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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023 495 by kevincox | 213 comments on Hacker News.

Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context 480 by rushingcreek | 213 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/4PyNBR1... . 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.

The product manager role is a mistake 407 by mooreds | 347 comments on Hacker News.

Giving a Shit as a Service (2022) 473 by damir | 257 comments on Hacker News.

'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps 399 by mindracer | 931 comments on Hacker News.

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars 508 by softskunk | 245 comments on Hacker News.

Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition 494 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 455 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 440 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 458 by maheshrjl | 105 comments on Hacker News.

'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó 447 by happy-go-lucky | 284 comments on Hacker News.

The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy 422 by czue | 299 comments on Hacker News.

Interactive intro to shaders 422 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 | 661 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 408 by artex_xh | 150 comments on Hacker News.

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

iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices 446 by aw1621107 | 177 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 574 by rcarmo | 93 comments on Hacker News.

A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D 482 by GuardianCaveman | 67 comments on Hacker News.

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak 518 by riidom | 298 comments on Hacker News.

Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service 465 by f311a | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative 531 by meatjuice | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum 473 by coloneltcb | 388 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 | 422 comments on Hacker News.

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas 535 by reuven | 351 comments on Hacker News.

Write more "useless" software 469 by greenSunglass | 131 comments on Hacker News.

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

Commercially available chairs in Star Trek 455 by zichy | 125 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 428 by joshcsimmons | 304 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 413 by gslin | 156 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 455 by spdustin | 231 comments on Hacker News.

Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance 451 by veeti | 233 comments on Hacker News.

Scrollbars are becoming a problem 371 by dredmorbius | 334 comments on Hacker News.

Desmos 3D graphing calculator 354 by benpm | 78 comments on Hacker News.

The midwit home 342 by stacktrust | 238 comments on Hacker News.

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student 362 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 378 by noelwelsh | 72 comments on Hacker News.

US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks 358 by bookofjoe | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Starlink Direct to Cell 348 by pr337h4m | 290 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 401 by robenkleene | 100 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art 363 by ea016 | 150 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 478 by tomzur | 332 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years 400 by MallocVoidstar | 121 comments on Hacker News.

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity 436 by AndrewKemendo | 215 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 383 by ahaucnx | 146 comments on Hacker News.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023 372 by zdw | 275 comments on Hacker News.

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users 350 by devinprater | 71 comments on Hacker News.

Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder 337 by eieio | 42 comments on Hacker News.

Organization probably doesn't want to improve things 481 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 391 by r721 | 160 comments on Hacker News.

AMD may get across the CUDA moat 353 by danzheng | 189 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 499 by hasheddan | 99 comments on Hacker News.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) 419 by SEJeff | 70 comments on Hacker News.

Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search 386 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? 418 by fanf2 | 128 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 609 by samaysharma | 167 comments on Hacker News.

The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax” 526 by PaulHoule | 494 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Classic Video Poker 494 by appstorelottery | 183 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.

Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM 461 by Robin89 | 140 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/YUJRvel , https://ift.tt/wFNjeRd , https://ift.tt/QjAXU6T , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/4Q9dFiZ , https://ift.tt/4ltyVk7 . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/2GUumIk Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/b6oNAaq

Exploiting the iPhone 4 421 by codyd51 | 42 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, author here! For the past three months, I've been obsessively working on gala, a jailbreak for iOS 4 that currently targets the iPhone 4. While other jailbreaks for this device, and this iOS version, already exist, the 'special sauce' of this jailbreak is that it comes with a 6-part series describing the building of a jailbreak and the many challenges that arose when jailbreaking iOS. The series includes interactive visualizations at every step of exploiting the device - from pulling memory dumps of the boot ROM to debugging a flashed filesystem image. That said, this isn't just a bare-bones jailbreak with some writing attached: gala is a fully-fledged suite that includes a significant Python application, a Cocoa GUI for end-users, a Rust payload, Cocoa Touch games to play within the boot environment while the jailbreak completes, and C utilities that run on-device. This was a lot of fun, and...

Python 3.12 436 by qsort | 198 comments on Hacker News.

Nomnoml 454 by mono-bob | 121 comments on Hacker News.

Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7 424 by juanfatas | 221 comments on Hacker News.

Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak 386 by tomduncalf | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency 378 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 427 by geox | 311 comments on Hacker News.

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