Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe/italian-government-penalize-english-words-intl/index.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412836

Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS

Link: https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Fast-food-packaging-emit-volatile/101/i11

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35411919

The surprising roots of Japan's Indian curry

Link: https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/indo-curry/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35400253

Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems

Link: https://www.exhypothesi.com/clocks-and-causality/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35399603

Let ChatGPT run free on random webpages and do what it likes

Link: https://github.com/refcell/run-wild/commit/7b71a4cd928b4382dd3086e7843170880075c098

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35318797

Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/26/cryptocurrencies-add-nothing-useful-to-society-nvidia-chatbots-processing-crypto-mining

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35317464

Jacob Ziv has died (the Z in LZ compression)

Link: https://twitter.com/erlichya/status/1639973591214182400

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35316836

Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

Link: https://lunette.app/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35307656

ChatGPT 4 saved my dog’s life

Link: https://twitter.com/peakcooper/status/1639716822680236032

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311667

Show HN: ChatGPT Plugins are a security nightmare

Link: https://github.com/greshake/llm-security

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35301657

Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center

Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/major-shake-coming-fermilab-troubled-u-s-particle-physics-center

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35303391

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Link: https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35288015

ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”

Link: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its-wolfram-superpowers/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35277925

The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/tech-guru-jaron-lanier-the-danger-isnt-that-ai-destroys-us-its-that-it-drives-us-insane

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35272900

2023 Turing Award Given to Bob Metcalfe for Invention of Ethernet

Link: https://amturing.acm.org/?2023

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35258877

Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/tech/google-layoffs-employee-culture/index.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35249182

I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost

Link: https://villekuosmanen.medium.com/i-played-chess-against-chatgpt-4-and-lost-c5798a9049ca

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35215107

Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

Link: https://build-your-own.org/redis/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35212660

TypeScript 5.0

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-0/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35185069

Midjourney v5 can do hands

Link: https://twitter.com/tristwolff/status/1636188634012438530

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35181433