--- title: Best Hacker News posts — April 2023 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Hacker News posts from April 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/hn/best-of/2023/04 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/hn/best-of/2023/04 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Hacker News posts — April 2023 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Hacker News posts from April 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Hacker News — April 2023 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/tabbyml-tabby-self-hosted-ai-coding-assistant-uryk5p0qi "TabbyML/tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant") Article Hacker News · 3y TabbyML/tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant TabbyML/tabby is an opensource / on-prem alternative to GitHub Copilot. Tabby is still in the alpha phase, with no need for a DBMS or cloud service. The easiest way of getting started is using the docker image: # Create data dir and grant owner to 1000 (Tabby run as uid 1000 in container). 44 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/astral-next-gen-python-tooling-ecoh1mbhm "Astral: Next-gen Python tooling") Article Hacker News · 3y Astral: Next-gen Python tooling Ruff is so fast that sometimes I add an intentional bug in the code just to confirm it’s actually running. Sebastián Ramírez Creator of FastAPI Why is Ruff a gamechanger? Primarily because it's nearly 1000x faster. 26 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/minigpt-4-curqpbtx1 "Minigpt-4") Article Hacker News · 3y Minigpt-4 The recent GPT-4 has demonstrated extraordinary multi-modal abilities, such as directly generating websites from handwritten text and identifying humorous elements within images. We are currently preparing a lighter model runnable on a single 3090 GPU, which you will be able to run on your own machine. 13 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/replacing-my-best-friends-with-an-llm-trained-on-500-000-group-chat-messages-0z3cagqu0 "Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages") Article Hacker News · 3y Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages A model trained on 500,000 group chat messages tl;dr: I trained an uncensored large language model on the college-era group chat that me and my best friends still use. The dataset for this project is, of course, my Group Chat, which has remained active over the past 7 years. 13 2 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-emits-gpl-codeium-does-not--lgy4tazki "GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not.") Article Hacker News · 3y GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not. GitHub Copilot Emits GPL, non-permissive code, and how they relate to AI-powered code assistants. There are legal ramifications with a company’s developers violating GPL licenses, independent of intent. The argument to not do so is perhaps less clear - researchers say LLMs rarely spit out training data verbatim. 11 2 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental-leak-sparked-a-series-of-impressive-open-source-alternatives-to--bfxjg26ok "The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT") Article Hacker News · 3y The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT The Sequence Scope brings a summary of the most important research papers, technology releases and VC funding deals in the artificial intelligence space. Next Week in The Sequence Edge 281: Our series about federated learning(FL) continues with an overview of FL, Google’s research about FL and differential privacy and the FedLab framework for FL simulation. 11 1 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-build-your-own-database-book-is-finished-jixep0dhn "The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished") Article Hacker News · 3y The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished The “Build Your Own Database’s’ book is finished 2023-04-20 01.org. The whole book is available as paperback or ebook. 10 1 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/spinning-diagrams-with-css-jgofhuwnb "Spinning Diagrams with CSS") Article Hacker News · 3y Spinning Diagrams with CSS Spinning Diagrams with CSS don't use any JavaScript or animated image formats, just HTML and CSS. The original math thing involved a few other tricks, to embed the diagrams in LaTeX and generate their geometries. 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