...

2023-06-26T00:30:02Z

Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1 https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/

Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or ...

2023-06-23T18:15:01Z

Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC https://verdagon.dev/blog/vale-memory-safe-cpp

Svelte 4 https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-4

2023-06-22T15:25:02Z

Svelte 4 https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-4

The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage ...

2023-06-16T13:20:01Z

The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave ...

2023-06-15T22:35:03Z

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company

Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro ...

2023-06-15T15:25:01Z

Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content https://phys.org/news/2023-06-network-channels-saturate-youtube-pro-bolsonaro.html

Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked ...

2023-06-11T22:15:02Z

Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (2012) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/

CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day ...

2023-06-11T11:40:01Z

CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day https://neodyme.io/blog/csgo_from_zero_to_0day/

Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available ...

2023-06-10T23:15:02Z

Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/generative-ai-support-on-vertexai

Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin ...

2023-06-10T12:35:06Z

Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration

The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years ...

2023-06-09T03:10:02Z

The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years https://grist.org/energy/first-us-nuclear-reactor-40-years-online-georgia/

Sensor Fingerprints: Camera Identification and Beyond ...

2023-06-02T20:00:03Z

Sensor Fingerprints: Camera Identification and Beyond https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-7621-5_4

FBI successfully brute forces iPhone X passcode in 3 years ...

2023-05-30T15:45:01Z

FBI successfully brute forces iPhone X passcode in 3 years https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/15/the-timing-of-computer-search-warrants-when-it-takes-the-government-several-years-to-guess-the-password/

Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals ...

2023-05-25T14:35:01Z

Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/05/animal-siblings.html

OpenAI Outage https://status.openai.com/incidents/jbt079x532bg

2023-05-24T22:15:01Z

OpenAI Outage https://status.openai.com/incidents/jbt079x532bg

PyPI Was Subpoenaed ...

2023-05-24T17:50:01Z

PyPI Was Subpoenaed https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-24-pypi-was-subpoenaed/

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end ...

2023-05-22T21:15:05Z

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/

US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI ...

2023-05-18T05:05:05Z

US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/a-us-senator-just-used-chatgpt-for-opening-remarks-at-a-hearing

Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio communications ...

2023-05-18T05:05:05Z

Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio communications https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/majority-of-eu-countries-support-scanning-of-audio-communications/

OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for ...

2023-05-16T14:30:02Z

OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-chief-goes-before-us-congress-propose-licenses-building-ai-2023-05-16/

Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to ...

2023-05-11T18:15:02Z

Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news https://www.boringreport.org/

Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time ...

2023-05-11T13:15:02Z

Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65557469

We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” ...

2023-05-10T13:50:02Z

We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35886288

The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals ...

2023-05-10T13:05:02Z

The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals https://mazzzystar.github.io/2023/05/10/LLM-for-individual/

GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other ...

2023-05-09T13:45:02Z

GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/f0mhbz9xn497

Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview ...

2023-05-06T00:55:02Z

Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months” ...

2023-05-06T00:45:02Z

When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months” https://blog.zulip.com/2023/05/04/when-free-forever-is-4-months/

Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted ...

2023-05-04T15:35:01Z

Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2023-05-02-GitLab-and-Google-Cloud-Partner-to-Expand-AI-Assisted-Capabilities-with-Customizable-Gen-AI-Foundation-Models

Why “free” street parking could be costing you hundreds more ...

2023-05-03T17:50:01Z

Why “free” street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/02/eliminating-parking-minimums-liveable-cities/

Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge 36% ...

2023-04-28T14:30:01Z

Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge 36% https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-posts-q1-fy-2023-results

Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern ...

2023-04-27T08:35:02Z

Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit

Why did Google Brain exist? ...

2023-04-26T18:45:01Z

Why did Google Brain exist? https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/why_brain/

NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company ...

2023-04-22T14:15:01Z

NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company https://newsnotfound.com/whitepaper/

Explosions are great, actually ...

2023-04-22T11:25:01Z

Explosions are great, actually https://1517.substack.com/p/explosions-are-great-actually

Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, ...

2023-04-21T16:00:02Z

Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/18/iphone-sideloading/

Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See ...

2023-04-21T15:10:01Z

Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-tech-bosses-are-letting-dictators-censor-what-americans-see

Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and ...

2023-04-21T11:05:02Z

Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7beyj/car-thieves-tech-hidden-old-nokia-phones-bluetooth-speakers-emergency-engine-start-keyless

BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down, Company Laying Off 180 Staffers ...

2023-04-20T19:15:02Z

BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down, Company Laying Off 180 Staffers https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/buzzfeed-news-shutting-down-layoffs-1235589751/

Used Routers Often Come Loaded with Corporate Secrets ...

2023-04-20T17:05:07Z

Used Routers Often Come Loaded with Corporate Secrets https://www.wired.com/story/used-enterprise-router-company-secrets/

BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down ...

2023-04-20T16:25:02Z

BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down https://www.thedailybeast.com/buzzfeed-news-is-shutting-down

Understanding Everything ...

2023-04-19T13:45:01Z

Understanding Everything https://shimmeringvoid.substack.com/p/understanding-everything

Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems ...

2023-04-18T19:40:03Z

Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten startup ...

2023-04-18T15:25:02Z

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten startup survival https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/software-firms-face-huge-tax-bills-that-threaten-tech-startup-survival.html

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries ...

2023-04-17T21:25:01Z

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/

Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not ...

2023-04-15T21:05:01Z

Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix https://giraffesecurity.dev/posts/google-remote-code-execution/

The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship ...

2023-04-15T00:25:02Z

The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/green-light-go-spacex-receives-a-launch-license-from-the-faa-for-starship/

What is NMAP and how to use it? (2020) ...

2023-04-14T19:25:02Z

What is NMAP and how to use it? (2020) https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-nmap-and-how-to-use-it-a-tutorial-for-the-greatest-scanning-tool-of-all-time/

Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally ...

2023-04-13T15:05:01Z

Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-codewhisperer-free-for-individual-use-is-now-generally-available/

Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4 ...

2023-04-13T11:40:01Z

Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4 Months https://toolhub.tech/blog/Google-2023-Shutdown-Spree-6-Products-Pulled-in-Just-4-Months/

New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue ...

2023-04-12T10:10:02Z

New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-director-carl-sagan-oath-b2317698.html

Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering ...

2023-04-11T11:50:02Z

Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizing-the-potential-of-llms/

Stanford benchmarks and compares numerous Large Language Models ...

2023-04-10T05:35:01Z

Stanford benchmarks and compares numerous Large Language Models https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/?group=core_scenarios

Quantum Computing 101 ...

2023-04-08T06:15:01Z

Quantum Computing 101 https://academy.meetiqm.com/curriculum/index.html

Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning ...

2023-04-08T05:15:02Z

Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01003

The Erosion of Free Will: Why Society's Loss of Belief in ...

2023-04-08T04:40:02Z

The Erosion of Free Will: Why Society's Loss of Belief in Freedom Is Dangerous https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-erosion-of-free-will-why-societys

Show HN: Compress GPT-4 Prompts https://www.promptreducer.com/

2023-04-08T02:45:02Z

Show HN: Compress GPT-4 Prompts https://www.promptreducer.com/

I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes ...

2023-04-07T23:10:01Z

I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644431125463351298

Increase GPT4's context size by asking it to compress your ...

2023-04-07T19:35:07Z

Increase GPT4's context size by asking it to compress your prompts https://twitter.com/VictorTaelin/status/1642664054912155648

Meta New Segmentation Model ...

2023-04-07T19:35:05Z

Meta New Segmentation Model https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/

Etsy Delays Seller Payouts Due to Run on Silicon Valley Bank ...

2023-03-11T21:10:04Z

Etsy Delays Seller Payouts Due to Run on Silicon Valley Bank https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2023/3/1678509907.html

Wine Wayland Driver ...

2023-02-25T19:50:01Z

Wine Wayland Driver https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2275

Conversational AI will be used to Manipulate Us in real-time ...

2023-02-23T16:00:01Z

Conversational AI will be used to Manipulate Us in real-time https://www.barrons.com/articles/conversational-ai-will-learn-to-push-your-buttons-manipulation-problem-c9f797e8

Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water ...

2023-02-21T07:15:02Z

Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022) https://news.uchicago.edu/story/chemists-create-artificial-photosynthesis-system-10-times-more-efficient-existing-systems

Diagrams: Open-Source Alternative to Lucidchart ...

2022-03-23T21:00:01Z

Diagrams: Open-Source Alternative to Lucidchart https://www.diagrams.net/