Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now — and Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

Issue #1032 — February 04, 2023

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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now news.ycombinator.com \| points: 1120 \| comments: 549

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Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes maroofy.com \| points: 686 \| comments: 408

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Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer news.ycombinator.com \| points: 628 \| comments: 274

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I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer words.filippo.io \| points: 604 \| comments: 120

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Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery sive.rs \| points: 341 \| comments: 223

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Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 337 \| comments: 105

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Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs twitter.com \| points: 324 \| comments: 117

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John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence dallasinnovates.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 414

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Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says washingtonpost.com \| points: 314 \| comments: 389

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Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps driftdb.com \| points: 302 \| comments: 71

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Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software arstechnica.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 209

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ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time tedgioia.substack.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 306

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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from Nuclear Disaster ncrabbithole.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 52

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Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents wsj.com \| points: 247 \| comments: 280

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Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles cbsnews.com \| points: 227 \| comments: 165

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Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety memorysafety.org \| points: 209 \| comments: 144

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Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn’t trust Google Cloud) devever.net \| points: 206 \| comments: 107

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Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator timdbg.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 67

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Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus science.org \| points: 180 \| comments: 30

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The Future (and the Past) of the Web Is Server Side Rendering deno.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 199

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