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Hacker News (Apr 2024)

  1. Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)

    482 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  2. Low Cost Robot Arm

    482 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  3. Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm

    481 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  4. We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

    479 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  5. 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth

    478 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  6. Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’

    473 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  7. Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps

    469 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  8. SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs

    468 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  9. Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades

    468 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  10. German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

    467 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  11. I'm creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free

    466 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  12. An electric new era for Atlas

    463 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  13. A useful front-end confetti animation library

    460 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  14. Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

    459 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  15. Bun 1.1

    458 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  16. Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

    454 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  17. Quill v2 – Rich text editor

    447 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  18. Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)

    445 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  19. Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

    445 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  20. M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

    445 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  21. Cow Magnets

    443 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  22. The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself

    442 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  23. T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs

    438 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  24. What can LLMs never do?

    438 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  25. Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

    430 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  26. Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar

    429 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  27. Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

    428 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  28. Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]

    424 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  29. Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals

    423 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  30. Keep Out – WebGL Game

    420 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  31. But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video]

    418 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  32. There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station

    418 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  33. Why you should not apply to YC

    418 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  34. The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes

    417 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  35. Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

    412 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  36. Show HN: PostgreSQL index advisor

    412 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  37. Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)

    409 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  38. Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates

    409 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  39. The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper

    408 points • comment • apr 06, 2024

  40. Doomscroller.xyz

    407 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  41. Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

    403 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  42. I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS

    403 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  43. A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

    403 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  44. When do we stop finding new music?

    402 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  45. Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB

    401 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  46. After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

    399 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  47. PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS

    398 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  48. Phi-3 Technical Report

    397 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  49. Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

    394 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  50. Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded without their consent

    393 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  51. Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14

    393 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  52. Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions

    392 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  53. Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM

    392 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  54. ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves

    388 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  55. NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

    384 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  56. I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)

    384 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  57. Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

    384 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  58. U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades

    383 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  59. Anonymous public voicemail inbox

    383 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  60. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

    383 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  61. Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

    381 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  62. BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem

    381 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  63. HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties

    380 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  64. Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas

    379 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  65. Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions

    379 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  66. Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration

    378 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  67. I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (2021)

    378 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  68. Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

    378 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  69. TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery

    378 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  70. Kobo announces color e-readers

    378 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  71. Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model

    377 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  72. Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24

    376 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  73. A disk so full, it couldn't be restored

    374 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  74. 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

    371 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  75. Our biggest ever river catch?

    370 points • comment • apr 18, 2024

  76. Python Cloudflare Workers

    369 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  77. Start Your Own ISP

    369 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  78. Mental health in software engineering

    368 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  79. XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

    366 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  80. Meta does everything OpenAI should be

    366 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  81. I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton

    366 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  82. Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests

    363 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  83. A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

    363 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  84. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)

    363 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  85. Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone

    361 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  86. Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years

    359 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  87. Simulating Jupiter

    359 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  88. Bun’s New Crash Reporter

    358 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  89. What is Webb observing now?

    356 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  90. Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries

    352 points • comment • apr 09, 2024

  91. Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres

    350 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  92. The Myth of the Second Chance

    349 points • comment • apr 28, 2024

  93. Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

    344 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  94. Moviecart – Full length color movie and audio cartridges for stock Atari 2600

    344 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  95. The File Filesystem (2021)

    341 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  96. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

    341 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  97. Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library

    340 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  98. Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]

    340 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  99. So you wanna de-bog yourself

    340 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  100. Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers

    340 points • comment • apr 10, 2024