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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
672 by behnamoh | 553 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?

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup
550 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.

New best story on Hacker News: Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant

Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
526 by panarky | 141 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: JMAP – a modern email open standard

JMAP – a modern email open standard
532 by tambourine_man | 179 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog. Their lawyers are trying to ruin me

I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog. Their lawyers are trying to ruin me
564 by graeme | 115 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time

300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
483 by janpio | 160 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube

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


New best story on Hacker News: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
574 by Akharin | 127 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: HBO Max new Captcha system

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


New best story on Hacker News: Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA

Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
496 by ksec | 212 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used

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 even report not being able to print with cartridges they bought independently. It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession. This has to be one shadiest and just overall worst product experiences I've come across in a while. Printers have always been a bit of a pain but since when did they have to be near permanently connected to the internet else threaten to cut you off from all of their capabilities. [0] https://ift.tt/1boX5Ti...

New best story on Hacker News: FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year

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


New best story on Hacker News: Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
476 by arkadiyt | 263 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
616 by vforgione | 925 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
600 by lonelyasacloud | 297 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to dystopian extents

JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
599 by notRobot | 293 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Pixpaint

Pixpaint
534 by luu | 35 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
515 by kkielhofner | 124 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 recognized locally on the ESP BOX. - It doesn't hassle or try to sell you. If I hear "Did you know?" one more time from Alexa I think I'm going to lose it. - It's open source. - It's capable. This is the first "release" of Willow and I don't think we've even begun scratching the surface of what the hardware and software components are capable of. - It can integrate with anything. Simple on the wire format - speech output text is sent via HTTP POST to whatever URI you configure. Send it anywhere, and do anything! - It still does cool maker stuff. With 16 GPIOs exposed on the back of the enclosure there are all kinds of interesting possibilities. This is the first (and VERY early) release but we're really interested to hear what HN thinks! [0] - https://ift.tt/aPfRjAB

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
559 by aquaVitae | 212 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/WOp2bDR...

New best story on Hacker News: 100K Context Windows

100K Context Windows
576 by samwillis | 242 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG

Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG
491 by perihelions | 188 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Story: Redis and its creator antirez

Story: Redis and its creator antirez
476 by nixcraft | 91 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
483 by jacooper | 932 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?

Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?
443 by jvanderbot | 132 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?

New best story on Hacker News: Learning DNS in 10 Years

Learning DNS in 10 Years
469 by yarapavan | 125 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ancient Greek terms worth reviving

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


New best story on Hacker News: See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
460 by gmac | 39 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines

Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
472 by mulle_nat | 189 comments on Hacker News.