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Hacker News (May 2024)
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GPT-4o
3095 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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Veo
1720 points • comment • may 14, 2024
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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
1618 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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Apple introduces M4 chip
1582 points • comment • may 07, 2024
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OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
1185 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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Jim Simons has died
1119 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
1096 points • comment • may 14, 2024
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GPUs Go Brrr
1085 points • comment • may 12, 2024
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AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
1066 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
969 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
950 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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A forged Apple employee badge
931 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
882 points • comment • may 07, 2024
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Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
880 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
879 points • comment • may 05, 2024
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It's always TCP_NODELAY
878 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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New startup sells coffee through SSH
874 points • comment • may 01, 2024
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Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)
849 points • comment • may 11, 2024
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DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
813 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
776 points • comment • may 05, 2024
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Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"
745 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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Slack AI Training with Customer Data
739 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
734 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency
731 points • comment • may 14, 2024
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Exercises to Learn Rust
711 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
704 points • comment • may 05, 2024
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
699 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
685 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
666 points • comment • may 02, 2024
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Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
659 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
625 points • comment • may 15, 2024
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Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]
580 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
576 points • comment • may 12, 2024
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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
536 points • comment • may 01, 2024
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
530 points • comment • may 01, 2024
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Teranoptia – a typeface that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures
526 points • comment • may 02, 2024
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'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
526 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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VCs aren’t your friends
523 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
522 points • comment • may 07, 2024
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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
515 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
513 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU
512 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
510 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
507 points • comment • may 05, 2024
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Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
502 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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Static Chess
495 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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Steve Albini has died
493 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
492 points • comment • may 01, 2024
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Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
488 points • comment • may 15, 2024
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
484 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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Bollards: Why and What
483 points • comment • may 05, 2024
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The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
483 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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The best way to have complex discussions?
474 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
472 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
467 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
462 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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Every map of China is wrong
460 points • comment • may 01, 2024
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The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
457 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
456 points • comment • may 14, 2024
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Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
454 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
454 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x
453 points • comment • may 08, 2024
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Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
450 points • comment • may 11, 2024
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Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check
448 points • comment • may 18, 2024
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Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
444 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Gemini Flash
441 points • comment • may 14, 2024
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Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
438 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
438 points • comment • may 01, 2024
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Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
430 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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It’s an age of marvels
425 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland
425 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
424 points • comment • may 13, 2024
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A Single Div
421 points • comment • may 02, 2024
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As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
419 points • comment • may 03, 2024
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Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years
411 points • comment • may 04, 2024
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Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames
411 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants
410 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
409 points • comment • may 15, 2024
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Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective
404 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
403 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
396 points • comment • may 11, 2024
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Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075
388 points • comment • may 15, 2024
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Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity
382 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy
381 points • comment • may 15, 2024
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Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
379 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
378 points • comment • may 02, 2024
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Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
375 points • comment • may 05, 2024
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Popover API
374 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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100k Stars
371 points • comment • may 10, 2024
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D3 in Depth
370 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
369 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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Algebraic Data Types for C99
369 points • comment • may 09, 2024
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Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
368 points • comment • may 02, 2024
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Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports
367 points • comment • may 15, 2024
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Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
366 points • comment • may 17, 2024
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Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
360 points • comment • may 16, 2024
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LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops
359 points • comment • may 07, 2024
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Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
356 points • comment • may 07, 2024
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A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
355 points • comment • may 06, 2024
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Building a rocket engine from scratch
354 points • comment • may 02, 2024