Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model — and Java 21 makes me like Java again

Issue #1258 — September 18, 2023

You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.

1

Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model jackcook.com \| points: 456 \| comments: 230

2

Java 21 makes me like Java again wscp.dev \| points: 383 \| comments: 664

3

Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training github.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 89

4

Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014) linearbookscanner.org \| points: 288 \| comments: 59

5

CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification github.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 157

Our sponsors make this possible. Please support us by supporting them:

[Report] Dive into the life of an ethical hacker!

With ethical hackers on the payroll of organizations such as Google, Tesla, and Bank of America, it’s no surprise these hooded heroes play a crucial role in identifying vulnerabilities before their malicious counterparts can exploit them.

Your side-project here? Contact us for more info

6

Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade e360.yale.edu \| points: 268 \| comments: 237

7

Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR twitter.com \| points: 227 \| comments: 203

8

“I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022) twitter.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 246

9

Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 wejn.org \| points: 198 \| comments: 140

10

AMD’s Phoenix SoC chipsandcheese.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 144

11

I hacked macOS asahilina.net \| points: 187 \| comments: 92

12

Fireball over Iceland apod.nasa.gov \| points: 186 \| comments: 31

13

Things that do not exist in Dimension Apple maxread.substack.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 72

14

Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline wsj.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 640

15

Bounties Damage Open Source Projects ziglang.org \| points: 172 \| comments: 88

16

America’s advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it americanaffairsjournal.org \| points: 171 \| comments: 255

17

Changing the Rules of Rust without.boats \| points: 169 \| comments: 74

18

Layoffs.fyi layoffs.fyi \| points: 168 \| comments: 71

19

Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution journals.plos.org \| points: 164 \| comments: 137

20

Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style petals.dev \| points: 155 \| comments: 36

This digest was generated for you on 18 September, 6:02am for delivery at 7:00am and contains the top 20 stories between 17 September, 2:00am and 18 September, 2:00am

Your next delivery is on Tuesday, 19 September at 7:00am. Adjust these settings.

Privacy Policy \| Instant Unsubscribe \| Settings \| hello@hndigest.com

Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware — Credit card debt collection — and LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Issue #1254 — Top 20 stories of September 14, 2023 Issue #1254 — September 14, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer

The Tyranny of the Marginal User — Don’t mess with a genius (2010) — and Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Issue #1255 — Top 20 stories of September 15, 2023 Issue #1255 — September 15, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer

Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Issue #1256 — Top 20 stories of September 16, 2023 Issue #1256 — September 16, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer

I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it — Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites — and Building an economy simulator from scratch

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Issue #1257 — Top 20 stories of September 17, 2023 Issue #1257 — September 17, 2023 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer

Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model — and Java 21 makes me like Java again

[Report] Dive into the life of an ethical hacker!

Older messages

Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware — Credit card debt collection — and LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua

The Tyranny of the Marginal User — Don’t mess with a genius (2010) — and Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it — Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites — and Building an economy simulator from scratch

Death by a Thousand Microservices — Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4 — and iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

You Might Also Like

Youre Overthinking It

eBook: Software Supply Chain Security for Dummies

The 5 biggest AI prompting mistakes

An interactive tour of Go 1.24

Spyglass Dispatch: Bromo Sapiens

The $1.9M client

⚙️ Federal data centers

Post from Syncfusion Blogs on 01/15/2025

The Sequence Engineering #469: Llama.cpp is The Framework for High Performce LLM Inference

3 Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws Patched in Microsoft's Latest Security Update