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Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately? 648 by behnamoh | 541 comments on Hacker News. It is much faster than before but the quality of its responses is more like a GPT-3.5++. It generates more buggy code, the answers have less depth and analysis to them, and overall it feels much worse than before. For a while, the GPT-4 on phind.com gave even better results than GPT-4-powered ChatGPT. I could notice the difference in speed of both GPT-4s. Phind's was slower and more accurate. I say "was" because apparently phind is now trying to use GPT-3.5 and their own Phind model more frequently, so much for GPT-4 powered search engine.... I wonder if I use Poe's GPT-4, maybe I'll get the good old GPT-4 back?

Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup 548 by koch | 54 comments on Hacker News. My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable.

Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant 486 by panarky | 134 comments on Hacker News.

JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard 511 by tambourine_man | 165 comments on Hacker News.

I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me 654 by graeme | 139 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube 483 by thunderbong | 293 comments on Hacker News.

Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics 557 by Akharin | 121 comments on Hacker News.

HBO Max new Captcha system 527 by Signez | 229 comments on Hacker News.

India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces 558 by throwaway384629 | 275 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost 501 by scrum-treats | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013) 660 by ColinWright | 184 comments on Hacker News.

Why I Left Rust 654 by SmileyKeith | 581 comments on Hacker News.

Tarkovsky's films online for free 620 by bookofjoe | 160 comments on Hacker News.

Paper Airplane Designs 616 by thunderbong | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases 599 by guiambros | 252 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally? 581 by molly0 | 580 comments on Hacker News. I’ve come to realize that I often take constructive criticisms personally. Everything from an unintentionally snarky comment in a PR I’ve made to someone highlight a mistake I’ve made that I probably couldn’t have known about. I see this as one of my major flaws and try hard to mask how I feel. But I just hope to learn to stop feeling bad for honest mistakes.

Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf] 563 by ggr2342 | 100 comments on Hacker News.

The brand new Thunderbird logo 547 by TangerineDream | 224 comments on Hacker News.

The tiny corp raised $5.1M 550 by super256 | 244 comments on Hacker News.

PyPI Was Subpoenaed 577 by quercusa | 250 comments on Hacker News.

Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA 493 by ksec | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used 484 by wfme | 380 comments on Hacker News. I bought an HP printer that came with an HP Instant Ink subscription a year ago. The subscription promises to send you ink when you're running low as long as you print within the designated number of pages. I recently changed my card and figured I would let the subscription expire. Fast forward to today. I go to print something and find that the printer is "unable to print" even though there is ample ink left in the cartridges. I press a button on the printer and it spits out a report that states the printer is unable to print, except for printer reports (!). I dig a little (since the error message they show provides no additional information beyond not being able to print) and find this thread [0] in their support forum. It turns out that once the subscription is cancelled or suspended, you are no longer able to use the ink that has been sent to you. Some ...

FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year 494 by nabla9 | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption 483 by arkadiyt | 267 comments on Hacker News.

Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages 466 by crakenzak | 166 comments on Hacker News.

PrivateGPT 424 by antouank | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Memory Allocation 523 by thecoppinger | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple 485 by chmaynard | 244 comments on Hacker News.

Writing Python like it's Rust 486 by thunderbong | 316 comments on Hacker News.

People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living 402 by belter | 404 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline 522 by notjoemartinez | 156 comments on Hacker News. yt-fts is a simple python script that uses yt-dlp to scrape all of a youtube channels subtitles and load them into an sqlite database that is searchable from the command line. It allows you to query a channel for specific key word or phrase and will generate time stamped youtube urls to the video containing the keyword.

Rooms.xyz 467 by prawn | 102 comments on Hacker News.

Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT 511 by talonx | 390 comments on Hacker News.

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser 453 by sathishmanohar | 176 comments on Hacker News.

Orb Farm 424 by thunderbong | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd 414 by jxi | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine 421 by stijnbakker | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Bun 0.6 416 by tommasoamici | 230 comments on Hacker News.

What happened with ASUS routers this morning? 567 by zdw | 362 comments on Hacker News.

My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated 559 by spo81rty | 558 comments on Hacker News.

Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features 615 by todsacerdoti | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI 605 by vforgione | 914 comments on Hacker News.

Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease 616 by lonelyasacloud | 300 comments on Hacker News.

JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to dystopian extents 575 by notRobot | 283 comments on Hacker News.

Pixpaint 532 by luu | 35 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware 513 by kkielhofner | 122 comments on Hacker News. As the Home Assistant project says, it's the year of voice! I love Home Assistant and I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware with Home Assistant and other platforms. Why? - It's actually "Alexa/Echo competitive". Wake word detection, voice activity detection, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and high quality audio for $50 means with Willow and the support of Home Assistant there are no compromises on looks, quality, accuracy, speed, and cost. - It's cheap. With a touch LCD display, dual microphones, speaker, enclosure, buttons, etc it can be bought today for $50 all-in. - It's ready to go. Take it out of the box, flash with Willow, put it somewhere. - It's not creepy. Voice is either sent to a self-hosted inference server or commands are...

Get started making music 569 by prhrb | 132 comments on Hacker News.

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants 566 by elicash | 281 comments on Hacker News.

Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years 593 by giuliomagnifico | 303 comments on Hacker News.

HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals 588 by jeremylevy | 416 comments on Hacker News.

Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy 586 by RecycledEle | 210 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt 573 by marvinvonhagen | 441 comments on Hacker News.

Implement DNS in a Weekend 548 by asicsp | 66 comments on Hacker News.

The .zip TLD sucks 534 by me_again | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide 556 by stacktrust | 235 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news 581 by aquaVitae | 215 comments on Hacker News. In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the facts and relevant information. By utilizing OpenAI's language models, Boring Report processes sensationalist news articles, transforms them into the content you see, and helps readers focus on the essential details. We recently updated our iOS app experience, so any and all feedback would be appreciated. App Link: https://ift.tt/zJ4rk35...

100K Context Windows 569 by samwillis | 239 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG 515 by perihelions | 198 comments on Hacker News.

Story: Redis and its creator antirez 487 by nixcraft | 93 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers 473 by jacooper | 920 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days? 462 by jvanderbot | 139 comments on Hacker News. Algs/DS were my first love in CS. Nowadays, all we hear about is AI/ML. There must be hardware/software improvements coming from or necessitating fundamental Algs/DS research. Care to share any of the favorite recent results? Are there big fields still making gains behind all this computing surge?

Ancient Greek terms worth reviving 438 by cacher | 233 comments on Hacker News.

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS 528 by gmac | 48 comments on Hacker News.

Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines 465 by mulle_nat | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Language models can explain neurons in language models 439 by mfiguiere | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Belgium legalises ethical hacking 444 by jruohonen | 67 comments on Hacker News.

macOS Internals 641 by JoelMcCracken | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security 632 by transpute | 354 comments on Hacker News.

Htmx Is the Future 575 by quii | 464 comments on Hacker News.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3 533 by aendruk | 337 comments on Hacker News.

Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password 520 by donohoe | 597 comments on Hacker News.

Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” 771 by klelatti | 402 comments on Hacker News.

Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Monolith, saves 90% 657 by debdut | 305 comments on Hacker News.

I want to talk about WebGPU 565 by pjmlp | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week 557 by swyx | 165 comments on Hacker News.

MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry 605 by dustedcodes | 452 comments on Hacker News.

It's A(door)able 531 by michaelbrooks | 71 comments on Hacker News.

Bank Failures Visualized 511 by A_D_E_P_T | 217 comments on Hacker News.

Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers 487 by lairv | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Eye Candy 484 by bookofjoe | 82 comments on Hacker News.

The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf] 489 by dataminer | 34 comments on Hacker News.

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead 539 by ramraj07 | 694 comments on Hacker News.

Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical 470 by doener | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Krita: A professional free and open source painting program 464 by doener | 159 comments on Hacker News.

JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank 447 by robbiet480 | 366 comments on Hacker News.

Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals” 429 by benguild | 191 comments on Hacker News.